The Rock Problem

[@theunwantedcritic]

One slice of cheese can be 400 cal. It’s super easy to eat 4000 cal a day. Every professional bodybuilder regardless of how much money they have this eating pretty much the same diet that the Rock cleans eating. He’s got the genetics and people gain weight as they get older so I don’t know why we expect this guy to look like he did when he was in his 20s or 30s. Also another factor being half African-American and half Polynesian he’s gonna look younger than if you were British or German. of course he’s on the gear prior to the 1990s everybody was.

[@CooloWango]

What slice of cheese is 400 cal 🤣🤣

[@TheDrownedOne]

​@@CooloWangobro fr

[@johnd3233]

I think you have brain damage

[@klaplays8853]

Yoo

[@Stan_the_Belgian]

Everybody has?😂

[@soupermoviecritic8511]

Being the biggest movie stars doesn’t necessarily mean you’re an excellent actor. I still stand by that belief.

[@uthopia27]

But seriously wht kind of studio wants to pay him more than other better actor if he's acting is wooden like tht ? Is it purely on how much money he can bring regardless how bad movie he make like fast furious??

[@comatose3788]

And why would you care to know them beyond being an actor. You're just going to find someone that feels entitled,

[@gideonmele1556]

@@uthopia27absolutely, it’s cashing in on fan factor who will buy in just because he’s in it and can boast about it on tv and social media.

[@mqfii8992]

Just look at Dave Bautista and John Cena, they both may not be the best actors out there, but they're TRYING.

[@Marc-King777]

Who said he was an excellent or even good actor?

[@Silverghost992]

Anyone who thinks he''s natural has never lifted before. No man in his 50s looks like that. Even with a personal chef and trainer. It simply isn't possible. He clearly works hard but for me it's just annoying to hear him lie about PED usage.

[@alexanderargead5430]

Yeah he definitely puts in work but no doubt on the sauce. It's painfully obvious

[@KingOfMadCows]

I'm sure that he's getting the most advanced/well tested drugs but it's still kind of crazy that he's been able to do this for so long. Even with a team of top doctors, there's no way this isn't wrecking his body.

[@pablowentscobar]

Jeff Nippard has a great natural physique. The Rock has a great physique. Jeff has pretty close to what the best natty physique would be.

[@iain2080]

​@@pablowentscobarhe's also the height of a lawn gnome

[@matthewmcallister9354]

Agreed, unless he's practicing some type of muscular black magic, he's got to be using PEDs

[@6tiple6ix6afia]

Thing is he CAN. NOT. ACT outside of wrestling. He just plays himself. Batista has shown unequivocally that he is the superior wrestling to acting entertainer.

[@calebcrouch6133]

I mean, I don’t think wrestling is known for it’s good acting.

[@methman9212]

@@calebcrouch6133it literally is

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

Bautista is finally off roids......

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

@@c.w.8200 he was a great wrestler in his prime. He even did well in MMA with 2 wins and zero losses. Everyone saw how small hes become in the recent Mr Beast Video.

[@Jonbombs]

Nothing touches thunder in paradise

[@danieljd6776]

I've been a natural lifter for 20 years. Only supplements I've taken are protein powder and creatine. I've always eaten well and have a really good physique for being in my 40s. As I've gotten older I have to work so much harder to maintain the same physique, while eating more and more strict. I know he has better genetics, better food and a better work ethic than I do, but for him to say he's anywhere near natty is completely laughable.

[@Solomon_C]

This^^^^^^^^

[@CarlYota]

Anyone who knows anything about fitness knows he’s not natty. But we also know he’s lying because it’s illegal and the culture would look down on him for it. Don’t expect people to admit to criminal activity. That’s as dumb as thinking he’s natural.

[@joenobody5913]

It's also super naive to not understand WHY he says. that. People like you or myself know better and wouldn't give a shit if came out and admitted it. But there'd be a huge number of people (that ironically know fuck all about anything even resembling exercise or diet) that will demonize him and talk shit about him and bring it up anytime his name comes up. These are the same dipshits that don't understand that every single fuckin superhero actor, action movie star, and honestly MOST movie stars, are also ALL on something. They're not athletes competing and therefor not hurting anyone but themselves (arguably) , but we live in the future nowadays where the one thing people seem to love more than worshopping whatever *star*, is getting to be a part of the group that tears down their enitre life. Sorry bro, but the it's completely understandable why the rock lies about it. You finding it laughable is just you being super naive from HIS pov.

[@tohhhype2043]

try taking dhea it’s a natural supplement search up leroy colbert dhea it might be something you want to look into.

[@eldiablo4160]

You’re so brave for sharing that

[@TVs_Brent]

i think you'd have to dig pretty deep to find a human being in what's left of The Rock. almost everything about him these days feels like the results of a focus group talking at you

[@sticklebacketienne]

Bang on

[@AlexandreRochon89]

He's more machine than man

[@markwilliams7054]

He’s a Hollywood politics robot

[@tonic316]

im sure the people close to him like his wife/kids know the real rock. Doesn't mean he has to show it to us, the pathetic human population who gobble up all the brand stuff thrown at us.

[@ElJulioso]

@@AlexandreRochon89 ... twisted and evil.

[@drillosophy1012]

It’s interesting. When he was a full-time wrestler, he came off as kind and genuine, despite having a brash and arrogant gimmick. And by all backstage accounts, it was true. Even in conflict, he was justified. Now that he’s full-time Hollywood, he comes across as disingenuous and vacant, yet oddly sinister. He was overflowing with personality in wrestling. Now, he barely seems like a person.

[@omgjimmyboy]

Yeah it’s weird it’s like this futuristic snake oil salesman

[@michaelwills1926]

I don’t recall the details but someone asked how he stayed so big and he said, joking (allegedly) that he ate babies.

[@DHGxMcFlurry]

@@michaelwills1926 Yep. Ceepy comments like that are common with these people in hollywood. Babies, blood, satan, etc.

[@RAD1111able]

That's why I don't dig him returning to the WWE anymore. Since about his 1st return over a decade ago,he just doesn't seem genuine,he is forced and steals the spotlight from others.

[@ezeqeel8352]

Because he is not Dwayne, that's The Rock you see. Hollywood protects its assets, so more money you turn more restrict your personality becomes and in the end, you are nothing else but the brand you caged yourself in.

[@ZeroRiskAppetite]

"at his age his physique cannot be attained naturally".... At ANY age his physique would be unobtainable naturally.

[@mkhanman12345]

Why is this guy coloring rock's face

[@brickchef8282]

this pisses me of so mutch i barely can state it, i dont care if they juce but why not be honest WHY some people might to atemt this "natural" and fail and of course they fail and question themselfes just because someone with fame clamed to be naturall for image issues. its getting in to the head of girls and boys and ruins there perception

[@MrSamPhoenix]

Exactly lol

[@dontlikeidiots377]

I actually disagree, his earlier physique was attainable naturally, when he was wrestling.

[@bluerune7305]

Yep he is 💯 using steroids or some such strength/physique enhancing drugs.

[@cincymutt]

I never got why Hugh Jackman had to get so ripped as the movies went. He could've just stayed at the his level from the first movie; maybe keep some hair on his chest as well.

[@CalamityCain]

Totally agree. I think it was his best look, too!

[@DeadKraken]

I appreciate his efforts in the subsequent movies, but tbh his look as Wolverine in the first one makes me violently feral, so I wish he'd kept that lol

[@toidIllorTAmI]

He was acting. Why does Joaquin Phoenix get very unhealthy for his roles?

[@perhaps1094]

@@toidIllorTAmIPeople are saying he didn’t need to cus the character would still be believable, keep up.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

@perhaps1094 that's great that people SAY that but that doesn't stop the actor from doing that. And he didn't do it with just joker. Keep up

[@AustinThinker79]

I’ve been an amateur bodybuilder for 20 years. Are there REALLY questions about his physique? Do people really wonder if he’s natural???

[@Fourside__]

only the most delusional or people with ZERO fitness knowledge

[@Winterfal11]

I work with a dude thats a WWE superfan and I mentioned that the rock was on something to have that build and he legit got offended and told me the rock would never do something like that, and it's genetics and hard work. :)

[@willw.1466]

​@@Winterfal11So only mentally regarded WWE superfans, got it

[@37Kilo2]

Everyone knows. The issue is that he lies about it. They all do, and it's annoying. Just admit it, dude.

[@Nswix]

There were people who swore Liver King was natty... some people will believe anything.

