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Good mornings of all kinds are great. I prefer seated, like Konstantinovs used to do.
At about 2 minutes if time stamp doesn't work.
https://youtu.be/L6rvz3JMGTs?t=118

James Hollingshead definitely the sharpest.

If you've won a major championship in your home country, you might be able to get a pro card that way. You would need to talk to an IFBB representative from your home country for a letter of...

Crazy thick.

https://i.imgur.com/OOJriiP.jpg

Fux was a real mass monster, but never seemed to come in really ripped.

https://i.imgur.com/ViPoZBY.jpg

I'd say Haney was closer to unbeatable than Yates or Ronnie. He was just bigger than all of the runner ups; Makkawy, Beckles, Gaspari, Labrada. Only Yates was comparable in '91....

Some uncrowned Mr Olympias never even make it to the pro ranks. Matt Mendenhall had bad luck, losing to the likes of Haney, Strydom, Mike Christian and others as an amatuer and suffering a car crash...

nuts!

Sergio was an olympic weightlifter before he came to bodybuilding, so there's that. He'd win any standing overhead.
Yates and Ruhl are the biggest guys and were definitely strong at all the...

Jeff King is a guy who could have been Mr. Olympia if he made the jump from NABBA to IFBB, but feared there would be politics involved.
Also, I agree - a thick neck and traps makes you look...

Incredible to think that Terry Todd did the first 700lbs squat just 7 years earlier in 1965. The progression of powerlifting in the early days was incredible (the first 1000lb squat was Lee Moran in...

No?

Wow, old thread. The Michalik thing got my attention, though. He was a Mr. America who never really did anything notable as an IFBB pro and obviously had some mental health issues stemming from an...

I don't think anyone has ever done more than a single with over 700 raw, and he does four reps? Inhuman strength.

Kind of just trolling people for his own amusement, I guess?

Sleeves, linament.

Unfortunately, the 90s guys had one huge roadblock in their path.
https://i.imgur.com/uYv7npJ.jpg

He's always hinting at a return, but never seems to get around to actually doing it.

Indirectly, heavy power movements seem to thicken up the neck, if you're doing things like heavy squats, deadlifts, cleans, etc, then your neck will get thicker.
Directly, you can always buy a neck...

I think he's in with a good chance of getting that 501kg deadlift. his 480kg on an elephant bar looked strong.