What up
Sometimes I wanna share things to the forums about bodybuilders
And just go like nah
But with a thread like this, I can just share away and whoever is interested would click the thread and whoever isn’t wont be forced to see something they may not want to see (not every one wants to see striated glutes)
So here we go
Check out Ronnie Coleman from 1991, weighing only 215 solid lbs (90 kg+ is just the weight class)
He turned pro at this show…
I think he looked beautiful
Also, steroid free.
This second picture may be from the same show? Could be… But I dunno he looks bigger and more shredded
I needa see the whole show at some point
Here’s Big Ron attending the 1991 Mr. O
If you guys want to share anything, go ahead! Feel free and welcomed
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No way that second pic is the same show lol
This thread will probably be just 90% my own posts lol
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What Ronnie became…
Top is 2003, his largest… 292 lbs
Nope, 2003 as well
I would have to watch it lol
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Thomas
June 14, 2025, 12:42pm
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IAmJonathan:
Also, steroid free.
Probably not. Only if he can time travel and bought all muscles fields available at any given point in time and went back.
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Well, you can also look at it like this…
Were talking the single most genetically gifted individual in bodybuilding history
I don’t think it’s hard to believe that his shape in the NPC show was unachievable…
Have you seen guys in Africa? They got great genes bro! I’ve been seeing some huge shredded Africans recently, surely with no external test…
I bet there’s a bunch of guys out there that got even better genes just never got access to drugs or good enough drugs
Any ways, he wasn’t even much shredded at all, he was just very lean… Not much striations until he hit a most muscular…
Only 215 bro
When he took steroids that’s when he really started to balloon up
Flex Wheeler and Dorian Yates both say he was natural then I believe too
His physique is definitely achievable with a myostatin deficiency, sensitive androgen receptors and good muscle bellies
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Francis Ngannou says it best
Look at those guys man
Naturally lean, naturally fast responders
It all comes down to genes bro
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If he didn’t have those genes,
He wouldn’t have become 8 times Mr. Olympia
And weighed 292, looking the way he did during 2003…
Cant compare it to your average gym bro lifting hard 15 years…
Study his highschool years
You’ll see how gifted this man is
Biceps where nuts
Here he is at 16
Tell me he don’t look like your average 16 year old
Looks like a 20 year old college foot ball player
Completely doable…
Here he is in university
I mean, this guy’s been working out for ever
He’s not even that huge bro
Huge for natty for sure
But I think definitely within it’s feasible realms
Combine genes with a deeply embedded adoration and desire for exercise… This guy’s obsessed with it
Of course he can do it
Look at him today
Cant even walk normal but refuses to stop working out, despite what? A dozen back surgeries? Constant terrible pains?
That’s the man
Of course the man was able to do it
Das just my opinion though lol
Oh yeah
He also still had hair
Started taking drugs and hair began to thin
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Big Ron
I dunno what year, but he looks spectacular here
Going to start posting the more of the aesthetic side of bodybuilding after this post
@Kyle_Reese looks like the cat you posted on the videos thread had Ronnie’s arms from this moment right here lol
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Serge Nubret
3x Mr Olympia, Sergio Oliva
One of 3 men to ever beat Arnold Schwarzenegger
He was the second Mr Olympia ever and gave Arnold his only loss at the Mr. Olympia at the 1969 Mr. O
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3x Mr Olympia, Frank Zane
He is also one of the 3 men to beat Arnold
The second pic used to be one of my profile pics here…
Here is the 1st man to beat Arnold:
Chet Yorton (right)
A natural bodybuilder and the founder of natural bodybuilding himself… Chet founded the Natural Bodybuilding Association in 1978
If you look at Chet’s hands in the first two pictures, you’ll notice he’s pointing at Arnold in one hand and pointing at his calves with the other
Pointing at the fact that Arnold’s calves weren’t on the same level as his…
Many of Arnold’s early on pictures are hiding his calves, for example…
Arnold later really fully developed his calves tremendously so…
Here’s a cool Arnold pic with Joe Weider…
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I’m planning on going through more well known bodybuilders, while sprinkling in lesser known guys here and there
That’s all for today though lol
I’ll make an actual Arnold Schwarzenegger post later too
And I think I’ll give each of the bodybuilders I posted before an actual post as well, except for Chet Yorton
I just wanna spice up the thread a bit before I get into bios
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Beast
July 10, 2025, 10:25am
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Oh I think I remember… Was your name AscendingBiceps?
Those were goated times for this forum
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Yup sir, it was @TheAscendingBicep
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Not my first rodeo, ma’am
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