The body building industry has since the 70’s been cracked into two halves and both of these are never I agreement. These two sides constitute the natural body builders and or versus the steroids using body builders. The naturals and the juiced, as they say. Since the famous late 1970’s when the most dramatic war against the two sides almost stopped the industry stiff, up to today when rigorous testing and enforcement has been perfected to prevent the athletes from the outlawed side permeating in the other, the battle still reigns and victory has not yet been accorded either side.
This article will try to not to pass judgment on the body builders lying on either side of the divide, enough of that has been done, rather, it will try to objectively state the prevalent opinion about the two sides, the dominating perception and the image cast by a body builder from each of the two sides. For one let us start with the natural body builder, the lifetime natural that is, the one who has never boosted performance of boosted growth with any form of anabolic steroid.
Natural body builders go the hardest way to gain muscles. They stimulate growth by intensity and only by intensity. They work hard for every ounce of muscle accumulated, they sweat it out pumping iron from the start toe the finish. Most of these have the genetics against them, where the body naturally does not prefer to bulk up unless it forced through unbelievable levels of intensity, consistency and determination. Dieting is the only thing that goes into making the body achieve growth in strength levels and muscle mass.
When they therefore succeed and make it to the echelons of body building, with the muscles and physique definition to show for it, these guys elicit respect and admiration. You will hear guys saying, wow, look at that guy, isn’t he ripped? And you know what? He is a lifetime natural? The image is therefore amazingly and overwhelmingly positive. There is a sense of honor in bulking up the hard way and maintaining the thin line that makes all the difference in the two sides of body building.
On the other hand, there are those body builders who fight it out at the beginning and then get into the habit of boosting performance and growth using anabolic steroids and growth hormones. It starts out as an infrequent adventure, one that augments hard training, but it eventually becomes the norm and then the backbone of training. The fact is that these guys do not train as hard as the naturals. They don’t have to since their little effort is largely boosted by the testosterone hormones they use. However it is also true that some of these guys, despite using steroids frequently, work really hard to get as ripped as they get.
However the prevalent image is that these are lesser of the naturals, viewed negatively and do not solicit admiration. In fact they become examples of what a body builder should not be as can be heard in common comments like, “Look at what steroids can do to you” or “That guy is really juiced, why does one go to that extent endangering his health’ and many other comments. For those building their physique on either side of the steroids barrier, it might be common knowledge that these images are distinct and they are likely to remain as such.
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