Here is another monster freak Dennis James

Flex · 08-08-2004, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnnny

P-FUnk
Flex

Do you have any recent pics of Dennis you could post?

sorry bro, my boy had some pics on his computer. not sure where he got them from. but if i do come across them (and trust me, he looked ENORMous), i'll post 'em for sure.

Flex · 08-08-2004, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Mudge

Its distribution that they get upset about, but he was arrested for extacy tabs sent to him from Germany. He says of course they were not his but over there its serious business, why the US was involved I dont know but I would have to think they believe he was dealing.

Of course Mudge, they're NEVER "yours" hahaha.

Johnnny · 08-08-2004, 07:33 PM

Flex

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sorry bro, my boy had some pics on his computer. not sure where he got them from. but if i do come across them (and trust me, he looked ENORMous), i'll post 'em for sure.

Too bad.

If you can find any plz post some here.

Thanks.

Sapphire · 08-09-2004, 08:18 AM

I think he's yucky..

TOO big for his height. He looks weird to me.

This guy is better...

much more balanced

build.

JoeR. · 08-09-2004, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

I think he's yucky..

TOO big for his height. He looks weird to me.

This guy is better...

much more balanced

build.

Mabye if you add like 5-6" on his chest measurement, mabye...

myCATpowerlifts · 08-09-2004, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

I think he's yucky..

TOO big for his height. He looks weird to me.

This guy is better...

much more balanced

build.

thats similar to the way i want to look

Johnnny · 08-09-2004, 12:00 PM

Sapphire

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I think he's yucky.. TOO big for his height. He looks weird to me.

Well what are you gonna do?

Many of the pro & amateur bodybuilders are too big for their height.

Look at Lee Priest?

He's only about 5ft3 & weighs 245lbs ripped.

Sapphire · 08-09-2004, 12:11 PM

I hear ya... I respect how hard he worked to look like that, but it's very unattractive to me. The other guy is perfectly built...... in my humble opinion.

Johnnny · 08-09-2004, 12:28 PM

Sapphire

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I hear ya... I respect how hard he worked to look like that, but it's very unattractive to me. The other guy is perfectly built...... in my humble opinion.

I know what you mean, but he & all others looking like him have been on drugs to get that big.

I wouldn't want to look like Dennis James at all.

I'm really starting to become happy with my conditioning at 205lbs not freaky looking at all.

For that you'd most likely need drugs & that's not something I'm willing to do.

JoeR. · 08-09-2004, 03:33 PM

Lee Priest is 5'5"

Johnnny · 08-09-2004, 04:57 PM

JoeR

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Lee Priest is 5'5"

I was just giving a rough estimate as I couldn't remember his exact height as I knew it was in between 5ft3-5ft6.

Pizzer · 08-10-2004, 12:11 PM

i personally think that more women utilize the benefits of personal trainers for two reasons...
1. Men are generally too proud and too embarrassed to be escorted around a gym and monitored while exercising. Its pretty much a pride issue.
2. Generally, women 20-30 yrsold that have a personal trainer are married, havent had children or have had one baby, and have a man that can pay the bills... or, they are working women that are unmarried and can pay the bills themselves... most, but not all, women that are fulltime mothers or mothers with careers, dont have time for personal trainers.

Just my .02

Johnnny · 08-10-2004, 04:46 PM

Pizzer

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i personally think that more women utilize the benefits of personal trainers for two reasons...
1. Men are generally too proud and too embarrassed to be escorted around a gym and monitored while exercising. Its pretty much a pride issue.
2. Generally, women 20-30 yrsold that have a personal trainer are married, havent had children or have had one baby, and have a man that can pay the bills... or, they are working women that are unmarried and can pay the bills themselves... most, but not all, women that are fulltime mothers or mothers with careers, dont have time for personal trainers.

Just my .02

I was just wondering what this has to do with Dennis James?

Just curious?

pumpchaser · 08-13-2004, 01:26 PM

Impressive, and ugly - too Popeye-ish. Lots but not all guys like him or Priest, below 5'9" or 5'10" and above a certain bodyweight, just look too cramped, unless they're lucky enough to have some flow and aesthetics as well. A taller frame helps to avoid this, but not always. I don't find this guy aesthetically pleasing whatsoever, reminds me of the bozos injecting oil. Under 5'9" it's got to be something like Makkawy or Rick Wayne, or Callender, who's got to have almost this size but better lines and quality. Might be also that he's got short arms n' legs, which compounds the effect.

