r/bodybuilding. Why I hate steroids!!! (Rant)

Ok so firstly I'm still a bit butthurt so please understand I hold a bias against the juice at the moment.

I've been training for about 3 years now, I train for strength but consider myself a bodybuilder more than a powerlifter. My friend and training partner who got me into the gym (let's call him 'Josh'), yesterday admitted to me that he is on steroids. Before this I had no problem with juicing, while considering it cheating I understood the benefits and the reason as to why people would do it.

However I never saw the use of it for me, and took it personally whenever people would say I was on steroids (I get up at 4:30AM, eat shit tasting food and don't drink, to get where I am now and I'm not that fucken big).

When 'Josh' told me about his use it really pissed me off, I never felt as though he trained as hard, ate as well or was as motivated as I was, yet he was always getting bigger and stronger and telling me what I was doing wrong. Yet he would miss workouts, leave early, eat fast food, drink booze and if you told him he was doing something wrong his response would be 'but I'm bigger and stronger than you'. Josh always denied using roids and I always stood up for him as I trained with him and saw the work and effort he put in, I was convinced he would tell me if he was juicing.

Now my issue is that I know people who use roids can be bigger than me and not work as hard, yet I then get accused of juicing. I feel as though that takes away from the effort and motivation I have to improve my body. People who juice can not work as hard, not eat as well, have a better body than me and just deny the use then tell people who are natty what to do.

While I understand why people deny using steroids, it annoys me as they then want to give people who are natty advice as to how to get bigger. I know some people who juice work harder than me and eat right but it annoys me that there are people at my gym who use roids walking around the gym giving advice as though they are natty and are bigger than everyone because they work harder, yet it's the fucken needle in their leg that makes them that big.

Hope people agree with me on this, but if you don't, feel free to tell me to go fuck myself and why. Rant over, cheers.

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