Why are you so eager to run roids? You can definitely pack more weight on that 5'11 frame naturally. You know how to lift, eat, etc just from seeing your posts on this board. What is so attractive about jacking up your hormone levels? I was your size coming out of high school and i gained enough weight for myself by just eating and lifting, no great romanian olympian genetics here. I can kind of understand some of the guys on here, already 225-240 and hit a weight gaining plateau. In that case, if getting even bigger is the ultimate goal, they might need a little extra help to get thru that plateau.
There is no simple answer... Story time...
I plan to grow well into my 180's naturally, then use a cycle to shoot for over the 200 mark. As I once said about the AAS/PH/DS issue that plagues our nation, "It is its taboo forbidden fruit that will draw you in"
Can I grow to my 205 goal naturally? Most likely(unless my test is low, which I am getting checked). And on that note I have spent the last 3 years getting in amazing shape, then having it all go to hell and losing everything, repeatedly(Dealing with a woman, year of joblessness involving repossessions and the likes, and currently bankruptcy). After meeting the border of my 170 marks and then repeatedly having it stripped away(zero money from joblessness means no gym, no food, etc you get point) eventually wears on you. Now I have put it off MANY times due to knowing I can grow fine naturally.
My frame at its strongest point was 135lbs, in which I was squatting 375lbs for 10 reps(wrestler at the time, weight room blew my coaches mind, also the cheerleaders were in there with us that day...) and benching 160 with a max of 180. Since then, when I started working out like crazy a couple years ago I went from 160 down to 130 in about a single month(no joke, lost about 30 lbs of useless weight thanks to running 2 hours a day and lifting like a mad man another hour, even training on breaks at work). Then fought lb by lb to reach the 150's, taking me almost 6 months. Then got to the 160's during a bulk, then lost it all...again...
This is the third time I am coming back. During all this I have studied AAS/PH/DS as if it was a school subject. It fascinates me, controlling the body, manipulating it is something I find fascinating. It is why I enjoy working out and sweating my arse off at lunch now at work, and freaking people out who can barely hold their head up to eat
But I have also suspected I have low test, because the last 2 times I try, I seem to get weak and sick the more I lift. So before I cycle, I am dropping the money on bloodwork, the whole thing. Including my liver profile as well.
Why do I want to cycle? because I "want" to, the answer is in the question itself. I planned it a couple times, and put it off due to seeing storm clouds in the distance, or because I knew I could keep growing naturally.
I am a very agile/cardiofocused-athletic person, making actual weight hard to keep. Softball, tennis, basketball, running, getting into MMA this year now that I am medically sound(had serious infection issues that should now be gone).
Why do I want to run peptides?
Why do I want to run AAS?
Why do I use supplements?
The answer is mainly choice, even of the big dudes here I doubt many of them ran their first cycle when they were already over 200. A good few, yeah, but most cycles I see start alot lower.
Who knows maybe once I hit 170 I will decide 180 will be easy enough, then when I am 180 I will decide "eh I can make 190 in a few months more" and put it off, and maybe even hit 200 natty...
Plus it would be a damn shame to put a 100 hours of reading logs, material, books like Seth Roberts "Anabolic Pharmacology", research, journals, etc all to waste and never actually use it lol. Injectable steroids are what fascinate me the most actually. And peptides, through my understanding of them is far less than anabolics.
I am 5'10 161.2 last weigh in(yesterday). Weak as hell compared to where I have been before. I want to be mainly in the 185-205 range. NEVER going over that, thats too big. The use of anabolics not only give crazy "size" but change muscle maturity, density, strength, etc. So why not cycle, but not for size necessarily. All I want is my 375 squat back, a 250 bench, and to weight in at 190-200, and I will be a happy lil puppy. Of course then I will probably crave more strength in size, but oh well.
EDIT: and on a side note, we are picking up so many funky chemicals from the way things are processed, might as well put some in we have control over lol.
Sorry for the long post...Short answer, I really dont know why other than it fascinates me to no end. The science itself is something that I think on daily. Add in the fact I am insane and have ADD, for something to catch my mind for a couple years requires it to really be fascinating.
