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Title: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Farkenell on November 14, 2006, 08:03:41 AM

Heard he was working with Chad Nichols?

Anyone know what he's up to?
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Farcry on November 14, 2006, 08:23:38 AM
hopefully nowhere near a bodybuilding stage
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Monster_Everything on November 14, 2006, 08:26:22 AM
heres a recent pic...
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: pumpster on November 14, 2006, 08:31:04 AM
I think he's on the Palumbo plan:
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Bluto on November 14, 2006, 08:34:04 AM
he's a real challenge to any of those 'gurus' out there
get greg in shape on stage, then we will believe their wisdom
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: the shadow on November 14, 2006, 09:09:33 AM
Chad can't change genetic shape and structure.  He brought Greg into the 2004 ASC in good condition - what more is there he can do?
this is one giant piece of shit...pathetic
http://media.putfile.com/kovacs--LOL
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BayGBM on November 14, 2006, 09:12:01 AM
As someone said in a recent PM, "Oh, I wouldn't mind that...  I wouldn't enter him in a contest... but i could still enjoy all that mishapen beef."  ha ha ha ha ;D
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: the shadow on November 14, 2006, 09:13:19 AM
As someone said in a recent PM, "Oh, I wouldn't mind that...  I wouldn't enter him in a contest... but i could still enjoy all that mishapen beef."  ;D
looks like a fuckin neaderthal man...
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BayGBM on November 14, 2006, 09:14:27 AM
looks like a fuckin neaderthal man...

Who you callin a neaderthal!?!?!?!??!  ;D
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Deadpool on November 14, 2006, 09:23:19 AM
wow... that's so bad
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 14, 2006, 09:29:18 AM
As someone said in a recent PM, "Oh, I wouldn't mind that...  I wouldn't enter him in a contest... but i could still enjoy all that mishapen beef."  ha ha ha ha ;D




some guys just don't know when to fcuking call it quits. Greg is one of those, fortunately ;D ;D
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BayGBM on November 14, 2006, 09:31:54 AM
Nasser and Fux are what happen when extreme supplements are done right.  Kovacs is what happens when they are not done right.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: SWOLETRAIN on November 14, 2006, 09:34:23 AM
burnt toast
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: rccs on November 14, 2006, 09:50:28 AM
Say whtever you want and I will probably agree, but he was, maybe, the strongest BODYBUILDER ever, donīt make any confusion...
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 14, 2006, 10:01:49 AM
those Muscle-tech ads claims were questionable by some. Ed Coan even challenged him on a one on one meet.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: IceCold on November 14, 2006, 10:08:55 AM
greg actually looked decent when he turned pro - hence all the hype.

its a shame what he did to himself.

greg pretty much got muscle tech off the ground. 
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: pumpster on November 14, 2006, 10:13:00 AM
Should be in wrestling, WSM, etc. That's in addition to work as a bouncer.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Tuna Sammich on November 14, 2006, 10:16:33 AM
Say whtever you want and I will probably agree, but he was, maybe, the strongest BODYBUILDER ever, donīt make any confusion...



Genetic FREAK!! weighed 3 bills by 22. Benching and squatting in the 500's by 27
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Big Worm on November 14, 2006, 10:20:57 AM
What a fucking mess!
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: luv2build on November 14, 2006, 10:31:40 AM
i know he has entered in pro contests in the last few years, but has he ever finished ONE of them???
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: dr.chimps on November 14, 2006, 11:09:59 AM
Playboy trains at the same gym as this missing link. Somewhere in Toronto, if I remember correctly, and not doing a whole lot of heavy lifting (besides moving his carcass about). Ask him.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 11:18:54 AM
Chad can't change genetic shape and structure.  He brought Greg into the 2004 ASC in good condition - what more is there he can do?

Despite his limited aesthetic potential, whatever Chad did for pre-contest prep only sucked him bone dry, glycogen included.  He's not holding any water, but it doesn't look like he did any kind of carb-up whatsoever.  He could have looked better with someone who took more time with him....

looks like a fuckin neaderthal man...

Essentially, he is.

All the megadosing he's been doing since a young age has effectively changed not only his body structure but his body chemistry as well. 

Mainly it was the GH/IGF-1/Insulin......any combination of those.

