How To Look Enhanced Without Steroids

[00:00] Is it possible to look like you're on

[00:02] steroids without ever actually taking

[00:04] steroids? I think it is, but a lot of

[00:06] people find that hard to believe. Vast

[00:08] majority of people are saying, "There's

[00:09] no way this guy is natural.

[00:11] You just won't be able to convince me

[00:12] there's a single chance he achieved this

[00:14] naturally."

[00:15] So, I put it to the test and I showed

[00:17] this group of guys who swear they're all

[00:19] natural to random strangers and ask them

[00:21] one question. Who's Natty and who's not?

[00:24] Him.

[00:24] You think he's on steroids? Okay.

[00:26] Oh, yeah. Like, that's just insane. It's

[00:29] pretty big.

[00:31] It gets a little suspicious, you know.

[00:33] It's a little It's a little like It's a

[00:34] little too much.

[00:35] I think he takes steroid

[00:36] him.

[00:36] Yeah.

[00:37] Okay. You stay forward.

[00:38] 100%. I would say natural.

[00:40] No, they've just been getting roasted

[00:41] the whole time. So,

[00:42] yeah. So, sorry about that.

[00:43] Yeah.

[00:43] Based on their answers, I was able to

[00:45] pinpoint exactly which body features

[00:47] people look at when they're suspecting

[00:49] steroids. And in this video, I'll show

[00:52] you how to build up those features 100%

[00:54] naturally. By the end, you'll know

[00:56] exactly how to look enhanced without

[00:59] ever touching a needle.

[01:01] As for our eight test subjects, I

[01:03] totally understand the skepticism when

[01:05] you just look at them, especially a few

[01:08] in particular. That's why I'm secretly

[01:10] bringing in a medical doctor who's going

[01:12] to blood test every single person later

[01:14] in the video. And I'll say this, there's

[01:17] definitely one curveball in those

[01:18] testosterone results. First, let's break

[01:21] down what people think a natural

[01:23] physique actually looks like. On the

[01:24] right is the definitely natty zone.

[01:27] Basically, everyone I interviewed

[01:28] thought this look was achievable

[01:30] naturally with some basic training. A

[01:32] few people pointed to subject number

[01:33] five's quads as being a little

[01:35] suspicious, but I got in a leg workout

[01:37] with him and I definitely think he

[01:38] earned those quads naturally. On the

[01:40] left side is the questionable zone. Most

[01:42] people thought these guys were probably

[01:44] taking something. Even after I told them

[01:46] they swear they're 100% natty, some

[01:49] people still had their doubts. So, what

[01:50] if I told you all of these people are

[01:53] actually natural? That's crazy.

[01:56] Oh, I'm going to start working out, too.

[01:58] Do you believe me?

[02:00] It gets a little suspicious, you know?

[02:01] It's a little It's a little like It's a

[02:02] little too much. I I'd have to say no.

[02:04] I'd have to say no.

[02:05] Bear, legit, are you in my YouTube

[02:07] comments? Out of curiosity, I asked

[02:08] people where they'd insert me into the

[02:10] lineup. And some of their answers were a

[02:12] little surprising.

[02:13] At the end.

[02:13] At the end.

[02:15] I had to put you at two. I got to put

[02:17] you at two.

[02:17] Right here.

[02:18] Yeah.

[02:19] Wow. Okay. Not here.

[02:20] Yeah, I can put you at one. I put you at

[02:22] one. I put you at one. But if you cancel

[02:24] out the person who put me in the most

[02:25] jacked spot, definitely a fan, and my

[02:28] biggest hater of all time, Meline, who

[02:30] put me in the least jacked spot, on

[02:32] average, most people put me in the

[02:34] middle, right between the definitely

[02:36] natty zone and the questionable zone.

[02:38] Several people pointed to my shoulders

[02:39] as my enhanced feature. And in my

[02:42] experience, that usually is the first

[02:44] thing that people look for when they're

[02:45] judging whether or not someone's

[02:47] enhanced. Anytime I'm accused of taking

[02:49] steroids, I always hear that my delts

[02:51] look just a little too 3D. And while I

[02:53] owe a lot of my deltoid development to

[02:55] solid science-based training principles,

[02:57] I probably owe more of it to my mom.

