{"id":12895,"date":"2026-01-23T04:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:04:06","slug":"phil-heath-is-looking-huge-and-chiseled-on-day-1-of-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=12895","title":{"rendered":"Phil Heath Is Looking Huge and Chiseled on Day 1 of Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/interviews\/phil-heath-to-compete-for-8th-olympia-title-i-have-unfinished-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Heath\u2019s upcoming return<\/a> at the 2020 Olympia has been some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/interviews\/6-things-we-learned-from-phil-heaths-exclusive-interview-with-dan-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biggest news in the bodybuilding world<\/a> this year. Fans worldwide have been begging the seven-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/the-greatest-olympia-comebacks-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. Olympia<\/a> to return ever since his loss to Shawn Rhoden in 2018, and Heath is finally ready to take care of unfinished business on the Olympia stage.<\/p>\n<p>Heath reposted a photo from his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shuriecremona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shurie\u2019s<\/a>, Instagram page after kicking off his prep, and the veteran bodybuilder looks more like an action figure than a human being.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look at those arms, and it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s bringing his A-game.\u00a0Again, this is after Day 1, with around 13 weeks to go before he takes the stage. And apparently, he\u2019s taking inspiration from another legend this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be a full on Dorian Yates prep vibe,\u201d Shurie wrote in the original post. \u201cNo witnesses, full dark mode murdering these fkn weights!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yates, who won six consecutive Olympias from 1992 to 1997, was known to virtually disappear from the public eye between major shows, then show up and demolish the competition. With that in mind, it\u2019s safe to say we won\u2019t be seeing too much detail throughout Heath\u2019s 2020 Olympia prep.<\/p>\n<p>Time off can either help or hurt, and in Heath\u2019s case, it seems to have done him some good. The comments were filled with fellow competitors and fans in awe of Heath\u2019s condition with so much time left to prep.<\/p>\n<p>If the rest of the Mr. Olympia hopefuls weren\u2019t shaking in their boots yet, it\u2019s safe to say they are now.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mrolympia.com\/ticket-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy tickets to the 2020 Joe Weider\u2019s Olympia Fitness &amp; Performance Weekend HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/phil-heath-is-looking-huge-and-chiseled-on-day-1-of-prep\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Heath\u2019s upcoming return at the 2020 Olympia has been some of the biggest news in the bodybuilding world this year. Fans worldwide have been begging the seven-time Mr. Olympia to return ever since his loss to Shawn Rhoden in 2018, and Heath is finally ready to take care of unfinished business on the Olympia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":12896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215,292],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mens-open-bodybuilding","8":"category-phil-heath"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Phil Heath Is Looking Huge and Chiseled on Day 1 of Prep - World Bodybuilding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=12895\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phil Heath Is Looking Huge and Chiseled on Day 1 of Prep - World Bodybuilding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phil Heath\u2019s upcoming return at the 2020 Olympia has been some of the biggest news in the bodybuilding world this year. 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