How Can You Tell if Someone Is On Steroids?
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You want to know how to identify likely drug users so they can’t screw up your progress with bad advice, or your expectations and standards with their outstanding physiques.
You’re probably on social media, so you know what I’m talking about.
Around every corner is another influencer who’s willing to subject his body to a regular regimen of dangerous chemicals to get followers to peddle products and services to.
“LOOK AT ME!” they cry. “LOOK AT MY ABS AND BICEPS AND SHIT! DON’T YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE THIS? FUCK YEAH YOU DO! JUST CLICK THE LINK IN MY BIO TO PAY ME $97.97 IN 79 EASY HOURLY INSTALLMENTS AND I WILL SHOW YOU HOW!!!!!”
This isn’t just dishonest; it’s harmful.
First, drug users who’ve had little experience or results as drug-free lifters often give bad advice to natural weightlifters.
With the right steroids, you can get a lot wrong in the kitchen and gym and still build an extraordinary body.
For example, you can train more frequently and intensely, recover wonderfully, and pay less attention to your diet . . . and stay absolutely shredded the entire time.
Remember the bodybuilder who used steroids to gain 15 pounds of muscle in a year while staying at 8.5% body fat?
He reported eating between 2,300 and 3,600 calories per day throughout the year, but didn’t meticulously track his calories and macros, so it’s hard to know how much he actually ate.
Many people on gear don’t know or care about the monumental advantages they enjoy, though, so when they tell others to eat and train as they do, these people get nowhere near the same results.
Many then assume they just don’t have the genetics for a great physique, and they either give up, relegate themselves to mediocrity, or, ironically, turn to steroids.
A few “enhanced” trainers and coaches out there understand this and know how to change routines and diets for natural weightlifters, but they’re rare. And even if a “fake natty” gives good advice and rationalizes that this “noble end” justifies the means, it’s still immoral to lie about using drugs to get a body that wins people’s attention, trust, and business.
Read: The “Good” and “Bad” Reasons to Take Steroids
Second, many steroid users create false expectations that will lead to disappointment and failure for others. This is especially true of those who say anyone can get huge and shredded with enough hard work and #dedication.
We natural weightlifters can look great, but no matter what we do, we will never, ever look like a lot of what we see on Instagram. We can get big, lean, and strong, but there’s a level of muscularity, hardness, leanness, dryness, and fullness that no amount of natural bodybuilding can achieve.
So, for all of these reasons, it’s worth learning how to identify steroid users.
The biggest red flags are . . .
They have a normalized fat-free max index of 25 or more.
They’re very big, very lean, and very strong.
They suddenly got way stronger.
They have a massive upper chest, shoulders, and traps.
They’re shredded, dry, and full, with amazing muscle separation.
They stay extremely lean, full, and dry year round.
They have excellent overall development and proportions.
They have bad acne and male pattern baldness.
