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Yeah, for the most part, people who say "Steroids are super duper dangerous!" are people who don't understand how they work and just accept what others say. http://thinksteroids.com/articles/steroids-hypocrisy-ethics-performance-enhancement/

strength training, carb cycling, cleaning up your diet will reduce your stomach. If your skin is drooping, you'll have to wait (or get surgery!) for it to snap back. Luckily skin is pretty elastic, once it realizes you're going to stay at your new size (or smaller) it'll catch up.

Exactly! Maybe not enjoy more things (if you enjoy eating horribly, haha) but basically what they do at the molecular level is take all the protein you ingest and use it towards repairing your body, as well as the added boosts of boosting your test (which is a legal thing now, docs are giving out legal steroids, the only…

Make sure that if you get the cottage cheese/greek yogurt, that you don't get the sugared up versions. Quinoa is a really good protein if you just gotta have some sort of grain. I mostly eat steak, chicken, tilapia, and salmon, trying to eat only organic/non farm bred even though it's expensive as crap. Get whole chickens…

Honestly, if you use a 1 a day supplement, then they usually use crappy vitamins. If you get something like Animal Pak, Uni Vite (which is only 11 bucks for a 30 day supply), or something, then you'll get the benefits of it without the health risks. Animal pak has things that can blunt the effects of insulin, such as ALA…

100 pounds in about a year. I've attempted to let my body recover, because I don't want my skin to be droopy for years because of what I did, so waiting a bit. Giving it a few more months then going to see if I can get down to 198 for middle heavyweights!

I understand that, but at the same time, I know that you can get a 6 week supply of whatever you need for about the same amount as the multi/protein/fat burner that people keep using. I would actually put fat burners about as dangerous as steroids, a lot of companies don't really know what they're doing so they're throwing…

Plus it's a really good way to injure yourself. You have to actually step out a bit with the smith bar, because as you go down it puts a lot of torque on your back, which leads to spine damage. The only thing I use them on is occasional barbell rows and shoulder presses.

People who say "steroids shouldnt be allowed because then you'd have to take them to catch up to everyone else!" don't seem to understand that, I would reckon, 95% of the athletes (pro level, I'm speaking) are taking steroids. Just because you take steroids doesn't mean you're going to turn into a beef cake, but it will…

A buddy of mine got a really good power rack for about 300 bucks on craigs list, and the dude gave him all the weights etc too. Smith machine is basically going to mess you up, like hobbit said.

I dropped 70 pounds from June to December of last year.

^^ However, something that can also train you to unconsciously bring your waist in and hold it is vacuum poses. Blow out all your air and pull your stomach in so that it seems like you're going to shove it against your spine, and hold that for a few seconds. Repeat 9-10 times.

Deadlifts! I've hit personal records every time I've vented, too, so feels good.

http://youtu.be/1LbDseE1VpQ That'll clean you out and you don't have to do a crazy diet! Just realized he made a joke about it being poison if you don't follow the steps. It's a joke. (I'm sure someone out there is going OH MY GOD POISON IF I DONT DO IT RIGHT?!" Fiber foods are awesome for cleaning you out, if you feel…

https://www.google.com/search?q=olympic%20lifters&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=PmLOUIf4EMeGyQGNwICADw&biw=1920&bih=888&sei=QmLOUNPhBunkyQHS0IGgCQ Gosh, looks like a lot of chalk and wraps to me. I'm certainly not hating on…

Here, you try it out. Get your bench up to 315 (or some other arbitrary number) and do it with gloves. Then do it bare handed. See if it hurts like crazy. Your hands will adapt just like every other body part, and if you never give them anything and instead rely on mechanical tools to get by, then they never get stronger…

There's been some studies that suggest that gloves can actually weaken you (everything starts with the grip!) and as you progress to heavier weights, etc, you can end up hurting yourself. There are other things you can get, I like to use wrist straps, which are basically just a loop of tough cloth that you wrap around the…

Keto is extremely hard to maintain after you go off it. What a lot of trainers at my gym do, is they recommend you do single source carbs. For instance, sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, oats, etc., and steer away from something like bread where they tend to have lots of things mixed in. Broscience? Maybe, but it definitely…

Everything depends on your diet, honestly. The tried and cliche term is no less term: Abs are made in the kitchen. However, lately I have noticed that if I wear a weight belt while doing my lifts, my waist has gotten smaller. It's mostly the diet, of course, but if you wear a weight belt, it'll teach you how to breathe…

There are things you can do to manipulate the muscles you have, as well as getting low enough that you strip all the fat off of love handles etc. I'll always have wide hips, so I have an intense focus on making my back and shoulders as wide as possible, because that will give me the aesthetic V Taper. Some things aren't…

peanut butter, almond butter, etc. Fiber will help you a lot, most of the stuff that is "fat free" tends to be chock full of carbs and other stuff that probably we shouldn't eat.

Really the only fats that are "bad" for you are the ones that are made by people. http://www.nowfoods.com/Sports/Products/StrengthAndPerformance/M099642.htm Saturated fat? Yup. Great? Yup. Coconut Oil, and I believe Macadamia Nut Oil are all saturated. Really you just want to avoid the trans, I would assume, since those…

The thing is that a lot of personal trainers (at least at box gyms, these days) are way out of shape, so you would be much preferred. Especially since most of them have a weekend course! Go for it.

little bit of lemon juice, Mrs Dash, and some cayenne pepper and ginger. toss it in the pan and cook it, takes about 5-10 minutes.

Does anyone know how much a tummy tuck usually runs for, anyways? It pisses me off that I have abs and then a big ol hunk of skin dangling down, especially since I want to compete, haha

Okay. The body is a super resilient system that adapts to what we throw at it over time, so that even if you work at a calorie deficit and do all the right things, over time it gets used to it and it says "oh okay we can live with this" and then you stall out. But if you cycle carbs, you can keep it burning and "guessing",…

Carb cycling keeps your body guessing, which also keeps it in a fat burning state. All the big pros do some form of carb cycling (I think some few have keto still but most do not) and they have "high" "medium" and "low" days. On the intensity bit: Some people just don't have the drive. They say they "want" something, but…

www.simplyshredded.com/hst-the-complete-hypertrophy-specific-training-guide.html There's a newbie start up guide for doing full body stuff. Like nml you can hit body parts more often if you do a full body workout, although eventually you're going to have to get so heavy that you simply wont be able to recover

I've lost 130 pounds (then gained some back the right way) but I can be really, really lean and then look at myself and see the drooping skin and just be like "SO FAT". My skin has slowly recovered over time, a lot of it is going to be time+eating healthy foods so it doesn't have an excuse to go back to flab.

Machine weights don't give you the full fiber tear down that free weights do. Free weights recruit more muscle fibers, so I like to do the free weights then do the machines to isolate muscle. Dropped from 330 to about 225ish in a year or so. What sucks is I dropped so fast that my skin hasnt adapted so it looks turrible on…