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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Army of One on December 16, 2011, 04:19:31 AM
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The 75-year old bodybuilder who has the same amazing physique as he did at 21
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-521850/The-75-year-old-bodybuilder-amazing-physique-did-21.html
Taken 54 years apart, there is little difference between these two photographs of super-fit grandfather Max Moore - apart from the grey hair and extra wrinkles.
When the 75-year-old retired ten years ago, the former award-winning bodybuilder was determined to restore his body to its physical peak.
Hours of training in the gym have turned back the clock and given Max back the muscles that won him more than a few admirers.
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Muscleman: Max Moore flexes his chest and shows off his toned physique
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Hey day: Max, seen here at 21, was a bodybuilding champion in his youth
The pensioner, from Swindon, Wiltshire, was a physical training instructor in the RAF, putting military hopefuls through gruelling sessions in the gym.
In 1952, he was crowned Mr South-West Britain bodybuilding champion and the following year saw him come third in the Mr Britain championship.
Max, who has four children and five grandchildren, said: "I went into the RAF to do my national service in 1952 but the job of an airman wasn't for me so I asked what other roles were available.
"I trained as an instructor and it was basically my job to keep in good shape and put the recruits through their paces.
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"My six-month training course was the hardest and most gruelling of my life but I had to be fit to train the troops day in, day out.
"The competitions were just a bit of fun for me but I won the regional one in 1952 and came close to winning the national one the next year."
But when, after four years, Max left the RAF, his training regime stumbled and it would be half a century before he regained the body that won over his teenage sweetheart and future wife Thelma, now 71.
Max recalls it was a trip to the swimming baths with his RAF recruits in 1952 where he first met Thelma and impressed her with his body.
He said: "I remember meeting Thelma as if it was yesterday.
"I had taken a group of recruits to the swimming baths and one of them bet me half a crown that I wouldn't have the nerve to go and talk to her.
"I walked right over to her and whipped off my top to show her my pecs. Thelma was suitably impressed and we married in 1956."
After leaving the RAF, Max worked as a salesman selling to the construction industry as well as being director of a building merchants company.
With a full-time job and a wife and four children to support, spare time for training fell by the wayside.
It wasn't until he retired in 1997 that Max had the time to get back in the gym and get back the body he craved.
He said: "I had always wanted to get back into training but never seemed to have the time.
"When I was in the RAF, it was my job to exercise but my jobs after that weren't very physical at all.
"The trigger for me to get back in the gym came in the 1990s when I saw the actor John Mills on Parkinson.
"He was in his 80s then but Michael Parkinson said that he looked 20 years younger.
"It made me think that if he could do it, so could I."
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Pumping iron: The 75-year-old has spent the past decade restoring his body to its former glory
So after his retirement, aged 65, Max signed up to the JJB gym in Swindon and set about resurrecting his award-winning body of old.
Max visits the gym three times a week lifting weights and using the rowing machine.
He said: "My biggest shock when I stepped back into the gym was that all the weights had gone metric.
"Back in the 1950s, they were all in pounds so the kilograms took a bit of working out.
"I do a lot of rowing and can row 2,000m in ten minutes.
"Matthew Pinsent can do that in six-and-a-half minutes but he is 40 years my junior and a professional athlete so he has a bit of an edge on me.
"I get a lot of comments from people down the gym saying they can't believe I am 75 and in such good shape.
"It took many months to get back my body but I am now 12 stone, the same as I weighed when I was in the RAF.
"I don't think my body is any different now to what it was except I have shrunk a bit.
"I was never very tall, but I used to be 5ft 7in and I'm now only 5ft 6in.
"I think Thelma is pleased as well - I like to think it reminds her of the man she fell for all those years ago."
Max cites other fit pensioners such as Clint Eastwood and Bruce Forsyth as his inspiration to stay in shape but says the secret of his success is that he hasn't abused his body.
He added: "I never smoked and I never drank and have always had a good diet.
"They say you reap what you sow so I suppose by not abusing my body over the years, I am getting the benefit in old age.
"I have muesli for breakfast and try to eat two portions of fruit every day.
"Fish is good for you so I usually eat that three times a week too.
"I think a lot of people think once you get to my age, there is not much point of challenging yourself to do something.
"But I'm living proof of what you can do, even if you are 75."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-521850/The-75-year-old-bodybuilder-amazing-physique-did-21.html
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Gotta love British dentistry. I've seen whiter teeth on drifters.
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Gotta love British dentistry. I've seen whiter teeth on drifters.
dude the guy is 75!!!
i do not understand this trend of ultra white teeth, anyway......looks silly really....
all these hollywood stars as well... in there 40's and have teeth like a young boy or girl... looks fake and silly!
but that is what is being thought of as beautyfull these days... fake ..
especially in the USA...
fake tits
fake teeth
fake hair
fake nails
fake ass
fake chest (males)
fake eye color
fake tan
etc etc etc....
it's the little imperfections that make an individual unique!
today everybody looks alike..... trying to be "perfect"
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btw...
people flat out are blind!
and worst is, they are feeding his delusion.. and are just lying!
dude looks nothing like he did... lol!
should get on some hgh and a little test asap...
can look decent... ;D
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apparently the key to hanging on to your physique is to brush your teeth daily with butter and shit
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He looks the same as every other old man... I could drive through my neighbourhood in the summertime and see plenty of old fucks out mowin the lawn shirtless that look better than this.
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That's not Vince Basile.
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Looks like shit at 21 and 75.
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He looks the same as every other old man... I could drive through my neighbourhood in the summertime and see plenty of old fucks out mowin the lawn shirtless that look better than this.
word
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Mr.Kanazawa, +75 winner of Japan Nationals Masters 2011
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Yes that tubby old man can't compete with great Asian genetics.
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not sure if serious...
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These are the brownest teeth I have ever seen and the old kunt says he never smoked or drank!!!!
He is in terrible shape. even the application of false tan over his fat soft hairy old torso cannot hide this.
my grandfather was in better shape after he had been in his coffin 10 years.
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old people are disgusting. they should respect other people and keep their clothes on.
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Some of old people are disgusting. they should respect other people and keep their clothes on.
fixed
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Mr.Kanazawa, +75 winner of Japan Nationals Masters 2011
Now that's impressive!
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Hold on. If the kunt is 76 he was born in 1935. So at 21 the year would be 1956. Yet it says he won a show at age 21 in 1952. Is the old kunt actually 80 or is he full of shiitt????
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Mr.Kanazawa, +75 winner of Japan Nationals Masters 2011
不可能了。
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Japanese dude looks good but this is what a 75 years old scotsman looks like.
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Japanese dude looks good but this is what a 75 years old scotsman looks like.
Hi Jimmy ;)
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looked nothing special back then and now just fat and saggy. Person writing the article must be blind.
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British health care system doesn't cover dentistry?
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Japanese dude looks good but this is what a 75 years old scotsman looks like.
scots don't even need muscle to be alpha's!
scotland is the home of mr Sean Connery..... nuff said! ;D
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Same physique now as then? I agree. Bad then, bad now.
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Hahah
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Ive taken shits that have been more aesthetic than this guy
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what the hell are you guys talking about. He looks the same at 75 as he did at 21,.........like shit.
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what the hell are you guys talking about. He looks the same at 75 as he did at 21,.........like shit.
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Gotta love British dentistry. I've seen whiter teeth on drifters.
See a lotta drifters do ya? :D ;D
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shgh