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Tom Prince
1997 NPC Nationals Heavy Weight And Overall Winner
Toughest Workout : Gold’s Gym; Boca Raton, Florida, 1997
After getting my head handed to me at the 1997 NPC USA Championship, training took on a whole new meaning. Every workout became the most important thing I did. I had to exorcise those demons, those voices which came from within and without: You blew your chance, baby. Why do you want to keep doing this? Hang it up, man. Even though I was eating less and doing more cardio then ever before, my workouts during the three months leading upto my redemption at the 1997 Nationals were the best of my life.
One workout stands above the rest, though. Florida in August – 85 degrees, picture perfect just like every other friggin day. I cant wait to get through the door and attack the weights. The inside of Gold’s Boca Raton is pretty dead around 7 am.; “I’m the atmosphere,” I would say when friends asked me why I trained there. Today is chest so I warm up with three high rep sets of seated machine press. My joints always tell me how my workouts are going to go, and right now they feel perfect.
My first exercise is the incline barbell press at the 45- degree angle. At 135, the bar feels like its flying out of my hands; 225 feels like 135;315 and its still easy. I load the bar up to 405 pounds and grab this big kid named Neil from behind the desk to give me a liftoff. At 6’6,280 pounds he’s the only guy here I trust to spot me. The most reps I have ever done with this weight are 8, but the first few seem to be easy. After completing number 11, I rack the bar and sit up. “Jesus Christ, Tom!” says Neil.
The next two sets are more of the same. The bar explodes upwards and everything “sits” in a perfect groove, like I’m using smith machine rather than the barbell. When everything is balanced just right, all you do is push. At 455 I bang out 7 reps, 2 more than what I have ever done before.. Lying on the bench before my next set I stare up at the bar. “there is nobody in this world doing this right now,”. “no one”. I triple 495 on my own before Neil helps me with 2 extra.
I sit up and Neil looms over me. “You think Orville Burk is in the gym doing 495? I ask.
“Naw,” he says. “Orville’s probably doin’ two and a quarter.”
Next comes the dumbbell press on a 30 degree incline. The thing I like about this gym is the dumbbell rack goes up to 200s, although from 130 they are coated with dust. I hoist up some 180s and do 12 more beautiful jack hammer reps. I am resting more now between sets, But this is how I love to train” slow and heavy. I don’t breathe hard or even get pumped, necessarily, but I get a real tight feeling in my shoulders, elbows and chest. Training heavy is like getting beat up : things get sore and tight and your joints start locking up.
After five minutes, I grab the 200-pounders and wrestle eight or nine reluctant reps from them. Since I can’t go any higher, I stick with those for a few more sets. God, These things are hard to lug around. Just picking them up, resting them on my knees, sitting back and getting them up to my shoulders is back-breaking work. I finish my last rep and lower the weights, but one in my right hand misses my knee and drops, clipping the side of my foot. Later, I’d find my sock soaked with blood.
I always plan my first two exercises and then go on instinct, and today I head back to the seated machine press, this time putting six plates on a side. Even at that weight the machine gives the stabilizer muscles in my shoulders a rest. All I am doing is pushin’.
I am starting to fade, but I have got one more exercise to go, or rather two : a superset of weighted dips and cable crossovers. Two plates hang from my belt as I bend my elbows and descend into my first rep. All I feel is tightness spreading across from shoulder to shoulder. Damn, this is heavy. I push at the bottom but the tightness clamps down hard one me. I get of, remove the weights and stretch my pecs for a couple of minutes. I get back on and somehow do 16 or 17 reps.
Without resting, I go the cable stacks to do crossovers, squeezing each one hard at the bottom. Combined with dips, these really start to pump my pecs. Now it’s a mental game: okay these reps are high, but the weight is a little bit lighter, so it isn’t gonna be that hard. It burns, But you know the weight’s gonna move if you push, so try to keep the burn going.
After three super sets, I leave. Four days later, so would the soreness.
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oh brother. that's like a gym masterbation story.
