In the past 7-10 years there has been an explosion of live action comic book super hero movies, and I’m loving it!

Which one looks more impressive?

But the celebrities that are chosen to play the super heroes never quite measure up to the expectations I have in my mind.

Many guys who grew up reading comic books (or even glanced through them from time to time) have an idea of what they think a super hero should look like…and they’re always larger than life.

Believe it or not some guys actually set these cartoon images of their favorite super hero as their mental image of the ideal body. This of course is a completely unrealistic ideal but it’s part of what drives some guys to use steroids…the need to be something special/bigger/different/to stand out in a crowd.

This is partly why many of us are left unimpressed when we see a celebrity depicting the image of our favorite hero.

Hugh Jackman is in great shape and was a great pic for wolverine, but have a look at the picture above comparing the cartoon image of wolverine to Jackman…

A real person with a realistic body is never as impressive as what a cartoonist can do.

Superheroes are just supposed to be different, larger than life…so unless every superhero is computer generated we’ll have to go with what hollywood has to offer.

I suppose we have to look at these movies with the following mindset: “This is what wolverine (or any superhero) might have looked like if he were a real person”

John

Here is a good comparison picture of Eugen Sandow vs Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Eugen Sandow is known as the first real bodybuilder and gained international fame for doing the first bodybuilding style poses for crowds of people. The interesting thing is that he died 10 years before testosterone was discovered…so you know he could have never used steroids.

Eugen Sandow vs Arnold Schwarzenegger

During his time Sandow was considered one of the biggest and best built men in the world, he was the gold standard for bodybuilding before testosterone was discovered. As soon as testosterone was discovered and steroids were being dosed in people Arnold became the new gold standard. I’m sure the sheer size of Arnold vs Sandow just goes to show you how much of a difference drugs can make.

Basically these pictures show you what the gold standard for a muscular body was before and after the discovery of steroids.

Eugen Sandow was the real deal and a body size that can be attained without steroids…on the other hand here are some examples of the type of size that can only be built using steroids: Steroid Muscle

John

Here are a few pictures of people who have admitted to using steroids. If you think you can look like these guys without steroids…you’re wrong. If any of these guys are the type of muscle size you want, then you gotta do what they did to get there. I’ve included a couple before an after to show you how dramatic of a change Canseco and McGwire had.

The only honest man in baseball.

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Wouldn't admit it until now...who was he fooling?

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This is not attainable without drugs.

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Clip from a movie when he admits to using steroids.

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Take a good look at each guy.

And lets be clear. You cannot look like any of these guys without using drugs.

If you thought you could then you’re mistaken.

Each of these guys has publicly admitted to using steroids.

If you still want to look like these guys, then you need to find a local steroid dealer…end of story.

Have a great Saturday!

John

I was having a recent discussion with someone about building muscle and the limits to this process. As usual they were shocked and a bit taken back when I said that muscle growth is very strictly limited.

This is Just Hard Work in the Gym...yeah right!

I’m not suggesting that muscle growth through weight training isn’t possible. I’m suggesting that it is more limited than we are lead to believe.

To add to that I am also suggesting that 2-3 pounds of actual muscle growth looks very big and it’s not realistic or necessary to set a goal of building 20 or 30 pounds of muscle.

It would seem that athletes, bodybuilders, celebrities and fitness models are the images and ideals’ many guys look at for their image of the body they want to build.

So is this a realistic image to have?

Lets do a quick inventory of public figures we know have been caught or suspected of using steroids,GH, or some other banned performance enhancing drugs:

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sylvester Stallone

Hulk Hogan (and probably 90% of all wrestlers)

All professional or national level bodybuilders (this includes the women)

99% of all amateur bodybuilders

Most fitness models

Mark McGwire

Jose Canseco

Alex Rodriguez

Jason Giambi

Ken Caminiti

Rafael Palmeiro

Barry Bonds

Roger Clemens

Bill Romanowski

Shawne Merriman

So if the size and look of any of these guys is something that you were using as your ideal (but you don’t want to use drugs) then you’ll have to find another ideal…a much smaller one.

And if you are using any other guy who is of a similar size to these guys, it’s a good bet they are also using drugs…once again, you gotta find a different model.

My point is this:

If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck…it’s probably a duck.

If a guy looks as big as Arnold or McGwire or Canseco, they probably did the same things to get there (that means they did steroids)

If this is how big you want to be, then you have to use drugs to get there.

I’m not making a moral statement, I couldn’t care less if you choose to use drugs or not. In fact I have many good friends who use copious amounts of steroids and they’re perfectly happy to use them and they don’t hide it. They’re just happy being really really big.

Just be honest with yourself.

If your goal is massive hulking muscle size, then the only way to do it is with steroids.

If your goal is a classy looking muscular physique, then you can most certainly do that naturally.

John

Mark McGwire finally admitted he uses steroids for a period of 10 years.

This is hardly surprising considering how big this guy was. Have a look at this picture. If you want to look like this, then you need to use drugs.

You can't get an arm this big without drugs, and he admitted it!

This is part of the reason so many guys get caught up in the trap of trying to be bigger and never getting there. Many guys will look to sports figures such as McGwire or Bonds, or some other pro athlete and assume that it is possible to get to the same size without drugs.

If you don’t know these guys personally you will never know if they are taking drugs or not.

I’d guess that most major league baseball players who are in any sort of shape that people look up to are on some kind of performance enhancing drugs.

We’ve seen a bunch of them get busted now including McGwire, A-Rod, Palmeiro, Clemens, Sosa and on and on.

You’d have to be pretty naive to think these guys were the only guys who did it and that the rest of them are ‘clean’.

It seems logical to conclude that if these guys did them, then that is simply what it takes to compete at the major league level, and by default most guys who are excelling at that level are also using.

And this is just baseball. I would guess that most of the NFL and NCAA football players are also using many different drugs considering they have hundreds of guys as big or bigger than McGwire.

The bottom line is that it’s rather obvious that most of the fitness models, bodybuilders, pro athletes (and even some celebrities) are using drugs or other items to enhance their body.

If you seriously want to look like them you also have to be prepared to do what they’re doing to get that look.

The choice is yours to make.

John