04/11/2021
Here are 9 pictures all significant to me and a short comment to each one . 1)Ronnie Coleman’s gluteus muscles beside 20 other things made it impossible for his competitors to stand next to him , that’s what saved him in 2001. 2)Sergio in his most iconic pose , saw that picture the first time in 1983 and I’m still equally impressed today, nobody came ever close to it in this pose with Lee Priest being the closest. 3)Flex Wheeler in 93 , maybe the best bodybuilding picture ever taken 4)Jay Cutler in 2009 like Dexter in picture number 7 are the ultimate pictures when it comes to dialing in perfect for a contest . Also close are Samir in 83 Yates in 93 & 95 then Ronnie in 98 & 99. 5)Tom Platz , this poster was on my wall as a Teenager . To me it displayed a new era in bodybuilding with legs development very different from the 70s. 6) Bertil Fox in 83, in 83 I screamed about Bertil being robbed placing 5th at the Olympia , today I know better and 4th or 5th was as good as he deserved due to a poor presentation and to much water retention. 8)Arnolds side chest from 73 or 74 blew my mind when I was young , started to do extreme decline presses to extend the length of my chest which never happened since genetics is what it is. Gunthers chest looked almost like that 30 years later . 9)Nasser in Duisburg in 96. Nasser stepped on stage with Ib 300 (weighing in in my room when leaving for the show) and when hitting that double biceps pose it almost blew me away . Was sitting in the first row bc I didn’t make the finale .