Have there been any objective determinations made about pro bodybuilders getting big guts? Is it just a part of muscle-building, in that as you get bigger and eat so much food [etc] that you invariably get a bigger stomach that grows as a result of all that, or is it specifically a matter of human growth hormone [HGH] making the organs get larger, along with the muscles?
Because bodybuilders were still fairly massive in the late 1980's, but it looks to me that the big guts didn't really show up until Dorian's era, which is probably correspondent with HGH use becoming more common in bodybuilding. So I'm curious if it's a bodybuilding thing, or specifically HGH-related.
Think about it for a minute. An AIDS/HIV patient is taking 15-18 ius a day. They do so for years with any stomach or organ growth.
You ever eat and drink so much that your stomach makes you look like you're pregnant? Of course, you did. I did so a few days ago: 50 ounces of Sprite, a beef curry plate lunch with two scoops of rice and macaroni salad, one of those Cinnabums (which are huge and cost $5 a piece), a hot fudge sundae with three scoops of ice cream... It took me about 50 minutes to eat all this and it was the soda that really expanded my stomach so it started to hurt being stretch out so much. Imagine if I did this on a regular basis? Constantly stretching out the abdominal wall and the stomach organ? Haven't you notice that MOST men over forty have protruding guts? Even if they have skinny arms and legs they have that bubble gut. They do no bbing or HGH. I doubt that many of those fatsos eat as much as a competitive bber but they're always stuffing their face. Next time you are at a food court just look at what normal people are eating. Multiply that by 3 for a bber.
There's a big difference between 5'10" 225-240 bbers from back in the day and the 275-300 pounders of today. Lee Haney was 5'11" and 230 pounds when he first won the Olympia and he was considered huge. One of the biggest onstage. Now it's routine for some of that height to be 275 lbs onstage and 300 lbs offseason has almost become the norm. 300 POUNDS! That takes a lot of eating. Your stomach is naturally only so big. BBers are force-feeding themselves for years.
Look at a lot of bbers once they retire. Dorian has often been accused as being one of the first to abuse HGH and insulin and when he got over 300 lbs his gut was huge. Even later in his career, he was getting that gut. But now it's gone.
You take 15-20 ius of GH a day like HIV patients do but if you don't stuff yourself you are not going to get a big gut. You don't even have to touch GH but if you eat like a fat pig for years on end you will get a big, fat, bubble gut like the majority of the middle age men
in first world prosperous countries.
