Iain Valliere Believes the 212 Division Ought to No Longer Exist in Bodybuilding

As requirements for training and high quality nutrition proceed to develop, Valliere professed that he doesn’t see a spot for 212 bodybuilders in the long term. He maintained that current profitable examples of 212 opponents like Derek Lunsford and Shaun Clarida, who’ve transitioned to and competed well in the Men’s Open, show that there isn’t a lot of a necessity for the 212 anymore.

As such, the athlete mentioned the division’s existence is redundant and that it must be absorbed into the Males’s Open.

“If a 175 or 180-pound Shaun [Clarida] is available in and is thrashing 290-pound, 6-feet guys, you actually haven’t any [expletive] case for conserving the 212 [division], to be sincere.” Valliere mentioned. “As a result of I nonetheless assume the fellows which might be actually [expletive] pushed to be one of the best, would stick out a number of years of getting [expletive] on in the event that they believed of their coronary heart. Just like the Derek’s (Lunsford] of the world, would have caught that [expletive] out and been within the Males’s Open and would have ended up the place they’re.” 

After receiving pushback and counterarguments from his fellow podcasters, together with retired 212 bodybuilder Man Cisternio and retired Males’s Open competitor Fouad Abiad, Valliere made an inexpensive analogy between basketball and bodybuilding, stating how the cream often rises to the highest with out lodging.

“That’s the identical factor as saying guys which might be, like, 5-foot-10 shouldn’t pursue basketball and that we must always make a shorter web for the fellows which might be shorter. It’s silly.” Valliere defined. “With 212, I simply assume a variety of these guys may find yourself within the [Men’s] Open identical to it was, and be effective.”

In the end, to Valliere, nixing the 212 division is in regards to the extra proficient athletes successful out and permitting them to compete in probably the most elite circumstances.

“Irrespective of how a lot I practice, I’m not going to be as large as Ramy [Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay] or as quick as Usain Bolt,” Valliere mentioned. “Some guys received’t be pretty much as good as Derek [Lunsford], some guys received’t be as tall as Yao Ming, it’s simply the [expletive] actuality. Persons are not all created equally and simply because they aren’t, it doesn’t imply we must always fill the hole.”