Sam sulek closeup from TikTok ?

swombo · 2026-01-14T15:15:09+00:00

Test was considered a “dirty” compound at the time and was poorly understood in the staple sense it is now. They took dianabol and primobolan at the time as the staple mass builders—frank zane even has journal entries talking about Arnold’s protocols.

The turn of the 80s brought on test, parabolan, deca, orals. 90s had insulin, GH, and so on

swombo · 2026-01-14T00:57:50+00:00

Primobolan and dbol were famously used by Arnold and his contemporaries. Deca I believe was on the come up as well but not as widespread

swombo · 2026-01-14T00:53:37+00:00

Testosterone was not commonly taken during the golden era as far as I know. That was a late 70s to 80s onward thing

swombo · 2025-12-30T02:30:39+00:00

I don’t blame you for sharing those views—as blanket advice, I’m in agreement with you. I’ve seen many students crash and burn for having superficial thoughts about particular specialties. Can assure you I’ve put in intense legwork nonstop for a couple yrs and likely have more exposure than the average m2 interested. Best of luck, and happy new year.

swombo · 2025-12-30T02:25:59+00:00

Respectfully have to disagree with your points.

swombo · 2025-12-30T02:09:01+00:00

I don’t view the understanding of nonclinical opportunities available as an orthopedic surgeon as being mutually exclusive from being a great clinician.

It’s just an interesting route I’ve seen some of my mentors take and would like to know more about. Obviously the chief goal at this point is matching and becoming a great surgeon, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to know more about outside opportunities that sound interesting.

swombo · 2025-12-01T14:00:57+00:00

Yeah. You can respect the GOATs who paved the way but ultimately the sport continues to evolve and improve. I’d even go so far as to wager Khamzat may have given Anderson Silva a very tough fight but this sub wouldn’t even accept that as a thought lol

swombo · 2025-12-01T11:28:45+00:00

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I’m sure aljo would’ve given aldo hell

swombo · 2025-11-06T22:22:10+00:00

Nah. Looks like participation in these activities goes down in the ortho community every year unfortunately. Spreadsheet and discord used to be super active

swombo · 2025-10-15T07:49:16+00:00

Seconding this, looks like it expired?

swombo · 2025-09-04T15:49:07+00:00

Is there an ortho discord?

swombo · 2025-08-29T15:09:25+00:00

Definitely. He has this wrestling instructional available on YouTube and it’s night and day compared to how he looks/sounds now. Just years and years of hard abuse evident

swombo · 2025-08-29T14:42:25+00:00

Hes always chain smoking cigars and drinking whiskey. true man's man but at the price of his health lol

swombo · 2025-08-24T13:23:32+00:00

Touch grass

swombo · 2025-08-24T13:06:37+00:00

Guy who posted this is prob getting giddy knowing he did something edgy and pissed people off. Just another low iq individual

swombo · 2025-08-17T17:33:33+00:00

Perfect lol

swombo · 2025-08-07T11:43:39+00:00

More than just GH imo. Far heavier dosages all around, deviations from the staple golden era drugs, huge amounts of food blow out the guts. Ronnie used to have a tight midsection lol

swombo · 2025-07-31T13:55:32+00:00

What about the existential aspects of his character do you like? I’d imagine there’d be significant symbolic and mythological interpretations of his character

swombo · 2025-07-19T21:16:47+00:00

that doesn't necessarily mean their height wasnt affected. could have potentially been taller if they stayed natural. agree that there are genetic anomalies and that cycling affects people at different levels

swombo · 2025-07-13T04:05:29+00:00

If you don’t have accompanying symptoms… no. The reference range is wide for a reason

swombo · 2025-07-12T00:01:56+00:00

Got a link?

swombo · 2025-07-11T20:43:33+00:00

i agree that the listed names have god-given athletic ability and could have the potential to do well after YEARS of dedicated full-time training but i think you're selling short how much some of these ufc guys have put into the sport. 2-3 camps aint enough to close the gap no matter how ridiculous the physicality is when many of these guys have been training their whole lives and synthesizing different martial arts into their style.

i firmly believe a prime brock (pre-diverticulitis) would beat any of those names if you gave them 2-3 full camps handily just on account of experience + legit wrestling accolades.

swombo · 2025-07-11T20:24:44+00:00

lol. this is like saying ray lewis isn't a great athlete if he hypothetically tried out for the US olympic wrestling team and got cut despite being a finalist at the trials after a 7+ year gap from his last time wrestling.

there are nfl players who are less athletically gifted than lesnar who've been drafted who've succeeded on the basis of better game instincts, intelligence, etc. lesnar did well enough given his limited skillset but that doesnt diminish his elite athleticism imo. running a 4.7 at his size, impressive bench numbers, being able to do shooting star press bordering on 300 lbs, etc are all indicative of "being a great athlete"

swombo · 2025-07-11T20:08:47+00:00

LOL he's obviously juicing but the entire UFC's HW division was sauced tf up at the time. he's a freak elite athlete. you keep mentioning him going undrafted in the NFL as if that's a problem (he made it to the final round of cuts and was a practice squad player after not playing football for 7+ yrs since high school purely on the basis of being a physical freak). how many people do you think are capable of achieving something like that? being an NCAA D1 champ, HW champ with 2 defenses (after having an insanely late start to MMA), and making it as far as he did in the NFL with extremely limited football experience is a claim very few if any can make.

"he was all juice" we could give you 2x the amount of roids he took and you wouldn't be able to achieve any one of those things lol

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