[@tjjordan4207]

Another thing about The Rock is his legacy as an action star, and it's quite interesting now that we have almost 23 years to look back on. So, ask yourself this question: "What franchise or single movie does The Rock have to call his own?" Every big name actor has an entire franchise, or at least one single movie that they are remembered for, especially in the action genre. Something that makes you think of that person as the brand for it, even if it is a single film. Sylvester Stallone has Rocky and Rambo. Arnold Schwarzenegger has Terminator and Predator. And even Vin Deisel has the F&F franchise, with the added bonus of Pitch Black. But for Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson, I can't name a single movie or franchise that makes me think: "This wouldn't be the same without him". The only film that comes close is The Scorpion King but that was banking off two pervious Mummy movies that Brendan Fraser was responsible for. Stop and really think about it, with films like Journey 2, G.I. Joe - Retaliation, Baywatch, and Black Adam, they all were part of already established IPs that he just came in on afterwards, and the reason why he does this is because... well, there's no nicer way to say it, except to say it: "He can't make something great on his own." We've seen it with films that relied heavily on The Rock, like The Gameplan, Tooth Fairy, Race to Witch Mountain, Skyscrapper, San Andreas, and Central Intelligence. And while some of these movies did good at the box office, they're not remembered like so many other films. The Rock (including his movies) is like a fast-food joint, able to attract and satisfy for a small period of time, but otherwise hollow and easily forgotten.

[@oscarpinillacastro5893]

Everyone should read your comment. Nailed it.

[@kyletucker3811]

Walking Tall.

[@haikuu7059]

Very good comment. He has a decent opportunity with Red Notice which broke some Netflix streaming records. Apparently there is a sequel in the works. Perhaps that will be his best chance at establishing such a franchise. Jungle Cruise was disrupted by Covid, unfortunately.

[@Mr_Bones.]

You absolutely nailed it. On top of all that, I would also like to add that his social media personality is so cookie cutter conformist, he spews nothing but slogans and board approved statements, that Dwayne in my opinion is the world’s most successful NPC. He campaigned for Biden only AFTER it was safe to do so, he champions climate awareness with the most generic slogans imaginable (while we all know he uses a private jet to get from one side of his mansion to the other), and has no controversial or even edgy opinions. He has no spice, no range, no unique personality. He plays it safe to be marketable, to be inoffensive, but legendary actors are not bland, dull, and so unemotional. I’ve never met the guy, but he just seems boring in real life and in movies. He always plays the quirky good guy or misunderstood anti-hero. He’s so thirsty to be portrayed as a cool guy that honestly, I think we all subconsciously think he’s lame. I would rather hang out with Arnold, Stallone, or even Jean Claude in their 80’s than Dwayne right now. Does anyone else think the same?

[@yakuza01]

Not to take anything away from Arnold, but looking at the Rock, he (Arnold) was really lucky to work with the likes of Cameron and Verhoeven at their primes. Not only did these directors have a vision but didn't give two shits about telling Arnold what to do. Just look up the disagreement he and Cameron had about the iconic "I'll be back" line. Arnold, at the time, felt more comfortable saying "I WILL be back" and Cameron basically told him something along the lines of Arnold is not the director so what he (Cameron) says goes. Rock just has too much power and say so on set.

[@tdoran616]

The Rock is a shell of a man, a walking brand who only speaks in corpo-speak to advertise.

[@understanding77]

Lmao he’s probably more of a man than you’ll ever be 😂

[@yoitsvenus616]

Nothing behind those eyes

[@SoberHighDrunk]

This takes me back to the Joe Rogan podcast with the rock. My god was that one terrible. BRUTAL. They were just stroking each other’s phalluses with whey goop

[@Jadty]

It’s kinda sad. Dwayne seems like a genuinely nice guy that got in too deep into the character because it makes him tons of money.

[@AlexFlockhart]

​@@yoitsvenus616Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, but if there is it'll never come out of his mouth.

[@beards-N-boonies]

Realizing 5 minutes in that the drawing edit is making Rock more and more hilariously bigger

[@celtic69]

The Rock has pandered to everyone for so long that the mainstream have finally gotten sick of him, it’s like a vanilla overload. I think the Rogan podcast was really the tipping point for a lot of people, he jumped the shark by saying absolutely nothing of note or substance for 2 hours, it’s no surprise he’s gone back to wrestling to revive his image and get his ego stroked

[@infamous6283]

And he'll fail in wrestling too he doesn't have it on the mic anymore and when he goes to actually wrestle he gets hurt or immediately gassed out completely due to his size The Rock is dead we have Dwayne now, and Dwayne sucks

[@celtic69]

@@infamous6283 I’m excited for the inevitable train wreck, it’s a shame he’s not going up against someone better on the mic, imagine Cena/Punk of 2013 picking apart washed up Dwayne

[@infamous6283]

@@celtic69 I know same here although roman isn't terrible on the mic so hopefully he can throw a few good barbs at Dwayne plus Paul Heyman is there too

[@shayZero]

Its like a stoner who gets far too into weed, at a certain point they are a personality vacuums.

[@wisemage0]

"Vanilla overload" is such a perfect description of the rock, holy moly.

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

He’s no longer The Rock. He’s becoming The Boulder.

[@davidbudzynski4847]

😂 no you mean the aSTEROID

[@GondorHorn]

When it all comes crashing down he'll be the pebble.

[@Lotus3.2.2.]

ATLA REFERENCES ARE PEAK

[@Cindyalibaster]

Soon he will become The Mountain

[@ComicsForLife2023]

hahahaha

[@downfromthereeefters]

The Rock is like Snoop Dogg at this point. No one even remembers why we know them anymore, but they're *everywhere* and I'm kinda over it lol

[@ninjomaniac]

Shaquille O'Neal too

[@kylegonewild]

What? Snoop has continued to release stuff over the years and dropped a new solo album only a few years ago. If you're like 12 I guess you wouldn't be as familiar with Snoop. It's extremely obvious why anybody knows him, weed and rapping, and his friendship with notorious felon Martha Stewart. Though I feel like I heard his publicist or whatever made a statement that for reasons (probably health) he wasn't going to be smoking anymore and his family was asking people to not bug him about the decision. Could have been bullshit though. It makes more sense with Dwayne and Shaq as the other homie said. They're completely detached from what made them famous to begin with and have been for a while now.

[@sexylazercatwizard]

​@@kylegonewildsnoop definitely isn't famous for his music now, he doesn't promote it, and it isn't as good. Even snoop lion had more buzz around the music, even though it was trash😂

[@omgjimmyboy]

@@kylegonewild I was actually just thinking about this in regards to snoop the other day, I was wondering if anyone even remembers the gangsta rap days

[@CinqueMalcolm]

Snoop said he was stop smoking as a gag to promote a smokeless grill. It's exactly what you should expect Snoop to do at this stage of the game. He's a brand, a perpetual pitchman.

[@ion1984]

don't forget that 1 time he went to in n out

[@jasonharris630]

Only one time.

[@YonyGut1MoviesandVideogames]

And he hasn't eat candy since 1989. The grind 😎👍

[@La-PetitMort]

​@@YonyGut1MoviesandVideogamesthat sounds miserable

[@NJEH8TE]

@@La-PetitMort imagine being a grown man and craving for candys.

[@YonyGut1MoviesandVideogames]

@@La-PetitMort Your celebrity worship its miserable 😬

[@De_La_Soto]

I mean, this is the same guy who recently claimed he just had In-n-Out Burger for the first time…which is like the 3rd time he’s said that

[@davidwalden309]

He is becoming exactly like Hulk Hogan. I think that the older Dewey gets...the more it will become a competition between the two to see who can tell the wildest and dumbest lies.

[@xkingdre2xb]

Well in this case I’d cut him some slack. He’s aging so the chance of his memory being as sharp as it was in his 20s is obviously slim. And not to mention all the things he does in just a day would be a lot to remember much less eating a burger. Now after the 3rd or 4th time of saying he hasn’t had in-n-out then I guess we could start raising some eyebrows

[@SparkleInYourEyes2024]

​​@@xkingdre2xbHe said it three different times.

[@kyledodson2992]

@@SparkleInYourEyes2024 perhaps it’s not him on his socials. I wouldn’t bother with social media if I was as busy as someone like him. But I still think he’s just turning into the next hogan lol

[@lazy_lefty]

Dude I was wondering when I would see this comment lmao that video was so corny and disingenuous. It was like watching an alien act like what they think a human would do 🤣

[@natemarx4999]

I remember when Rogan had Dwayne on his show and pretended that he never talked about his steroid use.

[@bronmill33]

watching those two jerk each other off was just peak JRE, absolutely nothing but BS where Joe sucks off his guest if they’re big in the industry

[@florism8647]

Weirdest JRE episode. They talked but didn't say anything for hours, so fake and painful to listen to. That's coming from someone who loves the JRE

[@oRnch199]

Joe's been in "the club" for years now, so. I'm not surprised that episode was a bit lack luster.

