How strong can you get without steroids? Strength standards for natural lifters

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’t fail the test at that point in time, or weren’t even tested in the first place. Even at the Olympics there have been cases of rigorously drug-tested competitors turning out to be doped long after winning medals. Case in point: the IFBB – home of the Mr. Olympia mass monsters – was only declared...[Read More]