The 1987 Mr Olympia

[Slik]

Incredible pix. Thx. Those were the days.

[BEEFYHEAVYWEIGHT]

I remember having a conversation with Chris Dickerson at Better Bodies Gym in NYC a few wedks after the Gothenberg Olympia...which Dickerson was at. And he told me that he though that John Hnatyschack got royally screwed in that show. Said that Hnatyschack should have been in the top 6.

[Papper]

Where are the guts and sub par conditioning

[Tarantula157]

Excellent B&W pics.Never seen them before.Pics like that should circulate more often on getbig.

[Man of Steel]

No they wouldn't. Bodybuilders back then had real work ethic, trained hard and trained right. Today's bodybuilders use copious amounts of drugs to compensate for their lack of hard work in the gym.

We tend to romanticize that era too much as though they didn't take shortcuts.

Not true.

They used every shortcut available to them.  Everyone trained like Arnold cause he was the champ.  Only Mentzer being a notable exception. 

If they could've gotten their bodies to 285 shredded they would've but they couldn't.

They pushed their bodies are far as they could then.

[SF1900]

We tend to romanticize that era too much as though they didn't take shortcuts.

Not true.

They used every shortcut available to them.  Everyone trained like Arnold cause he was the champ.  Only Mentzer being a notable exception. 

If they could've gotten their bodies to 285 shredded they would've but they couldn't.

They pushed their bodies are far as they could then.

But even so, the level of training was much more harder. They loved to trained and they trained hard. Today, guys talk about doing "half reps" to keep constant tension on the muscle.  Lazy workouts.

We all knew they took shortcuts. The difference was that they still trained hard, despite the shortcuts. Guys today rely too much on drugs and train like shit. Its just a whole different training atmosphere.

[whataname]

Bertil Fox lost so much bodyweight by 1987. I read he was down to 215 pounds for that show, because all of the judges kept criticizing him for being too big and massive in the past. So, he starved and himself and came in depleted and as a consequence was a shadow of his 1982/1983 former-self.

still brutal tho...

[hench]

a hard and dense quality on all those guys that is gone today, would love to see just how bloofy they would look onstage compared to these guys

[Cableguy]

Yep...that's not Brutal Bertil

fucking guy was inhuman

Roy Callendar was another beast.



And I think the drugs back then were BETTER.  cleaner....you can see it i n the overall appearance

Sure guys are bigger now, thanks to insulin and taking 4 grams of underground test as a jumping off point.

but that tight, sharp muscle quality is GONE. 

My theory is if you strip away the 30 pounds of bullshit marbled, shitty muscle....it's the same body underneath

Yup, that tight, sharp quality is not evident anymore. That shrink wrapped look is gone.

[gracie bjj]

lee was just to big for everyone it seemed,he carried alot of muscle and he looked great with his shape,he was a man among boys those yrs

[hipolito mejia]

pretty much the last era that you would actually aspire to look like a bodybuilder.

crisp, lean as fuck, healthy looking

This.