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    I was discussing the change in appearence with Sam, our moderator. The appearence of the modern bodybuilders changed from an aestetic, symetrical and athletic appearence to a human freak, as muscular as possible. Its not a new discussion. when Frank Zane became Mr Olympia. many people where confused and wanted the guy with the most muscles to win.

    Part of The Peptide Book:

    During the Golden Age ( the 1940s and 50s) the champions like Steve Reeves, John Grimek and Reg Park (picture 1) wanted to sculpt their bodies like the statues of the ancient Greek and Roman gods. Their goal was to attain an athletic body with aesthetical size and symmetry. These champions of the pre-steroid time were proud of their health and strength and looks.

    Bodybuilders of the 1960s, had these men as their example, these where athletes such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbo, Bob Paris and Frank Zane. These bodybuilders where the ones that started to use anabolic androgenic steroids, starting with Dianabol (methandrostenolone) small blue pils they called “the breakfast of the champions”.

    These bodybuilders tried hard to achieve a dramatic V-shape, broad shoulders and a narrow waist. This was also shown on stage with the vacume pose. If we compare the Body Mass Index (BMI) of the proffesional bodybuilders from the different ereas, it goes from 28.3 (Steve Reeves), 26.1 (Jack La Lanne) in the 1950s to a mean value of 30 points in the 1980s. In the 1990s when the peptides entered the sport the mean BMI value rose to 35 points in the beginning of 2000 to pro-bodybuilders with a BMI value of 40 or more points in 2006-2007s

    Our most popular bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is 6' 2" (188 mtr) and his competition weight was 235 lbs (107 kg) with a waist of 34". His waist-to-height ratio was 0.46 and his BMI was 30.2. In 1969 he won the Mr. Universe title and he dominated the Mr. Olympia competition from 1970 to 1975. You see that we also include the size of his waistline and the waist-to-height ratio a very commen number in those years. Even a massive man like Lou Ferrigno who won his first Mr. Universe title in 1973 only 21 years of age, had a 34" waist with a bodylength of 6'5" (196 mtr), he weighed 285 pounds (129 kg) and had a waist-to-height ratio of 0.44 and a BMI of 33.9.








    Some bodybuilders with a genetical very small waist like by example Sergio"The Myth" Oliva, had an advantage. Oliva had a 29 inch waist that give him an impressing V-shape.
    Sergio Oliva, who won Mr. Olympia competition in 1967 to 1969 virtually compared to Ronni Coleman, who won the Mr. Olympia contest from 1998 to 2005, makes the difference in bodyshape clearly visible (picture 2).
    Ronnie is 5'11" (1.80 mtr) tall and has a competition weight of 296 pounds (134 kg) and has a BMI of 41.4.
    Sergio is also is 5'11" (1.80 mtr) tall and has a competition weight of 240lbs (109 kg ) and a BMI of 34.

    At the end of the 1990s, beginning years 2000 it was obvious that bodybuilding had created a problem. In the line-up appeared professional bodybuilders with a gross distended waistline. When posing in contest shape it was not that obvious but when they relaxed the muscels some looked like pregnant whales. It was far from eastethic. In their quest to more musclemass the result bad looking topcompetitors. The bodybuilding contest had become freakshows.

    On the net people where divided, some of the respondands found that a bigger mass was what bodybuilding was about, while others found that the more easthetic classical physique should win. They blamed the freaky look on the bodybuilding organisations that instructed the judges who classified these look as the winnars physique. Bodybuilding is subjective just like a beautycontest. Everyone has a different opinion and prefers a certain phenotype. In our sport the winnar is mostly attached to a certain organisation and a certain “nutritionist “, these bodybuilders get the pricemoney and the most coverage abd frontpages in the magazines mostly owned by the same group of people.But body building was no longer a healthy clean sport. When the first the first nudepics of the female topcompetitors where posted on the internet even the IFBB understood that they where to far off,
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    Bmi

