2013 Olympia - Shawn RHODEN 4 weeks out!

[Frank Clairmonte]

Last year I started thread about him before 2012 Olympia. Getbig saw him coming and he placed 3rd!

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=442065.msg6328454#msg6328454

Shawn Rhoden 4 weeks out from the 2013 O. With this conditioning he looks already ready to step on stage. He looks bigger than last year.
This Olympia is going to be the best one in last decade!

This is also my 1000 post and I dedicate it to all bodybuilding fans around the globe and wish good enjoyment of 2013 MR OLYMPIA!!


With Aceto, 2012 season.

"The ones who say you can't and you won't are probably the ones scared that you will ..."

[arce1988]

  I think he looks like Flex

[NarcissisticDeity]

3rd? LOL

[Parker]

Last year I started thread about him before 2012 Olympia. Getbig saw him coming and he placed 3rd!
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=442065.msg6328454#msg6328454

Shawn Rhoden 4 weeks out from the 2013 O. With this conditioning he looks already ready to step on stage. He looks bigger than last year.
This Olympia is going to be the best one in last decade!

This is also my 1000 post and I dedicate it to all bodybuilding fans around the globe and wish good enjoyment of 2013 MR OLYMPIA!!


With Aceto, 2012 season.

"The ones who say you can't and you won't are probably the ones scared that you will ..."

Hope he surprises people.

[Wiggs]

Damn, he looks very good. almost like a poor man's 99 Flex. His problem is gonna be his back. can it compete with  Phil's and Kai's.

[arce1988]

almost like a poor man's 99 Flex.


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[anabolichalo]

Damn, he looks very good. almost like a poor man's 99 Flex. His problem is gonna be his back. can it compete with  Phil's and Kai's.

are you implying abusing synthol is that expensive?

[Wiggs]

If Rhoden can get his back to Phil and Kai levels, he's Mr. O.  He's structured like Flex on one other person has been structured close to that and that was Melvin. From the front, he can compete with Phil and Kai and pose and beat them both in Abs and Thigh. His side poses he can compete with  but it's his back poses where Phil and Kai just run him over.

[illuminati]

Undeniably a very Good Physique,
I just don't see the hype about him
or as a top 3 in the Olympia,
maybe top 6. He may look a lot
Bigger & better in real life tho.

[Parker]

If Rhoden can get his back to Phil and Kai levels, he's Mr. O.  He's structured like Flex on one other person has been structured close to that and that was Melvin. From the front, he can compete with Phil and Kai and pose and beat them both in Abs and Thigh. His side poses he can compete with  but it's his back poses where Phil and Kai just run him over.

funny, how some people don't see that Melvin was structurally similar to Flex. The thing about Rhoden is, he doesn't have Flex's roundness, especially to his triceps.
I agree with you on the back part. He needs more back detail. He is/was shallow back there.

[Wiggs]

From what I remember also. There not much separation in between his bis and tris in the front double bicep pose which means hes using a swelling agent. That's not good because that lack of separation takes away from the pose.

[WalterWhite]

From what I remember also. There not much separation in between his bis and tris in the front double bicep pose which means hes using a swelling agent. That's not good because that lack of separation takes away from the pose.

His delts look "swollen" too.  I agree with this assessment and what you said about his back.  Great overall aesthetics and conditioning four weeks out.

[anabolichalo]

he looked great at that arnold showing once

[axestream]

Dude looks great, but his weak point is his back. He's battling for second place with Kai and Ramy. The only way they'll hand the Sandow to someone other than Phil is if he comes in extremely soft and that's just not gonna happen.

[Wiggs]

funny, how some people don't see that Melvin was structurally similar to Flex. The thing about Rhoden is, he doesn't have Flex's roundness, especially to his triceps.
I agree with you on the back part. He needs more back detail. He is/was shallow back there.

Oh yeah, of course Melvin was the original poor man's Flex. LOL. Even though Melvin is a couple inches shorter, very, similar to Flex.  And very good assessments. Flex had great arms especially triceps. Everything on Flex was round. Rhoden doesn't have that in his triceps. In addition, Flex had great Bis. Rhoden's using something in his to point of blurred separation.  Flex used oil later in his career but with or without oil his arms always looked better than Rhoden's.  And yes you made a great point I failed to mention. Rhoden's back is very shallow.  He didn't have the thickness last year to compete with Phil and Kai.  I'm sure he knows this and I'd like to see his improvements. I'm 100% he will be improved.


