Remembering Dallas: Dallas Trains Chest With Flex Lewis

[obsidian]

Dallas was one of the nice guys out there no doubt. He really got a shitty deal with his life being cut short so quickly. Anyways it is what it is. He had loads of potential and I think could have won the Mr. O eventually. I liked his structure and he basically had it all but needed more detail and his midsection was not the best. But overall he looked impressive to me.

He should have taken a slower mass gaining route. Here he is training with Flex Lewis. Good video.

[obsidian]

[oldschoolfan]

How many pros have either died or fried there kidneys working with chad Nichols I bet someone on here could make a list

[obsidian]

How many pros have either died or fried there kidneys working with chad Nichols I bet someone on here could make a list

True. If Dallas never collaborated with Chad perhaps he would still be alive today?

[obsidian]

What about Recon1? What's the link there? Both Dallas and Cedric were "Redcon1 Athletes".

https://whywetrain.com/industry-news-cedric-mcmillan-is-a-redcon1-athlete/

[oldschoolfan]

Quite possible Nichols has a long list of people he ruined

[oldschoolfan]

What about Recon1? What's the link there? Both Dallas and Cedric were "Redcon1 Athletes".

https://whywetrain.com/industry-news-cedric-mcmillan-is-a-redcon1-athlete/

Great point he also turned his wife into a man

[Fortress]

Far superior here to Nick and the other current dorks.

[Dave D]

What about Recon1? What's the link there? Both Dallas and Cedric were "Redcon1 Athletes".

https://whywetrain.com/industry-news-cedric-mcmillan-is-a-redcon1-athlete/

I just sat next to a 300 pound bowling ball on a plane and he happened to be wearing a redcon1 shirt!

I brought the shirt up and asked him his feelings on Singerman calling Goodrum a dancing monkey and he had no clue what I was talking about.

You guys can hate Aaron all you want but I’m impressed that he’s been able to keep a lid on this thing for so long.

[Matt]

Far superior here to Nick and the other current dorks.

Truly.

Watching that OP video now. He looks incredible.

Was Dallas just bound to die young? Was it just way too much gear too soon, when he should have - or could have - just focused on conditioning while bringing up his size incrementally, and potentially lived longer?

Really, who ever dies at 26? Even a severe alcoholic dying at 36 would be extreme.

He also makes me reevaluate even my fandom of bodybuilding. If Dallas knew he would die at 26, would he have lived the way he did? With Rich Piana, you could maybe argue yes, but I'm just not seeing it being personally justifiable for Dallas in any way.

Also, seeing this video made me remember Flex Lewis' foot infection,  and the photoshopped picture of it which circulated here. 

[Bevo]

True. If Dallas never collaborated with Chad perhaps he would still be alive today?

If he never gotten into bbing he would be alive today

[Matt]

If he never gotten into bbing he would be alive today

That's depressing and pretty clearly true.

I think the first autopsy I ever saw that referenced heart enlargement from steroids was Mike Jenkins, the pro Strongman who won the Arnold Pro in 2012.

Mike died in 2013, just a few weeks after turning 31.

Mike was 6'6" and 390-lb.

Dallas' autopsy also explicitly stated steroid abuse as a cause of death.

Bevo, do you recall if Dallas was on >10g of testosterone per week.

I seem to recall his T blood levels at death suggested 15g weekly. Something like that.

[Bevo]

That's depressing and pretty clearly true.

I think the first autopsy I ever saw that referenced heart enlargement from steroids was Mike Jenkins, the pro Strongman who won the Arnold Pro in 2012.

Mike died in 2013, just a few weeks after turning 31.

Mike was 6'6" and 390-lb.

Dallas' autopsy also explicitly stated steroid abuse as a cause of death.

Bevo, do you recall if Dallas was on >10g of testosterone per week.

I seem to recall his T blood levels at death suggested 15g weekly. Something like that.

I do recall that was around the dosage of Dallas’s test usage, it was an insane amount if I remember, he was using massive amounts of everything

6’1 330+ pounds

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[sway]

Dallas was not a great bber. His placings reflect that. And he was ruining his bod more and more rapidly the last couple years he was alive. His abs were split and there’s no way to fix that. In another year or two he wouldve been placing outside the top ten in most shows.
His old vids are painful to watch. Forced feedings and crazy training. He was always out of breath in vids but no one ever seem to care because he was strong lol.
There’s no reason to even feel sorry for him. None of friends gave a damn, they all just watched him and never said anything.

[Matt]

Geez.

So he had a 833g heart [with the average weight of a man's heart being, what, 330g?], heavy lungs, enlarged liver, and hypertrophy of the kidneys...in addition to, what, the beginnings of thyroid cancer?

All at 26.

That's sad.

And then you had Jim Manion [sorry, Ron - but I've always found Jim to be an power-tripper who enjoys having control over bodybuilders...he is one of the reasons I quit bodybuilding media] complaining about Dallas when he showed up to - what - the Pittsburgh Pro ran by Jim [iirc], and Jim BITCHING about how Dallas looked when he guest posed.

Meanwhile, from what I heard from an inside source, Manion doesn't even pay his bodybuilders who guest post there!!!

Who the FUCK is Manion to bitch about how Dallas looked? That's exactly the sort of pressure that caused Dallas to push things to the limit. Not to blame Jim for Dallas' death, but if bodybuilders guest pose for free for him, he has no business complaining.

EDIT: it may have been at the show below where Dallas guest posed for free for Manion, and Manion complained about Dallas being out of shape.

[20inch calves]

Truly.

Watching that OP video now. He looks incredible.

Was Dallas just bound to die young? Was it just way too much gear too soon, when he should have - or could have - just focused on conditioning while bringing up his size incrementally, and potentially lived longer?

Really, who ever dies at 26? Even a severe alcoholic dying at 36 would be extreme.

He also makes me reevaluate even my fandom of bodybuilding. If Dallas knew he would die at 26, would he have lived the way he did? With Rich Piana, you could maybe argue yes, but I'm just not seeing it being personally justifiable for Dallas in any way.

Also, seeing this video made me remember Flex Lewis' foot infection,  and the photoshopped picture of it which circulated here. 

IMO and I'm speculating my guess is the igf1 n growth killed Dallas. His organs were huge. He pushed the chemical aspect far n he didn't have to. He blew up instead putting on tissue slowly over time. This was his downfall

[joswift]

Im amazed there were so many negative results

[Fortress]

Guy was STRONG.

But his organs were very obviously screaming for mercy.

None was given.   

RIP

[pamith]

A true hero of the sport

[joswift]

he should have invested in one of these.
He may have been able to chew up the piece of chicken that killed him