Everybody has a different personality from everyone else. Some people can focus very strongly on the goal of building muscle, which isn’t really as important to some others (even when they think it ought to be). Some people build muscle accidentally, because they are focussed on an activity or outcome (like being good at Martial Arts) that will also provoke muscular development.
When the sprinter Ben Johnson was caught taking steroids, (just before competing, rather than in training between competitions) he wasn’t using them to add extra muscle mass to his body. The drugs were making him so focussed on the race that his starting reaction speeded up.
(Before being caught, his reaction times had set off the ‘false start’ gun in several races, even though he wasn’t really ‘beating the gun’. Each time, settings for this false-start mechanism had been changed to allow for Johnson’s (apparently natural) lightning-fast reflexes.)
Some experts believe that it’s this ‘mini-steroid-rage’ that produces anabolic effects (muscle growth) in people who take the drugs and workout. If you take them, but you don’t work out, they just make you fat, so it seems unlikely that the steroids can directly cause extra gains in muscle mass. They just make you ‘hit the iron harder’ during each lift, and each gym visit.
Some people seem to produce more Testosterone than others, and it’s often claimed that this substance makes them more muscular. But tests show that the (natural) steroid increases AFTER a good workout, a boxing victory, an enjoyable activity session, a win at poker, or a successful attempt to ‘pick up’ a potential mate.
So it’s more likely that their ‘anabolic attitude’ leads to a better physique (because each workout works better) than their less ‘focussed’ mates, and stimulates more testosterone production, too.
So if you want a better body, try making this your number one priority for a while. Once the attitude becomes a habit, you can continue the work without being totally obsessed by it.
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