Otakara Hrdlicky: Deaf Muscle

33 year old Otakara Hrdlicky training and posing 2 weeks before the 2010 NABBA Czech-Slovakia Championships. The former breast stroke champ has been away from the competitive stage for the past 3 years.



Otakara, who won the 82.5 Kg class at the 2007 Bohemian Championships, was born with a congenital hearing loss and has been deaf since birth.



Read the complete interview with Otakara by the folks at Svet Kulturistiky.

Sunday Worship!

Die4Mass: YouTube Builder

Just three days out from his first contest and weighing in at 182lbs, Die4Mass will complete as a middleweight in the Junior division at the NPC Southern Classic in Jackson, MS on the 5th.



Below is his 3 weeks out posing, notice the changes in his physique (and not just the full head of hair):

Shiloe Steinmetz: Grand Rapids Super

2009 Mr Ohio Shiloe Steinmetz, the 5'9" 37 year old, placed first in the super heavies at the 2010 NPC Grand Rapids Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure and Bikini Championships Results (the show Branch guested at in the previous post). Though Shiloe has mostly competed as a heavyweight the last few years (which included winning the class and overall at the Atlantic City Amateur last September), he did win the supers at the NPC Lenda Murray Classic last July. But he he is at the Michigan show the other week, large, in charge and looking for a pro card in 2010:

Branch Warren: Grand Rapids Guest Poser

Just listen to that crowd go crazy!!!

Lee Priest: 2005 Monster

Below is another set of classic shots, these from another Muscular Development Magazine interview by Ron Harris, this time from the November 2005 issue. Harris had interviewed the then 33 year old Australian Lee Priest not long after his second IFBB pro win at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix (his first was the 2002 San Fran Pro) and discussed his Firehouse "incident" with Chris Cormier and his prospects at the 2005 Mr. Olympia, a contest he didn't actually enter after all.

Pwrbarboy88 (Aaron Clarke): YouTube Builder

Brand new video posted by pwrbarboy88 aka teen monster Aaron Clark: