Honestly, he could probably easily run a few miles. He was muscular before, just overweight, then he lost about 20 kg over a two year period. Before he lost the weight, I don’t think many people would have assumed he was using steroids. He basically got himself down to about 8.5% body fat. If you weight train consistently and get that lean, that’s how you can look. It isn’t all about drugs. He’s probably doing a bit of hormone replacement therapy because of his age, meaning a small amount of testosterone each week to keep his levels in the low normal range rather than below it. A lot of men his age do the same and look completely normal, like they don’t even weight train. So it isn’t the testosterone replacement that makes him look like that, it’s the years of weight training combined with getting very lean. At his age, a lot of people’s natural testosterone has already dropped below normal. That’s the mistake a lot of people make when they don’t understand this side of things. They see someone who’s lean and hard and immediately assume they’re on large amounts of steroids. The reality is he’s too old to be running high doses of steroids. The risks, especially things like heart attacks, high blood pressure, and an enlarged prostate, become much higher at that age. I’d be surprised if his testosterone levels, even with the small amount he’s probably taking, were much above the low end of the normal range rather than at supraphysiological levels. My own testosterone is naturally at the high end of the normal range and is probably higher than that of many people who are taking low dose testosterone replacement therapy. He also doesn’t look like that when he gets out of bed in the morning. The photos he posts on social media are after an hour of hard training, once he’s got a pump. If you saw him walking down the street, he’d probably just look like a fairly normal guy and you wouldn’t immediately think he was on steroids. He only weighs 75 kg. When he was 95 kg, he looked nothing like that. That’s why I say that when you lose weight, you often end up looking bigger rather than smaller if you’re weight training, because the muscle becomes much more visible. I know this stuff because I’ve been around gyms for years and I’ve seen plenty of transformations like his. A lot of them involved no drugs at all. People who haven’t seen what can be achieved naturally through getting lean while training consistently often underestimate what’s possible. What impresses me most about him, and other guys like him, isn’t even the physique. It’s the consistency. They have the discipline, even at that age, to stick to the same routine day after day with their eating, sleeping, and training. That’s 95% of the game, and 95% of people simply don’t have that level of discipline.
