look at the improvenents the IFBB Pro Savolainen made within one year
1992
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1993
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if legit, its the craziest biceps development i ve ever seen
you be the judge
unbeliveable growth of his jaw also
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OMG - only one person had the matching triceps
You should remember few things before you will judge he as an synthol freak. First of all, he is Finnish. Finland is that little dot between Russia and Sweden, and it has been and it still is a backwoods of bodybuilding. This simply means that at the time when Marko reach his peak, there was just a few guys in whole world using synthol in bodybuilding, so how he get the information and the gear? Literally poor Finnish guy without any sponsors? What was state of the Internet at that time? There was plenty of drug dealers and bodybuilding sites in the net, and you get anything you want from the web shop? That doesn't ad up with the timeline of the Internet, but facts are for geeks and losers.
Secondly, as far as I know, synthol doesn't make you stronger, so how come this synthol freak is known for his strength and his extra heavy duty training method. For example, is it common to synthol freaks to start their bench press from the 500lb, and do the drop set, taking off 40lb for every drop, down to the point where you can't lift even empty barbell and you have accomplish 60 to 75 reps? You can't find his training videos from the YouTube, because there was no digicams and digivideos at the time, and that is great pity. Instead of that, if you are curious enough, you will find clips where he is teaching training with The Hardcore team. Hardcore team is bunch of amateurs who want to build some muscles, and Marko is their mentor. With those clips you can learn how Marko has been training trough his life.
Finally, I have been spotting his sets, I have been counting his reps and I know the guy. As far as I know, he use a lot of any kind of help to get to the top, but synthol was not one of the bunch. He used all kind of gear, speed, ephedrine etc. to keep himself going, and finally he paid for it by losing his kidneys. He is great, honest and straight guy and if he had lived in the USA instead of the backwoods of Finland, he would have been one of the best ever.
In that clip he was training for his comeback just before his kidneys start to squeal. Here he isn't using so much weight than he used to, but enough to impress most of the people. This is teaser from his training DVD.