As far as getting big without using steroids & the like: I think (I could be wrong) that you can get to the size of, or almost the size of, most WWE wrestlers, depending on genetics. Note the difference between such wrestlers and BBers is the body fat %. If the wreslers dieted down, I wonder if they wouldn’t be nearly as big.
Some pictures & links:
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=natural+bodybuilding
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=natural%20bodybuilding&spell=1&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.naturalbodybuilding.com/results/olympia-05.html
http://www.naturalbodybuilding.com/results/2005%20North%20American.html
[quote]wufwugy wrote:
wow @ some of these responses.
roids have not caused today’s BBers to be bigger than Arnie and his contemporaries; Arnie and co used a bunch. eating a lot also has not caused it; that will only cause a small ‘intestinal’ bloat after eating a large meal (we all know what this is like).
Ronnie and co look differently from Arnie and co because of Growth Hormone and Insulin injections. this causes more protein synthesis (especially when combined with roids) and the side effect ‘lean pregnancy’ (which doesn’t have anything to do with roids, IIRC).
somebody please correct me if i’m wrong.[/quote]
I always thought the guys today want to be freaks. Back in the day (“Arnie & Co.”) wanted to be huge, but not absolutly freakish (see: Frank Zane). Therefore, the guys today WANT to use beoynd healthy levels of drugs (not just steroids, hGH, insulin, but also everything they can get their hands on, diuretics, and I bet stuff we’ve never heard of, if it will add a couple pounds).