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oh brother. that's like a gym masterbation story.
indeed and the epic story of the destruction of his joints.
there was no need for him to go as heavy as he did.
pure ego lifting
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indeed and the epic story of the destruction of his joints.
there was no need for him to go as heavy as he did.
pure ego lifting
If I had read that (and did) 5 years ago when just starting I'd have tried to duplicate that intensity and hurt myself. I read that Gaspari leg training jerk off type story and tried to work my legs like that. I remember not being able to walk for a day and almost pissing myself.
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solo hormones
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If I had read that (and did) 5 years ago when just starting I'd have tried to duplicate that intensity and hurt myself. I read that Gaspari leg training jerk off type story and tried to work my legs like that. I remember not being able to walk for a day and almost pissing myself.
tommyboy did too much work in the 5-8 rep range. for someone who isnt on roids and isnt lifting the huge weights he was its a real good rep range....but tom..he should have limited his work in the 5-8 rep range and trained lighter most of the time. a bodybuilder should train as light as he can get away with to get as big as he can.
obviously the rules change abit for natural bodybuilders who have to get stronger inorder to get bigger...but for the aas assisted junkies the rules are abit different (although strength increases are very important for those too)
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fff
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hips like a birthing cow.
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fff
lol....hahahahahh.....le ave Tom alone guys. I'm sure he had enough nightmares about those days. it's all behind him now. bodybuilding to him is now a distant memory. We love you, Tom. he almost died for you, Bitches....hahahahhahaha
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fff
it's amazing when some of these guys come off. i think he has more width than phil on the pharmacy.
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it's amazing when some of these guys come off. i think he has more width than phil on the pharmacy.
No way Prince will ever weigh less than 230 pounds. No way.
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No way Prince will ever weigh less than 230 pounds. No way.
Ya...with 2x45'ers strapped to his back, lol
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I like how he drops a 200 pound dumbbell onto the side of his ankle and obviously that shit hurt, but he truly didn't notice the extent of his hemorrhaging injury until later when he finds his socks socked in blood. As if the trail of blood he left from machine to machine wasn't enough to make him ponder whether or not he had a bleeding anus...
Oh brother.. ::)
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Ya...with 2x45'ers strapped to his back, lol
lol that's fucking harsh (but true)... poor guy.
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Tom Prince
1997 NPC Nationals Heavy Weight And Overall Winner
Toughest Workout : Gold’s Gym; Boca Raton, Florida, 1997
After getting my head handed to me at the 1997 NPC USA Championship, training took on a whole new meaning. Every workout became the most important thing I did. I had to exorcise those demons, those voices which came from within and without: You blew your chance, baby. Why do you want to keep doing this? Hang it up, man. Even though I was eating less and doing more cardio then ever before, my workouts during the three months leading upto my redemption at the 1997 Nationals were the best of my life.
One workout stands above the rest, though. Florida in August – 85 degrees, picture perfect just like every other friggin day. I cant wait to get through the door and attack the weights. The inside of Gold’s Boca Raton is pretty dead around 7 am.; “I’m the atmosphere,” I would say when friends asked me why I trained there. Today is chest so I warm up with three high rep sets of seated machine press. My joints always tell me how my workouts are going to go, and right now they feel perfect.
My first exercise is the incline barbell press at the 45- degree angle. At 135, the bar feels like its flying out of my hands; 225 feels like 135;315 and its still easy. I load the bar up to 405 pounds and grab this big kid named Neil from behind the desk to give me a liftoff. At 6’6,280 pounds he’s the only guy here I trust to spot me. The most reps I have ever done with this weight are 8, but the first few seem to be easy. After completing number 11, I rack the bar and sit up. “Jesus Christ, Tom!” says Neil.
The next two sets are more of the same. The bar explodes upwards and everything “sits” in a perfect groove, like I’m using smith machine rather than the barbell. When everything is balanced just right, all you do is push. At 455 I bang out 7 reps, 2 more than what I have ever done before.. Lying on the bench before my next set I stare up at the bar. “there is nobody in this world doing this right now,”. “no one”. I triple 495 on my own before Neil helps me with 2 extra.
