If you go to a gym, there is a pretty good chance that there is a bodybuilder 'Guruji' trainer you always see. He is hailed by everyone in the gym as the muscle building Guru and every kid in the gym would be asking him hundreds of questions to look buff like him.

If you approach the Guruji, he will first ask you to become his personal training client. Until you do that, all the muscle building secrets are hidden. Once you decide to take the plunge, he makes you do questionable-looking workouts and puts you on the classic one-body-part-a-day routine.

Then, you will be told to follow a diet with boiled chicken, fish, veggies, egg whites, oats, sweet potato etc. He will make you grind and kill your tastebuds a slow painful death for months.

Then the secret formula of building muscle will come into the picture. He will give you a pack of pills (most of the times the label will be stripped off) called Dianabol.

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The Guruji will say that these are simply vitamin pills that every guy in the gym uses to build muscle. It is very normal and very safe to consume it. Just have a pill every 2-3 hours in a day and consume 3 to 5 pills, he'll say to you convincingly.

As you have already been doing whatever your guruji has been asking you to do for a few months and you blindly trust him, you hop on to the plan. Within a couple of weeks you see the following benefits:

1. Increased strength

2. Increased muscularity

3. Better performance at the gym

4. Some fat loss

5. Better recovery

6. Less fatigue

Your happiness is unbound and you feel like an alpha in the gym as you get stronger, look bigger and the magic vitamin given to you by your Guruji starts to show wonders.

This goes on for a few weeks, then you see something unusual happening to you. You may experience some of these symptoms:

1. Some hair loss happening

2. You start looking fluffy due to water retention

3. Boils appearing on your back

4. Some acne on your face

5. Your chest is looking fatty

You get worried and rush to your Guruji and he tells you to stop using the pills for some time and assures you that you'll be back to normal.

You do that and all of a sudden, these strength and muscle gains start to disappear and you are further stressed or depressed that all your work is going down the drain.

You want to start popping the magic vitamin all over again but do not want the side effects. 

Well, now let's get to the point. If you or any of your friend has been given this magic vitamin pill that is small and blue and probably in the shape of a heart, it is not a freaking vitamin. 

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This pill is an anabolic steroid as is illegal to use and banned for sales in most countries across the world. Steroids have a lot of side effects internally like liver damage, kidney damage, heart health, etc.

This blue pill can potentially kill your insides and have you on corrective treatments or medication for a lifetime due to your sheer short-term stupidity.

If someone promises you a quick magic pill for muscle gain and losing fat, it is most probably a terrible idea and unsafe.

Bottom line: Stop trusting your gym Gurujis blindly.

Author Bio:

Pratik Thakkar is the co-founder and director of GetSetGo Fitness, an online fitness company and the founder of Mars Nutrition, a nutrition supplement company. Both his companies are geared towards providing you with the right information and products without any false or fake claims. You can reach out to him at pratik@getsetgo.fitness and follow him on Instagram.