I can't even imagine what kind of doses he was doing.

Say whtever you want and I will probably agree, but he was, maybe, the strongest BODYBUILDER ever, donīt make any confusion...

He had the perfect build for powerlifting, plus the genetic makeup for it.  He was already strong to begin with.  I have no idea what made him go in to bodybuilding but his ceiling was reached early on when you saw him in those MuscleMag covers.  After that is was all downhill.....



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 14, 2006, 12:06:59 PM
Playboy trains at the same gym as this missing link. Somewhere in Toronto, if I remember correctly, and not doing a whole lot of heavy lifting (besides moving his carcass about). Ask him.
He bailed from Gold's. Who knows what happened to him. Maybe some health problems? Sad.

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 12:08:56 PM
He bailed from Gold's. Who knows what happened to him. Maybe some health problems? Sad.

So you worked out in the same gym as Kovacs?

Any stories to share?


DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 14, 2006, 12:13:51 PM
So you worked out in the same gym as Kovacs?

Any stories to share?


DIV
Super nice guy. Definately big. Just not nearly as strong as all the Muscletech Ad claims. He doesn't do free weights. His big lifts are all done on smith machines and with no more then 4 plates per side for chest and 2 plates and a quarter per side for front presses for shoulders. Very low intesity. Henderson Thorn hit the nail on the had when he said that you only get out of it what you put into it.

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 12:17:49 PM
Super nice guy. Definately big. Just not nearly as strong as all the Muscletech Ad claims. He doesn't do free weights. His big lifts are all done on smith machines and with no more then 4 plates per side for chest and 2 plates and a quarter per side for front presses for shoulders. Very low intesity. Henderson Thorn hit the nail on the had when he said that you only get out of it what you put into it.

That's somewhat surprising.

I don't understand why a man that size would give up compound free weight movements for machines.

If it's a matter of dropping down in weight to accomodate for form, that's one thing, but pushing heavier weight on a machine isn't going to build the same type of connective tissue strength that free weights will.

I'm surprised he doesn't do any compound lifts.....



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 14, 2006, 12:26:18 PM
That's somewhat surprising.

I don't understand why a man that size would give up compound free weight movements for machines.

If it's a matter of dropping down in weight to accomodate for form, that's one thing, but pushing heavier weight on a machine isn't going to build the same type of connective tissue strength that free weights will.

I'm surprised he doesn't do any compound lifts.....



DIV
I hear ya. It litterally blew me away when I caught a glimpse of him training while resting in between my sets. He does mostly machines & hammer strenghts. Nothing special in terms of weight. Maybe he hurt himself and his joints just can't do it anymore. Who knows. It was rumoured that back in 1997 he was taking 10,000mgs of test....yes you heard that correctly. And that was just the test alone.

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 12:41:05 PM
I hear ya. It litterally blew me away when I caught a glimpse of him training while resting in between my sets. He does mostly machines & hammer strenghts. Nothing special in terms of weight. Maybe he hurt himself and his joints just can't do it anymore. Who knows. It was rumoured that back in 1997 he was taking 10,000mgs of test....yes you heard that correctly. And that was just the test alone.

I'm not sure I believe those rumors, bro.

10G of Test per week?

I can't even imagine the types of sides he was experiencing from that.

His cardiovascular health can't be good.



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 14, 2006, 12:59:12 PM
I'm not sure I believe those rumors, bro.

10G of Test per week?

I can't even imagine the types of sides he was experiencing from that.

His cardiovascular health can't be good.



DIV
Apparently he's had 3 heart attacks already. I believe they were minior but still not good.

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BroadStreetBruiser on November 14, 2006, 01:02:01 PM
ROFL he's got a VIP pass at the buffett.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 14, 2006, 01:03:29 PM
Apparently he's had 3 heart attacks already. I believe they were minior but still not good.

PB


3 heart attacks...lol. ;D ;D I know it's not funny, but I can't help it. the guy is not even 50 yrs old yet
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BroadStreetBruiser on November 14, 2006, 01:06:22 PM
He's not even 40 I think.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Deadpool on November 14, 2006, 01:08:34 PM
he looks like he has a blown spare tire for a waist
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 14, 2006, 01:11:58 PM
it's a shame to see all those young guys health going down the drain so soon
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 01:21:49 PM
Apparently he's had 3 heart attacks already. I believe they were minior but still not good.

