Here we go. He's fighting. He's got to
pass his knees. He's got to finish this.
He's got to lock it out. Oh, he just
cannot. That
>> sucks. That was really close
>> for the final here. These times are
significantly slower than many high
schoolers this year.
>> Oh, that sucks. So, just to put a fine
point on it, anabolic steroids make a
huge difference in muscle size and the
amount of size you can retain while you
get lean. The Olympics are mostly a test
of somewhat dedication to training and
talent, and a lot of people on the
Olympics are on drugs already. And so,
the idea that the enhanced games were
ever going to just smash records out of
the park by 10 miles was dead on arrival
to begin with.
Let us continue.
Hey folks, Dr. Mike here for RP
Strength. I have been a longtime
professor of exercise and sport science,
competitive bodybuilder, Brazilian
jiu-jitsu grappler, and user of the
enhancements. I never thought it was a
game, but other people disagreed and
they started the enhanced games, which
is like a little mini mini version of
the Olympics that lets people actually
use steroids and stuff. Just happened a
week ago. How'd it go? Let's tune in.
Hey, it's friend of the channel and
twotime World's Strongest Man Mitchell
Hooper. So, he's going for 510 kilos.
He's going for 515.
>> Okay, his previous PR of way less than
that. Um, okay. Ballsy. Let's find out
what happens.
>> Booper taking a shot at it.
>> Gets it almost off the ground. Oh, is he
okay? Yeah, he's he's probably having a
little bit of trouble there.
>> That was a fine guess of probably having
a little bit of trouble after you can't
stand up.
>> Commentators are the best. They have a
tough job. Live commentating is tough.
That stinks. I hope Mitch is okay. Um
you like uh you don't just nominally
pull that much weight. And Mitch and
Haor have been enhanced for a long time.
So it's not new trick for them. And
there's no natty records to break. These
are all enhanced records already.
They're Hafttor Julius Bjornson's
records. So his previous best deadlift
was 510 kilos. Here's him going for 515
kilos
>> for another world record would be his
130th and it would be for $250,000.
>> Here we go. He's fighting. He's got to
pass his knees. He's got to finish this.
He's got to lock it out. OH, HE JUST
CANNOT. It's just a bit too much.
>> That sucks. That was really close. That
was really close. Scott,
>> yeah, I thought he had it.
>> Yeah, it's
>> just a bit too much.
>> Get the away from me. Don't fucking
touch me. I failed. Deadlifting that
much weight is really hard. No one's
ever done that much weight. I mean,
literally no one ever. Peing and getting
everything right on a particular day of
the competition is tough.
And there is an aura to the enhanced
games, you know, all eyes on me kind of
energy, big deal. But um just because
you have a games that allows enhancement
and really encourages world records with
monetary prizes doesn't mean that
necessarily people are much more any
more capable of making it happen. What
do I mean by that? These guys are all
trying to break the world record anyway
with their their whole lives are
architected around that. And so money on
top of that, a cash prize that's
enormous, I just don't think it moves
the needle that much for elite athletes.
What it does do is it will draw in elite
athletes for like if there's another
version of the enhanced games like in a
year or two or whatever, it's going to
draw a lot of athletes in to give it a
shot. And it really justifies the
training process and the commitment
process. But on the day, hour, and
minute of the event itself, that money
can't really do any work for you. And uh
it stinks because you put on a big show,
you hope people break a lot of records.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
Okay, so 100 meter sprint. Yes.
>> Yes. World record 9.58.
>> 9.58 is a completely psychotic world
record.
>> Bolt.
>> Usain Bolt. One of my favorite
quotes by Usain Bolt is you bump a CL
you rude boy.
I think he said that somebody from
Jamaica said that pop by your gun
>> for the final here. Fred Curley managed
to take this win in 9.97 seconds.
>> Fred Curley is elite internationally
ranked American sprinter. How did he do?
This did put him almost 4/10en of a
second behind that big-time goal of the
world record. And if we go back to the
2009 world champs where Bolt ran that
958, we can see that in fifth place,
Richard Thompson ran a 9.93 and in sixth
place, Dwayne Chambers ran a 10 flat. So
somewhere between here and here is where
Fred Curley just was with his 9.97.
These times are significantly slower
than many high schoolers this year.
>> Oh, that sucks. The high school national
outdoor records for the boys 100 meter
dash is 9.92 seconds. The girls national
outdoor record is 10.89 seconds.
Established by Shanti Jackson, a
Caucasian woman. Just kidding. South
Granville High School, Creedmore,
North Carolina in 2023.
Elite high school athletes
are really, really good.
Elite high school athletes are running
times that are just a little bit slower
than they will run in college and just a
little bit slower than they'll run in
the pros, but they're already in that
conversation in many regards. And so, I
want to make something very, very clear.
The fact that many of the folks at the
Enhanced Games did not break the high
school records
is not at all to say that the folks who
ran in the Enhanced Games were just
talentless or were bad or anything of
that nature. It is to say two things.
One, already by high school, you're very
close to your career peak sprint
performance.
And two, talent. Talent. Talent is going
to determine performance in a vast
majority of sports way more than how
many drugs you take.
