Digital Social Hour - Fitness Industry Secrets: Are Pro Athletes Really Natty? | Greg Doucette DSH #1276

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

Are professional athletes really natural? 🤔 Discover the truth about the fitness industry in this eye-opening episode of the **Digital Social Hour** with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Joined by fitness expert C...oach Greg Doucette, we dive into the hidden world of steroids, social media pressures, and the myths surrounding "natty" athletes. 💪 From discussing the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs to revealing what really happens behind the scenes in bodybuilding, Coach Greg shares his personal experiences, hard-hitting truths, and thoughts on fitness icons like The Rock, LeBron James, and more. 🏋️‍♂️ Curious about the impact of steroids on men and women, or the rising influence of social media on body image? This episode is packed with valuable insights you don’t want to miss! 🎙️ Join the conversation as we explore whether famous athletes are truly natural, the ethics of transparency in the fitness world, and ways to stay healthy without shortcuts. ❤️‍🔥 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚨 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Greg's Legal Troubles 00:28 - Greg's Reputation 05:00 - Today's Sponsor 09:34 - Samson Dauda Insights 11:45 - Toby's Journey 15:37 - Track and Field Overview 17:45 - Taxation in Canada Explained 20:10 - Peptides and SARMs Discussion 21:18 - Worst Steroid Side Effects 22:40 - Understanding Testosterone Levels 24:53 - Downsides of High Testosterone 27:11 - Erectile Dysfunction from Steroid Withdrawal 29:40 - Staying Natural in Today's World 30:56 - Steroid Use: Personal Opinions 34:38 - Thank You Messages from Viewers 35:45 - Greg's Beef with Dr. Mike 37:01 - Health Impacts of Steroids 40:37 - Steroid Use in Professional Sports 43:11 - Ryan Garcia's Ostarine Controversy 44:38 - Bradley Martyn's Story 45:38 - The Rock's Fitness Journey 49:37 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Insights 50:38 - Jake Paul's Impact 54:00 - David Dobrik's Influence 57:00 - Mr. Beast's Philanthropy 58:00 - Zac Efron's Transformation 59:13 - Where to Find Greg APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Greg Doucette https://www.instagram.com/gregdoucetteifbbpro SPONSORS: KINSTA:  https://kinsta.com/dsh LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #gregdoucette #moreplatesmoredates #fitnessindustrysecrets #historyofdoping #dopingscience

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I had to apply, I had a one year permission. The lawyers I hired had three sets of lawyers who said, you with the crime that you did, you have maybe a 5% chance of getting it. I'm like, if there's a 5% chance, it's gonna be me. Cause I'm trying to make a difference. And I'm like, I'm a popular social media influencer and I speak out against steroids and dangers
Starting point is 00:00:17 and who better than the person who did them? That sold them. How do people think I know so much about them? All right guys, got Greg here out in Vegas, man. You here for a little vacation? Six days, yeah. Vacation, work a little bit, a bit of both. Nice. You going to Flex Lewis's gym out here? I'm hoping to. Yeah, that's definitely on the list to do. I've never been. Really? I'll shout out to Flex, man. He spoke really highly of you, told me to say hello.
Starting point is 00:00:42 Yeah, that's great. I love Flex. I haven't seen him in a while. He does a show out in the Maritimes where I'm at, the Flex Lewis Classic. So it's been a great show over there. He actually said you're pretty misunderstood. He said you're like the nicest guy. I think a lot of people assume that just because I call a lot of people out or say they're fake Nattiers or whatever.
Starting point is 00:00:59 And I'm like, it doesn't mean I'm a bad person in real life. I just, I don't know. People think I'm going to stream and shout and say many things to them, but I mean, that's just BS. I feel like you're the coffeezilla of the weightlifting world. I would agree with that statement. I just actually did a video with him yesterday. Oh, you did?
Starting point is 00:01:14 I met him. We hung out for several hours. It was great. It was a good time. Like who'd you expose on there? What was it? Oh my goodness. He would basically ask me like,
Starting point is 00:01:22 who's the most toxic person? Who would you want to stay with if you had to for a year? Who would you want to avoid? I mean, there was so many names that came up. It's a very eye opening, I'm sure. Interesting. Were you the first person to start doing that Natty or not thing?
Starting point is 00:01:35 I would say no. I remember Kenny KO doing Natty or nots. I also remember Phileon doing Natty or nots. I think several people were doing them. I just don't think perhaps as much, even Derek from More Plates More Dates. Yeah. And I've only done, people think that's all I do.
Starting point is 00:01:49 I've done a hundred in total. I've done 3,700 videos. So if you look at it as a percentage, it's like what, 3% of my content, but that's kind of what I'm known for. It gets the most views, right? I would say a lot of them get a lot of views, but not the most views.
Starting point is 00:02:03 Some of my most viewed videos are anti-steroid videos, like where I show the dangers of using abusing performance-enhancing drugs. The biggest views I've gotten are tend to be on videos like that, where I call people out for like the dangers of what they've done to their bodies. Right. Steroids are no joke in the long run, right? No, so dangerous. I just posted a video just yesterday on the dangers for females, like, because I'm like, there's women got to be careful As well most of the time I'm talking about stair use in male But a lot of women are using them as well bikini competitors just your average person And so it's it's kind of like a it's a secret download thing people don't want to talk about people don't admit to it
Starting point is 00:02:40 It's kind of cool for men guys can get away with it like oh, I'm on test. I'm doing this. I'm doing trend It's kind of like for men, guys can get away with it, like, oh, I'm on test, I'm doing this, I'm doing trend. It's kind of like in 2025, people accept it. But if a woman says she's on steroids, they're like, I don't want to admit that. So most women are lying. So it's like how men were like 10, 15 years ago. I would say so. It's going to take a lot longer before more women come out.
Starting point is 00:02:58 And so whenever I see a woman who's open, honest, transparent saying, Hey, I did this. My voice has changed. I'm like mad respect because that video can go a long way. So I just highlighted what this woman had said, I posted a video about it, it's getting hundreds of thousands of views, people are listening.
Starting point is 00:03:12 I think it's gonna make a big difference. Yeah, because their bodies aren't as tough, so the steroids on women must impact them even more. Exactly, for a man, we're putting more of a hormone that we already have. For a woman, if she takes testosterone, she's literally turning into a man. If a woman, if she takes testosterone, she's literally turning into a man. If a woman wants to transition to a man, that's what they give them. So women are doing
Starting point is 00:03:29 this by accident without even realizing that's what's happening. And the thing is, it doesn't happen overnight. Like the first day or two, a week, things are great, perhaps even a month or two. But if you keep doing it for months, years, that's when you see the changes. Do you think social media has pressured a lot of people to start taking stuff like this? Without question, social media, the times are harder than any other time I've ever seen. I'm older than most people in the fitness industry.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I mean, I'm 49, I'm pushing 50. Now 50 keys of Turk across the border, but also I'm getting older. I mean, when I was a teenager, there was no real pressure for a man to have like a six pack or to have muscles. And women, it was mostly, they had to be skinny. Like I don't remember girls wanting muscle. But as I got older, now it's like,
Starting point is 00:04:13 you had that tooth body, women had to look like teeth, like that Kim Kardashian like butt implant and that whole look. Now it's more like muscles, athletic, a small waist, slim, thick. There's so many different looks that people have to go for. Very hard to get when being natural. Yeah, like the Sarah Safaree look.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Sarah Safaree, I've met her, did her body fish. She's more, I think she's more attainable, natural for a woman. Of course, with good genetics. If you don't have good genetics, it's going to be really hard to look like her. Yeah. But I've seen a lot more physiques, for example, competitive bikini competitors, like at the Miss Olympia level. If you're natural to look like that, you have maybe a one in a hundred thousand chance.
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Starting point is 00:06:13 Wow, but there's divisions for all natural, right? Not at the Olympia, which is what I would push for. Now, one thing they've just added in the IPB is they've added a fitness model category, which is a step down in bikini in the size. Because when they first introduced bikini, it was for what I would consider a hot girl, a girl that I would see at the beach.
Starting point is 00:06:31 I'm like, oh yeah, you know, I wish my girlfriend looked like that kind of thing. And then every year the judges kept rewarding bigger girls with more muscle and less body fat. And so at this point, if you went to bikini contest, if you saw that girl on the beach, you'd be like, eat a sandwich, eat a cheeseburger. What's wrong with you?
