And then he mentioned he was eating chocolate cake every week on podcasts and it turns out that he's a human being like everyone else.
It's the same with Ronnie and everyone thinking he was a machine who never strayed from his diet. His "diet" included fries and cornbread and other garbage authorized by Chad because he could get away with it.
I think you’re reaching with that a bit;
Dorian came out with that and said exactly what he did and said he would have a cheat MEAL,
NOT a CHEAT DAY until about 3-4 weeks out from the Olympia but it was usually on a Saturday night going to a nice dinner and have a good steak and mashed potatoes with gravy or something like that if there was a birthday or anniversary, he wasn’t eating cakes and ice cream and going crazy with cheat days until the show.. It was mostly a pretty damn 80% healthy meal..
Ronnie came out and talked specifically about the fries situation and laughed because everyone thought he was eating French fries getting ready for comp when he would actually cut potatoes and bake them until they were crispy (there’s video of him doing this) and people thought he was eating French fries when it was actually thin cut baked potatoes…
I’m not saying they never strayed and were never human, and plus, when you’re 300lbs of muscle, you can get away with a little here and there, but the reality is that they probably did diet harder than guys today.
I’m no pro or anything close, I’m not even a bodybuilder, but even a blind man can see that guys in the 90’s and early 2000’s were in way better condition than guys today.
You’ll be hard pressed to find a guy today who looks as lean and hard/grainy with that death face, like Dorian in his prime..
Besides the fact that all these pros look great on IG edited pictures a few weeks out then when you see them at the show they look like shit all bloated and blurry or like guys in the 90’s did in their training videos 6 weeks out.
Shit, look at when Brandon Curry won in 2019, his face looked bloated as hell. Even guys like Hadi, who objectively come in significantly more conditioned than a lot of guys we’ve seen in a long time, doesn’t have that death face super lean/grainy look..
I get that Ronnie was a genetic specimen, but bodybuilding kinda went to shit after his reign.. Everyone is just big and bloated with blown out waists..
Hence why it’s a dying category and everyone is far more impressed with Classic, even though some of those guys are borderline Open category buuut at least their conditioning is pretty insane.
, but I don’t think they come near the size of guys competing in the ‘90 and ‘00 era. Perhaps due to the weight cap, but if you look at guys like Ronnie, Gunther, Ruhl, Levrone and even Wolf… the size and conditioning of these guys was insane. As far as the open goes, those guys definitely pack some more mass but I’ve never seen the insane conditioning like back in the days. I can’t even remember when I saw epic striated shoulders or pecs in the open.
