Mass without steroids – is it even possible?

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In addition to people who train to get rid of excess body fat and gain „fit look” is also a large group of people, who have very different priorities. Their goal is a large, impressive muscle mass and not „dried pretzel look”. Spread such a belief that effective muscle development is only possible with the use of enhancing „staff” such as anabolic steroids-androgenic activity, work on the body without the “support” is barren. Whether this theory actually has a rationale and practicing without the “boost” can not develop large muscle mass?

“You have to take the bomb!”

I remember my first struggles with barbells. When in times of high school I started to train in the basement, where we have only bench, dumbbells and free weights. Already at the beginning, I heard that if I want to achieve something, get bigger look and see the effects of my efforts, I need to reach for the appropriate power, otherwise I’ll always be skinny and never achieve” muscle mass”. It was a long, long time ago, but today the situation looks very similar, especially on small gyms, there is a perception, according to which “at dry even grass did not want to grow”, and without proper pharmacological supplements muscle building will never proceed quickly and efficiently. A lot of people believe in the holiness of those words and sometimes goes after „staff” already in the first few weeks. Whether such practices should be considered as beneficial, especially as necessary?

No effect = wrong method

Belief that training without the use of doping, it is not possible to effectively build muscle mass is derived primarily from laziness and inferiority. Theories of this type usually teach a person, for whom training in the gym comes down to “attack the chest muscles in all angles” and diet is to „eat large amounts of protein”. Let’s be honest, that trainig founded only on the bench press and biceps curl with dumbbells and bringing the diet down to eating cheese and yoghurt (because we all know that what is white has the most protein inside 😉 ) are not the best way to increase muscle mass. Add to that Saturdays trips to the disco club inundated a large dose of alcohol, and sometimes even some other drugs, and we have a recipe for eternal stagnation. In this way to build muscle. Recipe in such cases is not so much steroids, what lifestyle changes, a well balanced diet and good training plan covering all main muscle parties.

Bodybuilding – only for persistent.

let’s face it: If anyone is counting that he can build a 10 kg of pure muscle mass in a month thanks to the fact that there will be eat more and trained harder – this simply fails, and he will be disappointed. Expansion of the muscle mass, as opposed to the accumulation of adipose fat tissue is a tedious and slow, requiring a large commitment and above all, patience. Even with a good workout plan and a properly balanced diet, each additional pound of weight and each centimeter in circumference of the arm simply require time. Does this mean, however, that training without „staff” is pointless? The answer is – HELL NO! There are tangible evidence that you can get an iimpressive muscle mass and good form without the use of steroids, just look at the representatives of natural bodybuilding, or trace the many blogs and online photo-relation with the progress of people who do not use steroids and make systematic progress.

The dark side of the force

Using anabolic steroid doping clearly allows you to speed up the process of increasing lean muscle body mass. With proper „steroids background” sometimes just “eat a lot and hard training” is enough to note the rapid effects of work. Unfortunately, the use of steroids has its flaws, many people are totally unaware of it, which in the long run may really have fatal consequences.

First, steroid use is associated with a number of health complications, which include many organs and systems labour disruption (liver, heart, kidney, testes) and which can lead to dangerous and disruptive side effects, such as impotence or in extreme cases, depression. Secondly, very often it happens that a significant portion of the muscle mass acquired during „therapy” disappears after stopping the “goods”. Downturns are bigger in less cunning way doping measures chosen and the less attention is paid to “post therapy”, with a goal to restore hormonal balance that was impaired by big external dose of testosterone and its analogs from the outside (unfortunately, still many people do not pay attention to this very important part of taking steroids). Thirdly, back to training without “boost” usually turns out to be very difficult and frustrating. Even with a reasonable selection of measures, well done “post therapy game” it is difficult to switch to training on „dry mode”, so soon after the end of the cycle there is the idea to reach for another „bomb”.

It is also worth to remember, that the use of doping is associated with high costs, which include not only the purchase of steroids, but also measures to reduce the risk of adverse consequences arising from their use. This aspect must also be taken into account and is also important. The final settlement must be made by each alone, for their own use, each for their own health risks.

Boost at start

People starting their adventure with training are able to in the early months to record spectacular progress without the use of any support. In later periods, good results will bring increasing training, consistent modification of diet and dietary supplements containing substances such as creatine. Hormonal doping can prove to be well-founded when we already have well established basics and already we have come to the boundaries of the physiological capabilities. However, let me remind you that getting 40 cm in circumference of the arm is not a physiological barrier, which could not exceed using conventional dietary treatments and practice!

Conclusion

Build muscle mass without the use of enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids-androgenic activity is possible. The condition is to plan the training in such a way as to include all the main parties, as well as adjusting the diet and provide time for regeneration. Particularly those that just begin with the training should not be worry about progres and I think too much about the shortcuts, because their case, the progress of the build lean muscle mass with the right approach can be quite spectacular and fast.

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