re: Why are Mr. Olympia Body Builders so respected?

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That doesn’t say anything about diet. Could play a significant factor. 

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Also, it just says standardized weight lifting exercises 3x a week. What those exercises are plays a huge role is muscle growth. If you do leg extensions and preacher curls with no progressive overload 3x a week, you'll go nowhere.

Also, for the groups, it doesn't note prior history. That matters a lot. If the workout group has already been working out, that will curtail gains. If the testosterone group is new to everything, that also matters.

The bottom line is PED's enhance performance, which is why they're called performance Enhancing drugs. That does not mean that top level untested athletes are all drugs. It means they combine the enhancement effect with hard work and genetics.

I posted about Eddie Hall's 1,100 deadlift for a reason. It's hard to quantify how far beyond normal human performance that is. People who use an "all drugs" line miss exactly how elite high level untested guys are at. There are guys juicing who deadlift in the 400's.