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Legendary Bodybuilder Danny Padilla and former IFBB Judge Jim Rockell join me for Season 3, Episode 3 of the Bodybuilding Legends Podcast. Danny talks about his great career in the sport including training at the original Gold's Gym, his role in the movie "Pumping Iron" and his controversial finish at the 1981 Mr. Olympia - http://bodybuildinglegendsshow.com/the_podcast_test/season-3-episode-3-danny-padilla-and-jim-rockell/
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Legendary Bodybuilder Danny Padilla and former IFBB Judge Jim Rockell join me for Season 3, Episode 3 of the Bodybuilding Legends Podcast. Danny talks about his great career in the sport including training at the original Gold's Gym, his role in the movie "Pumping Iron" and his controversial finish at the 1981 Mr. Olympia - http://bodybuildinglegendsshow.com/the_podcast_test/season-3-episode-3-danny-padilla-and-jim-rockell/
As great as Danny was in '81, Tom Platz was better imo.
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Too bad Padilla always posed to "Short People" song...and kinda posed like a fool. Too comical alwaya. It really took away from his body. It highlighted his short height.
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Too bad Padilla always posed to "Short People" song...and kinda posed like a fool. Too comical alwaya. It really took away from his body. It highlighted his short height.
In the interview, Danny talks about the first time he posed to that song at the 1979 Night of the Champions and he got a standing ovation. I don't think it made him look like a fool, just that he had a good sense of humor about being shorter.
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In the interview, Danny talks about the first time he posed to that song at the 1979 Night of the Champions and he got a standing ovation. I don't think it made him look like a fool, just that he had a good sense of humor about being shorter.
I remember Danny posing to it at his comeback at Night of Champions that Benaziza won. Danny looked awesome. Beyond awesome. ...but people were laughing at the routine. Yes...it was light and he had a great sense of humor about it....but it was too comical and his transitions were not smooth. He was no Labrada in that regard. But I digress....Danny is a great. And thank you for all of your incredible interviews. Just watched your Phil Williams one. Awesome John!!!
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I remember Danny posing to it at his comeback at Night of Champions that Benaziza won. Danny looked awesome. Beyond awesome. ...but people were laughing at the routine. Yes...it was light and he had a great sense of humor about it....but it was too comical and his transitions were not smooth. He was no Labrada in that regard. But I digress....Danny is a great. And thank you for all of your incredible interviews. Just watched your Phil Williams one. Awesome John!!!
I didn't know Danny used that routine for the Night of the Champions in 1990 as well. You're right, can you imagine how incredible Danny would have looked if he would have used more powerful music like Labrada did? I would have loved to have seen him in that contest.
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As great as Danny was in '81, Tom Platz was better imo.
X2.
WooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H
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Roger Schwab, former IFBB head judge said that Danny was the most complete flawless bodybuilder he had ever seen in person.
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Roger Schwab, former IFBB head judge said that Danny was the most complete flawless bodybuilder he had ever seen in person.
I interviewed Roger on a previous show about the 1981 Mr. Olympia - http://bodybuildinglegendsshow.com/podcast/
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One of the best bodybuilding pics ever
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Natural O include a little more on training with your interviews. What split, how many sets a body part and so on. Interview after interview I hear just about nothing about how they trained.
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Natural O include a little more on training with your interviews. What split, how many sets a body part and so on. Interview after interview I hear just about nothing about how they trained.
who cares how they trained, all training works, just stress your muscles and let nature take its course.
Much better to listen to stories about their life and the shows they did.
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who cares how they trained, all training works, just stress your muscles and let nature take its course.
Much better to listen to stories about their life and the shows they did.
We need to know if he bench pressed with barbells or dumbbells
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One of the best bodybuilding pics ever
Agreed, however what always took away from this series of pics ( 81 O ) is Danny looks like he's wearing some borrowed trunks.
It was a great interview.
J
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We need to know if he bench pressed with barbells or dumbbells
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Too bad Padilla always posed to "Short People" song...and kinda posed like a fool. Too comical alwaya. It really took away from his body. It highlighted his short height.
I don't know what the current criteria is but you know that back then the posing round didn't factor heavily into the scoring. it was more or less for the fans. the callouts and comparisons were the points counted.
