Do Pro Hormones Work?

When I head for the gym my kids like to remind me I am old and skinny and perhaps at 52 I should have more sense to be lifting those heavy weights. I correct the loved but expensive to keep offspring telling them I am mature and lean! Either way I am forced to agree my poor genetics and age are not a favorable start in bodybuilding.

I did start looking at pro hormones because of those poor genetics, being skinny and having an aging body plus the hard work in the gym, the endless preparation of food AND no chocolates or beer! Even with all that effort it was just not happening quickly enough.

I have been reading all the stuff in glossy mags and wow!!! do pro hormones come across as being just the thing I needed to knock my lean physique into shape, they have all the benefits of steroids and non of the risk. There are promises of significant gains in muscle growth and quick gains in quality lean mass, steroidal effects get a mention, charts and scientific sounding jargon abound throughout many of the ads. Well the ads did there insidious task and I ended up thinking as I am sure many other aspiring bodybuilders do "Yum Yum I could do with some of that"

Are there any risk in using pro hormones?

Now it did niggle me that things seemed to be a little bit too good to be true. It is also true that I can be a bit tight with my hard earned cash and need to keep the kids in the manner they had become accustomed. On top of that these pro hormone things are so very expensive I wanted to prove I was getting some sort of value for money. So what does every aspiring bodybuilder do when they need an answer? Yes Google it! I typed in "Are there any risk in using pro hormones?" and found with no effort at all "there appears to be little or no benefit in using pro hormone nutritional supplements" This was posted by learned professionals at Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

After not much more than 10 minute searching the net it was clear there are two groups of people commenting on pro hormones, the people who make and sell the stuff saying it does work and the scientist who say it does not work and that it is harmful! Draw your own conclusions.

Pro hormone supplementation does not increase testosterone.

Learned papers by doctors and other medical practitioners including the governments have concluded pro hormone supplementation does not increase testosterone concentrations or enhance muscle as claimed but it may well result in adverse health consequences.

The reason that bodybuilders will pay a pretty penny and risk taking stuff like this is the hope that pro hormones increase strength and size of the muscle but at the moment this appears to be a proven a fallacy. There was no reported difference in size or strength compared with the others in the tested groups that where taking the placebo. But there was a proven rise in harmful effects.

Now these spoil sports could be out just to spoil the fun and conspired just to stop me getting the ripped body I desired or it could be they really are concerned about the serious side effect these products have.

Pro hormones Supplements, the evidence.

Best way to answer that is to spend a few hours on line and have a read up of the evidence for your self. Do not even take my word for it. I am not an expert, but I can read and reason things out for myself.

With the joy and availability of the internet you can do a significant amount of supportable research in a very short space of time. The research can reasonably conclude there is a substantial amount of documented evidence to support for and against the use of pro hormones.

You must consider who is giving the evidence and why. Is the evidence from the pump up vieny hulk down the gym or what you have read in advert cleverly disguised as an article in your glossy muscle magazine or is it from a learned professional or scientific organisation? It is your health and your money so find out for yourself. At best you could be wasting your money at the worst you could end up with breast, shrunken testicles and in danger of having a heart disease.

Is bodybuilding worth taking pro hormones for?

For me, no.

This is such a disappointment; I really did want a short cut to a bulging, ripped body.

A good thing is I saved my money instead and bought more chicken, eggs, milk, fruit and veg. I invested in a bulk buy of protein shake and continue to lift the iron; sweating and muttering swear words at the weights, thinking to myself as I go " Is all this effort for bodybuilding worth it"?

Yeh! Course it's ####ing worth it!