Starting point is 00:06:46 Why are you so lean? They likely don't have their period. They're probably on steroids. They probably have a deep voice. That's what's happened. And so this fit model division, it's giving a chance for the average girl who wants to look good and compete
Starting point is 00:06:57 to be able to do it without using steroids. Yeah, dude, for me personally, too much muscle on a woman is a turnoff. Now, I find that if you're more muscular, like the more muscled up you are as a man, the more you can handle as a woman. And so being a competitive bodybuilder, I like muscles on girls.
Starting point is 00:07:11 I can respect that, I appreciate it. But I don't need it to the level where you have a deep voice and you have to shave. Like I don't wanna be with a girl that sounds and looks like me. Yeah, yeah, that's concerning, man. Hopefully they figure something out because I feel like it's putting people's lives
Starting point is 00:07:24 on the line, right? I think the fit model division is a step in that right direction. I think if they hadn't, if the IFB hadn't kicked me out as being a judge, for some of the comments I said last year where I'm saying women's bikini is overtly sexual, they have the ponytails on, they're all wearing hair extensions,
Starting point is 00:07:41 they're covering their back muscles and they're arching their backs in the thong and wearing stilettos. And it's like, what do you think that looks like? And so with fitness model, I think it's going back to what I was hoping for and being more realistic and being more of an athletic show where you're showing some more of your muscles.
Starting point is 00:07:57 You don't have to be so sexual because like, let's be honest, would you want your mom competing in women's bikini? Like it's a little bit too much for me. And now I love the bodies. I love the way they look, but I was trying to make a difference in saying, can we not tone it down a little bit? Do we really need the walk to the curtain in the rear and, you know, strut your ass? Like it's a little bit much.
Starting point is 00:08:17 How shocked were you when they kicked you out as a judge? I wasn't shocked at all because they'd already kicked me out as a judge. And they use that as a scapegoat to make it look like that was the reason why. They had already kicked me out because I had outwardly spoken about men's physique, that the guys were getting too big. I need you to make a smaller weight categories for that. And six months later, what happened? They added in those categories.
Starting point is 00:08:38 They made it so that men's physique had to be small and make a certain weight class. I said that women's wellness was too big, that they were giving too much rewards to the women with bigger legs than me, for example. And what happened, they said, we're going to tone down those sizes. And I also criticized men's classic physique. I said, the weight classes make no sense. They reward too much sides for some heights,
Starting point is 00:08:57 like six foot one and not enough size for shorter guys, like five foot 11 or my height. And so my weight cap, it went up seven pounds, Urs Kalisensky went up seven pounds and C-Bombs was about the same. And so they listened to me yet again. And so they had already kicked me out of judging. But then when I made those comments,
Starting point is 00:09:14 they then announced, oh, we're getting rid of coach Greg because he said this and said that. They had already kicked me out. So this is what the IFBB can do. And so if anyone is a person that represents, I think the IFBB, the athletes and tries to speak out on their behalf to help the sport, I think I'm that person. A lot of politics, it sounds like in your space. Huge politics. I try to help the sport. I try to minimize the drug use. I try to do this. I try to do that. Like,
Starting point is 00:09:40 for example, I think in men's classic physique, they need a lighter category. Men's classic physique light. Let's make it 20 pounds smaller. Because guys right now need to push so much drugs to compete at that level that why not lower the weight class by 20 pounds? They're still gonna be huge. Chris Bumstead with 20 pounds less muscle, he's still a Greek God.
Starting point is 00:09:59 I would love to see that. Maybe he'd come out of retirement, 20 pounds less muscle, come back, maybe even be natural and see how he does. Is that the is that the only league? Is it like a monopoly kind of the ifbb is like 10x more popular than every other federation? So it's kind of like the nfl compared to the cfl. It's huge in comparison So that is the premier league the best of the best damn so no one really cares about the other ones Exactly, if you compete in other divisions like I'm this pro on that prom this natural pro it's like whatever no one really cares I had pro cards ten
Starting point is 00:10:31 years before I got the IPB pro card but no one even knew about it no one cared what's the one Sam Suleks competing in I have BB the top of the top the top dog so I like that he's at the he's at the best of the best going against the best guys in the world right now yeah I saw you making a few videos on him a few by few Eight and seven days like yeah a video a day. Why do people like that guy so much? He is so open honest and just tells it like it is he has such a passion for the sport The guy trains every single day. He lives and breeds I've never seen a guy with that much passion for something. Like, I respect him so much for what he does now.
Starting point is 00:11:07 I don't like the fact he has to abuse steroids to get to that level, but the fact that he loves it that much, this is what I wish on everyone. Like, I don't care if it's bodybuilding, dancing, reading, kayaking, hiking. If everyone loved to be on this earth, the way that he does, had a passion for anything,
Starting point is 00:11:22 the world would be a better place. I just love Sam, the fact that he is just that passionate for the sport. I agree, I love when people chase their passions. Yeah, I think that's the difference, like every single day, like I know what it's like to put a video every single day, this guy every single day is uploading like 30,
Starting point is 00:11:36 45 minute videos, talking about his diet, his training, what he's doing, how much he's sleeping, and giving advice. And it's just like, he's just a great guy. How could you not like him? You also made some videos on Togi. Togi, I would say about the opposite of what I just said for Sam.
Starting point is 00:11:50 Here's a guy that abused performance enhancing drugs to get famous and popular. He promotes gambling to the world, to teenagers. He promoted SARMs, steroids, steroids are awesome. He just gives out misinformation. And so I'm 49, I don't have a kid, I don't have kids, but if I had children and they said, I watched Togi and I wanna like be like him when I grow up,
Starting point is 00:12:13 I would be so depressed as a parent that I failed him. And so he's the opposite of what we need to see as a social media influencer. And what's worse is getting even more successful. And so the better he gets, the more, what does that say for society? It's hopeless for us. Yeah, I'm not a fan.
Starting point is 00:12:29 You reviewed his health results or something in one of the videos. It seemed like- I've done many times. I said, look, this guy looks like he has chlamydia. He looks like he has this, he has that. He's not healthy. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the gambling stuff, to be honest. I know I'm in Vegas, but-
Starting point is 00:12:41 It's tough. Like, I mean, I used to gamble a lot. Like I, Texas hold them. I was addicted to it. Well, poker's different. That's skill-based. It is skill-based, but it's still taking up your life. And the dopamine, I would, I would play all night. And then I would go to school and teach the next day. And I was doing it eight, 16, eight to 16 hours a day.
Starting point is 00:13:00 I said, once I went to big tournament, I'm out. And I finally won the tournament, thank God. And I went all in with, with like pocket eights. The other guy had, or'm out. And I finally won the tournament, thank God. And I went all in with like pocket H, the other guy had Kings and I still won by fluke. And I'm like, this is skill, but it's luck at the same time. And I was like, I'm out. I stopped playing, I haven't played since. Was that a World Series tournament?
Starting point is 00:13:15 It was on partypoker.net or.com. It was like a tournament with like 2000 people. So you're playing like 12 hours straight. And there of us, and there's a lot of luck involved. I think I might've gone in like all five all ins and had like the, I was the underdog and just happened to fluke out. But when there's 2000 people in a tournament, I mean, you're bound to get lucky at some point.
Starting point is 00:13:37 You can't win without luck in a field like that. Exactly. Yeah. In the main event, there's 10,000 people now in the main event. Oh, it's insane. So crazy. I was so, I like looking at, like I enjoy math and odds and statistics. So it was fun for me, but the addiction, it's just like,
Starting point is 00:13:52 I need to stop. I need to get my addiction elsewhere. I mean, I'm just sitting in my house playing games all night. Right, you were a math teacher, right? I taught math for five years, but I'm primarily a physical education teacher. Like I got my master's in kinesiology. I also have my master's in administration. Like I should be a physical education teacher. Like I got my master's in kinesiology. I also had my master's in administration.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Like I should be a school principal. I don't look like one, but I did study in that. So I taught a bit of everything. Yeah, see you're a good phys ed teacher. My teachers were fat growing up. I think that it's important to kind of represent what you're doing. And I mean, I had mixed opinions on that.
Starting point is 00:14:23 Like I would go in my masters, there's some teachers that were like 100, 150 pounds overweight and I'm like, look, I feel like you should represent the health aspect of it. But like, if you're just eating cheeseburg and junk food and you're not trying, now, if you were, you know, trying your best and losing some weight, it's like a good message, but to sit there
Starting point is 00:14:43 and just be the overweight phys ed teacher, I don't think it's a good representation. Like I don't want my personal trainer to be a hundred pounds overweight. Agreed, definitely agree. My teacher couldn't even run a lap around the track. But exactly, I'm like, you guys need to run. I'm running with the kids every day.
