if you broaden the topic to synthol and site injections, you look for muscles that are just as big relaxed as when flexed, have a peak when relaxed, sharp angles and bumps where there shouldn't be. but I don't think judges are really looking for it
Well said! Markus Ruhl's biceps come readily to mind.
They have peaks even when resting at his sides. His peaks, regardless of the angle, have an unnatural apex that does look sharp ( almost pointed ).
It pisses me off how the top competitors are somewhat immune to the criticism. Caprise Murray's oil is less obvious, in my opinion, than Markus Ruhl's, yet the news writers in the major publications overtly imply in nearly every write-up that he is injecting something into his deltoids. On the otherhand, FLEX publishes Markus Ruhl's "word" that he has never used synthol in his life because it destroys muscle, hahahaha.
Its sad, because the publications will usually mention anything suspicious when it is an amateur or lower echelon professional. I wonder if the supplement companies pay the publishers to refrain from tarnishing the image of the top contract athletes with even a subtle implication that, oh my god, their physique may be enhanced with oil! Or for that matter, enhanced with something more than whatever overpriced, unregulated garbage in pill/powder/gel form these thieves are peddling.
