Kevin Levrone.... shrunk!

[Taekwondo Guy]

I knew kevin levrone gave up bodybuilding due to the politics at the olympia, his band commitments (fullblown) and wanting to get into acting but wow....

http://www.getbig.com/pics/misc/2005golf/misc/birthday.htm

[NiteHawk]

Oh yeah, he slimmed way down. Thats what happens when you stop taking all the pharmaceuticals. He is still in great shape. I always liked him.

[TRAZ]

I remember him from a while back...Looks better now if you ask me...

[nick_rogers]

Originally Posted by TRAZ

I remember him from a while back...Looks better now if you ask me...

Yes !!!!!!!!!!

I think this makes the average guy on here feel a little better, here is a "supposedly genetic freak" now weighing 190 lbs..he is just like us without all the drugs....(well some what like us )

[Michaelicious]

Yeah, I thought something was up when I saw him in an advertisment photo
for, I think, BSN Products. It was him along with 6 or 7 other bodybuilders.
They were all wearing extreamly tight T-shirts with the products logo on it.
Except with Kevin, he had on a hooded sweatshirt with the T-shirt pulled over it. I guess to hide the dramatic loss of size. Didn't help if you ask me. My first thought was he caught HIV. Good to know that's not the case.

Well, whatever his story is, I wish him well.

[TorontoMoFo]

Im not into the bodybuilding world so I didnt know who this guy was. I only know of Ronnie Coleman and Arnie lol.

But i just looked up his photos on google, and holy fuk!!

thats insane... I thought once you put on all that roid muscle that alot of it sticks with u...

guess not! Looks like a normal guy now for sure tho...

oNE

[t_dot_porkchop]

easy there guys....he is still pretty jacked....just smaller looking.

[Sam_2005]

Originally Posted by TorontoMoFo

Im not into the bodybuilding world so I didnt know who this guy was. I only know of Ronnie Coleman and Arnie lol.

But i just looked up his photos on google, and holy fuk!!

thats insane... I thought once you put on all that roid muscle that alot of it sticks with u...

guess not! Looks like a normal guy now for sure tho...

oNE

Normal guys dont have arms or delts like that.

[B4n3 0n3]

Originally Posted by t_dot_porkchop

easy there guys....he is still pretty jacked....just smaller looking.

I agree with that if some of us looked the way he does now I think we would be really happy about it.

[CraigC]

I read that he lost most of the weight through dieting. He wanted to get into acting and Arnold told him to get down to around 210 if he wanted to act. I think he was around 270 during his bbing days.

[Vplayer]

Allow me to shed the light on this Kevin thing.



First of all, yes, he is off gear now. But the thing is that Kevin met with Arnold on the set of one of Arnold's movies because Arnold heard that Kevin was trying to get into acting. Arnold's advise to him was to slim down to about 215 if he wanted to get good acting roles. Arnold knows full well how a body full of huge muscles will get you typcast rather quickly in Hollywood.

Anyways, Kevin took Arnold's advise and slimmed down. According to him, however, he still has a lot of muscle memory (at least thats what he called it) so he doesnt even lift weights anymore because (according to him again) he can still gain 5 pounds of muscle in a couple of days if he starts lifting again. Supposedly all he does is cardio. Its all in one of this year's issues of Flex or Musclemag. Kevine did a full interview.

I imagine that he still has some "residue" of his years on gear because what I know about HGH does support the theory of permenant gains due to hyperplasia, which is the theory of muscle fibers split. Meaning that he now has the capability of bulking up rather quickly because he now has that permenant mass. We all have that, to some extent. Look at yourself the way that you are now. If you, gods forbid, ended up bedridden for a few months, maybe even years, you would waste away. But the minute you started hitting heavy weights again, it would not take you long to get back to "where you were". And thats due to the permenant muscle you have right now. Kevin just has more of it than we do.

[vassille]

He went to all the trouble of bulking up then just lost it all on purpose I might add? I saw some of his pictures before and after... I think he got the wrong advice, around 230lbs he would have looked much better but what do I know

[Patrick_Bateman]

I think he looks great now....what did you guys think...steroids would give you permanent gains..

[vassille]

Talking only from my experience, steroids do give you permanent gains to an extent. If you tell me that anybody on gear will gain on a cycle then loose it all in a matter of few months or a year is either BS or I have a different genetical make up. If you eat, train and sleep right there should be little reason for the lose.
I do not loose my muscle off gear that much and my boys are back in business in a matter of 2-3 weeks tops after a cycle. So what I gained my body tries to maintain. Is this something that's uncommon?WTF...