Starting point is 00:14:55 I'm coaching every single sport. I was coaching eight sports in one year after school, volunteering my time all the time. Cause I love sport, I love seeing the kids active. And so, I mean, that's what I did. That became my life. What's your favorite sport to watch right now? kids active. And so, I mean, that's what I did. That became my life. What's your favorite sport to watch right now? To watch?
Starting point is 00:15:07 I mean, I enjoy the track and field at the Olympics. Like that's what I like. Really? That's a rare answer. I don't watch sports per se. I don't have time. I stopped watching TV, but like when it's the Olympics and it's track, like the hundred meters, 200 meters,
Starting point is 00:15:21 things that are over quickly, or even if it's swimming, the 50 meter dash, that kind of stuff, like I love, it's swimming, the 50 meter dash, that kind of stuff. Like I love, it's over and done. I don't like much team sports. We got to sit there for two and a half or three hours watching basketball, baseball, hockey, that kind of stuff. But single events where it's one person against the rest,
Starting point is 00:15:36 I like that the most. Track athletes don't get the respect they deserve, man. Some do, some do. Like for example, Usain Bolt, the 100 meter specialist. But other events, I would definitely agree with you. Like does anyone even know who won an 800 meter dash? Or 400? People know the fastest man in the world
Starting point is 00:15:53 and that's about it. That's it. I had LaShawn Merritt on last month, 400 meter champ for the USA. But no one would know. I don't even know that name. Exactly, if you walk the street, no one would stop him.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Yeah. And he can run a lap in like 43 seconds, probably 42 43. Yeah. Crazy. But the hundred meters, no joke. Oh yeah. I had Justin Gatlin on. Oh cool. And because of Bolt, he never, actually he might've got a gold, but imagine racing against Bolt your whole career. Yeah. Well, what's his, like, I'm so bad with, with names are Canadian superstar grass. Oh, Neil DeGrasse. Yes. He is. The grass. DeGrasse. Andre deGrasse. Andre deGrasse. He had a bronze and
Starting point is 00:16:30 golds as a team and he's won, he was in the Olympics probably three straight times getting it like top three. He was running against a Usain Bolt just finishing narrowly behind him in like the 200 and so on. Yeah so you could be the second best of all time but if he's the first guys in your era. I wrote some of these guys like to be on my podcast, but I think they were too scared of me and they didn't want to be on. We had a world champion, I had Darian Warner,
Starting point is 00:16:55 I'm so bad with names, but he won like the gold medal in the decathlon. Yeah. They were like, yeah, no. I mean, I don't blame them. A lot of these guys juice behind the scenes and they might think you're calling them out or something. I wonder if they think that, but yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:06 A lot of sprinters got caught. I'm like, you don't understand. These guys are working regular jobs. They have no money. And I'm like, you understand what we can do for you to promote you. And you get millions of followers and how much money you can make from marketing and so on.
Starting point is 00:17:20 But they just go to work. They just do their two to three hours of training a day and that's it. No, you're right though. Because track athletes don't have a big social media following other than goals. God, no they just go to work. They just do their two to three hours of training a day and that's it. No, you're right though, because track athletes don't have a big social media following other than goals. There's no money around the four, every four years they get popular for a month
Starting point is 00:17:31 and then that's about it. And they're done. And then they're making low six figures, which for a pro athlete that dedicates their whole life, that's nothing crazy. I mean. Exactly. Compared to an NFL star or even an average NFL player, a baseball player, basketball player.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Yup. You're still out there in Canada? Yes. I live out in Halifax, in the East coast. You prefer Canada or the US? I prefer the US. I actually would support Trump's desire to have Canada as one of the states. I would vote right now to go into the states. Really? Yeah. I've actually tried to move out of Canada, but we have such a high exit tax that it was unaffordable. Like I couldn't really afford to move out. Are you serious? We pay 54% tax and then there's a 15% tax when you buy something. So for example, a car, a million
Starting point is 00:18:16 dollars, you have to say 15% tax. Then there's a 20% luxury tax on top of the million. Holy crap. Anything over 100k, you have to pay a 20% luxury tax. So that $1 million car is gonna cost you about $1.34 million. And with a 54% tax, I'd have to make over 2.5 million just to be able to afford that one car. Holy crap. That's the tax that we have in Canada.
Starting point is 00:18:38 It's the highest in the world. I don't know how many people know that. I did not know that. We have free healthcare. Free healthcare means if you need surgery, you wait for months and or years to get it. Or if you need anyone. I've been waiting to look at my tricep and I had a surgery. It's months after it's supposed to happen.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And so it costs a fortune, but you don't really get it. I'm like, if we could have private healthcare, I'd gladly pay for it. And that's what needs to be talked about more because we got Democrats in America saying they want free healthcare, but they don't know about this. Yeah, once it's free, then everyone finds a way to charge way more. Like if a surgery costs like say a thousand dollars, they'll find a way to charge you $20,000.
Starting point is 00:19:13 And then you have to have the insurance and whatnot. And then the wait lists are so long, they put you on a wait list and then you die off before you get the surgery. Damn. It's horrible. It doesn't work. You confident in the new leadership
Starting point is 00:19:24 or you think it will just be the same thing over? I'm not confident in anything. I think it can't get worse, but I'm not confident. We're at trade war right now, man. Yeah, I see that. Everyone's putting terrorists back and forth. I don't even understand what's going on behind the scenes. There's reasons for everything. Is it because there's some fentanyl crisis going on for,
Starting point is 00:19:43 I have no idea. I see something and I'm like, I don't know. I don't have enough time to really dig deep into, you know, what's going on behind the scenes, but. I feel for you guys, I've had some guests from Canada and they said they can't speak their mind on social media or else they'll get in trouble. I'm like, damn, that sucks. Yeah, like if you get shadow banned on Instagram
Starting point is 00:19:59 for saying too much, like I had a shadow ban, I was talking about testosterone, HRT, and then all of a sudden no one's looking at my page for three months and then all of a sudden it's back. saying too much. Like I had a shadow ban. I was talking about testosterone, HRT, and then all of a sudden no one's looking at my page for three months and then all of a sudden it's back. And so yeah, it's happened a few times. Are peptides banned in Canada? Peptides are, it's like a legal loophole. You can use peptides and or SARMS, it's not banned. And even steroids are legal in Canada. A lot of people don't know that. Like you
Starting point is 00:20:21 can literally sit there with six bottles of testosterone and wave at a police officer and it's legal because he probably has it too. It's legal. It's not legal to sell it though. But how do you think people are getting it? You're legal to have it, but it's not legal to sell it. So if you have it, somebody literally has to sell it to you. So it's kind of like, okay, what's actually going on?
Starting point is 00:20:43 So they don't really care that much. That's why I think being in Canada, I'm able to make a lot of the videos that I've made, being open, honest, transparent about what I've taken various cycles because it's legal. Like in the States, I understand why I want a lot of people lie. Like it's literally illegal.
Starting point is 00:20:57 Like, am I gonna go on and make a YouTube video and say, I did this drug and this drug and that drug, if it's illegal in my country? But if I say, hey, I use steroids, well, it's not illegal, so it's not that big a deal. Like I'm not gonna go on a YouTube video and say, hey, guess what? I was stunt driving last night,
Starting point is 00:21:12 driving 240 kilometers an hour. Let's keep that a bit of a secret because we don't wanna have the people looking out for you. Which steroid that you took had the worst side effects. The trend, trend was for sure the worst. Yeah, trend by far. the worst side effects. The trend, trend was for sure the worst for, yeah, trend by far, the worst side effects. Not able to sleep was the worst part about it for me.
Starting point is 00:21:30 The trend cough was also horrible where I'm coughing for several minutes where it feels like you're going to die. The night sweats that I got taking trend were horrendous. Like literally, you wake up in the middle of night and you're like, how am I, what's the water? Like you have some of these dreams, you're like, am I like swimming? And you wake night and you're like, how am I, what's the water? Like you have some of these dreams, you're like, am I like swimming?
