Mustafa Ismail. The largest biceps in the world. And these are synthol consumers in full growth

When you first see photos of this guy, you get the impression that this is just someone's work in Photoshop. But in fact, the photos are real and the name of this bodybuilder is Mustafa Ismail, he earned himself a place in the newest edition of the Guinness Book of Records, which went on sale today in London. Mustafa Ismail is a man with the most big biceps in the world!

Mustafa is 24 years old; at the age of 14 he began to intensively pump up his biceps and has since achieved stunning results. The volume of his biceps is this moment measures 31 inches (78 cm) in circumference! The guy works out hard twice a day, lifting 500 kg of weight, and absorbs protein-containing foods in incredible quantities. His daily diet is several boiled chickens, approximately 500 g of steak or fish and 3 liters of protein shakes.

Mustafa Ismail himself, nicknamed “Big Mo,” claims that excellent genetic data also played a big role in building such huge biceps; the guy’s father was an Egyptian wrestler.

Five years ago, the bodybuilder moved from Egypt to America with his 30-year-old wife Caroline, and now he combines his daily training with work at a gas station near his home in Massachusetts. Friends often compare him to the famous cartoon character “Popeye” (he’s a sailor with huge hands), but he laughs and claims that, unlike “Popeye,” he hates spinach and believes that his hands are already much larger than those of the cartoon character !

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Thanks to his world's largest biceps, bodybuilder Mustafa Ismail earned the nickname "Popeye the Sailor Man." Although this Egyptian Popeye has a severe allergy to spinach, unlike his cartoon counterpart, who got his strength from this plant, Mustafa cannot tolerate greens. The 24-year-old Egyptian, whose biceps measure 78cm in girth, says spinach is to him what kryptonite is to Superman.

Mustafa entered the Guinness Book of Records last year as the man with the largest biceps. The bodybuilder was born in Alexandria and then moved to the States in 2007.

As a child, he was very fat, but soon returned to his homeland as a real “Hulk.” Mustafa Ismail lives with his wife Caroline in the USA. “I am the first Egyptian to be included in the Guinness Book of Records. In Egypt they gave me a real celebration because they were very proud of me.” Thanks to his body, Mustafa has already visited many countries.

Many people stop him on the street and ask him to touch his biceps - many do not believe that they are real. Many also say that he inspired them to go to the gym.

Although Mustafa has critics: many claim that his muscles are not real, that he uses steroids, implants or synthol - a synthetic oil that bodybuilders use to “chuff” their muscles. But “Big Mo” (as Mustafa is nicknamed) denies all this. He can lift 272 kg. He even had an ultrasound on Japanese television to prove his biceps were real.

"It hurts, but I'm proud of myself." Despite his fame, Mustafa still keeps his feet on the ground and works 70 hours a week at a gas station in Milford, Massachusetts. In his free time he can only be found in gym.
His three-hour workouts begin at 5 am. IN adolescence Mustafa was a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"It's not about raising heavy weight, and in correct technique and achievement best results" Mustafa eats 3 kg of meat, 4 kg of carbohydrates and drinks 11 liters of water a day, and then washes it all down with three protein shakes. “Before I started working out, I was fat and was always embarrassed to take off my T-shirt. I always wore a T-shirt in the pool." However, Mustafa is not happy with his record. He intends to add another 20cm to his biceps to reach a girth of 101cm.

He also plans to make his shoulders even bigger than his biceps. “I will try, although it will take maximum effort. You will have to concentrate and prepare properly. To reach this level, you will have to believe in yourself. And I can do it if I just keep training. Maybe it will take about a year." The only drawback, according to Mustafa himself: “I will look scary.”

(James Ellerker/Guinness World Records)

No, this is not Photoshop, as you might think (and that’s what I thought at first). 24-year-old Egyptian Mustafa Ismail was included in the 2013 Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the largest biceps in the world, reports the Huffington Post. The diameter of his arm is 78.74 centimeters - almost the same as the waist circumference of an adult. Mustafa says that at first he went to the gym just to stay in shape. However, after many began to admire his already well-developed biceps, he decided to concentrate all his efforts in this direction.




