As a former bikini competitor, everything Greg said it’s true. There a some great coaches tho. My former coach is coaching some of the top and he never asked me to take anything. I was natural. There are quite some girls at the amateur level who are natural. But at nationals I was between the last girls. I realized it would take me many years to maybe win my pro card and that prep was awful. I only did 3 competitions in 3 years, but each time my period took longer to come back and at the last time I was worried. I know girls, who were naturally competing, but lost their periods for years and are struggling to have kids in their late 30s. It wasn’t worth my health and risk for me anymore. It’s been almost 1 and a half years since my last competition and I’m still struggling sometimes with eating disorder. I had to gain 25 lb over my stage weight to satiate my appetite and hormones and not binge all the time. Before bodybuilding I never had eating disorder and body dysmorphia like this, and I was a former athlete in another sport. On the steroid note, one of my childhood friend died of heart attack at the age of 28 because of steroid use over more than a decade. He said, he knew the consequences but he really wanted to be a bodybuilder so he was ok with the risks. So many bodybuilders die. As a former athlete in another sport, I can say, bodybuilding is extremely unhealthy. When someone gets stage lean, it is the closest their body is to dying. Hormones that regulate everything in the body don’t work well anymore,also bc you are constantly hungry, you can’t sleep, bc your body is keeping you up bc wants essential food to survive. So in about the last month before your competition, you work extremely hard, under eat and can never rest and recover. It’s horrible. Unless people take steroids, that way, they can somewhat recover and keep pushing hard. I’m so happy Greg talks about the bad side of bodybuilding. I wish I would have known this before I started. And I hope people believe what he saids, bc he saids a lot important stuff, real and truth. I wish more bodybuilders would be honest. I met so many of them, and 99% of them will not tell you the bad or the truth. All drug addicts like to hide it. Most bodybuilders are like drug addicts. And many of them don’t see it like that. Very serious stuff.
💯 . I follow a few of the girls and before stage most look super sick. They faces look gaunt. I like meg Sylvester but this year she looks so skinny and gaunt in the face. Almost like she staving. She’s ripped to fuck and works hard but fuck me she looks Gaunt in the face, can see all her bones. I don’t compete just want muscles. Did not take me long to realise how low people have to go fat wise wow. I am perimenpause and refuse even to take HRT lol, I determined to get through it without and HRT. Don’t wanna take hormones for life. As for girls and period I can only imagine how bad that is.
Unfortunately Greg also promotes steroids by always talking about it. Just the other wk he was explaining how to take it. His channel would be nothing without talking about steroids
@@demetriuscooksey7147Bodybuilding in general, natty or not, is not exactly healthy. The heavy workouts, the diet, etc… Being a bodybuilder does not mean that you are healthy.
Nothing t to l do e we’re it’s social media. This has been going on before social media existed. People believe muscle = health, muscle is just muscle. I competed almost 20 years ago and it’s the most unhealthy ‘sport’ for real, and I switched to fitness which actually is a sport because it’s basically gymnastics. That is the hardest of all the categories.
I know. Dudes who are nowhere near huge and chicks who are not shredded in gyms are out there juiced, with the women sounding like men and full of jaw line acne. But sure, the pros are not juicing. /s
as a young guy I thought that 500mg of test a week is alot , now i know that typical bodybuilding stack is about 3/4g of few compounds a week with 10+ gh/daily... these guys are junkies
Put a shirt on. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
@@kubazaborowski7570 500mg per week is still a lot. That will put most men into test levels above 5,000ng/dL. IF and big IF, they have an AI on cycle. Most will be aromatized to estradiol and the test level will not be that high.
Everyone who is on steroids lies. I had the honor of training at the first Gold's Gym outside the state of CA. We had many pro bodybuilders and powerlifters. There was a lady who was a bodybuilding competitor. Built like a statue of granite. She swore she never took steroids and claimed she hated the fact people took drugs to enhance their physiques. She was constantly exclaiming how against steroid use she was. Then one day she went to the locker room and left her gym bag by the front desk. The owner deciided to look in her bag and lo and behold was a couple of bottles of Anavar. We laughed our asses off.
Ok I’m sure this probably isn’t the case but anavar is prescribed for muscle wastage after long term corticosteroid use, that’s why I take it, I had little to no muscle when I started working out seven years ago( I had an autoimmune disease which forced me to take the corticosteroid or die) & maintained no muscle gain for 6 years, I started test and anavar then instantly grew more than I had in all seven years in only two and a half months
Only those that are ashamed and are putting on some sort of fake persona. I was and still am open about my past use, like... Why hide it? Granted this was 20 years ago, still why hide it? Only thing I can come up with is insecurity(of being judged) or fear of legal action... Which, no one cares about steroids. Cops ain't looking for it, and a lot of times are on themselves.
