I took 2 Dianabol for a few months. Vitamin C and B, that's it. Nowadays I don't need drugs or supplements except for magnesium and vitamin D. Matt needs to bulk up eating 3000+ calories a day. See how that goes then reassess what to do. No steroids for first 12 years and zero since 1977.
Regardless, your physique was at a high level, whether you used anything or not. Let's be honest - most who look like that are usually on something.
Regarding calories - it's daunting to think of 3,000 calories a day, Vince.
That's over a doubling of my current intake. I could do 2,400...possibly gradually ramp it up to 3,000.
I was thinking of 2,400 to 3,000 calories daily plus PED's. While I could look better if I ate more now, I will look better if I both went on-cycle AND ate more.
Which I will - I refuse to start any cycle until I have a full month's food supply in my fridge/freezer. First - one last blood test this week, and then loading up my fridge with food, and THEN I'll start.
Small chance I won't do it anyway - but I probably will.
That being said - I'm not sure if I have any interest in bodybuilding either naturally OR on PED's. Why the FUCK would anyone think shoving masses of calories down their throats and bringing up their body weight is a GOOD thing?
It's not an accident that I have consistently stayed at 170-lb - that was ALWAYS intentional. Again, why would I want to increase my food intake and ultimately COMPROMISE my organ integrity and overall health by pursuing natural bodybuilding, let alone PED bodybuilding?
In 2004, after reading studies on caloric restriction in mice and it's correlation with longevity, I decided to eat a low calorie diet. As it turns out, I took that concept to the extreme, to the point that my thyroid is now slow, from chronically under-eating. But a slow thyroid in itself is probably not a bad thing - and caloric restriction has a massive positive affect on longevity and overall health.
When people here talk like it's some accident I am 170...it just makes me scratch my head. NOTHING has stopped me from eating more or from using PED's OR from doing both. ONLY health concerns did that.
And now that I'm 40 and in better shape - including cardiovascular shape - than men half my age, I realize that I did the right thing.
However, my doctor has said that I should increase my calories just to get my thyroid in the normal range for TSH. Ok - fine.
So I'll be running a cycle and while getting into the habit of eating more, I will make great cycle gains.
When all is said and done, I'll probably end up at 2,400 calories a day, and walk around at 190 instead of 170. Although the good news there, is that I will easily be deadlifting 550 at 190, and benching 370.
One local juicer was telling me it was stupid for me to question how to gain strength, and I was stupid for asking. I had to explain to the dumb shit that ANY gains in strength I make will ONLY happen if my body weight stays in the 170's.
THIS IS A HEALTH CONSTRAINT I PURPOSELY PLACE ON MYSELF - NOT AN ACCIDENT.
Gaining strength would be a complete breeze for me if I even put on 20-lb of fat - but health concerns held me back from doing that.
Now that my doctor is not only giving me the go-ahead to stop being so cautious with my health - but encouraging me to do it [INCLUDING PED's, under his supervision], I look forward to what the results will be.
I wonder what people here are going to say when I'm bench pressing 315x15 at 190 body weight?
It will also be good to run a cycle JUST TO SHOW that ANY TIME I WANTED over the past 15 years, I could have simply ran gear and ate more, and looked radically different.
This will be an opportunity to prove that.
My delts will be the size of my head.
Frankly, I can't wait!