Three heart attacks at his age definitely points to cardiovascular disease.

Still.....10G of Test per week for an extended period of time + No cardio = a heart attack waiting to happen.

I wonder if he thinks it was still worth it?   :-\



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: donpedro on November 14, 2006, 03:54:10 PM
I've read all the talk about "Palumboism" etc., but I still can't figure how his body simply "collapsed", looking at the more recent pics?
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BayGBM on November 14, 2006, 04:43:52 PM
it's a shame to see all those young guys health going down the drain so soon

"I nearly died for you bitches!"
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: TheAnimal on November 14, 2006, 04:56:10 PM
why is his stomach so f**cked up?
Not as bad as when I saw pics of Heiko Kallbach I honestly felt like I was gong to throw up... my god
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 08:15:51 PM
At the 2005 Toronto Pro (pics Bay posted), exactly what you said was done and he came in looking just as bad, just a different kind of bad.  Chad did all he could and did just fine.  As I said, the problem is in Greg's genetics, nothing else.

When Greg came to Thunder Bay he openly took insulin before eating a huge meal with the owner of the supplement store he did a guest appearance at.  Juiced to the gills.  10 grams a week?  lol, probably during his low dose periods, sure.  And yes, I'm aware of the sides of such a high dose of test and yes, I'm pretty confident he did more.

Matthew,

You make Greg out to be a Steroid Slut......a junky of sorts.   :o

I have no idea why he'd take 10G ew considering the real possibility that his body might not have even been able to metabolize it all.

Give me a rough estimate of how much Test you really think he did during a ramp up phase.



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Hunter86 on November 14, 2006, 08:21:24 PM
I heard that Kovacs was put down a few months back after he fell ill while staying at the San Diego Zoo
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BroadStreetBruiser on November 14, 2006, 08:28:57 PM
Fuck Kovacs. He can die now. He's no use to anybody anymore.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 14, 2006, 08:31:57 PM
DIVISION - I would say two grams per day in addition to other ergogenic aids and 15,000 calories a day.  I say this because I saw someone on a message board who took 10 grams a week once.  Clearly it's been done and if anyone would do it, it would be Greg.  Also, he was so open about insulin use that he blatantly did it in public.  It's obvious he is constantly on gear, and I don't mean year round (I'm sure he does that too), but constantly juicing up throughout the day.  He probably pops dbols like Tic Tacs.

How long do you think Greg will live?

Matthew,

So 14G Test per week, give or take 5G or so?

Plus, the amount of other AAS/GH/IGF-1/Insulin.....

Jesus........  :-X

At this point, his body seems to be regressing back to the form of a Neanderthal.

More animal than man....

At this rate he'll be dead within fifteen years.




DIV


Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Wombat on November 14, 2006, 09:02:06 PM
Didn't Trevor tell a pro to take 100 dbol tabs a day...I wonder if those are 5mg tabs or 10mgs tabs :-\
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: kcklassic on November 14, 2006, 09:09:52 PM
anybody got pics of him in his prime? or did he have a prime....
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Spike on November 14, 2006, 09:10:18 PM
DIVISION - his birthday is in December and he will be 38.  53 is not a bad lifespan at all, everything considered!  And seeing that he has been mainlining gear for years now, maybe his body can handle so much?  Perhaps the law of diminishing returns would only apply to normal trainers with less experience with hormones?  By the way, if I injected 15 grams right now, what would happen?

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Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: whitewidow on November 14, 2006, 11:50:34 PM
 :o :o hes one big mofo-lol hed make a good bouncer at a strip club-lol
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: BayGBM on November 15, 2006, 03:13:47 AM
At this point, his body seems to be regressing back to the form of a Neanderthal.

More animal than man....

Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: suckmymuscle on November 15, 2006, 04:42:12 AM
  Kovacs lifts:

 - 30o incline barbell press, 525 lbs for 8 reps.

 - Flat dumbbell press, 300 lbs dumbells for 6 reps.

 - Front military press, 440 lbs for 12 reps.

 - Lateral raise, 100 lbs dumbells for 10 reps.

