Posted on 08/15/2025 10:53:39 AM PDT by algore
Champion bodybuilder Hayley McNeff has passed away at the age of 37, becoming the seventh notable bodybuilder to pass away within the past six months.
McNeff, a native of Concord, Massachusetts, passed away on August 8 - but tributes didn't start pouring in until Wednesday.
Her cause of death has not yet been disclosed. McNeff's obituary says her passing was 'unexpected but peaceful'.
Funeral services for McNeff have been planned for this coming Sunday.
Growing up, McNeff was active in many sports - including skiing and diving - while becoming an accomplished equestrian, according to an obituary posted to Boston.com.
She graduated from UMass Amherst and discovered bodybuilding as an adult. After her career ended, she intended to pursue a graduate degree in psychology.
McNeff rose to prominence in the body building world in the 2000s - winning several titles, including the 2009 East Coast Classic.
McNeff's death is the latest in a disturbing string of deaths in the bodybuilding community - totaling seven deaths in the past six months.
In late July, Spanish bodybuilding star Lorena Blanco died at age 37 of a suspected heart attack while she was preparing to travel to Las Vegas to compete at Ms. Olympia.
30-year-old - Wanderson da Silva Moreira - passed away while competing in the Pantanal bodybuilding championship.
In April, male bodybuilder and actor Vito Pirbazari died at age 44 from a heart attack after collapsing on a treadmill.
Back in March, a 20-year-old bodybuilder - Jodi Vance - died when her heart stopped due to 'severe dehydration', according to a statement from her family.
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And everyone aksed.....
And yet… Arnold Schwarzenegger survives…!!
A lot of body builders die from heart attacks and many took or are taking steroids that don’t do your heart any good. I once heard that although your body grows bigger and stronger, your heart doesn’t grow after teens and the larger the body the harder the heart must pump. Don’t know if that’s true or not.
First question, did they take the mRNA jab?
And everyone aksed.....
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And everyone is too afraid to ask the obvious.
Good question, and other so-called vaccines as well.
Didn’t he get bypass surgery a couple of years ago?
He’s had several....https://www.healthline.com/health-news/arnold-schwarzenegger-surgery-pacemaker
yet ANOTHER case of “unexplained” sudden death syndrome [USDS] in a young healthy male ...
Laz would be interested if you told him that she likes squatting, until he saw the pics and realized it’s not the same as his squatting fetish.
Hubba...
Will the autopsy be released.
He was kind of attractive....
New pronoun: Was
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Indeed.
Steroids?
I wouldn’t take either side of a bet between mRNA and Steroids.
The stuff they put in their bodies to get that physique will kill ya. Some faster than others.
I actually marched Drum Corps with a bodybuilder. He died of AIDS.
“I once heard that although your body grows bigger and stronger, your heart doesn’t grow after teens and the larger the body the harder the heart must pump. Don’t know if that’s true or not.”
I’m a Medical Underwriter. Yes, and no.
If you are genetically given a large body size and while growing up you have access to the nutrition to allow and maximize that growth, your heart will also grow and stay pretty proportional to your body size and can function properly as intended. (Excluding gigantism, which is different)
A problem with bodybuilding is having a normal frame, but then putting on significantly more muscle mass than even a strong athlete tends to average. (Without focused body building) The body mass starts out pacing the hearts capacity to properly service it. (This happens in morbid obesity too, in a somewhat different way.) If you’ve seen modern body builders with all the suppliments and steroids, thei body proportions are wildly out of normal. To a degree we didn’t see even in Arnold’s day.
There is something called “Athletes heart” which is a larger than normal heart that looks abnormal on an EKG or echocardiogram, but it has grown due to physical exercise, not body mass. Typically seen in Olympic level athletes, particularly marathon runners. They typically have a very normal, if not lean, body mass. The heart is disproportionally larger than the body mass. It’s resting pulse rate is remarkedly low because it has become so efficient. (average normal adult HR is 60-100, young athletes can be down to 50. Athletes heart is in the 30-40 zone)
“It’s resting pulse rate is remarkedly low because it has become so efficient. (average normal adult HR is 60-100, young athletes can be down to 50. Athletes heart is in the 30-40 zone)”
I am a pretty serious athlete my heart hovers in the 45 range. Probably lower sleeping, don’t know.
I make sure I have two feet on the floor, sit straight up, and drink a bit of water before I stand up first thing in the morning. No jumping out of bed. Otherwise, potential black out. Once things start pumping a little, it’s great.
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