He was much more strict with his diet than any other Pro in his time. (Ever)
And he didn t want to sacryfice definition for bodyweight aka pushing Insulin to hard like common among todays pros.
His focus was on substances maximize definition Not weight.
He was also geneticly gifted with thin skin like yates, but with a much better definition and Separation.
Just like the best of yates and flex wheeler combo.
Hi only weakness in my opinion was his small pecs and hamstrings, and maybe a little bit of an weird bone structure.
(Besides his to calm personality compared to his competitors from US and A)
Almost 20 years now that he passed away.
I remember a very Long discussion about Being to intense is Not good and we all have to accept wehen we have Maxed out our potential circa in spring 1996.
He was accessable to that thoughts and i felt he was Allready sick back then. Also and foremost in his mind.
Weeks later he died under Sad conditions.
A lot of rumours about the reasons have been brought up, but i don t think one of them was specific.
Btw his protocol was Not very different from Mann others

At the end one experience remains: don t go that far for a plastic trophy as a getbigger would call it.
(And much less to be the attention whore of your local gym Ort beach club)