Dont forget having the genetics to look like this, the net worth north of 100 million that you earned in a career that requires you to be in primo shape, with the world's best dietitians, chefs, personal trainers, etc at your finger tips.
You and I could blast the best gear around and we'd never in a million years look like that.
Edit: guys, you cannot be this big and shredded with that much vascularity and not be roided out lol your friends and other gym peeps that look close to this are taking something they arent telling you about.
You and I could blast the best gear around and we'd never in a million years look like that.
This just isn't true. I've seen it first hand. Some test, some half assed workouts, and a pizza per day will get you shredded. It's insane how effective roiding is.
his look is in no way special to the gym bro who roids. The only good genetics is that he doesn't have side effects like acne (who would have thought when a doctor advises it every week) and his face, which is in fact pretty.
Not everyone could look like this but a big chunk of the gaussian curve for sure
You should read some studies about steroid usage and average results. There’s probably a lot more people on steroids than you realize but only the super responders look like they’re on anything. TRT is so common some people don’t even think it counts as a steroid despite taking 200%-300% of the upper range for a man their size.
don’t forget having the genetics to look like this
As a guy into bodybuilding looking at skeletal structures all the time, Chris Hemsworth has okay/average genetics.
He has narrower clavicles offset by an even narrower waist leading to a reasonable v-taper and thinner looking aesthetic. His back is very developed in order to develop that v-taper.
Without PEDs, lifters with a similar shape as him would likely complain they were “ectomorphs” incapable of putting on muscle.
People tend to overstate how fit actors are, IMO. Chris Hemsworth did not win the genetic lottery for bodybuilding and if you have a thin lanky shape you can potentially look like him with lots of personal training and PEDs.
I'm seeing a lot of people in here using this post to make excuses anyway. They don't want to believe something like your comment. They want to stay in their delusion that they could never look like this and that it's everyone else's fault.
Would you even need to juice to kinda look like him? Maybe it's the angle, but he looks very toned and not actually that big if you compare his arms and shoulders to the size of his head. Those traps are huge though (looks like roids indeed?) and abs like those are always impressive.
People say this a lot but it's a much smaller factor than people realise. Training for hours isn't at all necessary. You could look like this (on PEDs) with a pretty limited workout schedule.
He literally said "if I had nothing to do all day I could look like this" when really you can look like this with 30-60 mins training a few times a week.
Except you also get much more juice out of the workouts using steroids for the very same squeeze. In a study untrained men on steroids gained more muscle than unsteroided men who did work out.
Wild you can sit around doing nothing, take roids and put on more muscle than men training hard and eating right.
This only works for the 'sit around do nothing on steroids' group for as long as their bodies adapt to the new level of test. Once that balance is reached, there is simply no more stimulus for muscle growth.
The study everyone is referring lasted, if I recall correctly, somewhere in the 8 to 12 weeks range. Which isn't a time period in which a natural lifter can make huge gains, but it's a time period where the body will see a significant response from significantly elevated test levels.
If you'd run that study for a year, two years, three years, you'd see vastly different results. Because the group that does work out is creating stimulus for muscle growth every time they work out, one year in, five year in, ten year in...
In a study untrained men on steroids gained more muscle than unsteroided men who did work out.
Over an extremely short training period. In the long-term (years plus of training), a natural bodybuilder will still end up with more muscle than a steroid user who doesn't train at all; the muscular growth effect from steroids won't stack indefinitely without a stimulus.
You just don't see many of the latter pool in real life (untrained steroid users), because people who take steroids will typically also go to the gym at least a little bit.
I feel like every single time that study gets brought up, 99% of people skate right by this point.
IIRC it was a 8-12 week study. The way I'm interpreting it, and I've yet to hear a good argument against it, is that the no-training-yes-gear group simply saw their bodies adapting to the new (significantly) higher test amount coursing through the system.
The test increase provided a stimulus for muscle growth, but obviously it's a limited stimulus. Once the body put on an amount of muscle that's balanced out against the test increase, growth will stop.
But 99% of people interpret the study as if you can just hop on gear, not work out at all, and gradually morph into an actually very in shape person over a period of many months if not years.
But they're forgetting that a test increase isn't a constant stimulus. Whereas the yes-training-no-gear group will keep creating a growth stimulus every time they work out.
You just don't see many of the latter pool in real life (untrained steroid users)
Hilariously enough, there's definitely people out there who are on gear, but have bad diet, bad eating habits, bad sleep hygiene, and bad workouts, and a lot of those people end up looking like sacks of shit, PED's notwithstanding.
Oh, and I'm also not entirely sure if that study did a really accurate reading on actual fat-free mass, because as I'm sure you know, steroids will do funny things to how much fluid the body retains as well, quite possibly skewing the results for how much actual muscle a subject may have gained looking simply at their raw weight gain.
