Follow these tips to aesthetic bliss!

With all the current controversy on gear, and bodybuilders posting their steroid cycles (we’re looking at you Rich Piano Piana), it’s kind of hard not to talk about it. What is gear, and why is it making such a big stink in the bodybuilding world? Anabolic steroids are synthetic variations of the male sex hormone testosterone. The proper term for these compounds is anabolic-androgenic steroids. “Anabolic” refers to muscle building, and “androgenic” refers to increased male sex characteristics. This is why some of the most common side effects are increased appetite and hair growth, because it turns a mere man into a…more man? You get the picture.

Steroids are usually ingested orally or injected straight into the muscle using a syringe (Yikes, I hate needles). But what if you’re not interested in turning your perfectly good genetic mass into a (further) science project? That’s a good question. Well for you my friend, I prescribe to you the hard pill to swallow of hard work. Don’t worry, we’ll give you a spoonful of sugar to wash it down.