Starting point is 00:21:46 And you wake up and you're like, what's going on? You have to literally get towels under your back, that much sweat and the anxiety. Like I'm pretty much a chill guy, but I'd sit there and it felt like my heart was racing. It was the one drug where I'm like, I can't wait to come off of it. Most of the steroids, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:22:03 I felt good while I was taking them. Like literally, I'm not gonna lie, I feel like. Most of the steroids, I'm like, I felt good while I was taking them. Like literally, I'm not gonna lie, I feel like Superman. But this one, it's like, I can't wait till the cycle is off and I've only ever done Trend for eight weeks straight. I'm like, I can't wait for it to stop. It's just a bad feeling all the time,
Starting point is 00:22:16 but the results, amazing, but the way you feel, not worth it. Yeah, it doesn't seem worth it. No. Holy crap. Now being on HRT right now, I feel fantastic. It's so much better than like blasting high doses of steroids because you get that massive amount of muscle growth, you feel great.
Starting point is 00:22:32 But then when you stop, I would always cycle off after you get the opposite effect. So you feel like Superman, then you feel like a dog shit after. Damn. So are you cycling it or are you just going to keep taking it? I was cycling it on and off for probably 11 years. And right now I've been on a steady dose of HRT for probably, I think it's about five years straight now. And my dose is 140 milligrams a week.
Starting point is 00:22:52 And has that raised your testosterone a lot, I'd imagine? My testosterone levels vary between 550 and 765. I've been tested many, many, many times. So it's always in that range. So it's actually not that high. And I'm sponsored by Transcend. They got my testosterone levels done. They're like, hey, you know you're actually only about in the range. So it's actually not that high. And I like, I'm sponsored by Transcend. They got my testosterone levels done. They're like, hey, you know, you're actually only about
Starting point is 00:23:08 in the average, like you could actually do more. So they said, feel free to do 200 if you want. So I went up to 170 for a week just to see what would happen. And I felt more bloated and I felt like I was retaining more water and I'm a guy that I like to be lean. I'm at about 8% body fat. I like being lean. I also race bicycles.
Starting point is 00:23:26 So the heavier my weight is when I bike, it slows me down on the bike. So I'm actually a bike rider who lifts weights more. Cause I ride my bike seven days a week and I lift weights twice, maybe three times a week. Oh wow. And so with the extra testosterone, I was getting more puffy and I didn't like it.
Starting point is 00:23:40 I like looking lean. So I brought the dose back down to 140. Yeah, 550 testosterone is way lower than I thought you'd be actually. It's not that high. I was like,, I like looking lean, so I brought the dose back down to 140. Yeah, 550 testosterone's way lower than I thought you'd be actually. It's not that high, I was like, because I'm on 140, but I first started at 100, the doctor put me on that like maybe eight years, a long time ago, then I went to 120 and then 140,
Starting point is 00:23:55 so I keep bumping up by 20 milligrams each time, and each bump, I notice it immediately, like sex drive a little bit higher, a little bit more muscle stronger, and so when people take testosterone, they're like, yeah, what are you doing? 100mg, 200mg, 300mg. Oh, I'm on 500mg. I think I'll do a thousand next time. I'm like, I noticed 20 more. Like people think you have to take so much higher doses. It's not like that. Little doses can make a big difference. Like, are you familiar with Alex Eubank?
Starting point is 00:24:21 I've heard of him. He's got like over a million followers. He was natty for a long time. I called him a fake natty and I still don't believe he's natural his whole life. But anyway, he went on 200 milligrams and he put on like 18 pounds in like 10 weeks. Holy crap. And like 200 is too much. And so since that time he got his test levels done, he was at like 1500 nanograms just later. Lowered it to 150. So I was right along. I'm like no one, not no one, but almost no one needs 200 milligrams. Yeah, that's a lot. If you see 200 milligrams did that to Alex and like the average guy is doing 500 plus, you can see why they're putting on a lot of muscle.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Geez. Now a lot of men obsess over their testosterone levels. Do you think there's a downside to having a super high testosterone? The higher testosterone, some guys can't handle it because their sex drive is just too high and so they can't think of anything else. I don't think there's a real downside to how you feel other than perhaps having some of that anxiety I talked about when I was on Trends. Some people feel that on test. It can change your personality where you're more aggressive, you're less calm. But for me, I never had negative feelings that way. But the real problem is like the down or the negative parts for your health, like how it can shorten your life or the decrease in your good cholesterol, like your HDL goes down, just being less healthy.
Starting point is 00:25:32 But I think what really sucks and what people really care about, because people don't care about, oh, it takes 20 years of my life. People don't care about that. But I'll tell you what you're going to care about. If you have really high levels of testosterone and you stop, so you go on a steroid cycle and you stop, a lot of guys can't get it up. Do you know how many calls I've had? Like I do phone consults even to this day.
Starting point is 00:25:53 I would say 50% of them involve libido issues from coming off steroids. When they're off steroids, you can't get a heart on, you're not excited and the problems you have, it sucks. Like losing your libido Like not being able to get an erection as a man Like that's one of the most important things in your life Yeah and if you lose that ability and some people are like I can't get up ever even with for example
Starting point is 00:26:15 Seattle's or Viagra and I'm like man and it's like you do your best to try to help them But oftentimes people just can't do it or it can't get hard enough long enough to continue to have sex and so Sometimes people just can't do it or it can't get hard enough long enough to continue to have sex. And so one of the worst things to worry about when doing steroids is what happens when you come off and you can't have sex? Like, I mean, think of it. People are using steroids just to look at the body to get laid in the first place. But you do really high doses and you feel amazing when I have sex three times a day.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Then you stop and you're like, I can barely have sex once a week. Wow. And that's a legit problem. That's not good. That happened to you? I had a very difficult time. I had to use barely have sex once a week. Wow. And that's a legit problem. That's not good. Did that happen to you? I had a very difficult time. I had to use Cialis for a while. I probably went from wanting to have sex like three times a day to maybe once or twice a week.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Damn. So it's very significantly down. And then in your head, you're like, is it gonna work? And then once that starts happening, you can actually get some confidence issues. And then you're like, I'm worried about it now. So yeah, it is a problem. Geez, were you able to get that fixed
Starting point is 00:27:05 or was it irreversible? I was, but I had them on HRT. Now without HRT, I definitely would have issues. There's no way I would be normal. That's crazy. Yeah, people don't know about this when they take Roids. No, I mean, I went off HRT. I, sorry, I was doing steroids and I stopped
Starting point is 00:27:18 and then I went and got my blood work back and I had 47 nanograms for deciliter. And the doctor's like, I don't know what to do. I'm like, well, I probably need HRT. He didn't want to prescribe it. So he sent me to an endocrinologist, an expert in hormones, measured my testicle size and all this stuff, did another test and I was at 49.
Starting point is 00:27:34 He's like, I don't want to prescribe you testosterone, but I think that the negatives of not doing it are worse than the positives. In Canada, it's very hard to get HRT. In the States, they just give it like candy. It's like nothing, go to any HRT clinic, they're gonna prescribe it. But for it's very hard to get HRT. In the States they just give it like candy. It's like, it's like nothing, go to any HRT clinic, they're gonna prescribe it. But for me, very difficult to get.
Starting point is 00:27:49 He didn't want to prescribe it, but yet he did. He started me at a hundred and he was like, I only want your testosterone levels to be at like 16 to 18. And that's on the Canadian scale. You have to multiply by like 27. So maybe it's like 400 or so, somewhere like that. Just some quick math and 400s. And I was like, I want to be at the top.
Starting point is 00:28:06 I want like 800 nanograms. No, I won't prescribe it. If you come back and your testosterone levels are at 23 or so, I'm lowering your dose. And I'm like, oh, well, that sucks. So I was at 100 milligrams for a while. Then the endocrinologist, I stopped seeing him, saw my own doctor.
Starting point is 00:28:20 I'm like, I think I could do better with a higher dose. And we tried 120 and I felt better. And he's like, okay. So that's like a reasonable doctor. Like if I raise a dose a little bit, 20% and you feel better, well, let's do that. So long as your cholesterol makes sense and so on. And so that's where I ended up at the 140.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Yeah, that's reasonable. Cause you see a lot of clinics just throwing out absurd numbers, right? Yeah, like when Alex Eubank was at 200, he just showed up and he was at 350 nanograms per deciliter, but his test before that, he was at 922, I think. I'm like, does he really need HRT? He's 25 years old.
