Bodybuilding has been around for over a hundred years but it really exploded in
the 1970s thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger but after he became the
world's most famous bodybuilder a movie star and Governor of California he
admitted he did not do it naturally he said he actually used steroids in order
to get gigantic muscles since then people have been doing all kinds of
bizarre things in order to increase their muscle size and in many cases this
has gone horribly wrong I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at people who
have the oddest muscles first Before we jump into it why not subscribe and press
the notification bell Egyptian Popeye this guy's name is Mustafa Ismail but
he's better known in his home country as the Egyptian Popeye he has the world
record for the biggest biceps but many in the bodybuilding community say he did
not do this naturally they're very out of the ordinary his mail says he's done
it totally naturally but many don't believe him because of this the Guinness
Book of World Records removed him from their website recently he went on
Japanese TV to try and clear his name a sinful and implant test did come back
negative but many say his muscles show telltale signs of synthol use first off
his lower arms aren't that big and also his muscles shot out at both sides not
just one synthol is a mix of alcohol and oil this causes muscles to tense up and
Harden they then ballooned to a big size giving
the impression that you've worked out a lot whether Ismail did this naturally or
not his muscles sure do look strange valdaire synthol you may think that if
you used sinful then you'd be very ashamed of it but that is not the case
for everyone especially one man named FLDS Cecotto who goes by the nickname
Valdez synthol this guy is 48 years old and from Brazil he's made a name for
himself because of his gigantic muscles the veins in his forearms look
ridiculously big and his entire body is swollen up with gigantic muscles this
guy does workout in the gym but that's not how he got these muscles in 2013 he
decided to experiment with cyntha this made him look like some
from another world this has gained him a lot of Fame he's now Instagram famous in
Brazil and around the world hey at least he's being honest about what he does but
many doctors warned that if he continues this could cause health issues synthol
can be very bad for your muscles and some people have actually had to have
amputations because of excessive synthol use Alejandro ramos Martinez most of the
people on this list have tried to get gigantic muscles but not this man from
Peru in 2017 this man went diving for fish but he surfaced too quickly this
caused him to suffer the bends which is what happens if you surface too quickly
while diving this has led to his chest and arms being inflated
he's also gained more than four stone because of this but what exactly is
inside his muscles well it's nitrogen air his error was
that he rose through the water way too fast
this caused the nitrogen in his blood to form enormous bubbles this has left him
with decompression sickness and also a lot of pain his symptoms also include
swollen joints itching skin brain damage paralysis headaches
coughs dizziness nausea and decompression sickness but frankly
Alejandro is lucky to be alive ascending too fast while scuba diving can
sometimes cause divers to lose their lives he's now being given oxygen
treatments in a pressurized chamber and right now about 30 percent of the
nitrogen in his body has been trained he now infused quite a lot of pain and
difficulty while walking and he also has serious hypertension many divers use
dive computers or dive tables to tell them how fast they can ascend
but Alejandro did not do this and that's why he now has the bends let's all hope
that he gets better as soon as possible Gregg Valentino Gregg Valentino is one
of the world's most famous bodybuilders he became famous after a documentary was
made about him that documentary was aptly named the man whose arms exploded
that is because that's exactly what's happened to Gregg we've already covered
how some body builders use steroids and others use synthol but Gregg made the
poor decision of using both at the same time this made Gregg's arms are very big
too big in fact his biceps measured 27 inches that was
the same size as his waist at the time he was only 5 foot 5 meaning he was
pretty short skinny but with gigantic biceps eventually after his arms got too
big they popped he's now very controversial in the bodybuilding
community and many don't like him they say he made bodybuilding into some kind
of joke or freak show Brazilian Hulk we all love movies
featuring the Hulk on the silver screen but what if you walk down a street in
Brazil and saw a real-life Hulk well you just might if you ran into
romário alphas from Brazil he proudly calls himself the Brazilian Hulk he used
to be a pretty slim guy who enjoyed working out but he was not a
professional bodybuilder he had a busy job as a security guard so he couldn't
work on his muscles all the time so instead he turned to synthol he injected
synthol for many years creating gigantic muscles however after a few years his
biceps became infected he was very close to having them amputated the doctors
told him they would need to take off both of his arms that's because his
muscles had turned to rock in the end they decided not to do this and instead
simply cut his muscles out but he still goes to the gym works out and also calls
himself a Brazilian Hulk to this day he since become very popular on Instagram
and YouTube and sometimes even paints himself green now ser el Sun batty
looking at the sky's head with the circular glasses he looks kind of nerdy
but this is one case where the head does not match the body that is because he's
one of the biggest bodybuilders of all time in bodybuilding circles he's
nicknamed the professor that's because he would always wear thick rimmed
glasses and he had university degrees in history political science and sociology
in the 90s he was one of the world's most famous bodybuilders weighing around
340 pounds but for his height this was double the weight he should be but in
2013 he passed away at the age of 47 in his sleep he was a visiting Cairo in
Egypt but he had breathing problems many say this was because of his gigantic
muscles he's still a legend in the world of bodybuilding but I think it's safe to
say this is a case of bodybuilders taking it way too far
Iranian Hulk this man is known as Sajjad Caribe but he's better known as the Hulk
of Iran he's 6 foot 2 which is taller than many bodybuilders on this list but
his arms are ridiculously big just look at this picture of him holding a can of
soda some say this guy got his gigantic muscles from non natural means but
frankly I don't have any information on that as he's never mentioned it before
he is super famous in Iran and very big on social media he's known to be a big
fan of boxing and MMA but I don't know who would go up against him
also the Brazilian Hulk that we saw before said he would rip off the Iranian
Hulk's head but looking at the size of these two fellas I'd put my money on the
Iranian Hulk and if you didn't already think this guy was pretty cool he's now
apparently going off to fight is if that doesn't scare them I don't know what
will zzzz now we're going to look at a guy who's not just a bodybuilder but
also a YouTube Oh G many years back zis was a staple of the YouTube Fitness
community his name was Aziz Schaffer Sheen he's a
Russian Australian bodybuilder who got a lot of subscribers back in the day in
his videos he said his games were totally natural he often flogged himself
working out and also gave workout tips to his subscribers but in 2011 he went
on a trip to Thailand where this all changed while they're on vacation he
went into a sauna and had a heart attack he was taken to a local hospital but he
could not be revived by doctors this caused him to pass away and many say
this was because he used steroids despite him saying he's Oh naturally
many of the bodybuilding community do not believe this one bit his followers
were very sad when his passing was announced on Facebook and when this
happened many in the YouTube Fitness community paid tribute to zis frankly
whether he was natural or not I feel seriously bad for what happened to this
guy Nicole bass most of the bodybuilders on this list
are male but here we have one woman with crazy big muscles Nicole was a pro
wrestler in ECW and WWE but before she turned to wrestling she was a
professional bodybuilder she was even bigger than many of her male
counterparts she weighed around 250 pounds and was 6 foot 2 but many say
that Nicole used steroids this was to try and keep up with her male
counterparts this also caused her to have a very masculine look despite being
a woman in 2006 she was admitted to hospital with pancreatitis
it's believed this was brought on by steroid use in 2011 when she was 52 she
had a stroke and had to go to hospital once again doctors said she was mentally
incapacitated and eventually she was taken off life support and sadly passed
on and it's believed this was caused by some steroid use some people get way too
obsessed with building up muscles and their physique so much so that they
ignore their health which is what going to the gym should be all about but now
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