@Phlog @Contempt would you recommend ostarine to a novice lifter who hasn't fully made his noob gains yet? will it accelerate how quickly I make those gains?
Absolutely not. For several reasons:
Firstly you should be really sure as to why you're going to take a research chemical without a many decade cohort of users to determine the long term effects. It's got to be really important to you. As a novice lifter you don't know yet how important it will be to you, if you give up in a year it was a total waste taking something.
Secondly there is a very real psychological effect from taking performance enhancing drugs. It's real hard to develop the discipline to work out ,every week, forever. If you take a PED and enjoy an almost visible improvement in muscle density/mass and fat loss you will find it drastically more difficult to be motivated when not on the substance. You get trapped in cycles of training and substances and you begin living in an unsustainable model. It's hard enough dealing with this after years of natural lifting.
Personally I used it because I wanted to recover from a bone break quicker and better so as to return to my football program quicker. Then my motivation was to use it to maintain my competitive ability, with fucked knee tendons, playing as a offensive tackle against the most athletic individuals on the defence with them regularly being just over half my age.
Were I lifting for aesthetics, or were I in my 20's I would absolutely not take a PED. My lifting buddy wanted to try ostarine and had an adverse reaction (low energy, tried it 3 times, same result), he's in his 40's, I asked him why not try testosterone as we have vastly more data about its relative risk from people using it for decades.
Rambling but I hope that answers you a bit.