Like get on steroids until you can bench 225, and then get off and just maintain 225 muscle by just benching 225 typa shi?
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I’m going to ignore your terrible grammar and obvious lack of sense regarding your question.
Steroids are far more common than you think. What set apart a steroid from other chemicals is that it has a chain of 17 carbon atoms that form a ring like structure. Your body produces steroids. Testosterone is one of them. That’s also the most common steroid used in bodybuilding.
To bench 225, you do not need steroids. If you’re considering that, you have no business using steroids, and don’t understand fitness and nutrition. Learn more. Use your brain. Figure out your goals. If they can be achieved without steroids, do that.
To answer your question tho, steroids pull water and glycogen in huge amounts into your muscles. They also provide your body with the capacity to utilize more protein for recovery, and give your body the capacity to grow beyond what would normally be considered a genetic limit. Your muscle doesn’t just go away after you stop working out. Not for a really long time. Your muscle cells just don’t have the glycogen in them afterward. And steroids pull a ton of glycogen into your muscles, so if you stop, your body won’t be able to pull that amount of glycogen in. Glycogen is used as fuel for your muscles, and comes from carbs. So if you don’t have enough of it to facilitate your workouts, they’re not gonna be as good. If 225 is your goal, and you get that way with excess fuel, without the excess fuel, you’re not gonna be able to do it. Besides that, 225 is not a high enough goal to warrant the use of steroids. Plenty of people end up benching 315 without the use of steroids as well. Reconsider if your goal is only 225.
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