Natural Bodybuilders: Skip LaCour Says: Quit your bitching

[aurelius]

I have to laugh at people who accuse people of using steroids without knowing if its true or not...

...and I have to laugh at those who believe people aren´t using because they said so.

 

[Geno_O]

Aurelius, are you saying that you would not take your friend's
word for something after you have gotten to know them over
time? That you would question all that they tell you?

I tend to trust my friends because they give me reason to
trust them.

By the way, I am speaking for Jeff. I do not know Skip.

 

[aurelius]

That you would question all that they tell you?

I didn´t say question ALL that they tell you. Even couples, married for a long time, can have things that the other doesn´t know about them.

 

[Thaibox]

Is this a friend of a friend fact or a legitimate fact?

My cousin owns a very large, prominant gym where many pros roll through. I lived with him for a while and had the opportunity to meet many pros there. I have no direct black and white evidence, but I personally am completely convinced of it by reputable sources.

 

[Robert Jan]

i doubt hes natural too.

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

Natural and Skip should not be used in the same sentence.

 

[aurelius]

Natural and Skip should not be used in the same sentence

You could say the same about "natural" and bodybuilding. (competitions anyway)

 

[brianmincher]

I can't remember the name of the article, but someone wrote one a few years ago saying something to the effect that "natural" and bodybuilding were at the opposite end of the spectrum and diametrically opposed. I know natural has become the word used for someone not taking steroids. But give me a break. Truly natural would probably mean untrained as well. What is natural about going into a room and picking up heavy weighted barbells? Did cavemen do it?

If a person wants to train without juice, that is fine, if they want to juice that is fine too as far as I am concerned. But juiced to the gills or clean as the driven snow, unless you compete, you are not a "bodybuilder" you are a weight trainer. Bodybuilders compete in the sport of bodybuilding. Weight trainers lift weights in a gym.

I have been around the iron game for 10 years now. I have known a ton of weight trainers, a few actual bodybuilders and quite a few powerlifters. The bodybuilders I have known well enough to talk candidly have told me that nobody competing who is actually competitive is clean, even at the state level, and certainly not at the national or world levels. I have seen nor heard nothing since I was told that to make me think differently.

Clean and bodybuilder should probably no more be in the same sentence than clean and Skip Lacour. Now I know that there are some extremely hard working truly natural bodybuilders out there. I am friends with some of them. One in particular looks better than I ever could regardless of supplementation. I am in no way throwing out disrespect toward truly natural guys who compete in natural meets.

But be aware that the truly clean guys out there who are competitive are very few and far between.

B.

 

[MrMuscle]

Thats what i've been saying all the time. Natural are the way to go.

 

[aurelius]

The bodybuilders I have known well enough to talk candidly have told me that nobody competing who is actually competitive is clean, even at the state level, and certainly not at the national or world levels. I have seen nor heard nothing since I was told that to make me think differently.

Finally someone who knows something here.