Don't shoot me..steroids?

[CUSP82]

Steroids a BIG NO NO! Stop using them = back as you were before using....
And offcourse messing up your entire body,greatly increasing chance of getting cancer and brain strokes or heart attack and the most intimidating of all afects your penis size ( shrinks! ).
Whoever says steroids are good is uninformed idiot ( my brother is a doctor specialised for internal organs, and trust me you do not want steroids in your system ) Yes they will help you look good in very very short time, but have in mind 10 years from the time when you use them you will be in big trouble,so instead i preffer spending 6h per week in a gym... Takes a longer time to get what you want but the best benefit of building your body in a healthy way is even when you stop going to the gym for few months its easy to get everything you had before the break...

3 times per week is a lot, and plus you have day off to rest and thats when you get your gains...
My highschool teacher was a bodybuilder and competing against schwarzenegger,and he told me he used steroids ONCE and said that it was stupid mistake... Age 50 brain stroke,he survived luckly...
Proper training and diet can do miracles

Stay safe,
Kobe 24

Great post. You get a rep for it!

[wanabegiant]

Steroids are very safe to use if you do your research first, they are used in hospitals, surgery's and can greatly enhance the quality of peoples lifes. If steroids gave people heart problems and brain cancer (lmfao) and made mens penis shrink, would they have FDA approval as safe to use on humans! What does do serious damage though is lifting heavy weights, deadlifting 200kg+ week in, week out, over years and years can put the body under immense stresses and this is when the body starts to fall apart. I use steroids and have regular blood tests taken and I have never been out of range for any values whatsoever, clean bill of health every time. I personally think the majority of people are very naive in regards to building muscle and they think that if you train hard, eat well, say your prayers and take your vitamins that you can achieve a build that looks like you even workout without steroids, well look at the natural body builders of the 1930's, before steroids were even invented, these guys weren't muscular and in condition like we are today. Steroids are banned in sports because they work, but anyone who thinks that natural bodybuilders and athletes are actually natural then they really have no clue what goes on in the real world. The most used substance in sports is the most potent anabolic on the planet, and can never be tested for...Insulin!

[CUSP82]

Steroids are safe if used by a doctor. End of story.

[wanabegiant]

Steroids are safe if used by a doctor. End of story.

Yep, that's why I have blood tests taken by the doc's, so we can analyse what is going on and make clinical decisions accordingly.

[CUSP82]

We have knuckleheads who do their " research" on the internet and then go and juice. The OP of this thread literally has no idea what he's doing but he'll do it anyway without a doctors supervision. The medical literature is filled with steroid induced problems. They are numerous and deadly. People can and will do what they want but no one can call them, or any drug, safe. It must be used wisely and without years of study in the health science field, without knowing biochemistry, cellular biology, physiology, pharmocology to name a few, people should not be using them. And use them for what? So you can have a better body? How shallow is that. Let's worry about being better people!

[wanabegiant]

This is the problem though Cusp, people will do steroids with or without approval from peers (just keep it hush hush) and then they go and poorly research them on the internet, taking advice from guys who are novice users at best. I think the best approach to tackling the problems that people encounter is to educate them on how safest to use them rather than simply scaremonger them with made up horror stories about cancer and inaccurate medical findings. Just because some meathead dies of a heart attack doesn't mean steroids are bad for your heart, what about his genetics and lifestyle are they not to blame? He could of been a drinker, smoker, taken coke, done little exercise, ate kfc everyday for 20 years, stressed over trivial things, had hereditary heart conditions etc. You just can't reliably prove cause and effect and that is a medical fact, and why steroids are used by medical professional everyday to help improve peoples lives.

[CUSP82]

Yes; used by medical professional with training and experience. Am I saying they're not useful? Know I am saying that without a trained medical professional prescribing them they are dangerous. There are countless studies showing the deleterious effects of steroids on the human body. Your body makes the steroids it needs; it doesn't need excess. You know even vitamins and supplements can cause a body probelms and they are not nearly as powerful as steroids. It sets a bad example to say they are safe. We have self proclaimed "doctors" who did "research" on the internet, God forgive they should pick up some text books and learn, and yet they're experts at cycling steroids. You know if I get cancer I say screw the doctor, I'll just get my own chemotherapy drugs off the net, do some research, and treat myself. I'll be dead in a week. No , they are not safe, and the reason they are banned in sports is not because they work; it is because they will kill you sooner than you should have gone.

[wanabegiant]

Steroids are safe to use, they will not kill you lmfao, not quite the same as self-prescribing medication for a terminal disease either, but hey each to their own.

[CUSP82]

Okay, you have your opinion and I have mine.

[RockstarParkingDude]

steroids are not dangerous. stupid people are dangerous.