Final up to date on February twenty seventh, 2025
Sam Sulek is formally an IFBB Professional League bodybuilder. After successful the 2025 Legends Traditional in mid-February, Sulek earned an invite to compete on the 2025 Arnold Traditional Novice (ACA) contest on Feb. 27, 2025, on the Higher Columbus Conference Middle in Columbus, OH, and he made essentially the most of it.
Sulek competed within the Traditional Physique Novice contest and scored the gold within the eyes of the judges.
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Sulek has a formidable sufficient physique to garner a titanically massive social media following — 6.5 million Instagram followers. That recognition within the bodybuilding sphere provided him entry to among the largest names within the sport and to listen to their suggestions on his physique and posing. Amongst them are four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler and 25-time Olympia-winning coach Hany Rambod, who critiqued Sulek’s physique within the lead-up to the 2025 ACA following Sulek’s 2025 Legends Traditional triumph.
Rambod appeared impressed with Sulek’s physique on the newbie stage, giving him a rating of 9.5 out of 10. Nevertheless, with the load drop in conditioning for the aggressive stage, Rambod feels Sulek must construct up his triceps and quads and obtain extra striated glutes. Whereas that leaves loads of room for Sulek to enhance, the work Sulek has performed up thus far is pro-level.
Along with his IFBB Professional Card in hand, Sulek can compete in any future IFBB Professional present he chooses. Though Sulek didn’t share any plans for future professional reveals he intends to compete in on the time of this text’s publication, ought to he win one through the 2025 season, he would qualify for the 2025 Olympia.
The 2025 Arnold Traditional continues via March 1, 2025, and can characteristic seven of the 11 IFBB Professional divisions, together with the Males’s Open contest, which holds pre-judging on Friday, Feb. 28, and its last on Saturday, March 1.
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