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Even though #VintageBodybuilder Bob Birdsong tried his damnedest to stop it by founding the natural bodybuilder movement, the otherwise unattainable standard was set.
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Is Chemical Bodybuilding The Answer?/Part 2 ARE CHEMICALS REVOLUTIONIZING OR RUINING BODYBUILDING? by Gene Mozée, Feature Editor B odybuilders and athletes all over the world are aware of potential bene-fits of anabolic steriod hormones. What they tend to overlook, or dis-regard, are the potential detriments, which greatly outweigh whatever value is ascribed to them. Ninety percent of the individuals using steriods are only con-cerned with how much they need to take to produce gains in weight, muscle and strength. The adverse side effects concern them little, if at all. What is particularly disturbing to me is the young athletes and bodybuilders of high school age who are employing steriods. Their bone and tissue growth of areas like the ligaments, tendons and other connective tissue is still undergoing natu-ral growth. What happens when you ar-tificially place greater stress on this natural process? One prominent bodybuilding authority who has had over thirty years of experience in the field believes that it could result in damage to areas like the bursa, and other synovial membranes which act as cushions for the various joints in the body. Injury to these sensitive areas could result in crippling arthritis. Perhaps the most startling new infor-mation advanced about the use of steriods has been uncovered by researchers in En-gland. After extensive investigations, En-glish physiologists have discovered that steriod use can result in premature aging of the arterial system. Massive cholesterol deposits have been found in the arteries of athletes using steriods. Here is an ex-ample. A 26-year old English hammer-thrower who had been using steriods for five years was examined. He was found to have the vascular deterioration equiva-lent to that of a 68-year old man! This is a life-and-death matter when the car-diovascular system is involved! Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture and distrib-ute anabolic steriods there are over fif
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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#VintageMen John Gallagher was a #30s bodybuilder who worked with #AlUrban a lot. #VintageBodybuilder
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Black and white photo of a nude uncut man with slicked back hair and an oiled body sitting on a black draped stool in front of a black backdrop under studio lights holding a vase.
February 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Funny thing about Charles Atlas being a sensation is that 30 years before THIS MAN, Eugen Sandow was the standard of male excellence in the first ever flex reel... #VintageBodybuilder

It looks like 1890s Sandow has a good 30lbs on 1930s Atlas
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February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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#VintageCelebrity #VintageBodybuilder There was a time when THIS body caused a sensation and was universally regarded as the best in the world.

Read all about it in Charles Atlas #20s sensation
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February 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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#70s #VintageBodybuilder Lou Ferigno
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Lou Ferigno poses with a cheetah in front of a bamboo wall in the 70s.
February 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Art Byman photographed in the #60s
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Sepia toned image of a bodybuilder with pomaded hair doing a most muscular on the beach.
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder John Grimek poses oiled for #AlonzoHanigan of #LonOfNY in the #40s #RetroMen
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Black and white photo of an oiled bodybuilder in a modest speedo style posing strap holding a pole while leaning on a column in front of a black backdrop.
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Dennis Tienerino had an ongoing rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger that dominated the mid #60s #bodybuilding scene. #RetroMen
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dennis Tienerino show their respective trophies for 1967.
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Check out our tribute to #VintageBodybuilder Lou Ferigno
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Lou Ferigno claws his hands and makes an intense expression at the camera
February 6, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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#40s #VintageBodybuilder Thomas Hubert poses nude for #Arax of Paris. #VintageMen
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Black and white photo of a naked circumcised man holding a ball over his head.
February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Black #VintageBodybuilder Beresford Morris (sometimes credited as Leo) poses for John Barrington in England in the late #50s
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Black and white photo of a black bodybuilder with a big dick posing nude in the studio on a white backdrop with the edge of the backdrop and lighting visible.
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Bill Grant gets his muscular black body felt up by a white man in #70s #interracial #8mm film "Muscular Reflections"
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A muscular black body being felt up by white hands.
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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French #VintageBodybuilder Jaques Pannier photographed by #Arax in the south of France in the early #60s
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JACQUES PANNIER THE MAN WHO NEVER GROWS OLD Not the least of the benefits derived from barbell training is that it can prolong youth by keeping one in healthy, muscular shope. Famous Jacques Ponnier, a former "Mr. S. Africa", is living proof of this. In the photo below at right, he is shown about 10 years ago the smaller photo, at left, shows him as he is today-hardly any change in him at alll Photo above by FERRERO. Photo at right by ARAX. 15
February 5, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder and professional #wrestler George Hackenschmidt dominated the then new sport of professional wrestling because he invented a new training regime called the hack squat #GeorgeHackenschmidt
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G hackenschmidt wrestling F. Gruhn Circa 1908
January 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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#90s #VintageBodybuilder Gavin Blake poses for #COLT
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A very muscular bodybuilder stands naked in a window with the panes of the window swung open, revealing his ripped physique.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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#VintageBeefcake model Andrew Kozak poses for #BobMizer of #AMG in the #40s #VintageBodybuilder
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Black and white photo of a man with coiffed 40s hair sitting on a black velvet draped stook in front of a black backdrop under studio lights.
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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A whole nother gallery of #VintageBodybuilder and #50s Pro wrestler Bill Melby posing for Don Whitman of #WPG
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Black and white photo of a nude Bill Melby kneeling on one leg with the opposite hand in the air in front of a stage curtain.
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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#30s #VintageBodybuilder Tony Sansone was the other favorite model of Edwin Townsend, most famous for being the #PhysiquePhotographer that made Charles Atlas famous.
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a tanned, oiled nude bodybuilder flexes for the camera in faded early black and white photography, caption in corner reads EDWIN TOWNSEND
January 13, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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#VintageCelebrity #40s superman actor and #VintageBodybuilder Steve Reeves #autograph collection
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1947 beefcake photo of Steve Reeves signed by the man himself.
January 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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So rare you see a middle aged #VintageBodybuilder posing for #VintageGay physique photography; but here's Don Whitman's friend Eddie Williams getting naked for the camera.
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Grainy black and white photo of a muscular man in his late 40s posing on a rock outdoors.
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Keith Stephan poses indoors for #BobMizer of #AMG in the #50s
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Black and white photo of an oiled nude muscle man doing a most muscular pose in front of a white wall.
January 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Arthur Harris poses nude for #PhysiquePhotographer #AlUrban in the early #50s before it was even legal to sell full frontal nudity in the USA.
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A muscular oiled black man poses with a fencing foil between his hands over his head in front of a white backdrop in black and white.
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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#VintageBodybuilder Fernando Varella photographed by Craig Studios back in the #50s.
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Black and white photo of a hispanic bodybuilder flexing his biceps and pectoral muscle with the camera to his side.
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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#30s #VintageBodybuilder Henry Karczewski photographed by #AlUrban in 1937.
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Black and white photo of a nude uncut beefcake model sitting on a draped stool in front of a white backdrop.
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM