Of course no palumboism....this was the pre-palumboism era.
Just an extremely wide waist, even if he could have kept his obliques the smallest possible.
Arnold had a naturally wide waist too, and Benny Podda and many more. but Jim Quinn was Mr Wide Waist Olympia.
Otherwise huge hard working bodybuilder, good thing he changed his carreer. Nice guy too I think.
(and he actually measured Flex's bodyfat at minus 3%. But that was before the ninja-attack. After that Flex got into comfort-eating. You should know that !

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