by Christian Duque
IFBB Professional Urs Kalecinski aka The Miracle Bear has accomplished it once more. After his main win in Italy only a week in the past to his follow-up victory on the Europe Professional, this former basic physique competitor has been capable of make one of the crucial profitable transitions into open bodybuilding that now we have seen in latest reminiscence. I believe it’s secure to say that basic physique was holding him again. And this additionally goes again to what Lee Priest stated when Urs received in Italy. He said that the most effective bodybuilders will win exhibits.
There isn’t any have to have basic physique and even 212 bodybuilding. Why divide the flagship division? Why not have everyone compete in bodybuilding and whoever seems to be the most effective will take the most effective placings. In different phrases, why divide the game up? Why have so many divisions when in actuality all we’re making an attempt to do is use the most effective bodybuilder on the planet? Now males’s physique will probably be secure as a result of that’s a very completely different look. And it’s legitimate to have them separate, however basic physique has usually been considered being basic bodybuilding. And 212 is bodybuilding. It’s bodybuilding that’s usually populated by shorter and lighter opponents however that doesn’t imply that it’s any much less bodybuilding than the open. Subsequently the most effective bodybuilder on the 212 or the most effective bodybuilder basic must be additionally within the operating to be the most effective bodybuilder within the open. And one factor is for certain, Urs belongs within the open. Whereas he was doing massive issues in basic physique, he’s now profitable open professional exhibits again to again and has created an amazing quantity of momentum going into the Mr Olympia competitors. In spite of everything, Mr Olympia is the Tremendous Bowl of bodybuilding. Anyone who wins a professional present goes to wish to go onto the largest stage on the earth. However earlier than we get forward of ourselves, that final sentence has some added info now we have to unpack.
There’s no query that Urs introduced his a-game to the Europe Professional. He appeared extra peeled at Europe than he did on the Italy Professional Present and that form of success is just not by happenstance. Here’s a competitor that would have rested on his laurels and certified for the Olympia by profitable his open professional debut and stopped there, however he knew that behind his head it was going to hassle him. He knew that individuals’s remarks that he received by luck have been going to be his undoing. So as a substitute of taking his possibilities what did he do? He embarked for an additional contest prep and he did one other contest very shortly after his professional debut in open. And that was the Europe Professional. No one anticipated Urs to come back into the Europe Professional and beat Quinton as soon as once more. A rivalry had been shaped however that was a rivalry that would have stayed on the Italy Professional. Most individuals who change divisions and win their first present will hunker down and put together for the Olympia as a result of in any case that’s the purpose. That’s the solely motive that opponents compete at professional occasions – however to compete once more after incomes that qualification is very gutsy. Some may argue that he was pushing his luck, whereas others may argue that he wished to make some extent. And what may that time be? He didn’t need anybody to assume that his victory in Italy was a fluke. He didn’t need anybody to assume that it was luck. By profitable the Europe Professional and profitable Italy he has decisively confirmed to the world that he’s an open bodybuilder and he will be very aggressive on the Olympia. The query is, is he going to be?
To ensure that Urs to be aggressive in my view he’s going to have to essentially work on his again. We’ve got usually heard the good quotes from Ronnie Coleman, to Dorian Yates, to Lee Haney, all of them will inform you that you just win bodybuilding exhibits from the again. Bodybuilders have to have huge lats and a really tight midsection. They want to have the ability to hit that rear latspread or that rear double biceps pose and simply knock it out of the park. Now Urs has an outstanding again and it’s undoubtedly come a great distance; nevertheless, he’s going to have to essentially construct on that if he desires to be prime six on the Olympia. What’s loopy is that when you polled most bodybuilding followers at present, they might inform you that he’s most undoubtedly a shoe in for prime 10. And that proper there may be simply completely mind-boggling as a result of simply final 12 months he was competing in a distinct division.
