The bodybuilding world revolves around training, diet regime, and posing, while PEDs usage is often wrapped under the carpets. While legends like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dorian Yates confessed to taking steroids while competing during their prime, another bodybuilding icon was added to the list. 

Phil Heath, the 7x Mr. Olympia, recently spoke about his minimal intake of PEDs to compete in the bodybuilding shows while also spilling beans on his elite recovery methods. 

Phil Heath’s advanced healing techniques

The bodybuilding sport requires athletes to build an extremely ripped physique to make it big in the arena. Apart from an intense training regime and strict diet routine, the bodybuilders rely on PEDs to get into perfect shape for competitions. Even the elite bodybuilders are no exception to this unfiltered truth. 

But taking such a harsh path often compromises health and leads to deterioration of organs, and many experts point out early death of bodybuilders in the recent past to this cause. However, Heath confessed that he didn’t overdo PEDs in a candid conversation with Chris Williamson. 

Further, he sheds light on his body healing methods, which are much superior to the rest of his clan. He revealed that he did “infrared saunas” and “neuromuscular massage“. “I’m the one that’s doing DRX 9000 with the decompression of the spine,” he said. Heath also asserted, “You can’t name another fuc***g athlete,” before adding, “All you see is cold plunges and dry needling and scraping, which is stupid.” Earlier, the bodybuilding icon called out upcoming bodybuilders for excessive steroid consumption. 

The Gift’s thoughts on the current bodybuilding scenario

The golden era of bodybuilding was new to PEDs, but that is not the case with the current bodybuilding scene. Even mass monsters like Phil Heath depended on steroids only to a certain extent and focused more on training. However, that is not the case with rookie bodybuilders, The Gift suggested. 

“We all know this because they don’t have the confidence of pulling that stuff out weeks before because in their mind — I hate to say it, but they’re an abuser of drugs,” he once said while discussing the future of bodybuilding on Cutler Cast. 

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The case of steroids in the bodybuilding arena is a never-ending debate, and the fitness world openly criticizes the bodybuilding community for using PEDs. However, only time and the regulating agency of the sport can steer the future course of action. What do you think of this? Let us know in the comments below. 

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