The summer steroid user...starting to hate them

[BALDNAZI]

Now that Im on the other side of the fence and on my little HRT dose and growing steady year round, Im starting to get annoyed but what Im seeing in the gym lately.

Guys that I rarely see in the gym the rest of year, are showing up, 20-30-40 lbs heavier. They come to the gym in groups before they go to the beach that day or the clubs that night. All swollen up, big juice faces, its hilarious.

Now I never fell into that category. I trained year round, I cycled when I had to (the last 2 years before surgery I rarely cycled I always ON) but I walked the walk. I was in the gym, lifting as heavy as possible year round, and thats that.

These guys who could not bench their ass for reps a few months ago are now repping 315(with their friends hands on the bar the whole time) and think they actually accomplished something. Well they did, they have become the stereotype.

Im not sure what I am supposed to think. I am happy with where I am at right now in size and strength. I outlift most of these guys now and when they come off in September. They dont know what a squat or a deadlift looks like anyway.

So I dont know what my rant really means. I guess when you work your ass off like I did since my surgery and earned every ounce of the 80lbs I gained back on, it rubs you alittle to see these beach meatheads now only to have them disappear when September rolls around and your still in the squat rack doing things they couldnt do anyway. It sure is ironic being on the other side, the natural/hrt side lol....

 

[abolish the weak]

oh well, to each his own. But you know as well as I do that longevity is the key. The guy who stays in the gym makes the most progress.

 

[Mr.G]

What do you think the guy that takes nothing think!!!!

 

[tomuchgear]

the gyms always gets a little annoying right around spring break, and summer break. just laugh and go on about your lifting. i dont see a point in blowing up for two months just to stop. i guess to each his own.

 

[Physick]

At least the gym gets quieter come fall. And you can acutally SQUAT IN THE SQUAT RACK! I know, it's a crazy concept.
The thing that bugs me almost as much as the summer juicer are the guys that work out for a month then start juicing because they're not huge yet. Now they're bodybuilders and strut around with ILS and stare people down. Yet they get on stage, get there ass handed to them since they look like shit and have legs smaller than mine when I was 12. And yes I'm thinking of a few particular people from my gym.

 

[Fa Seeshus]

when the seasonal bodybuilders come into the gym, i just make sure to do my chest day in the early morning, when they are still sleeping. i think all they seem to do is 50 kazillion movements for chest

what is funny is that they can never do anything unless in a group of at least 4. when they bench it reminds me of the miller lite chant commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZeTbNg9Nek

 

[asleep]

i am guilty as charged. lol

 

[debo22]

bro dont let it bother you...lol. who cares what these guys do! its annoying but taking juice is taking juice no matter what time of year it is. so what if they want to get buff for summer and lift in groups of 4-5 like bunch of faries. you wont see these guys in a few years when they are married/kids and have a real life. if you do they will be fat and out of shape cause they never built a real base.

 

[VanR__]

Summer is the only time when I have enough time to do it.

 

[Physick]

bro dont let it bother you...lol. who cares what these guys do! its annoying but taking juice is taking juice no matter what time of year it is. so what if they want to get buff for summer and lift in groups of 4-5 like bunch of faries. you wont see these guys in a few years when they are married/kids and have a real life. if you do they will be fat and out of shape cause they never built a real base.

True true

 

[Animalus horrendus]

these individuals are kind swallows...go away in fall and return back in spring...

 

[EYE2EYE]

Those guys are just posers.
They take up alot of valuable space in the gym.
Peace.

 

[JETHRO TULL]

Yes, all that stuff bugs me too.

I don't care who takes what but the thing that really gets on my nerves is the attitude and the need for attention. I mean I don't care if they are male or female, that needy shit drives me over the edge.

I had one of these "summer steroid guys" come up to me not long ago in Golds. He stikes up a conversation [ he didn't really want to visit, he just wanted me to notice that he was "big".]

Keep in mind I train in a very basic manner most of the time because I have limited equipment at home and at our school gym. I was at a good gym so I throw in training on some equipment I don't have access to on a regular basis.

This "newly big person" catches me doing one of those machines that you can use for either rear delt raises or flys. I happened to be doing flys that day.

He makes the following comment while simultaneously flexing every muscle in his bloated body and adjusting his lifting gloves constantly so he can flex his chest and arms while talking:

"So I see you are lifting light, doing isolation movements, guess you are not into putting on muscle at this point, just refining what you've got."

I said yeah, I never lift heavy, you guys lift heavier than I ever could. He walked back to his group [two of his other freshly large summer steroid guys] and they began to do more 'assisted benchs' making sure others noticed them.

I kept on thinking to myself, well, I do deadlifts, squats, bent rows, chins and my last chest day was low incline dumbell presses 10 sets of 10 reps with the 110 pound dumbells...I have those dumbells at my house and since that's all the weight I had, I did lots of sets. Meanwhile these asswhipes have never competed in a powerlifing meet, never weighed what I weighed 20 years ago BEFORE I supplemented and have less quality muscle than my girlfriend.

Yet, they are BIG in their own minds. I guess it's just the way people are...hell they are probably sponsored athelets for all I know.

 

[DOGGCRAPP]

Let me guess.....the wifebeater brigade right? Its either a white wifebeater or black one with a tilted to the side baseball cap......for some reason you never ever see them near the leg equipment but if you truly kept count it would seem like ITS chest day 4 times a week.....also dont forget the barbell curls in the powerrack or squat rack when true hardcore lifters that need that equipment for rack deadlifts and squatting are waiting.

CANT FORGET the 7 sets of cable crossovers that always come at the end of the chest workout......

There has to be some circus mirrors in the gym because at this time of year 185lbs at 12% is reflected back at 285lbs shredded to some of these guys.

 

[abadseal]

This whole thread is pretty amusing however let me ask you this? Why do you feel the need to even acknowledge these guys in the gym let alone start a whole thread about them? Most people do get defensive when their territory is threatened. Just making an observation.

 

[edge250]

i love these guys, they motivate the shit out of me............and i intimidate the hell out of them

 

[DarkWarrior]

Yes it is sad but true! More and more I wear clothing like sweatshirts in the heat of summer to avoid the badgering from twits trying to shortcut their way to hugeness by devulging every tidbit of info from me.
The hot women are ok to badger me though......hahahahahaha.
Part timers......they run out of steam long before most serious lifters finish the warmup.
Ok enough bashing the wannabees, just please leave me alone while I do my squats!!!
Yes that is enough weight to squash you....lol!

 

[b-boy]

This whole thread is pretty amusing however let me ask you this? Why do you feel the need to even acknowledge these guys in the gym let alone start a whole thread about them? Most people do get defensive when their territory is threatened. Just making an observation.

::ction-sm

 

[BALDNAZI]

LOL

Yea abadseal, Im threatened! Please protect me. I need you and B-boy to defend me. Why does everyone else who responded understand what I am trying to say, yet you need to make try a delve deeper?

My point is, everyone of us has seen it and its annoying but people think thats what our culture is about and its not is it? When you put in hard work day after day and achieve your goals, isnt it a slap in the face?

 

[b-boy]

Yea abadseal, Im threatened! Please protect me. I need you and B-boy to defend me. Why does everyone else who responded understand what I am trying to say, yet you need to make try a delve deeper?

My point is, everyone of us has seen it and its annoying but people think thats what our culture is about and its not is it? When you put in hard work day after day and achieve your goals, isnt it a slap in the face?

why you bringing my name in it, i was clapping at his point on why even pay attention to idiots like that... Now i don't know you and you may need me to come protect you.... I don't know but if you do just pm me your address and i'll come running