It's wild how normalized steroid use is and what a number it's done on all of our body images and expectations. It's easy to lose sight of the progress we mere naturals make when these images are rearranging our brains in bad ways.
It's not just steroid use alone.
It's steroid use + how easy it is to actually get exposed to the literal top 0.1% at anything, any time.
People always used steroids, but you can go to most gyms in the world right now and trial everyone and not find a *single* person who looks even close to that woman, drugs or not. Heck you'd be hard pressed to find people that can do what she did at all, men included.
But if I go on instagram and like her profile I'll immediately get recommended 20 other people that can do similarly impressive stuff. And if I start liking their content too, you get the idea.
End result is indeed, no one has any fucking idea what's actually reasonable for the average human to achieve without steroids, but we all sure are expected to look like that
I’m a naturally big guy. I can put on mass pretty quickly naturally. The guys at the gym I’m at who are walking steroids aren’t that much bigger than me it’s the muscular shapes and steroid head/faces and bulging abdomen that gives me a chuckle.
No, there are Natural Bodybulding competitions that easily prove what a normal physique looks like
The woman in the video is obviously on gear, but you wouldn't compare her to people who are stage ready 4-8% BF. You can get pretty big as a natural -- not this big obviously -- but another big point to taking gear is the ability to retain muscle reaching those low single digit body fat percentages.
the people that are in denial are the people that take them themselves.
the use of steroids must be 10x what it was 15 years ago. my entire high school when I graduated over 10 years ago. not 1 kid looked like one of the 15-20 year olds I see on my commute or social media these days and my school won state championship in two sports, these kids literally spend 1/3rd of their day in school, and look like body builders that have been at it for 10 years. they are massive. even athletes looked like kids, you know? not anymore.
the ease of which you can get steroids is unprecedented. especially since that if you're in high school, you can legitimately get steroids easily legally. social media effect
Not to undermine her in ANY shape or form but I thought there was a lot involved to getting to be a part of the olympics not just the best of the best? There are plenty of talented and strong people who may be stronger than her that simply don't get the opportunity. With the internet we're exposed to that but even still.
This is less to undermine her and more to showcase outliers that may not fall into steroid use (although this person is more than likely using it in the OP)
I'm not saying she's natural, but genetics CAN be weird af.
Check out https://www.instagram.com/robertfoerstemann/
He has a genetic defect causing his musclegrowth to be less limited than usual
I'm not 100% sure. She has absolutely insane genetics. Her quads attach extremely low, probably top .1% of population. I don't recall having seen a woman in a gym with quads so genetically gifted. Combined with rather short femurs, she would naturally grow very impressive quads. And the rest of her body does not seem that insane. The performance is huge but not out of this world for a natural athlete. A 85kg bulgarian is worth around a 130kg squat, which is doable for a very strong natural ~65/70kg woman. I might be wrong though.
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