Seeing as testosterone is already present in your body, both female and male in their own way, it doesn't make sense to say AAS is best suited to hypertrophy. Most AAS are derivatives of testosterone, a naturally produced hormone in the body. Your body doesn't primarily utilize testosterone for hypertrophy. That's like saying serotonin is best suited for tripping, seeing as tripping has significant synergy with serotonin. Serotonin has many important uses beyond tripping. We don't have serotonin in our bodies to purely trip and enjoy MDMA. Our discovery of certain compounds and their involvement with certain hormones is simply a byproduct of that discovery, not THE reason why the hormones exist in the first place.
I'm always puzzled why people relate testosterone purely to hypertrophy. It's just stereotyping and lack of awareness of what hormones are responsible for and what you can do with them.
Testosterone is the base for most athletic training programs, has been for a very long time. Tried and tested. A staple in the world of elite athletics and performance.
Whatever form it comes in, it's very likely a derivitative of testosterone.
Incarus was a cool film although it was very shallow in it's understanding of the subjects involved. The guy essentially took a cycle and didn't rate it much. That says nothing about the subjects involved but speaks volumes about his capabilities and quite frankly he was an amateur attempting to be an elite level athlete and expected a cycle to get him there, much like a lot of people do. Although he's pretty humble and states he wasn't expecting miracles, lots of people who use AAS do expect miracles and think they will go from the bottom of the pile to the top simply because they take AAS.
I took 300mg of Test E and 600mg of EQ for 2-3 months. Got into running. I went from being a complete novice runner who before that couldn't do much without getting out of breath to coming in the top 10 in a 5K competition among medium-high level runners (and the clubs they trained and raced for/with). I obviously couldn't keep the pace all the way because my training experience was practically none-existent compared to these guys who had been running for years, but at one point I was close to running sub 19 minute. The foundations were there, otherwise I'd have never been at the front of the pack and only a few months prior I wouldn't have even made it through a mile. I bottomed out due to lack of conditioning but got 19m20, first time out in a competitive race. The average 5K time for most runners is considerably more. The top spot was a guy with around 16 minute. That's about 5:00/mile, maybe 5:20/mile, around 18-19kph consistetly for 3 minutes or around 11-12mph. I was around 6:20/mile (I think) and at times under 6 minute.
In perspective, the world record at one point was 4:00/mile, and that is extremely impressive still today. Most people will never be able to maintain that pace for long. I managed under 6 for much of the race in my first race. Gear was 90% of that being possible, without a doubt.
The bottom line is it's about the athlete, not the drugs. The drugs are tried and tested. They work. It's the person taking them and their involvement in the whole process. And these drugs are used by more than bodybuilders! Bodybuilding is about the only thing most people relate to steroids but your top tier boxers use AAS, runners, CrossFit, cyclists, soccer, rugby/football, swimmers, Olympic athletes, MMA athletes, many people from many disciplines basically. And they use them because they work.
