[XTRMMUSCLEMASS]

I have this question in my head that bothers me, bodybuilding is a life style and not a sport, where you need to eat healthy foods, count you calories, carbs, protein, fats, drinking lots of water. sleeping 8-10 hrs. exercising, (cardios) umm list goes on and on. all professional bodybuilder follow this rules. but then comes the use of anabolic steroids( which in the doses pros take) is not healthy and ruins your inside! (high blood pressure, chlostrole leves, heart diseases, kidney diseases).

my question do you think they are healthy ppl? ( they look healthy from outside but how bout inside)

[robbyybt]

well the natural bbders yes, but non natural bbders no - for the same reasons youve listed above.

[CranzY]

Originally Posted by robbyybt

well the natural bbders yes, but non natural bbders no - for the same reasons youve listed above.

true that, i know that when you get sick , you are sicker than usual. it f*ck up your body inside...

[BigPoppaSnake]

Pro bodybuilders are prone to high cholesterol and high blood pressure something im sure not healthy for ya

[BigPoppaSnake]

The heart works harder to pump the blood in a bigger body which does decrease lifespan.

[Freak]

IFBB Pro's don't look healthy from the outside imo. Natural guys are healthy. Clean and IFBB Pro's definitely aren't.

[andy rimmer]

i dnt fink pro bodybuilders are bothered about being healthy, i watched a one of the markus ruhl videos an he said himself that it doesnt concern him that he isnt healthy

[atomic79]

i don't think that someone who is on steroids is healthy.take a look at bodybuilders from the seventies they look healthier than todays bodybuilders.

[Valpuesta]

Well, but seventies bodybuilders took steroids too... And worse, in their time, it was legal... I don't know... In the Raw Iron film (Making Of Pumping Iron), they reunite the guys some 25 years later, and one of them is in a wheelchair... Sure, we don't know what caused it, but if I were a gambling man...
But someone posted above something about the heart stress involved in supplying a heavier body with blood and the possible negative effect it could have on the lifespan... Sure the freaky bodybuilders of today must experience that, but what about the normal guy who likes to lift, and, as a result, gets heavier? I myself and, on Body Mass Index alone, quite obese... I'm 1,69m, 85Kg... However I have a body fat percentage of 17%... That's not a bodybuilder's BF, but nor is it an obese guy's BF... Does my heart get beaten as much as an obese person's because of my muscle weight? I sure would like to find this out, but all I hear, even from doctors, are assumptions, nothing really concrete... What do you guys think?

[musclemaniac uk]

Originally Posted by atomic79

i don't think that someone who is on steroids is healthy.take a look at bodybuilders from the seventies they look healthier than todays bodybuilders.

hate to break it to you bro, but they were also on gear. granted they weren't anywhere near the dosages the pro's are on nowadays, but most of them were on it. it was legal back then, so why not? besides roids aren't as hazardous as the media makes them out to be, as long as you have enough knowledge and maturity to take them, they're safe and can be quite advantageous in some health respects.

[KM]

I don't think the ones today look healthy at all. They are 300lbs, along with the problems you've stated, that much be rough on their Heart. Natraul BBers look conditioned and healthy. I'm also not a fan of the huge BBers of today.

[davegillis]

Same here KM the gigantic Body Builders are scarey and Gross looking IMO, Me and my uncle talk bodybuilder seeing he was into it and he said they have 10-20 years of glory and then there body just gives out