Talent comes from two different sources.
One is sheer athlete number.
If you get me 50 athletes at the games
unless they were handpicked,
you're not going to beat the average
performances of if a thousand athletes
are trying to go to the games. The
number of people that attempt to qualify
for the Olympics is cataclysmically
large. The number of people that are
trying to get into the enhanced games is
way smaller. So anytime you have a small
sample size, you're unlikely to get the
best people in it. and two is you have
to have
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started. A large fraction of the best
athletes in the world in a competition
like this. in order to see a high
probability of record smashing.
Smashing records is not just a matter of
taking drugs. And we already know this
because a huge fraction, though not all,
of sprinters and all athletes in the
Olympics already take drugs. And so the
enhanced games being a bit of an
underwhelming performance for the drugs
is actually exactly what we would
expect.
There is an idea that if people who
aren't so great but very good at their
sport take all the drugs in the world,
they will soon become the best. That
idea has always been wrong. If you've
been around elite athletes and highle
sport at all for maybe a few days even,
you automatically understand that
there's this shining glimmering aura of
talent. Motherfuckers that just got it
versus ones that just don't. And if you
just don't, or you've got it pretty good
but not elite, there are really not any
drugs you can take to close the gap in a
vast majority of sport.
Straight up. Because sport involves
specific muscle contraction types,
specific ranges of motion. It involves
specific cellular morphologies,
blood vessel morphologies for endurance.
It involves a shitload of technique,
none of which drugs really alter a ton
except for some of those on the margins.
So,
the enhanced games had great athletes at
the games. Every single person at the
enhanced games is aing unbelievable
athlete, but the distance between
unbelievable and mega elite is high. And
the distance between Mega Elite and has
a chance to break the world record on
any given outing is a forever here
between the Andromeda Galaxy type of
distance.
>> I'm not trying to slam these athletes,
but I just think that the pool of
athletes that the enhanced games got
here should have been running much
faster.
>> Absolutely not. These are incredible
athletes. You just don't get that much
speed enhancement from using any kind of
anabolic and androgenic steroids that we
know. It's a very tiny enhancement to a
system that is already being pushed to
its limit. And remember, we're not
competing against drug-free records,
unless you're going to tell me that all
of the sprints records of the past 20
years have been set without drugs. So,
these are people competing on drugs
against people who are competing on
drugs. As if these people are just
hyperalented instead of once in a
generation talented. Of course, they're
not going to crack all the records. It's
to be expected.
>> The first to sign up to sport's most
controversial competition. The
Australian swimmer was going for gold.
>> That picture on the right has been
getting like a shitload of press.
>> It's the It's like the number one
enhance game picture.
>> There's something about it that's
disconcerting because he went from a
good-looking guy to a person that has no
hair and no eyes and puffy cheeks and a
giant neck. But um being really jacked
turns out doesn't make you good at
swimming. One of the reasons for that is
because it makes if you have really low
body fat and high muscularity, your
buoyancy drops and then you start to
like slide under the water and that
ain't good. Another thing is like
swimming is mostly a matter of rapidly
displacing yourself through the water
and that's a technique and fiber type
issue way more than it is a raw sheer
muscularity issue. The power to weight
ratio tops out at a relatively low body
weight for most folks. So, you can't
just like become Ronnie Coleman and then
swim faster. Not how that works.
Those of you who are astute and educated
sports scientists will remember when in
Dragon Ball Z, Trunks pushed into Ultra
Super Saiyan form and it really cost him
in a confrontation with Cell because
although he was really jacked, he was
too slow. Shit, he's like that in real
life, fellas.
>> After 2 years of supervised doping,
>> say it with me, everyone. Darping.
Darp. but he fell short last in both the
50 and 100 meter freestyle races.
>> Last. There's not a guarantee of
anything that ever was. So, attacking
another myth, steroids do not guarantee
high performances. And even if your
underlying abilities have improved a
ton, what you're capable of on the day
is always an up and down. Steroids do
not erase them.
>> Adding to the humiliation, he was beaten
by a clean athlete.
>> God, reporters are pureing scum.
And what's his name? James Magnus, is
that his name? The swimmer guy. I want
him to catch that reporter outside and
be like, "What's up? What's up? What's
up with adding to the humiliation?"
Like, or Nar, I didn't mean it or um
just to put a fine point on it, anabolic
steroids make a huge difference in
muscle size and the amount of size you
can retain while you get lean. So, in
bodybuilding, anabolic steroids are the
difference between holy shit and oh, you
look pretty good. Even in strength
sport, which heavily relies on muscle
size per any given weight class, the
difference we see in performance is
something like 10%. The best deadlifters
in the world at my body weight are
deadlifting something like 850 to 950
lb. My best deadlift of all time was 600
lb for a set of like four reps or
something. I just hadn't pushed it since
then. Pointless. gun to my head. If you
give me a year to train and I abandon
all of my concerns about injury, I can
probably get me to about 650. But but I
want to break the world record. But the
world record's like 900. So what drugs
do I have to take to get to 900? Guys,
there's not even any drugs for me to
take to get to 800 and forget 750. Drugs
are a small but notable contributor. The
Olympics are mostly a test of somewhat
dedication to training and talent, and a
lot of people on the Olympics are on
drugs already. And so, the idea that the
enhanced games were ever going to just
smash records out of the park by 10
miles was dead on arrival to begin with.
