I recently came very very close to taking steroids as I wasn't very happy with my gym progress. My gym trainer almost made me do it but just one last time I went to a hormonal doctor. The type of doctors TRT users like old men or trans men who take test go to.

He assured me that my Test was already good enough. I'm mostly overthinking, but what else he told me was crazy.

Test kills your cardio stamina. Your muscle fibers grow in parallel when you take test. There's a sudden increase in blood requirement to run them all. Takes a big toll on your ability to continuously pump blood to your muscles. Kills your sex life. Just can't have that explosive and long sex that seducing someone sexually requires.

Test kills ability of your body to make it's own natural testosterone, not only this is crazy but wild. Cuz that's a risk of creating dependency on artificial test.

Because your body kills it's ability to create natural test it shrinks your balls, alongwith that comes shrinkage of sperm production and a very real risk of being infertile. To counter that you have to take another chemical, which again causes hairloss and estrogen production. To counter that you'll need surgeries.

Testosterone causes hypertrophy in your muscles which is why you're taking it in the first place. But what you don't realise is that your heart is also a muscle, it will also get bigger. The heartbeat rhythms get disbalanced.

To counter all above you'll need to take test in on cycles and off cycles so you give your body a time to recover to it's natural ways. But alot of guys lose their gains in those off cycles. So even if you're risking all this you'll still not be perfect forever. And the girl you're doing this all for will realise the real you anyway.

The lack of sex drive, sex stamina will kill any girl's interest in you. Even if you look like a walking sex appeal.

The only way to make sense of testosterone is to use it to stay in natural zone. Around 800-900 the higher end of your natural testosterone levels. If you're older and on low test, TRT can absolutely help you reach those levels. Side effects are minimal in this range. Your cardio probably won't suck. But if you're a healthy young cis male you can reach this range naturally anyway. I literally see no reason to take that much of a risk.

Also alot of girls told me that testosterone bodies look too much hormonally fucked, like what we think of girls who go to get plastic surgeries and botox. It doesn't look natural. There's a reason why most gym trainers are single and always hitting on their clients. (not all do, definitely not generalising here)

So instead of getting testosterone i joined a HIIT workshop to boost my sex explosiveness and logetivity. Turned out i sucked maintaining cardio stamina beyond 2 minutes so that was really needed. And as a pro that also boosts testosterone production naturally so win-win.