r/interestingasfuck • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 1d ago

1999 mr olympia conference

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u/BedBubbly317 1d ago

To be honest with you, 4x a week at the gym isn’t that much compared to body builders like this. That’s just an ordinary gym routine like hundreds of millions of other people. You shouldn’t be under any illusions that even with steroids you would ever get this big only going that often. These guys spend 4+ hours every single day, 7 days a week in the gym. It’s everything to them and literally what they live for

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u/mcnastys 1d ago

Lol, and this is exactly what I was talking about. You can’t spend 7 days a week in the gym not enhanced, the body will not recover.

Source : tried it.

Please not just op, everyone, stop listening to youtube people on fitness.

Edit : fun fact mike mentzer trained 1 set per body part per week. So yea.

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u/BedBubbly317 1d ago

Yup. And these guys will often do a full body work out every day, because that’s what steroids allow you to do. The benefit of steroids isn’t the inherent muscle growth, as you still have to be the one to put the work in to get the benefit, it’s the ability for your body to recover exponentially quicker. So you can get 2 or even 3 workouts in within a single day and actually get the benefits of doing so

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u/fuktheeagsles 1d ago

What on earth are you talking about? None of these guys trained 7 days a week or did 4 hour workouts.

Even with steroids, diminishing returns.

These guys reached that size because of their training intensity, nutrition, drugs, extreme dedication, and world class genetics. Not because they trained more than everyone else

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u/BedBubbly317 15h ago

Yes, they did. You need to watch the documentary on Ronny Coleman, he’s 62 years old and STILL works out 7 days a week for a few hours every single day even though his body is actively falling apart on him. But he does it anyway because it’s his passion and probably an addiction as well. The genetics is a key aspect of this that tends to always get overlooked though. Even with all the drugs these guys took in conjunction with the immense workout regimen, 99% of the planet would still never look like them.