Ill receive shit for this no doubt, but fuck it.
Bro-4-tits: I don't think your physique is unattainable naturally. My best pics I've posted here from my natty days way back before last year were all shitted on as a juiced physique. Fact is I was literally 50lbs lighter than I am now. For the most part all my best natty pics were taken at the perfect times: low carb for a few days, a huge carb up meal, and then take a pic after a chest workout = illusion at its finest.
Honestly my most impressive pics to this day are still from my natty days. I look monstrously bigger now in clothes but the fact is I haven't been 4% shredded again since then, so my pics now are unimpressive (to me personally.)
I was like you though prior to gear: for 6 years straight I was religiously dedicated to my diet and training. I had decent Italian genetics like you, nothing elite though, nothing like the black dudes that would roll through my gym fresh outta prison and look like mini Ronnie Coleman's. I'm with you regarding having a foundation; when I was natty I was making Gains consistently every year for 5 years. When I come "off" now, on my WORST day, I look like a really really good natural competitor. I don't look like a dude who's never been In a gym before like Sev. That fact alone proves to me the importance of building a foundation. I NEVED want to look like Sev when I'm off cycle. Fuck that I worked too hard for all these years to waste away to pure tiny tit status.
I look at go-4-it's physique and think it looks pretty damn good but it's not unbelievable. I've trained with some true natties, who have more development and equal conditioning as him (including myself as a natty before gear.) Now unless someone is saying that since I was truly natty, that I have the greatest genetics on earth (which is utter horseshit), then go 4 it's physique is absolutely achievable. Is fucking pathetic if a guy can't reach 175lbs without gear.
Even now on gear, there's guys that see me pumped up and swear I'm on 2-3g a week of shit, and call me a liar when I tell them I've never even seen 1g because it scares the hell outta me taking more thn that. At this point I just say fuck it, let people say whatever they want. I'm 25 years old now, I cared more when I was younger but now I could care less. You're never gonna win everybody.