He has a Medtroinic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) treating tachycardia. Also I thinks he's maybe around 180 max now.
Besides the injuries this is another reason to keep weight down.
180-lb at 5'10" or just over would make sense to me. He's not small by normal people standards - just by IFBB professional bodybuilder standards.
I was surprised I still have
bradycardia [resting heart rate under 60], and that it dropped to 52-55 on my recent heart ultrasound. I was very happy with that.
I had ballooned up to 213-lb [almost all excess fat gain], and that was a health scare to me. I think most competitive bodybuilders have a hard time letting bodybuilding go. So for Dave to reduce body weight so significantly leads me to believe he did that for a reason.
Obviously, I fear for Dave's health. And my health. I fear for everyone's health!
I only recall Dave bulking up to maybe 220-lb once, around this time in 2014, or around then. He is pretty committed to being lighter, so I would bet money that he has a legitimate reason to be so small.
But lol @ any bodybuilder saying it would be hard to lose muscle, haha. In 2003-2004, Tom Prince said that getting below 230-lb would be hard for him. Then around this time in 2004, the Max Muscle photos of Tom came out, where he was maybe 190-lb.
As if bodybuilders losing massive amounts of muscle takes anything more than simply going off PEDs.
I personally dropped 213-lb to 173-lb in 90 days of intermittent fasting. If I added cardio, I could drop to 157-lb which was the lightest I've been since 2005 [I dieted to 157-lb in 2016, just to see how lean I would get - but I ended up wasting a lot of muscle in the process].
My impression is that many pros don't have amazing genetics for building mass - most are under six feet tall, and would be maybe 180-lb off steroids. I think most pros have amazing genetics for muscle STRUCTURE and SHAPE. So not to compare myself to them, but I think a lot of pros would lose weight just as fast as I did, if they were not using steroids.
I think the main genetic advantage they have is with the shape of their muscles. But the notion that pros would be 250-lb at 10% body fat without juice is not one that I subscribe to.
The problem is, there are so many fake naturals, I'm not even sure what is actually steroid-free or not.
Dave has been pretty upfront about his fertility drug cocktail - has he said if he still uses TRT? Is Dave on TRT, or completely off everything now?