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12/16/2022 7:30 pm  #1


Mr. Olympia this weekend

Wesley Vissers, from the Classic Physique division.
He usually doesn't place very high-- many fans think he's getting "robbed" by the judges.
My opinion, he doesn't even look like a real guy-- those lines and proportions are improbably aesthetic.

As an artist, and fan of comic book art, I can't imagine drawing a more ideal, "heroic" torso than this.


 

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11/22/2023 4:13 pm  #2


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this year, third place in the Olympia 'Open Class' was Samson Dauda, or
'the most aesthetic guy at 300 pounds that anyone has ever seen'

300 pounds is A LOT OF POUNDS for a human being.




 


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11/22/2023 5:43 pm  #3


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Usually when you see a 300 pound person, they look different.  /captain obvious

 

11/22/2023 6:22 pm  #4


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right, well 300lb bodybuilders don't look like that either. this guy has Nigerian 'God Genetics'


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11/25/2023 9:37 pm  #5


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I'm not sure if the physique or the underwear is making me more nauseous.

But my preferences aside, despite all this perfect heroness, they just don't look like they can actually be very healthy


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12/05/2023 10:32 am  #6


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What does the first guy, Vissers, weigh?


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12/05/2023 1:03 pm  #7


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Vissers is 6'2", and around 220-230 lbs.
In the Classic Physique division, there are weight restrictions, to maintain "classic lines"


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12/17/2023 12:10 am  #8


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I suppose when you lose it's pretty hard not to take it personally.
It can't get more personal than your body.


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12/18/2023 9:38 am  #9


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It's your body, and you spend hours each day working on it.  So it's you body and vocation.  Super personal.

 

12/18/2023 2:02 pm  #10


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successful bodybuilders need a very strong belief in their selves to withstand the deluge of criticism about, yes not just their appearance/ego/identity but the body/project that they spend every day trying to make perfect --so it's also a matter of work ethic, drive to succeed, and "doing whatever it takes"

some things are genetic and just can't be helped, so the guy just has to absorb comment after comment about having "no outer quad sweep" or "high-attached lats" or "narrow clavicles" when those are unalterable traits determined at birth

for instance Samson Dauda has thick, rubbery skin that doesn't show good definition-- it's not body fat or subcutaneous water, he's just not destined to have crisp conditioning.. he could do 8 hours of cardio a day, on a caloric deficit, and lose 100 lbs, and his skin would never, ever, get that "shrink wrap" look

 

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12/21/2023 5:44 pm  #11


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You're describing things I had no clue existed, in a culture I was only peripherally aware of.
This has been an education, thank you Flint.


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12/21/2023 6:08 pm  #12


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it's a bizarre sub-culture, it truly is..

at the core of it, it's "bio-hacking" because the human body simply doesn't do these things without ... supplements
 


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