Add a few tattoos and he'd make an AWESOME bouncer..

Eventually it's possible that like the women's contests, there will be a backlash leading back to smaller, more aesthetic physiques for men. You could say that the natural contests address this as well.

Johnnny · 08-13-2004, 03:52 PM

PumpChaser

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Impressive but also cartoonish-lots but not all guys under 5'11" with
size just look too cramped, not enough height to have much flow over a
certain bodyweight. Probably part of but not the entire reason that i
don't find this guy aesthetically pleasing whatsoever. The shorter the
guy, the more i want to see flow, something like Makaway or Rick Wayne
had.

Yeah I know what you mean, but to compete at the Pro IFBB level, that's how big you have to be.

Personally I like Frank Sepe's shape much more, but I still think he's impressive to look at.

That's all.

I wouldn't want to look like him either.

pumpchaser · 08-13-2004, 08:35 PM

IFBB level-Levrone doesn't look like this, to name one, more athletic/aesthetic, to me. A nightmare to me would be to wake up, look in the mirror and have a Dennis James body looking back at me. It's not just the drugs though, this physique would've looked in any case. I hope James doesn't read these posts..

I think i'm going to throw up..

**P-funk** · 08-13-2004, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeR.

Lee Priest is 5'5"

LOL, so he says in the magazine. I am 5'5" and I have stood next to Lee Preist before and he is not 5'5".....lol. He has to be about 5'3", maybe 5'4".

Johnnny · 08-13-2004, 09:38 PM

Pumpchaser

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IFBB level-Levrone doesn't look like this, to name one, more athletic/aesthetic, to me. A nightmare to me would be to wake up, look in the mirror and see this looking back at me. Dare i say that the short limbs evoke the term thalidomide? ;-) I hope James doesn't read these posts..

I think i'm going to throw up..

Well just like all of us, each individual body is different, height, weight, bone structure, body type & so on all play apart of it.

Even with drugs your body will still grow according to it's shape.

Kevin Levrone doesn't look like that but Nasser El Sonbaty does, & even though Dorian Yates is around 5ft10, he somewhat looks like that.

Sean Allen can carry that thickness much better with his 6ft4 frame.

Look at Franco Columu, he was around 5ft3 & very well conditioned at 200lbs which is pretty big for a man that height. A normal male that height who doesn't train at all would normally be around 130-140lbs.

pumpchaser · 08-13-2004, 09:55 PM

We didn't realize in the 70s that maybe we'd reached the optimal combination of size and beauty; Columbu looked acceptible just as did Padilla, who should have beaten him in the Olympia by the way. I think then that bigger = better was still the credo, we didn't know then what it might look like or that it'd be too much.

I think part of the difference is that the drugs they're using now seem to rob them of the muscle density seen in the 70s and 80s vs. the gross vascularity we see now. In the 70s that was only seen with the NY BBers shown in the Lurie mags who seemed to be on lots of drugs.

Johnnny · 08-13-2004, 10:01 PM

PumpChaser

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We didn't realize in the 70s that maybe we'd reached the optimal
combination of size and beauty; Columbu looked acceptible just as did
Padilla, who should have beaten him in the Olympia by the way. I think then
that bigger is better was still the credo, we didn't know then what it
might look like or that it'd be too much.

Personally I like the shapes of many of the bodybuilders in the 70's & 80's than "MOST" of the ones today.

In comparision to bodybuilders of the 70's to the present, I would've rather looked like Arnold than Greg Kovacs.

Or Franco Columbu instead of Lee Priest.

But as I've said in other threads, my ideal physique size wise & condition wise is Frank Sepe.

pumpchaser · 08-14-2004, 05:21 AM

Frank Sepe meet Bob Birdsong..

Old Gold's gym in the background.

pumpchaser · 08-14-2004, 11:43 AM

This doesn't even look like the same guy?

Johnnny · 08-14-2004, 03:26 PM

PumpChaser

I believe it is the same James. What a difference between the pics of him that I posted & yours that you just posted.

All the pics I posted before where of him this year 2004 16 weeks out from the 2004 Mr. Olympia.

MissOz · 08-16-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeR.

Lee Priest is 5'5"

My hubby competed with lee preist in Australia when they were just juniors , he's an awesome competitor & holds his own against the bigboys in th USA !!!
My hubby is a competitve BB does the natural comps here in Oz !