 oh what's happening I'll shut that it's gonna annoy me now guys today today is gonna be my opportunity to address the topic of steroids okay I claim to be a natural bodybuilder I'm really really proud of it I follow naturals they are the guys that inspire me because I know that that is what I'm going through myself I don't have any help from performance enhancing drugs now this video I don't want to go too long I don't have any notes I've got absolutely nothing I was going to write some notes just just so I wouldn't ramble too much because I've got a habit of doing that but today we're just gonna try without today's question is what are my opinions on steroids and would I ever take them so let's start about what my opinions are on steroids I am not against steroids okay I'm not probably about a couple of years ago when I was really on that natural bodybuilding bandwagon I was against it and you know if I if I knew about anyone taking them that I thought wasn't deserving to take them you know I got kind of angry and I got you know hated them for and shit now I'll let people do whatever they want without saying anything you know it's your mistake it's your body you have to do the fucking research to to realize what you're putting in your body before you do it and if you don't then you stupid now I just want to talk about my history and why I I didn't start taking steroids you know by now when I first started going into the gym I honestly believe that Phil Heath was natural the only thing that was different between Phil Heath and I was the fact that he had better genetics he trained a lot longer and he ate a lot more that is what I firmly believed and I think that attitude that naivety even though it's it's bad in a way it was good for me because it got me through those first couple of years when you know gains were slow I was learning about what to do I was learning about different exercises which one suited my body learning about nutrition slowly and steroids did not come into the mix whatsoever I looked around the I looked around the gym and saw these guys that were bigger than me and I thought I had respect for them because I thought honestly that the only thing that separated us was the fact that they train longer and everyone was natural and what the fuck is steroids I had no idea in fact I can remember seeing a top saying eat clean trend hard which we all know is referring to clean butyrol to shred you and trend blown to add muscle mass I thought that that was a fucking spelling mistake I mean how naive can you get that was me up until about three years ago when I started listening to guys like rich piano who speaks the truth I started listening to guys like bio s3 who also speaks the truth and and you know I started taking in this information and then it all clicked it all clicked in my head and you know what I I could think I could then sit back three years in with a little bit of a base that you know a good base as far as my body goes and and decide with an educated mind do I really want to do this is it really worth it and you know what up to this point it's not worth it it's really not but you know what I what I will say is that I'm not counting it out I'm real I'm not counting it out guys to go through my whole entire life loving the gym loving bodybuilding and not at least experimenting just a tiny bit to see what my body would be capable of with the help of performance enhancing drugs I think that'll that'll be cheating myself you know I have to do it at some point the only time I'm ever gonna dabble in that is if I do come to compete again because you know truth be told if you compete as a natural and get yourself down to really shredded levels of body fat five percent your natural testosterone level is gonna plummet man and you are gonna feel like absolute shit and the recovery from something like that to you know to be down there to have your testosterone level and your libido affected for so long the recovery is gonna be so hard you don't have any you don't have any extra testosterone to help yourself get get you back on get yourself back online I think steroids have a place they have a place in bodybuilding I think if you're gonna be a competitive bodybuilder if you feel like you're gonna try and have this as your career you're gonna try and become Mr. Olympia or at least when the next show you do I think steroids are a necessity I really do I think obviously being a natural I believe that there are some outliers who are natural and look still look fucking amazing like Simeon Panda I think Doug Miller's natural one of these days I want to be a fucking respected natural athlete and you know I think we're on the fucking we're on the way way to getting there I really do I feel positive about things I feel I feel good about where I'm at once again I've rambled too much what was the question again I can't even remember what are my opinions on steroids and would I ever use them well my opinions on steroids is they have a place I just want to put a message out there to guys that are getting into the gym you know they're impatient they see these guys on Instagram and YouTube and they want to look like that in six months or even less and I just have to say it's impossible you can't do it all right and if you fucking try and take steroids within the first six months of training your body is going to look like shit okay you need to get a good solid