I was eighteen years old with over two years of training under my weight lifting belt when I first started my research on anabolic steroid usage. I was fascinated to find out how exactly steroids worked and what a typical "steroid cycle" looked like. I wanted to know what my idols had been taking so I too could look just like them. Fortunately for me I could find all of the information I needed with just a click of a mouse from the help of the internet. Unfortunately for me, there was alot of misinformation out there on the internet so I had to try my best to cut through the spam and find out the true facts.

Okay, so with Arnold's book and wealth of knowledge of weight training to use at my disposal I mapped out a plan as to how I was going to get as big and ripped as he once was. I figured if I were to follow his exact training program along with his exact diet plan then surely I would look exactly just like him, or at least close enough. I studied all of the exercises listed in his book meticulously. I knew exactly which exercise worked for each particular muscle group. I memorized the entire muscle anatomy and learned the physiology behind every single muscle in the human body. I mastered the art of supersets and conquered the complicity of dropsets. I engraved the importance of both pre and post-workout nutrition into my brain so that I could maximize my training sessions in the gym. I was pumped, I was ready, I was excited for the changes that were about to occur within my own body. But I was also a little bit delusional.

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I grew up idolizing the likes of the Stalone's, the Schwarzenegger's and the Hulk Hogan's of the world. I remember the first time I saw the movie Commando, an 80s action classic! If you haven't seen it I suggest you crawl out from beneath your rock and rent it, burn it, copy it, download it, instagram it or whatever else the kids do these days. I watched in awe and amazement as a ripped and muscle- bound Arnold Schwarzenegger went through the movie killing endless amounts of bad guys and looked super badass while doing it. I was mesmerized by Arnie's physique and knew from that point on that I wanted to one day look just like him. To add gas to my internal fire and desire to transform my own skinny and somewhat puny frame, Stallone was kicking everyone else's ass in the Rocky & Rambo sagas and was looking harder and leaner with each new film that was released.

It's a new week which means it's time for a new blog! First off, I would like to wish my fellow Canadians a Happy Post Canada Day! As well as wish all my Yankee friends back in the States a very Happy Independence Day! And a big congratulations to the American Supreme Court and the America people for ruling in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide....welcome to the 21st century.