Jesse Marunde (Met-Rx World Strong Man) has died.

[THE BOUNCER]

Anyone that watches the Met-Rx World strong man comps knows who he is. He has died at the young age of 27. No further details are known.

Just 1 more American Strong Man to die so young. Mark Perry died a few years ago at the age of 30.

http://www.marunde-muscle.com/pictures.html

[THE BOUNCER]

Pic from 2002. Jesse Marunde in the middle and Johnny Perry on the right. Both dead.

[FitnessBrat]

Wow - that's terrible. I always watch the Met-Rx Strongman comps. They didn't give any cause of death or anything?

[rado]

Sad...Probably a H-Attack.

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by FitnessBrat

They didn't give any cause of death or anything?

The family is supposed to make a statement later.

[Mr incredible]

NO WAY!

[hardy]

that world is just like pro wrestling......tons of juice and tremendos strain on the body.....its a shame

[Mr incredible]

he looked fit to me thats what gets me, he wasn't dramatically overweight carrying lots of fat, if anything he looked the closest to pudianofski physique.

wonder if he'd been doing something different, really bulking hard or something

[rado]

His meal plan;

Meal Plan
Jesse keeps his meal plans simple by eating the same thing almost every day.

04:45 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement with 10 Egg whites, Milk, Yogurt and a bowl of grits.
05:30 am - morning workout
07:00 am - Steak, 4 Eggs, Potatoes
10: 30 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement shake
01:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef and ½ large Yam.
04:00 pm - Tuna sandwich, veggies, 2 cans of MET-Rx® RTD 51 and a glass of orange juice
06:00 pm - pre workout snack
08:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef, Brown rice and a medium salad.
09:30 pm - MET-Rx® meal replacement

[redneck99]

that sucks...

[redneck99]

Originally Posted by rado

His meal plan;

Meal Plan
Jesse keeps his meal plans simple by eating the same thing almost every day.

04:45 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement with 10 Egg whites, Milk, Yogurt and a bowl of grits.
05:30 am - morning workout
07:00 am - Steak, 4 Eggs, Potatoes
10: 30 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement shake
01:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef and ½ large Yam.
04:00 pm - Tuna sandwich, veggies, 2 cans of MET-Rx® RTD 51 and a glass of orange juice
06:00 pm - pre workout snack
08:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef, Brown rice and a medium salad.
09:30 pm - MET-Rx® meal replacement

do any of u guys thinks all the ground beef everyday was bad????

I keep hearing that it's so bad for your heart...

isn't that kinda what happened to Kris Dimm?

[Mr incredible]

Sequim strongman collapses, dies
July 26th, 2007 - 8:41am

(Sequim) -- A Sequim man considered one of the strongest men in the world has died. Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse Marunde died last night after collapsing while doing exercises at his home in Sequim. Friends of the family confirm he died last night after stopping his workout when he felt dizzy. Marunde and his wife Callie had just celebrated the birth of a baby about six weeks ago. Marunde also has a nine-year-old son from a previous marriage. Marunde finished second in the 2005 "World's Strongest Man" competition. He continued competing in similar competitions and ran a gym with his wife in Sequim.

[beefcake]

Actually he was only 27. He was going to be 28 next month. I can't believe this. I'm an avid follower of strongman. He had a great future in strongman. The things he was doing back when he was 21 was amazing. This is a serious blow to the sport.

[Mr incredible]

My guess, too much insulin with the gh

[rado]

I guess my post of his diet above is "little"

http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/fo...interview.html

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ON A TYPICAL DAY, Jesse Marunde eats a dozen raw eggs, 10 cups of oatmeal, a gallon of whole milk, a cup of peanut butter, a buckshot-studded pheasant fried in 100 percent virgin olive oil, two fish steaks, three cans of tuna, eight carrots, eight sugar snap peas, seven cups of spinach, five apples, three bananas, two kiwis, two oranges, several plates of spaghetti, three potatoes and two 1,200-calorie weight-gainer shakes (one gulped down in the middle of the night).

He swigs a vile-smelling brown serum, liquid glucosamine chondroitin for large farm animals (ingredients include shark cartilage and cat's claw powder), and he swallows 30 liver pills plus 23 others: amino acids, calcium, multivitamins, selenium, vitamin C, chromium picolinate, vitamin E, antioxidants, acidophilus to aid digestion, Naproxen because he dropped a rock on his knee and three capsules of androstene. He inhales 10 squirts of anabolic activator, slips a Human Growth Complex pellet under his tongue, drinks flax oil straight from the bottle, takes a Cyanotic Vaga extract, lecithin and a dropper full of Yohimbe root syrup, which is said to increase sexual prowess, "though that's not why I take it."


Jesse tops off a huge breakfast with more than two dozen vitamin, mineral, antioxidant and growth supplements, including a swig of liquid glucosamine chondroitin for large farm animals.

Then, having earlier split wood for two hours, he heads for a homemade gym tucked among blackberry brambles and Doug firs to work out for two hours flipping 940-pound truck tires and staggering around with 320-pound weights in each hand.