Starting point is 00:28:51 He was at 920, now it's 350. Maybe test him again. Maybe a couple of days later, a week later, and see, maybe it'll be back to 500. That's so young to be on HRT. Yeah, and once you start at 200, it's hard to go off. If he ever goes off, he might experience erectile difficulty, he'll probably lose most of the muscle he put on.
Starting point is 00:29:09 And then it's not just physically addictive, but psychologically addictive. Like you mentally look at your body and you're like, where's all my muscle gone? I don't like how I look. Like Alex Eubank cares so much about how people perceive him. Like why would he have gone on HRT in the first place?
Starting point is 00:29:25 He wanted to be lean and jacked. So if he goes off and he's like, hey, I'm, you know, a year from now, I regret being on HRT. Well, if he stops, he's gonna lose 10 or 15 pounds of muscle. And is he now gonna like his body at 175 pounds when he was at 1.190? Yeah, yeah. I saw you on Thurston's podcast.
Starting point is 00:29:42 You were saying you were natty in your 20s, right? All my 20s and teens, I competed 42 times natural. And I was able to stay natural, I think, because there was less social media pressure. I think that if I were born in today's time, I don't think I would have had the courage to resist testosterone or any steroids the way that I did. I think I was lucky by being born in the 70s. And I competed and I was basically competing against myself. I didn't see photos of other guys that competed against. You just showed up on that day and you didn't really have that much pressure.
Starting point is 00:30:10 I remember my first Nationals. I thought, you know, I've won Provincials, I've won Atlantics, I look pretty good. I'm gonna show up to the Nationals. I'll probably be just as big as the big guys. I was 140 something and the winner was 208. Damn. I was like, what the hell?
Starting point is 00:30:24 He won second place in Open Men's Bodybuilding. I was 140 something and the winner was 208. Damn. I was like, what the hell? He won second place in open men's bodybuilding. So here's a heavyweight bodybuilder in open men. He's only like 20. And he's like, I mean, this guy is like, he's almost as big as when I was a pro and he's a kid, but obviously not natural. So I had no idea.
Starting point is 00:30:39 I was like, what? People can look like this at this age. I was not exposed to this. So I was lucky. I didn't have that pressure because it wasn't I was lucky. I didn't have that pressure because it wasn't like social media. I didn't have the Instagram to look at. I had the guys at my gym.
Starting point is 00:30:50 I was the biggest guy, the strongest guy as a kid. And I'm like, no pressure. So it was easy for me to stay natural. But eventually you caved in. Eventually when my gains stopped, like I was so motivated by improvements. Like every year I kind of gained like three pounds of muscle, three here, three there.
Starting point is 00:31:06 I was doing triathlons at the time. I did 13 years of competitive triathlons and I was bodybuilding at the same time. And so my gains weren't that fast. I was gaining like three pounds of muscle a year. But then I stopped doing the triathlons and then I was like, oh, now I've gained five pounds because I wasn't doing any cardio really,
Starting point is 00:31:19 stopped doing all that stuff. And so I kept getting more and more muscle. But once I hit into my early thirties, I was like gaining like one pound in a year and training perfectly. And I'm like, well, that's it. And I won the Canadian national drug tested championships. Didn't get a pro card.
Starting point is 00:31:33 They didn't get pro cards for that back then. They do now. And so I'm like, if I want to turn pro, I got to use steroids. So I was like, I want to be a pro. I want to be sponsored. I want to make this a career. And that's why I use steroids.
Starting point is 00:31:44 Looking back, would you have done the same decision? No, I would. Obviously, I have regrets now. And it wasn't only until the last few years where I started having regrets, but it's only because I became old enough that I could reflect and think, well, why did I do that? Why did I need that?
Starting point is 00:31:58 Why did I need that glory and that fame? But then I compare it to, how much do I want to be on this earth? And when you get older and you do some more reading you reflect you're thinking it's not that important it felt important at the time like when you're 30 years old you think oh the abs matters a lot you're like oh I don't really look good I don't have a six-pack but then think of yourself 20 years from now or 50 years from now you would pay a million dollars to look the way you did at 30 when you're unhappy the worst you
Starting point is 00:32:24 look like me at 49 I feel pretty good, but let's add a bad day, I'm feeling kind of like sloppy. Imagine when I'm 80, I'm gonna look back into this and I would trade in a heartbeat, and so why not be happy with how you look now? Because 25 years from now you're gonna look back and be like, man, I looked fine back then. I should have been super happy. That's good advice just in general. A lot of people think their problems are so big in the moment.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Absolutely. We are so big in the moment. Absolutely. We are so consumed with our thoughts right now, but we don't think about it in the long term. And as a 20 year old, 30 year old, you're just not able to think about your life that long. And imagine if I'm 70 years old and the doctor says, you know what, those 10 years of steroids,
Starting point is 00:33:02 it did this to your heart and you got six months to live now. Well, if you hadn't have done it, you'd probably, those 10 years of steroids, it did this to your heart, and you got six months to live now. If you hadn't done it, you'd probably live to be 90. Like my grandparents and stuff lived in their 90s. I got good genetics for that. But imagine I took 20 years off my life to look good for like what, for a pro bodybuilding show, to flex on stage. Was it worth it?
Starting point is 00:33:20 And there's no way to take back 20 years of your life or even two years. It's not worth it. And so a lot of people are thinking, no, it's worth it right now, but it like to take back 20 years of your life or even two years. It's not worth it. And so a lot of people are thinking, no, it's worth it right now, but it's because you're a kid. Like your brain isn't even done developing until you're 25. You can't understand what it's like till you're older. And so what people should do is they should listen to someone like me. Cause trust me, I use the steroids. I was natural for a long time. I wanted just as bad as all these guys. And so I was once you, like the trend twins. I was once the trend twins.
Starting point is 00:33:45 They're powerlifting, they're bodybuilding, they wanna be pro, I did all of that. But eventually you're gonna be like, shit, I fucked up, I shouldn't have done that. And it's not gonna happen now. And so I'm not gonna judge, it's like do this and do that. I'm just gonna give you the advice, I think you should stop taking steroids
Starting point is 00:34:00 or at least lower the doses, whatever. They're not ready for it now, but maybe in five years when I say it again and they have maybe another problem, maybe another pectare or what have you, then they'll be like, you know what, Greg actually cared. Like even though at the time it felt like I was bullying and saying, you know, Sam Suleks shouldn't use steroids,
Starting point is 00:34:15 you do, he actually cares. He wants people to be healthy, but they're not ready for it. But if I keep saying it year after year, it's gonna affect them. And I think that other people that are living vicariously through these fans like Sam Sulix, perhaps four or five million followers, they might hear me make these videos and they're like,
Starting point is 00:34:29 you know what, that message makes sense. I'm gonna avoid using steroids because what he says does make sense. And who better to say it than somebody who used to be addicted to steroids. Right, have people you criticized years ago have reached out to later on, like thank you for that advice back in the day?
Starting point is 00:34:44 I don't think many have ever done that but a lot of people are write me in the dms and whatnot and say thanks to you I didn't use steroids or thank you I got off of steroids that happens a lot although it's not like famous guys that are doing it maybe they will down the road but a lot of people who are fans of these people do that I get that every day. That's cool at least. I mean, it feels good for me because a lot of people criticize me, you're such a hater, people hate you so much. I'm like, yet my DMs are filled with such love and support for what I do.
Starting point is 00:35:13 And when I meet fans in person, like it, not a day goes by, not an hour goes by that somebody doesn't walk up to me like on the street at a stop sign and getting photos. And I love your work and you helped me lose a hundred pounds. And so people that criticize me, they think, oh yeah, I'll get them, I'll put them down. I'm like, my bank of compliments is so high, it's so full, it's exploding.
