Arnold looks healthy and is very wealthy.
Phil is the current Mr. Olympia and seems like a nice guy with decent business acumen, but professional bodybuilding isn't what it used to be.
Who in their right minds would want to look like today's IFBB pros?
Who would want to take a risk in becoming a walking, pharmaceutical experiment plagued with impotence, while promoting the proliferation of cancer if genetically predisposed to it?
The vast majority of professional bodybuilders (with some exceptions of course):
(1) Can't wear suits without looking foolish
(2) Can't wear regular clothes without looking foolish
(3) Can't go outside without people pointing the obvious (that they are simply steroid abusers)
(4) Don't have functional strength and are only capable of lifting moderate weights for the "look"
(5) Can't speak - how many are capable of putting together a coherent sentence?
(6) Can't win these contests without injecting themselves with just about everything at the pharmacy
(7) Don't have the charisma/looks needed to make it in Hollywood
(8) Don't have the people skills needed to make it in politics
(9) Can't survive without pimping themselves out to schmoes and supplement companies (ie see Kevin Levrone)
(10) Typically don't have a solid career outside of bodybuilding
(11) Travel with some of the strangest human beings on the planet
(12) Aren't always simply steroid abusers, but often times abuse other illicit drugs
Yeah. I'd say Arnold was king and once he left, he took the pride and soul of bodybuilding with him. It was a damn pleasure to watch and follow professional bodybuilding back in the day. The average guy felt that the look Arnold and crew had was at the very least attainable with hard work, good nutrition and of course some hormonal supplementation. Today, no one can claim to gain such muscle simply on D-bol and a few diuretics. Today, you need Insulin, Human Growth Hormone, Testosterone, Diuretics, Esiclene and a whole bunch of other shit that I can't begin to spell.
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