by Christian Duque
IFBB Professional Urs Kalecinski aka The Miracle Bear has completed 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 in a position to make some of the profitable transitions into open bodybuilding that we now 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 gained in Italy. He said that the very best bodybuilders will win exhibits.
There isn’t any must have basic physique and even 212 bodybuilding. Why divide the flagship division? Why not have everyone compete in bodybuilding and whoever seems the very best will take the very best 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 locate the very best bodybuilder on the planet? Now males’s physique will probably be secure as a result of that’s a completely totally 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 sometimes populated by shorter and lighter rivals however that doesn’t imply that it’s any much less bodybuilding than the open. Subsequently the very best bodybuilder on the 212 or the very best bodybuilder basic must be additionally within the operating to be the very best bodybuilder within the open. And one factor is for positive, Urs belongs within the open. Whereas he was doing huge issues in basic physique, he’s now successful open professional exhibits again to again and has created an amazing quantity of momentum going into the Mr Olympia competitors. In any case, Mr Olympia is the Tremendous Bowl of bodybuilding. Anyone who wins a professional present goes to wish to go onto the most important stage on this planet. However earlier than we get forward of ourselves, that final sentence has some added info we now 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 type of success shouldn’t be by happenstance. Here’s a competitor that might have rested on his laurels and certified for the Olympia by successful his open professional debut and stopped there, however he knew that at the back of his head it was going to trouble him. He knew that folks’s remarks that he gained by luck had been going to be his undoing. So as an alternative of taking his probabilities what did he do? He embarked for one more contest prep and he did one other contest very shortly after his professional debut in open. And that was the Europe Professional. No person anticipated Urs to return into the Europe Professional and beat Quinton as soon as once more. A rivalry had been shaped however that was a rivalry that might 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 spite of everything that’s the purpose. That’s the solely motive that rivals compete at professional occasions – however to compete once more after incomes that qualification is terribly gutsy. Some may argue that he was pushing his luck, whereas others may argue that he wished to make some extent. And what might 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 successful the Europe Professional and successful Italy he has decisively confirmed to the world that he’s an open bodybuilder and he could 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 nice quotes from Ronnie Coleman, to Dorian Yates, to Lee Haney, all of them will let you know that you just win bodybuilding exhibits from the again. Bodybuilders must 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 needs to be high six on the Olympia. What’s loopy is that if you happen to polled most bodybuilding followers right now, they’d let you know that he’s most undoubtedly a shoe in for high 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 rivals might bounce round divisions on the professional stage is completely astounding. As a result of we now have usually heard how tough 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 rivals are trapped within the fallacious division. And in some unspecified time in the future a practical competitor and/or a practical competitor’s camp goes to induce that athlete to make a change. I imagine Urs might have gained the basic physique Olympia, nevertheless it what price? How rather more would he have needed to limit the pure development of his physique as a way to win that high honor? On the flip aspect, 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 huge because it needs 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 and so they could wish to have extra muscle however the very best basic physique competitor is a throwback to the Golden Period of Bodybuilding. It’s what bodybuilding must be. It’s what the outdated timers like Arnold have 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 if you strip away all restrictions lots of these guys are likely to get huge. And whereas that could be a good factor it’s not at all times factor on the subject of aesthetics and circulate. A man that has stunning traces might 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 means. 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 form of a unclean bulk to realize high quality muscle is simply not going to translate. Then after all there’s the medicine. And we are able to say the medicine don’t think about 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 attractive 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 as a way to be within the high six. Properly I for one don’t perceive why he doesn’t simply begin engaged on that now. Why does he need to go to the Olympia and place within the high 10 if he might wait a 12 months and actually develop into the division and place within the Prime 6? I suppose that if 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 desires to remain, why does every thing occur without delay. He’s already gained not one however two professional exhibits. I believe that might 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’s 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 might embark on a visitor posing tour, he might do a bunch of seminars, he might seem in a bunch of expos, however what he must do is hunker down and work in direction of the Olympia. All the things else will get placed on maintain for now. However solely time will inform how severe 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 big victory. It is vitally uncommon that any person 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 person 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 this planet 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 you should definitely copy and paste a hyperlink to this text on all of your social media feeds. It’s sure to generate some very full of life dialog.