I sit up and Neil looms over me. “You think Orville Burk is in the gym doing 495? I ask.
“Naw,” he says. “Orville’s probably doin’ two and a quarter.”
Next comes the dumbbell press on a 30 degree incline. The thing I like about this gym is the dumbbell rack goes up to 200s, although from 130 they are coated with dust. I hoist up some 180s and do 12 more beautiful jack hammer reps. I am resting more now between sets, But this is how I love to train” slow and heavy. I don’t breathe hard or even get pumped, necessarily, but I get a real tight feeling in my shoulders, elbows and chest. Training heavy is like getting beat up : things get sore and tight and your joints start locking up.
After five minutes, I grab the 200-pounders and wrestle eight or nine reluctant reps from them. Since I can’t go any higher, I stick with those for a few more sets. God, These things are hard to lug around. Just picking them up, resting them on my knees, sitting back and getting them up to my shoulders is back-breaking work. I finish my last rep and lower the weights, but one in my right hand misses my knee and drops, clipping the side of my foot. Later, I’d find my sock soaked with blood.
I always plan my first two exercises and then go on instinct, and today I head back to the seated machine press, this time putting six plates on a side. Even at that weight the machine gives the stabilizer muscles in my shoulders a rest. All I am doing is pushin’.
I am starting to fade, but I have got one more exercise to go, or rather two : a superset of weighted dips and cable crossovers. Two plates hang from my belt as I bend my elbows and descend into my first rep. All I feel is tightness spreading across from shoulder to shoulder. Damn, this is heavy. I push at the bottom but the tightness clamps down hard one me. I get of, remove the weights and stretch my pecs for a couple of minutes. I get back on and somehow do 16 or 17 reps.
Without resting, I go the cable stacks to do crossovers, squeezing each one hard at the bottom. Combined with dips, these really start to pump my pecs. Now it’s a mental game: okay these reps are high, but the weight is a little bit lighter, so it isn’t gonna be that hard. It burns, But you know the weight’s gonna move if you push, so try to keep the burn going.
After three super sets, I leave. Four days later, so would the soreness.
all lies
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fff
well he has the GH jaw, nose and forehead to remember his BB days by.
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indeed and the epic story of the destruction of his joints.
there was no need for him to go as heavy as he did.
pure ego lifting
spoken like a true pusssy. :D
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Tom Prince
1997 NPC Nationals Heavy Weight And Overall Winner
Toughest Workout : Gold’s Gym; Boca Raton, Florida, 1997
After getting my head handed to me at the 1997 NPC USA Championship, training took on a whole new meaning. Every workout became the most important thing I did. I had to exorcise those demons, those voices which came from within and without: You blew your chance, baby. Why do you want to keep doing this? Hang it up, man. Even though I was eating less and doing more cardio then ever before, my workouts during the three months leading upto my redemption at the 1997 Nationals were the best of my life.
One workout stands above the rest, though. Florida in August – 85 degrees, picture perfect just like every other friggin day. I cant wait to get through the door and attack the weights. The inside of Gold’s Boca Raton is pretty dead around 7 am.; “I’m the atmosphere,” I would say when friends asked me why I trained there. Today is chest so I warm up with three high rep sets of seated machine press. My joints always tell me how my workouts are going to go, and right now they feel perfect.
My first exercise is the incline barbell press at the 45- degree angle. At 135, the bar feels like its flying out of my hands; 225 feels like 135;315 and its still easy. I load the bar up to 405 pounds and grab this big kid named Neil from behind the desk to give me a liftoff. At 6’6,280 pounds he’s the only guy here I trust to spot me. The most reps I have ever done with this weight are 8, but the first few seem to be easy. After completing number 11, I rack the bar and sit up. “Jesus Christ, Tom!” says Neil.
