How much muscle can you build naturally WITHOUT drugs or BOGUS supplements? Who’s on steroids and who is natural? Kinobody? Athleanx? Simeon Panda? Kali Muscle? Kai Greene? Ulisses Jr? Which of these bodybuilders are natural? Find out now in today’s article.
Even if you’ve been lifting for a while and have already layed down a pretty solid foundation of muscle, it can still be pretty challenging to get an accurate idea of what to expect as a natural.
By: Tim Ernst – Founder of Body Blitz Max, 180 Muscle and Barbell/Dumbbell Ripped Muscle Complexes
What’s actually possible?
For beginners forget about it, you’re navigating through a sea of infinite B.S. that makes it almost impossible to be able to tell how much muscle you can build as a natural lifter.
In the public View when a bodybuilder or someone that’s trying to build muscle takes steroids, they lose points for effort.
Even though any unnatural bodybuilder might have worked very hard to get to where they’re at, steroids are still looked at as cheating by the general public.
For that reason in an effort to look more credible to the public, you have a bunch of bodybuilders that are on steroids that swear that they are steroid free and achieved their physique naturally.
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Unfortunately there’s no 100% accurate way to be able to determine who achieved their physique naturally and who achieve their physique with steroids. Or is there?
I mean with some bodybuilders it’s clearly obvious no matter how much they claim that they never took steroids, you could tell these people were on steroids at least at some point.
With many people you just can’t tell and I think that this is a very important thing for you to determine because it’s the only way that you’re going to be able to set realistic goals and expectations in regard to building muscle mass.
If we’re setting goals and expectations that can only be achieved with drugs and we’re not taking those drugs then we’re going to end up being disappointed because our measurement of success is totally flawed.
Well luckily there is a way that we can figure out what’s possible while being a hundred percent natural and the only real way to do that is by going back in the past.
To be sure that we’re looking at a physique that was built naturally we have to look back to a point in time in which steroids weren’t even around.
Steroids weren’t developed until a little under a hundred years ago.
It wasn’t until the late nineteen-thirties that steroids were developed, so we have to assume that any bodybuilder that we have records of before the 1930s had a natural physique.
Eugene Sandow was one of these bodybuilders.
Eugene Sandow
He was born in 1867 and became known as the first natural bodybuilder and is now known as the father of modern bodybuilding.
At only 5 feet and 9 inches tall Sandow weighed over 200lbs, had a 48″ chest only a 30″ waist and had 18 1/2″ biceps.
That’s impressive for someone that you know had no possible access to steroids.
Edward Aston
Edward Aston was another strongman of the 1920’s and he had a one arm clean and press of 243lbs and had an excellent physique with clear visible blocky abs.
Another strongman and boxer of the time was Charles Atlas.
Charles Atlas
He was 5’10” weighed 180 pounds and had 17 inch biceps.
The last Iron man of this age that I’m going to mention today is George Hackenschmidt.
George Hackenschmidt
This guy looked a lot like modern day bodybuilders and he did it all naturally.
Measurements of his upper arm where estimated to be anywhere between 18 to 19 and a half inches. Those are some big arms for a natural bodybuilder.
Steve Holman
Now I want to talk about Steve Holman of this current age.
He’s currently 58 years old and former editor and chief of Iron Man magazine.
Here’s a message from Steve on his experience with building muscle naturally below:
"Many of you know that for 27 years I was the Editor in Chief at Iron Man magazine, a respected bodybuilding publication founded in 1936."
"That experience, along with being in shape at age 58, has many older men asking me how they can build impressive, visible muscle...
Heck, who doesn't want to feel great while looking fit, healthy and hard at age 40, 50 and beyond?"
"That's one of the big reasons I produced a new program, ANABOLIC RELOAD…"
"It's based on NEW RESEARCH that shows how to activate both slow- and fast-twitch fibers to quickly add muscle and it takes just a few minutes for each muscle group…"
"I train less than 30 minutes per workout three days a week. Oh, and I do NOT use heavy weights."
"I call the method STX: Slow-Twitch X-haustion, and it's working for me and many of my colleagues big-time…"
"No joint-crushing poundages, weird "supplements" or marathon workouts necessary…"
"If you're interested in having a tight midsection and more muscular arms stretching the sleeves of your T-shirt even as you age, please check out my new read-me page…"
So all these guys achieved some pretty amazing results for being completely natural.
This was also during a Time in which not much was known about bodybuilding.
These people didn’t know how to set up a bulking program they didn’t know how to set up their Macros, they probably didn’t even know about macros.
They didn’t have access to the abundance and variety of food that we have access to today.
They grew up in a time where very little was known about nutrition and fat was demonized and believed to be the cause of weight gain.
They didn’t have a local GNC or Vitamin Shoppe, yet they all got outstanding results in a time that we know steroids weren’t around.
So based on this it’s pretty obvious that today with all the abundance of information available on bodybuilding and the availability of over the counter creatine, protein powders, and access to supermarkets stocked with all the food you’ll need… it’s pretty obvious that you can get really far as a natural lifter.
The strongmen that I used in the examples today were just a few of the many successful natural bodybuilders in an era before steroids.
I see a lot of guys making steroid accusations at people just because they have a great physique.
Just because your physique isn’t as good as someone else’s doesn’t mean that they took steroids to get there.
It doesn’t mean that they got there just because of naturally good genetics even though sometimes this is the case.
I think the steroid accusations are used by many people to justify why they’re not in the kind of shape that they want to be.
Instead of taking the steps necessary and putting in the hard work necessary to achieve that kind of physique, It’s a lot easier to just sit there and say that the only way to look muscular and instead like is by taking steroids.
That’s clearly not the case as I demonstrated in today’s article.
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Many of these guys that I talked about today had very aesthetic physiques and a time before steroids and in a time with very little knowledge about nutrition and bodybuilding.
Bottom line is don’t limit yourself, you can achieve a lot of muscle naturally but you’ll never achieve a lot if you set limits and boundaries in your own mind.
That’s it guys I really hope you enjoyed this article. Make sure you leave a comment below.
What’s Next?
Yale hospital surgeon John Elefteriades recently went on record saying lifting heavy weights can KILL you…It’s been shown to cause tears in your aorta…
Leading to high blood pressure, heart failure, aneurysms, and sudden death. I wish I was lying… but it’s true.
And needs to be taken seriously…
Especially as you get older and your heart becomes weaker naturally with age…
I recommend lifting weights like this instead.
Listen. Unless you’re a competitive power-lifter… or trying to be the next “World’s Strongest Man”… you don’t have to lift heavy weights for a powerful physique.
Sure, it’s one way of doing it… yet it’s very high risk and dangerous.
Which is why if you want to build muscle… and get JACKED safely and quickly WITHOUT lifting heavy weights… you’ll want to check this out.