@@dmora2386 People will lie because they want you to think the way they look is all natural. Their ego won't allow them to admit they are enhanced by anabolics.
My buddy is dead at 40. He started on juice in his twenties and could not stand not being big and ripped, so he never went off. Finally, his blood pressure was through the roof and he had to go off or stroke out. So he went off, but had no chance at endogenous test after being on that long, so he spiraled into depression, then started drinking more and more heavily and died (probably kidney failure) chubby, soft and miserable. At 40.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Sadly this is true, and it’s only becoming worse and worse, the ages for steroid use are getting lower and lower every year, there are 15 and 16 year old kids out there taking the stuff.
This has got to be my favorite video you've posted Coach. Hands down the most passion and emotion I have ever seen from you. It's refreshing to know how much you care
Yo, I know you probably wont see this but. Love your vids, im 14 almost 15 and I have lost 100lbs from watching you and listening to your advice. These vids are great man ❤
I met a woman who competed in one of these. She told me the experience "ruined" her for food. She said food just becomes fuel and you have to be very obsessive. She said she cannot enjoy food anymore since competing one time!
I love Ilona (Chikara Transformations) so much because she is completely honest about what she does, what she takes/doesn't take, and the risks involved.
Jesse James West asking Sam Sulek what’s the one thing he’d like to tell all his fans ..”Just Get BIG”. That’s all you need to know about the fitness industry and all body building competitions and its competitors.
I agree Sam seems like a good guy yeah he's jacked as hell but he's not as smart and as amazing as everybody says he is he just has amazing genetics you could tell by looking at pictures when he was younger and also he just trains hard there's no real science behind what he does he just eats a lot takes PEDs and trains hard unfortunately not everybody can do that
@porcupinecraig So what is that they get, an ifbb pro card eventually ? What if they idolize Arnold? Do they deserve his physique and end up being healthy, rich and famous(like Arnold)..?
What do you expect from a 21 year old kid? |"ll ask him to move some furniture for me rather than askng him for life advice. But alas being young, I had the same mentality, it was due to insecurities that a lot of young people have which got us into bodybuilding in the first place.
I'm 54 and have been a bodybuilder for near 37 years. TRT since I was 52. I look great. But I'm not healthy or particularly fit. It's all a smoke screen. It just helps me 'feel' better.
Damn right Greg. Nobody in the world except Derek for more plates. More dates is making people more aware of the risks of peds and bodybuilding. Than you. You two are the only people I respect on UA-cam as far as bodybuilding goes. God bless both of you and thank you
I competed quite a few years ago and my coach at the time told me I would need some anavar which I refused to take. I switched coaches and she didn’t even mention steroids to me so it really depends on the coach you have, but I didn’t place because MOST of the competitors are on some kind of PED. I would've needed to build muscle for a few more years, and drop more weight at comp day to even make top 5. This sport is not easy and definitely not healthy. Be realistic before you attempt it.
Thank you friend, came back to fitness after 4yrs off and i hated the whole process, now i am focused on less working out, eating normal meals and feel great
I’m a natural competitor. WPD Masters. I compete in the OCB which is a drug tested and polygraph league. There are other leagues too, like WNBF. If you love bodybuilding and don’t want to take peds there are leagues that are truly natural and have strict testing! That to say…getting stage lean is not healthy. It’s extreme. I can see where EDs could result as a result of competing. You have to love your body in all the phases you f the sport, prep and off season.
Dana Linn Bailey says to Bradley Martin that she won the 2013 Women's Physique title at Joe Weider's Olympia in Las Vegas, completely natural. Only with Centrum, water and food.
Professional bodybuilding is not a sport, it's a beauty contest. Professional bodybuilders are not athletes, they are professional liars. Let me give you an example: Ronnie Coleman claimed in a recent interview that he became a professional bodybuilder without taking steroids. However, he also confirmed that he had been taking illegal medications throughout his professional bodybuilding career. What is there to talk about when such famous people on UA-cam as David Lade and many others purposefully lie to their audience that they have never taken steroids in their lives. They do not feel any responsibility for the consequences of their delusion. Only their own benefit, that's their true goal.
