If you’re approached, you’ll more than likely be promised overnight gains, doubling, or tripling your homeruns, wins, rate of progression, amount of records you’ll shattered and on and on.

You’ll also be told things like. “It’s totally safe.” “Every champ does it” “Don’t worry about side effects, all you need to do is ‘cycle stacks’ and I can show you how.” “I get my stuff from a real doctor on the other side of town.”

And on, and on, and on…

Before you make the wrong decision, ask yourself if a cocaine dealer is the first image that comes to mind when you think about an honest, caring and straight forward person? I mean, a drug dealer has your best interests at heart, right?

Now, consider the fact that steroids are a drug, and are illegal to have without a prescription and can get you into serious trouble if caught with them in your possession, I think you’ll agree that it’s fair to call ‘roid dealers drug dealers. And if you’re smart, you’ll think twice about the advice these bozos have for you.

Again, since many reading this are looking to increase muscle mass and/or physical performance, I think it’s very important to go over this stuff.

Some reading this may already know this, and others may not. One effect steroids have on the body is to increase its ability to synthesize protein. In other words your body is now able to build and repair muscle faster. Your body breaks down protein into amino acids, and then it rebuilds them into the appropriate protein it needs to repair or build up the body.

You can look at it this way. Each gram of complete protein is a brick and your body has a bunch of brick layers building up various sections of your body. When you train you tear down sections of your body. In a matter of fact, normal everyday living will tear down your body. This rebuilding process takes place at night when you’re deep asleep. Your body naturally releases hormones, including Human Growth Hormone (HGH) to aid in this rebuilding. (This is why quality sleep is critical for peak performance)

A person in their natural state – one who isn’t on steroids or any other similar androgenic substance – can only utilize so many grams of protein in a day. His or her workers, for example’s sake, can only lay 100 bricks a day. It doesn’t matter how much protein is provided in the diet, that’s all the workers can do.

Did you know …….?

The term Androgenic is defined as pertaining to the development of male characteristics, including body hair, the genital organs and muscle mass. "Androgenic" is the adjective form of the noun "androgen," a word referring to any of the male hormones, including testosterone and androsterone.

A ’roid head’ on the other hand, because of the use of his illegal drugs, can, for example, process 200 grams of protein a day. So his workers are not only able to lay more brick, but they can repair and rebuild faster too, leading to faster and bigger gains. This allows ‘juicers’ to get more benefit out of each work out – they can train with less intensity, but, because their bodies are able to rebuild faster they grow quicker. They can also train harder than a natural athlete and come back sooner and do it again, where the natural guy or gal has to take a day’s rest or more depending on training intensity. Trying to keep up with the juicer will cause the natural trainer to lose muscle, not build it because of overtraining. This crap also enables an athlete to go past their genetic potential, allowing the juice monkey to build more muscle and strength than he or she could naturally achieve – at least that’s one reason why they claim that taking it is so important.

If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I’m not a fan of steroids, I’m not a fan those who take them, and I’m especially not a fan of those who sell them. Steroids are a cheater’s friend. A steroid abuser is cheating their fellow athletes, all true fans of that sport, and most importantly; themselves.

I truly believe that all aspects of life are related – life’s experiences are universal. What you experience and go through in one endeavor affects you in others. And it’s no different in sports or trying to put on muscle. If life’s experiences and lessons weren’t applicable in other areas of your life it would take you forever to learn. This becomes clear when you start fully and deeply living your life. You’ll quickly connect lessons you learn to all areas of your life and this is one of the reasons why cheating is so dangerous and effort, discipline, thought, and perseverance among other traits are what count. It’s also why analogies, proverbs, parables and stories are so valuable – because wisdom applies to all aspects of life – most, if not all lessons are universal.