What went wrong?

it's about being big and shredded
just like it always used to be, actually. if anything, blame pharmaceutical engineering

bodybuilder ass is disgusting

who cares, bb has always been subjective. and probably also political.
I mean I like Arnold, but is it coincidence that Weider's poster boy also won Weider's BB competition all the time?
Even in 80 when he looked not his best, and many others say almost all others looked better.

If it weren't as cut looking, would it make you want to fuck it? Is that the deal for you?

We still here boys

He didn't even need one, that's what it means to play to your strengths.

nah, its more bloated than shredded. Every one of those monsters has a gut coming out, whereas in arnie's time, every bodybuilder had a nice vacuum

look at this gut and legs, barely has any definition at all. pure bloat

Repeated cycles of "we need to get bigger" but then it turned to be ok to look like a abomination. Honestly? The biggest flaw from the mass monster era was accepting the gut.

hgh became a thing.

Classic physiques were built mostly on simple test/deca/dianabol cycles

because its no longer about being sexy or even remotely aesthetic

its about standing out on stage with how big and absurdly tanned and glistening you are

Ban on steroids. Now there's only underground crap available

like someone just crashed their fucking car into the side of his ass

Imagine wanting to look like left rather than right.

>shitting on based former ronnie
poor form Veeky Forums, he's not even a bad case of lennyism

By today’s standard, reeve’s arm are small, fucking movie stars have bigger arms

>shitting on rich as well
nu-fit is cancer

Ask yourself what your goals are. It's that fucking simple.

If you want to win Mr Olympia, then the bar has been set - get fucking huge and inject HGH to the point you're bloated. Fuck, it's the Gold Standard now. I'm very pro-PED use, so I've no issue with it, that's just the way it is.

Think of it this way - the only sport I like is Formula One (yeah I know, you all hate it, I've never met anyone else who likes it and I worked in low-level motorsport for a while). The sport has been fucking ruined by shitty hybrid V6 engines that sound like hairdryers.

Does Lewis Hamilton bitch about it and simply scream around the track in a good 'ol N/A V8? No, he takes his hairdryer around the track and wins again, and again, and again.

So if you want to win bodybuilding competitions, that's how it is. The choice is there - either enter or don't.

If you're just looking to look good however, which I assume 99% of people on here are (with 90% of them putting no effort in) then just do steroids like the likes of Arnold, Zyzz, and everyone in between did. It's not fucking difficult.

>shitting on Rich Syntholi
justified

literally just bring back the vacuum pose

it's all fixed

Every time this dumbass thread. Do you think arnie wouldnt abuse the shit out of the steroids we have today if he had the chance? Just fuck off already op

but he might be natty.

totally not justified. he was looked like a freak but he didn't give a shit about what people thought about it and keept working to achieve his goal. the idea is that he was inspirational exactly because of that

he wasn't

proof?

you are the one claiming he was so the burden is on you buddy. Next you're gonna tell me larry scott was natty.

but he might be natty.

youtube.com/watch?v=UwIC8B1HaN8
Harrison Pope claims when Reeves won 1947 Mr. Olympia anabolic steroids were virtually unavailable, so he was almost certainly natural at that point.
But what does a Harvard Prof specialising in steroid addiction know, right?

>Mr. Olympia
Mr. America