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Doesn't look worse than Cutler nowadays (and this dude is Mr. Olympia)....
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Crazy. Had he focused on refining his mass, bringing in his stomach and a little more quads, he'd have been top 6 at any show. It's easy to see what MuscleTech saw in him.
That back double bi is pretty awesome.
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wow, he looks pretty decent especially his back
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hahaha, when they hug in the end of the vid. He is soooooooo much bigger than everyone else, crazy!!! :o
Looks like a regular guy in a village of dwarfs....
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I agree, he had a chance with that physique, but he ruined it- presumably Dave Palumbo style- GH, insulin, and overeating
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Nice nipples.
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Crazy. Had he focused on refining his mass, bringing in his stomach and a little more quads, he'd have been top 6 at any show. It's easy to see what MuscleTech saw in him.
That back double bi is pretty awesome.
How do you focus on bringing down your stomach? We all know that line is BS. The only way to bring it down is to stop the insulin, GH, and IGF, but then they lose muscle size with it.
His back looks pretty good. He was pretty dry in that contest, but the gut was still huge and he has synthol peaks on his biceps.
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He almost had it all. By gym standards perfect. By pro standards just a little light in the upper lags and waist a little too big. But I'm really picking on him with those points. Damn him! What went wrong! He was pretty good at one point!
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I agree, he had a chance with that physique, but he ruined it- presumably Dave Palumbo style- GH, insulin, and overeating
Exactly. He was no Dexter Jackson, but he at least had a chance back then.
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How do you focus on bringing down your stomach? We all know that line is BS. The only way to bring it down is to stop the insulin, GH, and IGF, but then they lose muscle size with it.
His back looks pretty good. He was pretty dry in that contest, but the gut was still huge and he has synthol peaks on his biceps.
Diet more and focus on holding in your stomach all day, every day.
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What year was that... ? He looked very decent.
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What year was that... ? He looked very decent.
I believe that the 1996 Canadian Nationals, where he won his pro card.
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his back was incredible
even at the 2004 ASC, looking like shit, he had the thickest back of the show
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Even at his best, he looked like shit. He shouldnt get a pro card.
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wtf happened?
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I'd like to see his '96 face compared to his '08 face...2 completely different people.
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I have to say, he looks very, very good there! He is around the same height as Gunter and was 308 at that contest. Gunter was 300 in 2002 and 295 in 2005. How do you suppose he would compare to Gunter strictly in terms of sheer size? Obviously Gunter would be the superior bodybuilder, but size wise, what would you say?
Here is another clip from a 1990 contest:
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He's put together very oddly. Good shoulder size, but little arms. Thick chest, but a barrel waist to go with it. Huge back, but from the front his lats seems to be thin- though from the back he's thick as hell. Quads are small for his frame too.
Too bad he went, not just for mass, but for all out mass MuscleTech style. I remember reading a lot of those ads- I mean articles! He was up to 400lbs at one point. I think it was 406, and MT said they would bring him to the Olympia stage at 350lbs RIPPED.
Didn't happen, obviously. :-\
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He's put together very oddly. Good shoulder size, but little arms. Thick chest, but a barrel waist to go with it. Huge back, but from the front his lats seems to be thin- though from the back he's thick as hell. Quads are small for his frame too.
Too bad he went, not just for mass, but for all out mass MuscleTech style. I remember reading a lot of those ads- I mean articles! He was up to 400lbs at one point. I think it was 406, and MT said they would bring him to the Olympia stage at 350lbs RIPPED.
Didn't happen, obviously. :-\
At the 04(?) AC, he was 335lbs. He was rumored to be 440 at one stage, i dont believe it, but he did get over 400. Just crazy :o
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One of Greg's preparation pictures before the 2004 ASC:
http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs
(http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs/gregkovacs11.jpg)
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At the 04(?) AC, he was 335lbs. He was rumored to be 440 at one stage, i dont believe it, but he did get over 400. Just crazy :o
Oh I believe that he was well over 300lbs at pretty much all of his contests. The part when I said "didn't happen obviously," was where he stepped on the Olympia stage at 350lbs."
I totally believe that he got up to well over 400lbs too.
But either way, being that big, he was not a pretty site.
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Some who live in southern Ontario where he lives say they see him sometimes and he is literally a wall of muscle at 6'2 and close to 400 pounds in at a lean body fat - big midsection, but actually quite lean.
Greg at 385 pounds in late 2003 from my [dead as fuck] forum:
http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/showthread.php?t=96
(http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2&stc=1&d=1072022254)
(http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3&stc=1&d=1072022317)
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Big bastard!! Thick waist though!!
