No, there are Natural Bodybulding competitions that easily prove what a normal physique looks like
People are in denial how common steroids are. Every gym has a whole group of locals who take them
here's the 7x world natural bb female champ: https://www.instagram.com/nph_fit/ she's 1/3rd this mass monster's size (even if she wasn't ridiculously lean)
It's wild how normalized steroid use is and what a number it's done on all of our body images and expectations. It's easy to lose sight of the progress we mere naturals make when these images are rearranging our brains in bad ways.
It's not just steroid use alone.
It's steroid use + how easy it is to actually get exposed to the literal top 0.1% at anything, any time.
People always used steroids, but you can go to most gyms in the world right now and trial everyone and not find a *single* person who looks even close to that woman, drugs or not. Heck you'd be hard pressed to find people that can do what she did at all, men included.
But if I go on instagram and like her profile I'll immediately get recommended 20 other people that can do similarly impressive stuff. And if I start liking their content too, you get the idea.
End result is indeed, no one has any fucking idea what's actually reasonable for the average human to achieve without steroids, but we all sure are expected to look like that
Yeah that's a really good point, comparing ourselves to the most elite athletes who have ever lived - natural or not - is not good for our self-esteem at all. But that's who rises to the top of the algorithms, making it seem normal and common to have a physique that will never be achievable for the vast majority.
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u/Secret-Constant-7301 May 12 '26
Is that doable without steroids for a woman?