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>> In lane five, Shakorio Wallace comes up
lame. Now in lane three, it's Tristan
Evelyn. TRISTAN EVELYN TO THE FINISH
LINE.
>> All right. Meanwhile, Tristan Evelyn,
who is also competing here as a
drug-free athlete, won the women's 100
in a very modest time of 11.25 seconds
and then said, "This proves that winning
takes more than chemistry," which is
definitely true, unless you consider
genetics chemistry. I guess it takes
biology too, huh? Scott, um, it would be
hilarious, Scott, if at the next
Olympics she got popped for Winstrol or
something like that, which wouldn't
surprise anyone, I assume.
>> And they're off the lane to look at is
lane number two with Hunter Armstrong.
>> Sky is number two, the one furthest or
closest to us.
>> I'm not sure.
>> It's a fantastic start. And now starting
to spin. And Armstrong's finest is his
finish. He knows he likes to finish.
Just got to keep it straight. It's
Armstrong and Ryan coming down the
stretch
>> that time. 2355 we're after
>> Armstrong ahead. What's he going to
touch?
>> It's going to be quick.
>> Hunter Arm at 2421.
It is not a world record, but it is good
enough to win this.
>> He looked great.
A notenhanced athlete, Hunter Armstrong
won first place in the men's 50
backstroke at the Enhanced Games while
competing against athletes using
testosterone, steroids. Oh my god, I
hate these people. Who writes this shit,
Scott, and other performance-enhancing
drugs? Yep.
Yeah, just dope your way to winning uh
swimming shit. I'd be a swim champion if
that was the case.
>> That world record 20.88. THERE STROKE
FOR STROKE. PROUD COL
RECORD 24 RECORD NEW WORLD RECORD
CHRISTIAN
20.81 Eight one
>> Christian
Glen
swam uh an unofficial 50 meter freestyle
in 20.81 seconds as the drug permitted
enhanced games in Las Vegas. However,
this was not recognized by the official
sporting bodies as a world record
because he took banned
performance-enhancing substances and
worn outlawed full body swimsuit. Yeah,
for sure. Uh these are all going to be
on official world records cuz all the
governing bodies that govern this so you
have to do Olympic style. But hey, at
least he broke the record. And Scott,
this guy was doped up.
>> He was doped up and in a swimsuit that
other swimmers in couldn't wear. It was
like a two factor on this one. It wasn't
just enhancement for drug enhancement
rather.
physical as well.
>> Yep. The whole thing. Full stack. The
enhanced games are proving that drugs
don't make you better. No world records
broken yet. A natty swimmer beat a bunch
of juice heads. Another observer noted.
Well, they were just interviewing smart
people the whole time. A further comment
stated, "So, it's safe to say the
enhanced games have turned out to be an
epic fail. I I can't hate these comments
more than if I tried. So, first of all,
if drugs don't work, why the do a huge
fraction of the Olympians take them?
Drugs definitely work. They just don't
work as much as people would think. The
harsh reality is that for now,
enhancement plays very second fiddle to
who your parents were. The other thing
is this, the payouts were massive. And
Scott, what might happen at the next
enhanced games if they do this again is
really good athletes might be like, I
can just come in and scoop up 500k.
I'll do it and then you'll have a lot of
good athletes at it and then maybe shit
will happen. But again, the answer the
the difference here between the enhanced
games and the Olympics is a matter of
scale. The total number of athletes at
the enhanced games is something that you
would see in just one of the dozens and
dozens of sports at the summer Olympics.
It's not even close to the same scale of
event. It's like an exhibition match and
we should expect the performances to be
concentrantly not so impressive. Again,
for all of these sports sports that's
not bodybuilding and maybe powerlifting,
enhancements do not make that big of a
difference. And only if you're hyper
elite already does taking enhancements
make sure that your placing would be
similar to the one that if you were drug
free and everyone was as well.
Training hard is going to get you your
best results for your genetics.
Enhancement is going to enhance your
genetics until we can train genetics.
The Olympics is mostly a competition of
talent and a combination of hard work
and a little bit sprinkle on top of
enhancement. And since the Olympics is
already mostly enhanced, the enhanced
games is just a smaller sample pool of
the Olympics, but only with approved
drugs taken at relatively sensible
dosages. In some sense, Scott, it's
probably true to say that the most
enhanced athlete ever didn't even
compete at the Enhanced Games, but was
at the Olympics numerous times.
>> Yeah,
>> the enhanced games. No, no, sorry. The
Olympics. The real enhanced games. I've
been Dr. Mike, and I'll see you guys
next time. You got to rate the enhanced
games.
>> I never rate anything anymore, do I? The
enhance I got this. I got this. The
enhanced games are rated enhanced out of
10. See you guys next time.
>> All right, guys. I feel enhanced. I'm
going to go break the world record in
everything right now. While you wait for
the update, check out this video right
here and maybe you'll have fun. See you
next time.