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who cares how they trained, all training works, just stress your muscles and let nature take its course.
Much better to listen to stories about their life and the shows they did.
I do. I'd like to know what their split was? Trained body parts once, twice or three times a week? One or two sets to failure or 6 sets per exercise? Two, three or four exercises a body part? If bodybuilding is a sport it's what they did in the gym. I would like to know. Surely your training is loosely based on someone that came before you. What they do in the gym is the essence of the activity next to drug use.
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I don't know what the current criteria is but you know that back then the posing round didn't factor heavily into the scoring. it was more or less for the fans. the callouts and comparisons were the points counted.
In the '70's and '80's, they did score all three rounds, symmetry, mandatory poses and posing routines.
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One of the best bodybuilding pics ever
The real giant killer.
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who cares how they trained, all training works, just stress your muscles and let nature take its course.
Much better to listen to stories about their life and the shows they did.
Completely agree
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Too bad he was not taken more serious because of his short stature. He did not look very short standing to himself. Only to others. Very good. Nice thin waist and everything.
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In the '70's and '80's, they did score all three rounds, symmetry, mandatory poses and posing routines.
at one point weren't the posing routines not scored? I thought it wasn't until the early to mid 80s that the posing round started carrying more points.
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at one point weren't the posing routines not scored? I thought it wasn't until the early to mid 80s that the posing round started carrying more points.
I remember the Olympia in the late '70's was scored in all three rounds. At the prejudging, each competitor would come out and do their posing routine as part of the judging. They would repeat the posing routines at night for the finals. They used a points system then so the most you could score in a round was 100 points (20 max points from 5 judges) and 300 points was a perfect score. Mentzer scored the first 300 points at the 1978 Mr. Universe and Padilla scored 300 points at the 1979 Night of the Champions.
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1980 Olympia score sheets
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Great interview, thanks for sharing!
I love that Jim Rockell referred to today's bodybuilders as "Transformers." ;D ;D ;D
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One of the best bodybuilding pics ever
Absolutely agreed.
Wish classic bodybuilding would use these trunks instead of the shit they are currently wearing.
Do you think Danny would have wiped the floor with Flex Lewis? I do.
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Natural O include a little more on training with your interviews. What split, how many sets a body part and so on. Interview after interview I hear just about nothing about how they trained.
totally agree
I really couldn't care less about new contests much less old ones
the only thing that interests me are the different ideas on training
If I recall from other interviews he trained light and fast with a constant weight for 12 reps per set for ~ 4 sets per exercise
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I can ask about the training they do also. I have discussed this before in several of the interviews although most of the interview is about their bodybuilding career.
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I like the current format where you move forward chronologically
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I like the current format where you move forward chronologically
Thank you
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I can ask about the training they do also. I have discussed this before in several of the interviews although most of the interview is about their bodybuilding career.
they pick things up, they put them down in various combinations that stress the muscle.
The end.
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Awesome picture of Padilla by photographer Garry Bartlett. Looking at the pictures now over 35 years later, Padilla looks perfect.
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they pick things up, they put them down in various combinations that stress the muscle.
The end.
Agreed. Training is pretty much training. The personalities, the stories, the wacky experiences, that's what makes for an interesting interview.
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Agreed. Training is pretty much training. The personalities, the stories, the wacky experiences, that's what makes for an interesting interview.
That's what I'm looking to hear from them. I want to hear the inside story from the legends themselves.
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I do. I'd like to know what their split was? Trained body parts once, twice or three times a week? One or two sets to failure or 6 sets per exercise? Two, three or four exercises a body part? If bodybuilding is a sport it's what they did in the gym. I would like to know. Surely your training is loosely based on someone that came before you. What they do in the gym is the essence of the activity next to drug use.
One common theme I always read about the old school guys like Padilla... they trained with lots of volume and frequency and higher reps, 6 days/wk.
I found this...
"During most of the year Danny trained 4 to 6 days a week. He always followed the same split.
Day 1 Chest and Back we’d often superset each chest movement with a back movement.
Day 2 Shoulders and Arms we’d often superset 2 shoulder exercises and we’d frequently superset biceps with triceps.
