TWO HOURS PER BODYPART
BY GUSTAVO BADELL

2004 MR. OLYMPIA, THIRD PLACE

What it takes to finish third in the Mr. Olympia

I’m a crazy man when a contest approaches. I train a bodypart for two hours straight — hard, heavy, cruel — smashing it with more weight than most guys even dream of using, even during the offseason. With every mass-building exercise, I’m grinding and twisting my muscle every which way, ending with brain-piercing pain-wrenching failure – not a perfectly cadenced metronomic pump that creates little more than a virgin’s blush in the muscle. My repetitions are those of a battering ram, not a baton-pumping majorette. Just because I have an hour and 58 minutes to go with that bodypart after my first set doesn’t mean I’m saving myself. Every set, from the first to the 30th, 40th and so on, is dragged kicking and screaming into complete tongue-dragging bloody-eyed fatigue.



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