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Title: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: TheShape. on September 12, 2014, 01:02:19 PM
So I was just schmoeing on youtube...but it struck me that today's competitors are just bottom line fatter and softer (how ever you want to put it) in comparison to any other era. I think we've come to the fact it's from heavy insulin use, but it's just so disgustingly bad. Who the hell is in charge of judging these days? Don't they see something wrong with big guts and soft balloon like bodies? Why are bodybuilders today so focused on weight on a scale than what they look like? Will this trend ever end or is professional bodybuilding really dead?
Also, many argue that this is due to lighting and modern cameras of today, I say it's a load of BS. Most of these 90s competitors were filmed on video, not film. Many older bodybuilders were captured on both (Arnold comes to mind), there is no significant difference. This topic is open to discussion although it's been discussed so many times before and we're probably beating the dead horse, but I have to rant.

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Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: anabolichalo on September 12, 2014, 01:05:33 PM
people need to stop comparing different lighting and different cameras

doesnt make any sense

you can only compare 2 people in the same actual picture/video
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Cableguy on September 12, 2014, 05:58:28 PM
When I see old footage from the 90's it really hits home how far bodybuilding has regressed. Seeing guys like Shawn, Lee, and Kevin in their best shape is inspiring. Their muscles pop when they pose, with no gut to be seen, and their serratus and intercostals stand out in bold relief, looking like piano keys. They look like works of art, not like the bloated messes you see on stage today. Fucking shame.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Cableguy on September 12, 2014, 06:07:26 PM
Even looking at Phil, he looks bloofy and soft. It's almost weird that he only displays striations when he hits poses, and only in certain muscle groups. And you can barely make out his serratus and intercostals. Hell, even Dexter has a gut.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: TrueGrit on September 12, 2014, 06:15:22 PM
They could stop this shit within a year or two. It would go like this:


Marked down for gyno.

Marked down strictly for large gut.

Disqualified for showing ass cheeks and/or making sexually suggestive faces at the crowd.

New rules regarding thongs - no garish colors and thicker material mandatory. Glutes to be fully covered at all times -it doesn't matter if they are striated or not, the audience don't see them!

This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 12, 2014, 06:54:09 PM
Rose colored glasses
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 12, 2014, 06:57:07 PM
They could stop this shit within a year or two. It would go like this:


Marked down for gyno.

Marked down strictly for large gut.

Disqualified for showing ass cheeks and/or making sexually suggestive faces at the crowd.

New rules regarding thongs - no garish colors and thicker material mandatory. Glutes to be fully covered at all times -it doesn't matter if they are striated or not, the audience don't see them!

This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.

The glutes are a muscle just like any other body part that take hard work to get striated, they should be rewarded. You are already staring at a man practically bare
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: TrueGrit on September 12, 2014, 07:09:54 PM
The glutes are a muscle just like any other body part that take hard work to get striated, they should be rewarded. You are already staring at a man practically bare


If you watch Pumping Iron they look like what they are - guys in thick trunks. There is no sign of ass cheeks and guys aren't showing them at all. Why is it now so much better that they wear male stripper g-strings in loud colors?

Old school iron-agers are no more 'practically bare' than a guy at a beach. Rolling your trunks into the crack of your ass and wiggling it is, I admit, practically bare. In fact, it's a bare ass.

Personally , I don't really care as I don't watch shows now and I understand guys nowadays like to show their ass and others like to look at that ass and 'reward' it ...so fair enough.
 

I accept I'm in the minority. The asses will be rewarded. My harmless little words on a message board are no match for shaved, oiled and shredded ass cheeks.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Howard on September 12, 2014, 07:11:52 PM
They could stop this shit within a year or two. It would go like this:


Marked down for gyno.

Marked down strictly for large gut.

Disqualified for showing ass cheeks and/or making sexually suggestive faces at the crowd.

New rules regarding thongs - no garish colors and thicker material mandatory. Glutes to be fully covered at all times -it doesn't matter if they are striated or not, the audience don't see them!

This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.

This x 10
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: njflex on September 12, 2014, 07:12:44 PM
They could stop this shit within a year or two. It would go like this:


Marked down for gyno.

