Which Bodybuilding Era Had the Greatest Longevity?

Let's not forget that Bronze Era athletes had also to endure two world wars! I guess some of them died young because of this, otherwise they would have certainly lived longer. The Silver Era athletes lived longer because they enjoyed more abundance, while the Golden Era athletes had even more abundance but also the abuse of steroids. And well said! I hear people all the time talking about Schwarzenegger or Stallone being still alive and in shape, but they forget that they have the best medicine in the world and the unbelievable technology we have today, in order to keep them this way. Not to mention that they could be looking good without also be feeling good. Bruno Sammartino told Vince McMahon "I hope you feel as good as you look" for a reason, according to me..

Everything from mid eighties, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s have shown what a trainwreck bodybuilding has become. Most of the athletes have kidney damage, heart problems, permanent organ damage, limbs amputated, crippled up and cant walk.etc…
Old school bodybuilding is the only bodybuilding

There was a Golden era Body Building who lived to 90's &. His name is Albert Beckles. R.I.P. Mr. A.B. 1love

Sadly, with all the drugs these days and most people wouldn't want to look like them.

Hey Carlos! Great topic! One thing that comes to mind that might skew the golden era data is that there were a lot more of them than let’s say the bronze era 🤷‍♂️ love the video!

Great as always💪💪💪

Before I tried steroids, I was determined to never touch them. I spent all my part time income while in high school of healthy foods since my parents did not know about nutrition And supplements from GNC like protein powders, dessicated liver tabs, amino acids. The late 80s did not have the flood of supps and protein but I guess GNC was good start.

I'm not sure what era has the best longevity, but its a no brainer which one was the worst! 💉 💊 ☠

Don't you find it kind of interesting that people like Greg doucet and others like him use steroids actively although they call it TRT but it's the same damn thing, but yet they warn everybody against it. It's always the dose determines a poison and his other lifestyle factors that usually correlate with an early demise although there are too many variables to accurately say why. But I think people using minimal dosages for limited periods and using non designer variants is the best way to go

Interesting

Yah steroids are awesome and then when the ones who think they are all that on it like Sam the clown I am inevitably are gonna have to go off it due to health reason sooner or later then I start laughing when they shrink like cold dick in the shower

Are you comparing this to the life expectancy of the general population?

A couple of years ago i looked into general life expectancy of Australian's, as the Australian govt brought in the old age pension to those who were 65yo plus, in the early 20th century. I was interested to see how much of the govt spent on the old age pension at different times over the last 100yrs or so.
First i looked up when Australia's life expectancy was 65yo, i was suprised to see that it reached 65 in the early 1950s and at the time it had the greatest life expectancy amongst the western countries. So you could guess that general life expectancy of bronze and silver era's would have been under 60yrs old.

Its hard to pull apart the stats, but the current increase in deaths in bbing how much is due to more people involved in bbing? Bronze, silver and even golden era bbing were really fringe underground activities. If the average person went to lift wts in the 1940s or 1970s people would wonder what was wrong with you or narcissist or gay. Today its very common for people to train to keep healthy and strong.
Im not saying that current competitive bbing is safe, just that there are alot of factors to take into account.

THANK YOU SIR ! Another gem of a video !