Day 3 legs.
Repeat.
If we missed a workout, he didn’t worry about it. He just does that workout when he returns to the gym. During the off season he did 2 to 3 exercises per body-part for 5 sets of 12 reps where the same weight is used on all sets. That means the first set or 2 is really a warm-up and by set three he’s close to the edge of course set four and five are all out. When he can get 12 reps on all 5 sets, he’ll add weight during the next workout. His rest between sets is short, no longer than a minute. One he began preparing for a competition he’d do 4 exercises for each body part in the same manner… 5 sets of 12 reps.
Even though the volume is high Danny would complete these workouts in just over an hour"
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Some stuff about how Danny and the other guys trained here as well...
https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/golden-age-legends-part-1-q-a-with-golden-age-greats.html (https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/golden-age-legends-part-1-q-a-with-golden-age-greats.html)
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The real giant killer.
Saying that reminded me of his WBF posing routine which I vaguely recall was based on some sort of Jack and the Beanstalk schtick, wih him among giant mushrooms, maybe?.... or did I just imagine the whole thing.... ???
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Saying that reminded me of his WBF posing routine which I vaguely recall was based on some sort of Jack and the Beanstalk schtick, wih him among giant mushrooms, maybe?.... or did I just imagine the whole thing.... ???
Unfortunately, that wasn't a hallucination from some bad magic mushrooms you had. It happened, and it was pretty ridiculous.
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Unfortunately, that wasn't a hallucination from some bad magic mushrooms you had. It happened, and it was pretty ridiculous.
ugh everything about the wbf was just awful. tacky, campy....embarrassing.
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Danny is a dude and did some amazing things with his physique. Could whip himself into competition shape faster than anyone
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ugh everything about the wbf was just awful. tacky, campy....embarrassing.
Absolutely. However, McManon was paying a hell of a lot more than Weider and all the WBF guys had to abide by the contracts they signed, even if it meant doing silly skits like Danny did.
People will, and often do, anything for money. The majority of people can be bought and they all have their price.
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Danny competing at his heaviest.
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Danny competing at his heaviest.
you could put forward a pretty good argument for him winning that show...
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Danny competing at his heaviest.
Yup, came back in the 90s and competed well against the best. In the WBF he stopped trying and was nowhere near this shape.
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Danny competing at his heaviest.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=636330.0;attach=745010;image)
A miniaturized Oak. One of the best ever and should have been Mr. Olympia at least once. Looks better than the two guys with in that shot.
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Absolutely. However, McManon was paying a hell of a lot more than Weider and all the WBF guys had to abide by the contracts they signed, even if it meant doing silly skits like Danny did.
People will, and often do, anything for money. The majority of people can be bought and they all have their price.
So, Padilla was supposed to stay in the IFBB and starve vs. get the biggest payday of his life in the twilight of his career (even though he was still doing fairly well)?
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So, Padilla was supposed to stay in the IFBB and starve vs. get the biggest payday of his life in the twilight of his career (even though he was still doing fairly well)?
That is not what I said, I'm merely pointing out that he had to do what McManon told him to do... as silly and ridiculous as it might've been. The costumes and skits were cringe worthy.
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A miniaturized Oak. One of the best ever and should have been Mr. Olympia at least once. Looks better than the two guys with in that shot.
Agreed.
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John,
I didn't hear in your Roger Schwab interview about 81 O, when he was discussing qualifications of the judges, what he thought about the AAU Physique Committee Chairman giving Columbu a 59, putting him in first on that judge's scoresheet. Did I miss his thoughts on that?
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John,
I didn't hear in your Roger Schwab interview about 81 O, when he was discussing qualifications of the judges, what he thought about the AAU Physique Committee Chairman giving Columbu a 59, putting him in first on that judge's scoresheet. Did I miss his thoughts on that?
I heard it was a 69
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John,
I didn't hear in your Roger Schwab interview about 81 O, when he was discussing qualifications of the judges, what he thought about the AAU Physique Committee Chairman giving Columbu a 59, putting him in first on that judge's scoresheet. Did I miss his thoughts on that?
We discussed every judge and who they had in first place.