# 065 How anabolics changed the fitness industry

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Podcast: [Hypertrophy Past and Present](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hypertrophy-past-and-present-7348739)
Published: 2026-08-17T07:00:31+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of Hypertrophy Past & Present, Jake and Chris begin with Leroy Colbert’s late-1970s enormous volume training plan. The conversation then explores whether using pre-steroid bodybuilders as a model for natural training is really an “appeal to tradition,” before examining the evidence that anabolic steroids can directly stimulate muscle growth even without resistance training. Key topics include: Leroy Colbert’s high-volume late-1970s routine Why bodybuilding training changed so dramatically after the introduction of anabolic steroids Forcing Chris into a philosophy conversation: appeal to tradition fallacy, Chesterton’s fence, the Lindy effect, and Occam’s razor Evidence that anabolic steroids can build muscle without a resistance-training stimulus Why steroid-induced muscle growth cannot simply be dismissed as water weight or sarcoplasmic hypertrophy The dose-response relationship between testosterone and muscle growth Why “replacement” doses of testosterone may still produce supraphysiological effects at the muscle Join our Hypertrophy Past and Present Training group on TrainHeroic.com

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