The idea of injecting steroids wasn’t scary enough, meet the Brazilian body-builder Arlindo de Souza whose biceps when flexed, he looks like a modern-day Hercules. You’d be thinking that he must have spend hours in the gym pumping iron but the truth is, his 29-inch biceps are a concoction of mineral oil and alcohol that he injects into his body daily.
The man known as “The Mountain” can’t lift any more weight than before he began with artificial enhancements two years ago, according to Barcroft TV. De Souza, a bricklayer, wanted to become the big man at his local gym in Olinda, Brazil. He had already been taking steroids, hormones and horse vitamins when a gym buddy suggested he try a “site enhancement oil” for an extra advantage.
“The guy gave it to me. He said, ‘Take this, it will make you grow in days’,” de Souza said according to The Mirror. “I loaded the syringe, put it in my arm, injected it and it swelled me up right there and then. To tell you the truth, I didn’t feel a thing. There was sometimes a bit of dizziness but nothing apart from that. “I was working out the same so my strength stayed the same — nothing changed.”
De Souza claims he is no longer injecting, but admits the desire to start back up is always in the back of his mind. Though he’s sought medical attention, he said doctors won’t operate because he “did it to himself.” “If I get ill, if my arms burst, that’s when I can go and see the doctor,” he said. “But for me that’s normal and something I’ve accepted.”
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