{"id":5594,"date":"2023-08-30T04:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:20:35","slug":"how-strong-can-you-get-without-steroids-strength-standards-for-natural-lifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5594","title":{"rendered":"How Strong Can You Get Without Steroids? Strength Standards for Natural Lifters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are realistic strength goals for natural lifters? One way to answer this question is to look at natural powerlifting records, but just because somebody competed in a natural, drug-tested federation, does not mean they never used performance enhancing drugs. It just means that they didn\u2019t fail the test at that point in time, or weren\u2019t even tested in the first place.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/25\/sports\/track-and-field-report-says-montgomery-admitted-using-steroids.html\">Even at the Olympics there have been cases of rigorously drug-tested competitors turning out to be doped long after winning medals<\/a>. Case in point:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wada-ama.org\/en\/news\/wada-confirms-non-compliance-international-federation-bodybuilding-and-fitness\">the IFBB \u2013 home of the Mr. Olympia mass monsters \u2013 was only declared non-compliant with anti-doping regulations by WADA in 2022<\/a>. I know, I couldn\u2019t believe it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mennohenselmans.com\/strength-standards-for-natural-lifters\/\">https:\/\/mennohenselmans.com\/strength-standards-for-natural-lifters\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are realistic strength goals for natural lifters? One way to answer this question is to look at natural powerlifting records, but just because somebody competed in a natural, drug-tested federation, does not mean they never used performance enhancing drugs. It just means that they didn\u2019t fail the test at that point in time, or weren\u2019t even tested in the first place.\u00a0Even at the Olympics there have been cases of rigorously drug-tested competitors turning out to be doped long after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5595,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}