Matt,
You don't need steroids. Your natural build just needs refinement.
As previously stated, to look like a bodybuilder you have to train that way.
The low rep training you usually do is great for strength but won't get you the bodybuilder look.
For that you need to train in a rep range of 8-12.
There are many routines on the internet.
Hmm...
I'm reconsidering my cycle.
That being said, who has ever used steroids only because they couldn't get to where they wanted to naturally without them?
I understand the concept of BUILDING A NATURAL BASE before using steroids. But I don't understand why someone would have to train naturally for their goals just because that's possible.
Progress from a 16-week cycle is going to take me at least a year naturally.
Even then - that's bullshit. On juice, your pumps are so good that you basically get pumped just from lifting normal objects. And the pump you get at the gym comes much faster and much more easily and stays much longer. None of that is possible naturally, even if you do get to the same body weight.
Now I'm considering this cycle again, after realizing that.
Natural training sucks.
No, I don't want to spend a year to get the gains I can get naturally in four months. If not two years. And natural nutrition is such incredible fine-tuning, unless you just want to get fat. With juice, you can pretty much eat "whatever" and still gain lean mass. Let alone if you eat properly.
With natural training, it's totally different. Even doing everything right, you progress at a snail's pace.
It's not just that you don't notice progress from workout to workout while natural - you basically don't notice it MONTH TO MONTH. For bodybuilding I mean. I have ABSOLUTELY gone a full year doing everything right for natural bodybuilding, and I know that THE PROGRESS SUCKS.
By "everything right", I mean eating 1g protein per 1-lb LBM, and eating sufficient carbs and fats + water intake.
The progress sucked.
That's why I don't natural body-build - it's useless.
Natural strength training is satisfying. Probably even BETTER, because the injury risk is lower. AND IMO, to the general public, it makes no difference if you deadlift 500 or 800. Most will consider both strong.
And WHO THE FUCK DOES NATURAL BODYBUILDING? It's unheard of because it is absolutely FUTILE. Imagine MCWAY telling me to do it, WHEN FUCKING LITERALLY NO ONE DOES IT, EVER.
Based on the fact that I see NO ONE at the gym making any progress, I don't consider the people there naturally bodybuilding.
They are just people who work out.
My goal is to actually gain muscle. It's possible to gain muscle naturally, but I don't think I have in 15 years. I've been heavier...but I was just fatter.
MCWAY claims to be natural at 223-lb and 15% body fat. Like most delusional self-reporting people, he's probably at LEAST 10% off.
So 223-lb and 25% body fat - which is EXACTLY why I don't want to do this naturally. Because that IS the best you will look.
I want to get back to this type of condition:
