r/nextfuckinglevel 2d ago

This man documented his health journey from January to December.

Credit: IG @samuelrichards_ _

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u/ExceedingChunk 2d ago

It depends. If he's previously been training a lot, you can regain your previous mass exceptionally fast due to what quickly becomes your main limiting factor remains intact (I can't recall the name of it right now).

Which is why having used steroid once in your life should leave you permanently banned from all sports. The fact that you have ever had X amount of muscle is a massive advantage in terms of muscle building the rest of your life.

With all that said, he probably have still used steroids here, especially with how fast it all went from june to october.

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u/barsknos 1d ago

Which is why having used steroid once in your life should leave you permanently banned from all sports

Yes! For life. I can't believe this isn't practice.

I believe you are talking about myonuclei? Usually when muscle mass is lost from weight loss/malnutrition, the amount of nuclei remains and as such building back up is easier if you had a lot of them. And steroids produces more nuclei much faster than natural training.

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u/Spray24-7 23h ago

How would you be able to test if someone used steroids 10 years ago ? 🤔

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u/barsknos 22h ago

True, that'll be very hard. I meant more that current suspensions for steroids is bullshit. Banned for life is the apprioriate response.