Nick Walker - Does he have Palumboism?

[Sandrock]

Nick's quads legit look like they're melting.  They look goddamn lumpy.  I hope you assholes all regret predicting he would win. 

[JK]

I don't want to sound cliché, but... 1996

[NaturalWonder83]

I don't want to sound cliché, but... 1996

Professor Nasser. The Uncrowned Mr. Olympia.

[Bevo]

The legs are short and the torso long but the quads don't have sweep either and the separation could be better. I've said a thousand times on here that the short legs, long torso look is the nr1 aesthetics killer IMO. All the best looking bbers had long legs.

Yep, the short stumpy legs kill their overall structure. Makes short bbers look even more like oompah loompas

Everyone always praises Lee priest , aside from his arms and calves, his structure with short legs, narrow clavicles, no chest, and long torso, makes him look off

[Beefjake]

Agreed.
Leg lenght is big for overall appereance. Just a bit too long and they look thin.

Come to think of it, most of the ’90s greats had good symmetry in that regard.

Nasser, Leverone, Dorian, Ronnie, etc. Around 5’10” seems to be quite a sweet spot?

Flex and Shawn were tad shorter but were still proportionate within their frame.

[Skeletor]

Walker got 6th place.

[Bevo]

Agreed.
Leg lenght is big for overall appereance. Just a bit too long and they look thin.

Come to think of it, most of the ’90s greats had good symmetry in that regard.

Nasser, Leverone, Dorian, Ronnie, etc. Around 5’10” seems to be quite a sweet spot?

Flex and Shawn were tad shorter but were still proportionate within their frame.

Flex was 5’10

He’s shorter now on one leg these days

Levrone 5’9 and Cormier 5’9

Ronnie 5’10, Dorian 5’10, Nasser 5’11

[gib]

Nick really reminds me of a dead bloated toad with little shriveled limbs.

[rocket]

The GH and insulana have taken its toll.

Shrivelled limbs, lost the fullness, distended gut...

Just looking at some of the pics, looks very similar to the original picture of Palumbo which personified the symptoms of this disease.

Thoughts?

The whole thing isn't a physique that really works as an olympia winner but it also doesn't really fall into the niche of the torso becoming the main focal point combined with the atrophy of the limbs.  He still has bigass arms and quads.  The arms have to start going in palumboism.

[joswift]

The whole thing isn't a physique that really works as an olympia winner but it also doesn't really fall into the niche of the torso becoming the main focal point combined with the atrophy of the limbs.  He still has bigass arms and quads. The arms have to start going in palumboism.

hahaha no he doesnt

[FitnessFrenzy]

Nick Walker is done. Chop him up and turn him into dog food.

[joswift]

[affeman]

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[ProudVirgin69]

I spent 30 seconds on this and it's absolute dog-shit, but I was trying to see what is 'off' about his structure. So I stretched the legs and cut those obliques but it still didn't look right.  Then I lowered the torso - his is long like Matarazzo

The result is vaguely Lumpsford

His shape looks much better on the left. 

I don't want to sound cliché, but... 1996

Nasser has a bit of long torso syndrome as well but his quads are well defined, legs are proportional, and the excellent shape of his overall physique more than compensates for it

[Rambone]

6th place at the O. Potential 1st place in the 2026 Dead Pool 

[US MUSL]

Once Nick's bodybuilding career is over, and this may not be too far into the future  he will need to be on  suicide watch. Bodybuilding is all Nick has, he is currently living in his childhood bedroom at his parent's house.

[Wiggs]

I was just about to post this. ABOMINATION!

[affeman]

Once Nick's bodybuilding career is over, and this may not be too far into the future  he will need to be on  suicide watch. Bodybuilding is all Nick has, he is currently living in his childhood bedroom at his parent's house.

I think it's actually pretty adorable when he tells everyone weekly in his videos which film he has been watching with his parents at the movies recently again.

[Van_Bilderass]

Yep, the short stumpy legs kill their overall structure. Makes short bbers look even more like oompah loompas

Everyone always praises Lee priest , aside from his arms and calves, his structure with short legs, narrow clavicles, no chest, and long torso, makes him look off

Exactly, I was thinking of Priest when I wrote my post.

When speaking of long legs, one guy that comes to mind is Terrence Ruffin. Sometimes its almost as if they are too long but its always preferable to short legs IMO.

[balzac]

6th place at the O. Potential 1st place in the 2026 Dead Pool 

 

27:55 

[NaturalWonder83]

27:55 

”Excuse meeeeee, can I get you to sign my shoe?”

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[webstar]

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Just undigested food

 

[Methyl m1ke]

Actually Rubiel who was in the last callout and is going to place out of the Top 15 looks better than him.

Rubiel does not look.better they both lack seperation.

[Methyl m1ke]

They look even worse than I expected. What a disaster compared to the 70s / 80s / 90s!

Are the judges and IFBB blind? Can't they see how much the "sport" has deteriorated?

The judges are paid for promoting synthetek.