Sir, have you ever used steroids?
Have you been on gear?
Were you natural during your bodybuilding days?…
And many such questions I get on my social media platforms. More so, due to current trend of ripped six packs prevalent on the social media.
Let me be very true and simple on this with you.
Yes, I actually have used steroids during my competitive bodybuilding days.
Did someone force me? Absolutely not.
Steroids form an integral a part of conventional bodybuilding competitions. We select a sport on account of many reasons. It could be passion, inspiration, or love for the game, or to prove someone unsuitable, or something else. Individual have different personal reasons.
For me, it was mainly passion for sports.
If you’ve gotten seen my documentarywhich released a while back, I showed my life’s journey and transition through various sports. I began with competitive athletics, in my highschool, moved on to hardcore military training, after which entered competitive bodybuilding. In between, I experienced different form of sport, which included swimming, football, volleyball, basketball etc.
But at no place I ever needed the support of steroids, except bodybuilding. Because, that’s one in all the few sports through which the usage of steroids is an integral part, and that’s the bitter truth. The other sports being powerlifting, arm wrestling and robust man competitions. All these are non-Olympic sports, and don’t come under the anti-doping umbrella.
Anyone competing in such sports isn’t from force. No one could make you a competitive bodybuilder by force. Therefore, nobody can force you to take anabolics, against your personal will. Anyone saying that I used to be forcefully given steroids, is just lying.
People can persuade you into using steroids. They can scare you into using them. But that’s it. Have you seen anyone injecting Deca into an individual’s ass, along with his hands and feet tied? So, you usually have a selection.
But you’ll be able to’t be a competitive bodybuilder through force. If you aren’t inspired or passionate enough, you just can’t consider competing. Even in the event you do, you won’t really win. And if you must win in a bodybuilding competition, you’ll be able to’t win without steroids. You can’t stand amongst extremely muscular and ripped individuals, and consider winning it naturally, howsoever genetically gifted you might be.
And I’m at all times wondering at individuals who have been competing at various national and international platforms, and still claim to be natural. There can’t be a much bigger joke than this. And I at all times fail to grasp, what are they getting out of it. I actually have made an in depth video on the reality about natural bodybuilding earlier on my YouTube channel.
However, the purpose I would like to underline is the difference between steroids usage, 10-15 years ago, and now. The scenario has modified drastically and by no means for the higher.
When I competed in my first bodybuilding district competition, I had absolutely no idea about steroids. I won a gold medal, in my first district competition, because I had a robust background of competitive sports, which involved tons of strength training. This gave me a really strong base and an edge over other competitors.
But even after that, even at state, national and services level competitions, the quantity of steroids I used was way below, to what kids are using today. I recently was understanding with one in all my earlier team mates from the Indian Air Force bodybuilding team, and he told me some mind-boggling numbers, on the subject of use of drugs.
He himself was shocked with such numbers. He had seen people using steroid cycles with weekly doses of 1000mg testosterone and lots of of milligrams of oral anabolics, together with other salts. And then we ask, why bodybuilders are dying young.