I like Ronnie, but I've seen videos of him claiming he got down to 0.3% body fat for competitions, which I don't think is possible b/c he could still walk back then & I'm pretty sure at 0.3% BF you wouldn't have enough myelin left in your nervous system to even walk properly. So I'm pretty sure he either got a faulty reading & kept repeating it, or got a decimal in the wrong place IDK if I'd call him a liar though, he seemed legitimately confused about most of the things he got wrong IMO, but maybe I'm being too charitable. Either way, his story is more of a cautionary tale than something we'd want to emulate for at least 99% of people out there, myself included
I laugh whenever someone calls it a sport. There's absolutely no athletic contest. It's merely having the best look on stage for 1 day of the year. Literally a beauty pageant on steroids
@@nathansmith3608he said that what was there result of the test. Which is dosen't mean that Ronnie was lying. It just shows that this tests have margine of error. He was probably around 4% realistically.
I had 2 $h it coaches my last comp and because they were so horrible I became a certified sports fitness nutritionist and I am coaching myself for my natural show in 6 weeks. Gonna diet back slow and no bulking only building diet. Bulking is bs
For having competed, it’s such a fuck up world! It’s accepted ED and body dysmorphia, we don’t even see it when we compete. We think we are so bad ass and most coaches are just playing and know nothing, they just want the $$$. I cannot take any of it seriously anymore. When you distance yourself from it, it’s when you see clear. It’s a circus!
Bodybuilders and fitness competitors are not athletes. These competitions have no credibility! The PEDs that people are taking in order to compete and win is nonsense.
Let’s not forget that it’s not only bodybuilders who take PEDS .. pro cyclists . Runners crossfitters do as well.. don’t shit on bodybuilding just because their goal is aesthetics and not performance
A very revealing, and sincere lecture! Greg, you tell as it is; good, bad, and ugly; women should not be taking anabolic drugs! It is actually ridiculous; and for a bikini contest, it's absurd! Anyway, I have known about the use of steroids, from what I've heard, and read from the bodybuilding magazines in the very early 1980s when I was in my senior years in high school; in Ontario, Canada there was also grade 13. I remember one such magazine warned about the terrible side effects of taking anabolic steroids, and to give a precise year in 1981, in Muscle Illustrated; Editor was Dan Lurie. I remember a friend, whose father told me in the late 1970s that almost all bodybuilders, in the Top Contests were on drugs - anabolic steroids. Such competitors within a Mr. Nation, or World arena, took anabolic steroids. He also trained in bodybuilding, and revealed that most took steroids; whereby it was very early 1970s; and I'd say maybe 1972. Therefore, if a competitor, and not only a winner, second, and third placing, won, steroids were taken. Later on deep into the 1990s, and early 2000s for the top contests, and competitors, there was also the consumption of Human Growth Hormone as an anabolic drug, too. Anyway, you know the score; in the Iron Game. However, it does not have to be that way. First thing to do is to consume at least 20, or up to 50 grams more of protein; and then you are on the road of success. Only my true opinion.🏋♂
Shoutout to Team Atlas's "amazing" transformations hahaha. Those girls win their pro cards in 4 months of lifting and then you never see them again cause they rebound like crazy and develop severe eating disorders. I'm so happy I stopped competing right at that moment when I realised the next step would be starting PEDs. It took me 2 years to start enjoying what I see in the mirror again not being competition lean. I can only imagine how far this body dysmorphia woulld go on PEDs....
Diet foods and artificial sweeteners are quite amazing now a days they have come a long way from 20+ years ago. Protein powders and bars tasted like crap back in the 90s.
I had a client that competed in a bikini competition and placed 3rd completely natural. I was a personal trainer for over 20 years. My main demographic was special populations, but on occasion, I trained someone to get ready for competition. I have always been against performance enhancers, so most people wouldn't want me to train them for competition if I didn't support their use of these drugs. The client I had that placed 3rd in the local competition worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to place 3rd. I was so proud of her. It's been almost 10 years, and she's a mother of 3 now. She's still passionate about fitness, but after seeing how impossible it is to win without drugs, and not to mention the politics involved, she decided to no longer pursue competition.
There are only a few of us competitive bodybuilders that are natural 😅🥲🤷♂️ (I’m doing my first tested show this year, x3 untested shows against enhanced athletes and got 2nd at both) I’m the next coach Greg! 😂💀💀 except I’m just going to stay natural forever! I like being healthy and feeling healthy and I wanna live long!! 😅🤷♂️🙏💪 still gonna get that pro card tho 🦍🔥🤌 I don’t even take any supplements! Just eat quality!
