Whats wrong with steroids though? I dont even weight lift, I'm not into looking like that. I'm 5'10 and weigh like 130 pounds But I dont see the problem with it if you this is the body you want
@@beelance8057 nothing is wrong with it! Some body builders abuse it and it causes side effects. The reason UA-camrs and people pushing their supplements and programs on people talk about natty is so they can sell the natty hype to people when they are using gear and lying. Aka liver king.
@@BasedOut100mil Nah, it's definitely more common now simply from the fact obesity and overweight people are everywhere. I say "people" because while higher body fat males will no doubt have "off" hormone profiles that boost baldness, fat pregnant women with their own off hormone levels and poor diets doom their baby boys to physical mediocrity.
Can you imagine how freaked out the people of that time would have been to see what some bodybuilders look like today?? They would have assumed they were monsters! These guys are the real deal right here. Literally, all natural! Respect.
There's more education about food, hormones and biology today. Majority of people in the fitness industry are on gear. That's just a fact. People don't have the capacity or will to learn how to do it naturally. It requires knowledge of endocrinology, bioenergitics, neuroscience, nervous system, nutrition and anatomy.
I’ve always that the body building competitions today just look gross, like all that veiny muscle isn’t visually appealing in the slightest. A more natural toned body just looks more astheticly pleasing to me
@@ravenomega2443 thats a fallacy, now is more healthy, we have standards and normatives like iso, there is organic food..nanotechnology that cleans the masive food chains, etc
You’re comment is funny to me since im almost as ripped and big as some of these guys and I do absolutely nothing. My job is a slow place one and no heavy lifting required.
@@ravenomega2443 why were people shorter and physically smaller than we are? Why are boxers nowadays so much bigger than those of yesteryear? George forman, a giant during his time, would be an average heavyweight now
The thing is these guys exercised at the gym 2-3 hours a day everyday and had blue collar jobs which was an additional 8 hours of intensive calorie burning
@@jarogniewtheconqueror2804 exactly that’s why you see a lot of people in places like Africa with high testosterone due to the environment they were born in and manual labour they partakes in from like the ages of 4 or 5. Go look at all these kids who are in working on different mines from coal/diamond cobalt lithium etc.Kind of sad situation but you the saying the children yearn for mines. Perfect example is Francis ngannou ufc fighter who grew up in sand mines for survival and look how big he is.
That was George Hackenschmidt who invented the hack squat. He did it with a barbell behind him like a behind-the-back deadlift if you will. That's an amazing exercise too
I am really surprised to see so many Indian bodybuilders during those days. Really shocking how well-developed they were too. One learns something new everyday. 👍💪
With low fat to muscle ratios, you can visually detect a number of muscle origins, insertions, the biomechanical actions become easier to visualize because of this, and you can actually start to see a lot more individual muscle fibers, tendons, and the underlying skeletal structure. That’s the ideal body type with which to study anatomy simply because it’s easier to locate specific structures and systems. For that reason, the bodies depicted in anatomical reference material are designed that way deliberately.
its because those are pure muscles with very little fat their method of bodybuilding are mostly fasting and heavy lifting, unlike today where you have to balance the diet intake and many muscle building techniques or the roids shortcut
he was not a bodybuilder but a wrestler and very strong man, it clearly shows from his physique. he's the least shredded man here but easily the strongest.
@@blizzard1198 Cardio can make you more lean, that's why people say it wrecks your physique. High intensity cardio for short intervals won't affect your physique.
@@nishantprakash5928 if that's you in your profile picture then he's speaking for you aswell. You look at the average indian now it's either some bloated uncle with a medicine ball in their belly or a scrawny nerdy ass annoying teenager with no future
Just with a little more fat and moisture in your body, like the last guy. We’re not supposed to have a too low fat percentage, because then the body has to consume itself if food is unavailable. Water is a given.
@@janusjones6519 that would apply to modern body builders, but someone who's physique is purely natural wouldn't be useless in that setting, and considering the limited equipment they had it would've been achieved thru natiral exercises. When I say that's how human beings are supposed to look, I mean this highlights just how unnatural and freakish modern body builders look, with extreme and exaggerated proportions, whereas these people look much more normal and healthy, and their musculature is entirely natural. If u ever look at old pictures of tribal/hunter gatherer people, they looked very similar to the people in this video.
@@Messimo-Il-Predestinato Oh no I have my spreads and whatnot, trust me. I'm primarily calisthenics but I include weights to facilitate hypertrophy and what not. I literally couldn't do it all day lmao. Thanks for the advice, but it was a figure of speech.
It's more likely a reference to Hercules, who in classical art and sculpture is depicted with the pelt of the Nemean lion. The "caveman" idea is relatively new. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Hercules would have been better known to the public. Notice also that they're wearing Roman-style sandals.
They come from a time where bodybuilding competitions not only comprised of physique, but also feats of strength to determine who was the best. These men were truly strong.
bodybuilding is for only looks. Your thinking of strongman competitions. Totally separate. Main reason C Bum isn’t the strongest and someone like larry wheels is really strong is because their workouts do different things. Ones to gain strength and the other is to make mass
Imagine they hired you for a bodybuilding shoot in 1920, you go all excited, & then you find out you have to pose flexing 5 minutes straight, and stay absolutely still to get one picture 💀
Pretty sure some of these are from Victoria gay porn shots. I saw some in a Sherlock Holmes type movie and Gay porn photos were part of the story as one of the posers was being blackmailed, they had a case full of photos like those.
Funny how some people complain about overtraining and fear of going to failure when these Chads went to the gym for hours, doing curls with rocks and definitely not stopping before failure.
They look 1000 times better than any body builder of today - they would also be able to talk without getting out of breath and probably wouldn’t go bald in their early 20s lol
It’s all just coping now, every big guy is accused of being on steroids, and a decent looking shredded guy is as far as you can get before you’re accused of steroids, you can get big without steroids you know
@@funnylawre The thing is, you can 100% confirm natty status on these guys. It's also a little silly to compare them to modern bodybuilders because of the wealth of information and resources now. I'm a musician and when I look at someone like Delia Derbyshire I don't think "She could have done it better," I think "Wow, this is one of my pioneers." Any of those people you had in mind would be in the same boat as these guys back then.
@@funnylawre I would like to know though some examples of modern natural bodybuilders to see the comparison between them, the older generations, and the modern juiced guys. I see what you're saying there.
@@arushsharma42 In fairness our environment is far more poisoned now with many more environmental toxins constantly bombarding us. The quality of nutrition would have been higher even if diet was less diverse simply due to the fact the land food was grown from wasn't as ridiculously over farmed as it is today. Besides you pretty much just need potatoes and meat to be healthy.
Manohar aich used to bend steel rods in his teens.Besides bending steel rods, he tore 1,000-page books in half, dragged 450-pound loads down the street and balanced himself by resting his abdomen on the tip of a sword. He had a scar on his neck where a sword had once pierced him when he slipped while performing the stunt. He contacted black fever when he was 12..Recovered by calisthenics. Joined Royal Air Force in 1942..Jailed for slapping his officer who made some racist remarks, but did work out in jail. 1950 goes on to win Mr. Hercules contest. (Pocket Hercules) 1951 came second in Mr.Universe to Mr Monotosh Roy(another body builder from Bengal) 1951 becomes title holder of NABBA Mr. Universe. Was one of the pioneers of physical culture revolution in India. He was awarded "Banga Bibhushan" title by the Govt of Bengal.
@@MissionTapasyabro im sorry i dont mean to disrespect but isnt he an enlightend human coome on bro he mightve been a messenger of islam there around 120000 prophets his message mightve been corrupted
The Indian dudes I can say we're not just into "bodybuilding" but rather could be wrestlers, gymnasts etc... I guess many European "Bodybuilders" were mainly into strongman events
I'm sure some of them knew the benefits of testosterone enhancing plants like onions which got me big as if I was on juice but had to stop because I stunk 24/7 especially when I was sweating so I lost the size onions gave me since onions over tripled my natural testosterone levels
@@rodplays3726 awww you don’t like what I said? Let me go delete it because some pleb on the internet is too fat and dumb to realize he just has to lift weights and eat less to lose weight.
@@JesusChristLovesYouBro I just wanted to let you know that Jesus Christ visited me and told me to tell you to stop doing stuff like this. He was very upset.
What enlightened me about weight lifting and fitness in general, is when my mom talked about her experience going through Basic Combat Training when she enlisted in the Army. This chick that was super fit, super in shape, used to be a body builder, quit BCT because her body was adapting to the general exercises (push ups, situps, running) and she was losing all her gains. My mom went in built like a stick, and literally outlasted fitness gurus in BCT, because she was able to outendure them. Being fit doesn’t mean you have a six pack, it means you can get out of bed in the morning, and do things, without being literally weighed down by your own body.
The body adapts to what is required of it, 'fit' isn't universal. The ideal ultra-runner is skinny and weak, the opposite to a higher-weight-class powerlifter with the middle being gymnasts.
The same thing still hasn't changed lol. 99% of the women in the army right now are weak as shit but decent runners. So obviously so that the army has consistently changed its standard to make it easier for women while keeping the baseline the same for men. Good for your mom but. Let's not put other people down.
@@AlexG-tp2ik exactly. Food wasn't only much cleaner but they were eating whole foods. They were getting there nutrients from meat, fruits, vegitables, grains, nuts and seeds.... Not from 20 diffrent suppliments. Food had much less to no chemicals and pesticides. That's why most of em lived well past average human Life expectancy of that time.
@- eniotna - no. Everyone did not had same diet. You need to remember which time we are talking about. It's before 1935. I can say everyone absolutely 100% did not had same diet. It was the time of wars, great depression, plagues, famines, etc. It wasn't like 21st century where even the lower middle class could atleast afford good quality food. No. Only few elite class people had access to good food anything below that was surviving on bare minimum. Today people work to afford cars, houses, costly accessories, etc... Back then people used to work to survive, they didn't work for few days, they won't have food on the table. So yes, bodybuilders of that time eat exceptionally well compared to the rest of the people and lived well last them
@@abirnigam8816 for real. This thread has so much misinformation in it. Even the premise that steroids didn't exist before 1930 is wrong. Synthetic testosterone did not exist, but testosterone was extracted from pig and bull testicles and injected into humans as early as the 1890s. And yes, it works exactly the same as injecting yourself with synthetic testosterone. So ironically, it's entirely possible that Eugene Sandow (3rd picture in the video if I recall correctly) was in fact not natty. I doubt the Indians would have had access to test, but he very easily could have considering his connections at the time.
its also to note that natural testosterone in men has decreased SIGNIFICANTLY since that point in time. according to an article I found it has decreased almost 25 percent since the 90s and probably more by now. So thsese dudes were PUMPED full of natural testosterone while dudes today are probably down by almost 30% or more from their great grandparents.
True, but you can raise your natural testosterone levels through good diet and exercise. It's the change in the average lifestyle that has been dropping T levels. A change in lifestyle can bring it back the other way.
@@matttheamerican3766 I'm doing the same put on 30lbs+ in 6 months. But I did BB 6-7 years about 10 years back so it's sort of cheating I know all the ways and strict freeweight methods lol.
