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I want to start first by saying that you

know from an ethical standpoint I have

nothing against the use of steroids as

long as it's done like under supervision

that having been said I will still say

that for the average natural trainee

anabolic steroids have been probably the

most damaging thing ever as far as

learning how to train properly I'll

explain the reason is that it is totally

untrue that what works for an enhanced

athlete somebody who's using

performance-enhancing drugs will work

just as well for someone who's natural

now the common belief in the world of

training is that a natural athlete and a

drug-using athlete can use the same

program and they will respond the same

way the only difference is that the guy

using drugs will have greater growth

because of the products in reality it's

not as simple as that because when

you're using anabolic steroids or other

performant anything drug you're

basically changing the physiology of

your body so the body doesn't respond at

all the same way to training and you

don't need to do the same type of

training for maximum growth so I will I

will put a caveat and say that what is

optimal for a natural trainee will still

work great for steroid user but the

opposite is not true the program that

works good on a third user might not

work at all for natural training it

might actually lead to loss of muscle

I'll explain why well the main

difference the first difference is that

the natural athlete needs to use the

training session itself to trigger

protein synthesis building muscle is all

about protein synthesis which is

building muscle and the drug user the

perfect the person using performance in

drugs is basically in a state

elevated protein synthesis 24/7 because

that's what steroids do they increase

the rate of protein synthesis so these

people do not need to trigger maximum

protein synthesis with the workout

because it's already elevated so right

off the bat any kind of training they do

will work because protein synthesis is

already on somebody was natural it's

normal state is a state of amiyo status

basically their body is balanced protein

synthesis is at the same level as

protein degradation so basically you're

not building or losing muscle at rest so

what you need if you want to increase

your muscle mass you need to trigger

protein synthesis by yourself

because you don't have the products

doing that for you so you have to use a

training session to do that now this

means that your training has to reach a

certain threshold to trigger maximum

produces protein synthesis that means

maximum muscle fiber recruitment fiber

fatigue and activating mTOR that's all

fine and well but the big problem is

that you cannot afford to do anything

that will inhibit protein synthesis

because all you have when you're natural

to trigger protein synthesis is the

workout if you decrease the protein

synthesis from the workout then you

don't have any opportunity during the

week to make it better so what you want

is increase mTOR as much as possible and

you want to get rid of all these factors

that can inhibit protein synthesis and

the main factor here is an increase in

cortisol as well as an increase in the

enzyme called

ampk these are the two things that will

inhibit or even stop protein synthesis

the most so if you trigger these two

things when you're training you might

very well

completely the gains you tried to

trigger with the training right so

cortisol why does it go up cortisol goes

up because when you're training you need

to mobilize fuel energy that is stored

in the muscle or in the fat cells the

more energy you need to mobilize the

more cortisol you release now cortisol

will stop or greatly reduce protein

synthesis and it will also increase the

expression of the myostatin gene the

more myostatin is expressed the less

muscle your body will allow you to build

so cortisol will stop muscle mass from

growing with these two mechanisms so if

I'm doing a lot of volume

lots of sets lots of reps lots of

exercises in each workout I'm burning

more fuel right the more exercise I do

the more fuel are required the more fuel

I require the more energy I need to

mobilize and the more energy I need to

mobilize the more corsola release so

that's the first big difference between

enhance and natural the natural trainee

cannot afford to do a lot of volume in a

training session because it will

increase cortisol a lot more now and

enhance Atlee will have some of the same

problems but the thing is that the

anabolic hormones which are derivative

of disaster own actually blunt the

effect of cortisol because and the

androgens testosterone or any other

anabolic steroids taken once they are

linked to the receptors they use the

same second messenger at the cellular

level as cortisol so basically that

means that the more anabolic hormones

you have in your body the less cortisol

can do its job so somebody who is using

performance-enhancing drugs will not

suffer as much from an increase in

cortisol

as a natural athlete will so that's the

first difference and enhanced athlete

can do a higher volume of work and it's

not even from a recovery perspective it

is from a protein synthesis perspective

or as a natural trainee cannot do as

much volume that's the mean that's the

main difference the second difference is

that the natural athlete

needs to use the session to trigger

protein synthesis I already mentioned

that so it stands to reason that the

more often I train a muscle the more

muscle growth I'll have think about it

this way if somebody is using steroids

protein synthesis is elevated 24/7 for

the whole week so it's always a muscle

building mode even if I hit each muscle

only once a week since my body is always

building muscle it will be sufficient to

trigger muscle growth for natural

athlete it won't really work because

after a training session protein

synthesis is elevated for 24 to 36 hour

in the muscle that was trained so if I

only train a muscle once a week I'm

basically building muscle only for a day

a day and a half

compare that to the seven days for

somebody who's in hands so if the

natural training trains each muscle only

once a week

you cannot expect maximum or even rapid

muscle growth he needs to eat each

muscle at least twice a week ideally

three times a week that way protein

synthesis will be elevated in that

muscle for most of the week now you have

to understand if your natural your

recovery capacity is lower and that just

proves my initial point about volume if

I'm training a muscle often I cannot

train it with as much volume so for a

natural athlete lower volume per session

and more frequent session the third

difference is in regard to the load use

how much weight you're using now where

you can still lift heavy

if you enhance of course but the danger

the risk of injury is greater if you

enhance versus if your natural the

reason is that anabolic steroids make

the muscle become a lot stronger a lot

faster than attendance also the

androgens have all steroids that are

highly androgenic increases the capacity

of the nervous system to recruit the

muscle fibers so you become a lot

stronger super fast the tendons do not

have time to catch up so you a lot more

at risk of pools and strains because of

that whereas a natural trainee the

nervous system muscle and tendons will

grow at pretty much the same rate so you

could lift heavier with less risk of

injury as someone using steroids not to

mention that some steroids can actually

make the tendons more brittle more

fragile so that would be the third

difference also worth mentioning that

somebody who's using anabolic steroids

will respond really well to doing very

high reps just pump work right because

pump work will shuttle nutrients inside

that muscle the more volume I do very

high reps the more fluid the more blood

will come inside the muscle the pump

that will send nutrients that is inside

the blood inside the muscle so somebody

who is already at a higher rate of

protein synthesis all you need to do is

send those nutrients inside the muscle

that's why just lighter pump work works

great for enhanced athletes because they

don't need to trigger protein synthesis

and by doing the pump work they are

sending a ton of nutrients inside that

muscle taking advantage of that enhanced

protein synthesis but that same thing

don't work for natural because maximum

pump light weights sets of 10 15 20 reps

superset giant set drop set that won't

work well for the natural trainee why

because I'm

earning too much fuel I'm burning too

much glycogen to get the stimulation and

the more glycogen I burn the more

cortisol goes up and that affects

negatively the natural trainee so that's

the third difference natural trainees

should focus more on heavier weights the

fifth set of six to eight reps for

example or even sometimes three to five

reps whereas the enhance athlete can do

more pump work with higher reps drop

sets rest pauses stuff like that and

we'll get a lot more benefit than the

natural trainee so as you can see even

though you can see well both guys need

to train hard that's true but the same

type of work that works great when hand

sadly will not work great for natural

and that's one big mistake that natural

trainees do they look at the training of

the big successful bodybuilders and they

just try to copy the style of training

that just won't work it will give them a

great pump during the workout but it

will not translate into solid tissue

gain over the long run so as you can see

higher frequency much lower volume

higher intensity these are the three

things you need to focus on if your

training without the help of performing

hands and enhancing drugs

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