posted Tue, 07/19/2011 - 22:33
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What Age You Started
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Whats up guys Just wanted to get some feedback as to what age you were when u first started. Of corse its recommended to start around age 25 along with years of experience and proper diet & training (im no rookie). Im just a little curious to get some knowledge & conversation from everyone along with any regrets u may have (if u have Any).
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I started when I was 29. 40 next month. Been at the gym since I was 14.
If I could go back to then, I would have never started using gear and stayed natural.
Like most people I was young and immature (I consider 29 young now lmao) and after the short cut to look like the bigger lads in the gym I worked at.
If anybody’s reading this and thinking about going down this road, please give it proper consideration
The main thing that you will really regret is messing up your endocrine system and sexual functioning if you start too young, I think even the mildest of cycles affect this forever on wards. Dic* function and the intensity of an orgasm are nowhere as near good as it once was before your body has ever touched steroids. Yes you can continue to take artificial test but the feeling just isn't the same.
josipgates25 and it was test only cycle...started bodybuilding at 16,done first competiton at 21 men's physique
I started bodybuilding when I was 16
And I got my first bulking cycle 18( Test Prop, D-bol, Deca)
Dam I started at 30 in the hospital for a year t levels dropped to 70 from all the meds was so depressed
I was 27 myself. Been bodybuilding naturally before that since I was 16.
AnonWow, pulled this thread up from 8 years ago...
I fucked up and regret it still.
I did everything wrong, besides the actual first cycle, which was too young anyways. I've made peace with my fucking terrible decisions, but I've barely started paying for it yet. I did research on the wrong websites, didn't track my cycles, no bloods ever..fuuucking trash. Then a while back I was feeling like shit so I finnnaly got bloods and had my Natty levels at around 300. I tried to run a PCT with clomid/nolva but it was useless. I was depressed and couldn't function worth a fuck. Dr's won't touch me cus I'm in the normal level still.. we treat numbers in America. If your in the range, you're healthy. Regardless of what symptoms or how you feel. I honestly just went in for an anti depressant..so now I'm in a shitty limbo..wish I wouldn't have fucked it up! I can either cycle and feel like dying for a few months, or just stay off test, also feel like dying. Or cruise and just feel normal? Or blast and cruise while doing shit the right way until I've fallen off the edge into actual trt. For fucks sake, it'd have been nice to just have normal healthy nuts..fucking youth. So fucking smart..anyways, I'm grabbing life by the fucking horn (no homo) and meticulously monitoring my bloods, cycles and diet. Exercise too..I've pushed myself Into the stupid corner but I'm jacked now..so I mean..yeah I regret it. But that's the past, all you can do now is flame the fuck out of the kids on here trying to start at 18 while weighing 135#..DONT DO DRUGS MMKAY. drugs are bad.
zmlxnqf0904I did my first Cycle when i 24. Test+Deca+dbol.
jt144977Sounds like everyone didn’t know what they were getting themselves into... I would of started sooner, but only would of used test. I’ll be on trt for life and fine with that decision.
Alphamale500I foolishy started running gear when I was about 16, 17yrs old! And of course I didn't always use proper PCT protocols, or even run the gear correctly. Like running a couple of my first cycles with just winny etc. and without test as the base, improper injection techniques, using very high doses of other harsh compounds etc..At the time I cleary didn't have the knowledge that I needed, and ended up fucking up my body!! I couldn't just jump on the computer and log onto Eroids back then.
My foolish thinking when I was only 16 or 17yrs old was that I was already at a good height, so even if it stopped my bones from fully developing, it's no big deal. VERY STUPID, I KNOW! One of the worst decisions I've ever made and it's what led me to developing hypogonadism. So I now have to be on trt for the rest of my life to function normally anyhow, and to have a functioning dick!!
My experience is partly why I try and stress how important it really is to wait until you're at least 25yrs old, and to first do the necessary research to be able to run gear as safely and properly as possible. It's not a joke, like some of the newbies make it seem! Stay safe fellas!!
I did my only cycle when I was 24 and I was mistaken. I put almost 20 pounds in 16 weeks but didnt use PCT at all so you can imagine. Believe me, a complete disaster.
17 worst mistake Decision I ever made. I would have waited but I was a scrawny little fuck with self image problems.
Me too bro. Started at 17 and blasted until 18. Was off for 4 years then on to TRT as i never recovered.
.. 48. Looked around and realized the young punks were gaining on me, decided to put my thumb on the scale a bit.
