When your abdomen swells because you lift too heavy, it has a medical moniker.....its a hernia dude. No, the abdominal fascia beneath does not stretch. Also, GH if anything would cut you up more so I doubt you would have razor sharp abs and serratus on the outside, but look like John Goodman on the inside.
I agree with Tim, it is well documented that the internal organs grow with GH. Also, since your muscles get thicker, it would not seem unreasonable that the abdominal muscles themselves get thicker. ND posts tons of pics of Ronnie's GH gut but there are just as many out there of his boy Dorian with a similar affliction. What is most funny about ND and Hulkster is that they are fiercely protective of their respective favorite. However, to an outsider or objective person, there are probably more similarities between Ronnie and Dorian than significant differences. Both are (were) huge with GH guts. Ronnie is thicker and larger, but Dorian was in better conditioning (at least in 1992-1993). Overall, I feel Ronnie is far superior, but those who favor Dorian's physique have a point. His back and calves were exceptional. However, the best bodybuilder I ever saw except for his height was Momo. The man was a Sherman tank. Unreal....too bad Lasix has such bad side effects. At least I can't find a documented pic of Momo GH gut (or Haney for that matter).
Again you couldn't be any more wrong , Dorian is NOT favorite , just because I go on about him doesn't mean he is my favorite , when I do go on about him its always in relation to Coleman , this whole debate started over who at their respective bests would win in a contest , and here we are
I post tons of pics of Ron's gut because there are tons of them , in competition , and if you did some research , I've posted pics of Nasser , Fux , Ferigno , Yates , Kovacs , Dex , Sheriden , etc , and you really need to do some research , I can look at Yates objectively because he isn't my favorite , and I've said pleanty of times ( research this ) that Yates & Coleman are similar in regaurds to looking great at the begining of their careers and towards the end they got progressively worse !!
Yates did start the gut trend in 1993 , before that his waist was small , the pic of Dorian that is from the 1993 Olympia where he is totaly relaxed is ' supposed ' to show his huge gut , from 1993 on Dorian's waist started to thick , his obliques started to get wider and he did have some distension , and in 1997 his gut was pretty bad and in my opinion should have lost just based on that !
However Ron took the whole GH gut thing and ran with it , Ron had distension problems at low bodyweights , there are pics of him from the 2001 Arnold Classic at 247lbs with a distended gut , look at the pic of Cormier from the 1999 Olympia where he is in the backround with a nice distened gut , now you say " okay well if its good for Dorian's goose its certainly good for Ron's gander " true enough , you can't be harsh for Ron when Yates got away with , but Ron is in a leauge of his own when it comes to guts
By the 2000 Mr Olympia the magazines are stating Ron needs to improve is midsection , then 2001 comes along and Ron's gut is really starting to just hang out all over the place , 2002 Olympia he " beats " Levrone and Kevin says " No Mr Olympia should have a gut " and then 2003 comes and Oh boy , Ron was the most massive ANY Mr olympia has ever been 287lbs on contest day and everyone if caught up in the moment and his gut is now a complete joke , his gut is the biggest of any Mr Olympia by far , 2004 296lbs lol and still expanding , 2005 they basically make a mandate because of the trend he started and he comes in lighter and with a smaller waist compared to 03/04 but its STILL there
The whole GH gut thing is a joke , I remember seeing the pictures in the magazines in early 1994 of the 93 Olympia and I just couldn't get over the fact Dorian could win with a gut that wide & distended , I was routing for Flex and thought he was the only one who could beat Dorain and he didn't , but believe me I was complaing about this back then !!
Momo was a great bodybuilder , however his midsection did start to get thick and he did have a GH gut .