bhank is banned from Getbig

[MuscleBuff]

LOL you’re so spiritual and righteous.

Self righteous

[Never1AShow]

Any truth to the rumor that Heck is Josh in disguise?

I'm still thinking it may be Bhanks himself due to the hiptoss reference.  (Just kidding Heck). 

Honestly his biggest leak is himself, almost all the bad stuff we know about him came from his own mouth.  There's always leakage with Hankins whether from his posts or his posing trunks. 

[joswift]

I think the fucked up 500lb rows he was doing contributed more than the squats and deads.

he is on video talking about blowing his back squatting

[beakdoctor]

you think Ronnie squatting and deadlifting 800lbs had nothing to do with the way he has ended up?

Well, powerlifters lift heavy exclusively and most don't end up like Ronnie.

He claims he was trained after screws were put into his spine and the screws/bolts broke and thats what led to his current condition.

Who knows when/how. Id guess at some point in his Olympia run he damaged his spine and couldn't/didn't want to take the time to get it fixed so he upped the dose and started abusing pain killers. Its obvious the injuries were there while he was competing. One side of his body started to atrophy before he even lost the Olympia.

He had so much muscle mass it may have allowed him to compensate for growing injuries. Then after losing in 06, (dialing back the drugs, the training, the eating, the anabolics, not to mention just getting older) he deteriorated rapidly. Way back when I was a paramedic an ER doctor told me: the body does a great job of compensating for injuries/illnesses,  but when it can't compensate any longer, the decline is rapid.


As for Dorian,  he seems to have done well for himself. Banging Brazilian tranny ass, focus on well being, having fun with psychedelics but still training a little bit, just enough to stay healthy. But, you see his arms? The biceps and triceps are completely gone. He usually stays covered up so its hard to see. His legs, back and chest seem to hold a lot of muscle still but his arms look like they belong to a 90 year old. Dorian also had a logical approach to drugs and training and when he wasn't training to win the Olympia anymore he didn't see the need to keep training high intensity or keep abusing anabolics.

[Hulkotron]

Update on the Tim Heck account approval?

[Dave D]

Self righteous

Correct. My mistake.

[Krankenstein]

Krank is it people who are smith machine squatting the same weight they free squat? Do you think it’s a partially a result of trying to smith squat to heavy?

Couldn't say for sure.  I do know that the last couple were not doing very much weight.  I personally didn't like the feel of a smith squat.  I don't know shit about fuck though

[Krankenstein]

he is on video talking about blowing his back squatting

The proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.  There's just so much some of the structures in the body can take before they say "peace out bitch" and go.

[chaos]

he is on video talking about blowing his back squatting

May be when it happened but doesn't mean it's the cause. Squats, deads, standing military press never bothered my back. Tweaked the shit out of my back doing barbell rows though. Just my experience.

[BigRo]

Self righteous

The self that is in the stone, in the wood, in the mountain and the sea and in you and me not the kind you are used to.

[BigRo]

I wasn’t being a douche, you posted something ridiculous and I mocked you.

That aside, based on your posts here you seem like a good dude. Keep up the good work.

What I said made sense even Tom Platz used to call the squat rack his church and here you are trying to mock me for saying it.

[Beefjake]

We would need a sub forum just for the people talking about him.

There is room below the Thunderdome for one now isn’t there?

[Griffith]

What I said made sense even Tom Platz used to call the squat rack his church and here you are trying to mock me for saying it.

I doubt he was being literal.

[BigRo]

I doubt he was being literal.

Squatting and deadlifting, any exercise, is a way to get connected with the present moment there is nothing ridiculous or self righteous in saying so. Doing it only for what I can get out of it in terms of bodybuilding hypertrophy does not factor in to my thinking.

[MuscleBuff]

Correct. My mistake.

No worries, that's what friends are for

[MuscleBuff]

The proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.  There's just so much some of the structures in the body can take before they say "peace out bitch" and go.

Very true

[MuscleBuff]

I wasn’t being a douche, you posted something ridiculous and I mocked you.

That aside, based on your posts here you seem like a good dude. Keep up the good work.

He seems like a decent bodybuilder and a terrible person, very self righteous and intellectually lazy yet incessantly insists on attempting to project an image of the mystic savant on the mountain

[Van_Bilderass]

Squatting and deadlifting, any exercise, is a way to get connected with the present moment there is nothing ridiculous or self righteous in saying so. Doing it only for what I can get out of it in terms of bodybuilding hypertrophy does not factor in to my thinking.