Video is wrong. Testosterone was synthesized in the 30s, but it wasn't available for use until the 50s for American and Soviet olympic athletes. It wasn't in pharmacies until in the 60s, so before that It would be like trying to acquire SARMs back in the 90s, near impossible. Originally they had to crush and extract it directly from dozens of pounds of bull testes... as you can imagine it was impossible to widely put these out. There are MUCH better physiques from the early 50s that are certainly natty. Guys benching 500+ pounds, 20 inch biceps, 220lbs lean.
It's important to note that the food these men would have been eating was much cleaner than what we consume today in terms of additives and harmful chemicals that negatively affect hormones. Make sure you're eating clean, gentlemen. It makes a big difference.
They were eating enough protein and the truth is they weren't that big! Compared to modern fitness models these naturals of the past are twice as small. I am not saying everyone are on steroids, but fitness models most certainly are!
India has always had a very good base of wrestling. It's funny how this tracking protein and gym culture bullshit is being regarded as the benchmark here when their culture was far superior than ours.
They also didn't have a bunch of processed shit for food like we do nowadays, probably a huge factor in natural hormone levels, wonder what the test average is between the bronze/silver era
In order of appearance in the video: Began Raj (first two) Eugen Sandow Bishnu Charan Ghosh Mool Chand Mr. Eggleton S. Natu S. Bose Shushil Kumar Chakraborty George Hackenschmidt
@@blizz8563 Its in our genetics, there was a king in India who fought the Mughals in India, he was 7 feet tall used to carry 2 big swords one for him and one for whom who has no weapon left so the fight can get equality two spears and a body shield it was said that all those makes atleast upto 200kg of weight and with that weight he used to cut half slice through enemies by his sword.
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Its called akhara where they train.
@@SmallusDicckus akhada*
Akhada and pure veg diet
They're skinny not jacked
The irony is these guys would definitely be accused of taking gear today 😂
Only by those who have absolutely no understanding of the sport. So you too….?
@@_Sam62 bro shut up
You are absolutely correct this bodybuilders police will still accuse them of bein on steroid
@@_Sam62 he just state
Maybe because a lot of guys with these kinds of physiques nowadays are in fact on roids?
Imagine being so swole, your mustache flexes too😂
That’s from doing moustache curls 💪
😂😂😂😂
Mustache has muscles too 💪
Never skip moustache day 😁💪
Bwahahaha ( *spits* *out* *milk* )
You can see each individual strain of muscle popping out of their bodies. Crazy dedication and mad respects for them.
Yes you don’t need drugs
Also back in the days there was such thing as protein powder, creatine powder and pre-workout and all that useless shit
@@woozyz2769 ok sure
Whats wrong with steroids though?
I dont even weight lift, I'm not into looking like that. I'm 5'10 and weigh like 130 pounds
But I dont see the problem with it if you this is the body you want
@@beelance8057 nothing is wrong with it! Some body builders abuse it and it causes side effects. The reason UA-camrs and people pushing their supplements and programs on people talk about natty is so they can sell the natty hype to people when they are using gear and lying. Aka liver king.
Those Indian bodybuilders were definitely on point. Born natural, trained natural and died natural. Salute to those Bronze Age bodybuilders.
Tbf they could have been doing drugs like opium, amphetamines or cocaine to help, but that's not really a big deal imo.
@@bickyboo7789 those drugs would only act as pre workout
A lot of them didn't even eat red meats and had heavy plant/fish diets still able to achieve this, crazy.
The thing is most of Indians were vegetarian and even now 40-50% are vegetarian and most on non vegetarians eat only chicken and Goat.
@@bickyboo7789 indian bodybuilders had no access to these. They were poor af. They used to eat meat and dairy locally available
2022: "Yo bruh are you natty?"
Before 1930: "Yo you use gear?"
*continues to curl rocks
Best comment 😂
The ancient Greeks used hallucinogenic mushrooms, and Roman gladiators used stimulants to overcome fatigue.
@@osas5211 they were natty back then tho
@@thotslayer9922 they were natty back then
@Scum he literally wrote "overcome fatigue"
Bro was the ultra chad of his timeline. Mustache was on point
Chad version Century 19th
Two points, actually
@@josuefairy 20*
@@Ahria256
Cool flag
He makes me miss my own mustache.
Twirl and all.
Back when aesthetics still mattered and not just how freakish you can make yourself look
They all look weird though. 4 feet tall with muscle in the wrong places. Not aesthetic at all.
@@StrongestKryptonianbros coping so hard rn
Even back in the 70s and 80s we know Arnold took gear but he didn’t look disgusting like most do today.
@@StrongestKryptonianYeah, they didn’t have proper knowledge or equipment, so it makes sense that their proportions would be kinda fucked up
@@urlegshandemover5454 it's not coping man. They don't even have a V shape to look aesthetic. They just look weird to me.
The mustache on the 5th guys is fuckin epic
Curry stache
@@gothghanistan pfft xihudi
His stache alone can curl 10 kilos.
True British bulldog
Escanor vibes 😂
All of them have a full head of hair, love it loool
Ikr, so many people these days starting to lose hair at 18 its crazy
I looked it up on google and it said intense body building causes hair loss...
@@22lrjayden81 Likely not any more common than it was a century ago. Just more exposure to more people these days due to the internet.
@@s1rm0rr1lswdsx3 only on steroids
@@BasedOut100mil
Nah, it's definitely more common now simply from the fact obesity and overweight people are everywhere. I say "people" because while higher body fat males will no doubt have "off" hormone profiles that boost baldness, fat pregnant women with their own off hormone levels and poor diets doom their baby boys to physical mediocrity.
