[quote]yolo84 wrote:
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
[quote]yolo84 wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]Facepalm_Death wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]yolo84 wrote:
alot of the people in that chart were not natural though[/quote]
That’d be a neat trick considering the dates of pretty much every one of those guys listed.[/quote]
I wondered if anybody else noticed this. Steve Stanko really stands out. 223 at 5’11.5? That’s impressive as hell for a natural. No way he was juicing in 1944[/quote]
Eh, I’d say he magnifies the point that the chart needs to be consumed as a whole, not just the first few columns. His 39 inch waist is certainly not impressive, and it pretty much gives away why he weighed as much as he did, and was the only one of the group with 18" arms(hint: he was probably kind of fat).
But ya, dudes from 30’s-early 50’s all juicing, definitely…dotdotdotELLIPSIS[/quote]
why are you unable to read English properly?
i said alot of them were not natural, not all of them.
steroids were around in the 1940s and 50s and being used by some athletes also.[/quote]
Maybe half of those guys were using. “Recreational” (as in, for athletic and/or physique improvement) steroid use was just rolling into gyms in the late '40s, but didn’t become anything close to common i bodybuilding until the mid-to-late '50s.
Anyhow, not only were competitors in those days not trying to get anywhere near as ripped on-stage as guys today, but Stanko did have a solid strength background as the first guy to total over 1,000 pounds (weighing 220) in the then-three Olympic lifts a few years before winning the first Mr. Universe title, so he never really trained “just” for bodybuilding.[/quote]
sure steroids were not common in the 40s and 50s.
but im sure nationally known bodybuilders and strength athletes will have known about them by and large.
also “maybe half” of that list being on drugs is an awful lot if the premise of the thread is “let’s looks at natty goals”
the whole chart just doesn’t seem to fit the goal of the thread well at all.[/quote]
I could be wrong about some of these details, but from what I understand the first anabolic compound that could be synthesized was just testosterone. It was never used until the middle of WWII as a way to treat malnourished soldiers and help them gain weight. Only military personnel would have had first hand knowledge of it and it would trickle into the gyms via them. Word didn’t get around as easily back then.
Therefore I think its highly doubtful John Grimek would have had a chance to use steroids before 1940 and he came damn near 3lbs per inch. I think its certainly an attainable goal, with all the modern supplements and nutrition we have today