after ronnie coleman, why do current pros sacrifice aesthetics for mass?

[anabolichalo]

it's not like they are impressing anyone with their "mass" which is not even close to coleman's mass anyway

so why are they not trimming down to look respectable?

[jodsy]

by that logic, ronnie shouldnt have tried as there were bigger bodybuilders

[DroppingPlates]

Is this one from 2003?

[anabolichalo]

Is this one from 2003?

i dont know

i also wonder if it's photoshoped

extremely massive and lean

[anabolichalo]

by that logic, ronnie shouldnt have tried as there were bigger bodybuilders

what?

i'm saying no one even comes close to colemans muscularity, not even close at all

so whats the point of blowing out their guts in their futile attempts to do so



cutler was comparable at one point but not quite as freaky

[juggerburn]

what?

i'm saying no one even comes close to colemans muscularity, not even close at all

so whats the point of blowing out their guts in their futile attempts to do so



cutler was comparable at one point but not quite as freaky

Mainly because of changes in judging criteria. Today, it seems to be 90 percent size, 10 percent everything else. No longer are nice physiques rewarded or considered, it's all about gh and insulin induced size.

[arce1988]

Damn

[rooseveltdunn]

It all started with Yates not Ronnie.

[Schnauzer]

it's not like they are impressing anyone with their "mass" which is not even close to coleman's mass anyway

so why are they not trimming down to look respectable?

Because being huge is awesome

[quadzilla456]

it's not like they are impressing anyone with their "mass" which is not even close to coleman's mass anyway

so why are they not trimming down to look respectable?

Insane photo!

[SomeKindofMonster]

Listen to Lou from around 1:30 - 2:20 and he explains very well
what the majority audience wants to see.

[Frank Clairmonte]

picture is from 2005 IMO

Ronnie had his waist down that year.

[erics]

The answer is because the judges don't have the balls to mark down stupid physiques. And as long as the judges do so, bodybuilders will keep trying to look stupid in order to win.

Bodybuilding is essentially about 'awesome' because the mentality of teenagers is focused only on what is easily visible. In bodybuilding, that means size and conditioning. It takes sense to understand what quality is and teenagers rarely have the attention span for it.

If the judges really were professional and bodybuilding was treated as a sport and not as simply a spectacle, the concepts of aesthetics, proportion, balance and presentation would have long ago been ingrained into the bodybuilding public.

Unfortunately, this never happened.

[Bevo]

it's not like they are impressing anyone with their "mass" which is not even close to coleman's mass anyway

so why are they not trimming down to look respectable?

Crazy how he looked like that in 05 and went downhill fast in a span of a year during the 06 Olympia

[Bevo]

Rewarding physiques such as branch is what's wrong

The mentality of typical gym rats (mostly teens early 20's) are also fucked many want size and nothing else , conditioning is an afterthought

People like "cswol" is what's wrong

[240_Iz_Nutz]

i dont know

i also wonder if it's photoshoped

extremely massive and lean

Does look perhaps a bit touched up. Cool pic though.

[Sophus]

[Rami]

Because let's admit it, building mass is fun and is an instantly measurable way of progression

You also get to eat freely so you are now happy and thinking calories only helps your muscles and goals, you know, just a bit delusional/under the influence

It all come crumbling down like in the case with Greg Kovacs when they see pictures after the competition

Bodybuilding is an extremely delusional phenomenon, Ron Coleman himself talked about this, how only after the competition he saw the photos and first then realized his body was not the same any more.

[Marine]

it's not like they are impressing anyone with their "mass" which is not even close to coleman's mass anyway

so why are they not trimming down to look respectable?

cause how are you going to justtify progression,,,if you remove all drogeries from the past u get

eugen sandow - who lived 100 years ago

if leave low doses of anabola you get - ment's physique's guys

if you leave high doses without diabetic injecitons you get arnold

no progression

bodybuilding is a sport without future

no future without drugs

none

never will be

eat shit motherfuckers........... joe weider the homo is to blame

[DroppingPlates]

Grunting poses of peace

[mesmorph78]

That was 05
Greatest Mr o and body builder ever

[erics]

cause how are you going to justtify progression,,,if you remove all drogeries from the past u get

eugen sandow - who lived 100 years ago

if leave low doses of anabola you get - ment's physique's guys

if you leave high doses without diabetic injecitons you get arnold

no progression

bodybuilding is a sport without future

no future without drugs

none

never will be

eat shit motherfuckers........... joe weider the homo is to blame

Mass with balance, aesthetics and presentation is progression.

Just mass means nothing. Unless you are dumb.

Motherfuckers...

[DroppingPlates]

That was 05
Greatest Mr o and body builder ever

I second that, and welcome in the +10,000 posts club

[Marine]

Mass with balance, aesthetics and presentation is progression.

Just mass means nothing. Unless you are dumb.

Motherfuckers...

U ARE PHUCKING DELUSIONAL

EAT SHIT AND DIE NOW

[Army of One]