Reality Check – You Can’t Look Like This Without Steroids

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.

The only honest man in baseball.

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

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

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This is not attainable without drugs.

This is not attainable without drugs.

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Clip from a movie when he admits to using steroids.

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

Posted by johnbarban in steroids
Tags: steroids |14 Comments

14 Responses to “Reality Check – You Can’t Look Like This Without Steroids”

  1. Andrew Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 7:19 am

    I’m not even sure why you’d want to. Most women I know think that being that big looks disgusting.

  2. Mark Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 9:12 am

    Hi John

    How much muscle would you say that the average person wanting to put muscle on could put on?

    I am 5 foot 10 inches and have a Ectomorph/Mesomorph Somatype.

    Best regards

    Mark

  3. johnbarban Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Tough to say as there is such limited research on this type of thing. From everything I’ve seen both scientifically and anecdotally I would say between 15-20 pounds for your life.

    This also depends on when you start training how consistent you train, somatotype (as you’ve already pointed out)…endo’s might be able to gain closer to 20, ecto’s perhaps less than 15.

    JB

  4. Robert Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Another great post, John. I purchased Adonis 1.0, Eat Stop Eat and follow you and Brad Pilon; I am, in short, a member of the ‘choir’ and yet, even now, I still find myself ‘sorta’ believing the propaganda from the supplement industry. Its important that you continue hammering away with these posts so that others may one day realize that a drug induced physique is not only ‘abnormal’ but its unattractive (according to all the research pointed out in Adonis, and talk with the average woman).

    Keep up the good work.

  5. Mark Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Thanks John.

    I’ve been following eat-stop-eat as well as turbulence training and have lost 9lbs of body fat to take me down to 148lbs.

    Im going to start Vince Delmonte’s gaining mass program shortly but I will go into it with clearer expactations than I may have done otherwise.

    Great post.

    M

    Mark

  6. Jay Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    How long have steroids been around? Did guys like sandow, atlas etc use? or are they what we can realisticly look like with training drug free?

  7. LN Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Hi John, could you take a look at this pic of fitness model Greg Plitt and tell me if he takes steroids to get that physique?

    http://i30.tinypic.com/2la54lc.jpg

    Thanks!

  8. johnbarban Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    LN,

    I’ve seen guys get as lean as this model with and without drugs. I’ve also seen guys build similar muscularity without drugs. But this is just my opinion and it’s just based on this one specific picture. I have no idea what this guy looks like in person and I can’t really comment based on one picture. Most pictures (especially professional ones like these) are heavily edited before you see them. It’s very difficult to make an assessment based off of a picture like this.

    He doesn’t look overly huge in this pic, but I’ve seen other pics of this same guy that make me question what he’s done to gain his size.

    If you’re asking because you really want to know, then track this guy down and ask him yourself. If you’re comparing your body to his…DON’T. Unless you get an answer from him directly you’ll never really know what he did to look like this (it could be 100% drug free, but we can’t be sure).

    JB

  9. johnbarban Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    Jay,

    Sandow died 10 years before testosterone was discovered. So he is all natural.

    JB

  10. Alek Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Hey John, I got a q on something I’ve not seen you talk about yet. What are the objective reasons for a guy to not use?

    My first obvious reason is legality. Ok, let’s assume you live in a country where its legal and you can just buy it like you would aspirin. What would be a guy’s objective reasons to not use?

    I’m of course talking about just minimal doses, life-round. In essence, taking minimal doses to just get that extra edge of a fitness model. To maybe just maintain 10-15 pounds more than is possible naturally. I’m also assuming you’re taking the right ancillaries for a good sex life and prevent estrogenic side-effects.

    Most of the anti-steroid reasons give are not objective at all but fear mongering. So I’d like to hear what are some objective, logical ‘why not’ reasons?

  11. Alek Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Sorry for the bolding lol. I forgot to close the tag, only meant to bolden one word, not the entire comment lol :D

  12. Oscar Says:
    February 11th, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    These men may have been on steroids but ou are so wrong about people not being able to get to that size without steroids. You obviously haven’t met anyone with the drive of 10years training and clean dieting. Steroids are not the only way. You are so wrong.

  13. Tom S Says:
    February 21st, 2012 at 4:32 am

    John:

    I appreciate you voicing your opinion with regard to steroids and what you feel one can or cannot look like with them or without them. Regarding former Army Ranger now fitness model, Greg Plitt, he has never used steroids and if you look at his first cover he did for the 2005 MHF, he was still a CPT in the Army and was still part of the Army Old Guard Infantry unit, do I have to say “Drug Tests” happen unannounced, they do, because I was in the Army for 20yrs and you can’t know when they will piss test you.

    Well, comparing that Fitness Rx January 2005 cover and his August 2011 cover for the same magazine, he has only gained up or down 10-15 pounds and increased his Arm size and a little bit bigger in shoulders, so over 7yrs, you can’t say the dude has been on roids.

    Now, other Met-Rx supplements he takes daily of course, he is a sponsered athlete. He eats HIGH PROTEIN, low carb, goes to bed on an empty stomach and really workouts 1-2hrs daily, single body parts per day, so with huge supplements, high protein, and strict diet and daily one body-part workouts, he can achieve this in 7yrs, no doubt.

    Peace,

    Tom

  14. John Says:
    February 21st, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    This article is a joke. Im a natural bodybuilder, and believe me, you can get to this size without drugs. Phaggit. 5’7″, 205lbs@ 13%BF right here. Come at me bro

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