World’s Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper posted a video on his YouTube channel where he laid out his full PED stack and the health trade-offs he’s making at 335 lbs (152 kg).
“I join the Enhanced Games because I’m sick of half transparency and pretending that things like this don’t exist,” Hooper said. “This is education and education that I think is really important that could really help someone’s health, but it could also really hurt someone’s health done wrong.”
To win World’s Strongest Man, Hooper used 500 milligrams of testosterone per week, 300 milligrams of NPP per week, and 16 milligrams of Adderall per week.
For the Enhanced Games, he said: “I’m going to up my dose of testosterone from 500 milligrams a week to 750 milligrams a week. I’m going to stick with 300 milligrams of NPP. I’m not going to take Masteron because that’s not on the approved list. I’m taking 16 milligrams of Adderall only on heavy competition days.”
Hooper also plans to add Halo at 50 milligrams a day alongside an additional oral compound at 100 milligrams a day.
He was open about the psychological toll from Adderall: “I’ve spent days at my kitchen counter crying for reasons that I cannot explain because it made me so anxious and nervous.”
About his physical health, Hooper acknowledged the cost directly. “As a strongman, I have negative health implications from being 330 lbs (150 kg). I have negative health implications from the PEDs that I choose to take, and I don’t take that lightly. I have a family and I do not want to die and I’m not willing to die for anything around this sport.”
He put specific numbers to the longevity risk. “Being morbidly obese as I am, that’s anyone with a BMI over 40, that’s a 2.5x risk on all cause mortality. I’m two and a half times more likely to die than the guy holding the camera just because of my body weight.”
He continued: “If we talk about st**oids, it’s said that st**oids have about a two times risk on all cause mortality. So it’s actually less healthy for me to be 335, 340 lbs (152, 154 kg) than it is for me to take performance enhancements.”
His low training volume adds to those concerns. “Exercise volume for a strength athlete is very low, meaning that my aerobic fitness, my VO2 max is much lower than it should be relative to my body weight. All of those are very strong independent variables of all cause mortality.”
Despite everything, his current health markers are holding. He said, “My heart’s healthy. My blood pressure is under control. I really have no reason to say that I’m not a healthy person other than being 330 pounds (150 kg), which is inherently unhealthy. I am obese.”
