Listen closely son, I'm not asking for your definition of conditioning. I'm asking how can you tell who has better conditioning? What clues do you look for? So far, you have not given me a clear-cut answer. You keep going in circles
Conditioning has several aspects. The most relevant of this is that, when you lose bodyfat through dieting andf then water by restricting Sodium before the show, your amount of muscular separations and striations increases. Now, the 1998 Ronnie definitely had an advantage over Dorian when it comes it to separations and striations; in this sense, he was better conditioned. However, separations and striations are only one aspect of conditioning: the other thing which occurs when you drop subcutaneous bodyfat and water is that the muscles look
denser. In this respect, Dorian was
far more conditioned than
any version of Ronnie, including his 1998 one - and for that matter, than any other bodybuilder in history. Now, the 2003 version of Ronnie, for all it's size, was severely lacking in both symmetry - due to the distended midsection -,
and the kind of granite-like muscularity that Dorian had. In fact, the 2003 version of Ronnie only loses in this respect to his own one of the next year's Olympia. You're a serious moron for thinking that Ronnie in 2003 was even close to Dorian in density.

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