[02:59] Like, just look at her shoulders right

[03:01] now at 60 years old, lifetime natty. But

[03:04] if you're chasing that naturally

[03:06] enhanced look, building a wide set of

[03:08] delts is absolutely crucial. And the

[03:11] real key is the side delts. I do lateral

[03:13] raises at least twice a week, but when I

[03:16] was early on in my bodybuilding journey,

[03:17] there were actually periods where I do

[03:19] lateral raises at the end of every

[03:21] workout. So, if you're struggling to

[03:22] grow them, try training them more often,

[03:24] even three to five times a week. After

[03:27] 3D delts, the second naturally enhanced

[03:29] feature that people pointed to was

[03:31] actually the biceps. I was a little

[03:33] surprised at this, but almost every

[03:35] single person pointed out the biceps on

[03:38] the four guys in the questionable zone.

[03:40] Like, the arms are literally as big as

[03:41] my leg.

[03:42] That's like, I don't know.

[03:44] Turns out that if you're trying to

[03:45] impress everyday folks, having some big

[03:47] peaked biceps might just be the easiest

[03:50] way to do it. Subject number four drew a

[03:52] lot of attention for his biceps peaks.

[03:54] So I wanted to see if he had any secret

[03:56] sauce for building those insane 18inch

[03:58] arms. Literally 18 right on the money.

[04:01] Yes. So I was a competitive gymnast.

[04:03] It's up until I was like 14. I've got

[04:05] this one photo. I pulled this off my

[04:07] mom's Facebook.

[04:08] You can even see the like delt

[04:10] development. What? How old are you

[04:11] there?

[04:12] Uh maybe like 12.

[04:13] Toli explained to me that he does a lot

[04:15] of preacher curls with forced reps at

[04:17] the end. So once he can't get the weight

[04:18] up on his own, he uses his other hand

[04:21] for assistance and then takes the full

[04:23] weight on the negative. Even though my

[04:25] biceps aren't really a strong point for

[04:26] me, I did manage to grow them over the

[04:28] last year according to ultrasound

[04:30] measurements. And I owe a lot of those

[04:31] gains to this exercise right here.

[04:33] Beijian curls in that position, right?

[04:36] Yeah. I keep it locked and it's just

[04:38] curling up like this. And so you can

[04:40] really emphasize the length and position

[04:42] after biceps. The next thing that stood

[04:44] out as an enhanced feature was actually

[04:46] the upper pecs. A few people pointed

[04:48] this out on subject number two as his

[04:50] main wow factor. And I'll take a little

[04:53] credit for that. I actually coached

[04:55] Shamar to the all-time Canadian bench

[04:56] press record for his weight class in

[04:58] drug tested powerlifting. Even though

[05:00] some of the science-based community

[05:01] prefers machines over the bench press, I

[05:03] strongly believe it's one of the best

[05:05] exercises for building a big sculpted

[05:07] chest.

[05:08] I think, man, it's I really don't think

[05:09] it's a coincidence, bro.

[05:11] Everyone I see who has a big bench has a

[05:13] big chest.

[05:14] Has a big chest to as well. Right

[05:15] now, when it comes to the upper pecs in

[05:17] particular, it is pretty clear that an

[05:18] incline bench will grow that area a bit

[05:20] better. So, for the best total pec

[05:22] development, make sure you include some

[05:24] kind of incline press or incline fly as

[05:26] well. After the pecs, a lot of people

[05:28] pointed out that everyone in the

[05:29] questionable zone had bigger traps than

[05:31] everyone else. And science does suggest

[05:33] that having massive traps can be an

[05:36] indicator that you're on some special

[05:37] supplements. That's because your upper

[05:39] traps have a higher androgen receptor

[05:41] density than most other muscles.

