real, possible and impossible scenarios
Just wondering if I'm to only one who has a hell of a time getting bigger after 40. I'm going on 42. I can bounce back to a certain weight when I'm bulking but then it's a mother to grow beyond it. I started gh for the first time hoping it will help. What do u guys do to keep it going.
I am probably stating the obvious but just humor me for a moment . . .
In my opinion, and everybody is different . . . if you are truly natural and have been
training since twenty let’s say, and you are forty now, your days of growing new,
lean muscle tissue are behind you. The best you can hope for is maintaining. If
you have not got as big, and strong, and lean in twenty years of training then
what you have now is a good as it’s going to get. Again, my opinion.
Now, let’s say you start training at forty. Yes, it is possible to grow lean muscle
mass. But don’t expect any miracles. You will not grow like you would if you were
20 or even 30. But you will grow, no doubt about it. Again provided you are truly natural.
The addition of steroids, GH, insulin, etc. are obviously game changers. No question.
If you have been training since twenty let’s say, and you are forty now, and you
add more steroids, GH, insulin, etc. than you were currently taking, you will see
some additional grow . . . but only relative to the amount of ‘drugs’ above and
beyond what you were on before. And there is a point of diminishing returns
More and more does not always equal more and more muscular growth. There
is a limit.
If you start training and taking ‘drugs’ at forty, obviously you will see rapid and
sustained growth. Far more and far faster then if you were natural. But not forever.
Again, there is a point of diminishing returns. But grow you will, guarantee it, far,
far more than if you were natural.
In my case, I started training at 18, totally natural. Would not know a steroid
if it hit me across the face like a used catfish. Could not even spell the word.
I tried all the vitamins, minerals, natural supplements, all sorts of protein
powders (I suspect they are better now but still not worth it . . . whole food
is far superior), every diet known to man and my gains were dismal until I
dumped all the crap I was ingesting and changed my training routine, then and
only then did I grow like a weed. People who had had not seen me in six months
barely recognized me. And all I did was train differently. Zero change in diet
excepting the removal of the so called supplements. (The only thing I was
supplementing was somebody else’s bank account.)
Then I lost a bunch of that size and strength due to ‘life’ (long story) but I always
kept training but not at the same level of intensity and determination. I maintained
a somewhat ‘pleasing’ physique (was never accused of being a bodybuilder,
though I desperately wanted to be) for a long long time, until I was 52 and I
got on a real TRT program. And then I started growing again. And fast. Like
overnight. Amazing. Made zero changes in my diet or training; I just grew. My
strength improved almost effortlessly. My sense of well-being, concentration,
self confidence improved. Blood work was perfect (until abused my dosages).
I will tell you this . . . If I had tried steroids in my youth, when I started training,
I surely would have abused them. Yes, I know myself that well. If some is good,
more is better would have been my motto. I would have taken everything under
the sun, tried anything I could get my hands, anything and everything to get bigger.
And I would be regretting it now, am certain my health would be the shits so I
am glad for what little I have now, was exposed to ‘it’ now rather than earlier
which is rather unusual; backwards to the way most things in life occur. So I
seem to at least avoided one mistake after having made literally thousands
of others.
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