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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: AmonRa on June 30, 2014, 08:56:25 AM
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So, Tom Platz had big legs touching each other all the time. Big fucking deal. Overall he looked like shit.
What's more aesthetic?
This
(http://body-world.net/wp-content/gallery/danny-padilla/007.jpg)
or that
(http://www.bodybuildingdungeon.com/forums/attachments/old-school-pictures/15887d1244461041-tom-platz-1994.jpeg)
His adductors are so big that it makes you wonder whether his ... exist at all.
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Yeah, Tom sure looked horrible ::) And people talk about Arnold's '80 win being controversial... Franco winning the O in 1981 was beyond absurdity.
(http://johnhansenfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1981-Olympia-Abs-with-Franco-Platz-and-Padilla.jpg)
I was never a fan of Platz's overall physique, but he was able to overcome his average genetics with his training intensity. No one in the gym could come close to him.
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Manlets, when will they learn
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Platz faded away after the '81 'O. Padilla made the occasional great comeback. But as far as their respective best showing was, Platz '81 was a bit better IMHO than Padilla was.
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Big legs look stupid IMHO, then, now, always.
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Tom was a freak way ahead of his time.
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You'd be hard pressed to find anyone on the planet that could try legs as hard as Platz reportedly did.
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Franco taking the 1981 O is just about the dumbest thing ever in competitive bodybuilding.
Bow-legged, bitch tits of peace and decaying quads ... yeah, what a champion. ::)
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Franco taking the 1981 O is just about the dumbest thing ever in competitive bodybuilding.
Bow-legged, bitch tits of peace and decaying quads ... yeah, what a champion. ::)
He had what he needed to win. That being Arnold on his side.
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He had what he needed to win. That being Arnold on his side.
Indeed
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Franco taking the 1981 O is just about the dumbest thing ever in competitive bodybuilding.
Bow-legged, bitch tits of peace and decaying quads ... yeah, what a champion. ::)
You forgot to mention that he was a midget
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Padilla and Platz should have placed 1 and 2 (it could go either way but I'd give the nod to Padilla) at the 1981 Olympia. Columbu winning, Platz 3rd and Padilla 5th was a travesty.
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Padilla and Platz should have placed 1 and 2 (it could go either way but I'd give the nod to Padilla) at the 1981 Olympia. Columbu winning, Platz 3rd and Padilla 5th was a travesty.
Callendar was also a good enough choice. Clearly one of the worse travesty in the 'O history, if not the worse.
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Tom looked like a cartoon and in the day of no slin GH or other crap these guys are using today that's pretty damn incredible.
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Big legs look stupid IMHO, then, now, always.
x10 - Platz looked like a victim of a voodoo curse spelt by a ham manufacturer.
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Tom Platz was the better man in 1981 Padilla was flat and Columbo was just upper body with average arms.
WoooSSHHHHHHHHHH
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OP is a god damn moron. Yeah, Padilla had a more pleasing physique, but saying Platz was terrible? Dude should have won a Sandow FFS.
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Big legs look stupid IMHO, then, now, always.
How big is too big?
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How big is too big?
Modern day quads, coleman circa 2003 started the look. The 'upside down turnip' look.
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Does somebody have The Tom Platz wig saved and want to paste it here for our amusement?
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Does somebody have The Tom Platz wig saved and want to paste it here for our amusement?
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=440757.0
Big J walked through the putrid streets of Chinatown, the nauseating stench of dead cats and chickens blended obscenely with the cheap perfume of slanty eyed transvestite hookers. And every few feet a choking cloud of carbon monoxide drenched cigarette smoke exhaled by the busted faces of oriental slaves who spent twenty hours a day slaving over the slop known as Chinese Food and the other four playing Mahjong and picking the lice out of their pubes. In the midst of all this colourful confusion, Big J saw it in a store front window. A man's blonde wig; medium length and parted to the side with a hint of sideburn. Big J entered the shop and was met by a toothless gook who looked about a hundred and ten years old. He wanted fifty bucks for the wig and Big J countered with ten. After some loud bickering the old man said twenty and the two men shook hands. Big J walked back out into the mean streets of Chinatown with a lilt in his step. Excitedly, he entered the Dragon's Chef Authentic Mandarin Cuisine restaurant and stole into the Men's Room. The rancid odor of decades old urine didn't bother him as clumsily pulled his new prize out of it's plain brown wrapping and placed it upon his head. He looked into the mirror and froze. Tom Platz was looking back.
