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The last time bodybuilding fans saw Roelly Winklaar onstage was at the 2021 Mr. Olympia in Orlando, Florida where he placed 11th. He took off the entire 2022 season, and he hasn’t been actively preparing for a contest so far in 2023, which led many fans to wondering if he’s called it a career...

Not even a week before he was set to compete in the 2020 Mr. Olympia, fan favorite Roelly Winklaar announced that he’s pulling out of bodybuilding’s biggest contest after he was diagnosed with Covid-19. “I have tested positive for Covid-19 while in Turkey en route to the US,” Winklaar said in...

The word “massive” has various synonyms—big, colossal, enormous, and gigantic being just a few. And now, there’s yet a new entry: Roelly Winklaar. A video of the 42-year-old bodybuilder looking like a walking barn has been making the rounds on Instagram, and everyone—including Kai Greene—has...

They seem more myth than man. And yet they’re made of esh— mounds of it—and every September at the Orleans Arena at least one of them can be viewed in his natural habitat, firing off ferocious shots, often with a beastly growl. They are bodybuilding’s ultimate mass monsters. Their sightings are...

We asked Roelly Winklaar to take us through a normal delt routine and explain the rationale behind the exercises he chose. First, some basic anatomy: The deltoids are comprised of three parts: anterior (front), medial (middle), and posterior (rear). Winklaar works all three to achieve that full...