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The story of Arlindo Anomalia is a very sad one because of the fact that many people are offended at the very notion that this man was a bodybuilder. The fact of the matter is he did not lift like a bodybuilder, did not eat like a bodybuilder and did not have the physique of a bodybuilder. What he had was huge arms which were the product of a home brew concoction of what is known as \u201csynthol.\u201d Ironically, Synthol is an actual product that\u2019s been trademarked and uses a completely different oil-based product than what a lot of the guys that you see from Brazil and Eastern Europe call \u201csynthol.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the day oil is oil right? Well not exactly. There is a difference but it\u2019s not a significant one. The bottom line is that Synthol covers a wide gamut of different substances that are used by bodybuilders, but not the \u201cbodybuilders\u201d like Arlindo.<\/p>\n
The difference between those guys and the guys that we see competing for top titles at the amateur and professional level is that the guys that are competing for pro cards generally are also abusing anabolic steroids as well and have developed a foundation in muscle that is enhanced by chemicals. To an outsider the previous statement would almost seem nonsensical. It would seem as if we are comparing one group of drug addicts to another group of drug addicts. But that\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying. The loyal readers of IronMag understand the difference. I\u2019m still going to take a little bit of extra time to explain it a little bit to some of our newer mainstream type readers. Because with our publication we reach a very wide audience and the last thing I want to do is seem like I don\u2019t care about people new to the sport. We always care about people new to the sport because we want them to stay awhile and help us grow bodybuilding and strength-based training.<\/p>\n
There are guys that rely solely on oil to develop body parts. Those people are people like Arlindo was. It\u2019s sad because it\u2019s so abundantly clear that they are oiling up their body parts \u2013 their body parts don\u2019t really move. There\u2019s no difference between \u2013 for example Arlindo\u2019s arms cold and Arlindo\u2019s arms flexed. There is no pumping-up to be had, either, because we\u2019re not talking about muscle. We\u2019re talking about oil. So the arm looks the same at all times. And what makes the situation worse is the fact that the oil can burst at any point in time. Its effects are not limited to creating scar tissue, but they can also cause infection. A lot of the time guys like Arlindo are not using sterile syringes, they don\u2019t understand the very serious risks involved when it comes to injecting concoctions into their arms, and oftentimes it\u2019s too late before they seek medical attention.<\/p>\n
We have seen some of these alleged bodybuilders have arms amputated, legs amputated, and even die. And that\u2019s exactly what I suspect happened to Arlindo. Again, it\u2019s very sad because people like Arlindo come from very poor countries with very few resources. This was possibly the only way that he could become famous. I mean why on Earth they would put him on television is beyond me. His physique looked comical and almost stupid. But at the end of the day he was such a freak that for that very reason a lot of these stupid TV shows put him on the air. They weren\u2019t admiring him, they were probably making fun of him, and to his face.<\/p>\n
I really hate to talk about the dead this way but guys like Arlindo are often ridiculed on the message boards. Nobody wants to look like that. And what\u2019s sad is that they know it. They can read the feedback but they\u2019re just so enthralled to have attention that they just keep doing it to themselves. It\u2019s not a question of injecting yourself once or twice, but these guys have to inject this crap on a pretty regular basis.<\/p>\n
And unlike the more sophisticated site enhancing oils that are used in moderation by some top bodybuilders today, what guys like Arlindo are using are essentially homebrewed concoctions. Not only are the ingredients a lot more dangerous, but they are mixed in unsanitary type places, they are injected in unsanitary type fashions, and after years and years of this reckless behavior, their lives are pretty much over. Again I don\u2019t know what Arlindo died from, but who dies at 51 years of age? And who would want to look like this?<\/p>\n
Arlindo had no teardrops in his quads, he didn\u2019t have ripped abdominals, he didn\u2019t have any kind of pec development, he just had oil in his arms, pecs, delts, and whatever muscle group he wanted to make look huge. Why anyone would call that bodybuilding?<\/p>\n
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