What would you change if you could go back in time regarding your PED usage?

[TheOtherOne55]

My gear usage was fairly slow and moderate. Stuff like 500mg test + 500mg EQ for mosttt of my 20s. Which honestly, wasss the right path. If ANYTHING i probably wouldve changed my dedication to my diet and all the other parts. If i wouldve rushed to 1g Sust + 1g NPP would I have exploded earlier? Maybe, but everything seemed to peak at the right time. When my gear dosage increased, my dedication in allll areas increased, i hired a coach, i gave up alcohol, etc. I feel like this happens for a lot of us — but yes, i know there are idiots running insane doses, eating like gluttons and barely training hard.

 

[qbkilla]

how crazy did you go in the beginning? Your doses seem fairly mild now

Tbh unless someone lives to be extremely muscular, anything other than 500mg jist isn't worth it. Many may disagree but I whenever im on bb forums seems like the health issues people have are almost considered normalized. My views on aas over the years have changed big time...I've went as high as 2g a week when young and stupid.

 

[Enigma2015]

Would have focused more on my diet. Wish I would have discovered tren earlier. Years ago, a source was famous for 50ml jugs for a very good price and I went absolute apeshit on my dosages...probably wasn't the best idea but I was in the mindset of "more is better" at the time. I was washing down dbols like candy and pinning insane doses of test and deca.

 

[Mufasa123]

Diet knowledge for sure. #1. Could have done much more with it. It wasn't bad but the way I know my body and measure today...damn

I was very conservative with drugs. I'd have taken more for longer.

I would have used more test in my cycles with less desire for anabolics (though I did and still do respond well to them)

- these are things I could control. This was the early 1990s so very poor availability at that time and expensive. Hard to get your own bloodwork (pretty much you wanted to be clean for your Dr so he didn't freak) and knowledge level back then was poor even with the published sources versus today.

 

[Siggy]

9 years into my PED journey, I would not change a thing, I regret nothing because I did research for at least a decade before I even did my first cycle. Didnt do my fist cycle till I was 39.

I tested out 500mg of all major compounds for about 5 months mostly on their own (with 250mg Test) to see how anabolic each one was for my particular physiology. I planned it all out before I ever got started.

I quickly found out that large cycles of short duration did not work well for me personally, extremely long cycles of moderate doses are what works for me.

 

[ScoobyPrep]

Id start sooner. I was 34. And ive loved every minute of it lol. Id probably have started around 27 if i could go back.

Id have leaned out first. I was never a fat guy but I wasnt very lean back then either. I got very puffy nips from my first one, nothing permanent but i really didnt like the first run. Had i started leaner id been better off.

ID probably also ran anabolic with the 500mg test i did. Maybe even do hgh. NOw that i know what im doing i think maximizing that first cycle would be awesome applying what i knwo now

 

[hawkmoon]

Not a thing.

I’ve always been conservative with my PED usage, only taking what I needed to improve and reach my goals. The one exception was when I did 300mg of Anadrol for 3-4 weeks when I was 19 or 20—if I could undo that, I would.
I stuck with the same philosophy throughout my entire career, and I believe it’s served me well. I've gotten the side-eye over my doses, though few have outright called me a liar.

The fact is, I’m 55, in pretty good health, and my blood work is actually better than when I started at 19. I can still make progress, and I’m still able to compete and win—as long as my injuries are properly managed.
If I had used grams and grams, as some seem to believe is the norm, I don’t think I’d be healthy or able to continue making improvements.

I don’t particularly enjoy being on PEDs, but the reality is, I’d lose a lot and wouldn’t be able to compete if I went to TRT-only, and I’m not ready for that yet.
I also would never have touched PEDs if I didn’t compete. I’ve mentioned this before, but I was a straight-edge skinhead when I was young, strongly anti-drug/alcohol, and I still am. I can’t even stand being around people who are using drugs or drinking. In some ways, I’m always uncomfortable about my own PED use.

 

[NeveReveN]

What are things that you would change, in regards to your personal PED, usage if you could go back in time?

Stuff like not using certain compounds maybe, or using certain stuff earlier like GH for example etc etc.

I wouldn’t have been so conservative with stacking and dosages. And when I had the chance to move to Santa Monica and have daily access to Gold’s and World Gyms, I would have went for it. Life is too short not to REALLY go for your dreams.

