My Experiment With Synthol
Fun with needles, oil, and the absurd
Anyone else want to do some synthol? Of course you do! Instant massive muscles are just a needle away.
If anyone takes this shot seriously, email me.
I’ll snail-mail you a sense of humor.
Take a look at my arm. I went from 17.5 inches to 28.2 inches in less than a day. Not bad!
Several of you have asked me, “So Jon, why did you just jack up your left arm? Doesn’t that look a tad out of balance?” Of course it doesn’t. Don’t be silly. Besides, I plan to jack up my right leg next. I’m going for that Picasso look.
I think it’s the next big thing. No pun intended.
As you may have surmised by now, I’m completely full of Jacko on this. Good for you. You’ve had your morning coffee.
This humorous little snap was taken by my friend Mike Hill. That’s his lovely wife beside me…well, sitting as far away from me as she can to be precise. After all, my hugeness might eclipse her oxygen supply. There’s only so much space alloted for matter.
The point of this post, other than messing with your heads for a laugh or two, is actually to make you aware of the absurdity of extremism. synthol is a real drug. There are Rummies out there who use this drug to literally blow up every body part to a comic book proportion.
I kid you not — these freaks make steroid freaks look anorexic.
Take THIS shot seriously.
The picture on the right is not a joke. It’s not a Photoshop trick or a “balloon me to the size of absurdity” filter on a Mac camera. This is real. This is the result of using a “site-specific oil” — synthol. These clowns literally inject each muscle group with oil.
Hang with me. I have another point to make.
I’ve never been a fan of the “roid” look to begin with. As Vince Gironda once said, “Since when do you judge a piece of art by how large it is?” That’s why I rarely attend bodybuilding events. The physiques are not attractive to me — and they all look identical to each other.
Physiques developed without drugs have a natural flow to them. Steroids can impede that flow. The energy changes. The individual becomes something false rather than something expressive. synthol is the ultimate manifestation of the false. At least steroids require some degree of effort. This is literally “fake muscle”, if you want to call it muscle at all.
I can virtually guarantee you that no one on my reader list is using synthol, and very few use steroids except for medical conditions. That’s not my point. My point is to ask you to remember why you train. It’s not all about results. Think about it.
The freak of nature you see above is concerned with one thing: results. Results to the exclusion of all else, including common sense, safety, aesthetics, and reality.
I submit to you that this is the same mental disease as anorexia. The same mental loop as yo-yo dieting, or as wanting to lose 10 pounds for a high school reunion.
I do not see a difference.
Each of these mindsets can put the body into a very dangerous, results-are-all-that-count pattern that will lead you into oblivion rather than paradise. Sure, we all want results — but I want life-long results. Temporary results keep us focused on a smaller life. A temporary life. A blip rather than a tsunami.
We all deserve better.
Be it synthol injections, steroids, starvation diets, or yo-yo “lose-it-gain-it” approaches to nutrition, blip-based living isn’t life at all.
At best, it’s existing for the sake of a result. At worst, it’s a way to blink out your existence — the worst result of all.
Proceed toward your results with a life-long mentality. Do nothing for the sake of a number, a weight, a size, or a date. Do everything for the sake of your expression, your inner beauty emerging, or as a block in the wall of your highest calling.
That will bring you the results you seek as well as the destiny you deserve.
[jB]
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Comments (21)
Greg said:
All those big muscles make the weenie look smaller. What’s the matter with these guys? Dude looks like he’s made of tumors.
Great point about results, Jon.
Posted on May 09, 2007 12:13 PM
Ian said:
Oi! Please don’t show photos like that again. Please, please, please. I could deal with the special-effects Hulk in the movie, but to see a real human looking like this turns my stomach. Yuck. These guys actually think they look good like this? Must be like anorexia - they somehow don’t see what they actually look like.
Posted on May 09, 2007 01:12 PM
Jon Benson said:
Ian;
I have no idea, but I would suppose they do think they look good like this.
Trust me — the photo is for awareness, nothing more. It’s a good reminder that we can ALL (repeat, all) get our values and our goals cross-wired.
Posted on May 09, 2007 02:36 PM
Lee said:
No wonder the guy in the photo is looking down - I would be ashamed of doing this to myself, too. What’s gonna happen with his skin once he deflates?
Posted on May 09, 2007 03:22 PM
Jon Benson said:
I think he’s looking down to make sure he can still see his…
…shame? ; )
Posted on May 09, 2007 05:41 PM
Jonathan said:
Wow - I feel sorry for this guy. An extreme case of muscle dysmorphia, I’m sure. I find it amazing that a body can even develop to this degree even with exogenous steroids, etc. A great point about size not being the determinant for art - I think Frank Zane is another great example of how to approach bodybuilding: symmetry rather than size.
I really hope that nobody out there sees that photo as inspirational!
Keep up the good work Jon!
Posted on May 09, 2007 09:00 PM
lazur said:
I haven’t seen this guy anywhere else. Are you sure this isn’t photoshopped? Does he have a name? I can understand if you don’t want to give him the publicity, but he’s by far the most extreme example of total-body oil use, and some corroboration is necessary in such an extreme case. Jonathon: This not ‘development’ of -any- kind: It’s not ‘exogenous steroids’, it’s site-injected oil, collagen that forms around it, inflamation, & scarring. No muscle added. he base of at least three products is the same oil. One is oil only, one adds collagen, and one adds pro-hormones.
