I recommend you watch the movie “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”. If you don’t know anything about bodybuilding competitions, how photos are made, or the truth about fitness models and steroids, definitely check it out.
Here are some quotes from that movie:
Christian Boeving was asked what he thinks about people buying the supplements he promotes.
“If they choose to think that that supplement is the only thing I take to look like that, then so be it, they should be smarter than that.”
Bodybuilders and fitness models take drugs and the images are also enhanced in Photoshop.
Here are some more interesting things that you can hear in the movie “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”:
“I’d say 80-90% of what I see in magazines is bullshit”
“There are many techniques that I can use to fully manipulate the body.”
“Some before and after photos can be taken on the same day, in fact I have done it”
Whole new perspective, don’t you think?
Role models are on steroids
The photos in the magazines are manipulated.
Shit, it’s all a lie!
When I first found out the truth, it has completely shaken my perception of bodybuilding.
I am happy to have done it. Because now I can see everything so much clearer.
Most of the guys at the gym think they can look exactly like them. And without steroids, of course.
Guess what they start doing once they have this goal?
They buy a fitness magazine and learn all the new rules that they have to follow no matter what and otherwise they will never look like their heroes.
They learn that they need to take protein during mourning, before and after training, and of course in the middle of the night because the body is in “starvation mode,” right? We can’t forget about BCAAs, gainers, and creatine. And you can easily get to $200 a month just for useless supplements (other than creatine).
The best business in history: making “useless garbage” and selling it for a lot of money.
According to the Natural Products Foundation, the supplement industry contributes more than $60 billion to the US economy. I don’t think anyone can even imagine how much money that is.
Just think for a moment, how much money the supplement industries make just by packaging the protein, creatine and caffeine.
(If you still think supplements are magic pills that will give you 30 pounds of muscle, look at that number again.)
Going back to the guys who are trying to put on muscles.
After a while they actually put something into the muscles (and fat too) and it looks like it’s from the supplements.
And the years go on and on. Do you know what happens?
Oh yeah, they turn into a “gym rat”.
The point is that everything in today’s bodybuilding industry is ruled by supplement companies and professional bodybuilders who are in the juice. And if you’re not aware of it, you could end up pretty bad. I hope you get a new perspective on bodybuilders and muscle building in general.
So what is the lesson of this?
Don’t take professional bodybuilders and fitness models as your role models, someone you want to look like. Because? Because you can’t look like them. It’s just not going to happen without a “little” help of steroids.
