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Chapter 6 · The Ali Gilbert Podcast

Luke's Personal Bodybuilding History and Drug Use

October 27, 2023

i've been balls deep into this for decades. So I've, I've been seen it, done it. I've been 270 pounds with abs and getting there without drugs. That's fine. I did minimal effective dose for most of the, what I did, but like even me, even up to about, even up to about the age of 40, I just, I had this weird identity thing where I had to be the biggest dude in the room everywhere. Right. And that started, I was bullied a bit when I was a kid, um, all the way through high school. And then when I left high school and started getting into bodybuilding. I did powerlifting all through high school, got into bodybuilding. And then I met dudes who were on gear and, you know, I think I'd been training about 13 years. I'd been as big as like 240, 245 pounds powerlifting. And then I was like, okay, let's take it to the next level. So that's when I did my first shot of testosterone, like 21. So I actually waited until I'd done everything I could do. And then I got on testosterone. I started out with like i think 400 milligrams of braville test 200 which is like dirty mexican made gear that all the vials were underdosed if you look at the vial all of them had different amounts of liquid so i was probably just like yeah different colors you're always wondering like russian roulette or mexican roulette am i going to get an abscess or not from this dirty shit. And man, it only took like, I was probably only taking like 300 milligrams at 21. And I put on like 15, 20 pounds in six weeks, you know? So I think people don't understand how powerful testosterone is. They just want to, a lot of young guys want to do a cycle. It's like, bro, just do 120 milligrams a week. Just do 60, 80 milligrams twice a week and see what happens. almost always that puts like six seven pounds on somebody without having to take a huge dose but taking it as a cycle is a whole different story but I think people need to get in their in their head like what they what they actually want in the end. So if they're interested in health and having a prophylactic response against putting a foreign chemical in their body, you know, or supposed to be synthesized natural thing, if you're just taking testosterone, but that's not going to come without some side effects. So you want to try to set yourself up in the best position possible and the more fit you are the better performance you're going to get you're going to be able to train harder recover harder the testosterone is going to do what it's supposed to do better and that's a great thing about taking testosterone is even if you do even if you overdid cardio testosterone is a great equalizer it's a very good counterbalance to doing that so you're not likely like the side effects aren't going to be muscle wasting the side effects you're going to get real fucking lean if you do that but