Obviously Arnold was the more celebrated bodybuilder and rightfully so, but do you guys think the change in the sport and the direction it was going was enough that a good but not dominant guy from.the 80s could beat the undoubted best guy from the 70s under the context of modern judging and its empasis on leg development?
Still the best legs ive ever seen. Honestly. There may have been bigger but iv never seen better.
Of course, the oak was packing some serious firepower of his own
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01-02-2013, 02:36 PM #1
Evolution of bodybuilding. Arnold vs Platz (both in their prime)
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it has always frustrated me that even bodybuilding fans are disproportionately willing to dismiss a bodybuilder for having incomplete upper-bodies but accept a bodybuilder that has an incomplete lower body.
i really think platz should have done better than his placings represented.___________________________________________________________
from 6th to 3rd ...and on to 1st?
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I see where your coming from, but to me Platz looks closer to the current crop of pro's. like I think a guy with his physique would have more of a chance than a guy with Arnold's of winning a pro card nowadays because legs are so important now. (Obv Arnold could get the legs if he trained now I'm talking the vintage versions we've seen on stage).
Arnold is my personal favourite btw, so I'm in no way trying to bring him down. Just wondering if the evolution in leg development in particular would place Platz above him on a modern stage. I know Arnold already won in 80 and personally think he deserved it, but that wasn't Platz best year either and like the judges of those days I'm more inclined to the old school look with the smaller legs and extremely developed arms and chest. Again what I'm asking is, does Platz good but unspectacular upper body and amazing wheels bring him closer to the modern ideal?☆☆☆υк ¢яєω☆☆☆
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Comparing two completely different bone structures. Non sensical argument. No amount of drugs or training could of transformed either of them into the other. It all comes down to taste. Both of them maxed out their potential with the tools they had. Arnold was six footish...Tom was 5 and a halfish...you can't objectively compare them.
Tom Platz imo was robbed out of first or second in his Olympia outings at least once. He did bring up his upper body in 80s.
Arnold in 74 is perfection and that package of mass, height, proportions, and symmetry has not been duplicated since.
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