[quote]lpb wrote:
Slight off topic, whos the guy on the left in the first pic?
His build is quite spectacular.
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I was gonna say the same thing. I THINK that’s Lou Joseph?
Scott Abel article with some pics of him and this one, from a Thib article
Simply AMAZING build…just awe inspiring.
Here’s what Nasser had to say about Kovacs in a BB.com interview. Skip to “The Kovacs Monster” part.
[quote]John Q. Adequate wrote:
Here’s what Nasser had to say about Kovacs in a BB.com interview. Skip to “The Kovacs Monster” part.
www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson329.htm[/quote]
That is one serious cautionary tale, even after adjusting for hyperbole.
WTF… he looks like 20 years older.
[i]"The other nasty story is that once a guy - who I know and who told me about this - went up to see Greg into his Atlanta, GA hotel room to give him some “medical items”. At the time Greg was without his wife because they had one of their usual conflicts.
Still, it is very unusual that he had travelled without her, as she normally went with him everywhere. Anyways, the so-called “medicine man” had to use the bathroom but Greg strongly prohibited the guy from going in there.
But the guy went in there nevertheless and there was this awful penetrating odor. He discovered multiple - obviously used - towels covered with long brown skid marks. Kovacs had been using the now stinky towels as a toilet paper replacement because he could not reach his rear end by himself. So he used the towels by holding each end with one hand and rubbing himself/pulling the towels back and forth between his legs."[/i]
Wow - that’s fucked up.
So, I guess you can be “too big”…
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[i]"The other nasty story is that once a guy - who I know and who told me about this - went up to see Greg into his Atlanta, GA hotel room to give him some “medical items”. At the time Greg was without his wife because they had one of their usual conflicts.
Still, it is very unusual that he had travelled without her, as she normally went with him everywhere. Anyways, the so-called “medicine man” had to use the bathroom but Greg strongly prohibited the guy from going in there.
But the guy went in there nevertheless and there was this awful penetrating odor. He discovered multiple - obviously used - towels covered with long brown skid marks. Kovacs had been using the now stinky towels as a toilet paper replacement because he could not reach his rear end by himself. So he used the towels by holding each end with one hand and rubbing himself/pulling the towels back and forth between his legs."[/i]
Wow - that’s fucked up.
So, I guess you can be “too big”…
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Good God… That is heinous.
wow… I remember hearing stories of how he couldn’t comb his own hair, but that ‘towel’ thing is just insane.
S
It’s seriously fucked up, as are the other horror stories being told - true, Nasser seems to have a chip on his shoulder and may be exaggerating for effect, but it certainly seems like the guy has some monstrous health problems…
So, I guess it shows how wrong you can go with this endeavor - I mean, everyone here immediately flips the fuck out whenever someone dares to post anything even remotely negative about BB, but truth be told, there is a really shitty, seedy-underbelly of the sport and lifestyle that can’t be ignored. I really can see how this kind of thing would turn people off to bodybuilding in general.
Clearly, Kovacs is not someone we really want being an ambassador of the sport & lifestyle…
a little off topic but who is the guy on the left of kovacs in the first photo prof x posted?
Oh, and I also think it’s pretty obvious that Kovacs isn’t too bright, and got taken advantage of and forced into trying to compete when he clearly has no place in it.
Mass freaks or not, the actual sport of bodybuilding is still about lean, aesthetic muscle - the x frame is still the ideal, no matter if it was shifted away from in the last 10 years or so, and now we see the pendulum swing the other way, as Dex is Mr. O…
So Greg was a monster, he was just a mess in regards to the symmetry and aesthetics - which obviously led to his ugly downfall - and now, he’s just a total fuckin’ mess - it’s really sad, and cautionary as well.
Those stories sound suspect to me.
I mean if he can’t wipe his own ass or comb his hair, how the hell can he even do repetitions in certain exercises where a normal ROM is required?
Reminds me of the idiots I went to school with… they read Arnold’s book and then told how Arnold was so musclebound he couldn’t comb his hair. They took it out of context. Arnold said he was so sore after his first bb workout, next day he couldn’t lift his arm to comb his hair.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Those stories sound suspect to me.
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Well, whether that’s true or not, it’s pretty clear just by looking at the guy that he’s a total disaster, and he just doesn’t look healthy to me…
The discussions here touched on how he destroyed himself. But can this be permanent? Couldn’t he resume a normal diet and slowly lose some of that size? Lay off heavy lifting for a couple of years? I’m sure his heart is taxed.
Once he gets healthier, he could resume BB training in a more reasonable manner and get back to what he was when he was a magnificent specimen.
I guess that’s wishful thinking, huh?
I think i found the company “that shall not be said” is it the company thAt sponsors Jay Cutler?
I remember when I first read about him in the early 90’s and his numbers just blew me away. In my early 20’s I didn’t give a damn about symmetry, conditioning, or aesthetics, I wanted to be as freaky as possible in the gym. I was like, “Fuck Lee Labrada.” I knew a guy that benched 600 at 230 and another guy that could squat 800, but Kovacs was just freaky strong at everything.
It made everything I was trying to do seem pathetic. I pretty much got out of lifting around this time…I had a couple friends start taking insulin and GH…That was pretty new back then, and I wasn’t willing to go there, hated the idea of falling behind, I became more pressed for time and put the lifting aside.
I tend to think the tug of war ass wipe is internet rumor…and the problems at the Arnold sound like diuretics. I think the guy gets alot of hate because of his strength…Even guy’s with great genetics for appearance hate to be just blown out of the gym.
It would be interesting to know the truth about him. It seems like his body just got wierder and wierder over the years. There is talk of “Palumboism” and such but I think there is some truth to the ideas thrown around about androgen receptor downgrade, insulin resistance, etc.
I think that either due to drugs or the body breaking down from hard training, there are medical explanations for why he started to look the way he did and why Palumbo started to regress the way he did, and why now Jay Cutler and Gustavo Badell seem to be going that way a little bit.
Good post, because I too remeber all the MT ads with Kovacs and his size and strength. I had forgotten about that. That was when Weider had a full line of supplaments too, under different brands, endorsed by like every pro.
[quote]sid132 wrote:
a little off topic but who is the guy on the left of kovacs in the first photo prof x posted?[/quote]
HINT: The answer is somewhere in this thread.
(or a possible answer as I’m not 100% certain)
And then there were the old rumors how Dave had some of his intestines removed because of his expanding GH gut -lol.
I never knew what to believe with the whole GH thing. A guy I used to train with at my old gym on Long Island was into his 40’s, knew he didn’t want anymore kids, and rationalized his his of Gear along those lines. When he started with the GH, he told me he loved how quickly he’d dropped all his bodyfat, but that the “bones in his hands were hurting”. OKAY!!!
S
