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Hey everybody welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome everybody Ron Harris here at the Ron Harris Channel couldn’t think of a better name for it so we’re GNA go with Ron Harris for now it’s my last live Q&A for the year gonna be spending some time with the family for
The holidays might do a video but I I I really doubt it so I wanted to get started here with couple questions that we had uh actually one question let’s go to from the last someone who missed the last show but I wanted to help him out here
He’s a very very loyal loyal viewer and it was on the last video and he said so that was uh fasting frugivore big Ron how in blazes do I get rid of a nagging biceps tendonitis pain in the left arm down near the elbow thank you mate on on okay fasting
So very very common bicep tendonitis let get rid of that stop sharing stop screen very very common because we use our biceps obviously for everything we do for back for biceps you know if you ever had any injury in in in around the elbow it really it can affect
Almost anything that you do for the upper body even the lower body things that you have to hold on to weights so uh I’m not a doctor I’m not even a physical therapist or anything close to it however I’ve had my share of tendinitis problems over the years rest
Is the number one number one remedy for tendinitis tendonitis really is just inflammation of the tendon and if you train very often if you train very high volume you’re probably more likely to suffer from tendinitis so try backing off on the volume try taking some more
Rest days you can ice the area you can take uh anti-inflammatory over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen Tylenol not so much it’s not as good as an an anti-inflammatory you want ibuprofen uh Advil is a real common trade name but you can get all kinds of generic ibuprofen super cheap especially if you
Go to like a membership warehouse like Costco or BJ’s Sam’s Club you can get these giant bottles of you know I generic ibuprofen which is the same exact stuff it’s all the same drug for half or a third of the price you’ll get it at like CVS or a Walgreens type of
Place um you can go further if you really want to try things like uh massage deep tissue massage grass and technique geez if you have a lot of money and it’s really bothering you um you know plasma rich plasma Rich what’s that called the platelet injections
Where they spin up your blood and they inject it in you it’s not the same as stem cells stem cells would be even more expensive more extreme um but uh really rest uh I’ve noticed a lot of times say say somebody starts train their legs
Twice a week to bring them up which is not a bad idea but a lot of times what they’ll find happens is they start getting knee pain where they didn’t have knee pain before and it’s really just the tendance from the overuse the constant use that makes them inflamed
And the only way to reduce the inflammation is to not work them as as often because every time you train it’s going to get a little bit inflamed just the nature of the Beast okay so hopefully uh that answered that and I got one more one more question from
Previously which I want to get to this was from Instagram so I did this I know was a transformation Tuesday type of thing I put up this picture uh how do I go back it’s not even going to show me the picture now come on now damn you Instagram you
Suck anyway so it’s this picture here I think you can see it so uh it’s me at age 18 I just turned 18 there on the left I’ll go to the picture in a second what was your stack at age 43 awesome look versus Diana ball only watery look
At 18 to which I responded and this is a guy that didn’t he’s got a it’s a private account with zero followers no picture uh a troll account basically so I said I didn’t touch a story till I was 27 I was 135 pounds of 18 um let’s get
To that see if I can get to the picture try to show you the picture I don’t want to switch accounts I don’t want to switch accounts oh boy so anyway yeah let’s just uh get out of that so the the only reason I even brought that up
Um because you know I want to let people know I was natural until I was 27 years old that those pictures from back then uh I was really good at posing and hiding my weak points and making myself look bigger from certain angles even then so I was 135 140 pounds there in
The beginning I wasn’t on anything not even dianab ball didn’t touch a steroid for many many years so and as far as the stack it doesn’t matter I honestly don’t remember my exact stack for my last two shows which were both in summer of 2013 I did uh Team universe and Masters Nationals
I’m sure I was on test up until a few weeks out sure I was on Trend I know at the end I threw in things like masteron some Arimidex an aromatase inhibitor to uh really help get rid of the the last bits of fat and water mainly the fat for my glutes and
My hams what else was I on I I don’t even know it doesn’t matter because whatever there there’s no secret drug stack guys that is such a myth and I find it hilarious when there’s so many so-called self-proclaimed experts who will look at physique and they can tell you they
Think they can tell you exactly what this guy was on exactly there’s no effing way anybody could know that by looking at somebody if someone’s got a lot of uh water retention and zits you could probably guess they’re on some higher Androgen higher drugs higher on the androgenic scale things like Anadrol
Dball uh Trend test those will give you more water retention DEA would give you more bloat water bloat but you can’t look at physique you can’t look at any of these guys at the Olympia the Arnold whatever you can’t look at them and know exactly what
They’re on or even close to it in a lot of cases you can guess and people love to guess and if someone claims that they know the stack or that they’re so smart so so well versed in anabolics they can look at any physique and tell you
Exactly what that person’s on or very close to it it’s a Croc of [ __ ] they have no idea they’re just they’re just guessing and you’re buying into it because you have to know let me tell you guys there is no stack that anyone takes that you could duplicate to make you
Look just like that person you have to have the right genetics uh let’s use a great example of the latest Freak On the Block NEX Zilla can I find his Instagram I bet I can just want to give you an example someone who’s super super freaky rubiel be mosa AKA next Zilla everyone’s
Talking about him he going the Arnold Classic so yeah these some new pictures why are these pictures not showing up on my screen this is troubling oh there we go let him squatting okay so I’m gonna put him on the screen here why because he’s yeah so here we
Go uh so here he one’s pulled out I’m uh I’m just pointing out the development of this guy cuz a few years ago I think there was a picture he posted in 2018 where was a regular gym guy nothing special not big at all at all you would
Have walked right past in the gym wouldn’t have even noticed him now of course you know it’s only showing videos for some reason yeah these are pictures he took with other people the point being is here’s a good video see how full and round those muscles are That’s genetics
Guys you have to be born with a certain quality to your muscle tissue certain muscle belly lengths muscle shapes I’m sure there’s a even deeper explanation biological as to why he’s able to look like that because I guarantee you I guarantee you any of you could use
Exactly P the the Peds he’s using I don’t know what he’s using but you and I could both use exactly what he uses or has used we would not look like this you would not that is a genetic you call a genetic freak it’s because he’s a very
Rare specimen the people that can build oh there he’s just showing you the the clothes inside the uh the pro shop at B’s gym there in Dubai oh there’s a good picture Joseph Al great photographer yeah guy looks great guy looks awesome there’s Kevin Leone backstage
Looking at him I mean those legs I had good legs but these are you could fit both of my legs in my Prime I think inside one of this guy’s quads amazing even kevone Kevin lone was dump struck there so knowing somebody’s stack doesn’t really help you guys it doesn’t let’s
Get to some pictures I’m sorry pict let’s get to some of your questions Jen hey hey Jen appreciate you joining us Giles what’s up what’s up that’s Giles over in the UK Giles tiger Thomas uh let’s see okay here’s I think it’s a question B why my gym has one of
Those old naus leg extensions with the post is in the middle and I love it why are there no more machines that are built like this in lying leg curatory had good question I I have no answer as to why certain machine designs were not duplicated or imitated more often good
Good point uh Jay Cutler made to me years ago when he was doing leg extensions he always wanted to find uh a leg extension where the post was in the middle and you had a roller pad on each side because he felt and probably rightfully so that on most of
The models where it’s just one pad going straight across and you can say the same thing for leg curls with one pad that goes straight across you put both your feet under under it so in case of a leg extension it would be your InStep you
Know above your above your foot uh it would be the other side for lying leg curls it would be you know the other side of your leg so those over time tend to sort of warp and change so they might start out perfectly straight but then over time there’s a
Little bit of a tilt to them what happens when you get a pad on a leg extension or a leg curl that’s now slightly tilted is one leg is going to get worked much harder than the other leg um I would assume the leg that’s closer to the lever arm so one leg’s
Here on the side that’s uh closer to where it connects that leg is going to work that one’s going to work harder because it’s got less distance this one over here is going to work a little e get a little less work because now the leverage has changed and it’s a longer
Lever arm so the same thing with the leg chome machine Nautilus made one that I used in that video that Dorian because Dorian had the same the old Nautilus machines at his gym they were a lot of people consider those the the golden standard you know even 20 30 40 years
After they were produced so if you have access to a leg extension or leg curl with roller pads on each side of a post and there’s no chance at all that they can over time Tilt one way or the other go for one of those because you’ll be be
Sure to get equal distribution on both limbs whereas the ones that over time have sort of warped and tilted a little bit your leg curer your leg extension you’re not going to get even even load on both legs so you don’t want that because you’re trying to get equal