Can you imagine how freaked out the people of that time would have been to see what some bodybuilders look like today?? They would have assumed they were monsters! These guys are the real deal right here. Literally, all natural! Respect.
@We All Laugh Down Here absolutely nobody weighs 250 pounds of lean muscle natural that’s essentially a Bradley Martin
And prolly lynch them too 🤣
These men in the video are even shorter than the taller bodybuilders we're used to nowadays, so, yeah, imagine???
Natties are the real deal;!!!
There's more education about food, hormones and biology today. Majority of people in the fitness industry are on gear. That's just a fact. People don't have the capacity or will to learn how to do it naturally. It requires knowledge of endocrinology, bioenergitics, neuroscience, nervous system, nutrition and anatomy.
The difference between manual labor to survive and going to the gym on your "time off"
My uncle, who is Indian, was shredded similar to these guys. Did mainly manual labor. Strong af.
India had some great body builders
They had greater access to water, carbs, and protein back then. Now even buckwheat is hard to find and lentils don't have needed EAAs.
@@BungieStudios Disagreed
@@BungieStudioseaa?
@@Adventurer-Rikth 🤡
Indians has shit genetics.
These guys look like actual human beings with muscles instead of the freaky monsters we have in the modern day
I’ve always that the body building competitions today just look gross, like all that veiny muscle isn’t visually appealing in the slightest. A more natural toned body just looks more astheticly pleasing to me
@@firefightszz they have a men's beach class that is like this. Then classic is where you start pushing the larger physiques
@@firefightszz okay?
@@lordjiraiya6230 even classic are getting pretty ridiculous
@ron webber irrelevant
Can't imagine the discipline it would take to look like that while being natty
It wouldn't be hard. Food was much more healthy 100 years ago
@@ravenomega2443 That is true. I still wish we had that kind of food for cheap nowadays...😅
@@ravenomega2443 thats a fallacy, now is more healthy, we have standards and normatives like iso, there is organic food..nanotechnology that cleans the masive food chains, etc
You’re comment is funny to me since im almost as ripped and big as some of these guys and I do absolutely nothing.
My job is a slow place one and no heavy lifting required.
@@ravenomega2443 why were people shorter and physically smaller than we are? Why are boxers nowadays so much bigger than those of yesteryear? George forman, a giant during his time, would be an average heavyweight now
The thing is these guys exercised at the gym 2-3 hours a day everyday and had blue collar jobs which was an additional 8 hours of intensive calorie burning
Theres plenty of dudes now that look like this and are natty… it’s achievable.
Sounds like an excuse
Don't forget they had 2%r genetics, other men did similar things but looked less impressive
And no fast food like today
@@jarogniewtheconqueror2804 exactly that’s why you see a lot of people in places like Africa with high testosterone due to the environment they were born in and manual labour they partakes in from like the ages of 4 or 5. Go look at all these kids who are in working on different mines from coal/diamond cobalt lithium etc.Kind of sad situation but you the saying the children yearn for mines. Perfect example is Francis ngannou ufc fighter who grew up in sand mines for survival and look how big he is.
they look INSANE too
We have equipment they couldn’t imagine in their time …. They have physiques that we couldn’t imagine in their time this is impressive
Wdym?! Please reply to me!
We can imagine them very easily, its not that hard, esspecialy when we have pictures already.
In fact im imagining them right now as I type this.
@@GrimgoreIronhide you thinking too much bro.. 💀
@@GrimgoreIronhide 😂😂
🤔🤨😶
Last dude looks like me after my grandma calls me a precious young man
😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO
Looks like Tom Holland 😂
That was George Hackenschmidt who invented the hack squat. He did it with a barbell behind him like a behind-the-back deadlift if you will. That's an amazing exercise too
@@chapelknight951that work out is detrimental for your knees , a total wrecking ball
I am really surprised to see so many Indian bodybuilders during those days. Really shocking how well-developed they were too. One learns something new everyday. 👍💪
The fourth guy was from my hometown, still worked as a coach up until his 80s.
It's so strange seeing their bodies because their bodies look like those charts that show the anatomy of muscles
it#s the same if you look at a regular skinny guy that lifted for a month, less muscle but the same anatomy effect
With low fat to muscle ratios, you can visually detect a number of muscle origins, insertions, the biomechanical actions become easier to visualize because of this, and you can actually start to see a lot more individual muscle fibers, tendons, and the underlying skeletal structure.
That’s the ideal body type with which to study anatomy simply because it’s easier to locate specific structures and systems. For that reason, the bodies depicted in anatomical reference material are designed that way deliberately.
Because you associate that chart with something older and in black and white. 100% you are young.
its because those are pure muscles with very little fat
their method of bodybuilding are mostly fasting and heavy lifting, unlike today where you have to balance the diet intake and many muscle building techniques
or the roids shortcut
@@lumi_project i heard the roids makes the pp small 🤣🤣🤣
The last guy has the face of the kindest dude who would apologize for no reason and the body of a Greek statue .
Fr!!
I think he was the one that started bodybuilding in the first place. He looks beastly in a suit lol.
Kill em with kindness 😂
George Hackenscmidt the Russian lion
He looks like tom holland
That first Indian dude has a surprisingly good chest for bronze-era lifters. I wonder what he did for it.
Bengali Genetics before Communism 😢
You can tell they’re natural because their heads and faces aren’t all swole up and disfigured.