Starting point is 00:35:31 So if 10 people write, you're a short little manlet loser, yeah, okay, it's not ruining my day because there's so many compliments that I've got, I can handle it. Yeah, it comes with the territory. There'll always be haters. Exactly. Yeah, it's an interesting dynamic. There'll always be haters. Exactly. Yeah, it's an interesting dynamic with you
Starting point is 00:35:47 because you get these beefs online, whether it's Dr. Mike or Derek, but at the end of the day, you're actually trying to help people. Oh yeah, absolutely. Like even Dr. Mike and I's beef, which was a great beef, it was fun to do and it's now been squashed. Like a lot of the comments I make,
Starting point is 00:36:00 I mean, although it's a beef, I still mean it. Like I still think he should retire from bodybuilding and I still think he should top thinking steroids. He's been doing it for 13 years straight. I think it would be much healthier and I do think he's taking years off of his life. And so although I might put in a lats spread fart noise and say he should get a better tan,
Starting point is 00:36:17 I still think he should go natural and I think he should still be healthy. And he does put a great message. He talks about the dangers. He talks about how he feels like how he feels rage or aggression. He's very open. He's honest. He tells people the dangers. And so I'm like, could we take our own advice? Now remember he's 40. When I was 40, I didn't regret it yet. I'm 49. So I got nine years on him. And although it maybe seems like we're the same
Starting point is 00:36:40 age, I have been in the sport a lot longer and I've done all the things. And so I can look back and say, wow, I wish I would have stopped earlier. And so perhaps Mike, maybe eventually he'll be like, you know what, Greg might have been bullying me a little bit, but the message is still the same. Even though I thought he was just trying to say this for views or attention, I still mean what I'm saying. Yeah. Is there any truth to the 20 years off your life then you said earlier? I absolutely think that if you're morbidly obese, for example, like a hundred pounds or like really fat, like, like just eating crap and not exercising,
Starting point is 00:37:12 that is the same as being on steroids. And so I think that I live 10 years of my life equivalent to if I was a chain smoker or if I just went to McDonald's every single day and ate unlimited amounts of food and didn't do cardio, I think it has the same damage. Now, some people get lucky and it doesn't do anything, and some people get unlucky and it really shortens their life. And so, 20 years off my life, it absolutely could have done that. Will it? I hope not. And what have I done to try to make up a difference? I became a competitive cyclist. Like how many bodybuilders become bike racers? Like how many bodybuilders become bike racers? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:37:44 I'm a unique kind of guy. I'm like, I'm doing cardio competitively and only lifting weights twice a week. And I encourage people to do cardio more than weights. And if you had to, if you said right now, pick one, weights or cardio, which one you pick? I'm done weights. I'm never lifting weights ever again.
Starting point is 00:37:58 I'm doing cardio because the heart, that's the most important muscle. If I biceps shrink five inches and I lose 50 pounds of muscle, that's nothing, but my heart needs to stay fit. Did you have some heart issues when you were taking all that stuff? I've never had heart problems, you know, knock on wood type of thing.
Starting point is 00:38:13 But my dad did have a heart attack two years ago. And you know, my grandfather would live to be 94, my grandmother 94, my grandmother 99, and my mother grandfather lived to be like 77 or so. He did die of a heart attack. So our genetics were pretty good overall, but that's kind of a wake up call because obviously my dad didn't do steroids.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Well, not obviously, but he didn't. No. And so, and he's a relatively fit guy. And so I'm like, if that could happen to him, it could easily happen to me. And so how am I not doing everything in my power proactively to ensure that that doesn't happen to me? And so if you're sitting on your ass and you're not doing at least 150 minutes of cardio week,
Starting point is 00:38:48 like, I'm like, how dare you? How dare you not care about your health so much and take it for granted to just sit there when there's people laying in a hospital bed with cancer that would do anything in your life to be in your body, even if it's a hundred pounds of weight, just to go for a walk once. I just can't understand how people can waste their lives and sit there and not care enough. How can you just be lazy and play games all day? It's so frustrating. And so when I was a phys ed teacher, all I wanted to do was to teach all these kids,
Starting point is 00:39:18 I want you to love movement. And I didn't care what it was, it was basketball or running or dancing or whatever. Just love to move because I loved it. And that's why I became a phys ed teacher. I can't be a phys ed teacher anymore. I'm obviously a former drug dealer, which is kind of crazy, but like, you know, cause I sold steroids. You didn't know that I used to sell steroids.
Starting point is 00:39:37 I was 20 months on house arrest. I used to sell steroids. Um, I was, uh, you know, I got in charge in Canada where it's legal. And I was like, I was kind of alluding to like, how do you think these people are getting it? So, you know, I'm selling it to my friends. Like, so I did some bad things and I stopped obviously, but like, so I did the exact opposite.
Starting point is 00:39:55 So I'm trying to make a difference and trying to learn from my mistakes. I wasn't allowed to the United States for 10 years. I'm only been allowed in the last two years here. I had to apply. I had a one year permission. The lawyers I hired had three sets of lawyers who said, you with the crime that you did, you have maybe a 5% chance of getting it. I'm like, if there's a 5% chance, it's going to be me. Because I'm trying to make a difference. And I'm
Starting point is 00:40:15 like, I'm, you know, a popular social media influencer and I speak out against steroids and dangers and who better than the person who did them, right? That sold them. How do people think I know so much about them? Like I was literally involved in this to that extent. So I know the dangers, I know the harms. I know the people, they come up to me and people tell me their problems, the pros, the cons, all of it. And so I'm trying to make a difference,
Starting point is 00:40:35 trying to spread the message to be careful. How common do you think pro athletes are using it? Not even just bodybuilders and weightlifters, just like NBA, NFL. I think less common than most people think. I think most people think that every superstar is on steroids, like for example, LeBron James or Lionel Messi or any soccer star. I'm like, I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:40:54 If they are, I think they're on very low doses of products that we're not even aware of right now, because they are subject to drug testing, WADA, especially the most elite of the athletes. They're on an athlete locator form. So they have to like be ready. because they are subject to drug testing, WADA, especially the most elite of the athletes. They're on an athlete locator form. So they have to like be ready. Like I even, I'm learning Spanish.
Starting point is 00:41:11 I have a tutor from Columbia. Her brother is a famous cyclist. I won't say his name, but they showed up his door like not too long ago at 6.30 in the morning to drug test him. He's like, he can't do drugs because they'll know where he is. Now he's from Columbia and in other countries, they're like, they're allowed three chances to not show up. So if you're not there, but if you miss three times,
Starting point is 00:41:33 it's an automatic fail. So some of these guys are cheating. They don't show up the first time, the second time, but you can't get away with that all the time. It's harder to get away with using drugs than it used to be like Lance Armstrong and the doping drugs that used to be like Lance Armstrong and the doping scandal that used to be on. It was a lot harder then.
Starting point is 00:41:48 I still think that people are using certain compounds. Like it's a lot harder to detect, for example, IGF-1, peptides and things like that. But people aren't just doing test and trend, for example, as professional athletes, but maybe doing some IGF or peptides. I do think that some of them are doing that, perhaps in their off seasons when they're not getting drug tested. But I I do think that some of them are doing that perhaps in their off
Starting point is 00:42:05 seasons when they're not getting drug tested. But I don't think that's the difference between like a Conor McGregor or Conor McGregor is on steroids, but Conor McDavid, I was trying to say the hockey player and just like the other hockey players. Okay. I had Colby Covington on last week and he was saying there's some new stuff where, I don't know, allegedly that they mask and you know fighters are on I don't know No masking agents for example diuretics. They say you can't use directs It's a masking agent but like they test for diuretics. So they're using diuretics. You're gonna get caught, you know with the diuretic itself I I'm not familiar with the the highest up of you know
Starting point is 00:42:40 excessive drug testing that could be done or What the the millionaires of the world are doing. I'm not like, I'm not an expert on how to beat a drug test using compounds that have never been discovered at this point. I'm sure there's some, but eventually they're gonna get caught. I mean, they do in fact save urine samples and whatnot
Starting point is 00:42:59 for years and they test them later on. And so, I mean, if somebody could get away with cheating right now, well, if they retest them later on they'll find something but you know they're still catching people doing certain things and so I do think they're they're mostly clean yeah did you cover the Ryan Garcia incident I did I made several videos about that what was your opinion on that going back to that I said he's definitely took Austrian I believe it was Austrian he was saying
Starting point is 00:43:23 there's no way I would do that and the the way he was posting, I was like, you're a dick. I was like, I can't believe he's saying that. I can't remember if he made a response video to what I was saying, but I got a lot of hate for the videos I was saying, because he has a very immense fan base that really supported him. I'm like, bro, just used Ostrein.
Starting point is 00:43:41 Now, did he knowingly use it? I don't know, but there's no way I think that he just, that somebody spiked his urine sample with Osterine to fail the drug test. I'm like, no. How common is that when they take these supplements over the counter and it's laced with like Osterine or whatever?
Starting point is 00:43:55 It's somewhat common. It does happen, but I think that more likely than not, these guys are taking it and blaming it on the substance that they took. Like I didn't knowingly take Osterine, yet you were four pounds over your weight class, you couldn't even make weight and you did this. It's like, I don't believe that. I think that maybe they just have that as a cover up.
