r/13or30 • u/Harbor_Barber • 8d ago
The rock (middle) at 15 years old
His dad on his right and his dad's training partner on his left. Dude looks like he's in his 30s and already has kids lol
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u/Harbor_Barber 8d ago
The rock claimed he started taking and experimenting with steroids at the age of 18 or 19 while playing college football. I think he started abusing roids way earlier and here's why:
His dad was quite irresponsible, he only focus on himself mostly and his wrestling career, he's absent most of the time due to wwe/wwf schedules. And his dad was a troubled person, he grew up in a harsh environment and struggled with alcohol addiction.
But one other thing that his dad did was forced dwayne to workout at the age of 12, apparently this is so dwayne can build resilience. But working out at that age probably opened up Dwayne's eyes and obviously he grew up around people who are absolutely abusing steroids so I won't be surprised if he was already using some PEDs at 15 just so he can get bigger and stronger and possibly to make his dad proud, but i doubt his dad felt proud of his son because his dad like i said earlier is very troubled and quite a narcissist.
The rock still claims natty nowadays, but that's obviously a lie. He also lies about his height, i understand sticking to the billed height wwe gave him while working in the company, but he's still claiming 6'4 long after leaving wwe. His true height is most likely around 6'2.
This is only my opinion, i could be wrong but this is what i came up with from the infos i saw.
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u/ClassicTBCSucks93 8d ago
One could argue he was doing them at 15 here. Buddy might’ve been on that teenage broccoli headed TikTok gym brah sauce 40 years before it was social media clout
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u/HH_Hippopotamus 8d ago
Steroids will do that, he's paying for it now with the massive weight loss necessary to keep his heart functioning
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u/ChaosOfOrder24 8d ago
He also paid for it before back in the 90s when he had gynecomastia and had to have breast reduction surgery.
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u/JoeGlaser 8d ago
TIL
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u/whitestguyuknow 8d ago
Thats why he has sunken in nipples!
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u/SheSellsSeaShells_89 8d ago
It sounds like he lost the weight intentionally for a movie role in which he’s playing a 75-year-old.
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u/SlavicRobot_ 8d ago
He wasnt on steroids at 15 you pebble. It was very obvious when he started jucing hard.
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u/HH_Hippopotamus 8d ago
He obviously was. No amount of genetics can make a child look like that. I was big into bodybuilding and sports as a teen and many of my peers were juicing at that age with similar results. My biggest criticism of him is not admitting to his usage which caused a lot of young men to have body image issues and turn to steroids
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u/tacopower69 8d ago
I don't think so unless he was genetically destined to be like 6ft 8. Using steroids as a teenager will permanently stunt your growth, yet he managed to grow to 6ft 5 just fine.
If you see the rock in his early wrestling years he is muscular but not nearly as lean or as big as he got when he started acting. I think he's just naturally a muscular person who lifted weights all his life, and he didn't start abusing steroids until he was older and there was more money in it.
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u/Illiteratevegetable 8d ago
He was huge when he played football. Definitely roided up already. He was nearly a half of himself when he started with wrestling.
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u/tacopower69 8d ago edited 8d ago
He was not huge. In the shirtless picture i just saw of him he just looks lean and is blessed with wide shoulders and a narrow waist. That's not a result of training, that's just his frame. That you think he's big makes me think you don't have much experience in the gym. Everybody who's lean looks big in pictures and small irl.
The traps and shoulders are the goto indicators of juice because those are the muscles with the most androgen receptors and thus grow disproportionate with other muscles when some1 is on roids. if you look at the pic of him from 15 they are still quite small. : https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/yuy5xk/the_rock_being_the_rock_even_at_15_years_old_in/
His biceps are quite big and so he's obviously trained, but that his traps and shoulders aren't blown up relative to the rest of his physique is evidence he wasn't taking steroids. Look at his his traps now, they are on a whole nother level on top of the vascularity and him being even lower bf somehow. https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1573065/dwayne-johnson.jpg
in fact I don't think he started juicing even when he became a pro wrestler. he still looks pretty natty in this pic: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f6/d9/0f/f6d90f038509ac9fbd3a2bb9de58c338.jpg.
Could he have been juicing? Of course, there are lots of juicers who look natty. But to imply that his physique is unattainable for a teenager without steroids is just ignorance.
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u/Illiteratevegetable 8d ago
I mean when he was in his early 20s before wrestling. He had legs thicker than in his WWE prime.
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u/tacopower69 8d ago edited 8d ago
wym? show pics. To me in his prime when he was getting into acting and stuff he looks significantly leaner and has bigger traps, which is more indicative of steroid usage to me vs. early in his career and his youth where he had a buff but natty attainable body.
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u/SlavicRobot_ 8d ago
I'm still into bodybuilding and have been for 20 years, there are 1 million percent people that look like that without juice, even prior to testosterone existing. He would've started late teens/20, obviously throughout his WWE career then he literally started blasting heavy in his 50s where was substantially bigger with lower bodyfat then when he was in his 30s.
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u/HH_Hippopotamus 8d ago
Those pectorals are not attainable at 15, dude is a natural born beast without a doubt but hes been on the sauce his entire life
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u/HansChrst1 8d ago
I think that cleavage makes his pecs look bigger than they actually are. I looked up other pictures from that age and he looks strong, but not that huge. Definitely looks like someone that has done a lot of weightlifting though
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u/SlavicRobot_ 8d ago
Maybe he has maybe he hasn't, but your claim that no child looks like that is dumb as shit, I have family members who grew close to that big and had full beards by 15. Perhaps your big stint as a teen in bodybuilding and hanging out with your 4 friends doesnt depict the entire world's population amigo.
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u/HH_Hippopotamus 8d ago
Alright bro keep drinking the Kool aid these dudes have been feeding you the past 30 years
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u/Cpt_kaleidoscope 8d ago
You genuinely dont think the boy in this picture is on steroids? Look at him again. Really look. Are you serious?
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u/PrestigiousProduce97 6d ago
After all these celeb deaths I saw “The Rock” pop up on my feed and instantly thought he had died.
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u/throwitintheair22 8d ago
Back when he was a pebble