Big J wasn't always so big. As a child Big J-or Jonathan, as he was then known- was neither here nor there. Neither bully nor victim. A nobody who slid through through cracks. Teachers forgot his name and girls didn't know he existed. When he was fourteen all that changed. He discovered a rusty old set of weights as he played at the town dump. He dragged it home to his basement and began instinctively pressing the barbell up and down over his head, and curling it like his dad's prison friends used to talk about. He saved his paper route money and soon purchased a copy of Joe Weider's Bodybuilding System from the local bookstore. He added more exercises to his repetoire of muscle pumping movements: barbell rows, bench presses, flyes, crunches, triceps extensions and Squats. While his buddies at school seemed to focus on bench pressing and curling, Jonathan found he responded quickly to the squats. His thighs bulged bigger with every leg workout, and soon his friends were having to lift the barbell and rest it on Jonathan's shoulders. His upper body development was mediocre at best, yet his legs, or "quads" as he was soon calling them were exceptional. Jonathan changed his name to Big J and devoted his life to bodybuilding. He did it all: the gyms, the muscle mags, the supplements; the eventual introduction to orals and the graduation to the needle. His legs blew up like tree trunks and stretched the limit of his pants.
Then he found himself in the city. It looked promising at first. But then plans fell apart like houses of cards in that unforgiving wind called Reality. First he bombed in a couple of contests. The plans to own a gym crumpled. The hopes of owning a supplement store were dashed. Big J found himself hustling a couple of quick bucks in men's rooms in the back of porn theaters. A setback he called it. Hard times became Big J's companions. He was 25 then 35 then 40 but swore he felt like18. It wasn't over. He needed an angle, he told himself. And he found it. That day. In Chinatown. He found it.
The Tom Platz Wig.
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Thanks bro. Awesome
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Tom Platz Wig...
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Tom looked like a cartoon and in the day of no slin GH or other crap these guys are using today that's pretty damn incredible.
Platz was one of the first GH users, look at his jaws, chin and legs...
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Platz was one of the first GH users, look at his jaws, chin and legs...
Water retention from roids, not GH. Look at him now, his jaw and chin look normal.
Then...
(http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/pumpingiron2/tom_pl10.jpg)
Now...
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/sbKT1NsCpbI/0.jpg)
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(http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/7/f/7fc9f_ORIG-Platz_squat_bar_tag.jpg)
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Big legs look stupid IMHO, then, now, always.
Platz had great legs just poor upper body. Small arms and wide waist for his structure. His legs were prob 30" guys now hit near 40" and have guts but without detail his legs had.
Pic in OP says 1994... big shit, like posting a Ronnie pic from 07. 81 he should've either won or come 2nd, Franco winning was an abomination.
Also seemed a good guy who did bbing for the reward of hard work and pleasure of training. He didn't continue juicing after for no reason, just went to size of normal person, probably happier than any pro nowadays.
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He was looking good here:
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Yeah, Tom sure looked horrible ::) And people talk about Arnold's '80 win being controversial... Franco winning the O in 1981 was beyond absurdity.
(http://johnhansenfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1981-Olympia-Abs-with-Franco-Platz-and-Padilla.jpg)
I was never a fan of Platz's overall physique, but he was able to overcome his average genetics with his training intensity. No one in the gym could come close to him.
Platz was at his best in 81, Franco should not have beaten Platz or Padilla.
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So, Tom Platz had big legs touching each other all the time. Big fucking deal. Overall he looked like shit.
What's more aesthetic?
This
(http://body-world.net/wp-content/gallery/danny-padilla/007.jpg)
or that
(http://www.bodybuildingdungeon.com/forums/attachments/old-school-pictures/15887d1244461041-tom-platz-1994.jpeg)
His adductors are so big that it makes you wonder whether his ... exist at all.
OP, you're an idiot. You post a pic of a 1994 Platz, who was clearly over a dozen years outside of his best ever condition (1981-1982). If he looked like shit, I want to look like shit too.
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So, Tom Platz had big legs touching each other all the time. Big fucking deal. Overall he looked like shit.
What's more aesthetic?
