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would beat him at the Olympia,
that loss would feel like a victory.
So then what would an actual
victory feel like? When the mas-
ter of ceremonies said, “History
is made here tonight,” Schlier-
kamp’s legs went limp. Almost
fainting, he collapsed. He knelt
on the stage, striking it with his
fist, as if to convince himself it
was material and not a dream.
He cried. “It just came out of me,”
he says. “I didn’t want to stand. I
didn’t want to sit. I just wanted to
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fly up to the ceiling.”
Never mind that he never won
again or that he never cracked
the Olympia top three. He was
in the Olympia top six the
ensuing three years. In 2006,
he slipped to a still respectable
10th. He never announced his
retirement, but don’t expect
Schlierkamp to ever pull a
Kevin Levrone. He has moved
on. Today he and his wife, Kim
Lyons, own Bionic Body, a holis-
tic gym in Hermosa Beach, CA.
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DAMN, THAT
GUY’S GOT
A LOT OF
POTENTIAL TO
GO PLACES.
What follows are the biggest
changes Glass made in Schlier-
kamp’s training to transform him
from an also-ran in ’01 to the
man many thought should have
won the Sandow in ’02. Günter-
mania lives.
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BELT UP
Little-known fact: Charles Glass
always wears a training belt. OK,
maybe not when he’s sleeping
or showering. But all day long in
Gold’s Venice, under his sweat-
shirt—and he always wears a
sweatshirt—he has a weight
belt cinched up. In part, this is