The modern world of bodybuilding has gone through a rather paradigm shift, with the expansion of people embarking onto the realms of fitness, and with the progression, getting to become a public figure, thanks to the evolving significance of social media. However, this tends to reduce that gap between Pro bodybuilders and a social media fitness influencer.

The legendary athlete Phil Heath, has been shedding light to the risk factors involved that might lead the people in the fitness community to fall under delusions due to lack of knowledge of the fitness influencers, causing harm to themselves. Heath went ahead and expressed the alarming times in the realms of the sport.

Phil Heath talks about online fitness influencers

Taking to the modern era of bodybuilding, Heath highlighted the importance of having a significant social presence and a massive fan following from the sites in order to be a successful bodybuilder these days. He said, “A professional bodybuilder right now is actually having to decide if they are an influencer or bodybuilder.”

Social media fitness influencers, who lack years of training and researching, come up with perfectly sculpted physique being on different Performance Enhancing Drugs. Seeing the results, people following them fall into the trap without any knowledge of guidance and that is when the massacre happens, and this is what saddens Phil Heath.

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He said, “An influencer can get in some cycles and stuff almost look like a pro, which they try to do. They take all the best angles in the lighting and all this other. Some photoshop their sh*t.” Phil Heath had once expressed his concerns about young bodybuilders exploiting the sport with excessive use of steroids.

Phil Heath called out modern day bodybuilders for depending on PEDs

The legendary Bodybuilder, Phil Heath once spoke about a very sensitive issue that is spread throughout the bodybuilding community. These days steroids have become more common than ever, since rookie Bodybuilders depend entirely on it. He was so infuriated while saying this that he tagged them as ‘abusers of drugs’. 

Highlighting the concern, he points out that most of the bodybuilders inject just before the show. He said, “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. If they stop, they’re going to shrink”. He even added that if one uses too much of steroids, it thickens the skin and it could also hinder the functioning of organs and have the capability to completely dry them out. Which is why he is so against it.

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