When we first picked up a barbell or dumbell, all we knew was that muscles were cool. We still think they're cool. Every one of us most likely always will. Every one of us wanted to be the biggest and strongest man in the world- nothing wrong with that. We harm no one- except perhaps ourselves, in the end. Kovacs, Nasser, Atwood, Jeep Swenson, Curtis Leffler, and all the other departed mass monsters, I salute you. [/quoteYour post remind me the 90's.tommy your post is like a breeze of fresh air.first time i hit the gym in 97 i saw a pics of nasser on the wall of the crappy dirty good old gym.
Quote from: tommywishbone on November 26, 2013, 08:16:05 PMWhen we first picked up a barbell or dumbell, all we knew was that muscles were cool. We still think they're cool. Every one of us most likely always will. Every one of us wanted to be the biggest and strongest man in the world- nothing wrong with that. We harm no one- except perhaps ourselves, in the end. Kovacs, Nasser, Atwood, Jeep Swenson, Curtis Leffler, and all the other departed mass monsters, I salute you. Your post remind me the 90's.tommy your post is like a breeze of fresh air.first time i hit the gym in 97 i saw a pics of nasser on the wall of the crappy dirty good old gym.
When we first picked up a barbell or dumbell, all we knew was that muscles were cool. We still think they're cool. Every one of us most likely always will. Every one of us wanted to be the biggest and strongest man in the world- nothing wrong with that. We harm no one- except perhaps ourselves, in the end. Kovacs, Nasser, Atwood, Jeep Swenson, Curtis Leffler, and all the other departed mass monsters, I salute you.
Good thread Tommy. I met all these guys in person in Venice Golds and they were cool people. Sad that they are gone. I was actually good friends with De Mayo and Trevor Smith in Venice and we did dinners often. And did plenty of business with Art Arwood when he had his supplement store. RIP
Trevor and Nasser were good friends. Nasser thought very of Trevor. His death wasn't really health related however.
And Bebop, that pic is not shopped. I saw Jeep during his biggest days, on a daily basis. Absolutely stunning. He weighed in nightly on the scale at Gold's Venice- always between 390 - 410. Always. That is a real 25 inch arm.
Paul was enormous- just monsterous. His demise was most unfortunate. I think he weighed 180 when he left us, but all those years being titanic probably accelerated his death.
how did being big cause him to overdose on rec drugs?E
Trevor had a good heart. He was obsessive with the eating, training and drugs and was a legit 402 pounds after dinner. I saw the scale. We both laughed out loud. I think he committed suicide after his wife left him. Very sad.
Kinda nasty to bring up his suicide. I don't think anyone really knew about it. I didn't bring it up out of respect.
Not nasty at all...It is important to talk about suicide to bring it out in the light to keep others from doing the same...To pretend suicide does not exist makes the problem worse...Ofcourse Grant does not know this for a fact, but we all have thought that it might have happened right?
Those guys were just idiots. Markus is living proof that you can be a mass monster for decades and still be fit and healthy. You have to be smart.
I would bet that Ruhl ran the same doses back in the day. He defies the odds because he's immortal.
nah, he's close to death too...