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 10:13 AM
leah said:
eeeeeeeeeewwwwww!!!! gross sick!!!
Posted on Jan 15, 2008 10:14 PM
BK said:
FYI. That photo is absolutely altered. I am not making a commentary on you or your programs, etc., but that photo is crap and a lie. Peace.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 03:04 PM
Jon Benson said:
BK,
My photo is altered (obviously and humorously so.) The other photo? I’ve seen guys this freaky. There are videos of synth freaks who look this absurd.
Scary, but true.
Jon
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 03:36 PM
Jon Benson said:
BK,
My photo is altered (obviously and humorously so.) The other photo? I’ve seen guys this freaky. There are videos of synth freaks who look this absurd.
Scary, but true.
Jon
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 03:36 PM
kaner said:
i’m sorry but as a bodybuilder myself i can say that second photo is 100% fake. anybody who is fooled is very guable
Posted on May 13, 2008 06:21 PM
Jon Benson said:
Kaner,
Have you ever seen Greg Valentino? Just Google the name.
There’s a whole slew of these synthrol freaks roaming about, or at least there was a few years ago. Hopefully the trend is dying down.
Jon
Posted on May 13, 2008 07:05 PM
Kaner said:
yes i have seen Greg Valentino many times befor. i am 100% that pic is fake. that pic is photo shopped. a bodybuilder like that would not be hard to find since he would be the most musclar person in the world. ok i made my point! anyways i’m off to eat and do a shot of gear.
Posted on May 25, 2008 05:00 PM
Antonio said:
The second photo (the guy in the blue) is fake. I know that for a fact because however posted it got it from www.myophile.com, which is a muscle morphing site. While synthol CAN make arms gigantic, this pic is totally morphed. Type in “muscle morphs” or “myophile” on google images and you’ll find it eventually.
Posted on May 25, 2008 09:42 PM
Antonio said:
The second photo (the guy in the blue) is fake. I know that for a fact because whoever posted it got it from www.myophile.com, which is a muscle morphing site. While synthol CAN make arms gigantic, this pic is totally morphed. Type in “muscle morphs” or “myophile” on google images and you’ll find it eventually.
Posted on May 25, 2008 09:42 PM
Jon Benson said:
Guys, guys, guys… it’s meant to make a point, nothing more.
Posted on May 25, 2008 09:53 PM
Jack said:
Is the guy who owns this blog retarded???? DID YOU ACTUALLY CLAIM TO HAVE 17.5 INCH ARMS??? Thats not the unbelievable part, the unbelievable part is how someone who works out (or is fat, no other way to have arms that big) thinks that the picture of the guy in the water is real…
ITS A COMPLETE PHOTOSHOP JOB. Im so sick of looking for pictures of bodybuilders online and finding it stuffed full of all the photoshopped pictures. All of the uneducated masses thinking steroids can do that to a person. Oh i know you claimed it was synthol. Take a good look on google of people that use synthol, thhey look nothing like that.
Snythol turns the skin into a balloon, no definition is possibly with it, nor are any nice lines. (have you ever seen a square rubber baloon?)
And the guy in the picture is cut to shreds, obviously fake, not on synthol.
I know with 100% certainty that that is a fake picture.
“The picture on the right is not a joke. It’s not a Photoshop trick or a “balloon me to the size of absurdity” filter on a Mac camera.”
-where did you get this info numb nuts? Show that to anyone with half a brain and youll get the same response.
Take this page down and get rid of the pictures so that idiots stop thinking its real.
Posted on Mar 03, 2010 01:55 AM
Jon Benson said:
Hey Jack… you are in desperate need of two things: A sense of humor and some higher education.
First, the opening of this post is A JOKE. I.E. A post intended as levity, humor, ha-has, etc. It is also intended to shock people into how far some bodybuilders will go.
Second, the shot of the ‘real’ synth freak… is it real? Well, I know the guy… And I can tell you that he looks that freaky in person. Now the shot may have had some PS tampering (not by me), but I’ve seen PLENTY of guys who look like this in person from synth use. It’s disgusting, and THAT was the point.
Finally, yes… I have 17.5” arms. Do you have a problem with that Jack?
Posted on Mar 03, 2010 10:36 AM
Denis K Maina said:
Hi Jon Benson! I want to let you know that you should continue to blog what you need to communicate to us. I f anyone has a problem ,he should go and create his own. I personally know that the guy in the blue, is real and i want to get to that size exactly after i have served two terms in the army. Jon Keep up! Never stop or change for anyone!
Posted on Mar 19, 2010 06:53 AM
Jon Benson said:
Hey Dennis,
Thanks for the support… but I hope you did not miss the point of the post. I suggest “avoiding” this approach. I know some people say, “The guy in the blue is not real,” and even that isn’t the point. I know guys who look this freaky (or nearly this freaky) personally — and it’s all drug-induced madness. That’s what I hope you and all my readers will avoid.
Thanks,
Jon
Posted on Mar 20, 2010 01:47 PM