I recommend you watch the movie “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”. If you don’t know anything about bodybuilding competitions, how photos are taken, or the truth about fitness models and steroids, definitely check it out.
Here are some quotes from that movie:
Christian Boeving was asked what he thinks about the people who buy the supplements he promotes.
“If they choose to think that supplement is the only thing I take to make me look like that, then so be it, they should be smarter than that.”
Bodybuilders and fitness models take drugs and the images are also enhanced in Photoshop.
Here are some more interesting things you can hear in the movie “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”:
“I would say that 80-90% of what I see in magazines is nonsense”
“There are many techniques that I can use to completely manipulate the body.”
“Some before and after photos can be taken on the same day, in fact I have done it”
Whole new perspective, don’t you think?
Role models are on steroids
Photos in magazines are manipulated.
Shit, it’s all a lie!
When I first found out the truth, it has completely shaken my perception of bodybuilding.
I am happy to have done it. Because now I can see everything much clearer.
Most of the guys in the gym think they can look exactly like them. And without steroids, of course.
Guess what they start doing once they have this goal?
They buy a fitness magazine and learn all the new rules that they have to follow no matter what, and otherwise they’ll never look like their heroes.
They learn that they need to take protein during the duel, before and after training and, of course, in the middle of the night because the body is in “starvation mode”, right? We cannot forget about BCAAs, winners and creatine. And you can easily reach $200 a month just for useless supplements (other than creatine).
The best deal ever: making “useless junk” and selling it for a lot of money.
According to the Natural Products Foundation, the supplement industry contributes more than $60 billion to the US economy. I don’t think anyone can even imagine how much money that is.
Just think for a moment, how much money the supplement industries make just bundling protein, creatine, and caffeine.
(If you still think supplements are magic pills that will give you 30 pounds of muscle, look at that number again.)
Going back to the guys who are trying to put on muscle.
After a while, they really put something into the muscles (and the fat too) and it looks like it’s from the supplements.
And the years go on and on. Do you know what happens?
Oh yes, they become a “gym rat”.
The point is that everything in the bodybuilding industry today is ruled by supplement companies and professional bodybuilders who are in on the juice. And if you are not aware of it, you could end up quite badly. I hope you have a new perspective on bodybuilding and muscle building in general.
So what is the lesson of this?
Don’t take professional bodybuilders and fitness models as your role models, someone you want to look like. Why? Because you can’t look like them. It’s just not going to happen without a “little” help from steroids.
