Bodybuilder Hits Back At Claims His Huge Muscles Are Photoshopped

Bodybuilder Tyler Cooke is currently fighting a battle against critics who claim the pictures he uploads to Instagram are fake.

The team at Generation Iron have posted an article questioning whether the 21-year-old photoshops his images before he posts them.

The article reads: "While we never try to just assume someone is natural or on gear, it's even more rare for us to call out people for looking photoshopped. Tyler Cooke is a young man with some of the most insane proportions we've ever laid eyes on."

The comments section was filled with people backing Cooke, before the man in question wrote on the site: "I'll happily share with you my full posing routine video I got those screen captured pictures from that you used for the header.

"And you'll see nothing's been done to doctor the images, but big thanks for the compliments outside of the photoshopping accusations."

The Wirral bodybuilder has told the Liverpool Echo his impressive muscle mass is down to hard work, saying: "I've not missed a meal or a trip to the gym in the last five years and I work out properly.

"Sure, there is an element of genetics to it, I can't deny that - but I have worked hard and it has paid off."

You also don't take second place in Britain's national bodybuilding championship with a photoshopped body. That would be kind of hard to pull off.

He posted to Instagram the emotional toll that bodybuilding has taken on him, saying: "I remember working at Holland and Barret. I'd been training for five months, and got this pic after work. It made me wanna quit.

"It made me wonder why I bothered spending my few evening hours I had heading to the gym in my work uniform.

"And if I'm honest, I don't know why I carried on."

He started his bodybuilding journey when he was 15 years old. He has since become a trainer at the New Era gym in Birkenhead and, according to the Echo, he can squat the weight of an average Shetland pony.

In the off-season he eats 5,000 calories a day, with a single meal consisting of about 10 eggs, 400 grams of chicken and 400 grams of rice or potatoes.

He said: "Everyone can get fit and look after themselves and I want to support as many people as possible to do that."

Sources: Liverpool Echo, Generation Iron

Featured Image Credit: Instagram/Tyler Cooke

Topics: Instagram, Bodybuilder

Stewart Perrie

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