Highlights
- John Cena vehemently denies ever using steroids, claiming he has taken and passed numerous tests throughout his career.
- Cena's impressive physique is a result of intense workouts focusing on upper and lower body strength.
- Cena's dedication to fitness, including working out multiple times a day when possible, has contributed to his muscular build.
After wrestlers like Hulk Hogan became household names during the '80s, Dwayne Johnson became the biggest movie star in the world. Following in The Rock's footsteps, John Cena has made the leap to Hollywood, resulting in fans becoming fascinated with his private life and fortune.
Thanks to Cena's movie star status, he appeared during the 2024 Oscars and showed off his incredibly jacked body. Even though actors like Chris Pratt have put on a lot of muscle to get movie roles, Cena's body still amazed many observers. With that in mind and Cena's past wrestling career, some observers have questioned if he has used steroids.
This article will reveal what Cena has said about whether he has used steroids. Following that, the article will look at what Cena has done to put on so much muscle.
John Cena Insists He Has Never Used Steroids
In February 2024, John Cena appeared on The Howard Stern Show and admitted to doing almost anything for Hollywood fame. During that appearance, Stern brought up to Cena that, unlike many wrestlers who've admitted using steroids in the past, Cena has always insisted he never did that.
Without missing a beat, Cena told Stern that he has still never used steroids. Stern followed that by asking Cena how big he thought he could have been if he did use steroids. Instead of answering that, Cena explained why he has chosen to never use steroids.
“If you hit the gas peddle too early, you can get a lot of bad stuff happen long term.”
Stern then asked Cena if he had ever been pushed to use steroids. After Cena responded, "Not really." he explained why he thinks that has never happened.
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Years before Cena spoke to Stern, he was interviewed by CNN in 2007 and asked about steroid use. For CNN viewers at that time, they got the impression that Cena was implying that he'd used steroids in the past.
“This is a crazy question and it’s something that’s tough to answer just because of the way society is now. The way people conceive things, because performance-enhancing drugs have got the spotlight and it’s a hot thing to talk about. I can’t tell you that I haven’t, but you’ll never be able to prove that I have.”
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Which wrestlers have admitted and which have denied steroid use, according to The Sportster?
Wrestler: | Admitted or Denied?: |
|---|---|
Superstar Billy Graham | Admitted |
Ryback | Admitted |
Hulk Hogan | Admitted |
The Ultimate Warrior | Admitted |
Lex Luger | Admitted |
William Regal | Admitted |
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson | Admitted |
Sin Cara | Denied |
Kane | Denied |
Braun Strowman | Denied |
Mark Henry | Denied |
Dave Bautista | Denied |
Jinder Mahal | Denied |
Roman Reigns | Denied |
When asked if he has ever used steroids, Cena instantly responded, "Absolutely not." After the interviewer pressed Cena on that claim, Cena then went on to explain that people may not believe him, but he has taken and passed a slew of tests.
“I can’t tell you that I haven’t because each one of you out there has an opinion on how I carry myself, and I can take a million tests – I’ve been tested for drugs since I was 17 years old. I can take a million tests. I can pass every one of them. As soon as I pass it, there’s some guy on the other end going ‘Oh, there’s masking agents, there’s this, there’s that.’
Cena went on to say, “No matter what I say, you’ll have your own opinion.”
Inside John Cena's Workout Routine
To discover the key to John Cena's incredible body, the team at Muscle and Fitness spoke to his personal trainer, Rob MacIntyre. As Cena's long-time trainer, MacIntyre was able to detail some of the workouts that the wrestler and actor puts his body through.
On day one, Cena focuses on working out his upper body. Unsurprisingly, Cena throws around a lot of weight to look as muscular as he does but MacIntyre mostly didn't provide any specific numbers.
According to MacIntyre, Cena starts with barbell bench presses, pause bench presses, close-grip barbell bench presses, and plate pushups. From there, Cena performs inverted rows, machine pelvic flies, dumbbell bench presses, and cable rear delt presses. In each case, Cena performs three sets with varying numbers of reps.
Day two is also focused on Cena's impressive upper body. That workout starts with some clean jerks and continues with incline barbell bench presses. Cena goes on to perform dumbbell lateral raises, barbell bench presses, chin-ups, triceps press-downs, and isometric back extensions.
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Dwayne Johnson leaving The WWE for an acting career caused a very serious feud between he and John Cena.Day three of Cena's workouts that MacIntyre outlined is designed to work out his lower body. Even though days one and two sound intense, day three is the one with the highest number of exercises.
Cena begins that day by performing barbell landmines, decline barbell situps, barbell side bends, and cleans. From there, Cena moves on to snatch-grip shrugs, hanging snatches, back squats, pause squats, and barbell front squats.
In 2022, the former WWE wreslter Claudio "Cesaro" Castagnoli spoke about John Cena's tireless work ethic . "He shows you. He does it every day. He lives it. If he tells you to watch all the matches, he’s sitting there at the monitor watching all the matches. If he tells you you should work out, he is there working out early in the morning."
Learning what exercises Cena performs obviously is interesting for anyone who wants to look like the wrestler and actor. However, it was during an interview with Chris Van Vliet that Cena really revealed the key to his body, his incredible work ethic.
Back when John Cena was still mostly focused on the WWE, he suffered a torn pectoral muscle before the 2008 Royal Rumble. That injury was supposed to keep Cena in recovery for six months to a year after he underwent surgery. Amazingly enough, however, Cena returned at the Royal Rumble after only three months of rehab.
In 2024, Cena explained to Van Vliet how he returned to action so quickly which says a lot about how he puts on so much muscle. The secret to Cena's physique is that he works harder than everyone else and will even exercise more than once a day when his schedule allows.
"They have to put a realistic timeline on their work and that timeline is based on the construct that you do physical therapy three times a week. I would do physical therapy three times a day."
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