[Patrick_Bateman]

Originally Posted by vassille

Talking only from my experience, steroids do give you permanent gains to an extent. If you tell me that anybody on gear will gain on a cycle then loose it all in a matter of few months or a year is either BS or I have a different genetical make up. If you eat, train and sleep right there should be little reason for the lose.
I do not loose my muscle off gear that much and my boys are back in business in a matter of 2-3 weeks tops after a cycle. So what I gained my body tries to maintain. Is this something that's uncommon?WTF...

If you are the typical loser who lifts for a year or two then starts using steroids then it will appear that you might keep gains. But if you are one of the proud and the few who do not cycle untill they are at there genetic limit ( 6-10 years of hard and good lifting and eating) then you will learn that after a year off from a steroid cycle you will lose 99% of the gains.

[vassille]

haha, very funny-you judge way too quick bro
I've been lifting for since I was 18 and I'm now 33 so that makes that 15 years... of lifting? I've tried many things over the years, however I did not use steroids until I was about 26 and I weigh at 210. I think that at 6 ft tall that's my genetic upper limit, however I've weighted past 235lbs for the past
5-6 years for that matter I use to weigh 255 but felt I was too heavy so I trimmed down to 235(which I think is my new lower limit). So, unless I starve myself or seriously diet the weight I gained is for keeps. If steroids would blow me up then lose everything I would have stopped after the first cycle but for me it does not react the same. I'm not trying to be a smart ass but I do not agree with the fact everybody looses their gains off gear. Btw I gain really easy too, I have not done a cycle over at least a year and I have not gone down to 210 as before the AAS and I doubt I will unless I starve myself. Not everybody is the same ...

[Arch Enemy]

He still looks great. I'd love to see his cardio routine.

[Vplayer]

Originally Posted by vassille

haha, very funny-you judge way too quick bro
I've been lifting for since I was 18 and I'm now 33 so that makes that 15 years... of lifting? I've tried many things over the years, however I did not use steroids until I was about 26 and I weigh at 210. I think that at 6 ft tall that's my genetic upper limit, however I've weighted past 235lbs for the past
5-6 years for that matter I use to weigh 255 but felt I was too heavy so I trimmed down to 235(which I think is my new lower limit). So, unless I starve myself or seriously diet the weight I gained is for keeps. If steroids would blow me up then lose everything I would have stopped after the first cycle but for me it does not react the same. I'm not trying to be a smart ass but I do not agree with the fact everybody looses their gains off gear. Btw I gain really easy too, I have not done a cycle over at least a year and I have not gone down to 210 as before the AAS and I doubt I will unless I starve myself. Not everybody is the same ...

..........I like this guy.


Good to have someone intelligent and mature like you around, Vassile. I personaly think that after 15 years of training your body has excellent muscle memory and is accustomed to eating right if the gains you make are rather permenant. But the fact of the matter is that the nature of steroid gains is not permenant because they work on hypertrophy, not hyperplasia. Hypertrophy, because of its very nature, is not permenant. So yes, I do think that if you totaly stopped what you do you would lose all your gains. Thats just science and nature, bro. Now........on YOU that might take longer than on some of us because you have apparently trained your body properly. You also allude to the fact that you either eat right, or you train right, or both. I think its both myself, because it seems your body synthesizes properly, and that is a result of proper intensity properly applied.



Unless, of course, you are a genetic marvell, lol. Good to meet you, bro.

[vassille]

Originally Posted by Vplayer

..........I like this guy.


Good to have someone intelligent and mature like you around, Vassile. I personaly think that after 15 years of training your body has excellent muscle memory and is accustomed to eating right if the gains you make are rather permenant. But the fact of the matter is that the nature of steroid gains is not permenant because they work on hypertrophy, not hyperplasia. Hypertrophy, because of its very nature, is not permenant. So yes, I do think that if you totaly stopped what you do you would lose all your gains. Thats just science and nature, bro. Now........on YOU that might take longer than on some of us because you have apparently trained your body properly. You also allude to the fact that you either eat right, or you train right, or both. I think its both myself, because it seems your body synthesizes properly, and that is a result of proper intensity properly applied.



Unless, of course, you are a genetic marvell, lol. Good to meet you, bro.

Hey V,
I'm glad to hear some interesting comments other than the typical,
and you are right V about hyperthrophy and hyperplasia , and I have to admit I'm not superman, LOL but training for so long I must have built muscle memory that through proper training and diet(which I do both however my diet is slacking sometimes, I tend to eat too much LOL) I have not problem keeping the weight. I'm going to do a cycle in a month or so and I will keep track of the gains and loses. I wish I can explain my condition but can't that's why I try to share and see if other are the same....
Nice to meet you too, bro