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For the uninformed, this is what you get when you inject oil underneath your skin to artificially enlarge your muscles. In the pro bodybuilding circles people sometimes use Synthol sparingly to “even out” areas of concern. It’s not typically considered a “performance enhancing drug” since it does nothing except make the body part look larger. You could make a case that it’s cheating in bodybuilding competitions, but not really anywhere else.
Apparently this guy pumped his arms up to 25” and almost lost them. That’s actually 3” shy of Gregg Valentino’s record.
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Valentino was the subject of a documentary, The man whose arms exploded. He’s probably one of the most famous synthol abusers. In the vid below he talks about his experience. Kind of graphic but interesting nonetheless. Muscle dysmorphia is a very real thing.
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What... The... Fuck...
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He looks like a bag of potatoes.
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So basically he’s the walking equivalent of this
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There aren't enough nopes to adequately express my feelings about this.
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And
why
would people want to do this to themeslves?
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Haha.
Used to follow IFBB bodybuilding quite a bit. Apparently the synthol use is quite rampant, but the pros are very good at concealing it.
Pro bodybuilding is such a joke.
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Damn. I’m fine with steroids, but this is crazy.
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Nopefinity.
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I dont get the point. no strength no power no endurance just look like a freak. A POSER FREAK.
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Yup. I’d say it’s not quite as bad as the late 90’s-early 2000s but it still boils down to “bike rides”
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tl;dr : my grandpa was into weightlifting and looked a lot like this guy, my dad got him this poster in the late ‘90s
That documentary was good to watch. I remember growing up in the late 80-90’s and my grandpa was big into body building, although I doubt he took steroids, he always had the max muscle mags around.
He was a WW2 vet, and even back then was into lifting weights so much one of his stories was the his superior didn’t believe he took cold showers until he reached in and felt the water or whatever. Apparently my grandpa read somewhere that it decreases muscle mass, and took it as gospel.
With the name Peter J. J. Rabbitt he got the butt end of a lot of jokes, so I think this was one way of coping with that. He became a successful lawyer and dabbled in politics, but didn’t want to play the games involved.
He & grandma raised 12 kids, 2 with disabilities.
Seeing this post made me think a lot about him. He passed away a few years ago and I didn’t think about him much. My grandma passed a few months after that. Strange how that works.
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The unadorned abs are the best part of this photo. There was a guy in my neighborhood growing up that was about his quads. He had 24in quads and a flabby body and skinny girlie calves. Thought his big leg moosecles made him the shit. Ignore the rest of himself
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The lack of neck/trap connectivity is what made me chuckle most.