Neither their muscles and veins as big as a bull
@BIGRED I think he's just leaning forwards slightly
It’s just like below the neck body builder, above the neck regular guy
Yeah you can tell that they're natural as well because they're tiny
These are all photoshooped. Dont get fooled
Gym Bros: you can't do all that cardio and keep the gainz brah
George Hackenschmidt: Allow me to introduce myself.
ask Diogo Montnegero year round he performs heavy cardio, Greg Doucette aswell
Allow me to introduce my…lats
he was not a bodybuilder but a wrestler and very strong man, it clearly shows from his physique. he's the least shredded man here but easily the strongest.
@@DennisGr does cardio ruin your physique? And if it dies why like isn't cardio just stretching?
@@blizzard1198 Cardio can make you more lean, that's why people say it wrecks your physique. High intensity cardio for short intervals won't affect your physique.
Apparently India had a strongman culture back then.
Now, we all are just weaklings🥲🥲
@@PradhanmantriBruhhspeak for yourself
@@nishantprakash5928 if that's you in your profile picture then he's speaking for you aswell. You look at the average indian now it's either some bloated uncle with a medicine ball in their belly or a scrawny nerdy ass annoying teenager with no future
@@nishantprakash5928 ur comment gave me chills....
I knew it, I knew that roiding up was bullshit. Natty for life😤
I've always hated the way body builders look, but these guys actually look amazing. This is how human beings are supposed to look.
Just with a little more fat and moisture in your body, like the last guy. We’re not supposed to have a too low fat percentage, because then the body has to consume itself if food is unavailable. Water is a given.
Same here I look at these guys, then pro guys today and it's just comical how big they are.
These guys would ge useless as hunter gatherers or farmers. So no it’s not how humans are supposed to look
@@janusjones6519 why would they be? And humans are not meant to look like hunter gatherers anymore lol.
@@janusjones6519 that would apply to modern body builders, but someone who's physique is purely natural wouldn't be useless in that setting, and considering the limited equipment they had it would've been achieved thru natiral exercises. When I say that's how human beings are supposed to look, I mean this highlights just how unnatural and freakish modern body builders look, with extreme and exaggerated proportions, whereas these people look much more normal and healthy, and their musculature is entirely natural. If u ever look at old pictures of tribal/hunter gatherer people, they looked very similar to the people in this video.
Bro this makes me wanna spend all day in the gym, these men are insane
Dr livesly vibes
Spend 1 hour in the gym 4 times a week will give you way better results than be in the gym ‘all day’
@@Messimo-Il-Predestinato think you took that a bit too literally lol.
@@sk4rrt literally☠️
@@Messimo-Il-Predestinato Oh no I have my spreads and whatnot, trust me. I'm primarily calisthenics but I include weights to facilitate hypertrophy and what not. I literally couldn't do it all day lmao. Thanks for the advice, but it was a figure of speech.
The best times for bodybuilding. I hate the usage of PEDs and steroids.
These guys were way healthier then we r now tho
I love how most of them are wearing cheetah lioncloths, caveman style
Maybe they remembered their ancestral Tennants xD
Well, they were sideshow characters in circus events for the most part lol. Gotta play a character and look outlandish somehow
It's more likely a reference to Hercules, who in classical art and sculpture is depicted with the pelt of the Nemean lion. The "caveman" idea is relatively new. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Hercules would have been better known to the public. Notice also that they're wearing Roman-style sandals.
@@whitemakesright2177 I believe it started with The Flintstones or possibly Tarzan
Yeah and also having the most neatest hairstyle ever
It’s crazy how much better these guys looks compared to bodybuilders today. There’s no need for the amount of muscle we have today.
They had more testosterone back then
@@billyfromflint9697 100% they had very high test natural always spent time outside as well
yeah, the same way that there is no need to make a car that goes 0-60mph in under a second, but people make top fuel dragster race cars
@@thespritman4052 testosterone levels have been lowering for thousands of years. There’s just not much need because we don’t live in the wild anymore
No need for the distended beer guts, either.
Kenny KO shows up in a time machine! Asking "Natty or not?"😂
Even tho food back then was less sanitary, it was more pure.
it was pure and raw, now foods may have been more sanitary but more processed and also the environment have been soft, easy, "modern and fast"
Pure how? This is way past industrial era. They didnt know what things are harmful and ate stuff like radium ffs.
Wrong
Food was much better at that time
No gmo no processed fats
First guy looks like he’s going to tell me how to increase my survivability
You deserve more likes 😂👏
Aka Dave Brown
In detroit
😂😂😂
They come from a time where bodybuilding competitions not only comprised of physique, but also feats of strength to determine who was the best. These men were truly strong.
bodybuilding is for only looks. Your thinking of strongman competitions. Totally separate. Main reason C Bum isn’t the strongest and someone like larry wheels is really strong is because their workouts do different things. Ones to gain strength and the other is to make mass
@@skellybonz5467Pretty sure that back in those days bodybuilders had to perform flips and feats of strength along with being aesthetic.
@@Anonymous426_wrestling
Wayyyy better than those pregnant hulks we have today
They definitely ate healthy
Imagine they hired you for a bodybuilding shoot in 1920, you go all excited, & then you find out you have to pose flexing 5 minutes straight, and stay absolutely still to get one picture 💀
Soy boy can't pose flexing for more than 5 minutes? Mediocre
By 1920 you no longer had to wait that long. Photos were instant to the film.
@@legendaryfrolox6285 I flex in my sleep. I literally flex my colon tract to deliver my shits to the toilet bowl like a shitty crowd surf.
And also in leopard pants haha
Bro is 1920 not 1860 lol
Nothing more alpha than being absolutely peeled in some leopard underwear with a gentleman’s mustache….Legendary
For real
Pretty sure some of these are from Victoria gay porn shots. I saw some in a Sherlock Holmes type movie and Gay porn photos were part of the story as one of the posers was being blackmailed, they had a case full of photos like those.
