The Dark Side Of Hollywood Body Transformations
Mark Vazquez
6 months ago
The human body simply can’t do that with just “chicken and broccoli” and 2-a-days in a few months. Otherwise professional athletes (as opposed to professional actors) would make the same transformations routinely. But they don’t–or at least haven’t since steroid testing was implemented in major sports. Keep in mind, many of these actors are not even athletic to begin with; they were theater types who started working out later in life, who all of a sudden transform into a jacked beast with insane vascularity and single digit body fat in less than a year. And they somehow do it all into their 40s without getting injured?
Trevor Thiessen
4 days ago
Excellent point about these guys not being athletes, they’re thespians, they are not the most gifted genetically, compared to the athletic world. As a former college football player myself, i never took any PEDs but always had above average genes for building muscle and staying lean. Even then, theres absolutely no way you could do these kinds of transformations naturally. Getting that lean, yes. Adding muscle, much less 40 lbs of muscle at the same time? Absolutely no way.
There were some people on YouTube who pointed out that many, if not all, actors don’t have actual athletic ability and the right genes for quick muscle building. Some of these actors probably do steroids just so they can get buff though it could also be said of athletes as well. Nonetheless I also think that there are athletes and actors who don’t do steroids, though especially with the latter it takes a longer time to get this buff.
There are probably athletes who are hardgainers, but there are those who do get muscular fairly quickly and many athletes practise sports earlier so they get muscular earlier as well. Okay, not all athletes are really buff but they get muscular earlier from playing sports a lot at an early age. So they have conditioning since day one, any actor who’s been doing sports at an early age have a good chance of developing good muscle tone since muscle building declines with age.
People like Hugh Jackman not only were hardgainers but also never particularly athletic (and hardly ever that trained in any field that demands physical activity) so building on muscle would come harder for them than it would for anybody who constantly does physical activity, let alone since childhood. Somebody who had athletic training as a child (and teenager) would have an easier time gaining muscle relatively faster than somebody who didn’t.
If muscle building declines with age, those who’ve been doing a lot of physical activity (or a big degree of it) since childhood would have a better chance of developing serious muscle tone while those who don’t would have a hard time doing it. Though that doesn’t stop some athletes from doing steroids, there’s nonetheless pressure for both actors and athletes to get better in physical activity. So some take shortcuts, others do it the hard way.
I think it’s a combination of genetics and early in life training that makes the difference, somebody who’s both genetically and athletically gifted would gain muscle pretty easily. Somebody who’s a hardgainer and not athletic would have it harder. Of course, there are people who do things the quick and dirty way. They do themselves dirty by staking performance enhancing drugs, regardless of the nasty side-effects they have.
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