I totall agree with the fact that recovery abilities are put into overdrive while on gear. However, just because you recover three times faster doesnt mean your strength/growth will be parallel to that. It just doesnt make sense....Strength, power, and size are the fruits your body yields only after it is forced to adapt and overcome the load placed on it. If you continue to place the same load onto your skeletal muscle day in and day out, the results will stall very quickly simply because there is no immediate need for your body to accomodate additional strenght/muscle. Only after the load is raised is muscular growth going to resume....taking advantage of the freakish recovery abilities that gear provides is the most efficient way to help you raise the bar in your training at this point.
The human body does not want to walk around at a ripped and muscular 275#....hence why you lose the hard earned muscle when you slow or stop training. Your body simply isnt able to maintain the size without the continued load being placed upon it.
The bottom line is this...If I took steroids and trained the exact same way throughout the cycle that I train now, without ever adding weight as I was getting stronger, or pushing my intensity level up a notch or two, the results will be nowhere near as pronounced as if I had done those things. I have worked with some of the best athletes in the world in several different sports, and I can say without exception that not making adjustments to your training simply isnt going to take you to the next level.
BTW, I dont mean to sound argumentative at all....I apologize in advance if that seems to be the tone of my post...
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