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Of course there is a significant time distance between those photos - Ruhl's is from Miss Olympia 2000, Chalamet's is from 2024

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[–] Buildout@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What is the deal with Timothee's thumb? Ick.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

For the cocaine snorting

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He’s holding someone’s hand

[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Always funny watching the serious climbers join those strength competitions. Seeing those marshmallow guy's minds get blown is hilarious.

[–] TheLowClassics@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

You're right though! It's actually hard to tell if the body builder even has a dick!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The Germans have a saying for people like this. "Too strong to walk."

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ruhl looks like he's 50. Is that what steroids do?

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Definitely a combination of multiple things that are probably banned today.

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, but no, but he took too much.

Ruhl’s is from Miss Olympia 2000

She, uh ... she sure does have a lot of mass.

You can't compare them like this! Timothée still wears his skin.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

It's the same picture

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

plus all the peds they are taking. the dehydration can kill them too from the diuertics.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

Plus loads and loads of gear

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, that face doesn't go away. And that hairline ain't coming back.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Schwarzenegger? Did he look like that?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

the muscle guy doesn't seem he will live long.

[–] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago

Markus Rühl retired at 39, due to a nasty pectoral tear that couldn't be fixed well enough to compete.

He's 54 now.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 23 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He looks younger there than in the post pic.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

lucky, usually that kind of strain in the body wrecks it.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

his testicles are raisins.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

Is it the one on the right?

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Square jaw, square head. Probably a gap in the front teeth thats fits a Volkswagen Polo

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is there a prediction they'd look the same?

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

One of them father's the God Emperor.

The other can't

[–] Drun@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It would be good to see a compare pic with Sean Connery

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

I get that some people must be into that kinda of thing, but 🤢 no thank you.

When i worked at a mall there was some beefcake who worked at a vitamin store and he couldn't even hold his arms by his sides properly, they bowed out because of his silly muscles.

I try my best not to insult people's appearance, but i always had to actively suppress laughter when i saw him.

Live fast die beefy

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Tim can probably take him.

[–] housedogpartyfavor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
[–] futileusername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Preservatives in food get eaten. They don’t stop preserving.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's... not how it works.

[–] futileusername@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It was a joke.

[–] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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