Pro Bodybuilders Off Season and Off Steroids: Pictures You Won’t Find in Bodybuilding Magazines
We all have see the pictures of our favorite pro bodybuilders, all huge and ripped.
But how do they look when the spotlight is gone and the photographers are not around?
Here’s some examples, that may change your perspective on what bulking – and steroid use – in pro bodybuilding really means.
Disclaimer: These pictures are presented as is. Some of them may be Photoshoped or otherwise altered. I have no way of verifying it. But every altered image should have an original copy somewhere on the Internet. So if you think an image is Photoshopped, just search for the original one, if you can find it.
Also, obviously off-season does not automatically mean off steroids. These are simply images of bodybuilders: some off-season, some off-steroids and some off both.
Ronnie Coleman
Not too bad. Still the Big Ronnie we know. Still quite ripped.
Water, water everywhere.
I guess at this stage it is all about ‘hugeness’
What’s up with the gut?
Gyno – the unfortunate consequence of being huge?
Big. Just so big.
Kevin Levrone
Massive. As always.
Who could argue with this.
Leaner. Better definition. Less muscles. What happened?
What the hell happened? Oh, I see. The ‘cleaning’ cycle, right?
Back to bulking…and juicing.
Off the gear, out of muscles.
King Kamali
Shinny – yes. Big – yes. Ripped – not today.
It’s bulking phase, dude.
Shawn Ray
Who says bulking up means getting fat?
Getting bigger the Shawn Ray’s way.
Trey Brewer
Yep, it is a body of one of the best bodybuilders today.
Fat with stretchmarks. Slow down, dude.
Beauty and the beast.
What is it I am looking at again? Oh yeah, the mass.
Lee Priest
Tribute to the modern medicine.
Turning into a sumo wrestler?
…when being huge means everything
Bulking up the Lee Priest’s way
Paul Dillet
Use it or lose it. Steroids, that is.
Back to being an average American.
Dorian Yates
The king of being huge – all the time.
Muscles and fat. Bulking by Dorian.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
He’s got the look…but where’s the muscles?
Maybe it’s time to hit the gym again.
Too much of beach volleyball, too little lifting weights.
Reminds me the thug look from GTA San Andreas
Back in the gym.
Just resting his (not so) big muscles.
So happy and so…skinny?!?!
The body of an archer.
Arnold a Kevin Klein model?
Arnold never was ‘all work no play’ kind of guy.
Other Bodybuilders
Cool tattoo…
Chris Cook – not the way we usually see him
Chris Cormier – keeps it together even in off season
Just two words: Egrifta Tesamorelin. Grows more than the muscles.
Dave Tate: Nice transformation…
Marcus Ruhl (with Jay Cutler): Is there anyone bigger?
Fouad Hoss Abiad offseason. 300 lbs of hugeness.
Johnie Jackson: Maybe I should have cropped the image up to his chest only.
Warren Branch: Big and bulky…everywhere.
Vince Taylor: Not in his usual form.
Iana Ionut: Why the open mouth? Hungry again?
Jay Cuttler: Let’s hope this image is Photoshoped. Or a bad angle.
Lee Haney: Off season and off competition. Still looking great.
Trevor Smith: Looks like he could eat his whole family for breakfast.
Nasser El Sonbaty: Good diet is 90% of success. Less, if you are a pro.
Conclusion
They say you are what you eat. Well, professional bodybuilders took this and ran with it.
Or they would have, if they could actually ran.
But one thing is for sure: There have never been bigger, and more ripped bodybuilders.
Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
I’ll leave that to everyone’s opinion.
Author: Pavol
3 Comments
I received a comment that says:
That picture of a fat Jay Cutler in the ‘Off Season’ article is not a real picture. It’s a Photoshop. You should remove it immediately.
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but you should take that picture (and in fact, all pictures on this page) with a grain of salt.
Pavol
8/17/2012
I dont know what the big deal is all about. Bodybuilding is very simple. You lift. You eat to get the big muscles. In between you take steroids to help you lift. Yes. Steroids ABSOLUTELY is part of the cocktail. No one should deny it. Flex Wheeler has a YouTube video endorsing some test-booster because his years of steroid use jacked up his body. Mike Mattarazzo was forced to retire after his steroid use led to 2 cardio-surgeries.
These bodybuilders MUST eat and look like that in the off season because without it, they can’t lift the big weights they need for muscle development.
They literally starve themselves going into a competition to look “good”. As they get closer and closer to the competition date, and their bodies are more and more “dialed in”, they are also weaker and can’t train the same way.
After the competition, they are starving and run to feed, including scarfing down McDs – which is what nasser was probably doing – eating post competition.
I dont think the Cutler pic is real. the whole proportions are off. But whatever.
AK Works
8/17/2012
@AK Works – you are talking shit! “They literally starve themselves going into a competition to look “good”.” – have you not heard of a 12 week competition diet that still includes 6 to 7 meals per day?
Educate yourself before commenting you fool!!
Barry White
1/28/2013
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