Started with 25 after establishing a solid foundation in kinda every regard (gym, knowledge, financials) with a Test and tbol cycle. God. That Cycle was really nice. Only regret is the test e from that cycle. Test P would have been nicer since i got like zero problem to pin myself.
20...but it was sport related (R/League) and everyone did (i.e. you got your head knocked off on the field if you didn't). And geez was that a long time ago.
Held off until the bare minimum age that most people suggest, 24.
Didn't start my first cycle intil the age of 38 . As long as you respect it . It's o.k .
was all natural competed 18 and 19... did well, when i was 20 I used some prohormones, competed again in a few shows as a middleweight, didnt realize how big some of those monstahs are, so as my 21st bday present for myself i cycled.. have been since, I came in 3rd at a national qualifier this year. My genetics are for amazing, as ive been told. I know im young.. But Im addicted to bodybuilding >.<
First was at 27 At best shape of my life and during was fucking amazing results. Yet I didnt do the research and had NO CLUE about pct and had a pritty shitty time didnt realize what was going on untill about a year ago when looked into it more after falling off from a back injury from work. Loving it now that I know how to cycle off properly on second since being back in it.
AnonI was 26 but didn't again until my 40's. I was so full of my own natural hormone back then I really didn't need it and was glad I recognized it. As Wood stated below the greenhorns won't listen. Us mature fucks wish you guys would. We were also 20 some time ago and know what you don't. For the one guy that gets it now you'll be the smarter Old Bastard with long life of enjoying the benefits of proper AAS lifestyle. Go slow, you can always do more your next cycle.
jasonh38 after years of hard training only started when diagnosed with low t.then decided if going to be taking test for rest of life anyway might as well do some cycles and grow. loving it
Day after my 19th birthday...
Sounds bad, could've easily have worked natty for 10 years and put on a lot of good muscle. Felt like I had a good genetic base (somewhat low bodyfat, tall, broad shoulders, big legs, big chest, and that was before I started training at 17).
Don't regret it, have handled my juice, put hundreds of hours of research into it... so yeah no regrets.
Started at 21 doing very mild short cycles after hard training and clean diet since 15 and started 21 years young only for competing and getting heavier into it now (look at our young pros now; steve kuclo 26,phil heath started in college and quite a few others these days otherwise i prob would not until my late late twenties or getting hrt at a later date.
Anonstarted at 27, after training without thoughts of gear at all for years, i met some fella's while on a trip to Spain and so it began. Did a few cycles per year for 4 years, then had a major motor cycle crash which forced me to stop training and life in general for many years and still have some pain when i train to this day.
trained natty again when i could for a few years, jumped back on at the start of this year at 39 years old. I think the break was a good thing as my lifestyle was not exactly clean in anyway at all when i was 27 (messy is the word that comes to mind), so was heading for disaster and the bike crash was a wake up call for sure. shit happens for a reason just have to get up a keep on going forwards.
Cycles are far more thought through now days, back then i will just say not so much
j.mri started when i was 19.looking back i probably would have waited longer.doing it for 13 yrs now and feel like i cant function without it.
All of you young guys (19,20,21...) will continue to defend urselves and ur use of AAS (as well as almost anything else in life) cuz @19,20,21... u know everything! TRUST ME (and every other guy over 30 you know) You will NOT know what you DON'T know until you're old enough to know better... Sad fact of life
(Fucking youth is wasted on the young!)
“Hire the young while are they still know everything.”
Just posted something similar on this to a young guy. I am 20 and I started when I was 18. Man I can say I regret it a ton. Do I appreciate AAS, of course, but it holds some regrets of mine. I will be honest about my usage. I have abused shit before just being stupid, and have had consequences and sides from it. Thankfully I learned from many of my mistakes, That being said I wish I wouldve waited till I was older. Who knows what I have to come, or where I couldve went naturally, but sadly I blew that ha. Oh well. I do agree with you though. Young guys (like myself at first) just don't fully understand it, or the risks even full benefits of these drugs. But pressure in competition can lure some young guys into it, like myself. But if your young, and not a athlete (athlete with real potential), or a competitor you should not use steroids. MY 2 cents
I start in a week or two at 32yrs young
At 26 bro after 8 years hard training and i dont take testo yet only winny,var and boldenon in low doses.Yes you take seriously!