People obviously wanna know the outcome of the biggest storyline, Phil and Kai! But a very intriguing one will be Rhoden and Jay!  Then throw Ramy in there and Dexter and Branch (yeah, yeah I know) and Wolf and Curry it's gonna definitely be one of your more interesting Mr. Olympias!

[axestream]

Oh yeah, of course Melvin was the original poor man's Flex. LOL. Even though Melvin is a couple inches shorter, very, similar to Flex.  And very good assessments. Flex had great arms especially triceps. Everything on Flex was round. Rhoden doesn't have that in his triceps. In addition, Flex had great Bis. Rhoden's using something in his to point of blurred separation.  Flex used oil later in his career but with or without oil his arms always looked better than Rhoden's.  And yes you made a great point I failed to mention. Rhoden's back is very shallow.  He didn't have the thickness last year to compete with Phil and Kai.  I'm sure he knows this and I'd like to see his improvements. I'm 100% he will be improved.


People obviously wanna know the outcome of the biggest storyline, Phil and Kai! But a very intriguing one will be Rhoden and Jay!  Then throw Ramy in there and Dexter and Branch (yeah, yeah I know) and Wolf and Curry it's gonna definitely be one of your more interesting Mr. Olympias!

The most impressive thing about Flex was that he was at his best when he was only 210-215 lbs. He was raping guys 20-30 lbs heavier.

[Wiggs]

The most impressing thing about Flex was that he was at his best when he was only 210-215 lbs. He was raping guys 20-30 lbs heavier.

Yeah. I love Lee King Lee Haney and Even 98 Ronnie was the nastiest of nasty. But I mean this 100% no homo. Flex Wheeler in 1993 and 1998 was the most perfect I've ever seen a human body. It wasn't nasty it was physical perfection that every bodybuilder seeks but everyone defines differently. To this day, and I've even said it. I'd rather look like Flex and than other bodybuilder in the history of bodybuilding. If he had a Lee Haney or Ronnie mentality towards things, thinks had turned out alot different than they did.

Now even I can pick apart "perfect " Flex and say he could have been wider and his chest could have been bigger and of course his conditioning. But from what we've seen, Flex is the closest to perfection.

[Parker]

The most impressing thing about Flex was that he was at his best when he was only 210-215 lbs. He was raping guys 20-30 lbs heavier.

And in some cases, more than 30 pounds. In 97 Flex was 224, Nasser 280, you do the maths.

Like Wiggs had said, Melvin and Shawn are close in structure---shape wise, but they lack the full roundness of Flex's muscles. Melvin had one bicep that had two peaks, like Ronnie's biceps, and Melvin's back detail was not as good as Flex's, plus he tended to look like a Big headed baby--a large head.

Another person who was structurally like Flex is Jojo Ntiforo, from Ghana. All seem to have the problem areas of lower back-glutes-hams. And all seem to look their best at lower bodyweights. And all seem to have light-weight structures that are meant for carrying under 240 pounds, aesthetically. Above 230ish, is pushing it.

[Bevo]

  I think he looks like Flex

No he doesn't

[old-school-lifter]

is Roden a baby?

why is he wearing white diapers?

[Bevo]

And in some cases, more than 30 pounds. In 97 Flex was 224, Nasser 280, you do the maths.

Like Wiggs had said, Melvin and Shawn are close in structure---shape wise, but they lack the full roundness of Flex's muscles. Melvin had one bicep that had two peaks, like Ronnie's biceps, and Melvin's back detail was not as good as Flex's, plus he tended to look like a Big headed baby--a large head.

Another person who was structurally like Flex is Jojo Ntiforo, from Ghana. All seem to have the problem areas of lower back-glutes-hams. And all seem to look their best at lower bodyweights. And all seem to have light-weight structures that are meant for carrying under 240 pounds, aesthetically. Above 230ish, is pushing it.

Cormier is the only one out of Melvin , Shawn and flex that could carry tons of mass and still look good , good structure and good mass

[Bevo]

Dude looks great, but his weak point is his back. He's battling for second place with Kai and Ramy. The only way they'll hand the Sandow to someone other than Phil is if he comes in extremely soft and that's just not gonna happen.

Is everyone counting dexter out??

[Man of Steel]

thats one ripped and muscled brutha......8th is all his

[axestream]

Is everyone counting dexter out??

Dex is not top 3 material anymore.

[NarcissisticDeity]

Dex is not top 3 material anymore.

I agree and neither is Vic