Five years ago, when young man was not accepted into the Egyptian bodybuilding team, Mustafa and his family moved to the USA. In his new homeland, he continued to “pump iron,” especially since America has the most modern equipment for this. Together with his wife Caroline, the Egyptian settled in Massachusetts. Now he has his own home and two gas stations here, where he works in his free time from training.




How did he manage to do this?




Pictured: World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)





The Egyptian bodybuilder's arm circumference from shoulder to elbow is almost 79 centimeters. He lifts a weight of 226 kilograms on his biceps.

Photo: Mustafa Ismail at World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

The athlete’s working day is not easy: Mustafa gets up at 4 am, trains from 5 to 8, goes to work, eats and sleeps a little during the day, then goes to his second job.

Photo: Mustafa Ismail at World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

According to the record holder, such results are also influenced by a special daily diet: 7 pounds of protein food (about 3 kg), 9 pounds of carbohydrates (about 4 kg) and three gallons of water (11 liters).

Photo: Mustafa Ismail at World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Mastafa's daily diet includes 3 pounds of chicken, 1 pound of pork chop or fish, 4 cups of almonds, 2 gallons of water, 3 liters of protein shakes.

Photo: Mustafa Ismail at World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

“I love bodybuilding because your success in this sport is always very noticeable,” says the athlete.

In 2007 he moved to Massachusetts, USA, where he lives with his wife Caroline. He works two jobs to pay for his gym membership, among other things.

Photo: Mustafa Ismail at World Gym, Milford, Massachusetts, November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

“I like training to the point of exhaustion, it teaches concentration,” says the athlete. Meanwhile, many skeptics are sure that it could not have happened without implants, steroids or special drugs like synthol: the imbalance between Ismail’s arms and other muscles is striking

In the photo: Mustafa Ismail shows off his biceps and triceps. (SWNS)

Mustafa Ismail assures that he does not use any special means, but began to pump up his muscles after he became the object of ridicule at the wedding of his uncle in Egypt. Mustafa used to suffer from overweight. But I think few people who understand this sport will believe him.

Synthol appeared in the early 90s of the last century, and its invention is associated with the name of the German chemist Chris Clark, who decided to increase the validity of the drug esiclene. The latter was wildly popular among bodybuilders in the 80s, having a rather low anabolic effect; esiclen, when injected intramuscularly, caused irritation and inflammation. As a result, the muscles became larger and more prominent. True, the result was short-term, and faded away within a day or two. But it was just right for the competition. Until Mr. Clark decided to increase the duration of the drug, and increased it so much that now it is eliminated from the body within several years (cases have been noted when the full period of release exceeded 10 years!).

He led the work in the direction of increasing the effect time. He succeeded - in the early 90s he obtained a composition called synthol, although... Since such a name was already protected by a patent, Clark’s composition was officially called “Pump’N’Pose.”




Synthol began to be actively used by bodybuilders, increasing several missing inches in various muscles. The first was Klaus Doring.

For Clark, synthol became the real “goose that lays the golden eggs.” Although it is prohibited to use synthol directly, it is openly sold as performance oil for $400 a bottle. And there are many people actively using it.

Strictly speaking, synthol was never sold under this name. The name was assigned to another drug (which one is unknown to the general public), and our hero was registered under the name Pump-N-Rose (Pump-N-Rose). Moreover, due to the ban on synthol and its equation to steroids, the drug is sold exclusively as an oil for posing. With this positioning there is no responsibility for side effects the manufacturer is not responsible. Yes, and there cannot be any - after all, if you simply coat yourself with a dense oily liquid, it is impossible to cause harm to your health. It’s another matter if you use it not as written on the package, but as is customary.




Synthol is administered intramuscularly to a depth of approximately 6-7 mm. The procedure is not very painful due to the addition of painkillers. However, the number of injections approaches 250 over 3-4 months per muscle. Research shows that approximately 30-35% of synthol administered in this way is broken down by the body almost immediately, while the rest accumulate over the years. One course of such “treatment” is accompanied by the injection of about 270-300 ml of the substance into the muscle. If previously synthol was used only for pumping up the biceps and triceps, then over time they began to inject it into the calves and chest. In fact, the effect of synthol on different groups muscles are different, the greatest effect is achieved in the biceps, triceps, deltas, slightly worse result in the muscles of the chest, calves, round muscles backs.