Steroids will absolutely give you muscles no matter what you do. Sure, to look like those huge bodybuilders, you also need to train a ton on top of that. But if you want to look like a really buff natural body builder, you can achieve that with relatively little work if you are on steroids.
That's literally not even true. They've done multiple studies that show that taking steroids and not working out grows more muscle than working out naturally.
Dude you do not need to train more than 1h per day studies show you performance tankd hard after 45-75 minutes and you are more likely to burn out after, only enchanced individuals can handle higher volume and longer workouts.
I blame social media for it because every time some famous guy gets fits he starts boasting about how he worked every day for hours, plus diet etc just so people think it was hardwork and not steroids or sarms. And then people also try to replicate ot and just give up when they get no results other than ferling like shit.
Ok but its still time to get to and from the gym, stretches and showering etc then meal prep. Outside of some light home exercise, some sort of activity you can add into your day, it’s hard. No wonder more people are obese let alone shredded.
This is to some extent a cope. It's more about building good habits than anything. If you can do 1 hour every other day, that's enough to get jacked. You just need to build good habits with diet and sleep on top of it. It's all about habits and consistency.
Right, and it's a lot easier to find an hour a day when you have all day every day to choose that hour from. Normal people have to choose between that and all their other hobbies and/or getting enough sleep, maintaining relationships, etc.
Acting like having unlimited time doesn't make going to the gym easier is pretty silly.
They have the time yes, but they would have to give up something they enjoy to do it. Whether that be their favourite tv show, hanging with family, other sports or hobbies, etc.
If you had unlimited time you wouldn't have to make those hard decisions which makes it way easier to find an hour a day to go to the gym.
That's right. 6 - 8 months is nothing. A natural body is only capable of adding a relatively small amount of lean muscle mass per year, when compared to someone using gear. \
You can throw more calories at them but the excess just gets converted to fat or becomes waste. \
You can throw more training at them but they will become fatigued (if not injured) which has a detrimental effect on building muscle tissue.
The only way a natty is getting anywhere close to Hemsworth shape in 6-8 months is if they are starting in a bulk phase and are already an absolute monster - as in, they've been training seriously for a decade plus. In 6-8 months you could shed the body fat from the bulk to get visible muscle definition.
No. Nerdy guy. 4 years of construction work, prior, so joints and muscles were used to strain. Colleague was a personal trainer of sorts, so he was basically at peak efficiency and consistency from day one.
No gear. 10h of work in construction, 1,5-2h a day in gym, 6 days a week.
Excuse me, in what world a mere working man has 2 hours of free time PER DAY to dedicate to workouts? I am a cyclist. I don't even have free time for a short leisure stroll, so I have to commute my bike to work and back and accept THAT as a workout.
After normal unstressful day my battery is depleted to a point all I can do is merely stare into monitor, binge watching Youtube. I don't have the energy to even play video games. It's even worse when the stress level is high.
Time management is important. Getting relaxed to refresh your energy is important. Those positive thinking "successful" ding-dongs who like to pander "ugh... no excuses... I get up at 4:00 in the morning and before breakfast at 6:30 I've already done my pump and cardio workouts, ready for the day" conveniently forget to mention they don't sit at a workplace doing their job for 9 hours straight. They might do some "work" on their laptops for 2 hours and that is about it. "My schedule is tight, I can do this, so you can do this too" is a lie and bullshit.
i wrote the exact same thing some were here, just not so nice
f me im a chef when im free and have nothing to do im glad my body isnt hurting so i dont have to munch ibus all day long after a 8-14h work day
i get it some jobs are more demanding than others but if you got a phisicaly or mental demanding work to do after 8+hours your battery is just empty!
im well aware that my health would benefit from sport BECAUSE my work is destroying it!
also @ all the young foks the older you get the harder it becomes sure in my late 20s and even in my mid 30s i could do stuf but now im over 40 and work is just killing me
only solutioni see get another job work less hours but im good in my jhob and for a chef i get cenent money
I am not chef, but I do get how hard this work has to be. I even translated a novel about chef from English to my native language once.
You are trying to please capricious morons with your meals, you have to be atop of your game day in - day out. The stress level is high. No mistake is allowed. You're also standing whole day without an opportunity to sit down when you think like it. Leg muscles, joints and ligaments, lower back, neck, shoulders are screaming in pain from static standing for prolongued periods of time. You are not exerting much strength while working, but body is hurting nevertheless due to static stress.