That's how Indians are lol
The vintage masculine man look
Genuine leopard print.. pre-cougar 😂
I swear there can be a guy with a body like that would get accused of steroids nowadays
Of course. People like accusing anyone with a better physique than them.
Funny how some people complain about overtraining and fear of going to failure when these Chads went to the gym for hours, doing curls with rocks and definitely not stopping before failure.
Damn these guys look insane for the equipment they had and the lack of info on nutrition.
Absolutely.
What kind of lack on nutritional info? Just eat meat and some veggies
@@thomas.thomas Yeah meat and veggies is the only thing you need for your body to keep
Healthy 🥴🥴
@@BigiGuyyyy isn't it tho ?
@@BigiGuyyyy uuh it is...
They look 1000 times better than any body builder of today - they would also be able to talk without getting out of breath and probably wouldn’t go bald in their early 20s lol
They actually look athletic and war ready. Builders today can't wipe their ass.
@@gntc3134 Thats the most ridiculous fact xD
@@gntc3134 Born to shit, forced to wipe
If you say this then you are not even a bodybuilder fan
@@araskoca8172 i am not a fan of fake muscles
I bet that last dude was a unit in the weight pit .
It’s all just coping now, every big guy is accused of being on steroids, and a decent looking shredded guy is as far as you can get before you’re accused of steroids, you can get big without steroids you know
As a brown dude, these OG indian bodybuilders give me more motivation to go harder in the gym 💪🏾
There not indian lol
@raufmohamed4678 some are actually
@@Silentevil7 only the first guy is indian
@@connorMCminecraft u just said that they r not indian ,actually 2 r indian😊
@@connorMCminecraft 4 are Indian's what you talking about bro?
This was back before "I have to have my protein shake, bro. If you don't have my shake with in 30 minutes, my whole workout doesn't count."
"I need pre-workout bro I can't workout without it"
I'm sure they had many more scientifically inaccurate theories back then due to the lack of studies
@@Puddlesoak Kind of a red herring statement, but yes I agree with you.
@@alexhowley9834 they most likely just used cocaine from Cola instead
Back then they had to farm their own protein😄
I wish steroid never invented
They look amazing and strong. Guys today dont look healthy, theyre walking heart conditions
You got that right.
Yuppp
That's factually false.
@@feibdegrassi1646 you say that while you’re injecting. Sure, believe it.
@@checkoutmyyoutubepage nope, I don't use any kind of doping.
People also didn't eat processed food back then so defination was much easier to achieve.
They don't look puffy and bloated like modern bodybuilders
That takes “I’m built different” to a whole new level. Dayum.
Can we all just appreciate how badass that stache is??
You should check Jack Krine's one.
@@androwaydie4081 had to look it up and it is indeed rad
They didn't use modern day drugs either.
It’s funny because nowadays there would be noodle arm kids talking about “ He definitely roided up 🤓”
These physiques are far more aesthetically appealing then anything today
Tbh their shoulders need a little training
Also I can name tons of people who are natty and look absolutely shredded
@@funnylawre their shoulders are dense, mature and feathered, they are complete, you are the one who needs more training.
@@funnylawre The thing is, you can 100% confirm natty status on these guys. It's also a little silly to compare them to modern bodybuilders because of the wealth of information and resources now. I'm a musician and when I look at someone like Delia Derbyshire I don't think "She could have done it better," I think "Wow, this is one of my pioneers." Any of those people you had in mind would be in the same boat as these guys back then.
@@funnylawre I would like to know though some examples of modern natural bodybuilders to see the comparison between them, the older generations, and the modern juiced guys. I see what you're saying there.
This is what real strength looks like. Every fiber made of raw free weight workouts and organic food
They had higher test so bascially was steroids compared to us nowadays
@@AFCTV204 you have high testosterone as well. Just stop letting out so much. And stop Simpin.
@@AFCTV204 You should not talk bout things you know nothing about
@@arushsharma42 In fairness our environment is far more poisoned now with many more environmental toxins constantly bombarding us. The quality of nutrition would have been higher even if diet was less diverse simply due to the fact the land food was grown from wasn't as ridiculously over farmed as it is today. Besides you pretty much just need potatoes and meat to be healthy.
Owh jees, food is 100% more nutritious today by comparison, and organic basically means nothing 😂
Physiques before plastics ruined all our testosterones
THESE GENTLEMEN THEIR CHEETAH 🐆 UNDIES WAS THAT THE LOOKS FOR BODY BUILDERS OF THE 30’s 😂
they all were also strong af
People on the internet never ceases to amaze me healthy muscle equals strength durp
@@iocsparkfire0075 well they’re probably stronger that most of the population at that time
@@iocsparkfire0075 still wayy stronger than average population fkin idiot.
Definitely compared to modern bodybuilders their size. Men were different back then.
They had insane power
Pocket hercules manohar aich...legend died at the age 104....
lol quite the contrast with all the ped bodybuilders from nowadays that mostly die before 70
That’s how you know he wasn’t on the juice
Bro I searched him just after I saw this, fax.
Bharatiya sabse oopar .
Jai hind.
Manohar aich used to bend steel rods in his teens.Besides bending steel rods, he tore 1,000-page books in half, dragged 450-pound loads down the street and balanced himself by resting his abdomen on the tip of a sword. He had a scar on his neck where a sword had once pierced him when he slipped while performing the stunt.
He contacted black fever when he was 12..Recovered by calisthenics.
Joined Royal Air Force in 1942..Jailed for slapping his officer who made some racist remarks, but did work out in jail.
