Trained seriously as a bodybuilder/powerlifter? Or trained seriously? The reason I make the distinction is because I wrestled as a child, in high school, and three years of college, along with playing baseball and football at the high school level with scholarship offers in all three. So I trained my ass off all year for the better part of 10 years, then seriously missed the competition and turned to MMA. The training for MMA was actually less intense for MMA than it was for college wrestling, so to push myself a little harder, I started hitting the weights pretty hard when I wasn't doing BJJ or muay-thai. After a short but intense foray into the world of MMA, I enlisted in the military and really started hitting the weights before PT (PT was more about pushup/situp/running endurance). After I got out, I was 6'2" 210 at about 10%bf and could run 3 miles in less than 19 minutes. At this point, I concentrated solely on building mass, and after a year, had put on only 10 pounds, including 2 or 3lbs of fat. Meanwhile, during that year, I started researching AAS and proper cycling. I may not have been at my genetic potential, or even within 15 pounds of my genetic potential, but with the years I had been training for a specific sport rather than for size, I felt it was my time to run my first cycle. After another 6 months of research, I ran my first cycle. Went from 223lbs at about 12%bf to 255lbs at about 16-17%bf in 12 weeks. 255lbs was a full 100lbs heavier than the weight I wrestled at in high school, lol. There were some things that I would have changed, undoubtedly, but overall I'm happy with my decision to start when I did.