Development of both limbs symmetry symmetry symmetrical development let’s move on to the next one top five for the arold classic Ohio geez wow uh let’s look at the list let’s go to the list shall we let’s go to Arnold sports I’d have to have the list in front of me Arnold sports
Okay I’m finding it right now guys okay here we go why is that not showing up geez oh boy huh change the list it’s like dark page anyway all right I guess I’ll do it without the list in front of me d uh so actually I know how to get it I
Have to go to uh hang on I know what to do I’m gonna go to my list which was here that was alive home classic list announced sh be quiet Ron shut up okay so I’m GNA go to the list okay so maybe I should go yeah I’m GNA
Present the list on the screen so we can all look at at the same time and that is YouTube okay so uh holling head Samson uh okay so I’m assuming that everyone on the list makes it to the show and I was actually very very surprised and honored that the promoter
Of the show himself Brian Powers down here Brian Powers got on and reminded us I think he posted twice he want us to know that pending just means that they’re still sorting out their visas but he anticipated no problem uh did he put that in there yeah pending Brian power said pending just
Means we’re waiting or means we’re just waiting for their immigration paperwork we do not anticipate any issues hotti Andrew and rubiel are training for the show he also let us know remember the UK Arnold the Arnold UK which is two weeks later 130,000 for first prize so let’s look at the list
Um I would have to go with hotti chupan for the win if hottie shows up looking the way hot’s always looked there’s your winner hotti chupan if if he can do that which I don’t see why he couldn’t he’s got you know the the drive of a champion
The heart of a champion got Hy rambod best coach in the business if you look at Olympia titles he’s got 24 25 Olympia titles who’s Credit Now I go with Hadi chupan first place Samson daa second place it’s not bad right second place in the Arnold uh third place I’ll go Andrew
Jack yeah fourth place now we’re starting to get it’s starting to get a little tricky I’ll go James Hollings head I think he looks fantastic and we need a we need someone to round out the top five uh I know you guys want NEX Zilla to be
In the top five but I personally think Rafael brondo with a year off is is someone I think is more than capable of being fifth place if not higher at this show Raphael was 10th place at the Olympia in 2022 which I believe is the last time we saw him compete and looked
Great he was in top 10 beautiful shape symmetry structure all that he’s a little bit more sized to move up and he took a full year full year off to do that so yeah I’ll do it I’ll say it again my top five you can you can all
Have your own top five agree with me disagree I have hottie first place Samson second place Andrew Jack third place fourth place James holling head fifth place Rafael bro Wild Horses who could easily be in the top five horse MD John DEA Rosa Justin Rodriguez next
Zilla Keem and I mean it’s a great it’s a great L the only guy I’ve never heard of is Remo I don’t even know how to say this name re Remo rco boy the top there I don’t know who that is curious to see him though so let’s stop that screen
That’s my top five you guys can put your own top five here or leave it in the comments if you’re watching this on a replay jacked up we’re still talking about tendonitis elbow tendonitis very very common I have tendonitis in my elbow I wear a strap on my form which
Enables me to keep training but I can’t do girls yeah tons and tons of guys you’ll see with those elbow sleeves those neoprene sleeves so those are really good at keeping warmth in the area blood uh a little bit of support it doesn’t really I don’t think it does
Anything to actually alleviate the tendon nights is inside it’s inside the tendon it’s inflamed so that’s not going to really help you that elbow sleeve but it will give you a little more support it’s tight it’s constrictive you know I wore I used to wear those in my
Elbows for years and I because I thought what I had was tendonitis it turned out I had a torn tricep for years and years I didn’t know it and it eventually healed way up here the long head of my triceps which is the one that goes behind you know when
You’re in the back shots and you can see your triceps from the back that’s really your long head so my right long head of my triceps was completely torn and retracted up toward the freaking armpit and you know for years I just thought I had bad elbow tendinitis because it hurt
But that’s it was torn eventually it didn’t hurt anymore because I guess the injury had healed yeah so there’s they sell straps there’s all kinds of gadgets and devices that do help they help alleviate some of the pain but rest ice and you know anti-inflamm anti-inflammatory medications like over-the-counter ones
Like ibuprofen your best bet for sure but really rest and if there’s any movements if there’s any exercises you do that really hurt your elbows stop doing those you know a lot of guys in insist on doing things like Skull Crushers with you know heavy barbells even though they have horrible elbow
Pain so it’s tennis elbow is on the outside the pain on the outside is called tennis elbow because I guess when you’re playing tennis you’re always hitting that heading that tendon with some stress and on the inside of your elbow that is golfer’s elbow I don’t know I’ve never
Played golf so I’m not really sure why that would golf would exacerbate inflammation in that particular area I don’t know golf not laughing at golf I tried it once that was so bad those are huge Wheels talking about NE Zilla there yeah our St where do you see bodybuilding in 10
Years 60 Minutes said quantum computers will calculate protein folds years faster than supercomputers new peptides I’m sure that drugs and you know I don’t even if they’ll be called drugs the technology for these things can alter your your body’s chemistry you can’t change your genetics I don’t think once
You’re already out of the womb but I’m sure if we can genetically engineer tons of animals we could do the same thing with people we could certainly produced genetically engineered super people that were physically Superior to normal human beings but you know 10 years 10 years
Isn’t really that long a time if you think about it 10 years ago right now was like the end of 2023 2013 which to me seems like feels like yesterday 2013 the last time I competed I still remember everything vividly like it was yesterday but yeah I’m sure there’ll be
Advances in not so much drugs that are like steroids I don’t think steroids are getting any more I don’t know if they even can get any more advanced or or better than they are now we haven’t had any new compounds in geez you know they’ve come out with designer steroids but those were
Typically just to be able to beat drug tests they weren’t any Improvement on existing steroids so I don’t think we’ll see much in the in growth or advancement in the area of actual anabolic endogenic steroids but peptides will continue there’ll be new new peptides will come out and other things which we probably
Don’t even have names or classifications for you know sarms maybe they’ll get sarms right sarms were supposed to be selective Androgen regulation they were supposed to be molecules sarms were supposed to be like steroids but without the side effects and selective Androgen receptive Mo receptor molecule they were supposed to
Be like steroids but without the side effects turned out that was completely off base they still have side effects you still will shut down your regular hpta you’ll stop producing testosterone just like you would if you were injecting testosterone or any or taking any steroid they affect your liver your
Kidneys they they have the same exact side effects as steroids they’re basically just like another compound that acts like steroids so maybe there’ll be advancements in that where we can finally have access to something that’s giving you the same results as steroids but with very few very very
Mild side effects if any I can’t imagine there’ll be no side effects that’s kind of that’s a lot to ask for but I think it’s possible to develop that the only reason something like that would be developed is for you know we used to say baby boomers but now they’re getting old
It’s Millennials not Millennials um the Gen X guys like me you we’re getting older now so we’re all looking for ways to look and feel younger anytime there’s a huge group of people with a lot of money to spend uh on looking better and feeling better Pharmaceutical companies
Will jump all over it so you can see that with OIC has made billions and billions and billions of dollars from people that don’t want to diet they just take this OIC and they’re not hungry and they stop eating they stop eating a lot of food and they get much thinner they
Lose a lot of weight like wovi is uh another one that’s I think it’s almost identical to uh to OIC it’s out of a country in Denmark and I I read the other day that the profits from that one drug in that one company would go uh the
The the pharmaceutical company over in Denmark that produces wovi the profits they’ve made surpass the entire gross national gross national product of the country of Denmark that’s pretty astonishing imagine that everything else that’s produced and sold in that country doesn’t add up to how much money that one pharmaceutical
Company made off AG GOI because if you can tell people you know I think that’s probably what we’ll see eventually is something that will be maybe like either a myostat a true myostat inhibitor or something that acts in the same way something that causes you to grow muscle without any
Effort without any exercise at all because OIC is is helping people lose weight with zero effort they’re not going to the gym they’re not dieting it’s just they take this drug and they’re not very hungry so they they start eating much much fewer C calories and they lose weight there will probably
Be something developed if the interest if they if the companies feel there’s money to to be made if they feel it’s something that they could make a ton of money off they will they will come up with something that builds muscle with zero exercise zero effort and yeah I’m
Sure that’s that’s 10 years within the next 10 years that’s more than possible at the rate technolog is moving in the pharmaceutical industry is moving I’m sure they’re working on things we have no concept of yet that would blow our minds if we even knew about it so
See Goku says where do you think Martin Fitzwater place in their own lineup he certainly the top five and he’s not on the list right now but if if we have any dropouts because right now there are 12 men on that list if we have any dropouts yeah uh I could easily see