[@DigitalBath306]

they talked 3 hours about nothing, the rock asked him the questions, that convo was so fake lol its like the rock is not allowed to say anything besides his instagram captions

[@MR_THINQ]

Rogan was a coward and looked at the rock like some star struck kid, there was no way he was going to mention or accuse steroid use to his ‘hero’.

[@Disconnect350]

I liked The Rock's leaner look during 2000's, makes me super nostalgic. Really dislike his roid transformation since 2011, Dwayne got insecure with his "wrestler turned actor" fame fading and decided to base his entire career on how much muscles he could get.

[@jmr3178]

The funny thing about "lean" Rock even in the early 2000s, especially during his Hollywood Heel gimmick, is that he was still huge compared to most other people he might be sharing the screen with. That was the best physique he probably ever had, from a purely functional standpoint. He looked like he could go 30 mins back to back in that ring and still appear convincing enough against bigger opponents.

[@commiehunter733]

Rock started pushing hgh, insulin and testosterone in 2011.... instead of just steriods, like when he was in WWF

[@commiehunter733]

​@@jmr3178the rock was around 6'3" 220 in the early 2000s... saw him in person with my buddy who's 6'5"

[@716FIT]

IMO his best physique was in 2014 🔥🔥 GOALS for sure.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@jmr3178 he got body dysmorphia, openly said how he got top surgery to remove manboobs in 2002, which is ridiculous as he looked GOOD at the time, slight puff on chest didn't make him look bad, he just had that big, soft bear appeal.

[@DWEEB-FIX]

Another issue Johnson faces with admitting the use of steroids is his relationship with the professional wrestling industry, one that has had it's own struggles against it's athletes and their steroid usage. Especially now as he's just been announced as a major shareholder within T.K.O. Group, the parent company of the most prominent pro-wrestling organisation in the world in WWE, there's very little chance he will ever be open and honest about history of supplement usage because it likely flows through his own WWE career.

[@Dan.stunts]

I remember when people were giving Robert Pattinson dirt for not bulking up for Batman and looking like a Greek god. Had a lot of respect for him just doing his thing, training martial arts like BJJ, rehearsing fight choreography and prioritizing his happiness/comfort.

[@jabrondestoroyah]

Everyone on steroids I know are MISERABLE bastards. Good for him.

[@StoutShako]

Unironically one of the best actors of our generation

[@vespertil10]

@@StoutShako he'll go down in history as one of the goats for sure

[@Bowiiihowdy]

He didnt look to bad actually. He was in shape. They made it sound like hes was gonna be a twig

[@guyinbluu]

And besides, when I think Batman, I feel like he has to have a certain agility that the hyperbuff physique can't really convey

[@dhamilton5174]

The people who believe Mr. Johnson is not on gear are probably the same ones who thought liver king was natty. My dad always used to tell me "there's a sucka born every second" the older I get the more those words resonate.

[@rh_BOSS]

There's a Russian saying. "Unlike mammoths, suckers will never go extinct."

[@dhamilton5174]

​@@rh_BOSS I like that one too

[@kdpwt]

That’s one of the most new york things i’ve ever heard lol

[@GKB91]

It’s quite simple really: The Rock got to Hollywood and realised people still looked at him as ‘The Wrestler’ so he lost a lot of the muscle to try and fit in. Then he realised without muscle he was just another guy, hell even with his WWE physique he wasn’t anything special so he went extremely the other way

[@zenkaisean8710]

Oh this is about The Rock's physique, I thought the title meant his fake wholesomeness

[@redwolfe7049]

Lmao I did too

[@ab-gail]

Same

[@zachsz9320]

One could make the case that the fake wholesomeness problem extends to nearly each and every hollywood celebrities

[@spartan113ish]

Me too. You can imagine my disappointment when this guy only cares about his body and not his behavior.

[@jimmcphearson7252]

​@@spartan113ish I think considering that every actor fits the bill for scumbag with a coat of paint, this side is more interesting. It would be a great idea having a channel doing deep dives if all the terrible stuff actors do through their careers but it would probably result in lawsuits and strikes

[@williamrusso3130]

There's no way he's considerably more built at 51 than he was at 30, without some kind of medicinal influence. You could argue that his WWF/WWE schedule meant he couldn't train and eat efficiently, but the fact still remains that his age is still a huge factor. I don't care about people using PEDs, but I do care when they lie about it and bullshit the public that their physiques are natural. Him and pretty much every other male celebrity out there. Rob McElhenney is the only celebrity I've heard who blatantly says his physique is unrealistic. He's also hinted that he's taken PEDs, without saying it outright.

[@Arvid2022]

Alan Ritchson also came clean about TRT

[@eyecontrol4900]

@@Arvid2022 Philion exposed the fact that Alan was blasting during season1, then crashed his test. Was forced to go to the doc and hop on Trt. So yea, he's just on Trt now, but theres no chance he was lifetime natty before that.

[@colossusslayer1234]

The slow drawing of that horrifying Rock image throughout the video without ever being addressed is amazing.

[@soioioioioioio34]

😂😂😂😂😅

[@GAURAV25855ify]

The Rock looked like Johnny bravo in his prime

[@kbonh22]

Looks like an Esports gamer's thumb

[@TheSquad4life]

I love it 😂

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

Beige low key super knowledgeable about bodybuilding. I dig it

[@yovicta34]

Celebrity in the house! Love your work, Nick! Really terrific resource you’ve created to get people into bodybuilding and fitness.

[@alexanders2757]

That!

[@Blackhaze3000]

@NicksStrengthandPokemon Yeah I was surprised by the amount of name drops of folks in the fitness industry he knew of

[@DaveFromVh1]

I’m not impressed… the amount of time he’s been online/adjact to it HE SHOULD BE, also while we’re at it… POST PHYSIQUE BEIGE

[@OctoberOmicron]

For sure. It's one thing to mention Cutler and Yates, but a Markus Ruhl reference is another.

[@DCeasedbrickbuilds]

Rock literally was juicing in probably high school, definitely college, all through WWF/WWE(gyno surgery), maybe got clean for his first few movies, then got on a whole different cycle for Game Plan, Hercules, Faster, & upped the dosage from there. Naturally.

[@eyecontrol4900]

Maybe he's only on TRT? He's not lifetime natty, but I doubt he'd be blasting like the pros do it for months on end. Probably just maintaining and like he did for the Black adam movie, increase the dose for the role.

[@DCeasedbrickbuilds]

@@eyecontrol4900 he would have to be taking a massive amount of Test just to continue to maintain, but who knows.🤷🏻

[@YurinanAcquiline]

That is what I thought too.

[@yes-ft9ze]

Dont be silly, hes literally tried everything at least once and is on multiple steroids to achieve that as well as drugs to minimize sides and gh​@eyecontrol4900

[@Whiterun_Gaurd]

His doomsday bunker will have its own chemist

[@unbanunbanunban9083]

The “chemist” is already chained to the radiator

[@ThePisswasser]

Did you take an arrow to the knee?

[@wingsting9792]

"Oh, poor Dwayne Johnson the billionaire movie star, he can't stop being jacked" top tier line 😂😂😂

[@selfgrowth4619]

Literally read your comment the moment it played 😂

[@theBenStrothmann]

Suffering from success, some might call it :D

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

💀

[@716FIT]

I'm NGL his voice and the way he sarcastically said some things he stated was absolutely hilarious 🤣😆🤣

[@Jose04537]

*Smallest violin of the world stars playing*

[@cutmass]

what really shocked me a few years ago after joining the gym is how misinformed the average person is about working out. people really think that if you just keep working out and eating right youll just get bigger and bigger lol.

[@shadf7902]

The plateau is real. I lifted natural for about 10 years, my bone structure severely limited how much muscle I could build. Never tried any ped's, the side effects are too scary

[@jeremiahsymonette4781]

You can when you're young, just most people don't have the time or the motivation to keep up to something so intense. Besides, idk why anyone would want to. After a while, the shit does not look cool. Like even the rock looks weird now. Like maybe he should start playing thr villain

[@luthertju]

man, on the early days of me joining the gym. i followed the rock hercules work out routine with hope of getting big and bigger. it's basically a bro split with a lot of junk volume

[@factsrus3462]

You can if you have the genetics maybe not as big as the rock that’s unnaturally big but you can have the size and astethics just not that huge just big to the point that people will question if you’re natural I look unnatural but I’m natural never took anything so yeah some people CAN look insane without juicing but definitely not a 50 year old

[@ChristinaFromYoutube]

​@@jeremiahsymonette4781even if you're a teenager you can't just get bigger and bigger.

