Not sure if they still are, but back in the amateurs, Vitaly has been tested positive for Nandrolon, i guess it´s kind of being naive to think that Wlad was clean all his life. What do you think if they would control doping in boxing the way they do in cycling ?
He is a ****ing athlete. "oooooh, look. He has a bit of muscle on his body. Must be on Roids!". Wlad is a slim guy and bulks up for fights.
WRONG!! you CAN and DO put on muscle during camp and as we all know muscle is heavier then fat..... thus weight goes up. Wlad muscles are smaller when he is in between fights. We work hard in the gym and as we all know, muscle has memory... wlad gets bigger and puts on wight... we are talking about 4-5 lbs.. thats nothing. You can gain during camp with proper diet and workouts. you gain muscle and lose fat
Sure if you are someone who is not highly trained will add some muscle and lose fat because they never exercised before. But, for an elite level athlete to gain muscle during a boxing camp is highly unlikely. Gaining 4-5 lbs (what happened to the 15lbs that was reported?) of muscle in 8 weeks is not nothing...especially for someone who is already a highly conditioned athlete. Add to that, the training in a boxing camp is not designed to bulk people up. It is suspicious. You work for the man, so I don't expect you to say anything detrimental. In fact he probably would not tell you if he was using. He may even be actually clean, and just some sort of anabolic freak. But the only other heavyweight who reportedly gained muscle during training camp that I can recall is one Evander Holyfield. Make one go...Hmmm?
A natural, and I do mean natural bodybuilder would be more then happy to gain 10 to 12 pounds of muscle in a year. That's with nutritional supplements, and a perfect diet. If you look at photos of the Klitschko brothers when they are not training they look like entirely different people. I would say somewhere between 15-25lbs lighter. They are both tall, with long limbs. Classic ectomorphic body types. Which is the hardest to body type to put muscle on. then to say they put that muscle on in aa boxing training camp. LOL Yeah I have some beach front property in Oklahoma I wanna sell to anyone that believes that BS.
Vitaly has a history with using illegal substance, so as there is almost non testing in boxing, i guess a lot of world class boxers are on substance.