 - Deadlift, 810 lbs for 3 reps.

 - T-bar row, 308 lbs for 10 reps.

 - One arm dumbbell row, 300 lbs dumbbells for 6 reps.

 - Barbell squat, 880 lbs for 2 reps

 - Leg press, 2700 lbs for 12 reps.

  No bodybuilder even comes close to Kovacs overrall strengh. Coleman can match him in the squat and deadlift, but that's about it.

 As for Ed Coan's challenge...who cares? He's a specialist who trains 24/7 for two lifts: the deadlift and squat. That's it. It's not fair to pit Kovacs against a guy who only does two lifts and then say that Coan is stronger. Could Coan win the "World's Strongest Man" contest? No. Kovacs is the only Human Being who's strengh would allow him to compete with a silverback gorilla. Of course, a silverback is much stronger than Kovacs, but at least the man wouldn't be humiliated like all other Human Beings would.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Figo on November 15, 2006, 04:45:56 AM
These lifts validated by anyone besides Muscletech or Musclemag?
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: pumpster on November 15, 2006, 04:46:20 AM
If the numbers are true, awesome strength.

SUCKY's impressed because Kovacs resembles his hero:
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Figo on November 15, 2006, 05:00:36 AM
No, no. BIG difference, Yates is still walking around looking healthy, fit and like a bber years after retiring on top of the game, and doing well in biz.

Kovacs won shit, and looks like, well...
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: 210 and growing on November 15, 2006, 05:08:55 AM
DIVISION - his birthday is in December and he will be 38.  53 is not a bad lifespan at all, everything considered!  And seeing that he has been mainlining gear for years now, maybe his body can handle so much?  Perhaps the law of diminishing returns would only apply to normal trainers with less experience with hormones?  By the way, if I injected 15 grams right now, what would happen?

Please tell me you are joking? He is 38 in december, which means in these pics at the arnold classic (2004?) he was like 35 or so?? Jesus christ that is ridiculous !!
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: rccs on November 15, 2006, 06:44:36 AM
  Kovacs lifts:

 - 30o incline barbell press, 525 lbs for 8 reps.

 - Flat dumbbell press, 300 lbs dumbells for 6 reps.

 - Front military press, 440 lbs for 12 reps.

 - Lateral raise, 100 lbs dumbells for 10 reps.

 - Deadlift, 810 lbs for 3 reps.

 - T-bar row, 308 lbs for 10 reps.

 - One arm dumbbell row, 300 lbs dumbbells for 6 reps.

 - Barbell squat, 880 lbs for 2 reps

 - Leg press, 2700 lbs for 12 reps.

  No bodybuilder even comes close to Kovacs overrall strengh. Coleman can match him in the squat and deadlift, but that's about it.

 As for Ed Coan's challenge...who cares? He's a specialist who trains 24/7 for two lifts: the deadlift and squat. That's it. It's not fair to pit Kovacs against a guy who only does two lifts and then say that Coan is stronger. Could Coan win the "World's Strongest Man" contest? No. Kovacs is the only Human Being who's strengh would allow him to compete with a silverback gorilla. Of course, a silverback is much stronger than Kovacs, but at least the man wouldn't be humiliated like all other Human Beings would.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Absolute true statement. He had the strength of two normal (ligth trained juicing shitty) bbers.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 15, 2006, 06:52:48 AM
in the way he looks, a 15th place at the Masters would be too much of a good gift for him
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Dipadidu on November 15, 2006, 06:54:29 AM
ALL MUSCLETECH!
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 15, 2006, 06:56:30 AM
  Kovacs lifts:

 - 30o incline barbell press, 525 lbs for 8 reps.

 - Flat dumbbell press, 300 lbs dumbells for 6 reps.

 - Front military press, 440 lbs for 12 reps.

 - Lateral raise, 100 lbs dumbells for 10 reps.

 - Deadlift, 810 lbs for 3 reps.

 - T-bar row, 308 lbs for 10 reps.

 - One arm dumbbell row, 300 lbs dumbbells for 6 reps.

 - Barbell squat, 880 lbs for 2 reps

 - Leg press, 2700 lbs for 12 reps.

  No bodybuilder even comes close to Kovacs overrall strengh. Coleman can match him in the squat and deadlift, but that's about it.

