{"id":14101,"date":"2025-05-02T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:37:30","slug":"michal-krizo-prep-for-the-2025-pittsburgh-pro-signals-a-huge-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14101","title":{"rendered":"Michal Krizo Prep for the 2025 Pittsburgh Pro Signals a Huge Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michal Kriz\u030co Kriz\u030ca\u0301nek, or Michal Krizo for short, is bringing an insane physique to the 2025 Pittsburgh Pro, and his fans and critics are suitably reacting. The Slovakian bodybuilder, started lifting weights as a teenager and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitec.co.uk\/two-gold-medals-top-5-placings-success-of-team-scitec-at-the-2023-olympia-a22440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned a career-high seventh place at the 2023 Olympia<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/bodybuilding-news-slovak-bodybuilding-beast-michal-krizo-krizanek-to-miss-mr-olympia-two-thousand-twenty-four-due-to-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he missed the \u2018O\u2019 in 2024 due to a shoulder injury.<\/a> Now back and seemingly bigger than ever before, Krizo looks incredible as he nears the 2025 Pittsburgh Pro stage, and the internet has reacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRARELY do we see muscle separation and detail like this! Bravo,\u201d commented writer and personal trainer Ron Harris in response to a most muscular pose shared by the big man on Instagram. \u201cBro is AI generated,\u201d quipped one fan. \u201cBringing the heat,\u201d wrote fellow bodybuilder Regan Grimes.<\/p>\n<h2>Michal Krizo is Coming Back Strong for the Pittsburgh Pro<\/h2>\n<p>Some observers feel that Krizo\u2019s current stunning state harks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/training\/golden-age-bodybuilding-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back to a golden age of competition<\/a>. \u201cOne of the few guys who actually could compete in the 90s,\u201d wrote another follower. This will be the first time that the Pittsburgh Pro has played host to an Open Division competition, and titans of the sport will be present. Derek Lunsford, William Bonac, and Martin \u201cThe Martian\u201d Fitzwater are all expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Krizo could send shockwaves on May 10-11, however. \u201cIf he comes to the show \u2018on,\u2019 I don\u2019t see how he wouldn\u2019t be top 3.\u201d surmised a fan. The shredded Slovakian also got people talking after posting his posing routine to IG. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen striated deltoids in decades,\u201d wrote one follower. \u201cCurrently my personal favorite look for Pittsburgh,\u201d wrote another. Still, there were some heavyweights of the business that wanted to give Krizo some sage advice. \u201cExcellent,\u201d wrote the 1983 Mr Olympia winner Samir Bannout. \u201cJust protect your lean mass going forward.\u201d While Milos Sarcev encouraged the man mountain to \u201cBring this on stage.\u201d The full lineup expected to compete in the first ever Pittsburgh Pro Open competition is below. Who have you got?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Derek Lunsford<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Bonac<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin Fitzwater<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>James Hollingshead<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michal Krizo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leandro Peres<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vitaliy Ugolnikov<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Walker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Wood<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ifbb_pro_michalkrizokrizanek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To follow Michal Krizo on Instagram, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/michal-krizo-prep-for-the-2025-pittsburgh-pro-signals-a-huge-comeback\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michal Kriz\u030co Kriz\u030ca\u0301nek, or Michal Krizo for short, is bringing an insane physique to the 2025 Pittsburgh Pro, and his fans and critics are suitably reacting. The Slovakian bodybuilder, started lifting weights as a teenager and earned a career-high seventh place at the 2023 Olympia but he missed the \u2018O\u2019 in 2024 due to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}