Dr. Andy Galpin

That's been disputed since then, but that gave us a ballpark and understanding.

So when you're looking at your scores, if you realize that you're, you know, certainly, you know, in the 24, 25 area, this probably puts you close to what normal people are going to be outside of, again, exogenous hormone use.

But there's a lot of examples where people blow way past this.

Of course, we never necessarily know if somebody had used things like testosterone in the past, but I'm going to make a pretty good argument for you right now that it's absolutely possible to go past that.

In fact, if you look at someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his heyday, kind of at his peak of performance, his FFM, my score was about 28.

Now we obviously know Arnold has his history and past with exogenous hormone use and

And so that still doesn't really change the case of saying, well, can we get past this 25 marker naturally?

Well, let's look at some of the evidence here.

To give you a little bit of scoring context here, if you're at 23.5.

Remember, 25 is the established limit, what we think to be natural.

Arnold was at 28 with extensive steroid use.

If you're at 23.5, for most men, this is going to put you in the 99th percentile.

So it already puts you in a phenomenal position.

However, there are data.

Initially, the first set of studies came out in sumo wrestlers.

Now, these are individuals that were well over 400 pounds, giving them something in the neighborhood of 260 to 270 pounds of lean body mass.

Now, again, that doesn't mean muscle mass.

Lean body mass is including bone and water and things like that.

But still, 260 or so pounds of lean body mass is a ton to move around in your system.

This gave them an FFMI score of about 35.