Martin being invited because I believe I I think I’ve heard that he did uh apply he asked for an invitation they didn’t give him one let’s see if we can find his let’s go to his uh let’s go to Martin’s Martin’s Instagram it’s like Fitz M
Fitz I just do Martin Fitz water rbb Pro like everybody else it’s Martin Fitz it’s just it’s a really strange one okay so let’s present present take a look at Martin shall we let’s look at Martin Martin the Martian okay so here’s some posing from four days ago yeah he’s thick as hell
Isn’t he he’s a thick thick thick dude certainly bigger than what I remember from last time I saw him uh compete was the 2022 Texas Pro I think he got like third third or fourth he looked great it was just a tough tough show you know Andrew Jack
Andrew Jack has won the last two of them so so this was him for last week is better Lu next time the drawing where didn’t apply for UK so see you all later well Martin don’t give up so easily like I said if people drop out if people drop
Out of the Arnold for whatever reason maybe they can’t get a Visa maybe they get injured maybe you know who knows can be any number of reasons people drop out of contest if that happens I’m sure they would start coming back to their list of applicants that they
Denied and get some of these people in yeah looks like we can only show videos on this for some reason right now turn on side to get rid of shoulder pain yeah why is this all black okay here it was black I’m assuming yeah this was actually
Halloween day he posted this he was a Hulk yeah Martin’s pretty damn good Martin’s pretty damn good okay all right we’re back so yeah Martin’s certainly capable of top five finish there I I don’t see him winning I don’t see him beating hadti chupan or Samson daa or Andrew
Jack uh he’s not he’s not at their level but I could see him possibly squeaking in like a fourth place you know but you know like I said we got holling head in there we got uh neilla AE Jess Rodriguez is you know he’s when he’s 100% on he’s dangerous
Too uh diamondb love you doing R assist thank you thank you Diamondbacks 47 happy holidays to you no Jen I’m good I’m good I’m good this is easy this is just uh you know answering questions I’m good I appreciate you watching ran Powers commented that’s huge yeah that’s the
Man oh you agw with my top five I mean I want see if you guys have a Giles actually saw Giles was there in PR uh he saw rubiel turn pro he saw him make his Pro debut he saw him backstage up close and personal and yeah that
That’s a freaky guy in the pictures and the videos he’s when you see people like that actually in front of you it’s like a whole other level because obviously it’s 3D you know how we always say the contests are different when you’re actually there versus watching on a
Computer screen or whatever your phone obviously would be nothing like that but being there and seeing people in the flesh as we say totally different experience you get a different perspective three dimensions and it’s especially if you’re up close like if you were backstage and saw like a hotti
Chupon up close in shape Derek uh you any of these guys you’d be like oh my God is that a human being yeah they’re just they’re crazy uh let’s see Cody J think tips com back to gym after being sick for a week yeah take it easy
The first day especially you might have lost a little tiny bit of strength just you’ll barely if you lost Anything But realize that your body was fighting whatever infection you had bacteria virus whatever and it’s still a little bit compromised so have at least one if
Not two workouts where you sort of ease back into it don’t try to go as heavy as normal you know like 75 80% of your usual weights back cut back on the volume so if if you do like four sets of exercises normally do three sets uh just
Try to get a good sweat going good pump but don’t don’t go crazy don’t kill yourself trying to be super intense first day back but a week is not long at all a lot of times especially those of us if you’re not sick if you miss a week of training due to unforeseen
Circumstances maybe it was a work obligations work was too crazy family obligations school maybe it’s like finals week or something a lot of times as long as you were sleeping and eating that whole time you know you come back to the gym and you’re as strong or stronger than you were before sometimes
You might realize you’re a little heavier you put on a little bit of muscle because your body might have been overtrained and it needed a break you gave it the break and your body just filled out and got feel good and fresh again how FR from Texas what’s up Texas
That guy how much more kind of anti would you recommend it taking you start noing nipple sorus uh that was a that’s a Dr T question do you stop taking the AI after soreness is gone or stand the ey for the D cycle yeah uh I know I said
Peds on this but I only know like the Bas the very Basics uh noex the old school the old school trick that’s uh I think I used to take I think it was 20 milligrams a day of nedex for like two weeks I know if you go if you go to the
Ask Dr T because the YouTube videos are still up the muscle muscular development YouTube channel is still up has not been taken down yet and uh ask Dr key videos are still up gez because we get that question we got that question about gyno almost every week and I put the qu list
Of the questions in the top comments uh and pinned comment of every of every episodes so if you go back there but I believe Dr T said uh basically it was novedex is all he used we use novedex for at the the standard dose which I
Believe is 20 milligrams a day he would do that for like two weeks and that would that would typically take take away the sorus yeah sorry sorry I couldn’t be more helpful on that New York Pros looking up nuts also next Zilla Rafael brandell Tonio Burton many good BOS
Doing it yeah New York Pro is typically a very good show uh it’s it’s considered the third best show uh in the in the sport after the Olympia and Arnold Classic and recently it was announced but was what page was it on I think it was Bev’s gym you know Steve
Weinberger’s gym Steve Weinberger promotes New York Pro and they doubled the prize money after all these years finally but they took it from 10 to 20,000 and the ring I think the ring is worth 5,000 that they get something like that so you know cheers to them props to
Them for doing the right thing by the athletes showing a little appreciation for the athletes by doubling the prize money $220,000 for the men’s Open champ rather than 10,000 don’t know if that’s across the board that uh it was increased for every Division and I know some people are going to complain
Because they’re not they want all the divisions to to benefit I get that you know Classic’s a big draw open’s a huge draw after that I think things sort of dro down dramatically I don’t know how many people go to Pro shows just to see men’s
Physique or just to see bikini or some of these other divisions they’re popular but they’re not the main draw as we say whereas open bodybuilding and I’d say classic is coming right up there a lot of people go to shows specifically to see the open bodybuilding and along with
That classic bodybuilding is also coming up huge uh Mark says the past few years New York Pro is frankly super weak this year is decent but nowhere near the Night Champions days yeah you know a big reason that the quality the quality of the lineups has kind of been
Diluted or diminished is just because there’s so many shows now so many shows I didn’t count it up the IBB Pro schedule should we go to that I think we should go to that let’s go to that I want let’s take a look at how many damn shows they have this year
Favorites let’s go to the IB Pro website IB Pro where is it here we go okay Pro schedule 2024 Pro cont schedule okay here we go so let’s take a look let’s let’s do a little count here shall we yeah okay so Aral classic is the first
One so they have everything so they they go by categor so these are all the men’s open shows and then after that it’s 212 so open shows we have Arnold is one Arnold UK 2 Brazil three Detroit Pro four Emerald cup five that’s a masters New York Pro six seven eight
Nine Spain is 10 let’s put that at the top of the page Italy 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 UK Pro Legion is 21 France 22 olympias 23 24 25 26 27 Atlantic Coast 28 29 there are 29 Pro shows featuring open bodybuild which is nothing compared to
Wow classic I’m even going to look at this these are the shows that feature classic it starts with the Arnold there’s one screen all the way down to Korea there’s a second screen all the way to T Johnson three screens Netherlands Chicago top of this one four
Screens wow look at all these classic shows and men’s physique look at all these shows wow because it’s it’s cheaper wow men’s physique has a lot of shows Fitness not so many figure lots and lots of shows yeah but we were talking about open open um yeah 29 Pro
Shows you know back in the old old days uh there used to be like three four five Pro shows a year so you had stronger lineups there was just fewer shows to choose from now that look at that there was almost 30 open shows this
Year I don’t think any will be you can’t add it’s they have to have all their stuff in place before a year a calendar year starts but man when you have that many options you’re not going to get great lineups at every show you’re just not because people tend to want to do
Shows that are either close to them or they have their reasons for picking certain shows and even New York Pro which is a very prestigious title that a lot of people want to have if they’re over in Europe and you know say there’s 10 shows in Europe that are
Like an hour two hour flight from where they live it’s probably a lot easier uh cheaper to just do a couple of those rather than go all the way to the USA especially if they don’t have a sponsor paying for all their travel so yeah I
Agree it’s it’s the weak the the lineups in general aren’t as strong as they used to be for everything outside of the Arnold and Olympia for that reason just because there were so many shows that’s why would Sam silip do better in classic or open bodybuilding 250 so he’s already too big for
Classic uh the kid okay the kid’s got a really good physique uh he’s only 21 so we’re not seeing anything like his final form yet but he’s gonna have to go open he’s already too big for classic and he doesn’t have that pretty classic shape I don’t know why everyone thinks that
Classic is something anybody can do it’s for people that have aesthetically pleasing physiques small waist really round muscle bellies full muscles small joints beautiful structure shape and symmetry Sam looks good he’s not he doesn’t have that classic look to me though he’s gonna have to get a little
