How is it that Rock is bigger now than ever?

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The guy is in the gym for hours a day, starting at 4 in the morning, every freakin day. I believe it's all natural.

[Red Impact]

He was just in a movie about bodybuilding, and given that industry, I'm sure he had at least a little "help" to maintain a physique that monstrous.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Jan 9, 2013 8:02:27 GMT -5 Madagascar Fred said:

how bout a wellness test?

I'm gonna guess he's exempt. his "other" job pretty much requires he be bulked up like that all the time, and I doubt WWE would force the issue because he's a part-timer and it isn't worth suspending a guy whose only there 7 days a year when you have the whole show booked around the guy and sunk tonnes of money into him.

[Corporate H]

Jan 9, 2013 7:34:49 GMT -5 thelonewolf527 said:

Corporate H....are you looking at the People's Strudel?

I thought you'd never ask.

[rydndirty]

HGH is your friend...

Ask Sylvester Stallone, who at 61, looked awesome in Rocky Balboa. Actors do it all the time for roles.

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See, those saying HGH or other steroids.... I just don't think it'd fly. WWE management has been before congress and everything (2009 I think?) about steroids and other PEDs, and were told to cut it out from the company. They've been harsher on it since then, and since Rock is under contract, he's subject to all the same punishments. If the E started making allowances for even one contacted in-ring guy, the whole policy would be worthless.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Jan 9, 2013 10:45:33 GMT -5 @gmac said:

See, those saying HGH or other steroids.... I just don't think it'd fly. WWE management has been before congress and everything (2009 I think?) about steroids and other PEDs, and were told to cut it out from the company. They've been harsher on it since then, and since Rock is under contract, he's subject to all the same punishments. If the E started making allowances for even one contacted in-ring guy, the whole policy would be worthless.

I doubt congress really gives a shit about whether or not wrestlers are using PEDs. their main concern was more with the general well-being of wrestlers (which the Wellness Policy does a good job of monitoring) and congress has a fairly short attention span. I doubt whether the Rock is on PEDs is even a blip on their radar.

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The Rock is also using that new natural workout routine that not only increases muscle size, but head size as well.

[mike2789]

I believe he is on something, but If he IS NOT I wouldn't be surprised. I have been working out since I was 18 and I know quite a few bodybuilders that are both unnatural and natural. I know plenty of guys who are larger and more impressive than the Rock who are natural.

When you spend four hours a day at the gym and have the proper nutrition and take supplements (legal or authorized) you will get that big. He does different types of training as well in order to look lean. I would guess that Rock bulks probably six weeks and cuts for three or four on a repeated process in order to get the look he has.

Also, people have to remember that being on "juice" can mean a lot of things. For instance, wrestlers and athletes are banned from taking certain items that anyone can purchase on bodybuilding.com. I am not a huge advocate of taking supplements besides regular vitamins and such just because when I did take it, it gave me an upset stomach most of the time.

Once again to repeat, Rock is also a celebrity. Celebrities can get the purest and best forms of all times of supplements which help the Rock. I would say Rock may have taken HGH or another steroid but not much. As if he did he would have a much larger look. Luger and Warrior had much more different looks. Rocky is bodybuilder larger that cuts

[Old Jack Burton]

Men generally reach their physical peak around age 40 if they stay in excellent shape their whole life. Wrestlers mostly retire by then because the road grinds their bodies into dust.

That said, I'm sure he's on everything that's not illegal, and maybe just a little bit more than that every once in a while.

[Slingshot Suplay]

Pancakes.

[ZERO]

Jan 9, 2013 10:25:39 GMT -5 @gmac said:

The guy is in the gym for hours a day, starting at 4 in the morning, every freakin day. I believe it's all natural.

I think it's more natural than other similar physiques. This is a man who has time to train, and time to eat right, more so than someone on the road as much as any WWE "regular", even if he has a little "help" to get there, that stuff on it's own doesn't magically give a guy size/muscles, they'd still need to work out.

[Corporate H]

I had no idea The Rock was 40..yeah, I don't know. A lot of it doesn't add up. Not saying I'm against it, it just makes guys like CM Punk look bad by physical comparison.

[molson5]

Jan 9, 2013 11:38:01 GMT -5 mike2789 said:

Also, people have to remember that being on "juice" can mean a lot of things. For instance, wrestlers and athletes are banned from taking certain items that anyone can purchase on bodybuilding.com. I am not a huge advocate of taking supplements besides regular vitamins and such just because when I did take it, it gave me an upset stomach most of the time.

That's an important point - I tend to doubt Rock is actually breaking the law, but I'm sure he has a program including supplements that would be considered performance-enhancing drugs by the Olympics, the NFL, and possibly even WWE wellness. For celebrities with money to burn and who can set their own schedules, I don't think there's any reason to actually commit crimes, there's plenty of legal alternatives. And I don't think a part-time contract guy like him should be subject to WWE's wellness rules, which exist to identify abusers who are at risk of killing themselves. Rock's got his own professionals, I'm sure he's not risking his life, and if he is, it's not on the WWE's watch.

[Mayonnaise]

Jan 9, 2013 10:45:33 GMT -5 @gmac said:

See, those saying HGH or other steroids.... I just don't think it'd fly. WWE management has been before congress and everything (2009 I think?) about steroids and other PEDs, and were told to cut it out from the company. They've been harsher on it since then, and since Rock is under contract, he's subject to all the same punishments. If the E started making allowances for even one contacted in-ring guy, the whole policy would be worthless.

Here is the problem with that, he's not under contract to WWE (Taker is the same way). WWE is not send Dr. Black or his people to movie sets around the world to get Rock to piss in a cup. Even if he was, the only people tested under Wellness are the independent contractors so WWE could easily put him under a corporate deal and avoid that.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

More time to devote to working out and dieting, with the possibility with a little bit of enhancement as well.

[xCompackx]

Jan 9, 2013 10:12:06 GMT -5 mjolnir said:

If you don't think Rock is on something to help with this sudden growth in body mass and the maintenance of it...I don't know what to tell you, really. I've known guys like Rock, who are gym rats, and even the most genetically gifted of them would tell you that you can't get that kind of size without some help.

Also it's not like the Rock's some young buck where we have to take it at face value. Even when he had times off in the past, when he was active, he never came back looking like he does now. Coupled with the aformentioned and how he's now much older....yeah, again, if you don't think he's at least on something to help with this, I have some wonderful property under a bridge I'd love to sell you.

I don't think that not believing Rock is on steroids makes you a troll. I mean, if he were full-time, doing house shows, and having the full travel schedule and still looked like that I'd buy it, but I don't think his body size is THAT unattainable naturally. Plus, to be honest... Is it really any of our business? He looks healthy and has a busy life entertaining us, isn't that enough?

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Jan 9, 2013 10:23:40 GMT -5 sagsag said:

No way guys he''s TOTALLY clean and natural. I mean check him out compared to other natural bodies:






So obvious that he's clean. I mean, he looks more like those guys than The Warlord, that's for sure. Totally.

I love when people use this argument despite Funaki having a suspension for roids.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

Jan 9, 2013 8:02:27 GMT -5 Madagascar Fred said:

how bout a wellness test?

Pretty sure part-time talents aren't required to have those.

[Drink Up Me Cider]

^Or Rey Rey, I mean why would he need the gas?