I’ve seen some disgusting injuries in person… ankles breaking walking out squats, quads rip right off knees, pecs tear, biceps, it’s hard to stomach, but at the same time I was willing to push my body beyond broke to do what I wanted to do… having a fake hip at 41 is proof, along with all my other injuries… battle scars of my war with stupidity as I like to call them, and yet here I still am, with heavy dreams of a 600+ lbs deadlift and 1000 lbs total in 2 lifts in my handicapped state when I am able to compete again.
It goes the same way in my life with supplements too. I cycled and PCT from 19-25, and I think in that 6 years I maybe ran 9 cycles total… I had to be careful in college, as I was an athlete and didn’t want to get caught, kicked off the team or even out of school, so cycles were minimal during the school years… from 26-35 and less than 2 months from 36, I was “on”, and never came off until after my hip
Injury sidelined me… now I’m 41 and have been on TRT since just before my 37th birthday. If I could change some things, I would never stop just running cycles and keep doing PCT and taking time off every year, but the push to consistently put out bigger numbers in everything consumed me