Fans stunned by Anthony Joshua’s ‘lean’ physique as he shares new training pictures

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  1. shza

    shza Active Member Full Member

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    Those mother****ers better be locked in the gym and wearing gas masks in public cos this has the makings of a classic fight.
     
  2. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He got off his BB/fitness model stack (Dbol, tren, insulin etc) after losing to Ruiz and is using more sport specific PEDs now.
     
  3. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Then you must have misspoke when you said Winstrol was not for bulking.
    I do not doubt it had that effect on you. But what you got out of it is largely due to your activity. You were doing a lot of cardio just through boxing, much more than a typical bodybuilder, who likely was doing much more heavy lifting, enough to be frequently sore, & stuffing themselves with calories. Anyone who is not putting in that muscle breaking down intense workout & has a calorie deficit due to the balance of activity + diet is likely to lean out.

    I am against all of them as unnatural & giving an unknown amount of possibly irreversible damage.
    Even when folks recover from cycles & seem to suffer no ill effects, you only have to point out frequently shrinking testicles to see how strong & dubious a substance that both replaces & far exceeds your own ability to produce androgens to see the dangers.
     
  4. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Whether or not something is arguable to be legal, if you use it you are a cheater & a liar & stealing money, fame , glory & success from those who are honest & foow the rules.
    No PED should be legal. Terrible examples for others especially youth, will cause mucho health problems, & makes a mockery of competition so that success heavily depends upon how much you & your team can ravage nature & makes a mockery of developing natural capacities-& reflects irrelevant random factors like how many & how effective your receptors are for male hormone, or a red blood cell effecting drug.

    I do not trust Lance Pharmstrong at all.
    He also pressured & threatened the careers of team riders who might or did hesitate to be totally corrupt like he was.
    Maybe he destroys their careers if they do not go along to get along by say exposing the constant illegal blood transfusions?

    At best his statement that he did not see things as cheating is a pathetic lie, a rationalization.
    Even in cycling everyone did not cheat. But granted it may be the most corrupt sport vis a vis PEDs.
     
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  5. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I was saying that if his legs are increasing as much (let alone more) than his upper body, then he is not losing muscle, maybe gaining some, thus not helping endurance, all other things being equal.

    You said "we". No, I have no idea at all if he is just naturally increasing size through boxing.
    Because take anyone who is naturally mesomorphic AND trains intensely-you do not need to even be a "genetic freak" to get to the size he is.

    Now he also may be taking PEDs.
    But he is neither the size, nor gaining so fast, nor is there evidence that exists...To make a suppositon either way.
    Having been around gyms forever & read & talked to many-he is well within the muscle mass that is naturally possible.
    He is nothing like a pro body builder size, not on the same planet as that.
    But he would fit within this, using or not: [url]http://www.weightrainer.net/bodypred.html[/url]

    We cannot know.
     
  6. DobyZhee

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    I use a preworkout to help me in the gym and on the back of the ingredients..

    said “banned by Vada”.

    There is stuff out there that is readily available for public consumption.
     
  7. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    What is it, anything as powerful as an average anabolic?
    Sometimes mild things are banned, like Creatine. Although I find that unnatural because it is used in larger quantities than can be taken in a diet, unlike protein powder, but it is not as strong or bad as a serious anabolic.
     
  8. drenlou

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    Is HE getting a short camp doe?
     
  9. bruce_keyes

    bruce_keyes Well-Known Member Full Member

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    how on earth is that "lean" ??? these idiotic journalists don't understand what these terms mean.... SMH... one day they say he's coming in light, then next day he's lean... and now he looking like Ronnie Coleman, and I guess that means "lean" too... SMH
     
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  10. MyDentedHead

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    you see big bad KO artist Aj has a big problem...his gas tanks sucks balls you can see it in the whyte and klitscko fight hes huffin and puffin with his mouth open and there are moments where he is basically throwing arm punches. Slimmed down Aj has a better gas tank but does he have the same power? Seems aj may have a problem but good think hes fighting a pumped up cruiser weight.
     
  11. Brighton bomber

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    While Fury is a 270lbs plus man, lol at claiming natty. UKAD has something to say about that.

    All this talk of Joshua possibly doping and people gloss over the fact of the two only one has been caught doping and that's Fury.
     
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    I have not followed the details, but some here have made a good case that his conviction was not based upon likely PED usage, that the circumstances could easily have supplied a false positive.
    But whether it was a sign of him cheatin' & lyin' or not, merely describing his weight does not *at all* suggest any liklihood of being dirty.
    He is listed at 6'9". When he got any significant weight for his height he was soft. Meaning also a significant percentage of his weight was fat.
    He does not have the look, physique, or total muscle mass that indicates he uses.

    Again he may, as anyone could. But just listing his weight absent fair context of height & body composition indicates nothing at all.
     
  13. UmarIFLUmar

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    Why are his thighs so out of proportion?

    His calfs look smaller than mine but his thighs are like tree trunks.
     
  14. UmarIFLUmar

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    He's trying to make weight for the Joshua V Inoue mega fight in 2022.
     
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  15. Brighton bomber

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    If it was a false positive the B sample would of come back negative, that's why there are B samples. Maybe we can believe Fury boar meat excuse but even then an athlete has a responsibility in regards to what goes into their body, so even if his excuse is fact he's still technically a convicted drug cheat according to the rules, just the intent to cheat was not there and was down to negligence.

    But I have a hard time swallowing that narrative. When Fury knew he had been suspended for doping and hid it from the public, hid it from Wlad leading to a failed rematch which he could have never taken part in, Fury was doing his level best to hide the fact he had failed a test and that level of deceit suggests some guilt.

    Having the "look" is dumb reason to believing he's clean. James Toney made Fury look like a male underwear model but he was caught doping. Same with Erkan Teper who wasn't body beautiful either. An athletes physique is not an indication of them doping though a sudden change in physique can be suspicious like when Fernando Vargas was suddenly ripped when he had always been a bit soft looking and then failed a doping test, same with Wach, suddenly looked leaner, then failed a doping test and again with Fury leanest he's ever been coming into the Wlad fight and then we find out he's been doping.

    Edit: wow the censoring on this website has gone to insane level if it's censoring suspicious.
     
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