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psst: wanna buy some steroids? 27-Nov-2005 At 9:09:51 PM raff32

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Once again Im not holding up my experiences in any way as a scientific exploration in the use of steroids in climbing, but it is somebodies experience at least. As I said Im not usually one for putting in the really hard yards when i can see a quicker solution. Having started climbing at the age of 29 I guess I made the mistake of seeing all those around me who had been climbing for donkeys years and felt like I had so much catching up to do, wheras I really should have just realised that climbing is an entirely personal thing, and u really cant compete with those around you. I mean there is always gonna be some 15 yo kid who can walk up climbs that I would have a hard time with a rope ladder, and there will always be those french bastards smoking a coupla packs of smokes a day who seem to morph from mild mannered weedy little guys into a skin full of muscles with moves like a ballerina.

At the end of the day I would never encourage somebody to use any illicit drugs, and I certainly would agree that a first ascent of a major climb would be tainted under their influence, but saying that I feel that the negative effects (not inclucing the side effects already noted) would probably cancel out if not outweigh any benefits anyway.

For myself if I was to use roids for climbing at any time in the future it would merely be a relatively high dose of anavar, it doesnt increase body mass to any extent, it has no resultant increases in liver count, is quite non toxic and increases ones strength and lowers fat to a pretty major degree. Also from what I can gather it doesnt have the added effect of creating a pump as such. As ive said this is the one anabolic that will be prescribed to a woman without any problems associated with others and is considered pretty much harmless.

Now I hear you ask, after all the trouble, why would u want to do that to urself, well I guess I was actually lacking,lacking the years of hard work that starting at such an age forced me to miss out on and I actually wanted to look good laying on the beach as well as trying to climb up things. I do want to make one thing clear though, having read back through my post it does seem in some places to endorse steroid use and I am not in any way, in fact for myself I found the bloody things to be prettty addictive, and I would say that I can have a nasty surprise or two in stor for me somewhere down the line, although I have taken all the steps I could to prevent alot of that stuff.

So do I think that roids could be of any help, sure, in certain circumstances for very specific purposes they will do things for your body that it just wont do for itself in the same time frame, but is it worth it in the long run?? Shit no. At the end of the day, climbing is hard and frustrating for a reason, so u can really savour the feeling of achievement when you do actually achieve something special.