Youre right McWay. TONS of people are on the gas, yet still look like shit. They dont want to do the work.
The stuff they seem to ignore = Hard training, consistent, rest, food/diet, etc.
While some (few) folks can look at a barbel and syringe and blow up, MOST have to do it all to see results.
Very hard work and for decades. Especially the natural folks...
Like I said, there is a biohazard bin at one of my gyms. It is Loaded with needles and syringes. Filled to the brim, and constantly emptied, then filled again.
People must be shooting roids in the bathroom stall where it's located. I guess these morons think roids are like a pre-workout supplement or something.
Anyway...
I've only seen one person in that whole facility in better shape than me since it reopened in late March. I know I'm around 16% body fat [which many people confuse for 12% - since people have no idea how to visually assess it], but you'd think with the number of people using juice based on how many needles are disposed of, that someone would look like it.
Looking around, I literally can't identify one person who would be using.
There are some people there who look ok...but nobody looks like they are on steroids, IMO.
From what I can tell, most people are training appropriately. If I had to guess, people have horrible diets and/or are using or abusing alcohol.
My deficit has always been diet. My training is more or less sound.
I'm just of the mindset that caloric restriction is very healthy. Whenever I follow a high protein / high calorie bodybuilding diet, I worry that I am damaging my kidneys and pancreas, etc.
I am a pretty big health nut. One of the top Strongmen in my city recently had open heart surgery. It's utterly delusional that people think bodybuilding is remotely healthy. I just know how I am - if I commit to a proper bodybuilding diet, even a natural one, my health will NOT improve. It almost definitely will decline...
Think about it this way: Brian Shaw will be dead in 10 years. Is it REALLY worth it to get the accomplishments he has, if it means death by 50?
I think the best thing for me would be to see if I could reach 10% body fat at maybe 170-lb. That may be doable...but I'm also 40. I'm not confident that is necessarily realistic. At least not naturally. But I think that goal is a lot healthier than bulking up to 200 or more naturally.
I also do prefer my current look at 205, but clothes aren't fitting as well, and I can't even scratch my back like I used to.
I can't even imagine how 300-lb bodybuilders feel like. Can they even wipe their asses?
