Did pro bodybuilders get any better over past decade?

[musclecenter]

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[dyslexic]

Better at what? 


Becoming comfortable using every type of pharmaceutical aid available on a daily basis?


Better at dying off earlier?


Better at developing physical dysfunctions that normally wouldn't normally manifest themselves until the elderly years?


If so, my answer is "yes"

[TRIX]

Yes. Phil heath would beat levrone. Regardless of his birdy chest. He has better bigger legs, and a better back

[musclecenter]

Better at what? 


Becoming comfortable using every type of pharmaceutical aid available on a daily basis?


Better at dying off earlier?


Better at developing physical dysfunctions that normally wouldn't normally manifest themselves until the elderly years?


If so, my answer is "yes"

better income
better healthy
and looks better
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[Parker]

Yes. Phil heath would beat levrone. Regardless of his birdy chest. He has better bigger legs, and a better back

Uh, No...Phil competes at around 230-240ish, if that. Levrone competed at 245-265. I might even give the back to Heath.That's if you are talking about a prime Levrone. Levrone of 2001-2002, I could give you that. Levrone of 1999, probably not.

[marty31672]

do they still televise bodybuilding contests?
i havent seen one advertised for pay per view since the 2002 olympia

[Jizzacked]

someone get don youngblood on the phone, he would probably know

[musclecenter]

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=227314.0

[Matt C]

someone get don youngblood on the phone, he would probably know

 

[claymore]

discuss

Absolutely NOT, everybody is about quantity instead of quality.

[TRIX]

Levrone has never been 265 in his life.

[WillGrant]

Na , BB went to shit a long time ago.

[just_a_pilgrim]

Better genetics in the 90's, more good mass monsters in the 90's. Guys today are still good, we have great physiques like Wolf and Heath coming up but the mid-90's is the best era so far.

[MORTALCOIL]

Yes. Phil heath would beat levrone. Regardless of his birdy chest. He has better bigger legs, and a better back

Hilarious. Now get into rehab. Quick.

[Matt C]

Did pro bodybuilders get any better over past decade?

Bigger.

[io856]

Better genetics in the 90's, more good mass monsters in the 90's. Guys today are still good, we have great physiques like Wolf and Heath coming up but the mid-90's is the best era so far.

more kidney failures and health fuckups 

[just_a_pilgrim]

more kidney failures and health fuckups 

We had a lot back then maybe better hidden without the internet like today.

[Pecs]

2009 cutler was pretty good. Phil H might not have have hit his prime. 2003 coleman was a monster with "organised mass". The arnold classic wining coleman was sharp too.

[MORTALCOIL]

Coleman's 2001 AC victory was the last really fantastic showing from any Bber from the past decade. 2003 O, his gut was out of control but he was so massive that people didn't even care for the lack of aesthetics. 1991 to 1998 included were the most competitive years in Bbing. After that, it all went down the drain.

[njflex]

Better genetics in the 90's, more good mass monsters in the 90's. Guys today are still good, we have great physiques like Wolf and Heath coming up but the mid-90's is the best era so far.

like i said in another thread,,the npc level alone was like a pro show then,every class and i mean from lightweights up had outstanding top 5's ,every class has pro potential builds,shape,conditioning,overall look,sm waists.ect...

[Playboy]

True bbdg hit its peak in the eighties. Once the mid ninties came around it went to shit. Now its not about astetics anymore. Its all about countless mass.

[dyslexic]

someone get don youngblood on the phone, he would probably know

That was cold. I knew him. I still think about him from time to time. Sad.


I think Don had already done some serious damage to his body before he became a bodybuilder.

[Flexb]

bodybuilding was much better 10 years ago.

[musclecenter]

bodybuilding was much better 10 years ago.

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[Jizzacked]

That was cold. I knew him. I still think about him from time to time. Sad.


I think Don had already done some serious damage to his body before he became a bodybuilder.

yeah you are right bro, but you have to admit your first post kinda embodies the way he was perceived.  I remember being blown away at his transformation pics back in the day when someone was posting old photos of him before taking up bbing... he was in like his 30's looked like a fat trucker with a pack of smokes in his shirt pocket.  then you see the guy training for the masters O and he was huge.  the clincher though was it seemed apparent to everyone but him that something very bad had to be going on inside, and something was going to happen one day.  when I saw the pics of him training, the only other time I had seen someone that purple was on a stretcher after having a fatal heart attack.  it was obvious his BP was sky high and he wasn't the healthiest individual. 

I am sure he did plenty of damage to his body before he picked up the weights seriously, however no doubt the performance drugs and bodybuilding lifestyle that we all love to joke around about on here certainly compounded his issues and he checked out way before he should have.