Thread: Do you family and friends know?

No. Only other lifters who are also on, and sometimes not even then, and my wife. I never tell family or friends.

some family know, most do not. Most of my family are model citizens and testosterone is a taboo. They would not understand.

I tell nobody, all my friends and fam know I spend way too much time in the gym....so that's my excuse when they see me with my shirt off in the summer (pool, beach, bbqs, etc).



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Just my girlfriend and my doc,there's no need to tell those kind of things to others!!!I gotta admit my little sister has some doubt,she would make a good detective,lol!Peoples are misinformed on the topic and there's lot of stereotypes on it,that's why i prefer to keep this for myself!

Well if your jerked and tan they think you might but most will never ask
Does he even workout, thats when you know your hitting the placebo effect

I think it's a good idea not to tell anyone. For several reasons#1, it's illegal and #2 it's human nature when someone gets mad or upset at you they run their mouth.
In fact most people run their mouth to much all the time anyway. Even when I was married I didnt tell my wife because I just knew that sooner or later she would tell her kids and family. I just did my pins while she was at work and kept all my supplies in a secure place. And if your creative you can even put your HCG behind some stuff that never gets uses or looked at. The excuse as was mentioned earlier was I spend tons of time in the gym and I'm trying out a new routine and better protein.
It's best to keep a tight ship. The gym I go to also has cops and the last thing I want or need is some guy running his mouth and then a rumor getting started. When anybody asks me about it I just say I have read a lot about it but would never admit to anything. I've seen a lot of guys share stuff with a girlfriend and then they break up and the whole town finds out. By then damage control is no longer a option and you are labeled roid user. Besides that if you would ever get in a argument with a wife or girlfriend they would swear that you would have been more calm if you werent taking that shit. Then the rumores go crazy and becomes a big topic with all the girlfriends. So the long of the short. HELL NO, dont tell.

Originally Posted by Roaddkingg

I think it's a good idea not to tell anyone. For several reasons#1, it's illegal and #2 it's human nature when someone gets mad or upset at you they run their mouth.
In fact most people run their mouth to much all the time anyway. Even when I was married I didnt tell my wife because I just knew that sooner or later she would tell her kids and family. I just did my pins while she was at work and kept all my supplies in a secure place. And if your creative you can even put your HCG behind some stuff that never gets uses or looked at. The excuse as was mentioned earlier was I spend tons of time in the gym and I'm trying out a new routine and better protein.
It's best to keep a tight ship. The gym I go to also has cops and the last thing I want or need is some guy running his mouth and then a rumor getting started. When anybody asks me about it I just say I have read a lot about it but would never admit to anything. I've seen a lot of guys share stuff with a girlfriend and then they break up and the whole town finds out. By then damage control is no longer a option and you are labeled roid user. Besides that if you would ever get in a argument with a wife or girlfriend they would swear that you would have been more calm if you werent taking that shit. Then the rumores go crazy and becomes a big topic with all the girlfriends. So the long of the short. HELL NO, dont tell.

Very realistic. Bravo

Peace and Love

The wife knows and some of the local people when the see me like once a month are like what the hell. how did you get so big so fast. My brother in laws all are 6 ft and pretty good size men. They all were poking fun at me a year ago when I started lifting. We all were at a gym and my max bench was 180. The one said something like. Man it must suck to be the little man. that shit just pissed me off! So the other day this same brother in law was over and he was blown away at how huge I've become. I took him to my gym. Oh how I craved for this day. I outworked this punk and put him to his knees. Put his ass on the flat bench and said lets see who is the bigger man now. His max bench was 225. My max was 310. my last words to him were. It must really suck to get you ass kicked by the little man. I'm 5ft 6in.

Pretty much you fuckers here on the forums are the only ones that know. I told another friend I was currently taking some Epistane after he told me he was on test C. My wife just thinks they are vitamins.

Now converting to pinning, I have been priming her about HCG and how pinning is better than the sublingual drops all her friends are taking. So when I start my test and HCG she wont know the difference. I am contemplating telling my best friend since 7th grade so I can have it delivered to his house and not mine though! But other than that... Just you fuckers know! So dont tell anyone!

My wife and friends acuse me of it all of the time, so I might as well go ahead !!

Only one friend knows...and I just hooked him up...and showed him how to do his very first ever injection!!!... I'm already pretty big so the gradual increase in size is going mostly unnoticed by the wifey poo...and it's getting cooler out so I can stay a little more covered up. Wait till next summer though....I'm going on a get ripped / contest type cycle and it'll surely impress some people considering I'll be turning 47. I've been "laying low" for too darn long now.

My mum know's and my uncle (he juices too), and my bestfriend of 22 years.
thats all.

Everyone else thinks I just eat lots of food, and use supplement lol.

But to be honest I only do this to look decent, not to be massive! after 3 knee dislocations and being bigger, I prefer to just be in good shape.

MuscleTech is always a good one to pull out....nah look at this ad in the mag champ, these guys done....Oh wow nice work. LMAO

I found that another reason to keep it under wraps is that non-lifters don't see the amount of sacrifice and dedication that you need to built a great physique, they don't see all the time that it takes for meal preparation day after day, week after week, and they don't care that you refuse to eat all of the junk-food that most people enjoy and can't live without.
I love beer however when I'm out with friends I refuse to drink simply because my priorities lean towards the benifits of bodybuilding.

The very moment they find out your juicing they immediately assume that all you need do is to take some roids and lift a few weights to earn your immpressive physique. People are wrong to think that therefore in my opinion they do not deserve to know.

There's also a lot of jeolousy at the gym so I've learned not to tell many other guys that are also "on." I learned the hard way with this as now when I lift more than them they simply tell me I'm using high amounts of gear, in a friendly way of course but they'll do anything to steal your glory.

