Besides GH, peptides are new to me, and I'm looking for that extra push. Hell, I learn new stuff everyday, and put them in my toolbox. Anyhow:
All through high school, I had gynecomastia. I was in martial arts since middle school, and yes, had to sometimes fight those who were dumb enough to pick. Since my Parents thought "it's just part of growing up," the gyno was never dealt with. And yes, when we played "shirts vs skins" in high school, I was usually one of the skins, meaning I had to take off my shirt, and wished I could go hide under the bleachers over the gyno. After High School, I went through Marine Corps boot camp (MCRDPI), and suffered unmerciful ridicule as there's NO fighting allowed on the deck at Parris Island, even if someone picks. While in the Marines, I started bodybuilding, or what I thought was bodybuilding. It was, in actuality, power lifting. After training with heavy weights + constant PT, the gyno still didn't go away even when I was down to the occasional single digit body fat. After a decade and half of ridicule, I had finally saved up enough money to have the gyno surgery. No, it wasn't "right" the first time it was done, and the Plastic Surgeon had to do it again. When I asked him to prescribe a drug he had never heard of before (Arimidex 1mg which was rather new then), he looked it up and wrote the script, even putting five refills on it. After finally healing, I went back to the gym, and continued training, but ultimately met some very good people who were TRUE bodybuilders, and that's when things started to change as far as nutrition (most important!), proper BODYBUILDING training, and of course, gear came into play. I had always worked around guys who said, "you'll never make it to be a bodybuilder." Even friends from the gym doubted me when I said I would one day compete, and win. Fast forward to later in life, after getting married, and having three kids, I reached the point where I was ready to step out on a stage under extremely bright (and damned hot) lights, in front of my entire Family, and my friends with NO SHIRT ON, and basically in "speedos" as a bodybuilding competitor. When I took the stage, I was 4.5% body fat, carbed up well, vascular, hard, and grainy. I took second place overall, and have won first place in numerous NPC and NABBA shows since. I live on the coast, and when I take my shirt off now, the looks and comments I get are far, far from ridicule. I took all of those years of the naysayers, and threw that garbage out, as like the movie "Rocky," all I really wanted to go was go the distance, and at least make it to the stage. When I was receiving my 2nd place overall trophy, I had one hell of a time keeping my eyes from "watering," not because I came in second; but because I fought like a dog for it, and finally went the distance... And yes, those who said I would never be able to do it years before, were silenced, and have been to this day.
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