The answer is simple. Really simple. Compete in the natural leagues. If you want to compete, but aren’t willing to do the extreme side of the export, which is the Ifbb, then compete in the naturally. That is all there is it
I think this is the kind of screaming we love. The passion over the issues in the industry and the desire for it to be better I really don’t get how bodybuilding is judging competitors on aesthetics, but they actually mean how much muscle one has, or how nice their booty is. Having a division way more focused on aesthetics then guys like Anthony Matello would have turned pro already, and less guys and girls abusing drugs to get bigger or surgeries to change their bodies
As a former bikini competitor, everything Greg said it’s true. There a some great coaches tho. My former coach is coaching some of the top and he never asked me to take anything. I was natural. There are quite some girls at the amateur level who are natural. But at nationals I was between the last girls. I realized it would take me many years to maybe win my pro card and that prep was awful. I only did 3 competitions in 3 years, but each time my period took longer to come back and at the last time I was worried. I know girls, who were naturally competing, but lost their periods for years and are struggling to have kids in their late 30s. It wasn’t worth my health and risk for me anymore. It’s been almost 1 and a half years since my last competition and I’m still struggling sometimes with eating disorder. I had to gain 25 lb over my stage weight to satiate my appetite and hormones and not binge all the time. Before bodybuilding I never had eating disorder and body dysmorphia like this, and I was a former athlete in another sport.
On the steroid note, one of my childhood friend died of heart attack at the age of 28 because of steroid use over more than a decade. He said, he knew the consequences but he really wanted to be a bodybuilder so he was ok with the risks.
So many bodybuilders die. As a former athlete in another sport, I can say, bodybuilding is extremely unhealthy. When someone gets stage lean, it is the closest their body is to dying. Hormones that regulate everything in the body don’t work well anymore,also bc you are constantly hungry, you can’t sleep, bc your body is keeping you up bc wants essential food to survive. So in about the last month before your competition, you work extremely hard, under eat and can never rest and recover. It’s horrible. Unless people take steroids, that way, they can somewhat recover and keep pushing hard.
I’m so happy Greg talks about the bad side of bodybuilding. I wish I would have known this before I started. And I hope people believe what he saids, bc he saids a lot important stuff, real and truth. I wish more bodybuilders would be honest. I met so many of them, and 99% of them will not tell you the bad or the truth. All drug addicts like to hide it. Most bodybuilders are like drug addicts. And many of them don’t see it like that. Very serious stuff.
💯 . I follow a few of the girls and before stage most look super sick. They faces look gaunt. I like meg Sylvester but this year she looks so skinny and gaunt in the face. Almost like she staving. She’s ripped to fuck and works hard but fuck me she looks Gaunt in the face, can see all her bones. I don’t compete just want muscles. Did not take me long to realise how low people have to go fat wise wow. I am perimenpause and refuse even to take HRT lol, I determined to get through it without and HRT. Don’t wanna take hormones for life. As for girls and period I can only imagine how bad that is.
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The meaning of the word “fitness” has been totally lost in social media. Very little actual fitness going on.
Unfortunately Greg also promotes steroids by always talking about it. Just the other wk he was explaining how to take it. His channel would be nothing without talking about steroids
Fitness is about a certain look. It has nothing to do with health and longevity now.
@@demetriuscooksey7147Bodybuilding in general, natty or not, is not exactly healthy. The heavy workouts, the diet, etc… Being a bodybuilder does not mean that you are healthy.
Nothing t to l do e we’re it’s social media. This has been going on before social media existed. People believe muscle = health, muscle is just muscle. I competed almost 20 years ago and it’s the most unhealthy ‘sport’ for real, and I switched to fitness which actually is a sport because it’s basically gymnastics. That is the hardest of all the categories.
most of ppl who do it as a hobby ARE enhanced, and some ppl still believe ppl who do it for living arent...mind boggling
I know. Dudes who are nowhere near huge and chicks who are not shredded in gyms are out there juiced, with the women sounding like men and full of jaw line acne. But sure, the pros are not juicing. /s
I won't say that most people who do it for a hobby are taking drugs. That's too far fetched.
Seeing women bench press 300lb how can someone believe they are not taking something? Or maybe they believe in the superhuman 🤣
The dark side of bodybuilding is TRULY the astonishing unbelievable amount of gear some people take for real.
as a young guy I thought that 500mg of test a week is alot , now i know that typical bodybuilding stack is about 3/4g of few compounds a week with 10+ gh/daily... these guys are junkies
Or the amount of fake gear they are buying
Put a shirt on. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
@@repentandfollowjesuschrist6170 stfu and repent deez nuts.
