My personal trainer is quite big in the fitness world, so I met a lot of fitness personalities over the last year, including YouTubers like Christian Guzman, Heidi Somers, Nick Bare, Ben Francis, Conor Murphy and some of the OGs like Rich Piana (RIP) and Jay Cutler etc. A few pro crossfitters as well, Josh Bridges, Ross Edgley. They turn up to events like LA Fit Expo and the Arnold Classics.
Anyway, one of the things my trainer told me in confidence is that pretty much all of them juice. Steroids or other performance enhancing drugs. In every competitive category of any sport, people use them. One of his former clients was an archer, guy abused the shit out of Diazepam.
I'm like, "you mean those things you would have Solid Snake take to steady his aim for a snipe in Metal Gear Solid?" Yes, apparently, one and the same.
But it doesn't stop there. All these YouTubers are selling meal plans and online coaching packages so that millions of hopefuls can one day look like them...and they won't. I mean not unless they also buy the REAL shit that gets them to some ridiculous numbers like 4% bodyfat at 210lbs on a 5'10 frame.
I get it. When sponsorships and money are on the line, people are gonna cheat. But the other day, my friend's little brother (age 16) was like, "man have you seen this guy ross edgley? he does marathons back to back and he's huge and ripped and bla bla bla. i'm gonna buy his book and go to the next convention he shows up to near me." so i had to sit the poor kid down and proceed to slowly but surely crush his whole world over the next 30 minutes.
so what about drug-testing? pretty much all sports have some kind of anti-doping agency keeping tabs yea?
of course, but that's all just for show as well. they are SO easy to get around it's not even funny. As a matter of fact, if you get caught, it'll only be because you're a complete and utter idiot (looking at you Russian Olympic team).
the associations that put on big shows will let competitors know (wink, wink) ahead of time about the testing. look at MuscleMania. I was at one recently in Singapore, this guy they call the Korean hulk was a guest judge but the dude is not a natural bodybuilder by any stretch of the imagination. the event, btw, was billed as an all-natural competition. Not a single competitor there, including the women, were natural. They just knew how to cycle off their steroid regimen in time to maintain the gains but not test positive.
Lance freaking Armstrong was tested more than any other athlete and never once failed a test and even his own former teammates ratted him out for using PEDs at the cost of revealing that they too were users. As the industry saying goes, "there's no such thing as a drug test...only an IQ test."
If you didn't know any of this shit, and you've been in the gym for years eating clean and tracking your macros and wondering why you don't look like these guys, this is why. hope this has helped some of you guys, especially if you've been beating your head against a wall for awhile. talk to a fitness industry veteran who you can trust and who trusts you. gyms make no money...it's gym bros selling tren, deca, prop, cyp, a-50s to one another where the real business model is.
Anyway, one of the things my trainer told me in confidence is that pretty much all of them juice. Steroids or other performance enhancing drugs. In every competitive category of any sport, people use them. One of his former clients was an archer, guy abused the shit out of Diazepam.
I'm like, "you mean those things you would have Solid Snake take to steady his aim for a snipe in Metal Gear Solid?" Yes, apparently, one and the same.
But it doesn't stop there. All these YouTubers are selling meal plans and online coaching packages so that millions of hopefuls can one day look like them...and they won't. I mean not unless they also buy the REAL shit that gets them to some ridiculous numbers like 4% bodyfat at 210lbs on a 5'10 frame.
I get it. When sponsorships and money are on the line, people are gonna cheat. But the other day, my friend's little brother (age 16) was like, "man have you seen this guy ross edgley? he does marathons back to back and he's huge and ripped and bla bla bla. i'm gonna buy his book and go to the next convention he shows up to near me." so i had to sit the poor kid down and proceed to slowly but surely crush his whole world over the next 30 minutes.
so what about drug-testing? pretty much all sports have some kind of anti-doping agency keeping tabs yea?
of course, but that's all just for show as well. they are SO easy to get around it's not even funny. As a matter of fact, if you get caught, it'll only be because you're a complete and utter idiot (looking at you Russian Olympic team).
the associations that put on big shows will let competitors know (wink, wink) ahead of time about the testing. look at MuscleMania. I was at one recently in Singapore, this guy they call the Korean hulk was a guest judge but the dude is not a natural bodybuilder by any stretch of the imagination. the event, btw, was billed as an all-natural competition. Not a single competitor there, including the women, were natural. They just knew how to cycle off their steroid regimen in time to maintain the gains but not test positive.
Lance freaking Armstrong was tested more than any other athlete and never once failed a test and even his own former teammates ratted him out for using PEDs at the cost of revealing that they too were users. As the industry saying goes, "there's no such thing as a drug test...only an IQ test."
If you didn't know any of this shit, and you've been in the gym for years eating clean and tracking your macros and wondering why you don't look like these guys, this is why. hope this has helped some of you guys, especially if you've been beating your head against a wall for awhile. talk to a fitness industry veteran who you can trust and who trusts you. gyms make no money...it's gym bros selling tren, deca, prop, cyp, a-50s to one another where the real business model is.