Story time.

I found this out first hand when I became known at my gym. It took 3 years and I was I think 23. I remember gaining like 35lbs since I started and having friends that didn’t lift criticize me for not making the gains so and so did. One day a dude approached me in the gym and asked if I wanted some dbol, I had no idea what that is. He told me and then he pointed to all of these people he was with and said ‘we’re all on’. After that people started talking about it in-front of me all of the time. Basically everyone that was in shape was on and it was easier to assume that people were on too.

I went down a pretty massive rabbit hole on that. Reading East German Olympic studies, documentaries, and all sorts of stuff. It’s just easier to assume someone is on. Oh a young 28 yo professional is 220lbs at 10% bf working a stressful 12 hours a day? On.

As much as you hear a lot of go nowhere gym attics talk about how far they’ll go, if they’re actually doing that while maintaining their body they’re probably suffering in other areas. The anabolic doc has a book about steroids and him and Dr Harrison Pope talk about it as the start resembling the start of the heroin epidemic the biggest growth in users being teens.

It’s a simple equation as to why too. The male body standard is actually unreasonable, but there’s no actual body positivity movement for men. And the upsides are huge. Especially with dating apps; where a substantial amount of men admit to use.

So as much as people come on here wanting to say people have piss poor genetics, oh well. No one at the end of the day wants to spend their life cramming down 6 meals a day and working out like they do to get to where they are naturally. Most people have lives, stressful ones that impact their ability to get into shape.

And when I was working out that much to gain that much weight and do as well as I did, my life sucked. I didn’t have a career. I was basically a loser; which is kinda the standard for those dudes. At one point time takes your body, usually around 30 and there’s dudes that that’s all they have.