@@kubazaborowski7570 500mg per week is still a lot. That will put most men into test levels above 5,000ng/dL. IF and big IF, they have an AI on cycle. Most will be aromatized to estradiol and the test level will not be that high.
I can co sign 99% of what Greg said with the slight stipulation that SOME coaching actually care about their athletes health…SOME!
Can you guys be frennnnns again!!!
They might care but not many ctually know this they're not endocrinologists
Yo I hope you guys team up again.. the towers of power to sweet to be sour..
Greg’s best cock sucker is here😂 I ain’t never seen a person want to be seen by a person so bad
Jonni why do you comment on greg stuff I understand you probably miss your friend but I don't think this is good ..
Everyone who is on steroids lies. I had the honor of training at the first Gold's Gym outside the state of CA. We had many pro bodybuilders and powerlifters. There was a lady who was a bodybuilding competitor. Built like a statue of granite. She swore she never took steroids and claimed she hated the fact people took drugs to enhance their physiques. She was constantly exclaiming how against steroid use she was. Then one day she went to the locker room and left her gym bag by the front desk. The owner deciided to look in her bag and lo and behold was a couple of bottles of Anavar. We laughed our asses off.
Ok I’m sure this probably isn’t the case but anavar is prescribed for muscle wastage after long term corticosteroid use, that’s why I take it, I had little to no muscle when I started working out seven years ago( I had an autoimmune disease which forced me to take the corticosteroid or die) & maintained no muscle gain for 6 years, I started test and anavar then instantly grew more than I had in all seven years in only two and a half months
Not everyone, years back I would openly admit it to clients or anyone if they asked
Only those that are ashamed and are putting on some sort of fake persona. I was and still am open about my past use, like... Why hide it? Granted this was 20 years ago, still why hide it? Only thing I can come up with is insecurity(of being judged) or fear of legal action... Which, no one cares about steroids. Cops ain't looking for it, and a lot of times are on themselves.
@@ramy19322 gotta do what it takes am i right bb
@@dmora2386 People will lie because they want you to think the way they look is all natural. Their ego won't allow them to admit they are enhanced by anabolics.
My buddy is dead at 40. He started on juice in his twenties and could not stand not being big and ripped, so he never went off. Finally, his blood pressure was through the roof and he had to go off or stroke out. So he went off, but had no chance at endogenous test after being on that long, so he spiraled into depression, then started drinking more and more heavily and died (probably kidney failure) chubby, soft and miserable. At 40.
Could you friend had just stopped taking ‘as much’ steroids and been ok ? (Serious question)
Sorry for your loss.
This is why we need more information around TRT, could've been saved with proper treatment.
Your friend sounds like a bitch
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
This is a real and common story. It's unfortunate and people need to know about it. I was on for nearly a decade and narrowly avoided a similar story.
Coach Greg must treat his videos as an extended cardio session this man is sweating by the end. 😂
That's the point. More cardio than last time.
the only fitness in the fitness industry is the name
Nice 👍🏻
Sadly this is true, and it’s only becoming worse and worse, the ages for steroid use are getting lower and lower every year, there are 15 and 16 year old kids out there taking the stuff.
😂
Fittniss needle in my butt
This has got to be my favorite video you've posted Coach. Hands down the most passion and emotion I have ever seen from you. It's refreshing to know how much you care
Yo, I know you probably wont see this but. Love your vids, im 14 almost 15 and I have lost 100lbs from watching you and listening to your advice. These vids are great man ❤
No crash diets btw 🔥
Good on you, keep up the healthy lifestyle 👍
That's awesome bro cheers to you
100 pounds😳 how much do you weigh now?
Good job young man 💪🏽❤
I met a woman who competed in one of these. She told me the experience "ruined" her for food. She said food just becomes fuel and you have to be very obsessive. She said she cannot enjoy food anymore since competing one time!
I love Ilona (Chikara Transformations) so much because she is completely honest about what she does, what she takes/doesn't take, and the risks involved.
Me too. She is so straight forward and informational. Love her videos.
I like John Dillinger. He was honest about killing people and robbing banks and the possible consequences of doing so.
@porcupinecraig I like strawmen: they pop up everywhere you might expect to find an intelligent rebuttal.
I love her but honestly have concern about her long-term health.