 As for Ed Coan's challenge...who cares? He's a specialist who trains 24/7 for two lifts: the deadlift and squat. That's it. It's not fair to pit Kovacs against a guy who only does two lifts and then say that Coan is stronger. Could Coan win the "World's Strongest Man" contest? No. Kovacs is the only Human Being who's strengh would allow him to compete with a silverback gorilla. Of course, a silverback is much stronger than Kovacs, but at least the man wouldn't be humiliated like all other Human Beings would.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Don't believe everything you read and hear. Seeing is believing.

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Figo on November 15, 2006, 10:43:58 AM
Don't believe everything you read and hear. Seeing is believing.

PB

Especially if the mag that printed it is owned by the company that endorses said individual.

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Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Victor VonDoom on November 15, 2006, 06:48:16 PM
Coincidence?

New Technology Is Revealing Neanderthal DNA
Analysis of 38,000-Year-Old Bone Gives Scientists Insight Into Humans' Cousin
By Rick Weiss

Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have assembled a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest cousin humans ever had.

Such a feat, deemed impossible even a few years ago, could tell a lot about what Neanderthals were like, such as their hair and skin color and their relative facility with language, according to scientists in Germany and California who released the new results yesterday. It could also clear up what sort of relationship existed between Neanderthals and the first modern humans.

The newfound ability to reconstruct prehistoric DNA allows scientists to home in on the fraction of a percent of human DNA that will differ from that of Neanderthals, who went extinct 30,000 years ago.

Those differences, scientists said, will amount to biological snapshots of what makes humans human.

The new findings that significant amounts of Neanderthal DNA can be retrieved and read "are perhaps the most significant contributions published in this field since the discovery of Neanderthals 150 years ago," David Lambert and Craig Millar wrote in a commentary in the journal Nature, which with the journal Science is publishing the work this week.

Lambert and Millar, who were not involved in the work, are experts in molecular evolution at universities in New Zealand.

As the most closely related and most recently departed members of the human family tree -- and as the bony-browed icons of a stonier age -- Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and armchair anthropologists alike. They and human forebears started as equals hundreds of thousands of years ago but took very different paths.

One line went on to develop haute couture, rock 'n' roll and DNA synthesizers. The other disappeared in a wave that began in Asia about 45,000 years ago and ended with extinction in Europe 30,000 years ago.

Some say climate change did them in. Some blame modern humans, who were spreading through Europe at the time and who, perhaps because of some fortuitous genetic mutations, were experiencing an intellectual and cultural awakening.

The quest to understand Neanderthal genetics was for a long time seen as hopeless because DNA, the instructions for life ensconced in cells, breaks down over time.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: LAMA-PAI on November 15, 2006, 07:22:13 PM
he looks like he would have a great future as a gay for pay hustler !
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 15, 2006, 09:07:38 PM
DIVISION - his birthday is in December and he will be 38.  53 is not a bad lifespan at all, everything considered!  And seeing that he has been mainlining gear for years now, maybe his body can handle so much?  Perhaps the law of diminishing returns would only apply to normal trainers with less experience with hormones?  By the way, if I injected 15 grams right now, what would happen?

Matthew,

If you took 15G Testosterone ew, straight off the bat, two things would happen.

You'd get major hormonal fluctuations which would initially cause you to break out in acne most likely and and we would probably see a good amount of aromatization from all that excess testosterone that's flooding your system.

If you are prone to gynomastia, WE WOULD SEE IT SOON.

Hypertension?  Quite possible.

..............and yes amidst all that you'd see strength and mass gains, regardless of your workout.  You'd grow simply because your body had shifted toward anabolism so far that catabolism was near impossible.

  Kovacs lifts:

 - 30o incline barbell press, 525 lbs for 8 reps.

 - Flat dumbbell press, 300 lbs dumbells for 6 reps.

 - Front military press, 440 lbs for 12 reps.

 - Lateral raise, 100 lbs dumbells for 10 reps.

 - Deadlift, 810 lbs for 3 reps.

 - T-bar row, 308 lbs for 10 reps.

 - One arm dumbbell row, 300 lbs dumbbells for 6 reps.