This
(http://body-world.net/wp-content/gallery/danny-padilla/007.jpg)
or that
(http://www.bodybuildingdungeon.com/forums/attachments/old-school-pictures/15887d1244461041-tom-platz-1994.jpeg)
His adductors are so big that it makes you wonder whether his ... exist at all.
thats like asking if a '76 pinto is more aesthetic than a '76 gremlin.
neither one exactly screams 'aesthetics'. lol
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And
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Big legs look stupid IMHO, then, now, always.
I'm with you. Never had a problem with Arnold or Haney's wheels.
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I'm with you. Never had a problem with Arnold or Haney's wheels.
They looked proportioned and athletic. Hell even Dozs wheels looked good, despite his odd quad genetics.
Guys whos legs overpower their upper body just looks dumb imo. Its not a good look, its not aesthetically pleasing in any way, shape, or form.
When men have to waddle like a duck and basically become useless, its over. Arnold and co. Used to jog and run, and I think it kept their legs looking streamlined and athletic. Hell even Ray knew not to let his quads blow up too bad. These modern guys who waddle at 2.5mph for cardio so they keep all their leg muscle need to rethink things.
Oh well, modern BB is a sickness almost, body dismorphic disorder.... everything has to be bigger, bigger, bigger.
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Franco taking the 1981 O is just about the dumbest thing ever in competitive bodybuilding.
Bow-legged, bitch tits of peace and decaying quads ... yeah, what a champion. ::)
Francos legs lagged but no one in that show could match his size or density. His upper body was rediculous in that show.
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Franco had a unusual case on Palumboism, all the hallmarks, shrinking tri's legs but no gut.
His body was definitely saying please stop this you silly little Italian man.
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Franco had a unusual case on Palumboism, all the hallmarks, shrinking tri's legs but no gut.
His body was definitely saying please stop this you silly little Italian man.
;D ;D ;D
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Water retention from roids, not GH. Look at him now, his jaw and chin look normal.
Then...
(http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/pumpingiron2/tom_pl10.jpg)
Now...
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/sbKT1NsCpbI/0.jpg)
Actually I think a big part of the massive jaw is hypertrophy of the mandibular muscles
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(http://www.musclememory.com/magCovers/fl/fl0406.jpg)
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Francos legs lagged but no one in that show could match his size or density. His upper body was rediculous in that show.
The gyno was ridiculous. His proportions also. Awful arms really. Completely unbalanced. Him winning was just another "Arnold's best friend' award. Platz, Padilla, Callendar and even Dickerson were better than him that year.
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Though he wasn`t proportionate,Platz worked his balls off to bring up his upper body.
Look at the shots posted above by Danimal77 for what I`m talking about.
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Franco had a unusual case on Palumboism, all the hallmarks, shrinking tri's legs but no gut.
His body was definitely saying please stop this you silly little Italian man.
Now that is fucking funny!
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Though he wasn`t proportionate,Platz worked his balls off to bring up his upper body.
Look at the shots posted above by Danimal77 for what I`m talking about.
Once he tore his right biceps, he was never able to get close to his peak '81 condition.
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The details on that BDB are unreal ! can't be matched even today.... 33 years later !
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=540539.0;attach=569729;image)
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Now...
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/sbKT1NsCpbI/0.jpg)
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Looks like he has the classic dick-sucker jaw think going on.
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franco had nasty gyno in 81, shoulda got 4th n that woulda been a gift, sad day in bodybuilding when he won in 81
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I remember all the magiazines at the time were disgusted over Francos win.
I remember though, one article tried to justify it by saying the Mr Olympia wasnt just a bodybuilding contest it was about overcoming obstacles and the fact he blew is knee out (WSM Contest)and came back justified him being champ.
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The details on that BDB are unreal ! can't be matched even today.... 33 years later !
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=540539.0;attach=569729;image)
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
wow, i never seen that pic, thats insane how detailed he is
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In 50 years from now Tom Platz will still be remembered.
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The gyno was ridiculous. His proportions also. Awful arms really. Completely unbalanced. Him winning was just another "Arnold's best friend' award. Platz, Padilla, Callendar and even Dickerson were better than him that year.
Franco broke his left leg (practically broke it off) in the worlds strongest man contest (1977 ?). He should've quit after that. He was on roids since he started training in the mid-late 60's. Funny how the gyno did not show up until later.
Ouch...