thing is.... compared to most gym rats he isnt even that fat on the fatty pic
Yep. He was carrying a good bit more muscle than most gym rats in that pic, too ... and IIRC, that was taken at a point he hadn't trained in over a year or two.
Unless he was on 2 grams of test/wk the entire time he was out of the gym

, I can't say I fault those genetics at all.
Alexy, however ...
I've never seen him lean, but he is thick as a brick. Huge shoulder girdle. But those small t-rex arms will forever condemn his large structure to the Art Atwood type. Not a very good look but, in fairness, it's suited to moving some seriously big weights.