When it comes to giving out advice the way I see it is if it's a compound I've personally used and have first hand experience with I'll do what I can to help out someone less knowledgable. I may know a little about other compounds I haven't used myself. Imo how can I give advice on something I've never experienced. Like I said I may know about it, but I cannot speak without experience. This is something I see daily. Someone speaking out and giving parroted advice. You can usually tell because it is always advice that's inaccurate. These are the things that gets people hurt. I do feel it is the knowledgable experienced guys obligation to say hey bro that's totally wrong advice and you need to hear what I have to say through experience or hey I can point you in the right direction. Go talk to this guy, he knows what's up. So, that's my observation, with what I see happening here on the daily.

Great post.

I'm still learning and I've learned a lot since joining eroids. I don't give much advice because I don't feel confident in doing so. I'd hate to just spew something out that I heard from someone else without knowing for a fact that it is correct. I think some people may get caught up on the "contribute to the community" thing. If a new member sees some of the comments on SI's when there's a pissing match, they may feel like it's their obligation to comment on cycles and so forth. I've seen many times where people are told "get on the forums or comment on people's cycles to help out". To me this is dangerous because not everyone is knowledgable enough to comment. I know their point is to venture out from the SI's to learn more and broaden their knowledge base, but it can give that "we expect you to do this" appearance.

I appreciate what I've learned here. Eroids is great resource.

I pretty much agree with you guys. I have only been running gear for just over two years now and every cycle of mine has been on the conservative side. I can advise newbie older dudes and that is about it. You never see me chime in on complicated cycles.

A huge amount of the cycle advice dished out these days is from people that have run 2 or 3 cycles. Go read the cycle logs. In the majority of cases I'm sure with good intentions, but it's hugely misguided to think you're in a position to counsel anyone with such limited experience.

My view on this doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but in my eyes it's simple. Everyone, no matter how experienced they are should only advice on what they REALLY know.

Good post mate +2

Exactly why I dont give out cycle advice or post this and that......im still learning myself. One day when I feel I know enough ill put up somthing for others.....but what I do already know has been covered already in the forums time after time and probly explained alot better than I could have in all honesty. But when im asked a question if its something I dont know I just refer someone to them that can give em a better answer than myself......if I know the answer ill break it down to them.

I understand but there is another side to it also. I was a high jumper in my youth. My coach never high jumped in his mf life but he still had knowledge enough to make me the #1 high jumper in my county. Or look at doctors. Some are in awful health, my gf's dad is a 350lb Dr., but they still have the knowledge regardless of what their personal health situation is. There are plenty of other similar situations. You can't look at a person and tell what knowledge is in their head.

Doctors say, 60% of the time it works every time....
It can honestly go both ways. Viking once said those that can't do teach. I've known a few people in many walks of life like that. They can tell you exactly how to do something, and be completely correct, but any time they put their hands on it, they fuck it up.
But I know you're speaking about a specific group of people, and there's a ton of them. The parroted info is great for certain things. The truth is, there's a time and place for the box. The box is safe and allows us to learn our bodies and how they react. At some point, we all stray a bit from the box and discover a little bit more.
And half the advice being thrown out there by some of the ones you're speaking of never even touch the box....

Im gonna play devil's advocate here. I don't necessarily think one should base who they take cycle advise from by appearance. A friend of mine is fairly large, about ~250lbs at the moment and is always lean, rarely above 10%bf, yet when it comes to putting together cycles or even a diet for that matter, he's fuckin clueless. Luckily he has insane genetics on his side. If he were on here and posted pics, people would flock to him for advice not knowing he doesnt know his ass from a hole in the wall.

Im currently -20%bf. In the last couple years Ive been as low as about 9% as well. Im in "good shape" for maybe 3 months of the year. Why? Well I'm not a bodybuilder and my life doesnt allow me to be consumed by this lifestyle 365 days of the year. Ive ran lots of compounds including tren, which I love, and I would say I have decent AAS knowledge. However You wont catch me giving anything more than basic cycle info. Im certainly no expert.

What Im gonna ask is this. If today I gave some advise while im a chubby 20%bf, why would that be less credible than if I gave the same advise while I was 10%bf?

Another thing I want to mention, which I'll likely catch some flak for, is that I don't really think people should take too much cycle advise from others' at all. Sure I agree with the test only first cycle protocol but past that YOU have to figure out what works best for YOU and the only way you're gonna figure that out is trying different things. Why take cycle advise from someone else who has no idea how your body is going to react?

Dang tell us has w u really feel hey rusty u got room at gnc

All you need to do to see this is go to the Src's pages some shit on there that blows U mind