The next two sets are more of the same. The bar explodes upwards and everything “sits” in a perfect groove, like I’m using smith machine rather than the barbell. When everything is balanced just right, all you do is push. At 455 I bang out 7 reps, 2 more than what I have ever done before.. Lying on the bench before my next set I stare up at the bar. “there is nobody in this world doing this right now,”. “no one”. I triple 495 on my own before Neil helps me with 2 extra.
I sit up and Neil looms over me. “You think Orville Burk is in the gym doing 495? I ask.
“Naw,” he says. “Orville’s probably doin’ two and a quarter.”
Next comes the dumbbell press on a 30 degree incline. The thing I like about this gym is the dumbbell rack goes up to 200s, although from 130 they are coated with dust. I hoist up some 180s and do 12 more beautiful jack hammer reps. I am resting more now between sets, But this is how I love to train” slow and heavy. I don’t breathe hard or even get pumped, necessarily, but I get a real tight feeling in my shoulders, elbows and chest. Training heavy is like getting beat up : things get sore and tight and your joints start locking up.
After five minutes, I grab the 200-pounders and wrestle eight or nine reluctant reps from them. Since I can’t go any higher, I stick with those for a few more sets. God, These things are hard to lug around. Just picking them up, resting them on my knees, sitting back and getting them up to my shoulders is back-breaking work. I finish my last rep and lower the weights, but one in my right hand misses my knee and drops, clipping the side of my foot. Later, I’d find my sock soaked with blood.
I always plan my first two exercises and then go on instinct, and today I head back to the seated machine press, this time putting six plates on a side. Even at that weight the machine gives the stabilizer muscles in my shoulders a rest. All I am doing is pushin’.
I am starting to fade, but I have got one more exercise to go, or rather two : a superset of weighted dips and cable crossovers. Two plates hang from my belt as I bend my elbows and descend into my first rep. All I feel is tightness spreading across from shoulder to shoulder. Damn, this is heavy. I push at the bottom but the tightness clamps down hard one me. I get of, remove the weights and stretch my pecs for a couple of minutes. I get back on and somehow do 16 or 17 reps.
Without resting, I go the cable stacks to do crossovers, squeezing each one hard at the bottom. Combined with dips, these really start to pump my pecs. Now it’s a mental game: okay these reps are high, but the weight is a little bit lighter, so it isn’t gonna be that hard. It burns, But you know the weight’s gonna move if you push, so try to keep the burn going.
After three super sets, I leave. Four days later, so would the soreness.
And now?? What exactly is the point of this "Story"?? ::)
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spoken like a true pusssy. :D
...dont worry you will never have that problem. :D
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...dont worry you will never have that problem. :D
coming from the absolute beast with such ungodly numbers as 250 pound close grip bench presses and 200 pound smith machine shoulder presses. ;D ::)
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If you train light you're a pussy and if you train heavy you're stupid.
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If you train light you're a pussy and if you train heavy you're stupid.
Yes it's best to avoid the weights all together.
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I hear he used to have to carry to brown paper bags(much like shopping bags) around with him for he would puke a lot during leg workouts...Those bags would also be use in bathroom duty later on in the day in stall number 3
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I like how he drops a 200 pound dumbbell onto the side of his ankle and obviously that shit hurt, but he truly didn't notice the extent of his hemorrhaging injury until later when he finds his socks socked in blood. As if the trail of blood he left from machine to machine wasn't enough to make him ponder whether or not he had a bleeding anus...
Oh brother.. ::)
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when your taking 2x the normal prescription of advill, you don't really feel pain. :D
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coming from the absolute beast with such ungodly numbers as 250 pound close grip bench presses and 200 pound smith machine shoulder presses. ;D ::)
lol obviously you need a calculator...
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lol obviously you need a calculator...
i'll make a deal with you, if you post a picture of yourself with a note saying i'm "slaveboy1980" from getbig.com i'll leave here forever, whaddya say?
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i'll make a deal with you, if you post a picture of yourself with a note saying i'm "slaveboy1980" from getbig.com i'll leave here forever, whaddya say?
no need, thats DAs job ;D
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no need, thats DAs job ;D
hahahaha, just what i thought, another pusssy. ;D
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hahahaha, just what i thought, another pusssy. ;D
haha coming from the guy who ran away from DA :D
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haha coming from the guy who ran away from DA :D
::) Ron locked me out of my account, i'm still here.
