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(stevejones @ Sep. 23 2006,02:12)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"><div>
(Lol @ Sep. 22 2006,22:05)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">I'm not sure whether Tom is all natural at that size or whether powerlifters tend to take as much juice as bb'ers? Even though he is big he has a natural look. Eg. Traps more normally proportioned.</div>
No, he wasn't a natural when powerlifting, and he admitted to using steroids to maintain his muscle when he cut. He looks pretty good, but nothing exceptional for a steroid user. Really makes you appreciate how incredibly talented the pro bbers are. I mean, not to take anything away from Dave's physique, but he is probably stronger than every Olympia contender up on stage (at least in one lift, if not all three), and, do you think he could compete with any of those guys on stage ? No way</div>
"talented" - good way to describe the incredible pharmaceutical aids the top bodybuilders have available. Gulledge has the look of the bodybuilders in the golden age, big, strong and ripped...but not 'freaky'. I believe that has alot to do with specific drugs. In the 70's bodybuilders were using basic androgens and they got very big, but not really freaky. Nowadays, they drugs are way more advanced and bodybuilders stack a variety of different ones to get as freaky as possible.
With gulledge's strength and genetics, he could focus on bodybuilding and take a wide variety of steroids and growth hormones to compete professionally if he wanted to.
To me a dead-giveaway to insane growth hormane use is the abs...Dave has a small waist, like the bodybuilders back in the 70's had. Nowadyas with growth hormones and everything else that is used, the Pro's have enormous muscles everywhere, including bulging abdominals that look disgusting...obvious side effect of GH use.
I personally like the look of the gloden age bodybuilders, they had 'help' but their physiques looked beautiful and proportional. Todays bodybuilders look more like monsters than the symmetrical, proportioned bodybuilders likle sergio olivia, zane, schwarzennegger, columbo, etc. Those guys all had a certain look, just like todays pros all have a certain look. Your kidding yourself if you don't think it has to do with the chemicals available during different times.
If arnold used the same stuff as ronnie coleman, he would probably have bulging abs and a more freaky, big physique. But he would also have ruined it if you ask me.