 - Barbell squat, 880 lbs for 2 reps

 - Leg press, 2700 lbs for 12 reps.

  No bodybuilder even comes close to Kovacs overrall strengh. Coleman can match him in the squat and deadlift, but that's about it.

 As for Ed Coan's challenge...who cares? He's a specialist who trains 24/7 for two lifts: the deadlift and squat. That's it. It's not fair to pit Kovacs against a guy who only does two lifts and then say that Coan is stronger. Could Coan win the "World's Strongest Man" contest? No. Kovacs is the only Human Being who's strengh would allow him to compete with a silverback gorilla. Of course, a silverback is much stronger than Kovacs, but at least the man wouldn't be humiliated like all other Human Beings would.
SUCKMYMUSCLE

Listen, Sucknugg.

Read up a page or two and you'll see that someone who's trained in the same gym as Kovacs says he doesn't do freeweight movements.  He does machines and hammerstrength for all his major lifts. 

That is not the same as the standard: Bench, DL, Squat.

When you rely on machines for your power movements it takes balance and connective tissue strength out of the mix and makes the strength one dimensional.

It's not the same.

No, no. BIG difference, Yates is still walking around looking healthy, fit and like a bber years after retiring on top of the game, and doing well in biz.

Kovacs won shit, and looks like, well...

Yates megadosed, tore a bicep and a tricep and his face looks about ten years older than his age.

Yes, he retired on top, but it's not as if he escaped the ravages of time.

Kovacs was a media creation of MuscleTech.

If he was smart he'd have gone in to powerlifting and saved himself the humiliation, not to mention listened to someone reasonable in regards to his AAS/GH/IGF-1/Insulin use....

Now he's ruined his body......health.

Nobody on the elite level just retires without having some type of scars from the drug use.

Some just have less damage than others.....



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: GoneAway on November 15, 2006, 09:59:26 PM
f**k Kovacs. He can die now. He's no use to anybody anymore.

What a stupid thing to say.

anybody got pics of him in his prime? or did he have a prime....

The last pic is Greg from the Arnold Classic 2004, but I think it's a great shot. The only real worry is his stomach. Other than that, he looks great.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: suckmymuscle on November 15, 2006, 10:03:36 PM
Listen, Sucknugg.

Read up a page or two and you'll see that someone who's trained in the same gym as Kovacs says he doesn't do freeweight movements.  He does machines and hammerstrength for all his major lifts. 

That is not the same as the standard: Bench, DL, Squat.

When you rely on machines for your power movements it takes balance and connective tissue strength out of the mix and makes the strength one dimensional.

It's not the same.
DIV

  Completely wrong, dumbass. You should fuck off back to the steroid board where you belong instead of speaking out of your ass. The lifts I mentioned were done with barbells&dumbbells. Do you know how to read? I especifically pointed out that the exercises were done with barbells and dumbbells. Idiot. All of his lifts were verified by exercise physiologists. Kovacs actually entered a bench press contest, in his youth, and pressed 400 lbs for 25 reps. This was in his early twenties before he took massive doses of sauce.

  Who cares what some moron said about Kovacs training? First of all, he has supplied no evidence whatsofuckingever that he actually saw Kovacs training. Secondly, even if he did, has it occurred to you that Kovacs might have trained like that only in that specific day? Have you ever heard of something called periodization? Obviously not, since your "expertise" ::) revolves around being a pseudo-endocrinologist who moderates a drug discussion board. :-X I dare you to prove that Kovacs didn't do the lifts I've mentioned. Even Johnny Jackson has said that Kovacs is the strongest mofo he's ever seen. ;)

SUCKMYMUSCLE

P.S: Dorian tore a triceps and megadosed on steroids and other anabolics, but at least he has six Sandows to show for it. What have you accomplished physique-wise with all of your drug taking and supposed drug expertise? ;)
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 15, 2006, 10:27:39 PM
 Completely wrong, dumbass. You should f**k off back to the steroid board where you belong instead of speaking out of your ass. The lifts I mentioned were done with barbells&dumbbells. Do you know how to read? I especifically pointed out that the exercises were done with barbells and dumbbells. Idiot. All of his lifts were verified by exercise physiologists. Kovacs actually entered a bench press contest, in his youth, and pressed 400 lbs for 25 reps. This was in his early twenties before he took massive doses of sauce.

