PR Friday, Steroid Preview, etc.

Apparently the whole town is having Internet issues. I was going to post for Justin, but my connection sucks, too, so I”m going mobile. Sorry, guys.



It has been a month since I did the steroid primer post. I have spent the last several weeks gathering facts and talking to current and former steroid users about the ins and outs of supplementation. I should have something pretty good for you by next week.



So, in addition to your normal PR Friday posts, ask me any questions you want answered about steroids and I”ll try to cover it next week.



In the meantime, check the trailer for BSF.



109 thoughts on “PR Friday, Steroid Preview, etc.

  1. PRs!
    Bodyweight: 221
    Squat: 275 3×5
    DL: 345 1×5 + 355 single
    Ego: Some friends of mine came up from out of town (last saw them in December) and as soon as they opened the door and saw me they both said “holy crap you”re a lot bigger!”

  2. @Hookgrip_

    Which one?

    @PR”s

    I have to go buy new boxers and a shirt I bought in November is about to burst off me when I button it up.
    I actually have welts on my thighs from wearing some of my boxers.

  3. He died in some rehab facility in California if I remember correctly, steroids weren”t the only drugs he was using. The amazing, and really sad, thing is their father actually said in the movie he expects to find him dead some day.

    Anyway, not that many PRs for this week:
    BW – 80kg. Closing in on that 84kg milestone.
    squat – 107.5kg 5-5-5F. collapsed on the way up, which is sort of a PR as well, my first real squat failure.
    Press – 52kg 3×5.

  4. Bench 2×5 240, 1×5 235

    Deadlift 1×4 365

    Press 1×5 140

    Decided I haven”t been going deep enough on squats: going to scale back 20 lbs. on work sets tonight to get proper depth. I don”t want to be the guy scoffed at for squatting like a fool.

  5. I”m the 4th week of a Russian 9-week program preparing for a PL meet in March. I”ve set two PRs this week:
    SQ 140kg for 6×6, PR for overall reps
    BP 107.5kg 6,6,5,5,4,4, old PR 105×6

    I”ve done 80% for 6×3,6×4,6×5 and 6×6. Next week it”s 85% for 5×5. Hoping for a few more PRs then.

  6. Currently only having deadlift PR”s as I work some things out with squats and work back up from resetting on presses:

    Deadlift this week 475X4. Its a PR even though i was going for 5. I will get it next week. My recovery was off this week.

    Oh and I accidentally weigh 252 now. I”m trying to get “Chris-big”

  7. BW PR of 195
    Was up over twenty pounds since Dec. 1st to 193 until I got bronchitis and subsequently a stomach virus. Lost close to 10 lbs in a matter of days. Back up to speed with the eating finally.

    Deadlift 325 x 5

  8. Very professional (above). Justin, Gant, AC, and the rest of the 70sbig.com crew, can this person be removed please?

    Thank you for being very calm about that. It”s in progress.

    –A.C.

  9. PR BW: 88kg I”m allmost getting to the Big Mitswa

    Steriod question:

    * Granted that athletes want to find the next thing that will help them to recover better and train harder, but in what form isn”t using steriods cheating? Is that when everyone uses it? And how would it be like if steriods were made legal in sports?

    * And what about the health risks, I remember some youtube movies stating that the health risks aren”t that great if used moderately and wisely. Overdoing things will ofcourse kill you. Hell even drinking to much water will kill you.

  10. @cha0sblader
    Does that make you like….cool? or something?

    @dcurrin
    Congrats on the ego pr

    PR: BW205, up from 155 in early summer and 175 in fall
    PR2: split my jeans while squatting to lower large box.

  11. loved the film, really makes me think. I feel bad that this is the first that I have heard of Mike Bell”s passing.

    you can watch the whole thing online here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bigger-stronger-faster/

    But it”s worth it to rent the DVD. There are some outtakes that should have found their way into the final version. Including a short interview with Jay Cutler, and some clips of Chris Bell lifting weights with Michael O”Hearn aka “Titan” from American Gladiators.

  12. Only Pr this week was Press 65kg 3×5.

    Squat went 3×5 but I was told they were all high, so I don”t count them.

    Then I was told to take the week off from heavy lifting because I have to lift some 5rms this weekend in San Diego.

    I did do handstands longer than I ever have before in my life as part of a conditioning session on wed and broke the window on my garage door.

  13. Been lurking, finally decided to join. Back on linear progression after losing my hard earned gains through Xfit :(

    I”ll be back in PR territory in the next few weeks! In the meantime, PR of eggs consumed: whole dozen!!!

  14. Sorry for double-post. I had a question regarding AAS. Let”s say you have a trainee who TRULY exhausted their linear gains, ate right, etc. Would taking AAS after one”s linear progression put you back in “linear progression” mode since your recovery rate has increased again? Hope that makes sense, love the site guys!

  15. I think that”s a good question Justin. I would think, most definitely. I don”t see that as an excuse to start using AAS, but if a trainee was to start using, even if they were and intermediate, they MIGHT be able do some more linear progression.

    I”m under the impression that AASs should be used by advanced/elite level lifters to get a little more than what nature intended. Novices and intermediates should just carry on eating, lifting and getting stronger.

    But I”m still a novice and haven”t used AAS so I”m not the person to ask; that”s just how I see it.

  16. I have been lurking for a while. Decided to post my PR”s from a grip contest this past weekend.

    2HP – 183lbs
    DO Axle DL – 310lbs
    Grippers – 155# CoC #3

  17. @SMed I agree that the extra push in performance doesn”t justify on it”s own using AAS. I just think that exploring the question can reveal a lot about training and how our body responds to it (as well as exogenous supplements). It”s more of a rhetorical/thought-provoking question than anything.

    For the record, I agree that a novice/intermediate trainee should probably just eat a $hit-ton, lift hard, and rest. I”m still back in the novice phase and am continually learning how my body responds and adapts to training/eating/recovery methods.

  18. @kincain
    Regardless of our varying personal morals of which we decide whether or not exogenous hormone ingestion is “okay or not”, rules of competition are rules of competition.

    In baseball, an infield fly results in an automatic out for the batter. If the MLB declares that AAS are against the rules, then so be it, it is cheating (this conclusion is independent of one”s personal morals/opnion of using AAS).

  19. @Justin_C you are completely right, but what I was trying to induce was a bit of a discussion whether AAD should be made legal in sports.

    The only thing that comes to the top of my mind is that it isn”t allowed (atleast in the Netherlands) because of the health risks not really because it would be performance enhancing. That is why creatine is allowed because it is a substance that is already present in the human body. As I understand it correctly that is.

    Just want to know your opinions

  20. heaviest I”ve ever been this week: 82kg.

    Food PR: frying chicken breasts at 3AM. eating 2 days in a row 0.5kg of humus (1600 calories with tons of fat)

    3 singles with 105kg on the bench press.

  21. Steroids question: How much of the gains made on steroids persist after going off steroids, if you were near your physical strength limits before steroids? And if you weren”t near your strength limits before juicing?

    No intent to juice, just intellectually curious.

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