So, guys, Derek, more plates, more dates.com.

Today we are going to be talking about Phil Heath.

He is a seven-time Mr. Olympia and obviously one of the most accomplished bodybuilders of all

time and arguably, you know, the best set of genetics potentially ever, or at least, you know,

in the top few guys for sure as far as being a genetic hyper-elite.

So as you probably know, he's been

ridden with gut issues for years now. You know, progressively since he won his first Olympia,

his gut has got, you know, more and more distended to the point that it is actually preventing

him from, you know, winning the Olympia again. The guy literally is pretty dialed in in many different aspects, like his physique hasn't

really deteriorated to a point that he wouldn't be competitive at the top of the sport, but this

gut that he has every single show, you know, really has gotten so much fucking hype to the point

that the judges clearly are, you know, docking him for it and giving

him, you know, placings that he is not used to and it's preventing him from ever taking

another show win again. So for him, you know, there's been tons of speculation around what the

cause of it is, you know, he's had every year, it seems like a new thing comes out like, oh, it was because of this or oh, it was because of that.

And then, you know, there's claims that it's going to be fixed by the next year.

Then, you know, he shows up.

And to be honest, it's pretty expected that it looks pretty much the same.

I've been saying this myself since, you know, fucking 2017 or something when I was actually doing some of the commentary on Olympia predictions.

I said even back then, I do not think it's going to change that much unless he downsizes.

Obviously, there's a lot of hype around his like double hernia thing that he had, but I don't

think that that's going to make a huge difference on his gut distension.

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