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Originally Posted by magnetaress
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Do drug built muscles have good endurance, speed, reflex, mitochdria, recovery potential? etc
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That’s a good question I don’t know enough to answer. What I’ve heard is that the benefits depend somewhat on the compound. Something like Trenbolone will for sure give crazy strength (with big side effects), while orals like the research chemical Cardarine or the steroid anavar (also oral I believe) have fat burning and endurance-boosting properties
Almost all PED’s will def improve recovery greatly tho
The thing you nailed in a previous post is that for many compounds the muscles gained are actually kind of fake when compared to natural muscle. You can even spot this, on anyone at the gym who looks like they are clearly on PED’s, often they will have a roundness, puffiness, and fullness to their muscles. That’s actually just the muscle holding lots of extra water, which is why some have to take even more drugs to try to dry themselves out
Anecdotally, there was a time 5+ yrs ago when I decided to try taking 1000mg of testosterone for 2 weeks, divided up into four 500mg doses spaced out. This was a stupid experiment, I wanted to see how horny it would make me mostly lol (also was disappointed in the result, it was more than with nothing, but also not the crazy amount I expected). What did happen is that I gained immediate size, but when I stopped taking the test, the size disappeared in literal days
I was like “wtf, even if I was bed-ridden it would still take weeks for my muscles to atrophy. Why have I lost so much visible size in just days??”. Then I found out that was just water within the muscle that had essentially evaporated. So like you said before, real natural muscles almost always look better than an equally sized muscle boosted by PED’s. The pump in the gym is unfortunately MUCH smaller as a natty though
The scary thing is the amount of very young guys I see at the gym nowadays who clearly look like they are on PED’s, especially at mountainside which is the bougey $55/mo gym that all the fitness model looking young people go to. They have not only size beyond what should be possible natty, but it’s the puffy round muscles indicative of PED’s. There’s almost as many of them as naturals now, which is a first in my lifetime to see