How the **** did Mike Tyson have a body builder's body from boxing workouts?

[Willy Wanker]

Tyson was just a freak of nature.

And he lifted weights too.

[NapalmKnuckles]

calisthenics with a ***ton of reps (push ups, pull ups, sit ups, dips) + proper nutrition + bbc genetics

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[PivotandRoll]

Forget boxing, a lot of people in our everyday lives are on steroids; it's ever-present in gyms all over the world. Some of them are really easy to spot out, too. If you see a guy who's face, neck, shoulders, and legs don't really match the rest of his body, that's a big warning sign. I see people like that all the time. Just take a look around in your everyday store.

It's like the Will Smith transformation; naturally lanky people who seem to all a sudden gain comparatively huge muscles for their body-frame. Heck, even the actor who played Bane in the Batman movie was SUPER lanky when he was 19. It makes no sense, but I guess people either don't care or don't notice. I believe it's similar to weight issues/diets in women. It isn't covered a lot, but there's pressure on men to conform to body-image standards, too.

I have no clue what the effect on a body is. I imagine that they do gain some strength out of it, but I doubt it's truly sustainable or healthy, long-term. For me, the best indicator of natural strength is bone structure, not muscles. I'm only 5'7 1/2, but I have wide shoulders for my height, and I've never met someone stronger than me. People don't really expect it, because, while wide, I don't have pig thighs for arms, lol.

That's the funny part, though; it is assumed that taller people and those that are most bulked-up are the strongest. They gain a lot of societal benefits because of that, but in my experience it's not true. If anything, boxing is great proof of the strength that practically anyone can have. In reality, you just can't judge off looks.

But it is what it is.

I'm 5'11 1/2 and weigh maybe 160 at the most soaking wet if I'm lucky. People call me skinny and some even lanky..I'm just a terrible eater and in fact built like a stocky Broner when I do pig out occasionally with thick hips,legs,shoulders, I can just never sustain it so these areas are usually a little sunken in. So maybe I'm an anomaly but I'd think Skinny people like me can put on 10-15lbs of muscle without much trouble(physically, obvious there is still hard work involved and a lot of eating). I for one doubt Will Smith has ever taken PEDS...Maybe I'm being naive but If one guy believes in hard work it's him.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

lets just say he doesnt come from no house #$%^&* genetics this dude was breed to be like that a straigh field %^&*(

[Roy Jones Jnr]

He admitted to avoid orine testing by pissing with a fake penis and clear urine.

That was to hide the coke he was doing..not PED's.

[Cutthroat]

Tyson was just an incredible athlete, some even say he didn't even have the feet to be fleet yet still managed to do so.

[-Kev-]

Some people are naturally muscular, i have a kid on my team 9 years old built up like Tyson

Na, that kid is on PED's for NSB

They were born genetically inferior, so anyone who looks better than them ison PED's

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Tyson put in the work to achieve that body.

One of the hardest working fighters of all time.

To accuse him of PED's or to simply say his body is not achievable without PED's is an outright lie.

I reckon those who say stuff like ''that's not achievable without PED's'' are fat ****s who are looking for any excuse to make themselves feel better.

It certainly is achievable without PED's, it just ain't easy and a tremendous amount of hard work is needed, hard work which Tyson put in the gym every day from 12 years old.

[BostonGuy]

Hard work and dedication

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*just like the guy in my avatar

[-Kev-]

I had a couple of friends like that back in the neighborhood, 14-15 years old and all they had to do was look at weights and their muscles grow. They were just already like that. A lot of people on this forum really can't grasp genetics. There's people that with 4-8 weeks of body building, and a **** diet with junk food will become beasts, and others with inferior genetics can work out the same, and have an even better diet for whole a year and not get anywhere near the same results person A saw in 8 weeks