[@Friu887]

Believing the Rock is natural, is like thinking the government has your best interest.

[@LildawgBigbite]

The government has your best interest in the same way that the owner of the company you work minimum wage for has your best interest

[@Peppersfirst]

Right on 😂

[@pv2639]

The government only has the constititution to answer to

[@d_all_in]

​@@LildawgBigbiteexcept nobody believes what you said while every Democrat believes what OP said

[@darkseid6089]

Lol 😂

[@SilentUdon]

I really appreciate your active approach to young men's health mentally and physically. You cover a lot of topics that I find myself wanting to be more talked about and it's refreshing every time to see the positive responses people leave on your personal observations. This is a frickin' sweet vid, thanks Beige!

[@HighPingDrifter1]

Action star physiques are insane these days. I rewatched Temple of Doom quite recently and was genuinely a little surprised by Harrison Ford's physique - obviously a fit, healthy guy but no abs, to veins, no bulging definition. Of course there were guys like Arnie, Sly and Dolph but they were exceptional. There's so few everyman heroes anymore. And thinking about it, it's not just action movies. In the original Amityville movie James Brolin was just a big guy, he looked like a working man in the 70's might. In the remake Ryan Reynolds played the same character but looked like an underwear model.

[@toms986]

The guy who played Joel on the last of us is a good action star he is more relatable thats why a lot of guys like him and Sean Connery is another guy who isn’t on the juice like The Rock and other guys you mentioned who are taking roids. Sean Connery is more masculine than The Rock and he doesn’t need big muscles for that.

[@iCookCrystalMeth]

@@toms986truth about pascal

[@HighPingDrifter1]

@@toms986 Funnily enough Connery WAS a body builder and entered Mr Universe in 1953. But body building back then was nothing like what it became later. Their physiques were still achievable without hormones, steroids and insane diets.

[@WardenOfTerra]

Harrison Ford isn't exactly an 'action star' lol

[@Laneous14]

@@WardenOfTerra He was Jack Ryan, Indiana Jones, and Han Solo. Are you fucking retarded?

[@XKenny77]

It's worth remembering that at the time of his first mega-push (starting in late 1998), Rocky wore a shirt to wrestle for quite a while because he had gyno and then surgery to remove it. He didn't take his shirt off again until the wounds disappeared.

[@johndoeyedoe]

I remember it. His current fan base not so much. They were mostly in diapers. I like how they comment yet probably think lifting 20 pound weight 5 times is working hard and gaining gains. Sauce, it does very obvious things to the body.

[@leondgreat1]

So he was already saucing back in 1998?

[@hughmungus8340]

@@leondgreat1 yes and search up Pat Patterson ringboy scandal, huge backer of the rock before he made it, many wrestlers saying if you joined his "cream team" you got career advancement for sexual favors. So on the juice and sucking the sauce.

[@scottlapier4797]

​@@leondgreat1 oh yeah, it's always been rampant in WWE

[@sincorddnb9155]

@@leondgreat1 He's been saucing hard since his college football days.

[@VikCain]

Hollywood has lost it, no matter how big he gets he'll never make an action movie as compelling as the first Die Hard.

[@Ivan-pr7ku]

The "hard work" mantra is for the wage dwellers, not multi-millionaires with thick connections to higher places. Rockefeller didn't become the biggest oil tycoon with back-breaking labor, but by outsmarting the competition and taking risks where it paid off. Work smarter and leave the hard part to the perpetual dream chasers.

[@NewMitchell-wh3fj]

You bring up him having to maintain that physique and how taxing it is; if you want examples, Chris Evans has talked openly about the amount of work it takes to maintain Captain America meaning he's just full time in the gym for half the year and that was clearly a motivating factor for him wanting to move on. And Bautista has just openly said he can't keep up that build going forward because he's aging out of it

[@Keyring7031]

But the thing is, Bautista can actually act.

[@whoees3953]

@@Keyring7031and also, obviously juiced.

[@boogidwnej179]

@@Keyring7031not really. There’s not a single memorable role he had

[@NotaPizzaGRL]

@@boogidwnej179 He was great in Blade Runner: 2049 and Spectre.

[@MoonWalkerTexsRanger]

@boogidwnej179 Not yet, but he proved in Blade Runner and Dune that he can act. The Villeneuve effect probably!

[@BumpyHumpyDumpy]

I think you missed a few things here: 1) You mention Pain and Gain, and I think this is where Rock made an important friendship. Mark Wahlberg, who is notorious for his roid use. 2) The Rock has filled the spot of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was making tens of millions as an action star. We know Arnie took roids, but he similarly says it was just experimenting as a youth. Look at Arnie in Conan and Terminator. 3) Rock will never come clean. He’s made his money. He grew up in wrestling. Wrestling and Hollywood have traditions of secrecy. Those who speak typically do so for the money, Rock will never need money.

[@booognish]

At this point his entire brand is built on the lie, a lot of sponsors and whatnot wouldn’t want to work with him if he admitted it.

[@Jffeeney3rd]

Wait a minute…wahlberg notorious steroid user? Where did that come from?

[@BumpyHumpyDumpy]

@@Jffeeney3rd Just look up Mark Wahlberg Steroids. He was named by Richard Rodriguez as a client.

[@Kurostyle21]

​@@Jffeeney3rdHe does not. He claims stuff like "Oh, I just fast and train twice a day that's why I packed on 20lbs in record time." But he still denies usage.

[@Jffeeney3rd]

@@Kurostyle21 does he have the telltale Growing skull? He doesn’t seem to have the baldness (unless he’s got plugs.)

[@jonbourgoin182]

That drawing of Dwayne is pure nightmare fuel By the way you and the Gaming Historian have very similar sounding voices

[@thefckumean2209]

People either seem to forget or fail to notice that Rock is still a carnie wrestler at heart. You could watch Young Rock to see how he basically is doing what his dad did on a MUCH larger scale. It will always be about getting himself/his brand over. Hardest worker in the room has a double meaning because he’s definitely working marks on a regular basis.

[@mr.uncleg5307]

Working marks😂😂

[@ElimGarakSpoonHead]

Imagine believing something you saw on “Young rock”

[@TheEWFX29]

Exactly.

[@TheEWFX29]

@@ElimGarakSpoonHead You have to know what your looking for.

[@Futurafree925]

Yet he put people over in his wwe career(remember the hurriance, booker t , chris jericho)

[@seriousnesstv7902]

The rock is truly an embodiment of his name. He’s not human, he’s a rock. He has the same personality and appeal as a rock that has been sculpted by his agents and has never been changed.

[@Cornyboa]

why is no one bringing up the creepy pasta drawing slowly being created 😂

[@larsthemartian9554]

That face is going to haunt my nightmares now lol

[@ashleyshim2078]

lmaoooo​@@larsthemartian9554

[@falkeneyes4331]

His neck looks like an erected penis shaft

[@londekandukuda3422]

What?

[@lonewolf_a_real1]

That drawing was 🔥🔥🔥

[@jotun.616]

Hardest worker, smartest worker, most determined worker. All logical reasons why he WOULD use rhoids. Its the smartest move to accomplish his current goals.

[@Marc-King777]

He uses roids. Not damn question about it.

[@Shamino1]

I really miss Dwayne working in front of live crowds. He can work a stadium like nobody's business. He can make 81,000 people eat out of the palm of his hand. However, in 20 years, I have never so much as even cracked a smile at Dwayne in the theatres. Film does a great job at sucking out every single iota of charisma from The Rock. Also, being twice as built at 52 than you were at 26 tells me that you're blowing $3-5 million on medical consultations a year. Also, 6-8k calories per day is the diet of a Japanese Sumo Wrestler, who work 15 days in a row each tournament, which is every 45 days, and for the 45 days they are not in tournament they are training and sparring for 8 hours each day. The Rock at 6-8k calories would be built like the real life Yokozuna.

[@BeigeFrequency]

The Rock was my hero when I was a kid, as I imagine he was for many other kids out there. It had been a frustrating experience watching such an electrifying character seemingly lose most of the charisma he once had.

[@WithScienceAsMySheperd]

they are mixing up CALORIES and KiloJoules = kilojoules are higher than calories , about 3-4 times... which would make theyr claims valid = 6000 KJ - kilojoules is what they seem to eat !

[@Shamino1]

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd True, thank you for the correction. Rikishi eat 5-6KJ, which is in actuality closer to 18-20,000 calories per day. Still, I do believe my point somewhat stands- if perhaps a less dramatic.