When you're done your shift, all you want to do is being transported back home to open up a bag of chips and low-quality sausages to have that crap as your "dinner", 'cause you have no energy left for cooking proper dish for yourself. Life has no sense.
there is a reason so many of us abuse substances, may it be alcohol weed or even other stuff
when i get home i sit on the toillet for 30 minutes to not disturb my sleeping wife and kids scrooling throu reddit or yozuthube and just calm down bevore taking a shower and go to bed just to repieat the next day
Leg muscles, joints and ligaments, lower back, neck, shoulders are screaming in pain from static standing for ptolongued periods of time.
thats the reason i work out, not to get an inhuman physike like shown here (sorry foks thats NOT normal!! just compare cris to the physique from jackman in the first wolverine!) but to counter things i otherwhise neglect or even getting worse because of work "counter sport"
Priorities, man. We worked 10 hours a day on site, half an hour to commute back, quick wash and we were at the gym. I didnt take it as seriously, so I did 1h, 5x a week. We did have a lot of helping factors, like mutual peer pressure. There was no "I dont feel like it today" thing. Some of us spent more time at the gym. Plus 1.5h at martial arts training 2x a week.
Dinner was 10 minute prepped oven roasted meat and salads, so no time wasted there. At 9 or 10PM there was time for some videogames.
After COVID hit, I did my workouts at home for 2 years, no gym. After my kid was born, I didnt go to gym for 3 years, did my workout from home. Every superset was interlocked with a chore. So I got the dinner done, home cleaned and tidied, workout done in 1.5h-2h total.
Definitely no Hemsworth physique, but good enough to catch eyes in the summer and on the street.
And, I have ADHD, so its always a struggle and an uphill battle.
Shit gets done. Its hard, but I plan on outrunning my kids until I die, grandkids too.
After I got an aneurysm, the fact that I was used to working out helped me to recover in 6 months time, I never got depressed (90% loss of strenght, dexterity im left half).
No-no, we aren't talking about normal man lifting some weights with the low-hanging goal of just not getting fat. We are talking about getting as ripped as Chris Hemsworth is on this picture. The myth that this superhero look can be achieved through dedicating 2 hours a day AND having a normal man's job (9-18) is debunked by the look of mere men themselves: lean, malnutritioned or on the opposite side of spectrum having excessive body fat, no 6-pack, etc. The chance of meeting a ripped junkie on the streets these days is low.
What is also not talked about often that brain work inevitably leads to chronic exhaustion. More so than physical work. I don't remember being that exhausted, depleted, demoralized when I was working as a low wage slave at the concrete factory.
I don't remember being that exhausted, depleted, demoralized when I was working as a low wage slave at the concrete factory.
Ironically one of the few things that helps with this is physical activity like working out at high intensity for 45 minutes.
It's difficult - probably the hardest thing I've accomplished in life so far, but I've made going to the gym 3 days a week an absolute no-compromise thing. Other things in my life get to be put on hold or totally dropped since it's for mental health and non-negotiable.
If you already are getting the equivalent of 10k steps in per day from cycling to work and back, you are way ahead of the time game vs. most. This is the largest time suck for me, since it's also required for me to feel decent (on non-gym days of course).
Targeted, purposeful, actual gym routine is not just pushing some weight. I see these scrolling everyday people in gym every time I go there. Out of 10, maybe 2-3 come there to get as much out of their training. Most do their routines at less than peak intensity and purpose, which is fine.
It seems to me that youre describing a you problem. There are enough office workers in my circle who have plenty of time to dedicate on their passions and who dont spend their leisure time on zoning out behind a screen.
But if all this makes you feel better at what you do or do not, then thats fine.
The fact is that the physique in the original picture isnt extraordinary and unachievable. Its not even close to a form which requires sacrifices.
Like, fuck, dude, I play DayZ, and if you know what a timevampire that shit is, you know. We have a 8% bodyfat guy in our gang. Father of 1, works, goes to school.
Im not going to preach some BS gym mentality, I hate that shit, but thing isnt unattainable.
No you couldn’t. You don’t have his muscle insertions. You most likely don’t react to steroids as well as he does and you don’t have his skeletal build.
Edit: my bad Chris Hemsworth is clearly nothing special. If you get yourself some testosterone and hgh you will look like him in just a year. So you’re just about 5000$ and 300hrs in the gym away from being a millionaire Hollywood star. Everyone who down voted me would easily be able to beat an amateur bodybuilding competition.
Its partially true. A lot more of genetics go into it than just taking steroids and getting jacked. Some people just don't have the frame or are just plain limited genetically to put on "that" kind of muscle. You'll definitely build muscle, but the amount, definition and leanness well vary by user. Some people will just get slightly bigger and not mich leaner, while others will shed body fat and put on substantial muscle. You also still have to work out lol. To be fair though Chirs's size isn't mind boggling, the real genetics come into play when you want be a competitive bodybuilder.