Professional doctors will never undertake synthol injections, and self-injections are dangerous to the health of the person to whom they are given. First, there is a risk of nerve damage, which can lead to paralysis or paresis (numbness). Secondly, if it gets into a blood vessel, snitol will enter the blood. And this is a risk of blockage of blood vessels, even death. Usually everything is less dangerous: increased blood pressure, dizziness, suffocation. Thirdly, even synthol taken as prescribed leads to suppuration muscle tissue, which can provoke ischemia, atrophy and sclerosis of skeletal muscles. And just realizing that your biceps is a wineskin of pus is somehow not very pleasing. Fourthly, the same injections in different muscles(for example, left and right biceps) lead to completely different effects, very often one muscle becomes much larger and thicker than the other. Fifthly, muscle fiber It is enveloped on all sides by a substance, which makes the flow of oxygen to it difficult, which leads to partial death of muscles and loss of natural weight.

For this reason in professional sports If synthol is used, it should be used extremely carefully. But narrow-minded amateurs often neglect not only the sense of self-preservation, but also external aesthetics, driving increased doses of synthol into their muscles. The result is skewed, disproportionate figures. Why is synthol so popular? It’s very simple - its presence in the blood is almost impossible to establish, because it’s just ordinary fat (85% consists of C8- fatty acids, plus C10 and C12, benzyl alcohol and lidocoine). The most famous synthol player is Gregg Valentinno, a slightly less famous synthol veteran is Klaus Doring, whose hands today look like wineskins of liquid.

Photo: Mustafa Ismail eats lunch at his favorite Mexican restaurant after working out daily at the World Gym in Milford, Massachusetts on November 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)




In the photo: Mustafa Ismail holds model Jessica Gerard. (SWNS)

There is one more point. After using synthol, those who have used it talk about a change in sensations during training, they believe that the “pump” comes much faster, and the training itself becomes much harder. This is where synthol victims show their complete ignorance. After all, pump (or pumping) is a sensation that arises subjectively due to blood flow to the muscle during exercise. The vessels dilate, blood supply increases and a feeling of fullness appears. And the severity of the workout is determined by the fact that even increased blood flow cannot adequately supply the muscle with oxygen (i.e., functional ischemia manifests itself), hence the production of lactic acid, leading to pain and burning in the muscle. But synthol has already clogged the space between the fibers, and compresses the vessels and nerves, which causes the same burning sensations and pain, but the muscles do not work.




The developer himself stated that his product is completely safe, but... On the one hand, the use of synthol sports organizations equated to steroid use. But developers and distributors position the substance only as an external oil and shift all responsibility for use to the end user.




But here there is a small subtle point. As mentioned above, synthol is administered injectively. This means you need to know very well the features of the anatomy of muscle groups. After all, damage to the nerve, of which there are quite a few, can lead to paralysis or paresis of the area.




Even worse consequences of vascular damage. A trapped fat clot causes embolism in the blood vessels of the lungs, heart, brain and often causes death. In addition, post-injection infections, abscesses and cellulitis in victims of synthol are common, requiring surgical intervention.




The components themselves also stimulate inflammation in the muscles, and huge masses of fatty acids embedded between muscle bundles for a long time cause sclerosis, atrophy and ischemia of muscle tissue.




The International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB) regulates the use of aids and drugs by athletes.





Yes, its rules basically prohibit the use of steroids and synthol injections. But such lists of prohibited drugs are more likely to be guidelines for action than actual prohibitions. Almost competitions turn into a battle of monsters - and how exactly is such an unnatural muscle mass it doesn't matter anymore. Straight guy to achieve high results It’s almost impossible in competitions; it’s a war of steroids (a fifty-centimeter arm) with synthol (a 27-cm shoulder).




And these are full-length synthol consumers.

The most famous is Gregg Valentino. He's the owner huge hands in bodybuilding.

This is what his hands look like now...




One of the first consumers of synthol was Klaus Doring. Now it looks more like a mutant pig, to put it mildly.






Crazy old man Klaus Kaak.





It’s almost impossible to name places that aren’t cleared here; everything is completely packed.

Here, apparently, is an attempt to show the synthetic-colored everything in all its glory using Photoshop...