 

[hevi-head]

Start earlier and take more

Same, I wish i would/could’ve started earlier. Much harder to get back then. I didn’t start til my early forties. 56 now

 

[IronFist]

started earlier and was more consistent with dieting.

 

[KingOfSushi]

Wish I used gh earlier at higher doses and also regret following J3U for a little lol

 

[madg]

Wouldnt change a thing

I regret nothing

 

[luki7788]

Too many things I would do completely differently - too much to write it all down lol

 

[bbxtreme]

I would have hired a coach much sooner to take the learning curve out of things.

 

[Prowrestler]

Nutrition

 

[RandomLifter]

Start low and increase as needed only. Slower titration upward as opposed to as much as I can handle.

That said I’m still a noob. Less than 10 cycles in. But I figured out quickly that if I run too much it just completely messes me up.

 

[Massive G]

I would have not used such low doses to start with.

And maybe just did HRT instead of all that PCT nonsense

Pct was is a joke unless you are restoring fertility. HCG high estro made me feel sick even microdose clomid cry like a baby blocks igf1. We didn't have hmg back in the day.
Some used nolvadex too bad sides there.
Going back i would have bridged with sub q hrt instead which is what I recommend now with low doses GH and slin hardly suffer at all no crash unless doing a godzilla cycle with the toxic aas orals and the estrogen scavengers like EQ Primo further escalation of the crash.

 

[Massive G]

I was very conservative with drugs. I'd have taken more for longer.

This was the early 1990s so very poor availability at that time and expensive. Hard to get your own bloodwork (pretty much you wanted to be clean for your Dr so he didn't freak) and knowledge level back then was poor even with the published sources versus totoday.

I was bit later in the 1990s early 2000s and we were still suffering from the anablition bill that made steroids CIIIs. I also lived in a small rural town so whatever gear there available was expensive and low quality. You could roll the dice and order via snail mail overseas and wait for weeks to months sweating it out if the pack ever arrived or was snagged. In a way I guess I was lucky as the first 5 years or so did baby cycles based on availability. I wasn't the richest person back then as most young people fresh out of school. I will be honest I would have done heavier cycles with androgen anabolic but most were just test only. I remember my first sustanon cycle I bought 10 redi jets from a guy in the gym that would vacation in Cancun and smuggled them back in shampoo bottles and sell them for $30 a pop. Cycles were simple back then just a few a year and would only be 6 to 8 weeks. No GH back then and just R and N slin. Some of that Mexican vet shit was dirty and painful and you had to process it with oil and bake the shit or if you could find sterile filters and vials. Tren kits were pretty nasty too making pellets with high solvent levels. Yuck.

 

[Enigma2015]

I was bit later in the 1990s early 2000s and we were still suffering from the anablition bill that made steroids CIIIs. I also lived in a small rural town so whatever gear there available was expensive and low quality. You could roll the dice and order via snail mail overseas and wait for weeks to months sweating it out if the pack ever arrived or was snagged. In a way I guess I was lucky as the first 5 years or so did baby cycles based on availability. I wasn't the richest person back then as most young people fresh out of school. I will be honest I would have done heavier cycles with androgen anabolic but most were just test only. I remember my first sustanon cycle I bought 10 redi jets from a guy in the gym that would vacation in Cancun and smuggled them back in shampoo bottles and sell them for $30 a pop. Cycles were simple back then just a few a year and would only be 6 to 8 weeks. No GH back then and just R and N slin. Some of that Mexican vet shit was dirty and painful and you had to process it with oil and bake the shit or if you could find sterile filters and vials. Tren kits were pretty nasty too making pellets with high solvent levels. Yuck.

Mexican vet grade....I remember the good ole days when QV was easily accessible. Shit would knot me up for days after!

 

[Massive G]

Mexican vet grade....I remember the good ole days when QV was easily accessible. Shit would knot me up for days after!

Biggest mistake I ever made is when there enanthate came out in 50 ml vials popped 3 ml in the glute everything else they made was good and clean and this was before the enanthates were painful and bam ...test flu.
Tokyo could be painful and damn loeffler was like fire. Cheap as hell though back then.
Good times.