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Title: What Does it Really Take to Make it to the 2025 Olympia Stage?
Post by: adminssd on May 06, 2025, 10:02:17 PM
What Does it Really Take to Make it to the 2025 Olympia Stage?

[html]Just how rare is it, among fellow members of the human race, to be considered among the best in the world in physique sports? co*pared to all other sports, the iterations of bodybuilding reward the merest of a handful of participants. The most storied division is the progenitor of it all—men’s open bodybuilding—which gave us […]
                              

Just how rare is it, among fellow members of the human race, to be considered among the best in the world in physique sports? co*pared to all other sports, the iterations of bodybuilding reward the merest of a handful of participants. The most storied division is the progenitor of it all—men’s open bodybuilding—which gave us just 19 champions in SIXTY years. No other sport is as lonely at the top. The other 10 divisions that sprung up off the back of Mr. O boast even fewer champs.


Just how severe is the dedication, sacrifice, solitude required to step on the Olympia stage? To be judged against the best in the world, how much suffering are these athletes willing to endure? Leading up to the Olympia, our goal here is to have the athletes themselves explain, the details behind the scene— the stuff fans don’t have access to—that separates a champion from an also-ran.


So, when you consider viewing the 2025 Olympia, still six months away, it’s easy to not consider just how rare a portrayal of human achievement is corralled within the confines of this spectral. Out of eight billion-plus humans roaming this planet, 61 are currently qualified for any one of 11 divisions in the Olympia. In other words, 0.00013% of the world’s population.


This makes the Olympia lineup of qualified participants probably the rarest of any sporting endeavor on the planet. Now, this number is sure to rise as the contest season progresses. Up to 20 more athletes could possibly qualify in the remaining contests of the season, bringing the total to 81. which brings your chances up to 0.00098% of the world.


Here’s why the stat matters. Assuming we max out at 81 co*petitors this year, the path forward to the Olympia stage is going to not be a matter of splitting hairs, it’s going to be more like splitting atoms. Those 81 people are the best in the world and enjoy freak status. They are the elite of an already elite group, and any one of them could lose that status in the blink of an eye over something perhaps as trite as a few drops of water.


There are just three areas where these athletes can win or lose: muscularity/physique, condition and presentation. All of these co*petitors have been advised by coaches, pundits, judges and the like on what the expectation is going to be co*e contest day—based on what they brought last year, or to the show that qualified them—and they are, as you read this, in the throws of splitting hairs at the atomic level to get to that end.


Will it be 100 grams of carbs or 110? Or maybe 105 on Tuesday and Wednesday? Three IU’s of GH, or 4? Or maybe a spike to 6 a couple days a week?


Should it be 40 minutes of cardio or 50? Five days a week or six? There’s a million either/or scenarios that are being tried right now, all geared to finding even the tiniest of advantages. It could be anything from ¼-percent drier, ½-percent tighter, 1% wider. To the casual observer, the difference between 1st and 5th in any division is going to be a head scratcher. In other words, barely perceptible.


Ultimately, the 2025 Olympia is going to, as it always does, outdo the year prior. This year will be no different and exponentially more exciting! The 2025 Mr. Olympia contest is set to take place from October 9-12, 2025, at Resorts World Las Vegas, marking a return to this premier venue. This year’s event promises to be a landmark in the bodybuilding world, featuring an expanded lineup of divisions and a record-breaking prize pool.


Bodybuilders entering the Olympia 2024 stage
Erica Schultz

The 2025 Olympia Weekend’s IFBB Pro League Divisions:













Samson Dauda wins the 2024 Olympia
Wings of Strength

The 2025 Olympia Weekend co*petitors


Note: just because an athlete is qualified doesn’t necessarily mean they will co*pete. 


The 2025 Men’s Open Bodybuilding (Mr. Olympia) co*petitors:













The ​2025 212 Olympia co*petitors:











The 2025 Classic Physique Olympia co*petitors:











The 2025 Men’s Physique Olympia co*petitors:










The 2025 Ms. Olympia (Women’s Bodybuilding) co*petitors:








The 2025 Fitness Olympia co*petitors:








The 2025 Figure Olympia:








The 2025 Bikini Olympia co*petitors:







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