1950 goes on to win Mr. Hercules contest. (Pocket Hercules)
1951 came second in Mr.Universe to Mr Monotosh Roy(another body builder from Bengal)
1951 becomes title holder of NABBA Mr. Universe.
Was one of the pioneers of physical culture revolution in India.
He was awarded "Banga Bibhushan" title by the Govt of Bengal.
Ha I meet manohar aich :) when we was 98 or something like that.
Dude with badass moustache was shreddeded
Chads from 1960:
It is really impressive how well trained their legs are
Just wanted to remind you that Jesus Christ loves you so much. Repent your sins and turn your life to Him. Have a great day Bro. ✝️🕊️❤️✝️
@Keiki Haniyasushin ?
@@adenshaw5273😐
@@JesusChristLovesYouBro we have bhuddhas path,but we dont consider him god,he is our path shower
@@MissionTapasyabro im sorry i dont mean to disrespect but isnt he an enlightend human coome on bro he mightve been a messenger of islam there around 120000 prophets his message mightve been corrupted
The Indian dudes I can say we're not just into "bodybuilding" but rather could be wrestlers, gymnasts etc... I guess many European "Bodybuilders" were mainly into strongman events
I'm sure some of them knew the benefits of testosterone enhancing plants like onions which got me big as if I was on juice but had to stop because I stunk 24/7 especially when I was sweating so I lost the size onions gave me since onions over tripled my natural testosterone levels
Yea most of them were wrestlers
Given the fact that these guys had to hold their fully flexed poses for a hot minute, sometimes literally, I find these photos amazing.
2022: "Yo bruh are you natty?"
Before 1930: "Yo what is Gear? What is Natty, you mean nutty?"
They don't look like disgusting monstrosities. Amazing
Aww you don’t like body builders? Let me go tell them so they can quit, cause they only do it to look good in your eyes🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
@@jackmeoff5121 just stop bro that was so cringe
@@rodplays3726 awww you don’t like what I said? Let me go delete it because some pleb on the internet is too fat and dumb to realize he just has to lift weights and eat less to lose weight.
@@jackmeoff5121 cringe
@@rodplays3726 that hurt my feelings so much I just sold 3 solar systems at $40,000 each🤣🤣🤣booo whooo
What this says to me is that the basic movements, hard work and single ingredient foods are all you need…
Just wanted to remind you that Jesus Christ loves you so much. Repent your sins and turn your life to Him. Have a great day Bro. ✝️🕊️❤️✝️
@@JesusChristLovesYouBro I just wanted to let you know that Jesus Christ visited me and told me to tell you to stop doing stuff like this. He was very upset.
@@DrakeBrunette Testosterone levels have been plummeting for decades.
Genetic
@@JesusChristLovesYouBro lol gtfo with this imaginary friend, I ain't 12 year old to believe in tales like this.
They got that goblin physique
goated era
A cut above, doesn't even come close to describe them.
Can't wait to hear more about them!
Their drip game was on point too. Spicy
Your channel keeps me sane against the malestrom of modern fake natties
First bro is the Indian Bertil Fox
What enlightened me about weight lifting and fitness in general, is when my mom talked about her experience going through Basic Combat Training when she enlisted in the Army. This chick that was super fit, super in shape, used to be a body builder, quit BCT because her body was adapting to the general exercises (push ups, situps, running) and she was losing all her gains. My mom went in built like a stick, and literally outlasted fitness gurus in BCT, because she was able to outendure them. Being fit doesn’t mean you have a six pack, it means you can get out of bed in the morning, and do things, without being literally weighed down by your own body.
The body adapts to what is required of it, 'fit' isn't universal. The ideal ultra-runner is skinny and weak, the opposite to a higher-weight-class powerlifter with the middle being gymnasts.
The same thing still hasn't changed lol. 99% of the women in the army right now are weak as shit but decent runners. So obviously so that the army has consistently changed its standard to make it easier for women while keeping the baseline the same for men. Good for your mom but. Let's not put other people down.
@@cambamslam3510 But putting other people down is the job of the Military :D
@@redjupiter2236 true lol
Your mom is much weaker on a good day, weaker than a weaker man in the army
And the irony is a lot of these builders would have outlived most of those builders who came after them but abused testosterone.
Absolutely. Plus the food they consumed was much cleaner than what we have today.
@@AlexG-tp2ik exactly.
Food wasn't only much cleaner but they were eating whole foods. They were getting there nutrients from meat, fruits, vegitables, grains, nuts and seeds.... Not from 20 diffrent suppliments.
Food had much less to no chemicals and pesticides.
That's why most of em lived well past average human Life expectancy of that time.
@- eniotna - no.
Everyone did not had same diet.
You need to remember which time we are talking about. It's before 1935.
I can say everyone absolutely 100% did not had same diet. It was the time of wars, great depression, plagues, famines, etc.
It wasn't like 21st century where even the lower middle class could atleast afford good quality food.
No.
Only few elite class people had access to good food anything below that was surviving on bare minimum.
Today people work to afford cars, houses, costly accessories, etc... Back then people used to work to survive, they didn't work for few days, they won't have food on the table.
So yes, bodybuilders of that time eat exceptionally well compared to the rest of the people and lived well last them
@ABir, Classic example - Mr. Manohar Aich, Mr. Universe and also called 'Pocket Hercules.' Lived 100 yrs +
@@abirnigam8816 for real. This thread has so much misinformation in it. Even the premise that steroids didn't exist before 1930 is wrong. Synthetic testosterone did not exist, but testosterone was extracted from pig and bull testicles and injected into humans as early as the 1890s. And yes, it works exactly the same as injecting yourself with synthetic testosterone.
