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I'm a young 20s guy and I've been training for 4.5 years seriously (fucking around with it 6 years all together).
I've actually yet to take the plunge on gear because I personally view it as a lifetime decision, I don't like the idea of coming on and off and having to deal with the mental/physical and emotional sides that would be associated with hormonal fluctuations. I've been reading about steroids for probably 2+ years now and I think I've built a pretty solid foundation of knowledge in that I know what I'd need to do to reach any bbing goals I may have, but I also realize that going after something like an IFBB pro card just isn't in my cards most likely.
There is too much drug abuse, too much politics and too much stupidity involved with the "sport" for me to want to get involved with it in that capacity. I train to look good and feel good and while it definitely tempts me at times to use gear seeing as I have solid genetics, I wonder "what's even the point?" I have a look that I'm pretty happy with (always striving to improve), I'm still making progress in the gym (slowly, but it's still there) and most of all I'm enjoying it for the sake of the activity and the journey itself.
Personally I think balance is best and we should always strive to improve ourselves IN and OUT of the gym, whether it's physically or mentally or spiritually. I don't want to embody a meathead and if I were to go down the gear route, I'd still make sure to take care of my mind/soul. My idea for humanity is to try and be a renaissance person (skilled at many things aka not just a meathead, a nerd or a "guru" but the meathead who's a nerd who happens to also be a guru) and the body is one of the pursuits that I feel is also very important to us here, but personally I don't see it as the most important or the only thing that matters. I don't view people that JUST want to workout any different as the nerds they may make fun of or the hippies that sit and meditate all day, to them they might be in the midst of a pursuit, but they're also missing out on the totality of what they are as a person (all of them being polarized to one extreme of the mind/body/soul)...at least in my opinion.
That said I don't judge anyone that pursues anything, uses tons of gear or is in love with bodybuilding as long as they are a good person and don't have other responsibilities they are forgetting (i.e using family money for their gear, while their kids go without clothes/books or things they need or risking their health when their children/wife need them as a spouse/parent). I think if you do that, that's very shitty and there is no excuse for that. However if you don't have any responsibilities to anyone else and you feel that potentially risking health is worth it, then by all means...as long as you're not harming anyone, go for it.
I've actually yet to take the plunge on gear because I personally view it as a lifetime decision, I don't like the idea of coming on and off and having to deal with the mental/physical and emotional sides that would be associated with hormonal fluctuations. I've been reading about steroids for probably 2+ years now and I think I've built a pretty solid foundation of knowledge in that I know what I'd need to do to reach any bbing goals I may have, but I also realize that going after something like an IFBB pro card just isn't in my cards most likely.
There is too much drug abuse, too much politics and too much stupidity involved with the "sport" for me to want to get involved with it in that capacity. I train to look good and feel good and while it definitely tempts me at times to use gear seeing as I have solid genetics, I wonder "what's even the point?" I have a look that I'm pretty happy with (always striving to improve), I'm still making progress in the gym (slowly, but it's still there) and most of all I'm enjoying it for the sake of the activity and the journey itself.
Personally I think balance is best and we should always strive to improve ourselves IN and OUT of the gym, whether it's physically or mentally or spiritually. I don't want to embody a meathead and if I were to go down the gear route, I'd still make sure to take care of my mind/soul. My idea for humanity is to try and be a renaissance person (skilled at many things aka not just a meathead, a nerd or a "guru" but the meathead who's a nerd who happens to also be a guru) and the body is one of the pursuits that I feel is also very important to us here, but personally I don't see it as the most important or the only thing that matters. I don't view people that JUST want to workout any different as the nerds they may make fun of or the hippies that sit and meditate all day, to them they might be in the midst of a pursuit, but they're also missing out on the totality of what they are as a person (all of them being polarized to one extreme of the mind/body/soul)...at least in my opinion.
That said I don't judge anyone that pursues anything, uses tons of gear or is in love with bodybuilding as long as they are a good person and don't have other responsibilities they are forgetting (i.e using family money for their gear, while their kids go without clothes/books or things they need or risking their health when their children/wife need them as a spouse/parent). I think if you do that, that's very shitty and there is no excuse for that. However if you don't have any responsibilities to anyone else and you feel that potentially risking health is worth it, then by all means...as long as you're not harming anyone, go for it.
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