But it is a promise I can make with absolute certainty because I know from personal experience, as well as from the experiences of other top bodybuilders, what human beings are capable of when we have the right mental attitude. Although I was very skeptical, I decided to try it ten weeks before an upcoming contest, the 1994 Musclemania Natural Bodybuilding Championships. What put me over the top was a single belief and a single decision. Creatine's approval by those who have used it is unanimous. Yet there are top natural bodybuilders in the country today who have never used creatine.
Different products come and go.
There's always someone trying to sell you something. That belief and that decision, in my opinion, is costing this athlete at least five pounds of quality size on stage and probably a title or two. I applaud you for being keen enough to realize that using drugs to build your physique would no longer be acceptable. Every time you start getting discouraged that your gains are not coming as quickly as you want them to, just think about the unfortunate barrage of criticism people using drugs get along with their praise. They exert so much effort but they get that kind of treatment.