Ep. 203 - Can Enhanced Bodybuilding Be Safer? (Feat Dr Guillermo Escalante)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

In a series of recent Washington Post investigative articles about bodybuilding in the NPC/IFBB pro league, Desmond Butler (the son of the producer of Pumping Iron) covered a series of controversial topics. Among them, were the seemingly increasing numbers of competitor deaths. In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Guillermo Escalante, the Assistant Dean and a Professor of Kinesiology in the College of Natural Sciences at CSU San Bernardino, who is a competitive bodybuilder himself, as well as an athletic trainer (a sports medicine first responder). He was interviewed for these Washington Post articles because from 2012 to 2019 he spent many of his Saturdays in Southern California at shows, making himself available in case any athletes had medical emergencies. Dr. Escalante has also specifically published research examining the potential causes of death of enhanced pro bodybuilders. Needless to say, there are few people with more direct knowledge, experience, and perspective on the potential dangers of certain practices in enhanced physique sport, whether these risks can be reduced, and how.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:01.0	Omar.
0:02.0	We got him.
0:04.0	We got him.
0:05.0	We got another hunky bodybuilder.
0:08.0	We have Dr. Escalante on.
0:10.0	I just want to say that I try to get a pump before peer on camera, but I still feel insufficient.
0:18.0	I even brought, I don't know if you can see this, only the visual people,
0:21.7	Eric, describe what I'm bringing out here. Do you remember these bad boys right here, Dr. Escalante?
0:26.8	Eric, what's going on here? What are you showing here, guys?
0:30.3	Oh, you've got a pink and black zebra striped bodybuilding pants that you can only wear if you are maybe the interesting combination of
0:40.9	MC Hammer and Prince or if you really like to do bicep curls two decades ago. I think that's
0:46.3	basically we're looking. Actually, three or four decades ago now, aren't we talking?
0:49.9	Yeah. Have you seen them before in any gyms? Let's say, like what, it would be like in the 2000s and the 90s? Were they still a thing? Or were they already faded out by then?
0:59.6	Oh, no, no. They were definitely still a thing. I had some friends that used to wear. In fact, you wouldn't know, but I might be wearing them right now.
1:07.8	Damn.
1:08.5	Hey, that's all I'm talking about.
1:13.9	Part of the culture, I do want to give a quick shout out.
1:19.9	So speaking about just like tradition or, you know, attire, I do think it's super cool how each culture has its own kind of set parameters of like what is fashionable and so on and so
1:24.4	forth.
1:24.8	I would assume this is one of pragmatism, though, parachute pants allow extra space i've only ever bulked up to 220 pounds but already at about
1:34.9	205 my thighs were already touching something that is more spacious like man if you're ronaldic
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