I use Youtube for video of competitions…
[quote]2274 wrote:
rainjack wrote:
… and the little italian with the huge back (can’t remember his name if you held a gun to my head right now).
Franco Colombu?[/quote]
Thanks. I have thought about that all damn day.
I read a good book last year called MUSCLE (I think that was the title. It was sort of a behind the scenes look at competitive bb’ing. A big part of the book is about Dorian. Good read.
Or you could just but his “blood and guts” book, got myself a copy last week from amazon.
Levrone should have beat him on one or two occasions. Yates was exceptional before he tore his biceps.
Yates knew the Lat Pulldown Machine better then his grandmother !
T-Nation interview with Dorian Yates
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=460865
DY had an incredible work ethic and never talked shit. That’s what I liked about him. Not to mention the torpedoes located on his back.
Blood and Guts was an intense training video by him. Training wise, I don’t like watching people like Jay Cutler (while in my opinion has a great physique and does what works for him…) train or Flex Wheeler (again, amazing physique) because I felt like they never trained as hard (while consistent) as someone like Dorian Yates.
[quote]Rattler wrote:
therev wrote:
Im not 100% sure but i think its to do with the fact that he was the first ultra freak and he was the cause of the less aestheticly pleasing physiques with big growth hormone bellys and that over all freaky look as opposed to the 70’s/80’s when they had wasp waists and were still into those vaccum poses where you suck your tummy in. He changed bodybuilding and probably not for the better, i would disagree with people saying he was not a great champion though, he was, i think its just that he’s a lot of the reason that bodybuilding looks the way it does today and i couldn imagine them starting to favour the smaller more aesthetic physiques.
Well, apparently Markus Ruhl is pissed off at the Olympias (probably because he never won) but he says, “It’s turned into a dehydration contest. Nobody appreciates the mass monsters, the only one really left is Jay Cutler”
If he’s right, I say good. I’d like to see smaller guys, they look better than the over inflated cheesewizz lookin guys of now. I’m all for slim waists. Come on Dennis![/quote]
I think Coleman and Cutler looked awesome! Markus Ruhl was very wide and huge, but he didn’t have nearly as much muscle fullness as some of the others of equal weight.
His shoulders and biceps looked syntholed, his forearms and triceps were smaller for his size and weight.
Ruhl was never Olympia material in my book. It has nothing to do with being bigger or smaller. His physique just didn’t look as good to me.
[quote]Rattler wrote:
Well, apparently Markus Ruhl is pissed off at the Olympias (probably because he never won) but he says, “It’s turned into a dehydration contest. Nobody appreciates the mass monsters, the only one really left is Jay Cutler”
If he’s right, I say good. I’d like to see smaller guys, they look better than the over inflated cheesewizz lookin guys of now. I’m all for slim waists. Come on Dennis![/quote]
Sorry to break it to Ruhl, but that wide-waisted, no-neck MF never had the symmetry to win, dehydration or not. His physique was always too blocky, un-asthetic, and just plain weird looking.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
…Markus Ruhl was very wide and huge, but he didn’t have nearly as much muscle fullness as some of the others of equal weight.
His shoulders and biceps looked syntholed, his forearms and triceps were smaller for his size and weight.
Ruhl was never Olympia material in my book. It has nothing to do with being bigger or smaller. His physique just didn’t look as good to me.[/quote]
I didn’t even see your post when I did that last one. Thanks for the pre-corraboration!
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Do you guys have any particular web sites you use to read up on bodybuilders (both old and current)? I know of bodybuilders.com and I have a few picture websites but nothing with comprehensive info… I feel like if I did find a good site with all kinds of stuff I could read for days.[/quote]
Arnold’s Encyclopedia has a few chapters of famous bodybuilders up until the book’s release date; and also the history of the sport.
For present day BBers you can just pick up a copy or two of muscle mags leading up to a big contest and you’ll get up to speed very quickly.
[quote]triple-10sets wrote:
Yates knew the Lat Pulldown Machine better then his grandmother ! [/quote]
Ah Yes, the Lat Pulldown machine… how the truly Hardcore King Dorian must have crafted his monster wingspan -lol
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