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>People talk about how steroids allow you to lift 10 to 15% more for a given weight class, but you could potentially get as much as a 25% increase overall if they allow you to add a ton of muscle.

Interesting point. If you're 5'7 & you compete in powerlifting in some sort of 150lb class & can't gain any more weight & you're like 12% bodyfat, then you take steroids, you'll essentially drop a handful of pounds of fat & gain a handful of pounds of muscle, and maybe be 10% stronger out of it. But if you're not inhibited by a weight class & you simply let yourself grow and grow and grow, if you could somehow bench 400 naturally, (genetic freak) you could potentially be a 600lb bencher with some PED abuse + time + food.

What we should remember is that powerlifting weight class formula (wilks) makes the gains you'll make seem slightly less impressive because on any given lift, you're going to have muscular tissue sitting on your body which isn't really helping with the lift, (such as your chest, shoulders, biceps and triceps on a squat or deadlift - and even other muscles which did help but not extremely like your calves), so it's lean muscle on your body but it's kinda dead weight until you're doing a lift which involves them.

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