Greg Valentino: The Man Whose Arms Exploded

Check out those arms. Are you impressed? Meet Gregg Valentino, the man who beefed himself up to the point where his muscles just said, “NO MORE STEROIDS!”

Gregg Valentino’s mountainous biceps are the result of 30 years’ training and an avalanche of “performance enhancers.” He is revered in the bodybuilding community but this film shows what happened when his body went into meltdown. Bodybuilders, experts and up-and-coming stars look at his oozing bicep and ask: is the steroid route really worth it?



Valentino admits that he suffered “bad side effects” from using steroids. He had stopped caring whether his needles were sterilised or not so it was only a matter of time before he shoved a dirty one into one of his growths. His bicep began to throb with infection and he decided to operate on himself - filming it for posterity - using a syringe to drain the blood from a massive haematoma. It didn’t work.

It’s a tale Valentino enjoys telling. “I love it,” he says as he shows the tape of his home surgery to some squirming friends. “It’s f***ed up!” Delightful. But he admits that he is “no role model”. He’s seen the inside of a jail cell, beaten a near-fatal infection, watched his girlfriend die, lost his family and made then lost $1million. “I sold my soul to the devil,” he admits.

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