[05:44] Basically, they're just more

[05:45] testosterone receptors on the muscle

[05:47] cells there. So, when you inject

[05:48] testosterone, it tends to have a bigger

[05:50] impact on the trap since there are more

[05:52] receptors to bind to. I never had the

[05:54] best traps personally, but I did manage

[05:56] to bring them up the best my genetics

[05:57] would allow. Obviously, shrugs are a

[05:59] staple, but a good tip is to use a

[06:01] slightly wider grip and think about

[06:03] shrugging up and in. That way, you'll

[06:05] hit the upper trap fibers along their

[06:06] fiber orientation much better. The upper

[06:09] trap fibers actually run a lot more

[06:10] horizontally than many people realize. I

[06:13] also think including some kind of

[06:14] overhead raise is a good idea for the

[06:16] upper traps. So, that could be a full

[06:18] ROM lateral raise or an overhead lra on

[06:20] the cables. And even though it's fallen

[06:22] out of fashion a bit lately, I still do

[06:24] think direct neck training can make a

[06:26] big difference here, too. But above all

[06:28] that, in my personal opinion, this next

[06:30] thing is the biggest factor that's

[06:33] actually fully within your control, and

[06:35] it's simply being lean. Assuming you

[06:37] have some muscle base, when you're

[06:39] leaner, you're going to look much more

[06:41] jacked. As a comparison, this is what I

[06:43] looked like 30 lb heavier at around 20%

[06:46] body fat. And this is what I look like

[06:48] now, 30 lb lighter at around 10% body

[06:51] fat. I'm definitely getting more steroid

[06:53] accusations now despite the fact that

[06:55] I'm actually quite a bit smaller. That's

[06:57] the illusion of bodybuilding. I think a

[06:59] big part of creating that like enhanced

[07:01] look is just getting leaner.

[07:03] Yeah, for sure. 100%. Especially when

[07:05] you're naughty.

[07:05] If you get leaner and like you get on

[07:07] camera under some decent lighting, like

[07:09] you're going to look way bigger. It's

[07:10] just the way it is. You're actually

[07:12] smaller, but you look bigger.

[07:13] When you're leaner, you'll also be more

[07:15] vascular, which is actually not nearly

[07:17] as related to steroids as many people

[07:19] think. Phil Heath is arguably the best.

[07:21] You could make the case he's the best

[07:22] bodybuilder ever, the most gifted

[07:24] anyway. And he was just wasn't a

[07:25] vascular guy. Neither was Jay Cutler.

[07:27] You'll get more roid accusations if you

[07:29] are vascular. People for some reason

[07:31] think it's related. It's mostly just

[07:32] genetic, honestly. It's mostly genetic

[07:34] and low body fat.

[07:36] Someone like Hussein gets a lot of fake

[07:38] natty accusations online since he has a

[07:40] huge social media following. And yeah,

[07:42] he has a super impressive physique even

[07:44] in real life. So, I get it. But just

[07:46] like me and pretty much every other

[07:48] fitness influencer, he does understand

[07:50] the power of lighting, posing, and the

[07:52] illusion of bodybuilding. Most people

[07:54] don't realize just how much of a

[07:56] difference lighting can make in how

[07:57] enhanced you look, especially when

[07:59] you're lean like Hussein. Actually,

[08:00] while shooting this video, I played with

[08:02] two different lighting options. This is

[08:04] what everyone looked like with standard

[08:05] diffuse lighting. Now, look at the

[08:07] difference once we switched to more

[08:08] spotlighting. Everyone went from natty

[08:10] to enhanced in a 1second transformation.

[08:13] Here's another visual. This is what I

[08:14] looked like just standing in my kitchen

[08:16] under normal lighting with no posing and

[08:18] being filmed on an iPhone. All I did was

[08:21] run downstairs to my posing room,

[08:22] flicked on a spotlight, hit a most

[08:24] muscular pose, and switched to a Sony

[08:26] A7S3 camera. That's a big visual

[08:28] difference with less than 1 minute

[08:30] between shots. I'm only 155 lbs right

[08:33] now, and when you look at me posing on

[08:34] my own, I think I do look massive. But

[08:37] when you put me into the lineup of other

[08:38] guys that are bigger than me, I think it

[08:40] adds a lot of context. Now, right before

[08:41] I show you everyone's blood work, let's

[08:43] talk about Julian. This guy's caught the

[08:45] internet by storm with the majority of

[08:47] people saying there's simply no way he's

[08:48] natural. Especially when you consider he

[08:50] just turned 19 years old.