  Who cares what some moron said about Kovacs training? First of all, he has supplied no evidence whatsofuckingever that he actually saw Kovacs training. Secondly, even if he did, has it occurred to you that Kovacs might have trained like that only in that specific day? Have you ever heard of something called periodization? Obviously not, since your "expertise" ::) revolves around being a pseudo-endocrinologist who moderates a drug discussion board. :-X I dare you to prove that Kovacs didn't do the lifts I've mentioned. Even Johnny Jackson has said that Kovacs is the strongest mofo he's ever seen.

Sorry, Sucknugg........

But I'll believe my own eyes over anyone else's.

You believe the MuscleTech ads all you want.

That's your choice.

I could really give a shit less about the lifts........but I'm skeptical at best that he pushes what he claims.

P.S: Dorian tore a triceps and megadosed on steroids and other anabolics, but at least he has six Sandows to show for it. What have you accomplished physique-wise with all of your drug taking and supposed drug expertise? ;)

Those six Sandows are doing him alot of good now, eh?

If it was worth it to him, so be it.

Last I heard he got suckerpunched in public because he owed the wrong person money.

Yes, he's rolling in dough...  :-\

My expertise and experience has taught me that megadosing is the wrong way to go if health is of any consequence.

So what's your dog in this fight?

You getting teabagged by some of these guys or what? 



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: onlyme on November 15, 2006, 10:52:00 PM
MuscleTech are the most misleading in the industry and really border on fraud.  If they say Kovacs did these lifts then he probably didn't do them.  With all these claims are there any video of him actually loading the plates and doing the exercises. 
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Matt C on November 15, 2006, 11:00:21 PM
MuscleTech are the most misleading in the industry and really border on fraud.  If they say Kovacs did these lifts then he probably didn't do them.  With all these claims are there any video of him actually loading the plates and doing the exercises. 

In his video when he did 585 incline presses for reps, the camera changed angles and a plate was removed.  Heiko's video was a bit like this in the squat scene as well.  When he was doing the actual reps you didn't see the weight.  I doubt Greg's claims, but who knows?  Nobody is saying he made a good bodybuilder, just that he was extremely strong.
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Luinitari on November 15, 2006, 11:02:50 PM
According to Bodybuildingpro.com, Greg Kovacs was born in 1968, making him 35 or 36 years old ( :o ) in these photos, depending on whether he already had his birthday that year or not.

(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=106781.0;attach=118922;image)(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=106781.0;attach=118810;image)
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: rccs on November 16, 2006, 02:56:49 AM
Sorry, Sucknugg........

But I'll believe my own eyes over anyone else's.

You believe the MuscleTech ads all you want.

That's your choice.

I could really give a shit less about the lifts........but I'm skeptical at best that he pushes what he claims.

Those six Sandows are doing him alot of good now, eh?

If it was worth it to him, so be it.

Last I heard he got suckerpunched in public because he owed the wrong person money.

Yes, he's rolling in dough...  :-\

My expertise and experience has taught me that megadosing is the wrong way to go if health is of any consequence.

So what's your dog in this fight?

You getting teabagged by some of these guys or what? 



DIV
Dorian was punched in public??? Is it true??? If it is true, then it is a deception...
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: rccs on November 16, 2006, 03:00:47 AM
Kovacs vid


http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs.html#1

Does someone has vid "Colossus, law of the Jungle"? In that vid, kovacs is doing 700 lbs incline press I think...
http://www.amazon.com/GREG-KOVACS-COLOSSUS-KOVAC/dp/B000853MPW/sr=11-1/qid=1163676081/ref=sr_11_1/002-8297989-2453613
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: Playboy on November 16, 2006, 08:53:36 AM
Kovacs vid


http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs.html#1

Does someone has vid "Colossus, law of the Jungle"? In that vid, kovacs is doing 700 lbs incline press I think...
http://www.amazon.com/GREG-KOVACS-COLOSSUS-KOVAC/dp/B000853MPW/sr=11-1/qid=1163676081/ref=sr_11_1/002-8297989-2453613
Those videos where taken back in 1996 when he looked decent. We are now in 2006 almost 2007. Fake plates were added to that incline smith bar. They are in Henderson Thorne's old office and were used to hype up this muscletech video.
Benching 425 for 25 reps??? Please. Where is the proof? Oh right, Mucletech has claimed this. Of course. Bare in mind that the same big sponser that so boldly made these claims also dumped his sorry ass when he failed to even place in the 2001 NOC & GNC shows. All hype. If he was so great then why hasn't he competed?