@LadyLuvsNatr she has stated what she does is unhealthy and she doesn't plan on doing it forever
This has always been Greg’s best and most important content.
Jesse James West asking Sam Sulek what’s the one thing he’d like to tell all his fans ..”Just Get BIG”. That’s all you need to know about the fitness industry and all body building competitions and its competitors.
Sam sulek is a mentally ill kid, that should not be taken seriously.
If anyone is idolizing someone like Same Sulek, then they get what they deserve.
I agree Sam seems like a good guy yeah he's jacked as hell but he's not as smart and as amazing as everybody says he is he just has amazing genetics you could tell by looking at pictures when he was younger and also he just trains hard there's no real science behind what he does he just eats a lot takes PEDs and trains hard unfortunately not everybody can do that
@porcupinecraig So what is that they get, an ifbb pro card eventually ?
What if they idolize Arnold? Do they deserve his physique and end up being healthy, rich and famous(like Arnold)..?
What do you expect from a 21 year old kid? |"ll ask him to move some furniture for me rather than askng him for life advice. But alas being young, I had the same mentality, it was due to insecurities that a lot of young people have which got us into bodybuilding in the first place.
I'm 54 and have been a bodybuilder for near 37 years. TRT since I was 52. I look great. But I'm not healthy or particularly fit. It's all a smoke screen. It just helps me 'feel' better.
Damn right Greg. Nobody in the world except Derek for more plates. More dates is making people more aware of the risks of peds and bodybuilding. Than you. You two are the only people I respect on UA-cam as far as bodybuilding goes. God bless both of you and thank you
Coach greg spitting more facts than last time.
Why you stopped making videos?
THIS IS SO TRUE! I AM A COMPETITIVE BODYBUILDER AND I HAVE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED 1ST HAND THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS IT CAN HAVE.
This is BIG video you made greg! Your talking about the IFBB!! and you speaking facts. You gain my respect!!🙏
I competed quite a few years ago and my coach at the time told me I would need some anavar which I refused to take. I switched coaches and she didn’t even mention steroids to me so it really depends on the coach you have, but I didn’t place because MOST of the competitors are on some kind of PED. I would've needed to build muscle for a few more years, and drop more weight at comp day to even make top 5. This sport is not easy and definitely not healthy. Be realistic before you attempt it.
Your voice makes this 💯 times better
@Greg Doucette, thank you for being so upfront and honest about this sport. Subscribed.
Thank you Coach Greg for being honest and giving your take on what is going on. Respect.
Sweating and crying while ranting. that is passion.
Thank you friend, came back to fitness after 4yrs off and i hated the whole process, now i am focused on less working out, eating normal meals and feel great
This has to be one of your best efforts on the topic
Keep hammering the message home
I love Coach Gregs passion when he rants. Preaching Harder than last time ****KUDOS CHAMP
Thank you Greg for always being truthful and real!
I’m a natural competitor. WPD Masters. I compete in the OCB which is a drug tested and polygraph league. There are other leagues too, like WNBF. If you love bodybuilding and don’t want to take peds there are leagues that are truly natural and have strict testing! That to say…getting stage lean is not healthy. It’s extreme. I can see where EDs could result as a result of competing. You have to love your body in all the phases you f the sport, prep and off season.
Dana Linn Bailey says to Bradley Martin that she won the 2013 Women's Physique title at Joe Weider's Olympia in Las Vegas, completely natural. Only with Centrum, water and food.
She lied.
😂
I wonder how many young women she’s cookbooked by lying!?!?
@@tommydurnell8797 many.
@@wrdougherty1 maybe.
Professional bodybuilding is not a sport, it's a beauty contest. Professional bodybuilders are not athletes, they are professional liars. Let me give you an example: Ronnie Coleman claimed in a recent interview that he became a professional bodybuilder without taking steroids. However, he also confirmed that he had been taking illegal medications throughout his professional bodybuilding career. What is there to talk about when such famous people on UA-cam as David Lade and many others purposefully lie to their audience that they have never taken steroids in their lives.
They do not feel any responsibility for the consequences of their delusion. Only their own benefit, that's their true goal.