Bit bigger probably he probably needs like another 20 pounds of muscle before he’s ready to do anything serious on a open bodybuilding stage if he wants we’re talking about you know National level and then Pros he’s going to need more size than he has now but again he’s
21 years old Jen says last year we ended up at 22 this year I think we’ll be more yeah well we counted 29 so they’ve already bumped it up significantly 22 to 20 29 is a a pretty good jump for one year Goku says I think Samson’s gonna be
Better than the Olympia and beat hottie absolutely that could happen hot’s take a major risk doing that show if he loses his momentum would be so [ __ ] I agree hotti is taking a chance a gamble doing this show uh he wouldn’t do it unless he was certain that he could win and honey
Rambot his coach would not get behind would not support his decision to do that show if he felt it was a bad idea they both of course feel he’s more than capable of beating Samson and anybody else that shows up you know the only person that’s beaten him in the past
Couple years was Derrick Lunsford he’s not doing the Aral classic but I agree uh bold move because if he loses to Samson or God forbid he gets any lower than second place that’s that’s not going to be a good look for him somebody who’s trying to recapture his Mr Olympia
Title it’s going to put him in a tough spot because if he couldn’t even win the Arnold and Dereck wasn’t there how’s he going to beat Derek and whoever beat him at the Arnold but on the other hand he goes into the Arnold wins it $300,000 in
His pocket and now people are gonna be like okay okay H’s H’s got his [ __ ] together how’s coming back to get his title and it would make the Olympia that much more exciting that much more dramatic of a showdown between hottie and Derek the rematch you know 29 Pro shows yeah
2 because Olympians 10 11 through 12 yeah which was the same as last year was Legion and then the show next the next day was in Italy or Spain it was it was in Europe it was that final weekend the same as the legion Joseph Aro has your
Weight fluctuated since your surgery you tend to go up a little more around holiday do a good job seeing 220 it really hasn’t change that much I did lose a couple pounds not much and I mean considering of how much of your weight is in your legs especially if you have big legs
Like I did I honestly thought I was going to lose more and I don’t think it’s because my body got any bigger I don’t think it did I really I don’t think it’s possible at this point in my stage of my life in my training career
But yeah I was surprised uh 215 to 220 is like the range I’ve been in this whole time I did get lighter during the summer at one point but I was intentionally you know being very strict with my diet doing extra cardio uh using fat burners I use that muscle burn IQ
From muscle tech a burn IQ burn IQ by muscle tech was was a good one hydroxy cut hardcore had some of that stuff too but yeah I was trying to be leaner so I got down to like uh I was like 210 212 for for probably you know like June July
Into August um yeah I actually probably gained weight after the surgery to be honest just because I was eating more and I wasn’t doing anything for legs I couldn’t do any cardio I couldn’t do any cardio at all for over three months not one bit you know CU that leg was in a
Brace it couldn’t bend so I had to be strict kind of strict to my diet I didn’t I didn’t want to look fat and bloaty because you know my physique doesn’t look awesome regardless but it doesn’t it doesn’t look good with extra fat who’s does but people who are have
Better shape and more muscle mass they can pull it off a little better when they carry a little extra body fat those of us who aren’t so gifted we’re not enormous so we don’t have that really beautiful shape you kind of have to stay lean or else you’re going to look not so
Great uh tend to go up I don’t go up much around the hall holiday like I used to Joseph I certainly did in years past I certainly used to um it would start like around end of October and it would go all the way through new year so I
Would just be eating more and more junk especially at nighttime uh my last meal of the day I used to have like ice cream I would have the meal the actual you know piece of steak or Sterling burger or Santa whatever and then I would have ice cream couple bowls of cereal I
Stopped doing that because me my face gets so round and Bloated looking it’s it’s not a good look for me people say oh it’s dball no that was fat that was fat dude that wasn’t bloat that was actual body fat Tomas should Brett wilin beuse and Nathan Das receive special invites Theo
If Walker gets one well there can only be one there’s the the policy has always been there’s only one special invite just one so no no if if Nick Walker getss one that’s the only special invite that anybody’s getting for the Olympia so that would negate anyone else’s
Requests um yeah so I don’t know why yeah I mean beus his issue is getting a Visa it’s he’s been unable to secure a Visa for the United States it sucks but now I think he’s already qualified for did I believe the show he won was one
That qualifies him for this year sorry the 2024 Olympia so he doesn’t need a special invitation I believe he already qualified I believe am I right somebody correct me because I probably probably wrong yeah kiwi muscle that’s New Zealand did you ever see Vic Rich back
In the day I think Ruby would compared him sizewise not only did I see Victor Richards he trained at my gym for about three months I have no idea what the hell he was doing up in that area I was at the World Gym in Pasadena became a
Gold it’s gone now he trained there for about three months I want to say around like 97 98 that era he was enormous he was like 300 pounds at 5’9 arms were I don’t know 23 24 inch arms chest out to here shoulders traps every quads super super strong uh he was
Massive in person he used to ask me to spot him which was hilarious because I never touched I never helped him our dumbbells only only went up to 150 which for him that wasn’t enough he needed like he needed a place for dumbbells went up to 200 maybe that’s where he
Went after after my gym but I remember he’d say hey spot me he wouldn’t ask me he’d like spot me he was like telling me he used to boss people around the original Nigerian Nightmare and the 150s like boop boop boop like the way we you and I would do like 40s
Or something it was hilarious but yeah he was he was a freak uh I haven’t seen Ruby rubiel up close in real life but sizewise they’re probably very very similar uh Jen is reminding us 2023 cut off as Legion Italy 2024 with the Legion of France so yeah Legion and a European
Show same as same as last year could you imagine working for MD with the schedule we never have days off well you know that’s you Jen and I have been talking about contest coverage and I made it clear that even if I do start doing contest coverage on this channel
I’m not going to I’m not going to cover every show I have no desire to uh other channels doe there’s a lot of Instagram channels like you know bodybuilding uh what’s the one I always look at bodybuilders Without Borders he does a great job covering like every single
Show of course NPC news online they cover every show because the or they are the organization the organization owns that media Outlet so they’re going to be they have staff of photographers and video videographers at every single show anyway so of course they’re going to cover every show it’s it’s built into
Their whole system but I do not want to cover every show I will cover if we’re covering shows I’m just going to cover the shows that I want to Major shows I’m not going to worry there’s no offense over anyone over in Europe but if
There’s a show that’s at like 3 in the morning or you know or whatever I’m I don’t want to be up all night or or waking up super early in the morning I’m being very honest with you guys so I will not be covering those
Shows uh did I ever get to meet Chris Dickerson or learn anything about how he train I I I did meet him a couple times just to like shake his hand you know honored to meet him but no I never never learned anything about how he trained
I suppose you could Google it I think he wrote a book I do believe he had a book years and years ago early 80s that probably had his training in it you know all the athletes used to have books Arnold Franco Frank Zayn Mike mener and
They would sell you know many tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of copies Bob Kenny from musle Mag used to come out with these training books like built ripped things like that and they would sell like Gang Busters back in the days when that was all you had was books
And magazines so if your favorite bodybuilder you want to know how he trained yeah you could see some articles and magazines randomly but you could buy his book and he would tell you exactly how he trained and how he thinks you should train with lots of pictures and
It was cool it was it was a technologically it was it was almost laughable compared to what we have access to now but I sort of prefer that era it’s it’s the huge Advantage you have now is is speed and accessibility if you want to see how any of these guys
Look or train you click on Instagram their YouTube channel their website their Tik Tok whatever and you have instant access to it back then you had to buy books of magazines gosh uh oh so so thirsty all the time I know I’m not diabetic I’ve been tested Goku you
Heard how Tyler Mansion it’s Manion said now there’s a huge size discrepancy between hotti legs one leg is significantly better than the other I I did see that I’ve noticed it with hottie uh I’m gonna go back to him no yeah maybe I will you want to go back to
Hotti let’s go look at hot’s pictures or videos let’s take a look let’s see what we think guys huh nope let try to search I lost it there it is Hottie post okay let’s go to Hadi chupan shall we okay so yeah so he’s facing us so that
Leg on the right which is his left leg it appears to be significantly bigger and better than the other leg it’s definitely noticeable it’s definitely noticeable that’s him getting the heroes welcome so yeah he’s got three kids was I right about that one two three yeah
Three kids I talked on the last live about how he’ll probably never go he’ll never move to the US why would he oh this is a cool this is cool because it had some footage in it he’s returning look at that he’s great yeah right there you don’t see the
Discrepancy between the legs as much you know it’s it’s nothing it’s not like one leg is withered down to nothing you can just notice it it’s noticeable even there you could see that leg was a little bit better but it’s nothing obviously if it was that bad he wouldn’t have won the
