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Originally Posted by Pegasus  Well I don't agree Al. Drugs are so endemic in bodubuilding, that if you are training drug free, you should look elsewhere for training advice, imo.
Note, that just because a bodybuilder says he is drug free, does not mean he is. The most convincing speech, I ever heard about how he was drug free, was by Lee Priest. This was shortly before he tested positive for roids at a Bodybuilding comp which is a very good trick. |
You're mistakenly assuming that I define "bodybuilder" as the typical Mr. Olympia hopeful. When I say to train like a bodybuilder, I don't mean to adopt the regimens from the pros in the magazines- I mean partaking in a regimen that produces maximum muscle size and strength through proper stimulus, recuperation, and nutrition. There is a definite and clear difference, and a drug free trainee has to pay particular attention to a lot of different factors as theres a much higher margin of error for them.
When I lived in Miami I trained along side some serious professional bodybuilding aspirants. Some of the things they did routine-wise didn't make any sense. I saw some pretty crazy things- from men lifting tiny weights for very high reps and sets in a effort to "pump" the muscle to guys that trained brutally in excess of four hours a day, six days a week (not counting cardio)! With the quantity of drugs that some of these gentlemen were taking, they would have grown from doing just about anything.
That being said, there still exist places where drug free bodybuilding is praised and even rewarded- organizations like
NANBF - North America Natural Bodybuilding Federation. they don't attract the atention that the large federations do, but it still gives some hope for the sport.