So ironically, it's entirely possible that Eugene Sandow (3rd picture in the video if I recall correctly) was in fact not natty. I doubt the Indians would have had access to test, but he very easily could have considering his connections at the time.
its also to note that natural testosterone in men has decreased SIGNIFICANTLY since that point in time. according to an article I found it has decreased almost 25 percent since the 90s and probably more by now. So thsese dudes were PUMPED full of natural testosterone while dudes today are probably down by almost 30% or more from their great grandparents.
I was born with high test levels and still have crazy natural test levels compared to average but my chest looks like these guys
But you're talking average people. At the extremities, how much has a it changed?
True, but you can raise your natural testosterone levels through good diet and exercise.
It's the change in the average lifestyle that has been dropping T levels. A change in lifestyle can bring it back the other way.
They don't look all that testosterone filled. Apart from muscles. Lots of them have babyfaces.
Im taking the pure natty route. I take my protein from food . I don’t even drink whey. I also maintain a 3k calories diet
Hows your physique looking?
@@matttheamerican3766 I'm doing the same put on 30lbs+ in 6 months. But I did BB 6-7 years about 10 years back so it's sort of cheating I know all the ways and strict freeweight methods lol.
3k cals of just food? How?
This is one of the most unique and useful videos I’ve seen on YT for bodybuilding. You deserve a like 👍
Thanks mate!
Video is wrong. Testosterone was synthesized in the 30s, but it wasn't available for use until the 50s for American and Soviet olympic athletes. It wasn't in pharmacies until in the 60s, so before that It would be like trying to acquire SARMs back in the 90s, near impossible. Originally they had to crush and extract it directly from dozens of pounds of bull testes... as you can imagine it was impossible to widely put these out.
There are MUCH better physiques from the early 50s that are certainly natty. Guys benching 500+ pounds, 20 inch biceps, 220lbs lean.
Damn, Luigi's been working out.
This is very underrated good joke
Hahahahaha!
Most of them are indians
Kids now: You dropped this king 💉
it's more like a youtube video on basic biology. it would be 100x harder to get that big drug-free back then than it is today
It's important to note that the food these men would have been eating was much cleaner than what we consume today in terms of additives and harmful chemicals that negatively affect hormones.
Make sure you're eating clean, gentlemen. It makes a big difference.
Fuck no it wouldn’t wtf
how does this only have 36 likes?
Yeah, I think this could be because how much higher the average testosterone was back then. We're literally being poisoned.
I can't imagine that they knew about tracking protein, insane.
Probably got enough protein from eating meat anyway
They weren't cavemen. They knew enough of the basics.
They were eating enough protein and the truth is they weren't that big! Compared to modern fitness models these naturals of the past are twice as small. I am not saying everyone are on steroids, but fitness models most certainly are!
@@thomas.thomas Their diet consisted of fish every single day.
India has always had a very good base of wrestling. It's funny how this tracking protein and gym culture bullshit is being regarded as the benchmark here when their culture was far superior than ours.
Irony is these natty guys have better legs than a lot of juiced up guys I know lol
I was just thinking that 😅
Bruh 🤣
That's because they aren't juicing properly
They natty but they had higher test levels a lot more then nowadays
@@AFCTV204 thats actually not true at all lol.
They also didn't have a bunch of processed shit for food like we do nowadays, probably a huge factor in natural hormone levels, wonder what the test average is between the bronze/silver era
100% although ironically you could still get taken out by some bad meat but at least it wasn't processed.
Last guys wings was big enough to fly to heaven
That my friend is George hackenshmidt, the Russian lion!
No joke, these are incredible though. Do we have their names? I only know a handful of the white guys, sadly, like George H and Eugen Sandow.
In order of appearance in the video:
Began Raj (first two)
Eugen Sandow
Bishnu Charan Ghosh
Mool Chand
Mr. Eggleton
S. Natu
S. Bose
Shushil Kumar Chakraborty
George Hackenschmidt
@@NattyLifeYT Guess Indians were the natty Kings back then
@@blizz8563 still are, you can walk into any akhada in haryana and UP and spot one naturally ripped guy.
@@blizz8563 Its in our genetics, there was a king in India who fought the Mughals in India, he was 7 feet tall used to carry 2 big swords one for him and one for whom who has no weapon left so the fight can get equality two spears and a body shield it was said that all those makes atleast upto 200kg of weight and with that weight he used to cut half slice through enemies by his sword.
@@pranayghosh4413 hes just an outlier.
Even more amazing is their sandals. I needed it!
I am a Bengali (also from Kolkata) and seeing my ancestors this big really inspires 😊❤
They’re more ripped than most bodybuilders
Roid losers are an embarrassment to the gym 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not even close
@@Ande234🤡
absolute chads these guys. Pure hard work and dedication
bodybuilding is hard work regardless
@@tonyisnotdead yea, but today almost every Bodybuilder is on 💉
Homeboy at the end was a fookin unit
That was pro wrestler George Hackenschmidt
@@Gulag00 inventor of the Hack squat and the Bench press
That was one of the strongest estonians to ever live
@@alexeidenier4072 if bro invented the T bar row he’d be responsible for the 3 greatest exercises of all time.
@@daynejoseph2366 I think you're forgetting the barbell back squat. He didn't invent that but... Its definitely one of if not the best exercise ever.
I bet the last guys name was Magnus
The guy in leopard boxers has my dream physique
And my dream underpants 😅😅
It's muscle maturity and density vs muscle mass of today, these men had awesome muscles, plus the clothing and the mustaches really do it
the fur britches tho'... 😁
Capitalize on excellent definition, the rest can be settled with flexing.