I like Ronnie, but I've seen videos of him claiming he got down to 0.3% body fat for competitions, which I don't think is possible b/c he could still walk back then & I'm pretty sure at 0.3% BF you wouldn't have enough myelin left in your nervous system to even walk properly. So I'm pretty sure he either got a faulty reading & kept repeating it, or got a decimal in the wrong place
IDK if I'd call him a liar though, he seemed legitimately confused about most of the things he got wrong IMO, but maybe I'm being too charitable. Either way, his story is more of a cautionary tale than something we'd want to emulate for at least 99% of people out there, myself included
I laugh whenever someone calls it a sport. There's absolutely no athletic contest. It's merely having the best look on stage for 1 day of the year. Literally a beauty pageant on steroids
@@nathansmith3608he said that what was there result of the test.
Which is dosen't mean that Ronnie was lying. It just shows that this tests have margine of error.
He was probably around 4% realistically.
@@battlefuta9953 yeah, I agree
@@MisterOcclusionyou have no knowledge about bodybuilding, it require more time than most sports.
I had 2 $h it coaches my last comp and because they were so horrible I became a certified sports fitness nutritionist and I am coaching myself for my natural show in 6 weeks. Gonna diet back slow and no bulking only building diet. Bulking is bs
Thanks Coach, God Bless You all!
I love coach Greg even more after this video. Preach it!
Absolutely, well said coach!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Coach Greg is ABSOLUTELY right! 💯
To be fair, I've never heard of a competitor state that they have optimal health or it being advertised.
Hope everyone is listening to coach Greg, he's preaching the truth on this one!!!!!!
Taking PEDs is only worth it if Greg does a natty or not video about you and explains for 15 minutes how hot you are.
I will be in one of those vids within 5 years 🙏
Thanks for your courage in speaking out
Thank you for speaking the truth
This is a powerful video. Thank you for being honest
Yelling at a cookbook 📖 faster than last time!
Who else thought this video was going to be about fake tanning?
I thought it was going to be about anakin skywalker😢
Instead I learned steroids are 👎
No one and everyone all at once
YOU SAID THE TRUTH!
I AM SO GLAD YOU POSTED THIS. SO SO GLAD. THANK YOU. THE REALITY NEEDS EXPOSED.
They hate coach Greg cause hes the goat!
I love this man thanks Coach ❤
Coach Greg is Truthing harder than last time.
Amen Coach Greg 🔥🔥🔥
For having competed, it’s such a fuck up world! It’s accepted ED and body dysmorphia, we don’t even see it when we compete. We think we are so bad ass and most coaches are just playing and know nothing, they just want the $$$. I cannot take any of it seriously anymore. When you distance yourself from it, it’s when you see clear. It’s a circus!
Loved to see your intense passion in the last 5 minutes.
I appreciate this video a lot. Thank you!
Coach Greg, this is one of the most informative videos I have seen from you. Good job!
Thank you for this.
Bodybuilders and fitness competitors are not athletes.
These competitions have no credibility!
The PEDs that people are taking in order to compete and win is nonsense.
Let’s not forget that it’s not only bodybuilders who take PEDS .. pro cyclists . Runners crossfitters do as well.. don’t shit on bodybuilding just because their goal is aesthetics and not performance
Wow! I had no clue. Great video.
Great video and great information brother! 👍 I learned a lot in such a short amount of time. YOU are AWESOME!!!!
Having that information in your arsenal, in my opinion, would make me more interested in participating.
Greg schooling harder than last time
Amazing passion and delivery 💪👍
Amazing video! Thank you, Coach Greg! Well said!
Bodybuilding is
Very bad
Natty 4Life
Health is wealth
Whos with me?
Natty is the way to go 🎉
Natty bodybuilding for the win, not competitive but recreational
Biceps are health imo
Natty with some gear and lots of juice?
Natty is my statty! We’re all gonna make it.
A very revealing, and sincere lecture! Greg, you tell as it is; good, bad, and ugly; women should not be taking anabolic drugs! It is actually ridiculous; and for a bikini contest, it's absurd! Anyway, I have known about the use of steroids, from what I've heard, and read from the bodybuilding magazines in the very early 1980s when I was in my senior years in high school; in Ontario, Canada there was also grade 13. I remember one such magazine warned about the terrible side effects of taking anabolic steroids, and to give a precise year in 1981, in Muscle Illustrated; Editor was Dan Lurie.
I remember a friend, whose father told me in the late 1970s that almost all bodybuilders, in the Top Contests were on drugs - anabolic steroids. Such competitors within a Mr. Nation, or World arena, took anabolic steroids. He also trained in bodybuilding, and revealed that most took steroids; whereby it was very early 1970s; and I'd say maybe 1972. Therefore, if a competitor, and not only a winner, second, and third placing, won, steroids were taken.
