It`ll prove just how bad bodybuilding has gone down the shitter.
People used to say bodybuilding went downhill once Dorian started winning his Sandows...but exactly where was bodybuilding supposed to go? The guys in the 1990s got considerably bigger, and were in many cases, just as conditioned if not more conditioned [individuals varied]. Aesthetics took a dive, but what could you expect, given the massive increase in size, no doubt caused by the massive increase in doses?
These days, bodybuilding truly HAS gone downhill...in that the guys are generally smaller than the guys in the 1990s. Possibly just as lean, but on average, smaller than the top bodybuilders of Ronnie's era.
That could be because there are more categories in the IFBB to compete in now, diluting the talent pool for the open bodybuilding class...or it could be because bodybuilding simply maxed out with Ronnie Coleman, in terms of human genetic potential.
Or maybe...both have caused the current decline we are seeing in men's open bodybuilding in the IFBB.
Not to say these guys look bad or anything - they are simply not at the level of the 1990s IFBB pro bodybuilders, *on average*.
Or...could it be that the average is the same or better, but that the average among the elite of the IFBB pros - the top six - has declied?