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wow, looks great in that fist video, never knew he looked that good and had such a good presence on stage... great posing routine
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One of Greg's preparation pictures before the 2004 ASC:
http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs
(http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs/gregkovacs11.jpg)
Is that King Kamali's kitchen?
(http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs9.jpg)
(http://www.davepalumbo.com/Rxmuscle2/Rxmusclewriters/Bio%20pic%20of%20Kovacs.jpg)
(http://www.bodybuildingpro.com/gregkovacs6.jpg)
(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/113/images/Greg_Kovacs_18.jpg)
(http://i3.tinypic.com/wkl5s4.jpg)
(http://www.t-nation.com/img/photos/RandomActs_UglyBodybuilders/image007.png)
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Were any of those strength even close to real?
Maybe he should have tried some strongman stuff...
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damn he looks so much wose in the more recent pics, but he did look pretty decent at one time
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yeah that back looked incredible. Dude is a legit 400 pounds offseason... that's 80+ more than Ronnie and jay hit.
I'd like to see some stage pics of Kovaks next to the biggest TOP guys of his day, to see how much bigger he really was. I'm guessing he didn't get too many comparisons tho, huh?
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wtf happened?
HGH / IGF-1 / SLIN abuse beyond belief.
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yeah that back looked incredible. Dude is a legit 400 pounds offseason... that's 80+ more than Ronnie and jay hit.
I'd like to see some stage pics of Kovaks next to the biggest TOP guys of his day, to see how much bigger he really was. I'm guessing he didn't get too many comparisons tho, huh?
Rob i have seen Greg in person a few times..............in terms of sheer size he dwarfed all of the Pros competing
(i have never seen a "larger" human being, Greg drew a crowd just by walking around the Mr Olympia convention center.............this was years ago in New York at Madison Square Garden)
Inhuman size!!..............also he was much taller than 100% of the pros at the O
now none of this translated onto a bodybuilding stage .............Greg just wasn't "suited" for bodybuilding
strongman/powerlifting yes................looki ng unbelievable walking around at bodybuilding shows yes
making money being huge freaky (but not competing in bodybuilding contests) yes!
unfortunately Greg wanted nothing more than to be a champion bodybuilder (he loved the sport)
and he believed all of the hype!
(buy/rent his old bodybuilding DVD Colossus )
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WHoa re the little africans in that video? Kind of an odd contest. Dude looks like a balloon that deflated and imploded on itself.
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Greg Kovacs was 400 lbs with a visible christmas-tree and six-pack, and his top off-season weight was 440 lbs while still displaying vascularity and bodyfat wthin the normal range.
His phsyique was terrible from a symmetry&skeletal structure standpoint, but in sheer muscular mass he dwarfs all other mass monsters like Ruhl, Fux, Nasser, Ronnie, etc.
I would love to have seen a ripped 370 lbs Kovacs stepping onstage at the 2003 Olympia. As unbelievable as it is, he would have dwarfed Ronnie. Sure, Ron would still win easily, but for reasons other than mass...
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Even at his best, he looked like shit. He shouldnt get a pro card.
Why not? The Canadian Nationals was/is a pro qualifier, which Kovacs won.
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Greg Kovacs was nothing but HYPE. He isn't even a has been. He's a never was. Talk about a waste of a bbdg career and sponsership. You reap what you sow.
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wow he looked damn good for such a tall guy in that first video. impressive.
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Really the biggest of the problems was not distention but the width of his waist ??? with that being said as a pro his legs were not that great either
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Should have been a wrestler or something.
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Some who live in southern Ontario where he lives say they see him sometimes and he is literally a wall of muscle at 6'2 and close to 400 pounds in at a lean body fat - big midsection, but actually quite lean.
Greg at 385 pounds in late 2003 from my [dead as fuck] forum:
http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/showthread.php?t=96
(http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2&stc=1&d=1072022254)
(http://forum.bodybuildingpro.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3&stc=1&d=1072022317)
No way is he 385 in those pics. Maybe 330 or so MAX.
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Were any of those strength even close to real?
Maybe he should have tried some strongman stuff...
If I recall correctly, almost all of his really heavy lifts were on the smith machine, making them irrelevant pretty much
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If I recall correctly, almost all of his really heavy lifts were on the smith machine, making them irrelevant pretty much
Ok - cool
Of course I meant strength claims...
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Were any of those strength even close to real?
Maybe he should have tried some strongman stuff...
I heard from someone who knew Greg back in the day that some of the claims were accurate but some were exaggerated. He was as strong as a bull, no doubt about that.
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Greg Kovacs was 400 lbs with a visible christmas-tree and six-pack, and his top off-season weight was 440 lbs while still displaying vascularity and bodyfat wthin the normal range.
His phsyique was terrible from a symmetry&skeletal structure standpoint, but in sheer muscular mass he dwarfs all other mass monsters like Ruhl, Fux, Nasser, Ronnie, etc.
