- Apr 27, 2002
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If you’re just going to the gym a few times a week as a hobby then yes that all technique no strength stuff is true but at the competition level you need any advantage you can get
At the highest level guys are roided tf up, majority of them too
It’s not necessarily strength roids, it’s more the recovery and cardio ones
I’m talking from experience like pre 2018 when I stopped training too, it’s probably even worse now because the standards are way higher. Hell, they didn’t even drug test at IBJJF black belt world championships back then
Steroids are legal in Brazil too
I mean just look at the face of no gi bjj at the moment
sidebar/some what unrelated, while obviously de trained in the the second, it’s amazing how different one can look pumped up, while flexing, and with good lighting…
one of the things i’ve learned from just following people that talk about fitness & all the performance enhancing drugs & supplement protocols is that most people taking stuff do not look like they are on stuff, and the primary benefit of a lot steroids is better recovery and more ability to take advantage of that to train more
on a completely unrelated note, took a walk to the store to get a lil cardio in outchea in sunny southern california, it’s hot so i had the legs out (shorts above the knees but not approaching hoochie daddy status , i got some respect for myself) and a nice young lady saw me walking offered me a ride home as i left the checkout (i declined tho, gotta get this light cardio in ). these squats & such paying off (at least that’s what i’m telling myself , for all i know she trying to set me up, or felt sorry for me )
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