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My placebo in all it's glory!
First off, let me bring you up to speed with where I’m coming from, before I go into why I’m here.
2 years ago, while spending some time in Iraq, I realized something. While spending all my free time in the gym (not much else to do as some of you may know) on the treadmills, it hit me. Why? I’m not going to lose anymore weight (4.8% body fat), and I’m not going to get any faster. I had shin splints a few months prior and all I was doing was hurting myself. But I was addicted. Addicted to beating my body up. So... I started lifting weights. I was 153 lbs (5' 8") when I started and followed the advice of a fellow gym rat I worked with. He filled me in on most of the supplements I needed, if I wanted to get serious about lifting. A month later, I’m feeling stronger, but don’t look much bigger. Maybe gained 5 lbs at most?? Once again, my buddy comes to the rescue. He points out this add in a magazine. It’s for a company selling legal steroids and he claims he’s been on the juice for 6 weeks and has AMAZING gains from these guys. And what’s best... IT’S LEGAL!! He goes on and on about how amazing it is and that I should give it a shot when I return home.
I’m back from Iraq now and have a whole new look on what my body is going to look like. First things first, I place my order to LegalSteroids and buy the biggest badest cycle they offer. I figure what the hell, $800 is a small price to pay to look and feel like how I want. Coming from my runners back ground where I strived to be the best I could and actually won A LOT of events in my years, I wanted to give weight lifting my full attention just the same. I took in my buddies advice and ate ate ATE. I was taking in about 7K calories a day as well as drinking loads of water and other supplements that were supposed to compliment my totally legal roids. My work out routine got to be crazy. I was working out for HOURS every single day. I bought a home gym (free weights of course) and spent just about every waking hour with either a weight in my hand or a calorie shake.
The end of my cycle is nearly over, and it’s getting to be t-shirt weather again. Besides the gym, nobody I work with has seen me with just t-shirt on. Being military and at a cold climate base, I’ve had layers of clothes on during all of this. So now it’s warm, and I’m in just a shirt. Wow! I’ve never heard more compliments about myself. I had the fastest run time on base for 3 years straight and now look at me. I can’t fit into my t-shirts and people are taking notice. But uh oh... Some people have taken TOO much notice. I went from a tiny 153, to a beefed up 186 in just a few months time. I couldn’t bench 135 more than 5 or 6 times to out lifting some people more than twice my weight (290 @ 3 reps). And sure enough. I get a commander directed piss test. My life was over... or so I thought. Wouldn’t you know it, it came back NEGATIVE! But how could this be?! I’m on the JUICE!? What the?!!!
To bring this story to it’s end. I did the research I should have done from the beginning. Heh... Turns out Legal steroids are legal because... say it with me, They aren’t REAL! I nearly **** myself when I found this out. You mean to tell me that I just spent money that I was willing to die for (Volunteered to go to Iraq), for a PLACEBO! OHHH HEELLL NO!! But I can’t control my anger, I’m HUGE, everyone sees just how big I really am, I’m experiencing what steroids are supposed to do for you! How can this be?
Now, 2 years later, my wife is telling me I need to get big again. I shrunk down to 165 and lost all those amazing results (I thought they were anyway.. Placebo or not) that I didn’t even want to work out anymore. I was let down by all I had worked for. We ended up getting a gym membership together and then she hits me with it. “You know... If you wanted to start taking the REAL thing, I wouldn’t mind”. After a few days of thinking about it and spending some time in the gym again, I agreed. Being able to lift heavy was AWESOME, but knowing that I was getting bigger with some help, was the boost I needed to get my ass in the gym EVERY day. Now that I know you can’t find the real thing online, no questions asked, I’m afraid to start lifting heavy again and burning out because I don’t have that “feeling”. Sure it wasn’t real. But I didn’t know that. I know what it’s like to wake up in the morning and just feel... strong. Like most of you guys do. And after talking about my story to a friend of mine, he tells me he knows where to get some gear at. I figured I should do some reading up on what and how much I should take, which is why I’m here in the first place. Turns out my source I was going to use for my gear, can no longer get the stuff tho? So now I’m concerned that I may have psyched myself up to start a REAL cycle that will never happen.
Anyway, I just wanted to be a witness for anyone who’s been in my shoes or has had questions about that company. My gains came from all the hard work and effort I put into it as well as the diet I put myself on. The research and MANY MANY posts I’ve read about these guys, should be enough caution to just spend your money on supplements and such. Leave that “Legal” place alone!
PS. Sorry if my first post was a little winded. I hope to be around long enough to learn more from you guys when/if i ever get to start a cycle and become a strong contributing member of these boards.
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