Lee Labrada Fitness 360: Bodybuilding's Perfect Man

Coming from an expert like myself (ha!) my understanding of steroid use is that, while not natural, it is not a quick fix for muscle development. A user would still have to workout, the difference being that the altered chemistry tricks the body into thinking it can do more than it actually can, hence the bizarre growth. I know there are other effects and I'm not endorsing steroid use at all. I admire people who have the consistency and persistency to develop their bodies, (mainly because, up to now I've struggled in this area) If they've used, it's not hard to tell and actually it's none of my business. For me, I'm to much of a punk in this area to take the risk, so I'll take the natural route as I enter the ON 100k challenge this year. You gotta admit though, Labrada has certainly kept himself up better than a lot of his peers from his competition years, not withstanding decreasing testosterone levels.

Lee Labrada, your integrity is inspiring!

I see posts like this quite a bit and it makes me curious: Why does it matter how someone got the way they did? Why is everyone so comfortable supplementing things that are found naturally in the body and get judgemental when someone uses testosterone? Maybe someone can message me an informed answer.

@jbmi2000 who said

"my understanding of steroid use is that, while not natural, it is not a quick fix for muscle development. "

That's a ridicolous lie that roiders like to repeat to feel better about themselves. I've seen several university studies on steroids.

My favorite is one where they took 4 groups. Two groups on steroids, and two groups not. And with one version doing no exercise, and one version doing exercise.

The guys who were on steroids but did NO exercise WHATSOVER (just lying around) gained MORE muscle than the guys who were exercising and busting their *** off naturally.

In fact, the guys who took both steroids and did workout were only somewhat more muscular at the end than the guys who steroids but did NOTHING. In other words, most of the growth comes from the steroids.

@Inkelis

"Why is everyone so comfortable supplementing things that are found naturally in the body and get judgemental when someone uses testosterone?"

Personally I don't care who does what. I'd even legalize cocaine.

Some of us mind the fact that roiders like to downplay the role that roid use played in their physique and pretend like they can tell us naturals how to train.

That's like Paris Hilton giving out financial advice. It's pure BS. She didn't earn her money ,she inheritted it.

@Alek

I would love to see that study. It is very interesting that the individuals who did nothing where able to build muscle without breaking it down first. Maybe they did not gain any muscle and instead gained water weight from the excess amount of testosterone.

Regardless, at the end of the day most of these pro bodybuilders train harder, eat better, and sleep more than most of these little girls on the internet forums screaming "STEROIDS"!

As a post cancer survivor, my body was wrecked after treatments. I weighed a megar 130 pounda. I had decreased test. levels due to removal of a testicle. Through hard work, precise nutrition and the right outlook, my body is on the way back. NO STEROIDS USED>>>EVER. So does the natural approach work? absolutly.

>So does the natural approach work? absolutly.>

OF COURSE IT WORKS... Lol, the point is you will never be Labrada's size no matter how hard you work.

The point is you never well gain muscle SO EASILY and effortlessly as the roiders do.

These dudes should just shut up and not mix with the natural population and give naturals advice, coz they're full of crap. Their physiology is so different than a natural's body, it's like aliens giving nutritional advice and workout advice to humans.

>I would love to see that study. It is very interesting >that the individuals who did nothing where able to >build muscle without breaking it down first. Maybe >they did not gain any muscle and instead gained >water weight from the excess amount of >testosterone.

Muscle is water anyway. This was a clinical study in a physiology department. The muscle gained by the roiders sitting on their butts and doing nothing was the same muscle as of those working their assess off naturally.

Google ""Steroids vs Natural: The Muscle Building Effects Of Steroid Use"" for someone's nice overview of the study.

The study itself is on The New England Journal Of Medicine, it's called "The Effects of Supraphysiologic Doses of Testosterone on Muscle Size and Strength in Normal Men". It's available in it's entirety for free.

ROIDS!!!! If it were legal i would take it! LOL!!! Don't lie and say you wouldn't! LOL!!!