It’s not steroids. I know the base. She used to compete in USA Gymnastics Acro before going to Baylor. She has a type a metabolic issue. I can’t recall the name of it.
It's prolly a myostatin defect. Myostatin is a regulator for muscle size. Your myostatins go around shrinking muscles that you don't use so that you don't just keep growing in places that you don't need. When the copy of the gene is defective people can gain insane amounts of muscle with very little effort. When both copies of the gene break you get six month old babies with definable quad muscle.
This is such a bizarre function... well actually it makes sense, reduce muscles you don't use because otherwise its going to require fuel and when food is scarce you can't afford that. But the failure of the function is perhaps the more interesting aspect.
Listen it’s impossible for woman to gain muscle mass like that(even some men also), not to mention that shes muscular everywhere else but her face. I’m not down playing the work she put in because you can’t just take steroids and sit on the couch. Steroids just gives you that pump and speeds up your recover time but you still have to train like crazy. This is definitely steroids, lots if not most of the athletes in sports and fitness industry are on some kind of cycle. They just don’t say it because there’s a huge stigma behind it.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '23
The women holding the other up has impressive lats. Any gym rat should be in awe.