Has Ryan Hall Stopped Bodybuilding? He Looks Skinny Again When He Was Super Muscular A Year Ago

Conner Mantz pushed him out of retirement

Hall ain’t marathon skinny. Not by a mile.

Rather, the cynic in me thinks that Ryan Hall experienced too many side effects from the PEDs used in bodybuilding and his body couldn't tolerate it any more. It's a very common thing in bodybuilding to have to stop taking the drugs

Hall was obviously doping during his bodybuilding days. He would not have passed drug tests. He was taking at least 3x the legal amount of testosterone.

Ryan Hall wrote in his Instagram post that "I’m running at 167 lbs compared to my pro running days at 137 lbs". So only 30 pounds heavier now than in his elite running days.

Right, he’s overweight by almost 20% of his racing weight.

Look at it a different way, a year ago Hall would have been around 250 pounds with all that muscle he was carrying. Now at 167 pounds, he is down right skinny by comparison

Here comes the quest to race the olympic trials along side Centrowitz, Rupp, etc

Oh, and I would like to point out that Sara Hall is likely grateful that Ryan Hall is no longer clogging the toilets in the house on a daily basis with the enormous quantity of poop he would have been generating while bodybuilding and needing to eat a fridge full of raw eggs and chicken breasts everyday to maintain his "gainz"

Right, so he’s skinny compared to 250 but not “marathon skinny” compared to 137. My point is you’d be hard pressed to find an elite marathoner with Hall’s current build.

Ryan Hall goes all-in on whatever he is doing. He is extremely driven and focused on what he is trying to achieve. This naturally leads to some extremes that most people would never experience, but it is also how you achieve great things that most people would never experience. I am very different in that I enjoy being a jack of all trades, but I am the same in that I try to be great at that (be very good at a lot of things, which is a lot of work). But I do appreciate Hall's focus and drive. I wish more people were like him, and I hate to see lazy people criticize him for it

here's a pic from when he first stopped running and went UP to 165. This is probably a good size for him

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He was likely already taking PEDs for bodybuilding in that left photo at 165 pounds, he already looks like a gym bro

How about 26.2?

Probably not possible for Hall to go down to 137 pounds again if he took HGH during his bodybuilding since that would have permanently increased the size of his bone structure and organs

If that was all-in on lifting then he actually was extremely weak for how hard he was training.

A 500 pound deadlift is not impressive at all

I'm actually surprised that Hall can still run after he had to stop bodybuilding. I would have thought that taking the PEDs combined with heavy weight lifting would have torn a ligament or tendon somewhere. But then again, it doesn't look like Hall did any leg days as part of his bodybuilding

He does like ultras and stuff now. His wife will talk about how he went on a 3 day run.

Telling the wife he went on a 3 day run? That's the kind of excuse a married guy with a mistress on the side uses