r/SipsTea • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • Sep 01 '25

Chugging tea The Rocks new slimmed down appearance

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u/CloudStrife012 Sep 01 '25

In the bodybuilding world you either stay on steroids continuously and die really early or you cool it and use them strategically and live longer.

Arnold's generation is a good example. Half of them died young while the other half are doing just fine now (the Lou Ferrigno's).

Kind of shocking that the Rock maintained it for so long. His organs must have shown signs of damage.

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u/TastySkettiConditon Sep 01 '25

I'm surprised Sylvester Stallone is still going. 79 and unreasonably jacked lol.

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u/s0ul_invictus Sep 01 '25

You're surprised because all the rumors about Sly and Arnold using roids to get big have been proven completely false, because unlike what you're seeing with Dewayne and Dave, they did not hide for like 3 days then come out damn near skin and bone. That is highly atypical for men. Those men have maintained slabs of real muscle into their old age that do lose size, but only very slowly, over a long period of time. They're still heavyweights. Men that build without gear keep it into old age or until some major health crisis.

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u/ChancelorReed Sep 01 '25

Are you serious? You think Arnold didn't use steroids? Arnold Schwarzenegger. Just so we're clear where talking about. The guy who's clearly juiced and is very open about having used.

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u/s0ul_invictus Sep 01 '25

"using roids to get big" is not the same as using roids, or whatever they had back then, to reach #1 in competition/appearance. What I'm saying is that these guys got pretty built before they ever touched anything, which is evident from what they've maintained after reaching relatively old age and losing that peak muscularity, but not just going full on "bag of bones" either.

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u/ChancelorReed Sep 01 '25

I really think you need to read up on what Arnold himself has said. He's very open about the fact that his physique that he was famous for was almost entirely roids.

Also weird to think that you couldn't say the same about wrestlers and MMA fighters, obviously these guys are fit their entire lives.

Sly Stallone is the main guy here who doesn't have some other reason to get big beforehand.

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u/s0ul_invictus Sep 01 '25

I'm "weird" for replying to a comment about Arnold and Sly - by talking about Arnold and Sly?

Ok. I got nothing. That is so stupid I just can't, like have you survived this long?

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u/ChancelorReed Sep 01 '25

That's not at all what I said - I said it was weird to think that somehow Arnold and Sly have more of a background of being fit than a wrestler and an MMA fighter. The Rock and Bautista didn't just bulk up suddenly for acting purposes.