Steroid usage in Australia.

[Silent Alarm]

It's usually reserved for people who were totally irrelevant in high school. Not that's a bad thing. But of the people I know who got right into it, one is a god bothering arseh*le who'd come to school and hang shit on this kid constantly for wearing desert boots while he wore nothing but Brooks, the other once stole every girl's skirt during a drama class, and the rest did terrible with chicks but used to try their guts out constantly texting and talking to ones on MSN from other schools.

It's just the most obvious, face value way of getting attention. They then end up getting a sleeve full of tatts. People use it as a way to feel better about themselves but there comes a point where it just becomes total flog behaviour and way way over the top. Dropping ten kegs and no longer being the kid who wears a t-shirt in the surf is good, but these ****heads are just that.

To me the whole thing is like... you don't get school shooters anymore, you get steroid shooters. Kids don't play Doom and make their school a level – they go on Bodybuilding wondering why chicks don't like them and asking for help on how to neg and whatever else. I'm also very far from convinced girls generally find you being that huge to be attractive... don't get me wrong, Brad Pitt in Fight Club is probably going to impress a few girls but a ****ing meathead with a ludicrous amount of weight is just ugly and ah, you know, also makes you look like a ****ing twat that just yells 'stay away – domestic violence right here.'

If Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were around today, they'd be puffed out and with a sleeve full of Maori tatts.

 

[Mofra]

The thing is the massive look isn't actually any good. Just dickheads trying to out ego each other.

Users tend to cycle with hormones re start test production post-cycle (basically, your balls stop working) then a cycle of clen as a fat stripper to get "shredded brah" so they can look "good" in a shitty string singlet at Summerdaze or one of those god-awful daytime-city-doof events where douchebags just hang around admiring each other more than the women there and a good day involves a few sub-standard pingas and a fight.

 

[phantom13]

Theres so much going on in that SA post... That's a lot to digest and unpack.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

FWIW in spite of what he has said I watched him up his dosage on something once to grow his hair out for a wedding and now watched pretty terrifying mood and behavioural changes in the last 12 months since he got really serious so its a no from me dog.

Seriously?

 

[craigos]

With the bodybuilding I can appreciate the time spend and dedication to diet that goes with it (along with roids), what I just don't get is that aside from flexing your muscles in a competition you end up spending all that time and still have no discernible skills.

If you put that time into learning a martial art, boxing, weightlifting, gymnastics or something it'd make more sense to me.

 

[Golden_6]

With the bodybuilding I can appreciate the time spend and dedication to diet that goes with it (along with roids), what I just don't get is that aside from flexing your muscles in a competition you end up spending all that time and still have no discernible skills.

If you put that time into learning a martial art, boxing, weightlifting, gymnastics or something it'd make more sense to me.

To me it's purely an ego boost and to make them feel good about themselves. Generally, the point of lifting weights should be to become fit, healthy and strong. The irony is that they're destroying their bodies and cutting years of their life (if they use steroids).

 

[perthblue]

To me the whole thing is like... you don't get school shooters anymore, you get steroid shooters.

If Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were around today, they'd be puffed out and with a sleeve full of Maori tatts.

SA you are dribbling shyte

 

[edgie]

A lot of it isn't even practical strength. They build for size and mass, not strength and power. These guys would be puffed after 10 minutes of any sport, even one geared toward sitting on your arse and only using your arms like rowing.

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[Arden]

Theres so much going on in that SA post... That's a lot to digest and unpack.

So much judgement.

I once owned a pair of Brooks, didn't know I was a shit person until now.

 

[La Dispute]

I always found it interesting that a lot of the bodybuilders running Youtube channels are super nerdy guys. Their general mannerisms and expressions are so similar to those you'll find playing Call of Duty online with two computer monitors going.

 

[Silent Alarm]

SA you are dribbling shyte

Don't you pump iron?

People who were generally unknown to girls/everyone are the sort to now be obsessed with looking huge. It happens all the time. It's a classic way for blokes with very low self-esteem to pump themselves up and feel good about themselves – it's going from one extreme to the next.

 

[Silent Alarm]

So much judgement.

I once owned a pair of Brooks, didn't know I was a shit person until now.

Maybe not a shit person, but probably a school teacher.