[08:52] Does anybody else?

[08:54] How old are you? Yeah. 19.

[08:55] You're 19? Okay. Yeah, he's 19.

[08:57] Yeah.

[09:00] I've been training for almost as long as

[09:01] he's been alive.

[09:02] I'm going to max this thing out for him.

[09:04] Doesn't even know where to fit.

[09:05] Yeah, we're starting to run out of room,

[09:06] but yeah. Now, what's another 10? 360.

[09:11] Let's go. We might as well go 365.

[09:16] You think you'll get it?

[09:17] I don't know. I just loaded as much as I

[09:19] could.

[09:19] All right.

[09:20] Tell me on one, two, three. Okay.

[09:21] 31 up.

[09:24] Here we go.

[09:29] That's actually

[09:30] Yo,

[09:32] let's get five or six. Four. Let's go,

[09:35] Julian. Push it.

[09:38] Six. Let's get eight.

[09:40] Come on. Come on.

[09:42] Seven. Okay. This

[09:44] got 12 me.

[09:46] Go heavier. Stop.

[09:47] That's too light for you. And you don't

[09:49] do weighted pull-ups?

[09:50] Uh, I do.

[09:50] You do have three plates.

[09:52] You do three plates?

[09:53] Yeah.

[09:55] I don't even know what to say right now.

[09:57] It's just depressing. I sort of be like

[10:00] if I should be motivated or just sad.

[10:03] But here's the thing. Before you jump to

[10:05] any conclusions, just take a look at

[10:07] this photo. This is Melvin Wells, and

[10:09] this photo was taken in 1949. The first

[10:12] corroborated reports of testosterone use

[10:13] in the lifting community were in 1952.

[10:17] So, there's an extremely high likelihood

[10:19] those arms are 100% natty. But if you're

[10:22] really tapped in, you may know that

[10:24] Soviet lifters did use testosterone in

[10:26] the late 1940s. So, maybe this guy

[10:29] somehow got his hands on it. One person

[10:31] who definitely didn't get his hands on

[10:32] steroids though was this gentleman. And

[10:35] we know that because this photo was

[10:36] taken in 1912, two decades before

[10:39] injectable testosterone was ever even

[10:41] isolated for the first time. Not going

[10:43] to lie, those bicep peaks do look a bit

[10:46] familiar. Here's the thing, some people

[10:48] are just jacked. Just like there's a

[10:49] huge range in height potential, there's

[10:51] also a huge range in muscle growth

[10:53] potential. If we see someone who's 7T

[10:55] tall, we don't immediately think they're

[10:57] taking growth hormone. But when it comes

[10:59] to muscle mass, people often forget the

[11:01] role of genetics and immediately jump to

[11:03] steroids. Now, I don't want to undercut

[11:04] any of Julian's hard work and chalk it

[11:06] all up to genetics. The dude trains like

[11:08] an absolute beast, but I do think his

[11:11] answer to this question was revealing.

[11:13] What do you eat? What do you have for

[11:14] breakfast?

[11:14] I do eat a lot of like protein and stuff

[11:16] like that. Like same everybody else

[11:17] eats. Like I go to Wendy's sometimes,

[11:18] you know what I mean? Nothing crazy.

[11:20] Here's what I think. Sometimes when you

[11:22] combine worldclass genetics with super

[11:24] hard training, you really can get to a

[11:26] level of muscular development that some

[11:28] people simply aren't going to believe is

[11:30] possible naturally. No matter what you

[11:32] say,

[11:33] I'm in the gym all the time. It's like

[11:35] somebody's like basically saying, "Nah,

[11:36] you didn't put in the work. You just

[11:38] stuck a needle in your arm." But I'm

[11:39] like afraid of needles. I hate needles

[11:41] like so much.