Jesse wants to be the World's Strongest Man. At 23, he's already a top contender in the made-for-television competition where monster-size guys lift monster trucks, drag anvils and upend 660-pound faux logs called "Fingal's Fingers." You may have surfed across the replays on late-night cable sports channels. Television didn't merely popularize this sport. It created it — two years before Jesse was born.

He weighed 8 pounds then. Now he is 300 pounds (a lean 14.5 percent body fat), 6 feet 5 inches tall, and sports 19-inch biceps, unpumped. A 6-foot tape measure is too short to circumnavigate his chest and arms. Tethered in a rope harness, he can pull a 24,000-pound school bus across the parking lot of Sequim High; squat-lift an 1,100-pound platform topped by squealing mini-skirted "Bud Girls"; hoist a 385-pound stone sphere onto a chest-high platform.

To get a better grip on the gigantic stones, Strongmen slather a sticky sap called Tacky on their bodies. Jesse shaves his arms (he buys 60-packs of pink Bic razors) so the Tacky won't rip out his body hair. "I'm a pansy, and it hurts!"

He's joking, of course, because Strongmen have an intimate relationship with physical pain. Pain and gain. Pain and power. Pain and focus. In competition, "Even when the pain is intense, when the whistle blows, everything goes away," Jesse says. "There's not a worry in the world. At that moment, it's just me and a rock and nothing else exists and I gotta lift that stone and it's the only thing that matters."


With a playful scowl and using reverse psychology, Jesse entices his son, Dawson, into trying a piece of buckshot-filled pheasant meat.

Simple.

Between lifts, that's where life gets complicated, especially in an era when the definition of what's strong and what's manly gets tangled up with divorce, steroids and multiple pressures to become a muscle-sculpted athlete, a sensitive dad, a software millionaire before 30 — or at least hold a job with health insurance.

"My image of what a real man is has changed a lot," says Jesse, who divorced in 2001 and has joint custody of his 4-year-old son. "The most important thing is how you treat people and how you interact with your family. A real man is tender. The Bible says, better a patient man than a warrior. Before, I don't know what I thought. I was a kid. It wasn't important to me. I think the most important thing for a man is staying power, being able to stay in one spot and face adversity. Taking care of your people and being a positive part of their life."

At the moment, Mighty Marunde is taking care of his little boy, Dawson, and the two are locked in a power struggle. Over breakfast.


When he was 14, Jesse started rigorous training and a workout log that he maintains to this day. The journal includes weights, reps and injuries as well as telling comments about the pain of divorce and working out alone in an unheated barn.


Jesse spontaneously hoists two girls up on his shoulders when a local mom asks him to pose for a photo.

"E-e-eew," Dawson says, dawdling over his oatmeal and sausage and whining that he wants apple, not carrot juice.

"We talked about this before," Jesse warns, knitting his brow in a reverse-psychology scowl. "If you eat any more, you might grow muscle and get BIGGER! And I want you to stay small and cute, just like you are!"

Dawson flexes his small biceps. He grins and digs into his oatmeal. He tells his dad, "I want some milk."

GROWING UP in Alaska, Spokane and Las Vegas, Jesse's male role models worked hard. His grandpa and uncles were commercial fishermen, trappers, pilots, farmers, grocers. His father labored on the Alaska pipeline and fought forest fires before practicing law.

When it came to work, it was "manual, strenuous, stressful, and they always smiled," Jesse says. "I've always worked at manual jobs. I respect the ability to do work with your own hands. Strongman is primeval. I like that. Something that takes you back hundreds of years to do things that were commonplace. Back in those days, if you had a stone in the middle of your field and you needed it moved, you moved it."

Early on, Jesse was determined. When he was 2, his mother Gigi recalls, he wanted cookies but she had none, so when she wasn't looking, he left the house, crossed the main drag, marched into a neighbor's house half a block away, climbed up on the counter and helped himself to Oreos. "Whatever he wanted, he figured out how to get it," his mother says. "He always had big plans. He was going to win the Olympics. Be a decathlete. He wanted the fastest car in Sequim, a Dodge Super Bee, even though the speed limit everywhere is 25. Back then, I didn't understand his vision. Now I see he's a pioneering person. . . He's a lot like my dad."

At 9, Jesse spent all summer in Alaska on Grandpa George Farren's commercial-fishing boat, sorting sockeye salmon at 10 cents a fish, pulling gill nets a quarter-mile long. "That's when his hands started developing," his grandfather says. "First day after work, you can't even open up your fingers."


In his personal gym in Sequim, Jesse finishes his workout by lifting a 300-pound stone to the top of a platform. This past February, at regionals in Boston, he set a personal best, hoisting a 385-pound stone in the signature Strongman event.

Winters in Spokane, young Jesse cleared snow from neighbors' driveways with a big scoop shovel. "I remember wishing I was stronger," Jesse says, "so I could work faster and earn more money."

At 12, after the family moved to Las Vegas, Jesse watched a video of Mike Tyson training. It inspired him to do push-ups and sit-ups daily. He bought weights at a garage sale and began lifting. He was a tall, skinny seventh-grader in a school troubled by gangs. "I used to get picked on all the time. It was a classic case of retaliation: I'm going to get big and strong and show all of you."