[@btnhl]

It's hard to imagine an artist preferring to work in the medium of professional wrestling. But...hear me out, what if he did a sequel to the movie "No Holds Barred"?

[@walmartian422]

@@BeigeFrequency He's just a professional shill now and it's pretty sad to see. His movies are also trash and I think "The Smashing Machine" is probably his attempt to actually make a real movie for the first time in his life. He probably realized that even though he's worth all of this money as an actor he's never made anything that will stand the test of time outside of his WWE career.

[@calypso819]

I genuinely feel a wave of relief and warmth when I hear opening music, I’m conditioned to. Please never change it, Beige.

[@snakevenomdrink]

Same it’s like the brand now lmfao

[@TheUsername55555100]

Do you know where it’s from? It’s always sounded familiar but I can’t place it.

[@SixStringFiasco]

The Tunisian Alley Knife Fighting music makes me want to go over to the Big Apple Ranch and challenge Brother Joe to a duel

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Lol i only realized me to when I read ur comment lol it's so true with me

[@kayskreed]

The Rock's gotten so huge over the years it's insane. I actually thought the 'Hollywood Rock' from the early 2000s suited him best. Still a big guy, but leaner, more realistically proportioned. Rock has constrained himself into the 'Big Muscle Guy' main character role for movies meaning that if he loses the muscle, his brand goes out along with it. Instead he could have diversified his roles as he got older, but I guess he's gonna stay jacked for as long as it Hollywood career continues. It's strange, I liked him a lot as a wrestler, but I haven't cared for his movie roles or even his WWE appearances. He feels... stale? Is that the proper term? I think that after nearly twenty years of playing the same character, albeit a watered down version of it in the movies, it would have been nice to see if he had a bit of range.

[@ianswift3521]

he even still does the eyebrow thing from his WWF days...

[@GAURAV25855ify]

His Hollywood career is longer then his wrestling career.

[@jls534]

Hollywood Rock was one of his best phases ever, and he looked great too

[@Immortal_Liberty]

​@@GAURAV25855ify4 times longer, 23 years vs 6 years

[@GAURAV25855ify]

@@Immortal_Liberty true where time goes

[@kicksandswords]

doom wasn't an action movie it was a tragedy.

[@DuskFox7]

Poor Karl Urban 😢

[@DeaconPain]

@@DuskFox7 he was the best thing about that film but at least he got his redemption with Dredd

[@Ultrabuu85]

@@DeaconPain A Dredd TV show with him would be lit

[@dsandoval9396]

​​@@Ultrabuu85 No, it wouldn't. American series almost always end after the studio squeezes every last cent out of it, and then some. It's rare for American TV series to end at its peak. That's because there's no set storyline, they just keep making it up as they go along. The studio will greenlight _one more_ season as long as they get any kind of profit, even if it's barely anymore because people are tired of it. Look at Marvel, The Walking Dead, Lost, etc. These studios are just looking to squeeze every last ounce of merchandising/branding they can out of it so way past the show's peak, way past its drop to a satisfactory entertainment rating, they'll run the IP dry where everyone is just tired of it, don't really care anymore, _and THEN_ they'll end the series. There's when you get series that end in cliffhangers and never get resolved. During the last days of a series the writers still want to see that green continue to flow in so they'll try to create demand for continuation of the show by ending the season on a cliffhanger. The studio will see there's still demand, but barely in reality, and greenlight one more season. But the time will come the writers STILL want to make more money and they'll end in a cliffhanger one more time hoping the studio will cave-in one more time, only they won't because the show has run completely dry with ideas, or stupid storylines, or plots that make no sense, and the studio will tell them to kick rocks and that's where you have a show that ends on a cliffhanger that nobody really cares about but only to see an ending SIMPLY to see it done and over with. Just like the Resident Evil, Mila Jovavich movies. American TV series almost always get made just so the studio, cast, and crew profits. When people involved are seeing million dollar paychecks (MINIMUM), you don't want that to end, even if they have to turn Dredd into a black trans paraplegic with a non-binary multi-racial plus-sized partner. Karl Urban does seem like he wants to keep Dredd faithful to it's hyper-violent roots as it shows just how bad the future is. But I don't doubt the studio will replace him ...even if everyone else watching can see it's a move that will guarantee the series' end because it's dumb... the studio will replace him because they "want to try a new direction". A series wouldn't be bad if there was a set storyline already written before filming begins. But it's a cold day in hell when that happens.

[@kylegonewild]

A perfectly capable actor locked in a Faustian bargain with being a world recognizable symbol of physique well into his middle-age years past the point of being a true breakout voice for honest conversation around PE use in the entertainment and influencer industry. He also apparently keeps lying about trying In-N-Out for the first time which is wild lol.

[@ScudX]

Well ya know, HGH makes the head bigger, but not the brain inside!

[@kiillabytez]

Well, I've never tried a lot of popular things, does it make me a liar when I say I'm trying something for the first time? Unless you're following me around with a camera, you really have no idea what I've done before.

[@friendly0]

​@@kiillabytezyeah, it would, if you said it like 4 different times like the rock. You can't try something for the first time four times

[@kylegonewild]

@@kiillabytez Except he has said the exact same thing multiple times, publicly, recording video and making a big deal out of it. So he's either lying, or it really is his first time trying In-N-Out each time because he's never been shown actually eating it, only showing off the food saying he *was* going to eat it. I guess if he never actually puts the food in his mouth, every time he buys it and makes an instagram post saying it's the first time he's trying it, it really is.

[@sticklebacketienne]

He’s unimaginably wealthy, I don’t know why he still does these embarrassing films

[@guysafari]

I can't believe this is a thing. He actually sells himself as not being on steroids? Literally no way. In the 2000's I would believe it, but now the guy's bigger than peak Ultimate Warrior. He's 100% on something.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Jim Hellwig was at his biggest before he ever became the "Dingo Warrior", let alone the "Ultimate Warrior". When he first wrestled (if you actually want to call it that) in the CWA and UWF, in a tag team with Steve Borden (who became "Sting" later on), he was so big, he had half-a-foot wide gaps between his arms hanging straight down and his ribcage/hips. He was so 'roided out, he could barely walk. Everything he did in the ring looked like complete garbage, he basically just did a very bad and awkward bodyslam, over and over... Figuratively speaking, he was twice the size that he had in the WWF. Completely absurd - 1985/86 Hellwig makes "Brakkus" look like a cruiserweight.

[@commiehunter733]

The warrior was a genetic FREAK

[@tonycezar1645]

anyone who isn't a kid that says guys like The Rock are naturally huge because they have genetics or work hard, must be ignored and shammed, what a useless discussion

[@guysafari]

@@tonycezar1645 Dwayne makes that argument and isn’t a kid. As if I needed another reason to not like him lol.

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Ultimate warrior are from 2 different era warrior was big in the 80’s until 1992 he had his own Wrestling school academy workout business in Arizona somewhere after he left wrestling due bad business’s deals his problems with Vince McMahon as he sued wwe twice in the 1990’s one in 92 during the steroid scandal time period and in 1996 when he came to the wwf back then during the new generation pre attitude era in the mid 90’s warrior suee again wwf then claiming he wanted to have the warriors name trying to change his name then missed a few house shows claiming he had attend his fathers funeral who barely was around his entire life. Then 2 years decided to go to WCW only to find out he wasnt as good he was on his prime 98 Halloween havoc with Hulk Hogan at MGM GRAND IN LAS VEGAS WAS A diaster he wasnt a marketable guy at that time dosnt get along woth the locker room or promoter weeks late after the PPV HE WAS REALEASED MONTHS LATER-ALSO SURD WCW FOR CHARACTER DEFAMITION AND WRONGFUL TERMINATION. While may have taken steroids throughout his life as a movie star and an athlete like Ultimate warrior the Rock is pretty much in Wrestling was like from his debut 1996 till 2004 only at times in 2012 2013 and 2014 making sparatic wwe appreances

[@QuixEnd]

This goes for everything online, but we've entirely lost touch with reality when people can look at the rock and think its natural. Most of what people think is so unbelievably detached

[@Dara-ih6jq]

Watching these guys actually get old is going to be heartbreaking if they even make it that far because once they stop taking the drugs, they are going to shrivel up and be sad shells of what we all know them as and it’s going to hit them hard that’s the thing when you make your whole entire personality based off of how you look that is a game you cannot win because time Makes no exceptions and always wins. Everyone grows old and we’ve become such a vain and shallow culture but we means so much to us that people are literally shortening their lives just to look a certain way it’s crazy.

