BS.
Christiano Ronaldo has the most perfect rounded muscle specimens, cant get them lifting in the gym when you get the vector lifting shapes, thick bellies on the muscles. What do they calling the exercise terminolgy on a strict tension resistance, like swimming, where all through your movement, the tension and resistance is the same. (just ignore for this instance, the pull over of the arm in the swimming stroke).
Ask anyone at a bodybuilding class, how you go about building that physique without androgens. It just aint possible. Ronaldo looks like a greyhound. Plus his bone structure in his face his sharp like hewn granite.
Victor Conte the famous Balco alchemist, talked about athletes, and he can spot the exogenous androgens from a mile away.
There is new stuff coming into professional sport, because there were roids and programs (medical programs) for the previous two decades, but they never produced a specimen like Ronaldo. And he is not the only one. I could name other others in other sports. If they look like greyhounds and racehorses, when 2 decades ago, the muscles looked more like gym junkies, and thick through the belly of the muscle, then there is a dead certainty, they are on some of the new androgens coming in.
These sports people, are alpha males, in the most alpha male disciple, the elite sphere of pro sport. If you dont walk in their shoes, and their sphere, you have no idea at the norms and new rules.
A great metaphor is LA and the film industry. Name me one actress on the verge of 30, with no cosmetic work.
This is completely anathema to the general public.
But this is an accepted norm in Hollywood. Do you ever find agents walking round the streets in the suburbs of the western world, encouraging 18 and 19 yo's to get a boob job, get a nose job? This does not happen in the real world non rarified air of hollywood.
Now transpose metaphor, to professional sport.
What is the ONE, the only one, the one metric of professional sport?
Paricipation? ahahha risible.
Pro sport is about one thing, Its about winning. And usually at any cost.
Now I gave you the example of Hollyywood, and put the objective of pro sport in the clear light of day.
If you can put one and one together, there is no hope.
We need BigBoat in this thread.