I always found it interesting that a lot of the bodybuilders running Youtube channels are super nerdy guys. Their general mannerisms and expressions are so similar to those you'll find playing Call of Duty online with two computer monitors going.

Zyzz used to play online gaming...

 

[Arden]

Maybe not a shit person, but probably a school teacher.

What is an acceptable occupation for you?

You are the most insecure poster on here.

 

[edgie]

In my experience only a minority of gen y gym junkies were high school dorks. Many are simply your usual meathead, and meatheads never had too much trouble pulling girls.

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[La Dispute]

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No coincidence.

You looking to get jacked bro?

 

[Gough]

That kid looks like he's wearing one of those t-shirts Bono used to wear.

 

[La Dispute]

One of my high school friends was a largely popular person back then with both genders and was very good at sport. And relatively smart.

Over the last decade he has travelled around Australia on the INBA bodybuilding circuit.

He has a Marine Science degree with honours and is still working in the mines as an Environmental Scientist.

Some very inaccurate and naive judgements of people on here as per usual

No doubting plenty of blokes who pursue bodybuilding are type-A ultra-masculine and some are smart.

There is absolutely a slipstream of 'former' outcasts who use it as a kind of personal crotch to artificially enhance their self-regard. Shit, I could name you 10 blokes I went to high school who fit into that demographic.

It's almost an aspergic thing. The focus changes from chemistry and matrices to all things bodybuilding: BCAA's, creatine, chicken & sweet potato and taking fish oil capsules. Kind of like how Christian Bale's character in The Big Short is an ultra OCD outcast but can pick out trends in the stock market because he's intense about it.

Two sides of the same coin.

 

[Silent Alarm]

What is an acceptable occupation for you?

You are the most insecure poster on here.

You another school teacher browsing during classes? Or a dad saying 'ten more minutes?' to his kid who wants the laptop?

Just saying. Kids who get obsessed with working out and looking 'uge are generally people with lower self-esteem with something to prove. I've never known anyone generally normal and well handled to suddenly slip into the all-consuming lifestyle it is. The most 'normal' guy I know is someone who regularly cheats on his girlfriend and who goes out drinking by himself on a Friday night...

 

[edgie]

The kind of people we're mostly talking about aren't the type to enter in to actual sanctioned competition. Not your serious lifestyle bodybuilder. Just you 'get huge' type mentality.

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[Scotland]

Why do people want to be massive anyway? I mean I get wanting to be ripped like Alex Rance or something but the 'roided up out of proportion dudes who can't put their arms down by their sides - what's up with that?

 

[RU486]

Another myth propagated here is that steroids will make you huge. Yes, you 100% need them to be 'huge', but the reality is so much people use them in moderate (almost sensible) dosages and are getting an improved physique (aesthetics) but not to the point of being suspected as a steroid user.

I gave up going to the gym when I realized far less is obtainable naturally then you will ever believe (anyone who thinks Usain Bolt is natty). Preety much anyone who has a strong muscular body is on the gas, 100%. And let's be real here, anyone who does weights is just trying to look good to pull chicks.

Besides, cardio is way more fun.

 

[edgie]

Dunno.

Schwarzenegger always put it down to wanting to look in proportion. Maybe he has a massive head that he wanted to take attention away from.

To those conscious in the 80s, was it as big back then? Seems that was its peak media saturation with a plethora of muscle bound movie stars usually half naked. By the 90s things shifted back to leaner figures who kept their shirts on more often than not.

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[Arden]

You another school teacher browsing during classes? Or a dad saying 'ten more minutes?' to his kid who wants the laptop?

Just saying. Kids who get obsessed with working out and looking 'uge are generally people with lower self-esteem with something to prove. I've never known anyone generally normal and well handled to suddenly slip into the all-consuming lifestyle it is. The most 'normal' guy I know is someone who regularly cheats on his girlfriend and who goes out drinking by himself on a Friday night...

Was commenting on your penchant to judge people by their occupation, what brand clothes/shoes they wear or what 'shitty' suburb they live in.

 

[GreyCrow]

Was commenting on your penchant to judge people by their occupation, what brand clothes/shoes they wear or what 'shitty' suburb they live in.

Crowy did this as well, till he got revealed as a dishpig