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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: stuntmovie on October 23, 2009, 10:50:04 AM
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Some of you GetBiggers have been posting your recent ab shots and most of them are damn impressive for you GetBig guys regardless of your age and training habits. IN fact some of those pictures show abs that are in better condition than the best of the best back in the earlier days.
Here are a bunch of ab shots that were taken off the net that were supposed to be used in a school fitness project. I post them here in an attempt to show you all how much ab development has improved over the years even among those who don't compete or never intend to compete.
The majority of these photos I intend to post are abs shots of the best developed guys during the times that they were taken.... meaning that their abs were among the best developed abs at that time.
I think you will agree that the abs of yesterday don't come anyway near to the abs that these "kids" are developing at present.
I say "kids" because the most impressive abs you'll see in these photos are stacked on the younger generation and in most cases exceed by far the development of their other muscle groups. It appears that some kids nowadays don't spend too much time at McDonald's and like to do lots of situps
Back in the old days it was simply a matter of having a small waist and wide shoulders and a great face.
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ever hear of these guys
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real old
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I thought this was about ABS brakes
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These are just everyday people not competitors
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(http://www.ukcar.com/features/tech/others/Anti-Lock-Brakes/ABS-hub.jpg)
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(http://www.ukcar.com/features/tech/others/Anti-Lock-Brakes/ABS-hub.jpg)
LMAO ;D
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(http://www.ukcar.com/features/tech/others/Anti-Lock-Brakes/ABS-hub.jpg)
now thats some abs.
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(http://www.ukcar.com/features/tech/others/Anti-Lock-Brakes/ABS-hub.jpg)
Thats not Lee Priest.
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Yea, Funk! But those guys came later and will eventually lead up to today's ab standards. Thanks for posting those pictures. I'll add some more "progressive ab" shots.
But, based on my experience, the original "great abs" were mostly lean waists. But that lean waist "theory" slowly evolved to what you see in the photos you posted plus the following.....
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More yester-year abs.....
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(http://builtreport.com/munzer/037.jpg)
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The above shots show something quite different than the abs Reeves worked so hard for, but still not fully developed .
But abs slowly improved .....
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men were less feminized than they are today, In those days having a tiny waist and abs was not ideal for a man, that was more for a women. Today's men are more insecure about looking youthful rather than looking like men. THey are castrated.
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Until some of the recent guys discovered the secret of great ab development .....
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men were less feminized than they are today, In those days having a tiny waist and abs was not ideal for a man, that was more for a women. Today's men are more insecure about looking youthful rather than looking like men. THey are castrated.
don't playerhate on the metrosexual revolution
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So what the hell was their SECRET!!!????
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Interesting theory, Bull, but I would tend to disagree.
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So what the hell was their SECRET!!!????
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men were less feminized than they are today, In those days having a tiny waist and abs was not ideal for a man, that was more for a women. Today's men are more insecure about looking youthful rather than looking like men. THey are castrated.
regarding bodybuilders that is so far from the truth. all the top amateur and professional bodybuilders had wide shoulders and narrow waists. today's competition bodybuilders all are blocky masses.
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(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/ma/ma0409.jpg)
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mp2/mp21811.jpg)
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mp/mp1505.jpg)
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mp/mp1502.jpg)
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mp/mp1002.jpg)
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That's one hell of a difference between the greats of yester-year (Reeves, Eifferman, Grimick, Hilligen, and many others who appear lacking in the ab department when compared against the "kids" of today when they put their mind to it).
So what is the Secret?
Method, GH?? I doubt it but it would be interesting to hear from GH15, TBomz, and a few other GetBiggers on that subject.
Actually their ain't no Secrets in bodybuilding unless you know almost nothing about body building.
If there is a secret here, it is that each of these great ab guys had something in common.
And that 'something in common" was that each of them weighed it at less than 200 lbs wringing wet (and possibly much less) and sacrificed muscle size for lean-ness.
There are a few Getbiggers who have done the same and have abs just about as good as those shown above, so maybe they'll cut in and reveal their secret if it's anything other than hard work and a phenominally strict diet.
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Tim, I know two brothers. One is lean and ripped Competitive Bodybuilder) and the other is bulked to the gills (Powerlifter). The lean one refers to his big bro as the "Blocky Blunder" and the bulked up one refers to his leaner bro as something that even GetBiggers would be offended by.
Tim, what year was that Scott cover shot taken? The date is too small for me to read on my screen.
And that is the best shot of Page I've ever seen. I never thought he looked that good. Big surprise.
