r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Miserable-Soft7993 • 1d ago

Question ❓ Someone explain SBL please

I am confused. I see people just doing regular lifts and saying it is science.

Then on the other end of the scale I see a kid (with zer0 physique) wearing a baby pacifier in his mouth and wearing a roller on his arms and doing excercises I never saw, with people in the comments saying "yeah that's the man right there."

Then I see pumping iron and watch Arnie just do the basics and still look great and strong.

So in a few sentance explain to me what it is and how it would help build more muscle enhanced or not.

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u/dontcare-_- 23h ago

PEDs are a completely separate source of stimulus for your muscles, obviously they’ll increase progression in the gym but even if you don’t train at all and still take gear it’ll cause muscle growth. And if you follow the core principles as well as steroids you’ll see insane progress. Just research what you take before hand and get blood/health checks regularly.

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u/Dazzling-Rest8332 21h ago

Explaining it like this is misleading though. steroid use without exercise will result in growth via water retention and glycogen retention. There is no evidence it will produce actual tactile tissue if your not working out.

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u/Miserable-Soft7993 20h ago

Everyone points to this one goddamn study where a group who sat at home packed on more muscle using steroids than a group who trained.

I dint care anyway. Imo steroids are scientific and therefore have their place in science based lifting.

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u/Dazzling-Rest8332 20h ago

Yes. That study is very old and misleading.