M.E FEATURE
By Joe Pietaro
Images by Gary Phillips
T
he entire
bodybuilding
industry heard
the words from
none other than Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who is still
considered the loudest voice
in competitive bodybuilding
35 years since he last competed
himself. This took place the day after
his Arnold Classic and once again 'the
Austrian Oak' was critical of the physiques
on his stage. However, this time he pointed
some of his anger towards the IFBB judges,
who have been favouring the bodybuilders
who sport a wide midsection as opposed
to a V-taper.
“We have to make sure we are rewarding the
right guys because then everyone will start training
to have a beautiful body again,” Schwarzenegger
said during his seminar in Columbus, Ohio. “You’ve
got to look at everything. For instance, so many of
those guys have their stomachs sticking out… it
used to be that you should have a V-shaped body.
Now it’s like a bottle shaped body or something like
that. We have to make sure that we are rewarding
the right guys.”
This may have sounded similar to the complaint
that Schwarzenegger had in the past, but he put
the exclamation point on it by singling out none
other than the president of the IFBB.
“He’s (Jim Manion) in charge of the judging,
he’s in charge of picking the judges… you have
to talk to him,” commented Schwarzenegger.
“You magazines and also the Internet and
every other means there is – call out on him
and call out those judges. Because that’s
how you create change.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Joe Pietaro is the Founding
Editor of MuscleSport
Magazine (www.
musclesportmag.com), a
five-tiered media outlet
covering bodybuilding,
sports and fitness.
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