Olympia if he was that asymmetrical if he was missing that many body parts it’s how he doing some Romanian deadlifts this is posing from seven days a week ago he’s looking he’s definitely training hard for the S classic I really hope he I hope everything’s fine
And he gets back into the USA no problem he’s he’s had no problem getting here for the past past few olympias so I don’t foresee any issues you know and um Hy Hy Rod’s on his side helping him with the VISA with his company that hot hotti is a legit employee of Eva
Nutrition yeah look at him that guy could easily win the Arnold there’s no doubt in my mind it’s one of his children yeah latis dorsai armpit and back exercises with the sayings and hearings fary does not translate well to the to uh to English armpit and back exercises with all the savings and
Hearings that will be interesting to you stay with us on YouTube linking the story and then there’s some farc and I’m just curious what the actual oh that’s what it trans that’s what Google translate does Google Translate is I I found out the hard way from using using it with
With people that it’s not the greatest it doesn’t translate that well in a lot of cases Google translate yeah okay is that enough enough hottie for one day okay okay so yeah let’s go back big my [ __ ] what’s up dude what’s up I vote no too oh what was Thomas talking
About oh the special invites yeah you can’t have more than one anyway way and you know last year we didn’t this 20 this year we’re still in 2023 we didn’t have we didn’t even have a special invite this year the year before it went to Derrik Lunsford year before that
Was Cedric year before that was big Ramy am I right I think I got that right but they don’t have to do they don’t have to have a special invite they don’t have to do it every year you know I say they only do one because they’ve never done
More than one but maybe they can do whatever the hell they want maybe they could invite 20 people if they really wanted to Dane thank you he is not qualified yeah I mean I would only I would only give him a special invite uh if we could have proof that he
Had a Visa secured because why would you give him a special invite that could have been given to somebody else and then the same [ __ ] happens again where he can’t get into the USA which is terrible but now that invitation could have been given to somebody else like a
Nathan or a Brett and you know with Nathan I don’t know his situation they turned him away in in Orlando when he showed up trying to get to the Olympia a couple months back he was turned away had to go back to the UK so I don’t know if he’s
Even able to get a Visa or what his deal is so I wouldn’t give him a special invite unless I had positive proof again that a Visa was secured that he could get here because otherwise again now you’re giving that invitation to some somebody and they’re not even able to
Make good on it they’re not able to use it where it could have been given to somebody like a a Brett wilin who’s in the US and Brett pulled out of the Olympia due to some unforeseen health issues he was having so I don’t even
Know if what his issue is if he wants do Olympia what I have no idea what his plans are uh guys are saying hello to each other Mike cck do you think the 1981 Mr was fixed yes yes I do you’re asking me I have no proof no proof at all I’m just
Looking back I told you before I saw many many comparison photos from that 81 Olympia which was Franco Columbo’s second win and yeah I did I wasn’t feeling it I don’t think he should have been any higher than like fourth or fifth in that show so in a case like
That fixed yeah I mean I I think the the results were uh manipulated somehow in his in Franco favor that year because he looked awful I’m sorry sorry not sorry let’s put it that way poty tour is quad you can see the train view oh crap that
Sucks that sucks yeah it’s not a obviously he didn’t tear it like I tore it my quad quad ship tendon was completely ruptured my quad came completely off the knee and rolled halfway up my toward my hip what he has is a if he has a quad TI I’m just
Assuming that you’re correct in this assumption very partial what they call a pull or a strain which is something that’s not going to require surgery it will heal on its own I and probably a lot of you out there have had partial tears minor tears that resolved themselves they healed with no deformity
Or anything like I remember I don’t I’ve never torn my PEC but one time I was about to tear it and I I had a little bit I could feel something tore a little bit and it was hurting for a few weeks and then it was fine there’s no Dent or
Anything there but that was a partial tear I was was doing heavy Smith decline presses of all stupid things um but yeah that’s if if he’s torn his quad that sucks because you know he’s known for his monstrous legs and he still has Crazy Legs crazy quads but training with
An injury or with an area that you have to sort of be so careful with it’s not the ideal situation you want to go all out you don’t want to have anything mentally holding you back like uhoh uh oh you know you don’t want to be training legs like I better not do
Another rep I better not put another plate on you don’t want to you want to be able to push your boundaries and your limits you want to take it to the edge and Beyond to be a great Champion to do what others haven’t done um so that’s it
Sucks if that’s the case if he has partially torn his quad I feel for him I feel for him and I I hope it’s something that can be resolved and he’s able to train 100% full full function on leg days and everything else very very soon if he isn’t
Already Mike saw Victor Richards at the 94 Olympia Beyond massive had no idea how he fed himself so he used to claim you know Nigerians have a have a reputation for telling Tall Tales um embellishing they do look it up he used to claim he ate 30,000 calories a day
30,000 and people were trying to figure out how is that even possible you could do it if you were eating nothing but like saturated fat I guess you could probably eat 30,000 calories worth of saturated fat a day if that’s all you ate but if you’re eating like uh chicken rice
Vegetables just a sheer volume of food it would take to to get that caloric total would be insane we’re talking like bucket load of chicken and rice six six or eight times a day to get that many calories I don’t know if that’s I don’t know if he actually ever ate that many
Calories or anything close to it I’ve heard of people that were able to get down 10,000 calories consistently and that’s that’s a lot of calories 10,000 is a lot I don’t think I ever went above like at my worst when I was drinking like weight gain shakes the ones that
They used to make that had like three to 5,000 calories in a serving uh I think in in those days I became a little Porky Pig uh seven or eight thousand calories a day and it wasn’t after I would I would get so bloated and sick and just
Look like [ __ ] and feel like [ __ ] after like a month or two of doing that I had to back off I couldn’t take it anymore I just felt like you know it just felt disgusting I look in the mirror like my face is look like a freaking pumpkin my ass has dimples on
It I grab jelly rolls around my middle I don’t like being heavier I just don’t oh he say 20,000 did I just embellish it myself and take it from 20 to 30,000 I probably did let’s go to Google I’m just curious I just wonder what they have on
That I wonder if they have like him him saying it anywhere 20,000 I’m curious if anything shows up for that yeah he did he did claim to need 30,000 oh he didn’t die we all reported he was dead November 10th 2021 even now he claims he eats 8 to
12,000 calories a day boy oh boy okay so let find the old thread this is Bing bing.com forums is it still up let’s see I’d like to show you guys the actual ual actual stuff if I can so I’m looking up this claim about Vic Richards eating
30,000 calories a day because it sounds Mighty can’t reach this page it’s gone it’s gone yeah that one’s gone it’s too old yeah uh 15 20 it’s all the protein eats so someone said 15 to 20 egg whites and five chicken breasts that’s all the protein he eats yeah there’s there’s no
Way if he was eating if he was eating clean there is just no way he would get you could you can’t get that many calories with clean food was Vic Richards a nice guy I wouldn’t say he was a nice guy no he he wasn’t like a he wasn’t he wasn’t
What I would call Friendly or outgoing um he just sort of expected and demanded respect from everybody because of who he was and how big he was uh at the time I think he’s become very religious inin so he’s probably changed quite a bit uh I don’t know if he’s like a
Minister now or something but yeah he was you know Greg Valentino wrote for MD for many years the rambling free column Greg knew him pretty well from H when Greg was only like 18 or 19 or 20 he lived out in Venice for a little while Venice California trained at Gold’s Venice and
Uh Vic Richards would do the same thing he would sort of Boss Greg around in the gym like he was his slave or you you’re going to spot me you’re going to do this you’re going to do that you know get my weights put my weights away without even
Asking just sort of demanding it and he said vic had a bad habit of oiling himself up before the workouts so he’d look extra freaky he put like posing oil on then go work out and he’d have Greg spotting him and Greg’s hands were sliding all over the place because the
Guy’s all oiled up so Greg had nothing nice to say about Vic Richards and I find GRE Greg Valentino to be a very very honest guy very believable so I don’t think he was exaggerating he’s he sort of portrayed Vic as a jerk or an a-hole so at least
The Vic Richards from his bodybuilding Heyday not a nice guy that was many many years ago he could be the sweetest man of God you’ve ever met by now in present day I don’t know I don’t know I do know that uh he wanted to be when I tried to
Interview him for Ron line report for MD after we determined that he wasn’t dead and I apologize for falsely reporting it along with everybody else he would do an interview but he wanted to be paid and I was dude we don’t pay people for interviews I don’t know this isn’t like
The national Inquirer I don’t know TMZ that pay people for interviews so no we I never got the interview because and he wasn’t gonna pay him and I wasn’t springing for the money out of my pocket for for what Mike says cover the Tampa Pro yeah well that’s a show I I didn’t
Rattle that off as one of the shows but the shows I would like to cover if and I would probably want to be on site not doing it remote like this uh watching a webcast Olympia Arnold obviously Arnold UK would be great for me to go overseas
And go see that uh New York Pro I think I said Tampa Pro Texas Pro is a great show Legion Sports is a great show um so those shows if I could go to all those this coming year that’s like my wish list but we’ll see we have a long way we
Still need to monetize this channel I thought it had like 3,300 watch hours and then I looked again it was down to like 3,10 so if YouTube keeps taking my watch hours away or something I don’t know what’s up with YouTube they’re out to get me they don’t like
Me uh Mike says we’ll be at Orlando on tample booking hotels in January yeah I mean if I want to go to these things I need to I need to get moving I know do Olympia live stream around play byplay well I couldn’t show you the live stream as it was happening
Because that would be a violation of all their trademarks and of all that I’d be stealing their footage live typically they’re okay as long as the show’s over you can use some of the footage in your reporting in bits and pieces you know it’s a fair use uh policy that YouTube
Has about using other other footage that’s trademarked and copyright but you can’t just sit there with I’ve seen people do it and some of them get their channels taken away some of them get their a lot of most of them get their videos taken down very quickly but
During the big shows especially I’ve seen like uh Brazilian YouTube channels and some of the Middle East they will basically just share the screen of the of the live stream on their channel so you know everyone else has to pay you know 50 70 80 bucks whatever to
Watch the show and they’re putting on their Channel for free for you to watch for free so they can get the ad money you know if that gets back to the promoters of that show they can legitimately file uh strike against them with YouTube they can get the channel
Taken down if it’s bad enough so I’m not messing with that I’m not messing with that Tomas if you had to choose one mandatory post promote Bible the mainstream which one B I think front latb show the athletes face and musle as well yeah front lat spread is a really
Uh marketable pose I think it’s a it’s a heroic pose when they used to show you know like Superman back in the day they usually showed him like in a basically like a front latch spr with his cape flying behind him in the in the Wind
That or you know the front double bicep is that’s the pose like everybody knows everybody knows the crab most muscular it’s not like a it’s like that’s that’s considered sort of like a you know brutal animalistic pose like the front double bicep you got especially someone like Arnold people love seeing that pose
Because those huge Peak biceps the flaring lats small waist people love that but yeah I think front lat spread is a good a good choice with a honorable mention slash Runner up for frontal bicep uh we’re waiting for Flex to come in the mail like Christmas I didn’t get
In the mail I used to go to the news St I knew I knew the day every magazine came out I knew when Iron Man musle mag Flex muscular development I knew when they all came out and I would go to either a news stand or a bookstore
Whatever and picked them up and it was yeah I was I distinctly remember when I I transferred after freshman year I did at UCSB my second third and fourth years were at Emerson College in Boston and a lot of times I used to take the the
Subway in and I get off at the Copley stop on the green line and just when you got out of the got to the street level there was a news stand right there with all the magazines and newspapers laid out and I always knew what day they
Would have the new flex the new muscle mag and Iron Man so forth and I was ready and and just dying I can’t wait for the new muscle I can’t wait for the new Iron Man and I always those are you guys I feel I feel sorry for the current
Generation because with all this access you know it’s not as exciting because it’s not like there’s no effort required and you’re not really you don’t have to look forward to anything because it’s you know it’s just going to be there instantly at your fingertips a click of
A mouse or a scroll or whatever it’s instant gratification that sort of takes away that anticipation the excitement of like oh boy I can’t wait for this like when the Olympia say the Olympia happened September first uh 1987 I’m making that up but the only way you going to see
Pictures photos coverage of that Olympia Mr Olympia you had to wait for the the issue to come out and it would typically be anywhere from four to six weeks after the event that the issue would come out with those pictures and the and the written reports by guys like Peter
McGuff they were fantastic sitting there reading I loved reading those reports you know we had great writers like Peter like Julian Schmidt um Greg zulak we had great writers just covering covering the sport with these educated eyes and they were they were describing it like you were there it was it was a
It was a it was a something that you guys will never get to experience unfortunately you younger guys and I actually do feel sorry I wish you could have experienced that was it was I think things felt more special just more uh I don’t know maybe I’m just looking at it
Through the lens of nostalgia I don’t know uh what’s stickers in the first body open the gay I don’t think he was I think Bob Paris came out before he did did Chris ever even I don’t know that Chris ever ever came out as being openly
Gay I know he was gay but I don’t recall yeah I wasn’t a huge fan of his I had nothing against him but the guys from that era that I was paying more I wasn’t actually following a sport when he was Mr Olympia it would still be a
Few more years but the guys from that era that I sort of looked at more were uh like Frank Zayn Mike mener Boer co uh not know Danny Padilla not so much Chris he had a really good physique obviously but I just nothing about it really really appealed to me or or stood
Out to me obviously he was great he became Mr Olympia uh ah here we go Joe Joseph Robo my favorite book back in the day is slice still have a copy my officite work uh I believe it was a Bob Kennedy book meaning that he produced it but I don’t
Know if he wrote that or did there was a female bodybuilder from Canada named ngita neeg rest in peace Jade J A yde she was a very gifted writer herself I think she wrote that book I think it was you know like a bodybuilding these were
Books that gave you like a lot of basic bodybing information good solid info to refer back to you know because we had no internet and I think NR wrote that I really I’m pretty sure it’s cold dry air makes you thirsty I’m always thirsty Jen it’s it’s it’s awful you’d think I was
Because that’s like one of the first the main signs of diabetes is you’re thirsty all the time but I have my A1C test and everything I’m not diabetic but I think I’m just used to drinking so much water every day I go to easily two gallons of
Water a day easily so I get thirsty especially if I’m talking for more than a few minutes it’s embarrassing yeah Joseph is yep the greed Jade yeah I I don’t think I had that one but man I remember some great books back in the Dr Fred Hatfield wrote one called scientific
Bodybuilding or bodybuilding science I mean there’s some great stuff back then some really good writers and great photos you know they would have like Chris lond photos Robert Reef um great shots just yeah I used to buy I used to buy some of the books mainly for the
Photos I remember I bought uh the Nautilus advaned bodybuilding book the first bodybuilding book I ever bought and it was the photos they had training photos of boo who was on the cover the cover was him on a nautilus preacher curl machine he had these Double Split
He had two splits in his biceps it was amazing I bought the book for that and then inside there were pictures of like Mr Olympia competitions of that era which would have been like the mid 80s early to mid 80s and uh yeah like Zayn mener all these guys Boer Chris
Dickerson Danny Franco was in there Samir bonu just great great shots great training shots from Chris yeah it’s notice yeah Dane if if Tyler brought the leg up that’s not that’s not a good thing because you know he’s a judge like he’s mentoring the audience
Yeah I I I got I actually give Tyler a lot of credit he reviews he’s done like videos that he puts on his Instagram he posts on the in as an Instagram post where he sits there and he lays out exactly breaks down the fitness Olympia
The figure Olympia you know this is why we picked so and so this is the criteria that put this person over the other one because judging is it’s not easy to understand if even for those have been around sometimes our calls were like huh but he will come out he will explain
Exactly why somebody beat somebody else or somebody lost to somebody else this is what they need to work on this is what this person had that the other didn’t or didn’t have you know very very detailed and transparent because he doesn’t need to do that judges never
Said [ __ ] back in the day so for him to do that I I do applaud him for that Google translate does make some mistakes says Jan R was in Miguel spot check me for Brazilian B yeah I’ve I’ve used it a few times when the people got
Back to me and saying that’s completely messed up you just told me like my mother’s a goat or something so you gotta be careful with Google translate it’s not it’s not as authoritative as you would hope it would be it’s it’s just not so D when was Back days talking about
How chupan he was talking about how you should respect the Jim bring your own towel and dress nicely cool yeah because he owns I I thought he just owned one gym I guess he owns multiple gyms Iran hot chupon but yeah respect the gym management bring your own towel I
Wouldn’t expect that I mean we have paper towels at my gyming do I get yeah my new hoodie I got from them today Jee where am I it’s over here Bas logo yeah I gotta gotta hide that to show the logo yeah so we have paper towels and spray
Balls all over my gym so when you’re done your gross sweat you you spray the spray the paper and you wipe it down so the next person doesn’t have to percolate marinate in your sweat because you don’t know where we don’t know where other people have been you know they
Might not have had a bath in days or weeks bath shower I still say bath that’s how old I am body is a unique Guy what’s I use a Brazil word for [ __ ] and luckily Miguel caught that one yeah I mean you don’t want to make mistakes like that right
Right the where you’re insulting somebody inadvertently unintentionally calling someone something he had definitely did not mean to disrespect him Goku says do you think Ramy is back and good enough to place top five at this year Mr Olympia top five sure I I think he’s always capable of top
