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• WTF is WUD?

  11-03-2016 17:23
  
  Your ticket to explosive strength and muscle gains.
  
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• Virtual Posedown: Franco Columbu vs. Jose Raymond

  11-03-2016 17:23
  
  Like Franco Columbu four decades before him, Jose Raymond is celebrated for his super heavyweight density packed on a middleweight frame. Though standing only 5'4", they both reached lofty heights. Columbu won the Olympia lightweight division three times (1974–76) and the Olympia twice (1976, 1981). Raymond has eight 202 or 212 pro titles, including the 2015 Arnold Classic. Columbu possessed a torso that could hang with the 6'2" Arnold Schwarzenegger; his clavicles seemed as broad as he wa
  
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• The Classic Physique Debate

  11-03-2016 17:23
  
  Bodybuilding is both a sport and an art, but that only begins to explain the tension. First, it’s the most subjective of all athletic contests. Which physique is ideal? Do you favor more mass or better proportions? Monster quads or a greater flow to the whole? And as art, styles clash, as if a lifelike sculpture by Michelangelo is next to an abstract painting by Picasso. Is bodybuilding foremost about the pursuit of harmonious refinements or the avant-garde urge to shock? On one side is T
  
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• Phil Heath Talks Stage Presence and Weight Divisions at the Olympia

  11-03-2016 17:23
  
   QUESTION  As an NPC contest promoter, what makes a competitor stand out in your eyes?  ANSWER  The enthusiasm has to match the physique. There are a lot of amazing physiques, so I’m hoping for the person who looks great and has a lot of fun, like me. Sometimes, the guy I’m rooting for doesn’t even place—but I’m going to be watching for him in the future because I’m going to remember that he brought something more, and he’s going to b
  
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