Playing a little Devil’s advocate here:
What is the craziest/stupidest bodybuilding story you’ve ever heard?
Mine would have to be a story told about a bodybuilder refusing to take antibiotics near a show for an infection on his shoulder for fear of water retention. The infection he failed to address later required an amputated arm. Sadly, that wasn’t enough, even and the he eventually died.
[quote]Zell959 wrote:
Playing a little Devil’s advocate here:
What is the craziest/stupidest bodybuilding story you’ve ever heard?
Mine would have to be a story told about a bodybuilder refusing to take antibiotics near a show for an infection on his shoulder for fear of water retention. The infection he failed to address later required an amputated arm. Sadly, that wasn’t enough, even and the he eventually died. [/quote]
A kid told me in the ninth grade that not taking a shit would help you gain weight. He also included that if you lay on your back while you sleep, you won’t fart any of the extra food you ate away and will thusly get bigger and stronger.
I never saw that kid again.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
A kid told me in the ninth grade that not taking a shit would help you gain weight. He also included that if you lay on your back while you sleep, you won’t fart any of the extra food you ate away and will thusly get bigger and stronger.
I never saw that kid again.
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What happened to him? Did he die from impacted shit?
Greg Valentino is a pretty ridiculous bodybuilding story.
Or, also relating to synthol, Milos Sarcev’s ER trip after a glob of oil shot straight to his heart…
check out my “squat rack curls” thread that was goin on in the strength sports forum. While I intended on it to be a rant of things that pissed me off at the time in the gym, it became a battleground of funny and funnier gym stories.
Of course, there are the famous Arnold stories. In one, he told a wannabe German bodybuilder who came to the Oak for advice to scream while he posed, that it was the latest thing in America. He was dragged off stage.
In another, Arnold told a guy he considered too full of himself that he should supplement heavily with salt, starting with one tablespoon on the first day, two on the second, three on the third, etc. Arnold said the guy got to about day 30 before he got sick and had to give it up. I’m not sure whether Arnold was making these up, but they are great stories nevertheless.
What is the real story behind valentino? I read that intervuiew where he denied using synthol and laughed. Surely those arms are not possible otherwise. A body will not allow for such lack of proportion.
Valentino is full of shit. He bangs synthol regularly. Just look at his ridiculous build. He is a joke himself. We all should ignore him. He is a disgrace to the iron sport.
This was about 20 years ago. I was at a Military Lifting Camp, which lasted about 8 weeks and was used to train and qualify athletes for the All Service Team.
We had two lifters, I will call them Bill and Ted, who had also competed in bodybuilding. Bill was constantly flexing, he was unable to pass any type of mirrored without doing a couple of poses. I can remember standing in line with him waiting to buy a ticket at the movies and then guy behind him has mirrored shades. Bill turns around, sees the sunglasses and begins posing into the sunglasses, which of course freaked the owner of the sunglasses out. Bill asks him to please hold still, that he will be done in a minute.
so…One night Bill and Ted go out to a local nightclub. The rest of us are gathered in the tv lounge to watch a movie and eat. They return about 3-4 hours later with a girl. The female, who was a knockout was very drunk and was laughing and stumbling, etc. Bill and Ted had her by the arm and helped her to their room, which was a dormitory type room. They passed by the rest of us in the tv lounge. One of the superheavyweights leaves the lounge and returns with a package of Black Cat fireworks. He convinces a couple of us to accompany him to Bill and Ted’s room with the intention of lighting the fireworks and throwing them into the room. We sneak down to their room and are right outside of their door. We can hear Bill and Ted arguing with one another with statements like:
"I was here first’
'Get out of my way"
“Wait your turn”
“Dude, don’t push me”
“I will be done in a minute”
“No, I was here first”
this went on for a few minutes, so we know that they are fighting over the girl. We checked and discovered the door was un-locked. The plan was to crack the door open, light the fireworks, throw then in the room and then run.
We crack the door open and we see the girl sprawled out on the bed, half dressed and Bill and Ted are nowhere near her. We open the door a bit wider and there they were-with their shirts off, standing in front of the mirror, posing, and they are FIGHTING OVER WHO GETS TO POSE IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR.
we never lit the fireworks, but headed back to the lounge and laughed our heads off.
[quote]bikemike wrote:
What happened to him? Did he die from impacted shit?[/quote]
He exploded…in gym class…while playing volleyball. One spike and “BOOM”.
