There was a time, up to the mid 80s, when top amateur and pro bodybuilders would take one ampoule of Sustanon a week. That is 250 mg of testosterone. The most they would take was two Sustanon with one Deca a week. And...that was huge!! They would also never take orals with testosterone as it was considered overkill and too harsh on the kidneys and liver. It was 2 Sustanon and 1 Deca a week, or 40 mg of D-bal a day and 300 mg of Primobolan a week. Those were the drug protocols up to the mid 1980s. They resulted in the typical very high quality physiques at between 200 to 230 lbs for your typical 5'10 tall pro bodybuilder, with superb taper, great muscle density and extreme definition that we simply don't see today
After 1984, they found out that you got a bigger bang for your buck by just taking more testosterone with no Deca or primobolan instead of less testosterone with Deca and Primobolan. So the doses of test increased to a minimum of 1,000 mg a week to a maximum of 2,500 mg. They also started to use GH, which up to that point was not very used because it was extracted from cadavers which made it very expensive and carried the risk of contamination by bacteria and viruses. The introduction or recombinant GH allowed pro bodybuilders to use GH en masse for the very first time. The combination of the higher doses of testosterone with GH caused a significant size increase for pro boydubilders, who then started to step onstage at bodyweights between 230 to 260 lbs for your average 5'10 pro bodybuilder, when before that only pros over 6'3, like Lou Ferrigno, would compete at that weight. The size gain came at the cost of less muscular definition, since too much testosterone causes water retention that even diuretics cannot take out, and also the start of enlarged guts, since GH causes the intestines and stomach walls to increase in size. The increase in gut size was not like that what we see today, but it was definitely something that Larry Scott would find unseemly.
Then, around 1995, insulin and IGF-1 were introduced to bodybuilding. The very first bodybuilders to use insulin were Michael Francois, Aaron Baker, Jean-Pierre Fux and Nasser in 1994, in an attempt to compete with Yates in the size department, since he was the first bodybuilder of average height to carry a legitimate 260 lbs package. However, even though the first insulin users started taking it in 1994, it was in the next year that pros jumped the shark and took it to the next level. The result was that the average bodybweight at the 1994 Olympia was 235 lbs, but next year it increased to 260 lbs. The introduction of insulin to add to multi-gram testosterone and GH caused yet another size jump for bodybuilders, allowing 5'10 pros to step onstage at bodyweights between 260 to 290 lbs with barely a sight of fat in their entire bodies. The size gain came with an even greater loss of quality, as insulin causes edema even greater than testosterone blurring muscular definition, resulting in those Jay Cutler-like muscles that are huge but with barely a line on them. However, the greatest loss in muscle quality came in the form of abdominal distension, as when insulin is combined with GH, it results in a synergistic effect where the intestines start to grow like crazy, making a 2% bodyfat man look like he is obese. The frame of an average 5'10 man with average sized bones was simply not designed to carry 290 lbs at 3% bodyfat. It simply isn't. That is the kind of lean body mass that only a 6'10 giant with huge bones can carry without looking completely discombolulated...
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