I agree with you on this one Croatch. This guy looks great and all, but the druggy, get-inflated-muscles-real-quick, look is getting old and tired. Dennis Wolf and this guy are probably good drug buds.
I wish they'd go back to the old school method of doing powerlifting/strongman training for a couple years BEFORE doing the massive drug schedules. Get a solid foundation. You can really tell a difference.
Gary Taylor was one of the best examples of this - couple years plifting, olympic lifting, and then did bbing -- and had one of the most solid, awesome builds around.
I trained for the first 8 years of my lifting for football. All my training was focused on strength and explosiveness. I didn't begin training for bodybuilding until about 2002 or so. Up until then, it was all football related.
I went to a small college. We didn't even have a lat pulldown, cable crossover, and the only machines were a hammer strength push press machine, and a hammer strength shrug/upright row machine that we would use as a subsitute for cleans.
Whether that had an influence on my current physique may not be true, but my background is all power training. Which is still what I enjoy now. I do enjoy the challenge of getting into contest shape, but I began bbing because it was a good way to keep me from being fat.
Just so everyone knows, I don't need to be pampered. Truth be told, I've probably said some of the same things about bodybuilders when I was younger. And I've certainly held the assumption that bbers were pretty boys who just go for a pump and want to look pretty. So, that doesn't bother me. Everyone has to do what they enjoy.