The concept that opponents may bounce round divisions on the professional degree is totally astounding. As a result of now we have usually heard how troublesome it’s to construct muscle and we additionally know that there’s an amazing quantity of a measurement hole between basic physique and open bodybuilding. However that additionally ought to level to us that some opponents are trapped within the incorrect division. And sooner or later a realistic competitor and/or a realistic competitor’s camp goes to induce that athlete to make a change. I consider Urs may have received the basic physique Olympia, nevertheless it what price? How way more would he have needed to prohibit the pure development of his physique with a view to win that prime honor? On the flip facet, I really feel like he’s going to essentially hit his stride in bodybuilding as a result of he’s going to permit his physique to develop to as massive because it desires to get.
Now there additionally lies about one thing else we have to unpack. These basic guys have good physiques. They might wish to be larger they usually might wish to have extra muscle however the most effective basic physique competitor is a throwback to the Golden Period of Bodybuilding. It’s what bodybuilding must be. It’s what the previous timers like Arnold take a look at and say “wow that could be a nice physique.”
The issue is when these basic guys leap as much as open they now not have a weight cap. They now not have to fret about not making weight or going above their weight or no matter. The truth of the matter is that once you strip away all restrictions a whole lot of these guys are inclined to get huge. And whereas that could be a good factor it’s not at all times a superb factor relating to aesthetics and circulate. A man that has stunning strains may simply destroy that look by placing on tons of weight. And as everyone knows, the overwhelming majority of fast weight achieve is fats. Muscle doesn’t develop that method. I don’t care what cocktail, what stack, or what unique product somebody is on, it doesn’t matter. Muscle doesn’t develop on the identical price as fats. In different phrases, an enormous achieve in weight as a part of some kind of a unclean bulk to realize high quality muscle is simply not going to translate. Then after all there’s the medication. And we are able to say the medication don’t consider however we’d be mendacity to ourselves. The very last thing I wish to see is Urs grow to be a mass monster and lose the gorgeous physique that he created in a division that was all about the way in which bodybuilders used to seem like.
Everyone seems to be speaking concerning the enhancements Urs must make with a view to be within the prime six. Properly I for one don’t perceive why he doesn’t simply begin engaged on that now. Why does he should go to the Olympia and place within the prime 10 if he may wait a 12 months and actually develop into the division and place within the High 6? I suppose that once you go to a professional present you wish to compete in that 12 months’s Olympia. It’s referred to as having ambition and it’s referred to as eager to get expertise – and I get all of that. I simply don’t perceive what the push is? If Urs has discovered open bodybuilding and needs to remain, why does all the things occur directly. He’s already received not one however two professional exhibits. I believe that will be a good way to finish his stint in open for 2025 after which he grows and comes again higher than ever for 2026, however I don’t assume that’s going to occur.
Hopefully what is going to occur is that after the Europe Professional Urs truly hunkers down and worries concerning the Olympia. There are not any extra exhibits to qualify for this 12 months’s contest; nevertheless, he may embark on a visitor posing tour, he may do a bunch of seminars, he may seem in a bunch of expos, however what he must do is hunker down and work in the direction of the Olympia. Every thing else will get placed on maintain for now. However solely time will inform how critical Urs takes his Olympia prep. We’re not that distant – the Olympia is true across the nook.
Nonetheless I do wish to take this chance to congratulate Urs for this large victory. It is rather uncommon that anyone makes such a profitable transition between divisions and never solely wins their first present out of the gate however then wins the very subsequent one after that. No one thinks that Italy was a fluke and no one thinks that Europe was one both. Urs went into each contests firing on all cylinders and emerged victorious. I give him all of the credit score on the earth for that. I simply marvel what his subsequent strikes will probably be? As at all times, thanks for studying my article at IronMag. I sit up for studying your suggestions within the feedback. Please remember to copy and paste a hyperlink to this text on all of your social media feeds. It’s certain to generate some very vigorous dialog.