A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

Re:A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one... by mritchie712 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @08:30AM (#32481948)

well, there's steroids.

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Re:A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one... by gretch on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:21PM (#32489113)

I’m a former high school athlete who has seen a lot of class mates juice.

Steroids help someone who is working out intensively get 10 to 20% more out of their effort (at a trade off for health later on).

It does not do anything for someone who sits on their ass sedentary.

It’s an augmentation, not magic, and a serious athlete could beat a non-athlete even if they juiced.

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Re:A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one... by mritchie712 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @08:26AM (#32495326)

yes, it's not magic, but it is a bit of shortcut / cheat code, no?

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Re:A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one... by gretch on Thursday August 18, 2022 @05:16PM (#32515002)

The context of the article is that you should work out a little each day and is about advice on how to keep basic fitness. In that case, no, steroids do nothing for you. If you go ahead and take steroids and do your (from the article) “ Just lowering a heavy dumbbell slowly once or six times a day is enough.” nothing is going to be different.

Steroids are going to help ppl who need extreme performance.

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