38 yrs old,i waited until i was experiened enough to start,And when my natural test declined.
lol and sorry for any typo's my fingers are too big for these god damn touch screen phones
Eric090585i was 24 (i think) lol wish i woulda got at it a couple years earlier though
i always wondered why people say wait till your 25 if the average male stops growing at age 18.. is there any info behind the age 25 or did people just pull out a random number and call it the standard? Arnold started when he was atound 15 and won mr olympia at age 19, was he too young or did he turn out ok? idk just think 25 is a random age
Males dont stop growing until about 22, at least that is what my anatomy text book claims..... but those textbooks dont really know what they are talking about or anything like that
AnonHow about this.. your BRAIN does not stop developing until you are in your mid twenties.. that goes for men and women.. now.. it those texts don't know anything can you supply us with information that is accurate then?
AnonUp to 25 you are considered to be in the golden age. Also the genetic peak for a male is 25 years old after that there is a decline.
I think you guys are missing my point. I fully understand why you guys are saying you dont need to take steroids before age 25 . However, why is it a bad idea to do it? is not a person who starts steroids at age 20 going to be in far better shape at 25 than the person at age 25 that was all natural (and yes they train the exact same way, as hard as possible). So at the peak of physocal health you are in better shape than you could have ever been all natural, why is this "bad". You are 100% correct by saying you dont need before age 25 and i agree with that. Frankly you dont NEES steroids at any age, but if you want to be in much better shape than naturally possible then take em! No matter what age, just make sure you are atleast 18 for this is when the average male stops growing hieght wise.
AnonThink of it like this. You build a tolerance for it while at the same time destroying/shutting down the natural production... you can only turn it on and off so many times before you ruin the switch. So, if you start when you're real young and you could have relied on your natural supply but didn't, then over the course of the years, before you're really considered old, you have turned your endocrine system ass end over apple cart. What does that mean? It means that when you really need the testosterone, you have cheapened the replacement so much so that it doesn't work like it should and you end up with LOW T on replacement therapy at high doses. If you don't believe me.. LOOK at any of the body builders from the 70's in their "old" age. They shot their wad too early.
i understand your point but by age 70 i dont care if im 50 pounds overwieght, while im young and in my youth i want to be as in shape as humanly possible after kids and all that who knows i might still do it, or i may not.. but right now is the time for me
Anonso what about in your late forties and early fifties? Is your life over then too?
tread-mFresh, you couldnt be more wrong about "dont need it at any age". As you age and your hormones decline you need that boost in the same way you need insulin if it declines. Its all about hormone balance when it comes to health. Think about what age people start to get fat and feel like they have less energy and start having small medical problems and then bigger ones later. It starts around 30 when test drops off, from there everything goes to shit in 2 short decades! Lol. It just does....gear is like aspirin, you take a little at a certain age its very good for you, you take way too much it can hurt you. May not be the best analogy but there is a very healthy way to do this and a very unhealthy way. Before 25 seems to drift toward the unhealthy way. Having said that, I started at about 21 and that was the 80's. Not a lot of 25 year olds these days with my health and body and vertually nobody in there 40's. I look trust me...tonight at the movies in looking at most guys 30 plus they all look like shit and guys my age look like they gave up a long time ago! Lol. Its simple for me , do it right and do it till you die.
Well Said
well, the human mind doesn't fully mature til 25 (hence military recruitment at age 18, all piss and vinegar and still very impressionable) so if ur young and cocky to begin with THEN add the emotiomal rollercoaster of Juicing... yeah, 25 sounds about right to me. AAS is no joke and should be taken seriously. I didn't start til I was 28. I have 2 friends that started at 19 and BOTH went to Prison for 10 yrs at age 21 cuz they couldn't handle their Juice... just saying
Yes i totally agree its something that should be takin very seriously and not something to decide to do over-night lol. I started my first simple cycle at 21 after countless hours and months of research and training. I remember being up all night at age 18 just studying and reading of all the compounds and the science behind it all. I have NO regrets at all so far, but occasionally will hear stories from people that the wish they started later around 25. Its an interesting topic and its good to hear everyones imput
I jave never had an anger problem with them yet and neither do my friends that use them... testoaterone will make you more energetic and more of well "you".. if your nice, youll be extra nice. if your a dick, then youll ne a super asshole. I feel that ateroids takes a bad rap for this just because a few people have anger issues, with or without roids
Yes however sometimes people don't know they have roid rage until it's too late!!!!
Yeah bro, I'm a great guy and STILL guilty of "raging" from time to time...