Protein shake time with Dyadka and Sparkie!

@neotangs My max bench is at 120kgs atm. My last meet almost two months ago. I would say I definitely specialize at deadlifting. It is definitely the best lift I do by far not only number wise, but generally I have improved my deadlifting technique the most.

@dyadka_yar What's the lowest point of your powerlifting times?

@truffle That was a bit more than three years ago when I got restarted on my lifting. I had done steroids before and stopped around 2014. I went from being far larger and powerful than I am now to a 300 lb lazy blob of fat. I had spent two years being lazy and gross and one day looked in the mirror. I hated what I saw and decided to change things. I bought a bench and weights and got back into it. I was disturbed at what happened. I could only do 160 lbs bench press compared to my 565 lbs max back in the day. Now with the 565 lbs I sort of cheated using a bench shirt and all that extra gear, but I still got it up back then. Even worse, my curls were at 30 lbs, squats were hard even without weights, dead lift was a mere 170 lbs. It was pitiful. However this does raise good news. If it takes me 3 years to turn into what I did, then anybody can do it. They just need the right motivation.

@beherit I just want to keep this thread alive xD

As far as I can remember, @dyadka_yar, you have admitted to using steroids. Could you tell us more about steroid usage? Not only about the consiquences, but also about what you need to sustain the effects of it, if I can call it that? Tell us more about steroid cycles, diet changes, effects it had on your body during the usage of it, when did the effects started to be noticable and other related stuff.

It was consistent use over the course of 5 years. It was a combination of HGH, DECA and Trenbolone as well as an estrogen regulator. You don't use estrogen regulators with steroids you end up with boobies since your body will make estrogen to compensate. When you start taking them there is a sudden burst of energy, which is both good and bad. You feel like you can conquer the world, but also you wake up in the middle of the night needing to do something strenuous. My heart was constantly pounding hard. Not fast, just incredibly hard, like comparing a snare drum to a bass drum. You get really sweaty, as if your body refuses to stay cool. Even if you are having a drink with friends and are doing nothing, you sweat. That part was annoying because I'd always be wondering, "are they noticing I'm sweating this bad?" Working out I would be able to pull off 5-6 hours non-stop. It was something that I loved and scared me at the same time. I noticed that even when my muscles reached total failure, I wanted to work out more. Recovery too a day, maybe a day and a half. With all the sweating and non-stop lifting it was almost impossible to keep fat on my body which worked out nicely for aesthetic. Food, you are always hungry. It gets to the point where you don't care what you eat so long as you're eating. It was like I was 14 again, no amount of food could satisfy me. You can get away with 5,000 calories a day. I used to eat large amounts of beef along with protein powders which got rather expensive and quickly. That was where most of my income at the time went. Roid rage is a very real thing. Small things will infuriate you. Such as things falling off the shelf, or maybe a machine isn't working. You just get mad at things that don't matter. This is the worst thing about it. On the opposite end, good times become great times. So it has highs and lows that are impossible to control. Finally coming off of steroids is a mess. As you know I became 300 lb fat mess. This was because my hormones were all out of wack. It took a mere 8 months to go from a 260 lb powerhouse to 300 lb lazy bastard. Looked in the mirror one day and I was horrified at what I had become and grabbed a set of weights along with whatever equipment money could buy and hit it hard. A bit more than 3 years later I ended up being what I am today. The worst thing is that there is lasting effects of the steroids. I have had anxiety issues when I was younger and once I started using steroids they had somewhat disappeared, but once I stopped they were 10X worse than I had ever experienced. They continue to this day, thankfully much better than they were before. Still need a lorazepam every now and again, maybe one every few month or two. My warning is that you shouldn't use steroids. There are only two ways it can end and they both suck. One is premature death to heart failure. Simply put, your heart can't keep up with this. The second way will the most miserable period of your life when you are coming off of them. If you have depression or anything of the sort, it could get very dangerous. On top of that, I don't know how many years of my life I have taken off.