No you're just as wrong as gh15 I know for a fact that steroids wern't produced and used in the United States until bare minimum 1956
and I'll accept you're apology when you're man enough to give it.
Again what would he have to lie about assuming he did use? steroids when first released were NOT Illegal why lie? would it ruin his reputationor tarnish his legend ? it didn't for Bill Pearl or Arnold Schwarzenegger so why would it for him? most of the bodybuilders of the 60/70/80s all have admited their use , hell pros on this very board admit thier use. he has no need what to lie what so ever.
When you put Reeves into prospective and what little knowlege , equipment , and supplements and his build he was damn near as perfect as it gets. show me one single bodybuilder in this day and age with 18" 1/2" arms/neck/calves , show me one bodybuilder who stands 6'1" and weighed just 215lbs with a 52" chest and a 29" waist and good luck because you're going to need it. when people dismiss Reeves as nothing special all they're doing is showing their ignorance of bodybuilding history.
History of Steroid UseHumans are a naturally competitive species. As long as we have had sports to compete in, athletes have tried all kinds of things to be the best. Athletes have used various substances and potions to improve athletic performance since the beginning of civilization. The ancient Greeks ate sesame seeds, the Australian aborigines chewed the pituri plant, Norse warriors ate hallucinogenic mushrooms, and ancient cultures around the world had similar traditions.
In the 1860s, a group of swimmers in Amsterdam were charged with taking drugs to speed up their races. For the next 80 years or so, athletes who wanted to cheat focused mostly on stimulants to speed themselves up.
In 1935, the male hormone testosterone was first synthesized. During World War II, German soldiers were reportedly given testosterone to increase their performance and aggressiveness on the battlefield.
In the 1940s testosterone began to be widely used in competitive sports, but the dangers of loading up on testosterone were not yet clear. In the 1952 Olympics, the Russian weightlifting and wrestling teams dominated those sports, at least in part due to synthetic testosterone.
Scientists all over the world worked to formulate better performance-enhancing drugs during the 1950s and beyond. Still, in the early days, there was not much awareness of the dangers such substances could pose to users.
In the 1920s and 1930s, experimentation culminated in the discovery of testosterone. In 1918, Leo L. Stanley, resident physician of San Quentin State Prison in California, transplanted testicles removed from recently executed prisoners into inmates, some of whom claimed that they recovered sexual potency. In 1920, a lack of human material led to the substitution of boar, deer, goat, and ram testes. In the 1920s, Russian–French surgeon Serge Voronoff made a fortune transplanting monkey glands into aging men. Throughout this period, researchers tested the androgenic effects of substances isolated from large quantities of animal testicles and from human urine. (Adolf Butenandt isolated milligram amounts of androsterone from 15,000 L of policemen’s urine.) Finally, Karoly G. David, Ernst Laqueur, and colleagues isolated crystalline testosterone from testicles and published the results in 1935. Within a few months, groups led by Butenandt and G. Hanisch (funded by Schering Corp. in Berlin), and Leopold Ruzicka and A. Wettstein of Ciba, developed synthetic methods of preparing testosterone. Butenandt and Ruzicka shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this achievement.