This is a must read article written by a natural bodybuilding hero, Skip La Cour!
Here’ my favorite point:
“As you improve, get ready for the skeptics. Natural bodybuilding must be the only sport in the world when you get too good, it sometimes becomes a bad thing. It seems that the entire general public believes anyone who spends a lot of time in the gym and has any degree of muscle mass has to be on steroids. “There is no way they can get that big naturally!” they say.
This can be especially frustrating to the natural bodybuilder. Whether you are 140 pounds or 240 pounds, you probably have been accused by someone of using steroids. If not, you will as you get better. Although you want to be known and respected for your decision not to use drugs, everyone in the general public is not going to believe you.
What happens when natural bodybuilders get so good they begin looking “unnatural”? Their creditability is questioned. Everyone in the gym thinks they are on drugs. If they are ever in a bad mood, it’s because of steroids. Sore losers accuse them of cheating the system. People have even gone on to say about me, “Why doesn’t he just be a man and admit he takes drugs?” All of my efforts and now even my manhood is questioned?!
I have in the past tried my hardest to prove my status to the world with no success. I don’t even try anymore. I remember listening as a 6-foot, 170-pound natural bodybuilder ranted and raved for about a half-hour about how someone in his gym accused him of being on steroids and how mad it made him. As his face turned every shade of red, I realized, “If they are saying that about him, I can just imagine what they saying about me being 5′10″, 230 pounds in contest shape! I don’t worry about what everybody thinks anymore and you shouldn’t either.”
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Yeah i kinda went through the same thing when i first started working out i wanted to cut so i could have a clean bulk so i went from from 39% BF and 265lbs to 22% BF 190lbs thats when i bumped into a person from high school and she commented on my weight loss and said she just got out of rehab for meth and then asked me if i was on it when i responded no she said that is how she lost weight and called me a liar. it does suck when people accuse you of do illegal things when you worked long and hard to achieve what you have
I have had that exact thing happen to me on more than one occasion. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t look like Ronnie Coleman or anything, but I did go from 240 lbs with 30% BF down to 180 with 9% and now maintaining at 209 with 11%. Pretty great transformation for me, but all natural. Diet was everything. Some people dont even ask if I have cycled, they go right for the “What are you using? D-Bol, Test?” I am like, “Are you kidding me?” I make it a point to laugh at it now…..