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PS... of all the pros shown earlier in this post, I've only had the misfortune to have not worked with or met two of them... Basil and Wayne... but I did talk to Wayne a couple of times while he had a column in one of Weider's magazines. That column of his was the only thing concerning BB worth reading back then.
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i could be picking at straws here but could the information we have now consist as the secret
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Outed for reading this thread :(
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JNN, what is that information you say we now possess?
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JNN, what is that information you say we now possess?
i'm thinking stuff like advances in diet, "supplementation", and ,specifically, advances in effective cardio work (ie HIIT)
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regarding bodybuilders that is so far from the truth. all the top amateur and professional bodybuilders had wide shoulders and narrow waists. today's competition bodybuilders all are blocky masses.
they had narrow waists simply because they didnt do gh and slin, but they didnt obsess over them, and guys like Ross and Grimek with wider hips was not considered a flaw. Today men are obsessed with having a six pack and tiny waists. And guys like Atwood and Federov were considered flawed for having normal size hips for a man. Roid guts is a totally differnet story.
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Today men are obsessed with having a six pack and tiny waists.
and where are these men? certainly not in the NPC or IFBB. nor are they at the gyms I go to.
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No mystery here...
Tons of guys in the old days had great abs, but again a lot of guys had terrible abs.
Tons of guys today have great abs, but again a lot of guys have terrible abs.
Some people didn't even train abs back them, same as today.
Some people are genetically predisposed to symmetrical deep abs, some are not.
(http://www.tigerthemartialartist.com/abs.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/510014387_0419dc2c26.jpg)
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It's all about bodyfat levels.
Funny seeing that pic of Bill Pearl with abs. Most of his famous shots were "vacuum" type shots.
That one pic almost looks like Boyer Coe, but I don't ever remember seeing visible abs on him.
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don't playerhate on the metrosexual revolution
haha, apparently where Tim lives there are no Metrosexuals. lucky Tm.
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according to wikipedia
Metrosexual is a neologism of the 2000s generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance or a lifestyle that displays attributes stereotypically related to homosexual men.
haha, apparently where Tim lives there are no Metrosexuals. lucky Tm.
since all the heterosexual men where I live are either Russian immigrants or Latin American immigrants, I'd say that's probably true. (I live in a gay ghetto.)
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don't playerhate on the metrosexual revolution
metrosexuals.... ::)
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Metrosexual is a neologism of the 2000s generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance or a lifestyle that displays attributes stereotypically related to homosexual men.
I think metrosexuality is insecurity.. Something is off in the self esteem department if the guy has to go the extra mile and shave and primp himself like a girl.
I guess the same thing could be said about bodybuilding in general.. but building up muscle mass increases masculinity.. metrosexuality doesn't. It swings the other way.
I enjoy being male.. and not shaving :)
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No mystery here...
(http://www.tigerthemartialartist.com/abs.jpg)
I was bigger than that at 12.
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can you say gayness...
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according to wikipedia
Metrosexual is a neologism of the 2000s generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance or a lifestyle that displays attributes stereotypically related to homosexual men.
since all the heterosexual men where I live are either Russian immigrants or Latin American immigrants, I'd say that's probably true. (I live in a gay ghetto.)
you are so left brained ;D
I thought you were from PHilly, is that right? Not much of gay ghetto there, unless it has gotten better.
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I was bigger than that at 12.
Yeah, but could you beat the hell out of someone And love them longtime when you were finished.
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Pierre Van Den Steen.... had some of the best abs.
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Yeah, but could you beat the hell out of someone And love them longtime when you were finished.
I just reconnected with a guy on facebook that I beat up in jr high. he grabbed my girlfriends ass in seventh grade. not much of an ass beating.. but he gave up in front of the entire school :). it was a big deal, trust me.
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I thought you were from PHilly, is that right? Not much of gay ghetto there, unless it has gotten better.
Programs! Get your programs here. Can't tell the players without a program.
here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hollywood,+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.507908,65.478516&ie=UTF8&t=h&hq=&hnear=Hollywood,+Los+Angeles,+California&ll=34.099391,-118.348203&spn=0.000601,0.00151&z=20)
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Yes it's all about bodyfat, no mystery there.
And I got in the best condition of my life at 36, so I'm no kid.
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Best abs Ever!!
Thierry Pastel
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I was bigger than that at 12.
So? ::)
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It's all about bodyfat levels.
Funny seeing that pic of Bill Pearl with abs. Most of his famous shots were "vacuum" type shots.
That one pic almost looks like Boyer Coe, but I don't ever remember seeing visible abs on him.
boyer got abs later in his career they were the last muscle group to come in , they still weren't much though a pathetic 4 pak. but he still won quite a few shows.
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wasp waist guys like boyer coe
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