With all the training, lifting and dieting they do, these guys don’t even need steroids to get big. They get huge the old fashioned way, by working at it.
I’m guessing they won’t be performing at this level after six to eight years have passed. The metabolism begins to dictate more of what the body can naturally achieve.
Bone density will have changed by then too, though still far stronger than the average man their ages.
Yup. I myself could still benchpress 405 pounds at the ripe old age of 52... freeweight mind you, none of that machine crap, with absolutely strict competition-legal form. I had my eyes set on 500 pounds and have no doubt I could’ve gotten there in another year, except for that little thing about rupturing a disk in my back (doing a totally unrelated exercise). Never lifted a weight again. :-(
Al Oerter was a four time Olympic Champion in the discus. Just saying.