Regan Grimes won’t take part on this 12 months’s upcoming 2022 Mr. Olympia. On Sept. 15, 2022, the bodybuilder introduced the choice throughout an episode of four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler’s podcast, the Cutler Solid. Grimes will shift his focus to 2023 in a mission to build more mass.
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Grimes made the looks on Cutler’s podcast alongside his coach Miloš Šarčev. The pair outlined Grimes’ upcoming strength training plans, sustaining that Grimes’ new aim is so as to add 15 kilos of muscle mass earlier than returning to compete on the 2023 Olympia. Grimes completed in fifteenth place in every of the final two Mr. Olympia contests and wish to enhance his outcomes the subsequent time he steps onto the Olympia stage. (Observe: Šarčev additionally coaches Grimes’ fellow Males’s Open opponents Samson Dauda and Joe Mackey.)
“I need to actually get within the prime 5, and I don’t suppose, proper now, I’m simply not there but,” Grimes says. “So this 12 months, we’ve determined to take it off and proceed this rhythm of placing the tissue on, and we’ll hit a present subsequent 12 months and go to Olympia.”
Grimes says he weighs 295 kilos within the clip, however after session with Šarčev with the competition roughly 4 months away — the 2 agreed that Grimes’ progress wasn’t the place they wished at this level within the lead-up course of.
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Over the previous few years, Grimes has been a constant fixture within the aggressive bodybuilding scene.
In keeping with NPC Information On-line, amongst different notable appearances apart from the final two Olympias, Grimes received the 2018 New York Professional as a Traditional Physique competitor. He additionally took first place within the Males’s Open division on the 2020 Romania Muscle Fest Professional. With extra time on his plate as an alternative of specializing in any pending contests, Grimes says stepping away from the Olympia will enable him extra flexibility to enhance his physique for the long run.
In the meantime, Šarčev was candid, saying he doesn’t consider Grimes had the suitable dimension to beat established Males’s Open stars like Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Ellsbiay, Brandon Curry, Nick Walker, Hunter Labrada, and Hadi Choopan.
“It’s nonetheless a muscle contest — it doesn’t matter what we are saying,” Sarcev says. “If you stand subsequent to ‘Huge Ramy,’ it’s a must to have dimension. And if he doesn’t have it, he can be outclassed.”
Cutler echoed the same sentiment about Huge Ramy and any potential challengers.
“A month in the past, I stated okay, individuals might problem [Big Ramy]. However now, I can’t see him dropping being within the form he’s in.”
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Grimes earned an automated qualification for the 2022 Mr. Olympia by profitable the 2022 Cairo Professional. This previous aggressive 12 months additionally noticed respective seventh-place outcomes on the 2022 Arnold Traditional and 2022 Boston Professional.
On the time of this writing, Grimes has not clarified when he would compete subsequent as he resets his sights on the 2023 Olympia. Within the subsequent occasion that Grimes is seen on a stage, his physique may look dramatically totally different.
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