First of all try 1935. Get your facts straight before you start the proverbial dick sucking of Marvin Eder. Secondly, just what do you think test and dbol were going for back then? Give me a fucking break. I love the people who come on here who are so holier than thou thinking no one took gear back in the 40's and 50's. You're the same type of douche who probably thinks Bonds never used any gear either. It was purely a balm for arthritis..lolololol...o h lord...what a daisy chain you are... I bet you have this black and white taped to your bedroom door.....
The irony of you telling someone to get their facts straight all the while you offer NO facts what so ever , you are like the other ignorant idiot pumpster
Scientists in Nazi Germany first isolated testosterone in the 1930s by distilling 15,000 liters of urine collected from German police officers. They later synthesized it in the lab. In early animal tests, injections of testosterone restored vitality in castrated roosters.Now there is anecdotal evidence that toward the end of World War II the Nazi's were giving test to their troops but again thats hersay and lets entertain that they did that doesn't mean anything for American bodybuilding , the Story goes after Russia took over Germany they expanded on the German's research and started giving their athletes artificial test and they were cleaning up at the Olympics and World Games
Enter Dr John Ziegler who learned of this after getting the Russian weightlifting drunk at the World games in 1954 , upon his return to the USA will working for Ciba labs he made the worlds first oral steroid Dianbol I believe in 1956 and started giving to guys at the York gym soon after , one of the very first people to take D-bol was weighlifter Bill March in 1959 !! and the does he was on was just 15 Miligrams per day
And Ziegler first started testing on WEIGHTLIFERS exclusively at York because bodybuilding was viewed inferior to weightlifting the earliest I've heard of bodybuilders taking steroids is around 1960 the absolute earliest and in such low doses they wouldn't have had the profound effect you see today
So I always get a laugh at ignorant people who claim they have some inside information about drug use in the 40s and 50s and even in the 1930s lol Steroids didn't make their way into this country until the very late 50s and bodybuilders didn't start using them until the earliest 1960
There was a time when bodybuilding was a HEALTHY and NATURAL sport before drugs tainted it , this was Steve Reeves time , Bill Pearl's time , Marvin Eder's time , Reg Park etc
It reminds me of something Reeves once said about in his time there was NEVER a distinction between bodybuilding and drug-free ! this sport used to be pure thats why its known as the Golden age .