    In the early 90's bodybuilders have started to use human growth hormone (HGH), and soon thereafter insulin and IGFs, to further increase their muscle mass beyond levels that were obtainable by only using anabolic steroids (AS). To demonstrate the impact of the entrance of growth hormone and insulin into bodybuilding, I have gathered some statistics (peak performance year, competition body weight, and body length) of as many professional IFBB bodybuilders throughout history as I could find, and calculated their lean body mass index (BMI). The lean BMI is the best available parameter to estimate a bodybuilder's overall muscle mass independently from his body length. The data that I have used, and the body mass index values that I have calculated, are presented in the table at the bottom of this page. I also plotted the BMI-values versus the athletes' peak performance year into the graph below.
    click to enlarge the figure

    One can clearly see a trend break in the graph in the first half of the 1990's, when growth hormone and insulin entered bodybuilding. Before that period the BMI-values of bodybuilders were scattered around a nearly flat linear trend line with an average value of about 31. In the early 90's the average BMI suddenly increased by over 15% up to an average value of 36, and further increased gradually up to an average value of 38 in the years 2000, an increase by over 20% compared to the pre-HGH era. As the use of HGH, insulin and IGFs are further pushed to the limits by today's professional bodybuilders, we expect to see more and more athletes showing up with a BMI of 40 or even higher in the coming years. Currently about 8 athletes have a BMI of about 40.
    Unfortunately there are no reliable body statistics available of true natural bodybuilders, who have built their physique completely without the use of any hormonal drugs. That is because the use of anabolic steroids became a common practice among top bodybuilders already before the first professional bodybuilding contests were organized in the 60's. However, everybody who knows the sport of bodybuilding well enough, knows that a similar increase in the BMI of over 15% is expected to be observed, if one would compare true natural bodybuilders with bodybuilders who have used anabolic steroids to build their physique.
    In conclusion, one can fairly say that the lean BMI or body weight of modern professional top bodybuilders is more than 30% higher solely as the result of massive use of very potent hormonal drugs such as anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, IGFs, and insulin. This is more or less consistent with the observation of nowadays natural bodybuilding contests, where the BMI-values of the champions are usually closer to 25 than 30. It is therefore fair to say that today's top heavy weight bodybuilders have more than half of their lean muscle mass thanks to the drugs, rather than hard training and good nutrition. No, the steep increase of lean muscle mass among top bodybuilders since the 90's has nothing to do with better genes, better training, better nutrition or supplements. Unfortunately Ronnie Coleman does not come from another planet, as many of his fans would like to believe.
    Let me finally try to estimate the lean BMI of a male person with optimal genetic potential for bodybuilding under different conditions of training and drug use, assuming that in all cases he has a body fat percentage of about 3% (= lean).
    Training Drug Use BMI (3% BF)
    Never trained Never 20 ± 2
    Fully trained Never (true natural) 26 ± 2
    Fully trained Anabolic steroids 31 ± 3
    Fully trained AS + HGH + Insulin 37 ± 3

    Again this beautifull template doesn't allow me to post the graph

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    • #3
      If you think that men's bodybuilding is bad, how about the women in the Ms. Olympia contest? None of them even remotely look like females. Especially Iris kyle. The Ms. Olympia contest has become a freak show. That contest is a black eye on bodybuilding and should be discontinued. The women have 2 other contests they can compete in.

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      • #4
        Bro,

        I don't think bodybuilding is bad, its wonderfull, but some of the people in charge, ruined bodybuilding.
        ESPECIALLY the female bodybuilding. There are two mainstream ideas. The more is better (the most muscular must win) and the old school (eastetic and symetry are important)
        http://juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/conte...ude-and-beyond

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        • #5
          I covered my opinion on the devellopment of modern bodybuilding here:
          http://juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/conte...ess-or-madness

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          • #6
            the people in charge have no concern for the health of the competitors. i think 10-20yrs from now we will see the true effects of what the pushing of these guys(and girls) to go beyond what most probably want to do but do to stay competitive..they take way more than AAS and there is no studies to show what yrs of insulin, hgh, igf-1, t3,4, and various other drugs does to your body long term...guys have been taking steroids long enough to know the consequences, but the other stuff hasnt been around long enough of to know what mega doses of these things do
            Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire

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