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“there is nobody in this world doing this right now,”.
Hahahahahaha.
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::) Ron locked me out of my account, i'm still here.
yeah right :D
your one of the laughing-stocks around here now, in the same group as canididis and the turd. hahahahaahah
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Tom Prince
1997 NPC Nationals Heavy Weight And Overall Winner
Toughest Workout : Gold’s Gym; Boca Raton, Florida, 1997
After getting my head handed to me at the 1997 NPC USA Championship, training took on a whole new meaning. Every workout became the most important thing I did. I had to exorcise those demons, those voices which came from within and without: You blew your chance, baby. Why do you want to keep doing this? Hang it up, man. Even though I was eating less and doing more cardio then ever before, my workouts during the three months leading upto my redemption at the 1997 Nationals were the best of my life.
One workout stands above the rest, though. Florida in August – 85 degrees, picture perfect just like every other friggin day. I cant wait to get through the door and attack the weights. The inside of Gold’s Boca Raton is pretty dead around 7 am.; “I’m the atmosphere,” I would say when friends asked me why I trained there. Today is chest so I warm up with three high rep sets of seated machine press. My joints always tell me how my workouts are going to go, and right now they feel perfect.
My first exercise is the incline barbell press at the 45- degree angle. At 135, the bar feels like its flying out of my hands; 225 feels like 135;315 and its still easy. I load the bar up to 405 pounds and grab this big kid named Neil from behind the desk to give me a liftoff. At 6’6,280 pounds he’s the only guy here I trust to spot me. The most reps I have ever done with this weight are 8, but the first few seem to be easy. After completing number 11, I rack the bar and sit up. “Jesus Christ, Tom!” says Neil.
The next two sets are more of the same. The bar explodes upwards and everything “sits” in a perfect groove, like I’m using smith machine rather than the barbell. When everything is balanced just right, all you do is push. At 455 I bang out 7 reps, 2 more than what I have ever done before.. Lying on the bench before my next set I stare up at the bar. “there is nobody in this world doing this right now,”. “no one”. I triple 495 on my own before Neil helps me with 2 extra.
I sit up and Neil looms over me. “You think Orville Burk is in the gym doing 495? I ask.
“Naw,” he says. “Orville’s probably doin’ two and a quarter.”
Next comes the dumbbell press on a 30 degree incline. The thing I like about this gym is the dumbbell rack goes up to 200s, although from 130 they are coated with dust. I hoist up some 180s and do 12 more beautiful jack hammer reps. I am resting more now between sets, But this is how I love to train” slow and heavy. I don’t breathe hard or even get pumped, necessarily, but I get a real tight feeling in my shoulders, elbows and chest. Training heavy is like getting beat up : things get sore and tight and your joints start locking up.
After five minutes, I grab the 200-pounders and wrestle eight or nine reluctant reps from them. Since I can’t go any higher, I stick with those for a few more sets. God, These things are hard to lug around. Just picking them up, resting them on my knees, sitting back and getting them up to my shoulders is back-breaking work. I finish my last rep and lower the weights, but one in my right hand misses my knee and drops, clipping the side of my foot. Later, I’d find my sock soaked with blood.
I always plan my first two exercises and then go on instinct, and today I head back to the seated machine press, this time putting six plates on a side. Even at that weight the machine gives the stabilizer muscles in my shoulders a rest. All I am doing is pushin’.
I am starting to fade, but I have got one more exercise to go, or rather two : a superset of weighted dips and cable crossovers. Two plates hang from my belt as I bend my elbows and descend into my first rep. All I feel is tightness spreading across from shoulder to shoulder. Damn, this is heavy. I push at the bottom but the tightness clamps down hard one me. I get of, remove the weights and stretch my pecs for a couple of minutes. I get back on and somehow do 16 or 17 reps.
