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Steroids will cause you to build more muscle faster. The body usually regulates Steroids carefully to find a perfect balance between “using excess energy to build muscle” and “using excess energy to survive”
Since muscles take alot of effort to maintain, the body only builds small amounts, for survival reasons, as food supply was, for most of our history, absolutely not reliable.
Taking steroids will override this and cause your body to build more muscle faster, and also more overall. Normally the amount of Testosterone and other substances affect both how much muscle you CAN have and how much you KEEP.
If you go on roids, bulk up to become huge and then stop taking roids, you will lose muscle mass and you will not be able to build as much muscle overall anymore, although there appear to be some degree of long term effects of steroid use, altho these appear to be rather neglegible in the grand scheme of things.
Steroids are substances that usually alters specific hormones levels. These hormones are responsible for telling your body how much muscle to build. They totally make you achieve something that you wouldn’t be able to with normal hormones level, because at some point your body doesn’t really want to put up all that muscle that requires more energy.
Steroids will not *necessarily* make someone larger than they could be naturally, but they will reach it faster. And they are the only way people can surpass a pretty fixed amount of lean mass for height. This is ~ 5’10″/210lbs / 10% body fat, with weight scaling 5lbs per inch in either direction.
It’s also extremely hard to maintain muscle mass as you reduce your body fat to 10% or below, as millions of years of evolution think this is dumb. Steroids make this *much* easier.
So someone who is at or above that ratio is almost certainly on steroids.
Think of building muscles like blowing up a balloon that has a small hole in it. At the beginning, you start to blow into the balloon, and there’s not much pressure inside yet, so most of your air stays in the balloon, only a little leaks out, and then you blow again, and it continues to let a lot of air in, and a little air out.
Every breath makes a meaningful difference in the size of that balloon, for awhile. But as it continues to grow, each new breath adds less and less total size to the balloon. It’s adding the same amount of *air*, but while your second breath of air maybe added 33% to the circumference, your twentieth breath of air adds maybe 1% to the circumference.
As more and more air gets into the balloon, the pressure builds up, and air starts leaking faster. Eventually (assuming a balloon that won’t pop), maybe 50-80% of each breath is leaking out before the next breath. So that 1% becomes more like 0.2%.
Taking steroids is like giving you more air volume in each breath, and making each breath quicker and closer together, and making the hole in the balloon smaller.
Basically, this system is set up in such a way that there’s a practical limit (determined by your genetics) where you can’t meaningfully add enough muscle quickly enough to continue growing at a clip you can actually see. Steroids just move the limit higher, by making it easier and faster to gain and harder and slower to lose.
Essentially, someone on gear can achieve in, say, 5 years what someone natural would take 100 to achieve. But you can’t actually train for 100 years, so it’s impossible. The number of years is made up, IDK how long it would actually take, but the principle is the same.
So, it accelerates muscle growth, and that acceleration is what allows people on steroids to achieve results that are literally impossible for naturals.
Steroids both increase the rate at which muscle is gained (assuming you aren’t drastically under eating, need bricks to build a house), and permit the body to exceed what it would otherwise be able to build.
i wil never forget the study they did with a group of guys doing roids, but not working out vs guys who worked out but didnt roid. roiders gained more muscle.
Where does one even get steroids for this? I can only find some testosterone pills and I am 99% sure they do nothing in this context. I also doubt you go to the GP and say “I want some roids for some muscle pls help” lol
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