I see all reasons has been mentioned, pretty much..


- Being labeled a "steroid user" is worse than being a drug addict / alcoholic

- "No wonder he is in good shape, he takes steroids.. 1 month with steroids and you look like that".

- Stereotypical steroid user: Huge neck, big, strong and fucked up in the head (goes loco often)... I love how the media describes the typical steroid user...

- Jealousy.. If you look better, or lift better - you are most definately a juicer (everyone at the gym thinks like that).

- People judge



With that being said, I have told some of my closest friends (we often work out together). I can't "hide it" when I juice, not from them.. But they are trustworthy. I have never bloated on the few cycles I've done (nor am I that big.. just very fit), so for the average Joe it's easier for me to "hide".

Ill say it once more "take that shit to your grave" nobody needs to know. I got asked a few weeks ago, just said its creatine, protien and hard work (an truth be known it is) Im not that big but Im alot bigger than I used to be, and when you run into people you havent seen in a while they tend to wonder out loud.

I purchased some supplements from GNC in pill form. They're basically crap and probably act as a placebo. But I came up with a decent idea. I'll just always have the bottles around and just tell my girlfriend that the "pills" really do work. I was thinking I would take a few out and hide them and replenish the bottle once it's empty instead of taking them and continuing to buy them. I think always having supplements on hand such as creatine, glutamine and other so-called muscle building products will take some of the heat off you when you get "bigger". Just keep telling them it's the supplements. Looking back though, I'm pretty surprised how strong and big I got pretty much all natural with only protein shakes.

Originally Posted by rippedgolfer

I purchased some supplements from GNC in pill form. They're basically crap and probably act as a placebo. But I came up with a decent idea. I'll just always have the bottles around and just tell my girlfriend that the "pills" really do work. I was thinking I would take a few out and hide them and replenish the bottle once it's empty instead of taking them and continuing to buy them. I think always having supplements on hand such as creatine, glutamine and other so-called muscle building products will take some of the heat off you when you get "bigger". Just keep telling them it's the supplements. Looking back though, I'm pretty surprised how strong and big I got pretty much all natural with only protein shakes.

Ya gonna be wanting to bone your girl every chance you get. She might start buying those pills for on a regular basis.

Originally Posted by Richard Gears

lawl Put it like this, if people "dont know", then youre doing something wrong.

Im too jerked and swoll for anyone not to know. Fucking stevie wonder could see that shit.

I've been accused non-stop since high school. I didn't start until this summer. Lazy people always like to accuse people that are in shape because they don't understand that it actually takes effort to get in shape. That being said, I don't tell anyone. Before I started, I discussed it jokingly with my wife, the the impression she didn't really care but didn't want to know. So I'm on a different version of don't ask don't tell.

i put it on facebook

I've been struggling with this one lately. My girlfriend and I live in my house together (have for a year now) and we have been together for 6 years. I do trust the girl, but my only reason for not telling her is to protect her from the worry. I'm thinking I'm going to have to tho...

How did you guys approach the subject with your significant others? I'm really going to have to educate her because right now, like most people, she believes all the bad stereotypes. Should I wait until I'm done my first cycle to prove to her nothing bad will actually happen? Ahhh fuck, I don't know....

onlt a few friends no and they do it to. but my wife and thats it and i never tell big mouths as roaddkking stated there are some dirty motherfuckers out there that will rat you out in a heartbeat and i dont want that hanging over my head. and i always wear hoodies even in the summer but they can see through the hoodies they not totally sure. i keep it hidden and covered up.

Originally Posted by unclem

onlt a few friends no and they do it to. but my wife and thats it and i never tell big mouths as roaddkking stated there are some dirty motherfuckers out there that will rat you out in a heartbeat and i dont want that hanging over my head. and i always wear hoodies even in the summer but they can see through the hoodies they not totally sure. i keep it hidden and covered up.

Hoodies in the summer?

^^^ theres alot of LE that go to my gym and live in my area, so i dont like to show off. its for the stage. its not paranoia, it being save. after awhile the attention gets old. at home i dont where a shirt, but u never know whos going to blow the whistle on ya. as u can tell i juice so why give anybody the truth just keep them wondering. thats me though.

Originally Posted by unclem

^^^ theres alot of LE that go to my gym and live in my area, so i dont like to show off. its for the stage. its not paranoia, it being save. after awhile the attention gets old. at home i dont where a shirt, but u never know whos going to blow the whistle on ya. as u can tell i juice so why give anybody the truth just keep them wondering. thats me though.

My old training partner was LE. He took more shit that I did. 'Course, I knew him from when we were kids, so that was different. Of course, he didn't talk about it around other LE. He told me a lot of those guys are on. He said you could look around the room during a meeting and pick 'em out. Pretty funny.

Originally Posted by unclem

^^^ theres alot of LE that go to my gym and live in my area, so i dont like to show off. its for the stage. its not paranoia, it being save. after awhile the attention gets old. at home i dont where a shirt, but u never know whos going to blow the whistle on ya. as u can tell i juice so why give anybody the truth just keep them wondering. thats me though.

Hate to sound like a newbie but what's LE?

Where do you guys typically hide your gear? I'm thinking about buying a small safe for my office so anyone snooping around while I'm not there can't find it. I would hate to put it in a box in my office and someone find every bit of evidence from pins to PCT. Pretty much caught red handed then. At least if it's in a small safe it'll keep them guessing. Of course the safe will be hidden away but just to be safe. Any other suggestions? I can't keep it at home b/c my gf will definitely find it and can't keep it in the car due to extreme temp changes in vehicle. So where's the next best place?

i say creatine protein powerd and hard work. wich is tru i just leave out the extra help products ;-)

LE= ... Gears can tell ya.