PB
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: the shadow on November 16, 2006, 08:55:39 AM
Kovacs vid


http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs.html#1

Does someone has vid "Colossus, law of the Jungle"? In that vid, kovacs is doing 700 lbs incline press I think...
http://www.amazon.com/GREG-KOVACS-COLOSSUS-KOVAC/dp/B000853MPW/sr=11-1/qid=1163676081/ref=sr_11_1/002-8297989-2453613
the worst human being ever..i don't consider this mess monster a bodybuilder..
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: HUGEPECS on November 16, 2006, 08:58:07 AM
These days, Greg is reminiscing about his muscle-tech days, and their exagerated claims about his lifts
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: vinnyvee on November 16, 2006, 09:11:47 AM
Put down the Hatorade already!! Greg was living the life, just look at the threads!
 8)
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: dr.chimps on November 16, 2006, 10:46:25 AM
36, but he looks much older.  :-X
Major understatement. He looks like Frankenstein's monster ripped from the grave. Should be in a Natural History museum with the ascent of Man exhibit. 
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: njflex on November 16, 2006, 10:51:27 AM
one of many bber's physique's that went to the wayside :P,never had the genetic's ever to be an elite bber he was made out to be .
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: pumpster on November 16, 2006, 10:56:49 AM
Quote
Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on November 14, 2006, 11:28:57 PM
f**k Kovacs. He can die now. He's no use to anybody anymore.

What a stupid thing to say.
hahahaahahahahah
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: jwb on November 16, 2006, 11:26:32 AM
Those videos where taken back in 1996 when he looked decent. We are now in 2006 almost 2007. Fake plates were added to that incline smith bar. They are in Henderson Thorne's old office and were used to hype up this muscletech video.
Benching 425 for 25 reps??? Please. Where is the proof? Oh right, Mucletech has claimed this. Of course. Bare in mind that the same big sponser that so boldly made these claims also dumped his sorry ass when he failed to even place in the 2001 NOC & GNC shows. All hype. If he was so great then why hasn't he competed?

PB
c'mon man chick can do 22 reps at 405 on the bench he said so!... ;)
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: DIVISION on November 16, 2006, 03:57:40 PM
36, but he looks much older.  :-X

When you megadose on that many drugs for that many years, it's going to age you.

The drugs will do what they are supposed to do, it's just that your body's reaction to them will change over time.

Homeostasis wins, eventually.

Dorian was punched in public??? Is it true??? If it is true, then it is a deception...

He was and there were plenty of people around to see it.

He had a black eye to prove it as well.

Those videos where taken back in 1996 when he looked decent. We are now in 2006 almost 2007. Fake plates were added to that incline smith bar. They are in Henderson Thorne's old office and were used to hype up this muscletech video.
Benching 425 for 25 reps??? Please. Where is the proof? Oh right, Mucletech has claimed this. Of course. Bare in mind that the same big sponser that so boldly made these claims also dumped his sorry ass when he failed to even place in the 2001 NOC & GNC shows. All hype. If he was so great then why hasn't he competed?

PB

There you go.........

Somehow I knew PB would come back.

When you saw him training @ Golds, did you ever get the chance to ask him why he didn't use free weights?

That would have been my question (in a polite way). 

Major understatement. He looks like Frankenstein's monster ripped from the grave. Should be in a Natural History museum with the ascent of Man exhibit.

Kovacs is the only bodybuilder, IMO, who's features have regressed over the course of his bodybuilding career.  The massive amounts of androgens and other drugs seems to have turned him in to a primitive man......a link between human and ape.

It sounds harsh, I know, but look at him......his face and physique and tell me that he doesn't look like some kind of hairless ape.



DIV
Title: Re: Where is Greg Kovacs these days?
Post by: pumpster on November 16, 2006, 04:05:03 PM
He's be great as Lurch.