base you need to start training with the big compound lifts your squat your bench press your deadlift your overhead press you know you can do an arms day all right but honestly in that first year or even two years you want to stick to those big compound lifts you want to put on the mass and you will put on mass like it you can do it doesn't matter whether at the start or whether you're five years in you can still put on weight there's no there's no limit to natural bodybuilding but when it comes down to getting shredded for a show I think I think you need a little bit of help I honestly do that's just my opinion obviously people can go through it you know some people's libido and natural levels won't get affected when they get that lean but they're probably genetically that lean all right someone like me if I was gonna get to five percent body fat naturally man I hate to think how you know how hard it would be to get get an erection honestly it would probably be near impossible and I'd be looking at myself thinking fuck is this worth it is it really worth it I don't know natural bodybuilding I love natural bodybuilding you know I fucking love it but you know there comes a point when it just gets too far you get too lean and you start losing too much muscle and that's when you probably consider going on steroids but so my opinion on steroids sorry sorry sorry my opinion on steroids is there's definitely a time and a place if you want to become a bodybuilder or a pro bodybuilder I'd say yes of course do it safely of course but God if you if you're just wanting to take steroids to get a beach body to go and on holiday in the next six weeks if you're shredding for stereos I you know I'd have to say that's that's not that's not the answer man it's it's not the answer and the other thing is you know women in general will prefer a lean athletic looking physique than a big bulky muscular bodybuilders physique it's just the way it is and so you really go to weigh up your options you know if you if you're in the first five years of training don't go anywhere near steroids if you're below 22 years of age don't go anywhere near steroids and if you haven't built a good base if you haven't researched and done all the fucking reading you need to do because there's a hell of a lot of reading you can't you don't just go and take testosterone and that's it okay that's the that's the trouble you fucking you'll meet someone someone at the gym will say take this take this trend take this fucking Decker take this testosterone but they won't worry about a PCT and so you take this the steroids they jack up your testosterone level I don't know how many times the natural the natural level and then once you once you come off it's going to drop way back down what's going to bring it back up other drugs so you're not only taking the anabolic steroids you're also taking a PCT cycle which is more drugs and then your next cycle what are you going to do anyways guys I'm going to stop there you guys know my opinions I was one of the lucky ones guys I started training before the whole Instagram YouTube thing I wasn't influenced by that I didn't have to get to that stage you know in six months I felt like I wanted to enjoy the journey and that's what I've been doing and that's what I would encourage everyone to do I'd say go natural for as long as long as possible as long as you can and there's no reason why you can't continue making gains if your nutrition's on point if you keep your training consistent you're going to continue making gains guys especially if you're 25 or under our fucking natural testosterone level is as high as it's ever going to be why would you want to go fuck it up with with with our steroids why would you want to do that it's ridiculous you may never get that level back okay without taking drugs it's dangerous business but it's part of bodybuilding and it's the only reason why we have mr. Olympia looking like mr. Olympia so at the end of the day you know do your research make up your own mind the second part of the question would I have I considered doing steroids would I do steroids at the moment no like I said I've just done a bulk I've put on a considerable amount of weight and now it's time to shred down and and see what sort of gains I've made naturally and that's what we're doing at the moment so I'm actually four days into a cup probably dropped about two kilos already you guys know how it is the water weight goes you drop your carbs you're going to drop a bit of water weight I'm sitting at about 102 or 103 kgs right now and we'll see where I get to so if you've enjoyed this video give this video the thumbs up and maybe go check out a few of my other videos I've been doing this shit for a while I'm trying to grow it this has been my opinion on steroids is it worth it what my opinions are like I said and whether I do them I would do them if I felt the need to help me in a competition as far as everyday life going to the beach looking good for my girlfriend etc there's no way you know too many steroids can lead to impotence too many steroids can lead to erection problems how much of an opposite how much of a fucked up thing is that you go to the gym you take all these steroids to look amazing for the opposite sex and then you can't even use your dick oh my god that's the fuck that's the biggest joke in the fucking world stay natural guys honestly stay natural