Hugh Jackman denies steroid use to become Wolverine…lots of people are calling "BS" on his recent remarks.
A really famous fitness guy, absolutely monstrous body, a massive build, and when people saw him, they said, there's no way that this guy can make himself look like that naturally. And sure enough, they were right. And it's caused a lot of conversation about people in the public spotlight. The two names that I've actually heard more than anybody else have been Wolverine, Hugh Jackman and The Rock
phil spade
@Phil · 3:02
Taylor I've seen this come up a multitude of times in the sports world and it always seems to follow the same pattern. Somebody has a transformation of their body in a short period of time. Everybody calls BS on it and the response is usually a deny, deny, deny, until they finally admit, yes, I am taking something
Professor Z
@Professor42 · 4:52
That can also include, as I mentioned, looking both very muscular but also thin at the same time. As a natural, you would have to be gifted genetically to achieve both at the same time and even myself as a natural and who has been tested positive for that gene as being very easy to gain muscle and stuff like that. Even I could do that. And I was a little bit psychotic with my training. This is my first response. Below I've included a photo
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Professor Z
@Professor42 · 4:41
And if you're not somebody that's ever really went to the extremes to achieve a body or achieve a goal, then you may not appreciate what Dwayne is saying by I put in the work
Professor Z
@Professor42 · 3:43
Last response. So, Phil, you also did a very good job at sparking my interest, and I want to expand even further on what it means to put in work. So when I was very much into fitness, I started out doing I guess you can say bodybuilding, even though I hate hate that term because I think it's associated with vanity. I would prefer fitness because really I was into making myself healthy and achieving a healthy weight
phil spade
@Phil · 2:09
And that to me is black and white. That is absolutely cheating and should not be allowed. However, as you go down the ladder and up the ladder from a healthy diet, there becomes a very gray line. If you take something to help you recover from a hard workout, is that necessarily performance enhancing? If you eat tuna instead of the Dingdong, is that performance enhancing? If you eat a healthy diet that definitely enhances your performance
phil spade
@Phil · 1:41
And if you're doing that, what's the difference between getting plastic surgery, getting liposuction, gaining a bunch of weight? Brendan Fraser, Robert De Niro these guys have gained weight in order to get a role. So is there necessarily a difference in getting a role? If I was a Hugh Jackman, I'd be like, Well, I take certain things to keep this physique because I want this role
And one question that I had for you, I guess we'll leave Hugh Jackman out of the equation because you do not believe he's on steroids, but we'll talk about The Rock, and there are other people that we can point to. Funny enough, I was reading something this morning about Conor McGregor. I don't know if you've seen him lately, but the dude is jacked. I think he gained, like, £35, if I'm not mistaken
Phil, I mean, you raise a really good point. I think that even in terms of acting, we can take that a step further and talk about the lengths that people have gone to to really get into character and what that has done to them. I mean, think about somebody like, who is a Christian Bale in The Machinist. I can't remember how much weight he lost, but I mean, the photos and images of him are absolutely horrific flying