Phil Heath's starting point

[Fortress]

Concerning Heath, already his celebrity within the muscle world is dimming.

Times now are very different.

Shit moves at light speed. The attention span of young people is not much.

You were Mr. O 10 years ago? Few even remember.

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[Humble Narcissist]

You can’t call yourself the gift being 5’9 and having a small package

[Stephano]

There's an interesting story about Phil Heath and Claude Groulx.  Phil sez:

I started working out a couple of guys at my gym, and one of them was competing at the 2002 Colorado State contest. I went to watch him and I was hooked. Looking up at the guys competing, and knowing what I looked like with barely any training, I realized that I could do very well. Claude Groulx (note: now retired IFBB Pro from Canada who won the Masters Mr. Olympia) was the guest poser, and in the lobby some kids saw me in my sleeveless basketball jersey and asked me to compare biceps with Claude. I didn’t want to, but it turned out my arms were as big as his, even though I weighed only 185 pounds. Claude told me that I had loads of potential. So on October 8, 2002, I had my official ‘before’ pictures taken. That was the day I decided to become a bodybuilder.

Groulx was not exactly known for his arms, so it's possibly true.

[Wiggs]

There's an interesting story about Phil Heath and Claude Groulx.  Phil sez:

Groulx was not exactly known for his arms, so it's possibly true.

Oct 8, 2022. That's the pic attached to the original post.

[Royalty]

He had the roundness

[a_pupil]

He had the roundness

The narrowness was less pronounced when he was smaller.

[King Shizzo]

He had the roundness

I've heard that before.

[IroNat]

And this repost adds nothing to the conversation, it just made me chuckle when I saw it again after all this time 

Good for a natty.

[Amerian Muscle]

The narrowness was less pronounced when he was smaller.

textbook example of why blowing out a small frame with truck loads of drugs is not the best of ideas

[Amerian Muscle]

And this repost adds nothing to the conversation, it just made me chuckle when I saw it again after all this time 

let me captions the facial expressions

Mike: my sponsors said I should be seen in public giving positive attention to the mentally disabled for brownie points. Im doing the work. Grind is all I do for the dollars.

Phil: I CAN COUNT TO POTATO!!!!

[Bevo]

The narrowness was less pronounced when he was smaller.

That’s cause he has a middle weight torso/chest, but heavy weight arms and shoulders when he got bigger

Flex wheeler was kind of like that, you can tell they were very small guys to start with, Levrone too. Structure, joints

[Amerian Muscle]

In any picture where he looks remotely good, he is angling away from the camera to various degrees. This visually offsets his narrowness as in an optical illusion (out angling his narrowness)

Once you see this illusion for what it is, you realize that Phil was always worthless shit even in those magical young pics you fools are raving about

[Bevo]

And this repost adds nothing to the conversation, it just made me chuckle when I saw it again after all this time 

Something is miss there, I can’t figure out what it is??!!?!?!

[BigRo]

In any picture where he looks remotely good, he is angling away from the camera to various degrees. This visually offsets his narrowness as in an optical illusion (out angling his narrowness)

Once you see this illusion for what it is, you realize that Phil was always worthless shit even in those magical young pics you fools are raving about

Phil Heath is a worthless shit? You set for life like he is? You sound jealous and unhappy. Maybe your wife enjoyed a bit of Italian salami.

[Amerian Muscle]

Phil Heath is a worthless shit? You set for life like he is? You sound jealous and unhappy. Maybe your wife enjoyed a bit of Italian salami.

white knight

[Earl1972]

phil's amateur pics were posted here back in 2005

it was one of the few times a young unknown bodybuilder had his pics posted here and everybody said he had massive potential, back then every flaw was nitpicked as if they looked like garbage but phil was different

greatness is normally obvious immediately especially in bodybuilding

you look at the best guys they were top guys immediately, top 2 -  3 at the olympia in their first showing or at least top 10

ronnie might be the exception but he still qualified for the olympia every year of his early career, i don't think any guy became a contender when they struggled to get a pro card or qualify for the olympia

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[Bevo]

phil's amateur pics were posted here back in 2005

it was one of the few times a young unknown bodybuilder had his pics posted here and everybody said he had massive potential, back then every flaw was nitpicked as if they looked like garbage but phil was different

greatness is normally obvious immediately especially in bodybuilding

you look at the best guys they were top guys immediately, top 2 -  3 at the olympia in their first showing or at least top 10

ronnie might be the exception but he still qualified for the olympia every year of his early career, i don't think any guy became a contender when they struggled to get a pro card or qualify for the olympia

E

Remember Mo Elbowmacaroni? He was the one that competed against Phil in the light heavyweight nationals. He was a big fan of Levrone, and said he was going to take out Phil with ease. Well, the rest was history, Mo pretty much disappeared after that show

[BigRo]

Concerning Heath, already his celebrity within the muscle world is dimming.

Times now are very different.

Shit moves at light speed. The attention span of young people is not much.

You were Mr. O 10 years ago? Few even remember.

And the past champs are supposed to give a fuck about these delinquents?

[Taffin]

Something is miss there, I can’t figure out what it is??!!?!?!

4 testicles..?

[falco]

4 testicles..?