Five I would never say oh ramy’s never gonna make top five again but he would have had a tough time last this past Olympia I think and um yeah we need to see what he looks like again you know his physique I thought he was able to
Bring up some some weak points for sure uh at the Arnold between the 2022 Olympia and the 23 Arnold Classic not weak points just things in his in his physique that sort of deteriorated all of a sudden the lower lats were retracting this tricep was starting to
Go away starting to lose some size and fullness uh one of his Cals was losing a lot of size and you know I don’t I still have no idea what the hell was going on with that nerve damage or whatever but he went and got all the stem cell
Treatments and he came back looking much better at the Arnold but still he could only get fifth place at the fourth place at the Arnold so for two-time Mr Olympia to I think he was fifth at the Olympia in 2022 and then fourth at the Arnold in a
Few months later three months later at the Arnold uh fourth place so yeah that that’s not a good sign but we’ll see we’ll see what the rest does for him hopefully his buy is refreshed assuming he still wants to keep going compete I I wish him the best and I hope he’s able
To recapture his best look like he had I’d say that first Olympia Win Second Mr Olympia win were a couple of his best looks that year he took second was it 2017 he looked pretty damn great that year too I took second to Phil whatever happened about Paris who
Arguably had one of the greatest classic e of all time what didn’t he do interview his parents how do you think you would do class weekday well he’s very very bitter very bitter about bodybuilding um I think he feels he was blacklisted he was sort of kicked out of
The sport because he came out as being gay which there probably is some truth to that you know this is 2023 we’re talking about the early 80s mid 80s late 80s I guess it came out in like the late 80s and you know it was a different era for
For being G for America in particular was a lot more racist a lot more homophobic back then um and I think he was very bitter another thing he was bitter about was that his his physique was never really appreciated and rewarded they were looking for guys who were much bigger and
Thicker uh he wasn’t a small guy he was about six foot he competed around 220 which you know we got guys who are like five 53 competing or 220 these days but yeah he wrote a book called gorilla suit where he sort of it was not regretting his time in
Bodybuilding but he didn’t he didn’t look at it as a good thing he wasn’t really proud of having been a bodybuilder he doesn’t think much of modern bodybuilding in the sport uh but classic physique I think he would have made a tremendous classic musique competitor had it existed back then his
Condition was never spectacular but he would hopefully work with a coach if he was you know 30 years old right now let’s say 28 32 years old somewhere in that range now with the physique he had he would have done very very very well for
Sure says Bob got out of the scene after writing his book did a lot of interviews he was ostracized after coming out yeah like I said America was not as not as nice a place a lot more Prejudice back then uh I will I be taking precautions
Honestly I am so scared to walk him I won’t even I I’ve been walking him some mornings a lot of times I take him to the park in someone’s car and my wife’s are my son’s he can’t go in my car he’s gonna mess his hair is going to mess it
All up but now he was not trained very well so he pulls you especially if he wants to go or if he sees a dog that he wants to go towards he pulls and you know I don’t if it’s a slippery Street or God for it’s an icy
Street I’m I’m flying I’m not GNA keep my balance so I don’t know what precautions I can take I gotta get you know those like uh those crampons those like uh mountain climbing shoes with the spikes on the bottom I don’t know I mean right now I’m honestly I won’t I won’t
Walk him if the if the road’s wet we haven’t had any ice or snow on the roads yet or on the sidewalks but I can’t foresee myself walking him in those conditions I would just be falling and God forbid I tear the other quad I do
Not want to go through this again you know I’m like I’d say as far as like function it’s probably like 70% back I can walk upstairs normally with both legs I’m still not walking downstairs normally I go down on I keep the right leg straight
When I go downstairs so I come down with the right and then put put come down with the left and put the right leg next to it so yeah I’m still scared still traumatized why did March I don’t know why they didn’t invite him I have no idea they pick who
They want to pick I don’t know you know exactly what their what their process is or what their their end game the end game is to fill seats sell sponsorships and sell tickets that’s the end game of any contest promoter that’s that’s the goal uh I don’t know if they didn’t feel
He was a big enough name big enough draw I don’t know I have no idea but don’t write him off yet I I honestly think if if anybody withdraws the next few weeks I I do suspect he might get the invite at that point because especially if the
Roster drops by more than one person I don’t think they’d want it to you know they they don’t want seven guys up on stage right now they have 12 they’re good for now but if they lose a couple people I don’t see I don’t think it’s impossible I think they might might
Invite Martin so don’t don’t give up yet uh would I cover a show if he hired me to cover it yeah why wouldn’t I anybody that wants any promoter that wants to hire me to do coverage for their show I’m right here you guys know
Where to find me and why wouldn’t I the only reason I couldn’t do it before was because I was with MD and it would be a conflict of interest I’m getting I was getting a paycheck every week from MD to work exclusively for MD so I’m not
Covering shows for anybody else I’m not doing YouTube videos for anybody else but there’s no MD anymore MD is is gone it doesn’t exist anymore uh the company’s been dissolved so yeah if ruad wants to hire me or any promoter wants to hire me and bring me to their show interviews whatever I’m
Here yeah give me a call drop me an email that guy 6 do you think any funny business going with a all B FL to California I don’t think so I actually so Ed Ed’s gay that’s not a secret um he probably you know he’s a good he wanted
To help these guys I wouldn’t doubt that he was attracted to them I why wouldn’t he be if you’re a gay man you have good-look muscular young guys around of course but uh I talked to a few guys who lived out there lived you know he had
Like they could live at his house it wasn’t like he wasn’t sleeping in their rumor they had their own spot their own space and the guys I spoke to like marazzo Deo back in the day they’re both passed away now they said nothing ever happened he never asked he never made
Any kind of creepy demands or anything like that I do believe he loves the sport he loves bodybuilding he wanted to help these guys out he helped bring a ton of guys out to Venice he gave a lot of them jobs working like front desk at Golds or whatever train let them be
Trainer at Gold’s Venice so he helped a lot of them M and to the very best of my knowledge nothing funny ever happened and nor did he attempt to make anything funny happen um uh yeah so how many ghosts are off D for MD each
Month I want to blow my nose but you guys are going to get gonna get upset so I’m gonna do it off camera hang on okay so at my height Mike at the height and I was making great money back then for me you know if you had told me
At age 18 you’re gonna make this much money a year I’d be like wow so for a few years there I’d say about six to eight years I was making really good money because I was charging per article uh I got 750 bucks per article
So you know this is why I still do have a lot of gratitude for C Blackman and I’m not going to go on RX uh a channel that insulted and mocked and disrespected him over and over again for 15 years after they were let go uh
Because he paid me very well at one time I was doing 15 to 20 of those a month do the math plus I was was still writing for Iron Man muscle mag tenation whatever it was called at the time I was still writing for plenty of other people I was freelance um so
Yeah at one time but the funny thing is I started off at MD as a ghost rider for a ghost as the Ghost Rider for another Ghost Rider so the sandwich Josh Brown was doing a bunch of the athlete columns at that time this would have been 2001
Early 2001 he was like he couldn’t take the he just didn’t didn’t want to do them all anymore he’s like do you want to do some of these formula yeah so whatever he got he was giving me like two-thirds of the money he was keep taking like you know a finders fee or
Whatever I don’t know commission and I would write the Artic I would call up like Craig Titus or whoever oh we had so many athletes on a contract back then and I would write the Articles and then it had the athletes name on it anyway so it’s not like anyone knew the difference
Whether it was Josh writing it or me writing it but yeah at one point I was doing like 15 to 20 of those month yeah because we had so many columns I think I was doing like 15 columns and like sometimes three or four feature articles which I I charge the
Same rate for everything 750 so I was doing very well for a while there because when magazines were at their height when MD was this thick I was doing well so of course I miss those days of course I do Paris would done if he remain quiet
About his personal life I don’t think he would have done much better CU you know he competed for many years before coming out as gay and he never I don’t he never won a pro show to the best of my knowledge never won a pro
Show you want to see how he did at the Olympia let’s take a look let’s look at his contest record I’m gonna be gone soon guys this is getting so long uh but I’m going to do this Bob Paris this is muscle memory.com great website great resource so I’m G share the
Screen and okay so Bob Paris uh so here he turns Pro he won the heavyweight and overall Nationals in 1983 Olympia 7th n9th LA Pro 7th six Chicago 1988 he did all these shows Got His Highest third at the Night of Champions wow which that year was won by
Phil Hill Robbie Robins in second place wow so he had a lot of top five top six places 89 he did a bunch of shows too Fifth Third sixth third third third third a lot of third places so that’s damn good uned Champions 14th uh few more shows in 91 he got
Third and one and the last show we ever did was 1992 Chicago Pro so I don’t think uh they were holding him back see yeah this is a really cool website guys muscle memory yeah wow he looked great that’s why they put him on all these covers he was good-looking guy he
