Muscle Maturity

[Bodycount69]

Does anyone think that there is a direct correlation between Anabolic Steroid Use and Muscle Maturity? Do you think that maybe Steroids speed up the process?

[Arnold jr]

Does anyone think that there is a direct correlation between Anabolic Steroid Use and Muscle Maturity? Do you think that maybe Steroids speed up the process?

I don't think so...nothing on earth can replace muscle that has been there for an extended period of time...it's an entire differant look IMO.

[trab]

Good question. Look @ Coleman & Yates.  Now look at Cutler.
I think heavier weight also creates a quality all its own.
Theres just some difference thats hard to describe.

[Luolamies]

Very true, i think Yates especially had pretty good muscle maturity.

[freakfestMD]

I don't think so...nothing on earth can replace muscle that has been there for an extended period of time...it's an entire differant look IMO.

I totally agree.  Younger guys who literally juiced their way to the top just don't carry that same grainy, complete look.  Their physique lacks the foundation that only years of gut-wrenching, barrier-blasting, heavy lifting can provide.  It's even more evident when they are in the "off-season".

[trab]

"Grainy"- Thats it, in a word - by FreakMD.
Basically it's Tortured muscle.  Tattooed in pure pain by iron, oozing from the insideout.

[freakfestMD]

Basically it's Tortured muscle.  Tattooed in pure pain by iron, oozing from the insideout.

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[!@#$%]

Yates only had been training for 6 years when he won his first O, so he didn't really have muscle maturity. When I think of muscle maturity, I think of Lee Priest's shoulders, Jay Cutler's Legs and Ronnie Coleman's traps. They have that really solid outline with excellent muscle separation, but the actual muscle fibers are no more or less grainy than the rest of their bodies.

Just my understanding of muscle maturity. As I get older, it is muscle separation that becomes easier to achieve, there is no difference in the quality of the muscle and size becomes harder to gain and maintain.