Okay bro...First I'm looking for a serious responds here from you.
I just watched the episode a couple of days ago for the second time, first I watched it way back in the days when I was working out but had absolutely no interest in pro bodybuilding.
I remember that I had no idea who you or Cook were or all the others but I remember clearly that I thought: Man this looks so over the top, why would you look like that.
Now since I have been a fan of Pro Bodybuilding for a while I looked at all of you a little different, of course all of you were in the deep deep offseason and sure enough the bellies were great and big

Question:
Was it requested from the Producers that all of you came in as heavy as possible never mind if you look (excuse me) more fat than defined?
Or was it just the time of the year when they were filming it? In this case simply offseason for you guys?
The reason I ask this is this, If I would have been you I would have liked to present myself in the best light possible, I mean this was not a 2sec appearance like Alexxx, so why the offseason and not at least a little bit presentable?
For all that have not seen it: