Excellent thread.
So we can agree on a few things:
1) We have a healthy black male, who has built a huge amount of muscle from hundreds of hours of work in the gym, and taking huge amounts of supplements and gear.
2) Without the gear, he lost all of this within a relatively short period of time. (In fact, if he stood in line in front of you at McDonalds, you wouldn't notice him.)
Summary: The temporary strength and growth from drugs quickly subsides, even for a healthy male, who was ordinarily in good shape anyway.
Levone is unusual in that his ego is such that he can photograph himself completely off-cycle.