Marked down strictly for large gut.

Disqualified for showing ass cheeks and/or making sexually suggestive faces at the crowd.

New rules regarding thongs - no garish colors and thicker material mandatory. Glutes to be fully covered at all times -it doesn't matter if they are striated or not, the audience don't see them!

This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.
well in the celebrated golden era 90's bbing mentioned here as the best,it had its detractors like todays view,musclemag had there back pages ad cartoon frank zane vs todays monsters and it distorted it to say look what franks era had compared to todays 'drugged out mess'and they also parodied what zane would look like today ,he had bloated belly,thinned hair,distorted muscle compared to his sleek look,,so it never changes same cycle,its goes foward and more advanced approaches/protocals..bbing in any regards is the same as it's always been a chemical game..
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 12, 2014, 07:18:21 PM

If you watch Pumping Iron they look like what they are - guys in thick trunks. There is no sign of ass cheeks and guys aren't showing them at all. Why is it now so much better that they wear male stripper g-strings in loud colors?

Old school iron-agers are no more 'practically bare' than a guy at a beach. Rolling your trunks into the crack of your ass and wiggling it is, I admit, practically bare. In fact, it's a bare ass.

Personally , I don't really care as I don't watch shows and I understand guys nowadays like to show their ass and other like to look at that ass and 'reward' it ...so far enough.
 

I accept I'm in the minority. The asses will be rewarded. My harmless little words on a message board are no match for shaved, oiled and shredded ass cheeks.

As a man completely comfortable with my sexuality, I can analyze a males body simply for what it is. I wouldn't say you're in the minority as there seems to be mixed thoughts on trunks style. I just know as a competitor, if my glutes are dialed in..I'm going to show them.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: oldtimer1 on September 12, 2014, 07:58:07 PM
I don't know what drug protocol they use now but they all have that bloated soft look. It just doesn't look like hard muscle.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: local hero on September 13, 2014, 12:36:01 AM
They could stop this shit within a year or two. It would go like this:


Marked down for gyno.

Marked down strictly for large gut.

Disqualified for showing ass cheeks and/or making sexually suggestive faces at the crowd.

New rules regarding thongs - no garish colors and thicker material mandatory. Glutes to be fully covered at all times -it doesn't matter if they are striated or not, the audience don't see them!

This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.


How they wear trunks and making gay faces at the sugar daddies in the audience wont fix the conditioning problems.... if they mark down soft bloated physiques they will come in harder next time, guaranteed..
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: visualizeperfection on September 13, 2014, 12:40:20 AM
As a man completely comfortable with my sexuality, I can analyze a males body simply for what it is. I wouldn't say you're in the minority as there seems to be mixed thoughts on trunks style. I just know as a competitor, if my glutes are dialed in..I'm going to show them.

Tell me more about this lust for the cock you possess.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 01:21:21 AM
Tell me more about this lust for the cock you possess.

You're only reflecting your desires, not mine
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: visualizeperfection on September 13, 2014, 01:40:43 AM
You're only reflecting your desires, not mine

6/10 passive aggressive response noted.

Once again, "BlackCockConnoisseur", elaborate on this cock lust you were born with.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 02:14:14 AM
Worthless trolls, got to love em
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2014, 02:38:17 AM
The glutes are a muscle just like any other body part that take hard work to get striated, they should be rewarded. You are already staring at a man practically bare
Wow. So why not go bare? Why not go ahead and judge cocks? I mean, theyre part of the total package, right?

*shakes head*
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 02:46:19 AM
Wow. So why not go bare? Why not go ahead and judge cocks? I mean, theyre part of the total package, right?

*shakes head*

More gay reflections, once you let go of your sexual preference insecurities you'll realize judging a glutes condition is no different than judging a hamstrings.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2014, 02:50:30 AM
More gay reflections, once you let go of your sexual preference insecurities you'll realize judging a glutes condition is no different than judging a hamstrings.
Yeah, thats fine, but you can still judge the glutes condition in normal swim style trunks, you can see enougj of it to know....

