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When the news broke that Kali Muscle had been hospitalized, many bodybuilding fans just couldn\u2019t believe it. You see things all over the interwebs and many times people are left wondering what\u2019s real and what\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
Kali is one of the most talked about bodybuilders because of the fact that he was able to build a tremendous fanbase and hold on to that fanbase over the course of many years. I mean Kali was a contemporary of the late great Rich Piana. He was popular back then and he was commanding huge lines at the biggest expos in the country and all around the world. He did do some competing, but he never got a pro card.\u00a0 Interestingly, there is a lot of commonalities between him and Rich. He was a bodybuilder that tried his hand at the competitive side of the sport and ultimately found out that it was basically like a money pit. You keep spending the money on the supplements, the training, but unless you\u2019re winning the biggest pro shows in the world, it really is not worth the money or the aggravation. That being said, Kali understood the value of having a huge physique, carrying around maximum poundages, but also understanding that muscle alone was not enough to make you famous. This is where Slap City came into play. This is also where he Incorporated his time in the penitentiary to create a persona that had the muscle but was more than that.<\/p>\n
Bodybuilding alone is not going to pay the bills. It is not a sport that is even considered as such by its own adherents. A lot of bodybuilders see bodybuilding as a pageant. They don\u2019t see what they do in the gym and what they do on stage as being on the same level as basketball, football, hockey, or baseball. They see it as a pastime. They recognize that it is inherently a competitive pastime, but they stop short of calling it a sport. I would beg to differ. I do consider it a sport and I do think that it is very athletic and it does incorporate various different disciplines \u2013 from eating clean, to understanding the science of supplements, to understanding the science of training. But that being said, that is not going to make anyone famous. You could have the best washboard abs, but at the end of the day, so what?<\/p>\n
What Kali was able to do was he was able to incorporate a prison lifestyle as a means to developing a killer physique. At the end of the day no matter how clean you eat in prison and no matter how much you train, you\u2019re never going to look the way that he did when he was commanding huge lines at the expos. That look is the product of synthetic, exogenous hormones, as well as other substances. The very suggestion that he was even taking anabolic steroids was highly offensive to him, but oh well.<\/p>\n
This goes back to the whole concept of being able to build a physique-based solely on training and dedication. It\u2019s not only unrealistic but it\u2019s also a farce. It\u2019s what a lot of companies use to sell protein powder but something that most seasoned fans and experienced lifters know is a bunch of horseshit. And that\u2019s where the gimmick comes in. Of course we know about Liver King and his ascent to fame and his nosedive Into obscurity, but that didn\u2019t happen to Kali. He wasn\u2019t the victim of being called out, or being exposed, or being had as a fraud. Even though what he was talking about was largely bullshit. He was talking about using an energy drink that consisted of Coca-Cola and instant coffee. Other times he was talking about using ramen noodles to get swole. Other times he was talking about how guys in the penitentiary would train with their body weight using towels and buckets and that that somehow could lead the person to develop them a bodybuilding stage worthy physique.<\/p>\n
All of that stuff is utter rubbish. None of that stuff amounts to anything factual or anything that any person in prison could actually replicate. So in many regards what Kali was purporting was nothing different than what the Liver King was. Eating raw liver didn\u2019t make him look like that, and eating ramen noodles and training with towels didn\u2019t make Kali look the way that he did at the expos. Both guys are full of shit, but only one guy got exposed and only one guy was able to continue the farce for years to come<\/p>\n
Sadly, guys like Kali unfortunately got huge in terms of their fame and fortune and just couldn\u2019t help themselves. I mean what other profession allows you to lead the life of a rockstar while living a lie? And even though Kali got off all of the gear and had a more or less normal looking physique, then he went and underwent dangerous cosmetic surgery to change the color of his eyes. And when that was no longer grabbing people\u2019s attention, I suspect he may have started dabbling with PED\u2019s again \u2013 perhaps to get as big as he once was.<\/p>\n
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