[@pendafen7405]

Dwayne wants to be 'the smartest worker'. Hard to call it smart constantly stressing your heart, working through physical inflammation, and abusing substances as a middle-aged man. That's going to catch up with him, before long. The body needs rest and healing as much if not more than exercise.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Not a single word about cardio in his never-ending stream of workout-diet-biggest-wanker-in-the-room blah-blah. He doesn't have the 'roid monkey "hereditary heart condition" wheeze yet, as far as I can tell. I might actually watch him wrestle again, just to see how quickly he blows up and turns purple.

[@FatJackedNerd]

Certain races react differently to Roids... Due to different number androgen receptors in different races...

[@Mediados]

Dwayne Johnson's career is built on the fact that he is the biggest man in the room. He literally cannot stop, it would mean that he loses his most defining trait.

[@cnwil4594]

​@@MediadosBody dysmorphia is a terrible thing....

[@N4CR]

@@Mediados But he wasn't in WWF. Kane made him look small lol.

[@spencer9488]

His portrayal of Big Lenny in Pain and Gain was incredible. Truly inspiring.

[@Thunderfist_McBeefcake]

It Golden Globening.

[@VulgarBeyondSteel]

Woah! Look at that FREAK

[@docvince1491]

It’s his best performance. The character effectively plays to his strengths.

[@JohnWick-el9yw]

A fellow Genova Witness I see

[@billyboy8534]

What a cookie cutter.

[@tonyelectionfraud669]

If you see the rock throw up a "C" after a big lift - thats for Christina Broccolini

[@johnryan6456]

The rock is the epitome of a sell out.

[@JBfromFL]

I don't get it. Please explain

[@Woozy.0]

He sold it all ... And for what!? Teremana?

[@upthereds1892]

​@JBfromFL congratulations on touching grass

[@flatliner3802]

Fantastic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Scantronimus466]

Hey man - “Muscular Guy Who Chases Vin Diesel” was really good.

[@MiguelGonzalez-vz6qi]

What I love is that you never know what you're going to get with your videos.

[@lankey6969]

What I love? Farting in the bathtub.

[@BeigeFrequency]

lol

[@MegaCygnusX1]

His incredible wealth, with literal teams of doctors and nutritionists on payroll, is likely the only reason Dwayne Johnson hasn't gone the same way as Rich Piana.

[@balancedlif3308]

You think those people carried him to this? Comparing him to Rich is not valid.

[@BeigeFrequency]

RIch was using himself as a science experiment, though and definitely pushing things further than johnson

[@NavaDownSouth]

everyone in WWE has access to the doctors and roids. They are told to get huge. Which is funny how hollywood pretends like they dont do it.

[@RichardGarcia93]

Did you indirectly call Rich Piana poor?

[@trentbrownstone1481]

​@@RichardGarcia93side shamed him did he? Bastard

[@kenrose2523]

This is not a "Rock"/"Dwayne Johnson" problem; this is a problem with sports and entertainment as a whole(much bigger than just one person)

[@colinnixon7739]

Its crazy because it's illegal. They should all be in prison for making millions off it's use

[@Tbcycoji]

Video says that he is an " influencer " ( 🥴 ) with close to a 400 million idiots " following " him.

[@shadowpeople89]

​@@colinnixon7739 honestly it shouldn't be illegal. If we are so bitchy about women not being able to abort after being sluts, why the fuck can't a man juice? It's his body not yours so who the hell do you think you are telling him what to do? You know who else should be in prison? Biden but I don't see that happening. All the politicians should be in prison but it's not going to happen so just fucking stop it. Stupid pearl clutching morality police. They should be legalized because to be honest who the hell wants to live to be 65 anyway Life sucks for most of us

[@radicalstanza3614]

Maybe watch the video in which this is already brought up before stating the obvious

[@pstrap1311]

"Chris Hemsworth Problem"

[@gregspencer7287]

The only real question is whats his cycle? He’s lean year round, but still gaining mass at 50. Steroids or not, that’s very impressive.

[@hansmatheson5976]

HGH easy+the usual test prop/cyp/etc. foundation+I assume some designer stuff, maybe diuretics on occasion if he’s doing a big show or shoot.. He has the access to the cleanest, pharmaceutical gear out there, along with best food, chefs, dieticians, etc. and massive personal commitment/perseverance. He doesn’t need to be nor do I think he’s on some insane trenmethinsulin BS just the best of what’s worked for countless others and has been reliable and consistent for decades.

[@ninjanunch27]

Human growth hormone

[@societybelike]

Insane ability as a performer, the rock was next level in terms of trash talk and facial expression, shame that Hollywood turned him into just a muscle man

[@BeigeFrequency]

Unlike a lot of people, I think the rock can actually act. He has some range, as evidenced, oddly, by Pain and Gain. I'm interested to see what he can pull off with the Mark kerr biopic

[@qjames0077]

The Rock was great in The Scorpion King. Cheesey at times? Yeah, sure. A bit contrived? I'll go with that. But his character underwent a true rags to riches story, had a pretty good arch, and was able to demonstrate an acting range I would argue is superior to muscle men of the past, like Arnold

[@kevinsmoon3257]

@@qjames0077 well yeah the fact that arnold barely had a grasp of english doesnt help.

[@Willrocs]

The rock is the rock in every role what are you all blathering on about 😂.

[@qjames0077]

@@kevinsmoon3257 sure. Despite that, he's starred in some of the highest grossing, most beloved classics of the 20th century. Terminator 1 and 2, Conan, Commando, The Running Man, Total Recall And just because someone has a loose grasp on English doesn't mean they're a disadvantaged actor. Javier Bardem did not speak English very well before he became a Hollywood actor, yet he portrayed a generation defining villain in No Country for Old Men. Fun fact, his character was actually a marine recon sniper in the book.

[@eduardblackbeard3913]

Watching this video, it occurred to me that since he comes from the wrestling world, this is all about the character, the persona of "The Rock." He justifies it to himself that he's not lying, he's just playing a character.

[@BeigeFrequency]

That may very well be part of it

[@stellviahohenheim]

The Rock that is the only one who appears on Joe Rogan to get people to turn on him, he somehow charmed Rogan into not asking him the deep stuff

[@eduardblackbeard3913]

@stellviahohenheim I don't think Rock would have agreed to do it without some sort of agreement that Joe wouldn't bring it up.

[@jeffwilliams2828]

@@stellviahohenheim Incorrect. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the Rogan first dude. Hmmm… what do they have in common with the Rock????

[@eyecontrol4900]

@@eduardblackbeard3913 agree. He most likely told Rogan he wouldnt do the interview, if the topic of gear came up. Thats why even when Rogan asked him about his training and how he has so much energy all the time, Rock gave a vague answer about scheduling or some other BS.

[@benc77]

What annoys me more is that I think he can genuinely act well he just doesn’t try to push himself to

[@bethanychatman9531]

Truly, 'pain and gain' shows us that he can. I don't know why he didn't keep going down that path with his acting ability. He could've dropped this need to always be huge.

[@dm7561]

Patrick Willem has a great video on this exact topic

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Put on that dress first!

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

He's an excellent actor....he just keeps choosing certain roles and seem like he's just going through the motion or just sticking to a basic formula and not wanting to step outside that same formula...that said Hollywood itself is kinda formulaic right now though.

[@antevernersson7387]

Have you seen him play Danny De Vito in Jumanji 2? That's good acting right there

[@AndersonTenecela]

Who’s here after The Rock buried Cody Rhodes and now wrestling fans are turning against him? 😂

[@jagoaqasha]

We Want Cody

[@nks432]

Bingo #RockySucks #WeWantCody #Woahmovement

[@AmericanWrathchild]

#JusticeForCody #FinishTheStory

[@Synical02]

Same

[@AmericanWrathchild]

On second thought ... Triple H may have worked all of us lol

[@Nassuklovni]

The amount of work he does is impressive, personally I couldn't do the same in three lifetimes. But for decades he's been in a position, where he has the resources and people around him, who earn from his success. It ain't the montage from Rocky, where Dwayne Johnson just grinds alone, on his offtime from the meatpacking factory. There are people around him helping, motivating and pushing him 24/7. It also motivates, when you know you're gonna earn millions of dollars, after that training cycle. Those Marvel and DC-movies make an obscene amount of money, there gotta be "professionals" on set to ensure, that the money machine keeps on rolling. It's sick and deceiving, but those institutions don't run on good will and transparency.

[@leonhuckstep472]

You’d be surprised what you could do with millions of dollars on the line, a personal trainer, a personal chef and no other commitments

[@Zombie1Boy]

I think The Rock played Resident Evil 5, and after seeing Chris Redfield punch that boulder out of the way probably figured, "I could probably do that."