The problem we all have is the competitors who hike their fucking trunks into their ass crack and then gyrate lomike a twerking black woman to show how 'conditioned' it is.

You can deny it or rationalize it all you want, but bro, that shit is gay as fuck.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 02:53:17 AM
Yeah, thats fine, but you can still judge the glutes condition in normal swim style trunks, you can see enougj of it to know....

The problem we all have is the competitors who hike their fucking trunks into their ass crack and then gyrate lomike a twerking black woman to show how 'conditioned' it is.

You can deny it or rationalize it all you want, but bro, that shit is gay as fuck.

You are polarizing 1 incident that happened at Canada Nationals
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: visualizeperfection on September 13, 2014, 03:11:01 AM
Worthless trolls, got to love em

go ahead and lower your tone and also lower that upset level.


Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2014, 04:07:39 AM
You are polarizing 1 incident that happened at Canada Nationals
Huh?
This happens every Olympia.

Hell, Ronnie did it.

It just happened get punished for once in Canada.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 04:21:27 AM
Huh?
This happens every Olympia.

Hell, Ronnie did it.

It just happened get punished for once in Canada.

Ronnie never popped his ass to the beat like Dana Baker did, you were polarizing with your 'twerking like black women' statement. That was 1 incident. And actually, Tony Searle who also hiked his trunks (like most Olympians normally do) would've never been punished if it wasn't for Dana's outlandish moves.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: _aj_ on September 13, 2014, 05:24:42 AM
This won't happen. Why? Because it seems that the people funding the 'hobby' of bodybuilding like the giant, bloated, freaky monsters that can't breathe properly showing their asses.

Never understood this. Other than Juruth, what gay shmoe prefers a wheezing tubgut over a more aesthetic physique? Is there a collective schmoe psychosis at play here?
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: biff on September 13, 2014, 05:38:53 AM
Ronnie never popped his ass to the beat
start at 3:20




besides, arent there are already rules against what truegrit is suggesting? they just get ignored during judging (usually)
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2014, 06:06:50 AM
Ronnie never popped his ass to the beat like Dana Baker did, you were polarizing with your 'twerking like black women' statement. That was 1 incident. And actually, Tony Searle who also hiked his trunks (like most Olympians normally do) would've never been punished if it wasn't for Dana's outlandish moves.
Really? Ronnie 2003 didnt hike his trunks into his ass and shake them back and forth?

Kai has never pulled his trunks into his ass and gyrated?

Hell, phil pulls his trunks into his crack... he doesnt gyrate, granted, but still, why the fuck do these guys feel the need to pull their trunks into their ass? Couldnt have anything to do with the whoops and hollers it illicits from the crowd, could it?
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2014, 06:08:58 AM
start at 3:20




besides, arent there are already rules against what truegrit is suggesting? they just get ignored during judging (usually)
Thank you.
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Alucard on September 13, 2014, 06:26:10 AM
Agreed with Shockwave and TrueGrit, period...
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: TheShape. on September 13, 2014, 07:29:22 AM
This should be the standard trunks, there is nothing more to judge.
(http://johnhansenfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1972-Mr.-Olympia-Sergio-Arnold-FDB.jpg)
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: BodyConnoisseur on September 13, 2014, 10:50:53 AM
start at 3:20




besides, arent there are already rules against what truegrit is suggesting? they just get ignored during judging (usually)

This was playful and non-sexual in a joking manner to me. Everyone has a right to their opinion
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: Ex Coelis on September 13, 2014, 11:15:24 AM
guys complaining about small thongs sound like a bunch of closet queens - glutes are a muscle, fuck

it gets gay when they gyrate their hips (Freeman, Dexter, etc . . .) - that should get shut-down

on that note, the bedazzling could probably be done away with too
Title: Re: Leanness of past competitors...
Post by: nasum on September 13, 2014, 02:53:08 PM
This should be the standard trunks, there is nothing more to judge.
(http://johnhansenfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1972-Mr.-Olympia-Sergio-Arnold-FDB.jpg)

THe problem with these trunks is they don't enhance the outline of the dick enough.

How do you know which bodybuilders have a nice dick?