I would love to have seen a ripped 370 lbs Kovacs stepping onstage at the 2003 Olympia. As unbelievable as it is, he would have dwarfed Ronnie. Sure, Ron would still win easily, but for reasons other than mass...
Hi Sucky :D
At his absolute peak, Kovacs was 440 lbs, but with a bodyfat around 15%.
Hope this helps. Kovacs has terrible bodybuilding genetics, but a monstrous one for size and strengh.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
And please, don't bother with that rubbish about having a different IP. It's most likely that you changed ISP's or are using a program to hide or change your IP address ;D
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Even at his most shredded, Kovacs never had any decent muscle separation. Legs, triceps, delts, etc...his whole physique is one massive blur.
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If I recall correctly, almost all of his really heavy lifts were on the smith machine, making them irrelevant pretty much
You are 100% correct. He trained at the Gold's in my area for 8 years straight and in that time I never once saw him lift or do anything that the mags say he can do. It was all a hype effort by muscle tech. He never did more than 3-4 plates on the smith for chest and 2 & 1/4 maybe three plates on a good day for front smith machine presses for shoulders.
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HGH / IGF-1 / SLIN abuse beyond belief.
agree
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How does Greg in that form compare to Armin Scholz who did not place at this year's Ironman?
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How does Greg in that form compare to Armin Scholz who did not place at this year's Ironman?
Don't go there!
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Hi Sucky :D
And please, don't bother with that rubbish about having a different IP. It's most likely that you changed ISP's or are using a program to hide or change your IP address ;D
You are really stupid, aren't you? So I provide an information that is similar to that provided by another poster and surprise, surprise!, the only possibility you see is that I'm actually him, huh? It never ocurred to you that information was written in magazine and read by tens of thousands of people; it never ocurred to you that I might have read it in his post and plagiarised what he wrote. No: I can only possibily be him! Great logic there. Let me guess, you don't make a living in one of the professions. Am I right?
As for the IP check, if you had half a brain you'd know that IP adress is geographical and allocated by the internet provider and cannot be masked in any way, shape or form. Since I don't even live in U.S.A - I am French, btw -, a simple IP check will prove you wrong conclusively. Of course, you don't want this because it would burst your bubble and your hopes of reencountering your hero and gay lover, Suckmymuscle. This is the last time I'm responding to you. Ron Avidan can confirm that my IP is not his, and that's that. If you still want to believe I'm him, then so be it.
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HGH / IGF-1 / SLIN abuse beyond belief.
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100% correct and don't leave out the fact that he became a lazy trainer ala King Kamali....1/4 rep shit as heavy as possible all the while using the least amount of energy to actually train...
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Wide waist is a problem but he could have 'hidden' it better with greater quad development, esp in the sweep. Although not even platz quads would have helped him later on his waist became about as wide as his shoulders. Disgusting waste of food and gear that could have gone to starving african bodybuilders.
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Without a doubt, he made a name for himself in the industry...
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Without a doubt, he made a name for himself in the industry...
Yup....he got the name of the biggest hype and faker around who couldn't compete if his life depended on it. :-\
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Yup....he got the name of the biggest hype and faker around who couldn't compete if his life depended on it. :-\
The weightlifting video was very fake and disappointing....But the dude was one huge mo fo and got a lot of press for it....I was let down that he never did well in competition back sometime in the last nineties....I remember he was suspected of having something going on in his shoulders, implants maybe....
Anyways, he aint paying my bills so i could care less...I just think he was one freaky huge dude....
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He wasn't bad but never had the legs for it.
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/kovacs22.jpg)
Of course, later he looked a little different....
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_1x3Muszp5gY/Rf8s24hU9HI/AAAAAAAAASA/mhEBgrTkd9U/s320/greg_kovac_11.jpg)
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I beleive this is the definition of Palumboism:
(http://www.femininebeauty.info/i/greg.kovacs.jpg)
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Yup....he got the name of the biggest hype and faker around who couldn't compete if his life depended on it. :-\
did you watch the fist video at all?, doesnt seem like a fake to me, had size plus stage presence, and agile posing style, remined me more of the golden agers, then the freak peole said he was. I dont get it,
also I dont think there is anything with wide hips on a bb, it is actually more aesthetic than some tiny girly waist.
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did you watch the fist video at all?, doesnt seem like a fake to me, had size plus stage presence, and agile posing style, remined me more of the golden agers, then the freak peole said he was. I dont get it,
also I dont think there is anything with wide hips on a bb, it is actually more aesthetic than some tiny girly waist.
Your also talking about a video that was made in 1996. We are in 2008. He looks knowhere near what he looked like then and regardless he still wouldn't crack 15th at a show.