[quote]Keith Wassung wrote:
We crack the door open and we see the girl sprawled out on the bed, half dressed and Bill and Ted are nowhere near her. We open the door a bit wider and there they were-with their shirts off, standing in front of the mirror, posing, and they are FIGHTING OVER WHO GETS TO POSE IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR.
we never lit the fireworks, but headed back to the lounge and laughed our heads off.
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That’s a classic.
That was a great story, Keith!
Any other classics from Bill and Ted?
No more Bill and Ted stories, but plenty others. lets see, I think I have posted the one about how my best friend mouthed off to Ray Mentzer and we almost got our ass beat when we were 15.
When I was about 17 or so, I went to the state bodybuilding championships and met up with a couple of lifters that I knew from contests, etc. One of the guys-his name was Alex, had a sick sense of humor. Right before the night show is ready to begin, he turns to me and another guy and says, “hey, lets go backstage, I want to say hey to a friend of mine who is competing in the heavyweights.” We get back stage and Alex meets his friend and introduces us-briefly and they were just about ready to call out the lighter class for the opening line-up. Alex walks over to the center of the pump-up room, which was just off-stage off the auditorium and reaches into his jacket and pulls out a Penthouse, opens it up to the centerfold and says in a loud voice, “LOOK at the Hooters on this gal” (or something like that) Of course, guys being guys all crowd around to see and he is flipping through pages showing various pictures, etc.
All of a sudden the stage manager announces “All right guys, its time to take the stage” and as the guys start to file towards the stage, they all realize that they are sporting wood-some are popping out of their posing briefs and they are all trying to tuck themselves-as they get out on stage, the “popping” and tucking continue and most of the guys turn their backs to the audience in order to try to “relax” we saw it from the side, but I heard that the first half of the audience could clearly see what was going on. We were rolling the floor laughing.
boys will be boys
keith, keep em coming or i’ll hafta not laugh as hard for a while 
[quote]Keith Wassung wrote:
No more Bill and Ted stories, but plenty others. lets see, I think I have posted the one about how my best friend mouthed off to Ray Mentzer and we almost got our ass beat when we were 15.
When I was about 17 or so, I went to the state bodybuilding championships and met up with a couple of lifters that I knew from contests, etc. One of the guys-his name was Alex, had a sick sense of humor. Right before the night show is ready to begin, he turns to me and another guy and says, “hey, lets go backstage, I want to say hey to a friend of mine who is competing in the heavyweights.” We get back stage and Alex meets his friend and introduces us-briefly and they were just about ready to call out the lighter class for the opening line-up. Alex walks over to the center of the pump-up room, which was just off-stage off the auditorium and reaches into his jacket and pulls out a Penthouse, opens it up to the centerfold and says in a loud voice, “LOOK at the Hooters on this gal” (or something like that) Of course, guys being guys all crowd around to see and he is flipping through pages showing various pictures, etc.
All of a sudden the stage manager announces “All right guys, its time to take the stage” and as the guys start to file towards the stage, they all realize that they are sporting wood-some are popping out of their posing briefs and they are all trying to tuck themselves-as they get out on stage, the “popping” and tucking continue and most of the guys turn their backs to the audience in order to try to “relax” we saw it from the side, but I heard that the first half of the audience could clearly see what was going on. We were rolling the floor laughing.
boys will be boys[/quote]
ROFLMFAO!!!
A guy I used to work with used to always pester me for advice after seeing me go from 176 to 212lbs. One of the diet tips I mentioned was that I liked to eat a lot of egg whites, as this was a great way to get lots of protein without any fat.
He thought this was a good idea, but said that he liked to eat the yolks too. And of course, when having eggs you have to eat bacon with it! So his new diet plan was to eat a half dozen bacon and egg sandwiches each morning.
Keith,
RA HA HA HA HA!!! THAT’S FRIGGIN HILARIOUS!!!
[quote]Augustus wrote:
A guy I used to work with used to always pester me for advice after seeing me go from 176 to 212lbs. One of the diet tips I mentioned was that I liked to eat a lot of egg whites, as this was a great way to get lots of protein without any fat.
He thought this was a good idea, but said that he liked to eat the yolks too. And of course, when having eggs you have to eat bacon with it! So his new diet plan was to eat a half dozen bacon and egg sandwiches each morning.[/quote]
JMB