2020 Olympia - Dexter's Last Olympia at the age of 51 !!

[affeman]

Has competed at the Olympia in 4 different decades, from the 90s till the 2020s - one of the GOATs

[Griffith]

Has he had any injuries? Surely training at that level till 51 the injuries will add up.

[Trev]

Dex is incredible - A living example of healthy bodybuilding and what it can do for you

[affeman]

 

[LurkerNoMore]

Dex is one of the very few pros that looks like he could win his pro card again today.

[njflex]

That was cool.he looked good too ,beclkles probably is the freakiest older bber  ever longevity wise age.but it was different era sorta.and Vince Taylor.

[Never1AShow]

What did he place?

[bAF1]

9th

[Methyl m1ke]

Wish I had been there. Dex retiring is making me feel old as fuck.

[SOMEPARTS]

Terrible music and worse commentary. Geesh.

[MCWAY]

Has he had any injuries? Surely training at that level till 51 the injuries will add up.

He's 51. If he had any nagging injuries, they'd likely would have shown up by now.

He doesn't go super-heavy on certain exercises and does a lot of machine work.

[Van_Bilderass]

He's 51. If he had any nagging injuries, they'd likely would have shown up by now.

He doesn't go super-heavy on certain exercises and does a lot of machine work.

I'm sure he's had a ton of injuries, but not catastropic ones. Some here speculated that his atrophied calves might have to do with back issues, and that sounds plausible.

You don't even have to train "heavy" as such, lots of light trainers get injuries too, in fact many of the light trainers say they train light because of a bad back or whatever. Not a few tear muscles off the bone outside the gym too, like the classic case of tearing a biceps moving furniture or tearing a quad slipping on an ice patch.

[MCWAY]

I'm sure he's had a ton of injuries, but not catastropic ones. Some here speculated that his atrophied calves might have to do with back issues, and that sounds plausible.

You don't even have to train "heavy" as such, lots of light trainers get injuries too, in fact many of the light trainers say they train light because of a bad back or whatever. Not a few tear muscles off the bone outside the gym too, like the classic case of tearing a biceps moving furniture or tearing a quad slipping on an ice patch.

Yet for some reason, we've never heard of them. He's never missed a contest season and only one Olympia (2005) in 21 years.

Talk about perfect symmetry. He placed 9th at his first Olympia; and he placed 9th at his last Olympia.

[Matt]

Yet for some reason, we've never heard of them. He's never missed a contest season and only one Olympia (2005) in 21 years.

Talk about perfect symmetry. He placed 9th at his first Olympia; and he placed 9th at his last Olympia.

I believe in two things:

[1] From Goo to You by Way of the Zoo.
[2] Dexter Jackson's longevity in bodybuilding is almost surreal.

I also recall Dexter having a reason for skipping the 2005 Mr. Olympia.  He qualified for it...but skipped it, and I'm not sure why.  That was the year they even called for approximately a "15% reduction in size", and reduction in waist [stomach/gut] size.

Very few bodybuilders followed it, and it really hurt Markus Ruhl in the placings.  Ronnie did reduce in weight, and presented a different physique than usual, and Dexter was absent.