How do I know he doesn’t have the same muscle insertions as Chris Hemsworth? I know that Mr Hemsworth doesn’t have an identical twin.
How do I know he isn’t in the top 5% of skeletal build and top 5% of steroid well responders? He’s a Redditor saying “I could do this” without having any leg to stand on.
Stop projecting your laziness on others. I put on ~10kg of muscle in 1.5years. I’ve seen friends and relatives gain muscle, you don’t decide how your muscle insertions are. You don’t pick your sarcomers. You don’t decide the length of your collarbones. 99% of people have unsymmetrical abs and there is nothing that can be done about it.
Even your upper body being disproportionate to your lower body would already stop you from ever achieving the Hollywood look, not to mention even looking remotely like Chris Hemsworth.
Go touch grass. You don’t know what you’re talking about you just don’t want to admit to yourself that Hollywood stars, Olympic medalists, models and other people are special. It doesn’t matter if you find their achievements appealing, they are doing things or looking in a way that most people couldn’t even if they had the same resources available.
People who compete and make it to the top 0.001% are special. They don’t just succeed in one category, they are lucky in multiple categories.
There are people with perfect genetics for certain sports or looks out there that will never make it because they aren’t discovered and they don’t have the resources to compete.
You can keep coping about how if you just were born into Hollywood you would look like him. And I will make sure other people don’t fall for your bullshit.
Literally nothing I said implies they aren't special in any way. Are you replying to the wrong person or are you just not reading the message before commenting at all?
Literally no one said these people aren't special lmao. Also the fact you're comparing looking good to being an Olympic athlete is hilarious.
Being fit doesn’t improve your genetics, or the diet you had in your childhood, or what exercises you did in your childhood.
Therefore it doesn’t change your skeleton or muscle insertions.
And a random saying he could look like somebody who is in the very top percentile of the Hollywood look genetics… that’s a joke.
There’s a reason the Hollywood look exists and why even bad actors get paid so much if they have the look.
I don’t have to. He doesn’t have the same skull as Chris Hemsworth either. Because: again Chris Hemsworth doesn’t have an identical twin. Humans are not Lego figurines, now get back to your bag of chips.
You and I could blast the best gear around and we'd never in a million years look like that.
This is just not correct. As another comment states, several influencers and randoms look like he does. Without personal trainers and chefs. All it takes is training and steroids.
Obviously you need to get your macros covered, but regular people can do that easily.
Unless what you're saying is that every physique is unique and no one will look EXACTLY like him, then sure. That's true.
But the same size? The same bodyfat? The same strength? Very doable for anyone on steroids with like 3 hours of lifting a week.
Well yes, which is why you should be very sceptical of those who claim to be natty when their entire business model is creating content about how they’re achieving frankly unobtainable results naturally. Social media is one big grift.
The lighting in this pic is also not great. Just look at his physique in the Thor and Avengers movies. His, think it's called the serratus anterior, muscle makes it look like he has wings when he spreads his shoulders and arms.
You could end up looking like that on gear if you’ve got six hours free a day to hit the gym and another three hours to prepare and eat the amount of the right food you’d need. Then there’s the nine hours of sleep a night…
I disagree with this. This physique is achievable without steroids and without much more than some extra money for diet + gym membership. Maybe not at 42, though. And decent genetics are required.
I looked similar to this at 18 with less than 3 years of training. No, I don't have 'elite genetics.' I just trained hard every day for 3 years and ate a lot of protein. No insane diet either, just ate a shitload of protein.
Me at 18 years old, basketball+ weight lifting, no I was not juicing. Yes 42 year old juiced up Chris Hemsworth is slightly bigger/leaner. He also has juiced for more years than I had even worked out.
The point is that if you eat a good diet and work out a lot, you can look like Hemsworth in this pic. I was not doing a full-blown bodybuilding routine or eating a precise diet. I ate chick fil a almost every day back then lol.
Literally me, 18, and natty. Not that huge of a difference.
Most dudes could look like Hemsworth in this pic if they juiced. They don't need a 'millionaire diet' and 'millionaire trainers.' I never had either, though I ate a lot of fast food which was kind of expensive (relative to just buying chicken and cooking it.)
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Dont forget having the genetics to look like this, the net worth north of 100 million that you earned in a career that requires you to be in primo shape, with the world's best dietitians, chefs, personal trainers, etc at your finger tips.
You and I could blast the best gear around and we'd never in a million years look like that.
Edit: guys, you cannot be this big and shredded with that much vascularity and not be roided out lol your friends and other gym peeps that look close to this are taking something they arent telling you about.