I could write at length in a "self righteous", almost religious terms about lifting too, like deadlifting. There are aspects to it that have little to do with bodybuilding per se. We had a group that got together every friday for like 15 years straight to just deadlift, sometimes new years eve or around christmas and it was the highlight of the week (if we did well). At times I have felt like I'm losing touch with reality but if the weights move you must still be connected to reality You can argue you are attaching great importance to totally irrelevant things in life but you can easily argue otherwise too. Now our group is kinda dead due to life circumstances but I haven't given up on getting back to the routine once more, my 60 year old friend just texted me we'll take it up again at the end of the year

I doubt he was being literal.

I feel Platz was melodramatic and perhaps building a myth but he talked about training in religious or spiritual terms a lot. He had these little 'irrational' little rituals connected to the lifting as well. Like the old gym towel tied to the thigh. Using certain color pants for squatting, associating sounds with lifting like leaving a little space between metal plates so you could hear it when he squatted, drinking expensive liquor and smoking cigars as therapeutics to recover from lifting. Associating the roar of his Corvette with good lifting sessions. Saying he would train another 25 years for one more moment like a certain posing routine at the O. I don't know if this was all an act, he might have trained like a retard even when cameras weren't around (I mean cheating and jerking in exercises until it didn't move another millimeter). I'm sure he still squats even if there might not be any "logical" reason to do it.

[BigRo]

He seems like a decent bodybuilder and a terrible person, very self righteous and intellectually lazy yet incessantly insists on attempting to project an image of the mystic savant on the mountain

Grow up the truth is completely contrary to your delusionary babble.

[BigRo]

I could write at length in a "self righteous", almost religious terms about lifting too, like deadlifting. There are aspects to it that have little to do with bodybuilding per se. We had a group that got together every friday for like 15 years straight to just deadlift, sometimes new years eve or around christmas and it was the highlight of the week (if we did well). At times I have felt like I'm losing touch with reality but if the weights move you must still be connected to reality You can argue you are attaching great importance to totally irrelevant things in life but you can easily argue otherwise too. Now our group is kinda dead due to life circumstances but I haven't given up on getting back to the routine once more, my 60 year old friend just texted me we'll take it up again at the end of the year

I feel Platz was melodramatic and perhaps building a myth but he talked about training in religious or spiritual terms a lot. He had these little 'irrational' little rituals connected to the lifting as well. Like the old gym towel tied to the thigh. Using certain color pants for squatting, associating sounds with lifting like leaving a little space between metal plates so you could hear it when he squatted, drinking expensive liquor and smoking cigars as therapeutics to recover from lifting. Associating the roar of his Corvette with good lifting sessions. Saying he would train another 25 years for one more moment like a certain posing routine at the O. I don't know if this was all an act, he might have trained like a retard even when cameras weren't around (I mean cheating and jerking in exercises until it didn't move another millimeter). I'm sure he still squats even if there might not be any "logical" reason to do it.

Sounds like good craic, are you currently deadlifting?

[MuscleBuff]

I could write at length in a "self righteous", almost religious terms about lifting too, like deadlifting. There are aspects to it that have little to do with bodybuilding per se. We had a group that got together every friday for like 15 years straight to just deadlift, sometimes new years eve or around christmas and it was the highlight of the week (if we did well). At times I have felt like I'm losing touch with reality but if the weights move you must still be connected to reality You can argue you are attaching great importance to totally irrelevant things in life but you can easily argue otherwise too. Now our group is kinda dead due to life circumstances but I haven't given up on getting back to the routine once more, my 60 year old friend just texted me we'll take it up again at the end of the year

I feel Platz was melodramatic and perhaps building a myth but he talked about training in religious or spiritual terms a lot. He had these little 'irrational' little rituals connected to the lifting as well. Like the old gym towel tied to the thigh. Using certain color pants for squatting, associating sounds with lifting like leaving a little space between metal plates so you could hear it when he squatted, drinking expensive liquor and smoking cigars as therapeutics to recover from lifting. Associating the roar of his Corvette with good lifting sessions. Saying he would train another 25 years for one more moment like a certain posing routine at the O. I don't know if this was all an act, he might have trained like a retard even when cameras weren't around (I mean cheating and jerking in exercises until it didn't move another millimeter). I'm sure he still squats even if there might not be any "logical" reason to do it.

Tom Platz is Jason Genova with better genetics

[Beefjake]

Henry Rollins had a good writing about lifting.

” Friends may come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs ”

https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/articles/the-iron-by-henry-rollins/