[11:42] See, that's how you know he's not

[11:43] enhanced cuz he said you put it in your

[11:44] arm and you like you don't inject in

[11:46] your arm. Nah. So, are you are are you

[11:49] planning to stay natural or have you

[11:51] thought about that?

[11:51] As of right now, I'm just focused on,

[11:53] you know, getting through school

[11:54] and I'm also like a big family dude, so

[11:57] I start a family and stuff and awesome.

[11:59] Once everything's kind of, you know, set

[12:00] in stone and have everything laid out,

[12:01] then I'll be like, "All right, cool.

[12:02] Let's shoot for Olympia." You know what

[12:03] I mean?

[12:03] For real.

[12:04] Shoot for real.

[12:04] Holy. Okay.

[12:06] And despite that sounding authentic, I

[12:08] still want a little more confirmation.

[12:10] So, while they get their blood drawn,

[12:11] I'll tell you what I'm looking for in

[12:13] someone who's natural. Most healthy

[12:15] young men will have testosterone levels

[12:17] between around 200 and 850 nanogs per

[12:21] deciliter. If you're over a thousand,

[12:23] that's a bit suspicious. Over 1,200 is

[12:26] very suspicious, and over 1,500 is

[12:29] basically impossible without steroid

[12:31] use. Pro bodybuilders will sometimes go

[12:34] well above 5,000. I've even heard of

[12:37] people going above 10,000, especially if

[12:39] they're not taking other drugs to

[12:40] suppress their levels. All right. Now,

[12:42] with that in mind, let's take a look at

[12:44] the blood results. Now, for the sake of

[12:47] full transparency, I have to say there

[12:50] actually was one person who went above

[12:52] the normal range for testosterone. This

[12:54] is the bar graph of everyone's levels.

[12:56] They ranged from 415 to 689 except for

[13:01] one person who hit 928.

[13:04] Who do you think it was? It was actually

[13:07] subject number six, Spencer. Everyone

[13:11] else was in the 400s to 600s, but

[13:14] Spencer's levels were substantially

[13:15] higher than everyone else's. So, does

[13:18] that mean he's the fake natty? Well, to

[13:21] check and see, I went ahead and got his

[13:23] luteinizing hormone and follical

[13:24] stimulating hormone levels measured as

[13:26] well, since those hormones tend to drop

[13:28] very low with steroid use. So, if

[13:31] Spencer has high testosterone combined

[13:33] with low LH and low FSH, that would make

[13:37] me do a double take. And as it turns

[13:39] out, his LH and FSH levels were totally

[13:43] normal, right in the middle of the

[13:45] reference range. In fact, the LH and FSH

[13:47] levels were all normal for everyone. And

[13:50] to be clear, I definitely do think

[13:51] Spencer is natty. A 928 testosterone

[13:54] level is a bit high, but it's nothing

[13:56] really out of the ordinary for an active

[13:58] young male in their late teens. But more

[14:00] interestingly, and contrary to popular

[14:02] belief, more testosterone didn't

[14:05] correlate with more muscle, at least not

[14:07] within the natural range. And research

[14:09] actually supports this. Studies show

[14:11] that as long as you're within the normal

[14:12] healthy range, testosterone doesn't do

[14:15] nearly as much for muscle growth as

[14:17] people seem to think. It isn't until you

[14:19] start injecting testosterone and you get

[14:21] to those super physiological levels that

[14:23] it really packs on the size. Now, of

[14:25] course, it's always possible that

[14:27] someone could have used something in the

[14:29] past, but I think the most plausible

[14:31] scientific explanation is that when you

[14:33] combine years of really hard training

[14:35] with dedicated nutrition and the right

[14:37] parents, the results can be super

[14:39] impressive. If you want to maximize your

[14:41] own natural potential, you need to dial

[14:43] in your nutrition. I honestly think just

[14:45] getting your body fat down is probably

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[14:48] as jacked as you possibly can naturally.

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