[@sangheiliwarrior86]

Rock vs Boulder

[@1738-l1j]

@@sangheiliwarrior86 faturing kevin heart as The Pebble

[@Woozy.0]

The Rock really is just the cookie cutter version of Big Lenny. Can you imagine what Vince McMahon could have done with the Del Rey Misfits if they had existed back in the Attitude Era?

[@VulgarBeyondSteel]

He copied Lennys teeth. Cookie cutter

[@walmartian422]

Whenever I see a picture of big lenny's roid gut I feel like vomiting. He's just so shameless about it.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

one can only keep up an image and pander for so long...

[@Olivershoesoff]

Batista ultimately accepted his age...

[@madfoxgaming2493]

True

[@alexl.4362]

He did?

[@jay_sun2088]

@@alexl.4362I never seen the GOTG movies but I heard that’s why he wore a “shirt” in the latest movie? Because it’s getting harder and harder to be buff in his old age without taking steroids.

[@footyroll8678]

john cena too. he is so much smaller now.

[@rohanrane7334]

no he didnt lmao... he keeps getting plastic surgery on his face. hes had too many procedures. he needs to stop

[@JilverZ]

If no one else says it, I think this is your best painting yet, love the feathered strokes across the shading. The rest of the video is great too, of course.

[@tombailey1059]

It looks like Jerry Seinfeld got Leatherface'd

[@SuperPeterok]

I thought it was Kingpin

[@SuperPeterok]

I thought it was Kìngpin

[@Lola23339]

I've been a casual, but consistent, weightlifter for decades. I used to lift at Gold's Gym in Venice where half of the gym was on steroids. When you lift for long enough, you learn to tell whether or not people are on steroids with just an "eye test." In the Rock's case, there's no doubt that he's on steroids. Most people don't have experience with weightlifting so they don't understand the "eye test." I have a friend who co-wrote a screenplay with the Rock and she said he's a super nice person. I don't doubt that but, when it comes to being clean, he's full of shit. My strong suspicion is that the Rock thinks he needs to be as ripped as he is to maintain his incredible career. It's likely he'll have to pay a price for his steroid use. A lot of people do.

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

Not a weightlifter by any stretch, but am modestly talented in other areas. The fact that you had to even say that people don't understand the eye test is both confounding and appalling. No joke, game recognizes game. If you're in the know about literally anything, your experience will tell you how good someone is at something. There are apparently too many people out there, that do SO very little, that they cannot comprehend the idea that someone could recognize someone else's experience based on their own. They had to have never, ever once been interested enough in anything to do it long enough to be able to see their own progress and compare it to another's

[@gregpettis1113]

Did you ever see Arnold

[@sic6664]

The "eye test"? 😂 You mean you look at him?

[@Lola23339]

@@gregpettis1113 I met him and had breakfast with him...and my father. Long story but he was really nice to us.

[@cacoethes1366]

​@Blackout_CDXXThat's the thing about testosterone and HGH. It basically means you don't have to slow down at the age normal people would. It does however greatly increase your risk many other health issues with heart attacks being the big one. Although when you have the money he does then he'll be getting constant monitoring of his bloods to reduce the risks as much as possible. It'll still probably catch up with him.

[@lightninlarry8936]

And he also steals the spotlight from WWE stars that have been putting the work in!

[@royasturias1784]

Seniority and Legend status, just remember The Rock started as an unproven nobody named Rocky Maivia, who had to crawl, accept match losses and work harder to reach Main Eventer status

[@KasumiRINA]

@@royasturias1784 he still sucked in the ring. I like the Rock, as a character, but BOI was he mediocre at best in an era where workrate was extremely low to begin with. His most recent match, even being near likes of Cody or Seth shows how horrible Dwayne is at actually wrestling. Young, he had speed and impact, and sure, it was a few clotheslines and back body drops but it at least had a good rhythm. Now he's like "what am I doing in the ring". One time I was genuinely happy to see Undertaker back. Yeah, bury the Rock please! It was painful to watch him wrestle tag.

[@Spitzfingler]

His meals are pretty consistent, because every time he has In and Out it's his first time.

[@thebigwagyu]

So here’s the thing, when the Rock started off in WWE, the company was just coming off a federal investigation into their steroid use. It was a huge deal and Vince McMahon almost went to prison over it. Because of this, there was a ban on steroids that supposedly is still in place today, but was heavily enforced during the Rocks first run. So it’s incredibly interesting to see him increase in size more and more after he’s left the company, which raises a lot of questions.

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Vince McMahon trial happened in 1994 The Rock came into wwe in 1996 when the drug testing policy just kicked in 2 years later prior to his trail with the sterid scsndsl in the early 90’s no wonder wee back then atarted loosing its top wrestlers goi g to other orgsnizations like wcw Mostly they werent to strick on drug testing

[@GAURAV25855ify]

How msny ufc people do u know take the pill the roid rage n shit

[@johnmcgarry1858]

Old Vince the deviant may be going to prison for a whole other reason now

[@atdorianisart9132]

Yup but after a few years guys like HHH Rock was very small or heavy then in 1999-2000 i think they eased up of testing and you see HHH get huge and Rock go dumb big even Austin got ripped.

[@Ominous_iOG]

You guys want to get big? Don't blame the Rock because you aren't. It's not that hard to follow a strict diet. 4 cups of rice 7 Whole chickens, including claws and eyes 1 Dolphin tail, with sea water sauce 3lbs of Scooby Snacks 4-5 extra unlisted things 5 packs of Top Ramen noodles 1 80 liter cup of water No excuses.

[@random_gamer_guy82]

And the tears of a virgin unicorn. Easily achieved. Your comment made me laugh way to hard 😂😂😂thank you I needed that laugh 🤟🏼

[@amit_patel654]

​@@random_gamer_guy82 80 liter cup of water 🤣

[@valkyriesshield]

Dave Bautista is an excellent actor. No one,in any universe, WILL EVER say that about Dwayne. EVER.

[@JayGlo1111]

The turning point for me with Dwayne The Rock was when he went on a massive twitter melt-down blaming the audience for the failure of Black Adam. Its like when any actor or actress you like suddenly alienates their fan-base by saying something completely out of touch, or deciding to get involved in politics, or going woke, it just ruins their image. Look at the Rachel Zegler. "Weird, Weird!" That being said I feel like we all have some respect for The Rock, whether it be growing up watching him on WWE or his early movies like Walking Tall and The Rundown. Just a shame when the curtain is pulled.

[@Ishbikes]

Stop lying on the rock

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

I blame the DCEU. Though it proves that no matter how famous the actor is, doesn't mean people will watch.

[@matthewpunk2012]

​@@FernandoMartinez-pv1idIt's WB's fault.

[@sincorddnb9155]

Movie was a shitshow that main selling point was having the Rock. I don't like the guy but i kinda sympatize with him, he lobbied for years and years for that movie to get made and then studio botched it, and most of the audience kinda went on Rocks ass instead of on WB

[@meatpuppet5036]

I cannot imagine the level of gullibility it would take to believe he, or most action stars, are natty.

[@joenobody5913]

Sure you can, the next time you go out in public, just remind yourself that every single last person you see, almost certainly believes that (for accuracy just assume roughly 1-2 total people per hour, may fall on your side of the enlightened line.

[@412fish]

let me summarize everything in a single sentence: he's obviously on steroids but he'll never admit it because they're illegal and he stands to lose a lot by admitting anything.

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

No, I think he's a clone. He'd be a raging madman by now (and likely dead) if he'd been doing roids that long.

[@412fish]

@@gregoryl.levitre9759 tell me you don't know anything about steroids without telling me you don't know anything about steroids

[@WittyOriginalUsername]

@@gregoryl.levitre9759ah yes, being a clone makes MUCH more sense than just steroid use.

[@kman9884]

@@gregoryl.levitre9759You have zero idea how steroids work

[@bobremus1767]

Doctors prescribe them every day

[@Junk_Yogurt]

I remember as a kid when Arnold handed over the mantle to Rock in 2003 and thinking cool we're gonna get movies as good as Terminator, Predator etc. But we never did. I lost interest in Rock after finding out how he has clauses in his movie contracts to not get hit too many times and not lose fights. That's a level of insecurity that turns me off. I just miss Arnold.

