Of course there is a significant time distance between those photos - Ruhl’s is from Miss Olympia 2000, Chalamet’s is from 2024
What is the deal with Timothee’s thumb? Ick.
For the cocaine snorting
Ruhl looks like he’s 50. Is that what steroids do?
Yes, but no, but he took too much.
I’ve always wondered if those muscles actually work. I mean, they look like all the strength they give you will simply be required to move that mountain of flesh around, with little surplus remaining for, you know, moving other stuff.
I’m not a bodybuilder. However, two of my family’s closest friends were competitive Natural Olympia bodybuilders.
Bodybuilding is not healthy for you, long-term, even without abusing steroids (which was the practice my friends did in pursuing this art form - yes, it is an art form).
The way they explained it was that in the ‘off-season’, focus was put toward gaining and maintaining mass, which put tremendous stress on ligaments and tendons. Inevitably, knee and hip surgery, or even back surgery was in their future, even if they were careful (and they were).
During the competition season, focus shifts to losing dangerous amounts of body fat. Competition requirements for men are different than women’s condition reqs, largely because of natural body fat distribution. It still gets dangerously low, to the point where metabolism, cognition, memory, reflex, coordination, sleep, mood, all of that starts taking a hit. Not to mention, to get the kind of striation the person on the left is showing requires deliberate dehydration.
In the off-season? He could probably lift a car if he had to (and spend weeks babying his rotator cuff because those tendons aren’t meant to handle that kind of pull force). On-season? You could knock him over with a stiff breeze.
My friends eventually retired when they were in their 30s, because they both wanted to be able to have biological children. They’re doing great, they have two very cute daughters.
If you’re asking if a high level bodybuilder is strong, the answer is absolutely yes. That guy will bench press 400 pounds for reps .
If you’re asking whether their strength to weight ratio is the highest a human can get them the answer is no, not even particularly close. Turns out that the exercise approach you need to achieve hypertrophy (muscle soze growth) is different from what you need to achieve strength gains, though they’re obviously related.
Plus Timmy’s dick likely works way way better.
Always funny watching the serious climbers join those strength competitions. Seeing those marshmallow guy’s minds get blown is hilarious.
Plus Timmy’s dick likely works way way better.
Why did that make me zoom in on both pictures? Why did I then say “yeah looks like it” afterwards?
You’re right though! It’s actually hard to tell if the body builder even has a dick!
It’s simplified (because i forgot the details) but basically, they are mostly the initial kind that needs more space and didn’t get replaced with the effective kind. This also only happens to that extent, if you help it with chemicals.
The Germans have a saying for people like this. “Too strong to walk.”
You can’t compare them like this! Timothée still wears his skin.
Ruhl’s is from Miss Olympia 2000
She, uh … she sure does have a lot of mass.
It’s the same picture
It’s the diuretics. When bodybuilders are ready for a contest, they are very dry and have ragged looking faces. In off season, they don’t look like that, but I think it takes its toll over time anyway.
Plus loads and loads of gear
plus all the peds they are taking. the dehydration can kill them too from the diuertics.
Nah, that face doesn’t go away. And that hairline ain’t coming back.
Schwarzenegger? Did he look like that?
the muscle guy doesn’t seem he will live long.
Markus Rühl retired at 39, due to a nasty pectoral tear that couldn’t be fixed well enough to compete.
He’s 54 now.
He’s already 54 and still kicking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Rühl
He looks younger there than in the post pic.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1876/4703/files/Markus_Ruhl_-_Then_1024x1024.jpg
His face seems geared for Jowliness…where as the other guy, Timmy is kind of the opposite. But why are we comparing how different men look?
I’m not a Gen-Z looks maxer. Maybe OP is?
lucky, usually that kind of strain in the body wrecks it.
Just the muscles no? Everything else would be great for your overall longevity.
Not really. The diet to maintain that level of bulk is brutal on your heart and related organs.
That’s not counting the fact that to look like he does for shoots and competitions you basically have to dehydrate yourself for 48 hours straight to the point where you suffer from chronic kidney stones and a lot of other kidney failure related afflictions.
This is all assuming you’re not taking steroids, which have other nasty long term side effects depending on the duration and amount.
assuming you’re not taking steroids
of course he’s taking steroids.
54 shouldn’t be that old
How old should a 54 yo be?
Middle aged. Old should be like, 80
I’m sorry he’s not 80 yet
his testicles are raisins.
apparently they also use diuertics to keep them dry so the muscles will be more pronounced when showing. dehydration, it also messes with thier sodium and magneiusm in thier blood.
ONE IS Roided up to hell.
Is it the one on the right?
Square jaw, square head. Probably a gap in the front teeth thats fits a Volkswagen Polo
I think athlete may be a misnomer here
Pageant contestant.
Bubble.
Is there a prediction they’d look the same?
It would be good to see a compare pic with Sean Connery
Tim can probably take him.
One of them father’s the God Emperor.
The other can’t
Live fast die beefy