Starting point is 00:44:14 Right. Because he never missed weight prior to that. So that was weird. Yeah, very sus. Like, so you always make weight and now you suddenly aren't making your weight and you're bigger and stronger and you won this fight because you perhaps had an advantage from taking that. Won it convincingly too. Someone he lost to in the past.
Starting point is 00:44:29 So it was interesting. It was very sus and I was all over that. I made two or three videos. They didn't get a lot of views, however, but I was very confidently thinking, yeah, you cheated. I got a list of eight names here. I'd love to get your opinion to see if they're on steroids. Okay.
Starting point is 00:44:44 Bradley Martin. Bradley, 100% is on steroids. Okay. Bradley Martin. Bradley 100% is on steroids and he admits to it. Oh, he does? He also says he's 260 and he's not 260. And what else? He is not as lean as he likes. I think he has body dysmorphia. I think that he's not confident with his appearance. I think that he's very insecure over his hairline. I think that he looks overly confident. He has the big, you know, six foot two physique. I think he's excessively athletic, very strong, but also not confident within himself.
Starting point is 00:45:10 I think that he is just like a slave to social media and having to live up to how people have always thought of him. Like the first time I ever saw this man, he jumped out of a pool and I was like, how is this possible? I was so impressed. This is years ago.
Starting point is 00:45:23 And I think that video brought him to fame, but I think he has to keep living he jumped out of a pool and I was like, how is this possible? I was so impressed. This is years ago. And I think that video brought him to fame, but I think he has to keep living as that former Bradley Martin. I don't think he can handle like say being off steroids, being a hundred percent natural, not having that crazy looking physique. I could see that.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Pressure is strong. Yeah. Have you met him yet? I have, I did a podcast with him. Oh, you did? It was great. Yeah, I like it. I thought he was great. I love how honest you are. Off you met him yet? I have, I did a podcast with him. Oh, you did? It was great. Yeah, I like, I thought he was great. Wow, I love how honest you are. Off camera with him, he's great. You were just roasting him too.
Starting point is 00:45:49 I love meeting him. I mean, I just tell you guys what I think. I just roast him, but at the same time, I also said he has amazing athletic ability and I was like, he looks amazing, but I think that he feels pressure to keep like that. Just like The Rock. The Rock, he's always looked amazing.
Starting point is 00:46:03 The Rock, I think is on more steroids than ever. And I don't think he dares to come off. Like, do you think The Rock's natural? Do you think there's any chance? There's no way. I think he keeps doing bigger and bigger doses to keep, like, I'm gonna be in the best shape ever at 50 something. Really?
Starting point is 00:46:15 And so I think The Rock has also body dysmorphia and I don't think he can handle looking normal. I think if The Rock woke up and was my size, he would just like be like, I can't go outside. Like, I think he has so much pressure put on himself to be The Rock, even though he's got 500 million followers, that he can't handle it. He needs steroids.
Starting point is 00:46:32 And you take offense when people lie about it, right? I hate that. Even not just lying about it, but I'm also taking offense that The Rock doesn't say, look guys, and not maybe say how much he's on, but I'm not an addict. I'm on HRT. It's probably prescribed by my doctor,
Starting point is 00:46:46 I'm not breaking any laws, but like, when you see this physique in whatever black atom, it ain't natural, don't think you can look like me. I think he owes it to us as a social media influencer, as one of the world's most famous celebrities, to say, I am not natural, and you guys should know that because you should not expect to look like me because he's quick to show him in the gym,
Starting point is 00:47:08 hardest worker in the room at 430. Yeah, you're able to train at 430 because you're probably on some kind of stimulant and you're on testosterone, gives you more energy. You don't need as much sleep because you're on this peptide and this growth hormone and this IGF and this BPC to heal your injuries. Yeah, yeah, I wish people were just more open.
Starting point is 00:47:23 I think the rock is one of the biggest influence in the world that needs to come out and admit to being on stuff, PDs and whatever, that could be a paradigm shift in thinking to make the world realize, wait a minute, all my celebrities are probably on steroids. Yeah, I mean, almost all the WWE stars, right? So I would say 95% would be. I would also say 95% of action heroes that, if you think they're on steroids, 95% chance they are. Like if you're betting, just bet the house on every single guy and you're gonna be rich.
Starting point is 00:47:53 How quick did you know Liver King was on steroids? Within like 0.1 of a second, like as fast as my reaction time could open my eyeballs. And he was saying he wasn't. It's just shocking. Like I can't believe I did a poll and I think five or 10% of people believed he was natural. Wow.
Starting point is 00:48:08 I'm like there's five or 10% of people that are that stupid. Those weren't his customers. Like even Michael Hearn. Five percent of people believe that Michael Hearn is natural. I'm like, how can you be that dumb? Like, can I find these 5% and like bet millions
Starting point is 00:48:19 of dollars with them and then I'll say like, Mike, look, take a drug test. I'll give you a hundred million dollars and I'll split it with you and we're gonna bet with all these five percent of idiots that you're not and we're gonna just show it that's actually smart there's sites you could probably arrange that on I would love it there's no way Mike's natural like I mean are you serious like there's less now it's probably equal to the liver King equal to the rock the rock liver
Starting point is 00:48:42 they're all at the same level of not even one in a quintillion, which is my favorite number chance that this guy's natural. He's never, ever honored a test or, or I've called him out, just do a blood work test. He's gotten his blood work done, but he just doesn't post it. So he's not natural. It's so easy. Just post something. Even if I were him, I'd be like, okay, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna go off gear for like three months
Starting point is 00:49:07 and I'll do the blood work and I'll pass it and I'll post that test and I'll go on right after the test and say, see, Greg, I proved it. I would at least do that. Yeah, at the very minimum. If I was trying to prove it, in the last 20 years, you couldn't have taken blood work once when you're natural
Starting point is 00:49:19 because he hasn't been natural once in 20 years. I mean, he's probably scared to see the results too. I would say he looks at the results and realize, OK, maybe I can't go on trend that long. He probably cycles on and off depending on the roles that he's in for movies and so on. And there's no, I believe it's just HRT either. What about RFK Junior?
Starting point is 00:49:39 RFK Junior, that's that, the only I did an ad or not on him. So he's on bioidentical testosterone, his words, which is a fancy word of saying he's on HRT. Biolatical, bioidentical means nothing. Testosterone is testosterone. And so he is openly admittedly taking testosterone. I think it's a higher doses than me. And I think he's also-
Starting point is 00:50:00 Cause he's old, he's like 70s. 67, I think is his age. And he's got that proper tan. I've seen him with the flexing and doing the push-ups. He is very strong. I'm against a lot of the things he says in terms of the nutrition of the United States, like thinking that, oh, if we get rid of dyes
Starting point is 00:50:15 and we do this and do that, that it's going to save. Seed oils. Yeah, like he's one of those guys. But I think he's also on peptides. I don't think he admits. He's probably on growth hormone. And so he's admitted to being on HRT, but he doesn't want people to know it's testosterone He wants to call it bio identical hormones, which is like a catchphrase to just say it's tests
Starting point is 00:50:33 But it's not the test that you're thinking because I don't want anyone to think it's there. It's he's on steroids Oh, yeah, I figured at his age looking that strong had to be yeah, Jake Paul. Jake Paul I think is not Natty not Natty not Natty as well. Okay. What about his brother Logan, I think is not natty. Not natty? Not natty as well. Okay. What about his brother Logan? I think both not natty. Yeah, they put on a lot of muscle, both of them. And I mean, they have the kind of money
Starting point is 00:50:53 and the funds to be at the highest level to get the proper testing, to get the peptides that they need. And so when you say, are you on steroids? It's like, most of the fake natties, if they really wanna be fake, are going to be on very low doses of testosterone. For example, my dose.
Starting point is 00:51:10 If I showed you my testosterone levels and said, look, I'm natural, it's 550 to 765, you're gonna say yes. But do I look natural? I'm on HRT, admittedly, my testosterone levels are in the normal range, doesn't mean I'm natural. But if I wanna fool it, I would say no testosterone at all. And I would take every peptide I could take. I would take like growth hormone, IGF-1, IGF-2, seromoral, tesseralin, all the different peptides that you could think of. I would take all of them. Because how is that going to affect my test levels?
