In 2017, the IFBB split into two organizations, the Pro League and the Elite League. All the top champions remained loyal to Jim Manion's Pro League, leaving the other camp to scramble for new talent. It wasn’t long before their hero arrived, the man on this month’s cover of Muscular Development, a massive Slovakian named Michal Krizanek, who would soon be known simply as “Krizo.

On the cover is Michal ‘Krizo’ Krizanek