If you learn to feel the moment correctly, the synthol ball will form a peak in the right place - here on the biceps, but there are always options






Harry Blais's face expresses the depth of philosophical thought and enormous intellectual potential




And this is already Russian production— Valery Loktionov, 49 years old, actively declaring his complete purity from synthol impurities.

Synthol pro Flex Wheeler, owner of many titles...

11th place on Mr. Olympia in 2003 was Ernie Taylor

Mr. quadriceps (synthol, of course) - Mustafa Mohammad. And US champion in 2002 in the overall standings and in heavyweight champion Idris Ward-El

Grueling visits to the gym and jogging in the morning are not tough for everyone, but not for the heroes of our material about the big biceps. These guys were ready to do anything just to prove that they had the largest biceps on the planet.

Greg Valentino

This unique athlete had a turbulent career, but one way or another he still achieved his goal and long years held the title of "The Man with the Biggest Biceps in the World." For 10 years grueling workouts, Greg managed to pump up his biceps, the girth of which reached 53 centimeters. The athlete literally swore that he achieved this result without the use of steroids and other prohibited chemical-based drugs. What can I say? Well done Greg! Keep it up!

But, apparently, it wasn’t enough for the athlete, and he still decided to resort to using steroids, citing the fact that he wanted to achieve a much greater result. The result was stunning: the athlete’s arm circumference increased to 71 centimeters! With this result, Greg Valentino entered the Guinness Book of Records.

But everything is not as rosy in Greg's life as it seems at first glance. After starting to take steroids, the athlete began to have health problems. Even though the muscle mass in his arms was growing before his eyes, Greg’s vitality was slowly but surely melting away every day. As time passed, Greg's muscles even began to fester. But he didn’t even try to hide this terrible fact and posted photos with disgusting wounds on the Internet.



According to Greg himself, he allegedly posted these photos for young guys so that they would understand what excessive use of steroids can lead to. But even health problems were not the worst page in the athlete’s life. The thing is that Greg had to go to war after serving in the army. After the war, the record holder began distributing illegal drugs, for which he ended up serving time in prison. Now Greg Valentino has come to his senses and put his head together; soon the athlete is going to write and publish a book about his life.

Mustafa Ismail

The colorful Egyptian athlete, Mustafa Ismail, managed to pump up the largest biceps in the world. Now the 24-year-old bodybuilder lives and works in America. Mustafa is famous not only for his biceps (79 centimeters in girth), but also for having the largest forearms.

As a joke, Mustafa's friends call him Popeye the sailor because of his disproportionate arms. But Mustafa is a cheerful guy and is not at all offended by humorous statements directed at him. The young athlete has been fascinated by sports since childhood and dreamed of achieving what others cannot. Already at the age of 14, Mustafa began to play sports professionally. The young man’s main focus was on pumping up his biceps. After moving to America, the young guy became available best conditions to make your dreams come true. As time passed, Mustafa pumped up his biceps to a record level. Today the athlete confidently lifts 226 kg on his biceps.

The young bodybuilder said that in order to achieve results, he had to get up at 4 am almost every day, get to the gym and lift for 3 hours. Then the athlete still had to go to work, where he worked almost until lunch. Then the athlete took a break, ate a hearty meal and went to his second job, where he worked until the evening. But even now, Mustafa claims that he was able to achieve such outstanding results not only thanks to discipline and grueling training.

The main factor was proper and regular nutrition. On the day, the young man had to eat 3 kg of protein food, 4 kg of carbohydrates, and also had to drink at least 1.5 liters of water. To this day, the bodybuilder consumes 1.5 kilograms of meat per day, eats 4 cups of almonds and drinks up to three liters protein shake.




The athlete is also in excellent health and assures the whole world that he has never taken illegal drugs during his short but already very successful career. Many are inclined to doubt the veracity of the bodybuilder’s words and claim that biceps of such unrealistic sizes could only be pumped up with the help of synthol or thanks to silicone implants.

But, despite everything, Mustafa Ismail continues to do what he loves and easily fends off any negative statements from the press and ill-wishers in his direction. At the moment, although Mustafa is the owner of the largest biceps in the world, he has not yet entered the Guinness Book of Records. What should I add here? Everything is still ahead.