It's not so hard to believe that Skip LaCour or Jeff Willet are natural, they both compete around 200 lbs. Skip, the larger of the two was 205 lbs at 5'10'' at his last contest... hardly mass monster territory.
200 lbs is achieveable for a natural, I'm natural and 220 lbs... granted, only about 180 of that is muscle, but remember I'm only 5'5''. That's only about 30 lbs of muscle away from David Henry/Lee Priest/Lee Labrada territory. Lacour and Willet are similarly about 40 lbs away from being roid-monkey big.
The Luke
...dude, this is the point we're trying to make....LOTS of natural trainers can be big and hold fat (sorry, but surely you realize 30 pounds of fat on a 5 foot 5 guy is not going to look like Skip LaCour or any other known bb'er).
It's where you can get big and RIPPED where the drugs come in, for cheating naturals. Skip is simply not natural, neither is that other guy. How can you look at those photos and not see this?
I'm not knocking em. They train hard, but they're NOT naturals. They've used somthing to help the process. Those with their heads in the sand will simply keep them there....but when you've seen some seriously gifted guys train, train yourself, and see what can and can't be done then you've GOT to question!
Skip and Willett have simply marketed themselves to the small market of 'believers' and taken just enough to look big, but not outrageously big. They're still far bigger and ripped than MANY, MANY natural trainers out there!
And remember people...200 pounds "not that big"? Please! At their heights, recall that many Mr O competitors in the 70's were competing around that weight ...and looking HUGE! And they were JUICED!
What is it that people just can't accept about this? It's hardly difficult to comprehend.
Do you REALLY need some shining idol who lies about his drug use to give you a reason to train naturally? If so, then that's really SAD. I'd like to think most of us here train hard, and those that do it naturally certainly know by now what's realistic. And these two AREN'T....I don't care how much AST pays em to say so! And by the way, who the fuck uses AST supps anyway?
SAD.