These girls are they doped

A lifter reader question: Marlene, who wonders whether the physical muscled women are completely natural: "I admire these American plastic, among others Julie Bonnett, Andreia Brazier ... 

There are not that of the US ' Also, I read your article about Nathalie Wall, she has a beautiful body too, a little less muscular however. 

So the question I ask myself is how they, I mean the first two, they are to have such a physical? Apart from training muscu. 

My boyfriend makes the muscu, autodidact and at home for over 20 years, said it is not possible of course, they take stuff, style proteins, steroids etc ... So, he broke all my dreams ...

 So I would like your opinion because I love their very dry and very muscular physical while remaining feminine like no bodybuildeuses. I you my links where there are their photos, but in google, you can find them. "

My answer

Hi Marlene,

Both girls probably take protein powder and other food supplements (glutamine, BCAA, creatine etc.), but all these products are legal and findable in all stores of supplements for athletes.

Their physical can not be explained by taking these supplements (which are, as their name suggests, as supplements).

They created their muscular physique in training with heavy weights and eating optimally to gain muscle. We must first regular mechanical stimulus (= muscu) coupled with sufficient evidence "construction" (= suitable diet) to build / maintain muscle mass.

One could of course say that it is also their genetic. Like the male participants who are more muscular at least according to their morphological type, it is exactly the same for women. Some women still tend to be rather thin while others take more volume for the same type of workout. It's true. (My article How to explain the physical differences between sports?)

But mostly, they have the physical that they have because they have trained super hard for many years. I think at 80%, they have their physical training and diet. The 20% factor 'influencers' remaining 15% are probably favorable genetic and 5% of dietary supplements "boost".

Note that like everyone else, they can not all the time on top. They have periods "off season" (out of competition), where they are fat. Very dry physics is not healthy for the female body (causing lack of rules and infertility).

Here, for example Andreia Brazier in the off-season on the right picture:

To avoid losing breasts dry period, you will notice that these fitness models often have breast implants, sometimes quite huge. When one does 15% body fat, it is very difficult to do naturally a cap A. Also, a key element to enhance the physical "dry": the tan (UV or spray tanning carcinogenic color "brick" ).

As for taking steroids, which would constitute the real doping, I do not think it is. Taking steroids is very visible on the face, and especially the years. You can include watching this transformation of a transsexual man (= women who took hormone therapy to become a man). You notice that her face was wider and there is a kind of thickening of the jaw. We find the same kind of apparent signs among bodybuildeuses doped.

You will notice that the transsexual said she took the flop, while bodybuildeuses doped gain muscle size.
So even with male hormones, muscles do not grow on their own, and it is undeniable that bodybuildeuses train extremely hard. Without training and proper nutrition, it would become as inactive men and would develop a small paunch.
In the same vein, it is also the very unique case of this athlete, Caster Semenya, who she was "naturally doped" because born hermaphrodite.
She had to take treatment to reduce its testosterone level in order to continue competing in women. It is found small changes in its physical size is greater, the narrowest jaw.

Conclusion: no, the two girls you admire probably do not take steroids, and even if it did, the muscles grow really, really not alone, it takes years of heavy workouts. Your boyfriend is probably a little jealous of not being as muscular ...