Later on deep into the 1990s, and early 2000s for the top contests, and competitors, there was also the consumption of Human Growth Hormone as an anabolic drug, too. Anyway, you know the score; in the Iron Game. However, it does not have to be that way. First thing to do is to consume at least 20, or up to 50 grams more of protein; and then you are on the road of success. Only my true opinion.🏋♂
Darker than last time
One of your best videos. Love the transparency 💯💯💯
This was absolutely amazing.
Shoutout to Team Atlas's "amazing" transformations hahaha. Those girls win their pro cards in 4 months of lifting and then you never see them again cause they rebound like crazy and develop severe eating disorders. I'm so happy I stopped competing right at that moment when I realised the next step would be starting PEDs. It took me 2 years to start enjoying what I see in the mirror again not being competition lean. I can only imagine how far this body dysmorphia woulld go on PEDs....
14:07 in the words of Ronnie Coleman, “Basic Stuff”
I knew this was going to be Epic Coach Greg!
I like your chat today, so I've liked it, sound advice😎
Great Video.. more videos please❤️❤️❤️👍
❤ great, well said
The worst thing about bodybuilding is the sugar free chocolate. Disgusting. 🤢🤮🍫
🙌 word
I am a diabetic and love me some sugar free chocolate on my oats.
Diet foods and artificial sweeteners are quite amazing now a days they have come a long way from 20+ years ago. Protein powders and bars tasted like crap back in the 90s.
It’s funny. All the English Pros admit they’re using it because it’s legal 😂
A sincere warning video cloaked as a marketing video. Bravo!
Great video!
I had a client that competed in a bikini competition and placed 3rd completely natural. I was a personal trainer for over 20 years. My main demographic was special populations, but on occasion, I trained someone to get ready for competition. I have always been against performance enhancers, so most people wouldn't want me to train them for competition if I didn't support their use of these drugs. The client I had that placed 3rd in the local competition worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to place 3rd. I was so proud of her. It's been almost 10 years, and she's a mother of 3 now. She's still passionate about fitness, but after seeing how impossible it is to win without drugs, and not to mention the politics involved, she decided to no longer pursue competition.
WOW, Just watching this guy makes my blood pressure go up.
Great video Greg
Yes to all of this!
There are only a few of us competitive bodybuilders that are natural 😅🥲🤷♂️ (I’m doing my first tested show this year, x3 untested shows against enhanced athletes and got 2nd at both) I’m the next coach Greg! 😂💀💀 except I’m just going to stay natural forever! I like being healthy and feeling healthy and I wanna live long!! 😅🤷♂️🙏💪 still gonna get that pro card tho 🦍🔥🤌 I don’t even take any supplements! Just eat quality!
That's it? PED's? THAT is the dark side of bodybuilding?
Uh, I think there are much darker things that this. Much darker.
Exactly
You need to change the name of the video Greg.
It should say..
I was right yet again
Relax Greg
Good advise.
The answer is simple. Really simple. Compete in the natural leagues. If you want to compete, but aren’t willing to do the extreme side of the export, which is the Ifbb, then compete in the naturally. That is all there is it
What are some natural leagues
@@RapidRants OCB and the NPC natural shows. The Ifbb is making a concerted effort to create more natural shows.
@@Masters-Muscleexcept abuse is rampant even in tested leagues
Another great vide. Thanks ❤️
i forgot how much i loved watching your YT vids
Love your videos ty for making them
Why wasn't the bodybuilder evicted from his apartment?
Because he was squatting. 😂
Nice job, Greg.
I think this is the kind of screaming we love. The passion over the issues in the industry and the desire for it to be better
I really don’t get how bodybuilding is judging competitors on aesthetics, but they actually mean how much muscle one has, or how nice their booty is. Having a division way more focused on aesthetics then guys like Anthony Matello would have turned pro already, and less guys and girls abusing drugs to get bigger or surgeries to change their bodies
I meet the Natural UK champ way back when - he wasn’t natural
Great video. I was one of the best Naturals in the world too, but I had to take PEDS to get my IFBB pro Card.
Coach Greg pressured me to buy his cook book and now im addicted. Hes my dealer 🤣🤣🤣
MORE ADDICTION THAN LAST TIME!!!
Dana Linn Baileys legacy is that she will be the female Mike O'Hearn and she deserves it.
GREG 💯 PERCENT SPOT ON .WELL SAID .TOO MANY PPL CANT HANDLE STRAIGHT UP FACTS..
“I don’t train like this to be healthy.” - Markus Rhul while smoking a cigarette.