Without resting, I go the cable stacks to do crossovers, squeezing each one hard at the bottom. Combined with dips, these really start to pump my pecs. Now it’s a mental game: okay these reps are high, but the weight is a little bit lighter, so it isn’t gonna be that hard. It burns, But you know the weight’s gonna move if you push, so try to keep the burn going.
After three super sets, I leave. Four days later, so would the soreness.
Hi Tom.
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yeah right :D
your one of the laughing-stocks around here now, in the same group as canididis and the turd. hahahahaahah
hahaha, as opposed to a guy who claims to be a training expert and posts his training journal yet won't post pictures of himself because he looks like shit. :D
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hahaha, as opposed to a guy who claims to be a training expert and posts his training journal yet won't post pictures of himself because he looks like shit. :D
Bullshit! Prove it! Post a pic!!
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Bullshit! Prove it! Post a pic!!
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he won't do it, he loves posting all of his bullshit "advice" yet when you ask to see the results of all this knowledge he pusssies out. :D
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Maybe he enjoys lifting heavy weights and then expressing his enjoyment in flowery poetry.
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Maybe he enjoys lifting heavy weights and then expressing his enjoyment in flowery poetry.
the poetry part i believe but the lifting heavy weights is bullshit, if he wants to prove me wrong he can post a picture.
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he won't do it, he loves posting all of his bullshit "advice" yet when you ask to see the results of all this knowledge he pusssies out. :D
::) I was talking about you, fat-boy. You're so big on asking for pics... any chance of a pic that isn't a pic of a reflection in dirty glass with a chain or something in the way taken in low light with the cheapest shittiest low-res cell phone camera you could find? Seriously, your "pic" is about the closest thing to "not a pic" in the message board world.
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hahaha, as opposed to a guy who claims to be a training expert and posts his training journal yet won't post pictures of himself because he looks like shit. :D
hahaaha, dave is that candidid on your left?
(http://www.emagazine.com/images/0598feat1a.jpg)
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the poetry part i believe but the lifting heavy weights is bullshit, if he wants to prove me wrong he can post a picture.
It's called poetic license, I guess. It gives the beautiful lyric its special oomph.
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Seriously, your "pic" is about the closest thing to "not a pic" in the message board world.
LOL!!!
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its funny how dave ,somehow, shuts up whenever some one calls his bluff.
the reality of it all is that that fat comedian who was tom jane's neighbor in "The Punisher" is built better than dave mirza
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its funny how dave ,somehow, shuts up whenever some one calls his bluff.
the reality of it all is that that fat comedian who was tom jane's neighbor in "The Punisher" is built better than dave mirza
as opposed to this absolute mountain of muscle, right?
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as opposed to this absolute mountain of muscle, right?
yes , i have a shitty physique than no women find attractive whatsoever
EDIT: PS- your fat, dave
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yes , i have a shitty physique than no women find attractive whatsoever
EDIT: PS- your fat, dave
i never said women didn't want you, women want almost any guy, what i said is that you have very little muscle.
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i never said women didn't want you, women want almost any guy, what i said is that you have very little muscle.
i don't take umbrage with that comment, actually
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http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=242371.0;attach=282534;image
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coming from the absolute beast with such ungodly numbers as 250 pound close grip bench presses and 200 pound smith machine shoulder presses. ;D ::)
Yeah he's a pussy cause he uses 250 ::) Im sure if he had claimed something good like 315 you'd be crying "bull shit" like a bitch.
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as opposed to this absolute mountain of muscle, right?
atleast that guy has seen his abs. your abs are like atlantis. ;D
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as opposed to this absolute mountain of muscle, right?
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=242585.0;attach=282911)
Worthy of the 'Gayer Than' thread.
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Worthy of the 'Gayer Than' thread.
Too gay for the "Gayer Than" thread...
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Too gay for the "Gayer Than" thread...
True.
Team Gayer Than is officially uninterested in such fagg0try.
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he forgot to mention the part where he meets the schmoe in the toilets afterwards
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Mr.Prince was very strong and very determined.