Genetics is important! Steve's mother was once interviewed by one of the newspapers in Oakland, California before Steve became famous outside of the Bay Area and she claimed that her son never had a cold nor a cavity.
I worked with Steve a few years before he passed away ..... and even then he looked somewhat like a college athlete and would often comment about how bad he felt about the involvement of steroids with present day bodybuilders.
I also knew Steve before he became famous but he was much older than myself and he was somewht considered to be a Bay Area hero among those who lifted heavy things and he observed while I did some heavy benches and commented decently.
And when I was real young and sitting in the water along a lake-side beach he walked by, patted me on the head, and said, "Get big, kid!" before heading over to talk with my dad.
It is my personal belief that Steve was completely natural but many others disagree.
Back then ... those were the good old days when no one knew nor seemed to care about this mysterious thing called bodybuilding nor the lifting of heavy things!
And roids were unknown outside of a small number of guys within a place called York, Pa.
Many would like to argue with some of this, but these same "many" can never claim that they were physically present nor even near a place where heavy things were lifted.
And those 'times' were totally different than the world in which we live and lift today!
SORRY! I think I'm ranting!
You make some good points
And I respect what you say & believe.
Not to accuse Reeves or anyone else...
The nature of Men & very competitive men since day 1 has always been
To seek out foods / herbs / roots / & in more recent times drugs to increase
Physical performance in one way or another.
There is no way of knowing what someone’s taken without watching them 24/7
And again as we have seen in all walks of life from Presidents to Scumbags
Humans will Lie & Lie Very Convincingly when they want / have to.
For me I’m not caught up in he did / he didn’t use PE’s whatever they be.
Their either good sportsman / good physique / good person or they are not.
