Win: Build Your Body to Last

By Christopher C. Wilson

In WIN, author and fitness instructor Chritopher Wilson takes you deep into his three-year battle with steroids. Learn what can happen to you from using steroids and find out firsthand why steroids won't give you a body to last.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9780990356714

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Introduction

Many books have been written on the subject of weight loss and the improvement of body composition. Various factors will contribute to obtaining the performance, physical appearance, and overall happy composition desired. While each individual has goals for how they want to look, the most important thing to remember is that reaching for goals set by a fitness professional or yourself will take time. It’s good to make sure you’re happy with your composition at every stage of your progression. Moving forward is what’s really important.

A variety of methods can help you achieve your fitness goals: a proper diet, catered to you as an individual; a proper workout program; adequate rest; the right mind-set; and hormonal balance. These are the essential components to achieving your fitness goals. There is NO such thing as a shortcut to hard work, discipline, and focus. Supplements are available that can assist your body in building faster, but for every action there is a reaction. You must know where injectables come from, what makes up their chemistry, and what they will do to you in the short and long term.

When taking a supplement such as testosterone, the utmost care and education are a must! Testosterone is highly effective in assisting with muscle development, but there is also a flip side to this coin. It’s not as easy as the public thinks. Taking a shot alone doesn’t make you muscular. Estrogen levels need to be monitored. Supplements such as testosterone, along with many others, are readily available from outside the US. They are easy to purchase and always for sale.

Having taken such supplements myself for three years, I paid less money for them, but paid more in side effects and damage to my body. Today I live dependent on bioidentical hormone (testosterone) pellets. The fact that I would rather not be alive without these pellets is real. Proper testosterone levels affect far more than the ability to build muscle. Testosterone also affects the ability to sleep better, focus properly, have higher energy levels, and reduce depression. You could say that I have an imbalance and I will live with it the rest of my life. It is a lot to think about at age thirty-six. I’m not suggesting that taking testosterone is wrong or that it shouldn’t be taken. My intent in writing this book is to make the public aware of what can happen to the body when altering testosterone levels. As an adult, testosterone will eventually have to be supplemented after age thirty, when levels will drop by one to two percent every year. Check with your doctor, have a blood test, and discover where your levels are before tampering with testosterone supplements.

For youth, the need to be bigger, stronger, and faster will always be present. Teenagers and men in their early twenties should have no problem with achieving their fitness goals. Testosterone levels are where they should be, and there is no need to alter them. You know the saying, If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Look at your workout routine and diet, and then get to work!

Unfortunately, synthetic testosterone has become easily available to high-school and even middle-school athletes. Some coaches and fitness instructors will encourage the use of these synthetic drugs. Again, think about your future or the future of the young life you will affect. Is one good season, championship trophy, or bodybuilding trophy worth damaging your body? I think not. The key to success in fitness and weight loss is education. Knowing how to achieve your goals and acquiring the proper support is essential. Not all supplements are good, yet not all are bad. Change is a lifelong process and commitment. Always think in regard to the future‚ not just the present. All growth hurts but is important to accept when striving for a happy body composition. May GOD bless you in all your efforts to make a positive change.

— Christopher Wilson —

Chapter 1: Feeling Weak

When I was a kid, I always wanted to be big and strong. The problem was that I was overweight. I had a belly and even started to grow man boobs. My brother Doug was always a skinny kid who nobody made fun of. The jokes always came at my expense. What can you do? After a while, you learn to shake it off, or it can develop into a complex. Experience will either help or hurt you.

I can remember a time in grade school being chased by football players who wanted to beat me up. Along with my brother and some of his friends, one day we ran from a whole team. They almost got to me, because my fat butt could not get over a fence. My brother, Doug, had to climb back over the fence to help me get over it. After that experience, I felt helpless and weak. I can remember telling myself, I don’t ever want to feel like this again. I felt mad at myself for not being strong enough. Unfortunately, that was not the last time I felt that way.

Another incident occurred as a junior high schooler that made me feel even worse. One day as I was watching TV, suddenly there was a knock at the door. I had no idea who was on the other side but noticed this person had driven his van into our driveway. My brother was a very popular student in high school and he knew a lot of people. When I opened the door, there stood a guy with big arms in a sleeveless shirt asking for my brother. I figured he was a friend of Doug’s and closed the door to go and find him. I woke Doug from a sound sleep to go to the door. Once outside with this guy, Doug greeted him and was promptly punched in the face. He fell to the ground, and I helped him up and into the house. It was over that fast. I was so disappointed in myself. I felt helpless and weak for not beating this guy who had hit my brother. I never apologized to Doug for leading him to a punch. So, Doug, I’m sorry. You see, regardless of how much Doug picked on me or beat me up when we were younger, I love him with all my heart. I had wished I could’ve done something to avenge him, but I was too small and didn’t know how to fight.

It wasn’t until my senior year in high school when I began to lift weights. My dad had some fifteen-pound dumbbells, and I would do bicep curls and shoulder presses two to three times a week. It wasn’t long before I started to do push-ups every day. I started to love weight training. I took a weight-training class called systemics, and in this class I learned that I was quite strong. The problem, though, was that I did not train enough to grow any bigger. I used to make weight gainer shakes called muscle blast to try and get bigger. Of course, my brother had to poke fun at my efforts. With my shakes, food, and dumbbell exercises, every week I started to change my body composition. I still had terrible abs, but it didn’t matter. I didn’t

Reviews for Win

[Dyhedral1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book was an honest story of the authors bodybuilding life, and more specifically his struggle with steroid use. While the author obviously didn't do any research before using steroids, and therefore suffered the consequences of ignorance combined with powerful drugs, at least he is open about his mistakes. It was an honest account of something most bodybuilders don't talk about.