NEWS: The Man with Exploding Arms

CULTURE: The Man with Exploding Arms

"Anything in excess is gonna cause side effects"

Body builder Greg Valentino, in this clip from TLC reveals the frightening result of his years-long steroid addiction—massive, cartoonish, deformed arm muscles. His overuse of the drug, and poor hygiene, led to infections that ballooned up the tissue until he was forced to attempt to "deflate" them himself. Yet another brilliant idea.

The story also exposes Greg's sad foray into dealing steroids, and the resulting mess of gangs, police trouble, and the death of his girlfriend. In this clip Greg's arms don't actually explode, but pretty fucking close.

this is old but its still a good story

he lied. he didn't site inject steroids, he used synthol. he used juice obviously, but NO WAY is that NOT synthol.
synthol is basically vegetable oil used to give volume. notice how the cartoonish areas don't flex? thats because it isn't muscle.

Oh god, that is so incredibly fucking gross.

That is soooooo creepy

Even though I shouldn't,I kinda feel sorry for him.He obviously feels like a dickhead,and his girlfriends dead...sad.But I guess he knew what he was getting into

Blerch

I saw the special on that on the Discovery Channel, it was foul when he jabbeds a siringe into his arm and all the nastiness comes out cause its infected

I wish they had showed all the nastiness-I love gore.That video just has some blood spots

"Note: This clip is a bit graphic. If you have eaten recently, or are easily disturbed, you might want to skip this one. I warned you."

Graphic? What? A few drops of blood is not graphic.
Yeah i too was what for some sort of pop.

I watched a show on this guy and probably saw the same vid. It wasnt gross but..the idea of the guy draining glasses of blood out of his arm is a bit much.

There was a wrestler whose arm burst once...

I wonder where the line was as he progressed to that body where you have to stop and say, "You have a body image disorder."

The progression and the mindset are so fantastic.

That's really sad and creepy, but at the same time, at least he's man enough now to acknowledge that. He seems genuinely repentant.

I saw this on the Discovery Channel......this dude really obsesses over his body. It's unreal.

It's insanely old. Methinks someone just got cable.

a BIG +1 to that.