Starting point is 00:51:40 It's not going to shut down my production of tests. And so I'll do the blood work. My test levels will look normal, but I'll be putting on all that size from another method. That makes sense. I don't know if you know this guy, Wes Watson. Wes Watson is admittedly on, is he not, does he not admit to being on tests? I'm not sure if he's admitted.
Starting point is 00:51:58 I don't watch his content. So Wes Watson is not just on tests, he's on high doses of tests. And I would say trend and I would say everything. I think that is probably likely one of the cause, I would speculate that if he was not on testosterone, he wouldn't have kicked that guy in the face on the ground in that assault that he did in the gym.
Starting point is 00:52:15 And I do believe he'll go to jail. And I think he's an idiot. And I think he's a horrible representation of what an alpha man is. I think he's extremely beta. I think he's trying to make up for being a beta by pretending to be alpha. The loudest man in the room is often the one who's the most insecure. If you're that confident yourself, do you really have to show off that you can beat up other people?
Starting point is 00:52:33 Like I'm not going to walk around and be like, I'm tougher than you. I could beat you up in a fight and have to wrestle. I'm like, I can't fight. I don't know what to do. If I was in a fight with you and you know what to do, you'd probably kick my ass. I don't feel like I'm a beta. I can admit this. I think that Wes Watson, for being a man who lied about his height, he's added three inches to his height. He says he's around six feet tall. He's like five foot seven.
Starting point is 00:52:55 He walks around with shoes with lifts and lies about that. It's like, bro, you're so insecure that you can't even admit your height. I'm five foot six point zero. I was five point six and a half when I was a kid growing up at my max height. I don't add an inch. I don't take off an inch. If somebody says what you weigh, I weighed 189.8 this morning.
Starting point is 00:53:11 I was 191.2 yesterday. I don't exaggerate. If somebody asks my dick size, I'm gonna be like, it's this. I don't care. Like, I'm just like gonna be honest and tell you the facts. Yeah, I love that man. Yeah, it looks like he might get locked up for that one.
Starting point is 00:53:23 I would say I would expect him to. So he's already been like with prior charges and whatnot, have been convicted felon in the past. I mean, it was his first time, maybe not, but I can't believe he fell right into it. The guy was recording it clearly. We wrote him in private and challenged him. He says, bro, come to the gym. Like this was pre preplanned.
Starting point is 00:53:42 And he went to the gym and he's like, hey, you know, I'm the guy from Instagram Let's let's fight. He's like, okay, and he had his goons right there helping him Yeah, and it's like, okay, you could you could I said hey, like look fine He can self-defense you do what he wants But once he's on the ground giving up and then you soccer kick him like he's Lionel Messi. I like bro. That's going too far Yeah, 100% David Dobrik. You think he's not he I said in a video, it's got like 460,000 views, not natty. We brought it up in the podcast yesterday. I'm like, this guy's not natural.
Starting point is 00:54:11 And everyone's like, yeah, but Greg, you posted a photo of you when you were like 18. You had more muscle than him. I'm like, yeah, but I had great genetics. This guy does not have amazing genetics. And to look like that with average or below average genetics suddenly, likely not natural. And so when I say not natty,
Starting point is 00:54:26 I'm saying is it more than 50%? And so if I'm betting, I'm gonna say something. Why would a guy with that many followers, with that much money, why would he not use something? Like, why not? Like, steroids work, peptides work, SARMs work, all these things work.
Starting point is 00:54:39 And so if he went to an HRT clinic or a doctor and said, you know what, I feel like shit, I have no energy, I got the spare tire, I wanna lose some weight, what can I do? You don't think the doctor would be like, well, you could take a GLP-1, you're not gonna be as hungry, you could take some peptides, some IGF-1,
Starting point is 00:54:55 this, oh, you hurt your bicep training, BPC-157, TB-5, like, why wouldn't he? Unless you have some moral obligation, like your morals are saying no, is he entering the Olympics? Is he a drug tested competitor? So why wouldn't he do all the things to do to be healthy? Like I'm not against PDs.
Starting point is 00:55:14 I'm not against that if you're doing it in a healthy way, like HRT if you need it. I'm not against that. BPC 157, I'm not against it. Cialis, I'm not against that. Like if it's gonna help you and you can do it in a healthy way, well, by all means. Yeah, how many times have you been wrong about a natty or not person?
Starting point is 00:55:27 I think three times in total and I made videos about all of them like so One was Lex little one was the power lifter. I'm so bad with names and When I'm wrong, I just make the mistake. Hey guys, you know what this guy came out and he showed this He did a drug test and he proved it and so I make a video. That's respect. I'm not too proud or I'm not gonna live on a high horse and think that I don't ever make mistakes. But if I do, I'm gonna admit to it and say,
Starting point is 00:55:53 bro, props to you, you did it. Well, you've done a hundred of those, so you're shooting high, 97%. 3%, but I mean, mind you, I might've said some, I think one guy said was natural and looking back, I'm like, was this Jason something or some guy, I'm have said some, I think one guy said was natural and looking back, I'm like, was this Jason something or some guy? I'm like, yeah, I think he's natural. And then looking back, I'm like, he probably wasn't.
Starting point is 00:56:11 So I've probably been wrong the other way, but no one's gonna correct me. Oh, hi, coach Greg, I am not natural. Like, so that doesn't happen. And then it's possible that there's guys that made Natty or nots that are actually natural. So there's probably wrong a couple more times, but I mean, I'm positive, right, at least 90%.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Because you're looking at the data, it's hard to like. Yeah, and it's not the photo. It's more the before and the after and the timeframe or the graph, if you gain three pounds of muscle a year, then all of a sudden you gain 15. Like when I look at my growth in the past and you look at 2009 and you're like, what the hell happened in that summer?
Starting point is 00:56:48 And it's like, it's so obvious to me. And if you look at other years and you're like, yeah, but you're looking about the same, and you look a little bit, but if suddenly you put on that much muscle, it's pretty obvious something's going on. Yeah. What about Mr. Beast?
Starting point is 00:57:01 Mr. Beast, I believe, is natural. I have no, I think that he should take something, but like, I think that he's 100% natural. I can't see why he wouldn't want to optimize, but I mean, there's so many things he could take, but I mean, he was, was it 40% body fat is heaviest? He was pretty chubby at one point and he got down to about 20%, but yeah, I see no reason why this guy is just, he's like, he has a lot of ethics,
Starting point is 00:57:30 or not ethics, that's the wrong word. He's got, he's really dedicated or he's more like obsessed. Like a man who can live underground for a week or like go to an island or do this or do that or hide himself, like live alone. Like anyone with that kind of work ethic can do things natural and put themselves in a place. Like he didn't eat for 10 days or something. Like anyone that can do that can lose weight without it. But if you wanted to take something, like I would say, you know, he could probably do HRT
Starting point is 00:57:57 if he's, cause not eating for 10 days, your testosterone level is probably going to be crashed. There's certain peptides he can do, but you know, it's up to him if he wants to take something and maximize and do what you gotta do. Last one, Zac Efron in Baywatch. He was 100% natural and I don't think he was only taking what he stated.
Starting point is 00:58:14 So he had stated he was using a diuretic, I forget which one, but he said, yeah, I took diuretics. I'm like, bro, he took a lot more than just the diuretic. And then he talked about how he was depressed after and how he didn't feel good, and that it ruined his life, and that he would never take that diuretic again. I'm like, going on and off Lasix, I think it was, isn't going to do that.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Taking a diuretic, it makes you pee water. It doesn't fuck up your mind. And so when he's like, oh, I can't do that, the mindset, I was depressed, that's taking steroids and then stopping stopping because his testosterone levels were probably super high and then they were crashed after. And then how many months later was he back on cycle again? He became that freaking wrestler juiced out of his mind. And so he was in that bit, in that Baywatch, he was on steroids and admitted to something, but it wasn't the steroids he admitted to he probably knew better than I can't
Starting point is 00:59:07 Come out and tell them everything so he gave us that and then he became a juiced up wrestler and didn't admit to it I made videos on that as well. Yeah, Greg. It's been awesome man. Where can people find you and keep up with you on YouTube that's my main a spot. I post every single day just Greg Doucette or coach Greg also on Instagram post every single day just Greg Doucette or Coach Greg also on Instagram and those of you who speak Mandarin I'm blowing up on Billy Billy in China that's a huge platform for me and also on snapchat so just type coach Greg or Greg Doucette and check me out there. Alright check them out guys thanks for coming on. Thank you. See you guys next time.

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