[@GokaikillerTobi]

And now he's ruined wwe through politics

[@theworldisimmense]

Really? So the rock basically asks the movie producers to not make him look bad in movies? Like getting hit in the face and being thrown around? Arnold in terminator 2 was getting manhandled by the t1000

[@KasumiRINA]

Terminator 1/2 was James Cameron, so was True Lies, dude is one of the best directors in history who just made enough money to stop worrying and do what he wants instead... Predator had such a WEIRD development history it's a unique one of a kind movie. It's a wonder it was made at all... Arnie had a few other good movies, Total Recall is my fav, it's based on Phillip Dick story (so is Blade Runner) and was made by Paul Verhoven. Almost all decent Schwarzenegger comedies were by Ivan Reitman, the Ghostbusters guy. So he was very lucky to land deals with the best movie makers of the era. The Rock didn't, he quickly jumped into videogame adaptations like Doom and it went downhill from there, though I haven't watched later Fast and Furious that had him, maybe those are okay?

[@tonyg490]

"They're gonna be even more jacked than the last time" - cut to Hugh Jackman. That's some good editing.

[@jonnydaly3939]

Man your documentaries have always been fantastic but seeing thr improvement in your art over the years makes me hate myself for letting that hobby of mine fall by the way side. They're fantastic! Bravo all around man

[@BeigeFrequency]

You can get back into it easily, bro. I hadn't draw in like 10 years before I started doing it for the videos

[@Twenty-Seven]

I love that Mark Wahlberg headline: "40 lbs of Muscle in 7 Weeks." That's hilarious. Even if you were on the largest stack known to man for 7 weeks, you would _not_ gain 40 lbs of muscles 😂

[@noname-gp6hk]

I think the grand piano gained 40lbs of muscle in 7 weeks during his 'bigger by the day' thing. But to be fair he was publically posting the stack he was taking and also fucken died shortly after.

[@YeTism]

His biggest problem is his ego

[@NASkeywest]

Celebrities tell us they do these ridiculous diets of 8,000 calories, or just eat boiled chicken for a year because they know people can’t do it. They think “they are not on PEDs, they just eat 8,000 calories to get big. Which I can’t do.”

[@senorpepper3405]

I would think that if one ate 7,000 calories a day that they would bulk up. The rock walks around pretty lean. I would think he eats right at his maintenance. And as rich as he is, he should know exactly what that is.

[@michaelwills1926]

@@senorpepper3405one better be working out around the clock to consume 7000 calories and not be in chronic insulin resistance

[@evilbrox1801]

regardless of his diet i think the biggest problem he's going to have is probably heart issues, most body builders deal with that at some point especially if they go hardcore

[@andreahighsides7756]

Rip zyzz

[@knoname7778]

No one grows and maintains muscle at that age normally. The sciatic vain and face changes are dead giveaways he's on "gear".

[@dug8377]

Acromegaly from human growth hormone abuse.

[@Zangelin]

The moment he lost me was when I found out about the clause in his contract where he is not allowed to get beat up or lose any kind of fights in a movie. Mega cringe.

[@darrell5703]

I’m 43 and started taking TRT at 35. In those first 3 months or so, I gained about 20lbs. Prior to this I was natural and never took anything “illegal”. And I looked “fluffy” like the rock. I was a big guy, 230lbs, and went to a bigger guy 250lbs. I look fuller and thicker but i was hard as a rock. Muscles felt like touching a wall. It’s crazy. After talking to some gym guys and finding out I was on steroids lol, i was like damn. It never crossed my mind that test cyp was anabolic steroids. Unlike today, back then there was no TikTok and there was no fitness influencers and there was no gym crowded with a bunch of kids juiced like today. So i started taking some good ish. That fluffiness went away and i became muscular and ripped. Im like 10 years younger than the rock. For him and mike o’tren to claim natty is astonishing to me. But people fall for it.

[@redsun7223]

Why did you take TRT

[@MuddieRain]

@@redsun7223 all of the benefits. Mainly to rise testosterone.

[@Andres_Acosta]

@@MuddieRaini think the reason he is asking is bc at 35 he probably didn’t need it yet. It’s not like you turn 35 and your testosterone levels drop off the face of the earth immediately.

[@Ramondenner1991]

I’m 32 and started TRT because my testosterone levels were 175-210 (we still investigating why they are so low). I had no ideia that TRT was steroids until I google it and saw like 70% of the videos being made by gym bros kkkkkkkk

[@Ramondenner1991]

And now I’m in the rabbit hole 😂😂😂

[@ddmmmm771]

Can you smelllllllll what beige frequency is cooking

[@FeliciaHart-w7q]

🍲🍯😊

[@subgrappling805]

2006/2007 Dwayne Johnson has an eerie resemblance to OJ Simpson…or am I tripping?

[@staomruel]

If focus groups made a celebrity.

[@darknessincarnate138]

Why isn't he in the Baki universe? He would be perfect

[@TheAilmam]

Not flexible enough

[@dubbyx8490]

The Rock vs Ogre.. I would love to see that

[@android0391]

Baki is so absurdly ridiculous, it's low-key entertaining.

[@darknessincarnate138]

@@android0391 fr

[@taterthepenguin]

Because he can't actually fight.

[@PowerScissor]

You really capture people's likeness so well with your art. His eyes are pretty normally spaced, and you've got them almost touching...but it still looks more like the Rock than he does somehow. You exaggerate their features so well, while still being instantly recognizable as the subject. Well done, Good Sir.

[@BeigeFrequency]

I don't claim to be any expert on this(I don't even think my caricatures are that great) but I think a good caricature is about finding the relationship between the proportions of different features and messing around with that, rather than just trying to exaggerate certain things.

[@blzt3206]

@@BeigeFrequencybruh they’re 11/10. Incredible. Give yourself some credit!

[@jasonwright2291]

I dig the drawing, you could just draw and read your shopping list. You rock Barely, such a professional.

[@akshayde]

Bruh you basically described 'caricature' which is what he is doing 😂

[@PowerScissor]

​@@akshaydeLuckily, I can safely ignore anything after someone types the word bruh.

[@theangryleftist]

Thank you for making this . I am an independent pro wrestler and a lot of guys have said they wanna do the chicken and broccoli diet to get ripped and they honestly believe it works . It doesn’t. I’m sorry. I tell them jokingly of course that well you’ll need to see your ol’ uncle roid for the extra boost.

[@gnyphq6405]

I see a LOT of parallel here to the homerun races in the early 00's, specifically for Barry Bonds. His feet and head GREW in the middle of that race. Johnson seems to be growing. I know a lot has been said about the body image problems for women (all warranted) but we rarely discuss the problems that derive from the public celebrating unrealistic body expectations for men.

[@Des420]

@@gnyphq6405That’s from the growth hormones they have taken. I’m not sure if there are more receptors located in those areas, that respond more to the GH… But the shoulders and traps have more androgen receptors than anywhere else in the body, so when you use testosterone, you end up with those parts being over developed and exaggerated.

[@Des420]

You can’t get ripped and keep massive amounts of muscle on, without using gear. How can you maintain muscle in a calorie deficit? How can you get lean while eating to maintain muscle mass? The math doesn’t add up

[@gnyphq6405]

@@Des420 sincerely, thank you for the insight there. Side note: Toe Pogan calling out with people for juicing, is fucking ridiculous.... He's very open about being an active TRT proponent and user.

[@timw4432]

Chicken, Rice and Broccoli is basically a synonym for steroid use these days. Can’t believe I used to buy it when I was younger

[@CristanMeijer]

He is also limiting his acting opportunities by being so big. If you're that big, you're simply forgoing being able to portray an average Joe without looking horribly out of place.

[@james87367]

Love the Big Lenny cameo. 😂

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

In the Army Infantry we ate about 3000-3500 calories a day, but that's cuz we're annihilating ourselves in training, I member woofing down my food so fast and stuffing bread and fruit in my pockets for later lol, got caught a few times and was like "Alright how many pushups for the banana?" hahaha!

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

Wrestlers burn a similar number of calories but either way MRE's are not clean by any means. Theyre packed with dense calories, which is relatively easy to stuff down as opposed to lean meats and fish.

[@Dead_Again1313]

I was Marine infantry. The fuel (food AND water) needed to just balance out was definitely different. It's partly why MREs are super high calorie. The guys who wanted mass just couldn't do it, it seemed. That bugs me with modern movies. The military guys are bulging with muscle while in reality, they wouldn't be able to keep up with a basic ruck. Most of us were strong but wirey from constantly moving, not getting real sleep and carrying gear. Always nice to run into another infantryman.

[@el34glo59]

​@@Dead_Again1313Makes sense. 100% no way is a massive dude, like in the movies, keeping up with you guys. It's ridiculous

[@eduardblackbeard3913]

Sometimes I think your videos are just needlessly going after someone over some minor point. But you really nailed this one. This is a real issue, and it's only going to get worse. It makes me lose respect for people I otherwise admire to be lied to so blatantly because they are allowed to get away with it. The cover-up is so much worse than the crime.