>you can gain a lot of strength from just body exercises and some props like a bar; all I have to say is gymnasts.
would you like your steroid injection now or later? Taking fitness cues from professional athletes who are ALL on PEDs is silly.
would you like your steroid injection now or later? Taking fitness cues from professional athletes who are ALL on PEDs is silly.
I have never, ever, heard even a whiff of anyone taking anything remotely on the wrong side of rules for "performance enhancing" substances.
Bodyweight workouts can be incredibly challenging and develop not just strength but explosive power. Regular pushups too easy? Try clapping pushups or handstand pushups or an iron cross to work your deltoids, pecs and triceps.
I don't know much about gymnastics but if performance in that sport is dominated by strength or endurance, that is a stronger or better conditioned athlete will normally win, then it is likely that the top athletes in the world use PEDs. Otherwise it would be inconsistent with evidence of PED use in every other strength or endurance sport.
I don't know why you think having competed against an athlete would give you some special insight into their PED use especially if you aren't competitive enough to beat them; it would clearly be precarious to have other people find out.
Steroid abuse is ridiculously rampant, and it is hard for the layperson to know what sort of physique is attainable without them.
Anyway, aren't some gymnast exercises very demanding, and demand a lot of functional strength? Even if not, with some basic props and your body there is a lot of difficult things that you can do - handstand pushups, one-armed handstand pushups, muscle up, one armed pullup, L-sit...