Was Sandow on Roids? see pic

[geoboy]

george's book hawk this month in the sticky says Sandow was drug free, but look at the pic.

either he had some motherfucking high natural test, or the pic was doctored.

look at the vein network right below the thin skin and muscle hardness. sorry, dont buy it.

what do you guys think?

 

[glennds]

looks natural doesnt look like he weighs more than 180. looks like a well built athlete instead of an unnatural looking bodybuilder.

 

[Herbiv0re]

He looks 100% natural for me.

 

[Apexx]

Looks natural to me too. There's not a person on this board who couldn't look that way naturally, with enough dedication.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

lol, bor, I know guys bigger than him that are natty.

BTW- the picture was taken some time in the late 1800 or early 1900's... I don't think synthetic Testosterone had been created yet.

 

[needsize]

considering the time when it was taken, training and nutrition knowlege being what it was, his build is very impressive

 

[bicepts101]

yeah i dont even think they had steroids then

 

[DJ_UFO]

and what if he was trying the first versions of steroids as an experiment? the doses would have been extremely low for security, but high enough to give him that ripped look with the clean diet of that time. Just wondering...

 

[LVTitan]

and what if he was trying the first versions of steroids as an experiment? the doses would have been extremely low for security, but high enough to give him that ripped look with the clean diet of that time. Just wondering...

your talking a hundred years ago bro...and my dad was slightly bigger than him and was natty his whole life, and he was just as cut.

 

[Lowest]

That pic is too old, testosterone wasn't isolated till the 30's I believe, or early 40's. Hitler was rumored to have experimented on himself and his soldiers with testosterone. 50's and 60's were the boom decades for steroid development, you'll notice almost every drug we take was invented then. He didn't have jack when that pic was taken, so he's natural and very impressive given the periods lack of equipment and knowledge.

 

[JP@Ironology]

100% Natural.

Eugen Sandow 1867-1925

"The man who invented the business of bodybuilding, from his days in a European circus to his performances in Amsterdam and continual self-publicity that made him famous".

 

[Mavy]

Just a man ...with great genetics.

 

[JP@Ironology]

Just a man ...with great genetics.

Well stated bro.

 

[ceo]

hard work, dedication, and good genes.

 

[SuperDawgy]

No juice there bros, just alot of heavy weight and years of training. He was an odd lift specialist and circus strongman for a long time.

 

[Mavy]

Can you imagine if he ever juiced? Lookout!!

 

[genarr3]

. . . never mind.

 

[marshallmadman]

I went to high school with a kid who looked exactly like that. I would guarantee that his legs were a good 5" bigger than Sandow's though. No juice is needed to look like that. You simply need to have the right genetic disposition. There are a lot of people around these days that bury that look naturally. New equipment, better nutrition, supplements, and training knowledge are seeing to that. Sandow looks like he weighs 150 in that pic, b.t.w.

 

[ManOfArms]

He looks 100% natural for me.

Very low body fat.

 

[geoboy]

its not his "size" that leads me to question. its the surface vascularity & hardness. look at the belly of his right bicep (camera left) and top of forearm.

3 possibilities
1) early experimenter with prototype roids as metioned by anothe poster,
2) doctored photo (not saying it was doctored by the book author or george, but doctored none the less)- or what I'm seeing as wormy skin/vascularity is just photo artifact
3) 1 in a million genetics, which is certainly possible

 

[Lowest]

It's genetics, pure and simple. That picture was taken at least 30 years before even the earliest experiments with testosterone were conducted, 40-50 years before things like test enanthate, deca, and dbol were invented. And the picture is not so impressive compared to today's physique's, natural or otherwise, that I'd even begin to entertain the idea of doctoring. He just had great genetics, pure and simple.

 

[got2getripped]

I agree genetics and he probably was a pioneer of dieting.

 

[glennds]

remember too he did not have a Golds Gym to use the latest equipment. he probably had a set of barbells and dumbells, if even.

 

[Anakin]

It comes to show how good you can look with a low BF% even if you're not big. Go on a diet everyone!