What bodybuilders looked like before GH

[strohs]

This picture was in the current issue of FLEX. Great article by Arnold about the current state of bodybuilding and the hopeful push to deduct points for having a GH gut.

 

[jdevlin1985]

This picture was in the current issue of FLEX. Great article by Arnold about the current state of bodybuilding and the hopeful push to deduct points for having a GH gut.

Wicked physique

 

[Makavelli]

This picture was in the current issue of FLEX. Great article by Arnold about the current state of bodybuilding and the hopeful push to deduct points for having a GH gut.

The NY show certainly up held the new mandate about GH guts. We'll see what happens at the O.

 

[strohs]

Yeah I was wondering how that show was going to turn out. Good to hear. It's time for a re-direction in my opinion.

 

[halfaclue]

The NY show certainly up held the new mandate about GH guts. We'll see what happens at the O.

What is the mandate? I missed it?

 

[buffalo]

I like the big dudes like ronnie and jay but i don't like them looking pregnant.

 

[Makavelli]

What is the mandate? I missed it?

They released a memo in April stating that they will be judging for symmetry, proportion, and a V taper. Those physiques that display a thick waist and distended gut will be marked down. I didn't think that they would actually do it, but it appears they are. Like I said above, let's see how the O turns out. If one of the more classical physiques wins, then we'll have our answer.

 

[strohs]

The mandate is that if your gut looks like your hiding a small mexican village then you will lose points in competition. So many newcomers to bodybuilding are sold to think that the more mass you have the better you will place. In actuality that is what bodybuilding has resorted to. The judges are not being responsible and are letting guys get away with having huge guts.
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"The race for mass seems to have taken us away from the classic cornerstones of bodybuilding: aesthetic all-around proportionate development, in which wide shoulders, a small waist and balance throughout the whole physique are the keys. Now we see guys in the pro ranks who are huge with distended stomachs and no abdominal control. I know that IFBB Pro Division Chairman Jim Manion is zeroing in on this problem and will, beginning with the New York Pro contest on May 21st, be directing the judging panels to penalize guys with protruding stomachs and strange looking lumps."
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I think Ronnie is in trouble for this years O.

 

[organon250]

I hope so those distended bellies look like shit anyway. having that V taper and being able to hit a vacuum like zane and arnold used to is the bomb it just makes your upper body explode onstage

 

[Themachine01]

i know that arnold didnt have the gut, but he did use GH, just not to the extreme that the bodybuilders of today use it.