Ep. 291 - Who is the Male Natural Bodybuilding G.O.A.T?

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this Iron Culture episode Dr. Helms sits down with fellow 3DMJ coaches and Iron Culture veterans Brian Minor and Alberto Nunez for a spirited debate about who they each think are the top 5 natural male bodybuilders of all time. Bodybuilding is where art and culture meet science, where science meets sport, and if you are a fan of natural bodybuilding and its history, you will love this episode. Listen in as they struggle to even agree on a criteria for someone to be The Natty GOAT, learn little-known facts about the early years of Kai Greene’s career when he was natural, and pay careful attention to the honourable mentions, as there are many potential candidates, for the “Mt. Rushmore plus one” of natty competitive bodybuilding.

00:00 Welcome to an exciting episode without Omar and Trexler

02:29 Brian and Berto’s history with bodybuilding

Iron Culture Ep. 26- How Progressive Overload Actually Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfe8tsxFieI&t=37s

10:20 A debate of the Mt Rushmore + 1 of natural bodybuilding

23:00 A quick Kai Greene and IFBB/NPC history lesson

28:30 Continuing the debate

51:00 Fleshing out everyone’s 5^th and final competitor and some honourable mentions

1:14:13 The top 5 ranked

1:20:48 Final comments and closing out

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's gone on everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Iron Culture. We have a special
0:04.5	treat for you today and that is that you don't have to deal with either Omar or Eric Trexler,
0:10.5	the clearly inferior Trexler. And instead, I have brought two other gentlemen with me. I have
0:17.1	Brian Miner and Alberta Nunez.
0:21.6	And we today are going to be talking about natural bodybuilding because that's what we care about.
0:25.8	And if you don't like it, well, you know what?
0:27.6	There'll be another episode next week.
0:29.3	So catch you next time.
0:30.8	You hate her.
0:31.8	No, but in all seriousness, we have been having a great time.
0:35.0	I've been down here or up here, I guess. I'm coming from New Zealand.
0:39.6	Up into the left here for a good week here in Colorado hanging with these boys. And what have we been
0:45.7	talking about? Of course, the sport that we all love. And that's natural bodybuilding. The three of us
0:50.8	are going to be getting back on stage, probably along along with a few other the 3DMJ coaches.
0:55.2	So we're really excited about natural bodybuilding.
0:58.0	We found ourselves talking and debating about who in the male natural bodybuilding division is like the greatest of all time.
1:05.4	We've been talking about some upcoming battles that are going to be happening this season.
1:08.7	And it turned into basically an NBA-style ESPN show debate after Worlds last year and a
1:15.1	couple times, you know, here on this trip.
1:17.3	And I was like, hold on, we got to save this for the cult.
1:20.5	Because some people just don't know the depth of talent that's out there because there's
1:24.1	unfortunately too many shows and there's also too many federations
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