Professional boxer Ryan Garcia recently appeared in a live broadcast with fitness influencer Ashton Hall, where he publicly questioned whether the viral morning routine creator is truly natural.
Garcia posed the question directly: “Do you do st**oids or no?” he asked.
Hall quickly shut it down. “No st**oids, everything clean,” he replied.
Garcia pressed further, asking: “Natty?”
“Natty,” Ashton answered.
But Garcia wasn’t convinced. “Cap,” he responded, bluntly accusing Hall of lying.
Hall pushed back, pointing to his physique and public perception. “Does it look like I’m taking? I’ve been wanting people to say yes. So, Larry said no,” he said.
Referencing what noted powerlifter Larry Wheels had reportedly said about Hall, Garcia dismissed the endorsement outright. “What the f* does Larry know about st**oids?”** he fired back.
Hall clarified his point about Wheels. “He said that I’m not taking them, so he takes them,” Ashton explained.
Garcia paused briefly before responding with a simple acknowledgment. “Oh,” he said.
Hall continued defending himself once again. “Yeah, he’s open. Do I look like I’m juicing?” he asked.
Garcia didn’t hesitate. “Yeah,” he replied.
Hall, who has built a following of over 16 million through his meticulously produced morning ritual videos, has repeatedly insisted he is completely natural.
The physique question has followed Hall for some time. When he appeared on Logan Paul’s IMPAULSIVE podcast, Paul addressed it almost immediately.
“Can we talk about your physique, brother? Those pythons are crazy,” Paul said.
Hall acknowledged the chatter without flinching. “They all say I’m not natty though,” he replied.
Paul’s response was equally candid. “Well, you definitely don’t look natty, do I? That’s the goal,” he said.
What increases the skepticism further is Hall’s account of his own diet. For someone carrying a visibly muscular frame, he claims to eat just two meals per day within a 16-hour fasting window and says he is “always in a caloric deficit,” consuming roughly 2,000 calories daily.
Standard nutritional guidance for natural athletes focused on muscle retention typically calls for approximately 0.7 to 1.0 grams of protein per pound (1.6 to 2.2 grams per kilogram) of body weight per day. Hall’s pantry, visible in his own content, is stocked largely with bananas, honey, and high-carbohydrate, low-protein staples. He attributes his build to starting weight training at age 11.
Hall’s 4:07 AM wake-up calls and elaborate rituals, including face dunking in Saratoga water, red light therapy, breathwork, and cold plunges, have made him one of social media’s most recognized figures.