By the time his family moved to Sequim when he was in eighth grade, Jesse was serious about getting strong. He started a rigorous training schedule and log that he maintains to this day and claims he hasn't missed a workout in eight years. As a teenager, he showed up at a local gym and caught the eye of J.V. Askem, a champion Olympic lifter and coach, who became his mentor.

"I've coached a lot of guys in Sequim who showed promise, but Jesse is the one who sticks with it," Askem said before he died this spring. "A friend of his could snatch (lift) his body weight earlier than Jesse, but he was interested in being a millionaire and quit." As it turns out, the friend did become a computer titan.

"Yeah, but I'm stronger," Jesse says. He dreams of making it big, but not in computers. He imagines professional wrestling (for which he has both the charisma and physique) or pro football or acting or teaching children or launching a business or doing a "Got Milk?" commercial in which he carries a cow on his back. For now, he's thrilled when strength-supplement companies comp him products, airfare and a few hundred bucks or when an orthopedist agrees to treat his blown-out knees for free. Last year, he earned about $8,000 in prize money and endorsements from Strongman contests, supplementing his income by chopping wood, valet-parking cars, moving couches and refrigerators, and doing other odd jobs.


Taking a break from chopping wood, Jesse chats with J.V. Askem, who took note of Jesse when he showed up in the local gym as a teenager. Askem, a champion Olympic lifter and coach, became his mentor and good friend. He died of a brain tumor early this spring.

Obviously, he's not in it for the money. "I love strength," Jesse says. "You put five more pounds on the bar, you get a great feeling of accomplishment. I always wonder if I can do five more. It's never occurred to me to stop pursuing that. People think it's strange, but it's not. The body was made to work. Man created the pyramids with hands. Only recently did we have machinery to make things easier."

Yet some medical researchers say the hulking men of today are far bigger than their historic counterparts — because of steroids, a claim many strength athletes dispute.

In "The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys," physicians and researchers from Harvard and Brown medical schools write, "The most muscular Greek and Roman statues, the most masculine heroes portrayed in centuries of art around the world, none approached the proportions of a modern competition body builder. Titian's Adonis couldn't even win a two-bit body-building contest today. There's a good reason for this: Prior to the steroid era, no artist had ever seen a man with the muscle size and definition of a modern steroid user."

The Germans are believed to have discovered chemical analogs of testosterone in the 1930s, and by the 1950s, doping for musculature had caught on with Russian athletes, according to the researchers. By the 1970s, steroid use was not uncommon among professional athletes, and by the '80s, it hit Hollywood.

[Mr incredible]

Damm Rado I wish you didn't post that, that bit about him eating breakfast with his son made me want to cry. Just imagine what his sons are feeling now there hero is gone

[rado]

Originally Posted by Mr incredible

Damm Rado I wish you didn't post that, that bit about him eating breakfast with his son made me want to cry. Just imagine what his sons are feeling now there hero is gone

It sucks bro I know...I couldn't imagine what they're going through right now...I wonder how much blood work these guys do all year round...I know we've had some good people pass from the boards because of some issues due to AS use and not getting blood work done.

You wonder and ask WTF happened here...Young guy, healthy(or so you think), strong, etc...I get blood work done every 6 months whether or not I'm on a cycle...There's no reason these guys shouldn't(if they don't)especially when they have these Dr's at their disposal.

I'd like to know(when it comes out)what was the cause of his death...I'm going to say either a Heart Attack or a blown artery of some sort. Sad

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by rado

His meal plan;

Meal Plan
Jesse keeps his meal plans simple by eating the same thing almost every day.

04:45 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement with 10 Egg whites, Milk, Yogurt and a bowl of grits.
05:30 am - morning workout
07:00 am - Steak, 4 Eggs, Potatoes
10: 30 am - MET-Rx® meal replacement shake
01:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef and ½ large Yam.
04:00 pm - Tuna sandwich, veggies, 2 cans of MET-Rx® RTD 51 and a glass of orange juice
06:00 pm - pre workout snack
08:30 pm - 1 lb Ground Beef, Brown rice and a medium salad.
09:30 pm - MET-Rx® meal replacement

that is a BS diet. these athletes have to say they incorporate their sponsors products into their diet.

a world strong man on his level eats about 3x's that amount of calories and i doubt many of them are from met-rx junk.

i have a friends that compete in WSM on a respectable level and these guys eat the house down. gallons of whole mike, cheese, beef, etc..

[rado]

Originally Posted by THE BOUNCER

that is a BS diet. these athletes have to say they incorporate their sponsors products into their diet.

a world strong man on his level eats about 3x's that amount of calories and i doubt many of them are from met-rx junk.

i have a friends that compete in WSM on a respectable level and these guys eat the house down. gallons of whole mike, cheese, beef, etc..

I posted another one with something that was more believable...This was taken from the Met site when I was looking him...Anyways; check your PM.

[THE BOUNCER]

I would definitely say that what killed him can be attributed to his diet and drugs. These guys are heavy oral users. Anadrol to the max. throw some kind of heart defect in the mix that he had from birth and it is a recipe for disaster.