Had awesome physique yeah but no I don’t think uh being gay held him back in any way I don’t because they didn’t even know he was gay for most of that time but he was never he wasn’t as big as a lot of the guys and he wasn’t as lean he
Just had beautiful shape and symmetry if classic had been around back then he might have been the Olympia champion who knows Hood was new yeah yeah I got one for all three of us me Janet and Christian we all I got matching hoodies for they can be dorks and all go to the
Gym in the same hoodie yeah like Cox Marine Iron Man arle 199 where he said he was gay I was 16 it was a shock it was a different time yeah he was black bald I said black listed black balls the same thing you know I don’t think he had
As many contract endorsement opportunities or anything after that it was a it was a very very different time in America this is you know almost 40 years ago we’re talking Thomas if Nick Walker were to win the Olympia would you expect them to compete almost exclusively just Theo for
Us yeah dodging Pro Show I mean typically Mr Olympia historically Mr Olympia just does the Olympia he’s the top bodybuilder in the world he does appearances and seminars and things like that throughout the year and then he preps for the Olympia and wins the Olympia again you know Ronnie did only
The Olympia all eight seasons he was Olympia I’m sorry except for the first one obviously he had to qualify and then he did the Arnold 2001 won that but it almost cost him the Olympia that year because he had a real problem peing twice a year if if you’re at the top of
The food chain you’re Mr Olympia and you have great endorsements tons of money coming in why would you do all these other shows doesn’t even make sense you know it’s not that they’re beneath you but they kind of are if you’re Mr Olympia you’re going to do all these
Shows where guys are still struggling to qualify chriso had a good obtainable physique without using a lot of confence you believe Mike Ashley was natural yeah Mike I do believe Mike was natural I’ve stood next to him a few times back in those days when he was winning and he
Looked a lot bigger in the pictures than he was in real life because he had just tiny little joints beautiful shape I don’t think he was ever more than like 185 190 pounds on stage you stood next to him especially if you had like loose clothes on like huh that’s the guy that
That’s but then you’d see him on stage you like wow totally different look yeah I think he was natural uh double M why do you think M pH has recently rewarded very short blocky competitors they’re not rewarded they’re just judging what’s in front of
Them and you know as soon as we have a guy like when Samson’s ready to win now you’re GNA have a guy who’s you won’t be asking this anymore because now you’re going to have a six foot tall Mr Olympia but they’re not blocky you know hotti
And Derek they still have tapers blocky is when the Torso is just a block it doesn’t have a great taper Derek has a great taper because his lats are out to here and he’s got a narrow waist hottie has a good taper it’s not as good as Derek’s dereck’s definitely got more of
A V and hotti is somewhere in between a V and a block but they’re not blocky you know when you say blocky I think of people like the late is he is he dead Tim belnap you know we we’ve had guys in in the sport that were very blocky very
Blocky no taper at all just like little refrigerators the sandwich yeah how would you have known Mike I only did that for a few months and then he he just got tired of doing it and at that point I had started writing for MD feature articles so I
Just took over those columns from it basically and then more and more got added till I was doing I was doing all the columns yeah there were a couple guys that wrote their own columns just a couple for the most part they would just I would talk to them on
The phone once a month conversation would take 15 30 40 minutes at the most you know they’d update me on what they were doing I’d have little updates on what they were their they were doing with like the career gym family whatever and ask a few q&as and that would that
Would fill up the article uh I didn’t edit so the guys that did their own articles I didn’t even see the the copy usually sometimes they did I would do a little editing light editing but gock uh was our editor we’ve had other editors over the years but Al goldick was my the
Editor I worked with the longest I want to say like almost 20 years and uh he would fix up all that he did that he edited my stuff too and my my grar is not perfect believe me but he he knew all the grammar rules and he would fix
Everything and factual errors he would correct uh obviously punctuation spelling things like that he fixed all that for us I think kindy I think you mean Keon were doing the open I think he can win open at the best stru Olympia stage I don’t think he can win the can
He win the open Mr Olympia I don’t think so no you know not to say that in a couple years he might improve put a little bit more size on he’s he’s got a beautiful physique I don’t see him beating like Derek or hotti or Samson I just don’t no
But you know why I don’t know why people can never be satisfied unless somebody’s in open nobody seems to be satisfied that the division they’re in is good enough for them like if they’re in classic when’s he going to go open if they’re in 212 when’s he going to go
Open not everybody has to wants to or needs to go open I mean we have these other divisions for a reason they’re the best best place where certain people belong so why would you why would you look down on them for being in that division that they’re doing so well in
You know let him let this you know like bump still let leave bump sit alone he’s he is classic by physique he’s the pure embodiment of it he’s doing so well he’s got five Olympia titles he’s making crazy money he’s more popular than any of these other people he’s got 20
Million followers on Instagram and still people like oh when’s he gonna go open he doesn’t need to go open why would he go open what what’s going open gonna do for Bumstead except risk his health more because he’s gonna have to take more gear there’s no reason for him to go
Open no reason at all what’s up jles i’ see you had some news for us on the uh WhatsApp so I’ll get to that later I’m almost done yeah I know I know you meant Keon it’s okay did I meet Joe Weider I probably like shook his hand
One time but I never met him that’s one of the guys I would have liked to have interviewed obviously he was an icon you know I’ve talked I know I’ve talked a little smack about Joe that I thought he sort of manipulated conscious results to favor his own financial interest I do
Believe that to an ex that that did happen but we would not have uh the sport of bodybuilding without Joe and Ben weer we would not have this industry wouldn’t exist uh it was just a you know it was a cult sport before that there
Was no money in like no money in it not there’s not crazy sick money in it now but there was no money in it before it was not popular it was looked down upon by most people Joe and Ben they they brought the sport they elevated it to
The level it became today and we wouldn’t I wouldn’t be here on this channel none of you would be watching me none of you would be following bodybuilding had not been for Joe weer great show bro I finish up some work then time to blaze good good good
Uh LG is a bang on edor one of the best Y come by Mike Merry Christmas I believe Joe did Love by oh he loved by like I said I think the movie bigger did a great job of of portraying the passion that Joe had for bodybuilding the sport
Uh the athletes he loved it and he wanted it he wanted bodybuilding to be a mainstream Sport and activity and you know he was he sort of played a huge role in the fact that we now have gyms all all over the place tons of people not necessarily competing but building
Their bodies all over the world in all these gyms and health clubs and fitness centers we wouldn’t have any of this it wouldn’t be at this level it would still be a very small cult sport if it was even around at all by this point without Joe weer Lauren Lauder the lovely uh
Miss lady tiger yeah doing great all right guys it’s been wow an hour and a half I’m going to wrap it up uh this probably will be the last one I do for the year I think uh gonna see some family and so forth so uh whatever you’re celebrating
Or not celebrating I wish you all the very best please take care of yourselves enjoy some time with friends and family eat a few treats you know really just take time and appreciate the everything you have and everyone that’s in your life and uh you know get to the gym get a good
Pump love you all love you all appreciate you all so thank you so much for watching and uh if I don’t see you uh don’t do more videos this year I will see you in 2024 appreciate you all please subscribe like share turn notifications do all
That good stuff please help me grow this channel so I can make it bigger and better and we can really bring up the content to a whole other level can’t do it without your help so that’s it thanks and I’ll see you guys sometime soon bye bye
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Ron is on 💪🤙
Shouldn’t you have like 330k subscribers? The way I see it you’re the only reason why anyone watched the muscular development YouTube channel. So now that you have your own channel, logic would dictate that those 330k subscribers would move over here. Or couldn’t you make an agreement to carryon using the MD channel and change the name but keep the outreach. MD owed you that for keeping them alive as long as s you did. what’s your thoughts Ron.
great content as always. I hope Santa gets you monetized for Christmas
1:16 what ever happened to Cody Montgomery and Justin Compton?
My top five are:
1. Hadi
2. Samson
3. Andrew
4. Neckzilla (Yep I said it, he's coming in fourth)
5. Mo Shaban (if he makes it to the US)
Sorry I missed the show.hope you have a nice Christmas 🎄
Yay Ron! 🥳
Keep it up mate one of my fav bb channels, "The Ron harris Show" sounds great for the channel as you need no introduction and your a independent channel 😊
Merry Christmas Ron. Always a good listen. 1981 Olympia very interesting topic. Fixed? Not really when you study the score sheets. It was judged the way a bodybuilding contest should be in a way. Danny, Roy, Tom and Chris all in great condition literally split the votes while Franco, not at his best benefits from that. Biggest issue was the judges could have ties in any of the three rounds so if you didn’t want to insult a living legend you could put him in second with another guy or two and have your top choice first. Franco did get a couple of firsts, and that is questionable, but throw out the high and low and bingo Franco was the beneficiary
Thank you Ron !! On On !!