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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: wes on December 31, 2014, 09:02:01 PM
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I`m going back into the dark recesses of my chemical addled gray matter...........(my brain,not my hair),and I`m gonna` share with you freaks some of the ridiculous shit I did as a kid when I first got into training.
Keep in mind that this was almost around the time the barbell was invented and there were only 2 gyms on the entire planet.
If you are law enforcement,please do not read this thread............thanks . ;)
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If you are law enforcement,please do not read this thread............thanks . ;)
Will be forwarding this thread to the DEA and FBI.
#DEA #FBI
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That thread will have humoungus potential
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Good for you, Wes.keep us posted
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Subscribed :)
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Tomorrow......is chest day....(simple question)
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Could be the thread of the year; What did bodybuilders used in 1945?
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Preparing some popcorns...
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Wes is currently sifting through his Papyrus cache.
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Still waiting for your
confession interesting story.
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Wes is gonna tell us about how T-Rex hogged the preacher curl machine. ;D
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Tomorrow, Wes, you will be one day older and just about close to dying.
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Who trained harder you are Eugene?
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Ya` pricks ya` ! >:(
;D
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Ya` pricks ya` ! >:(
;D
Stories or gtfo pops! >:(
OR PTCS :-X
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Post the pooch pics already!
You know how long I have been trying to keep this semi going....
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what with all the oldest members who feel the need to tell us about their lives, first howard, now wes... i remember onlyme and derek doing the same months before dying.
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My first foray into working out was with a kid named Alan Raiford..............he had a weight set and a bench with no fucking padding whatsoever...........we hung a pic of Draper on the ceiling to inspire us. :D
(http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx358/thcisn/Dave_Draper_1_zpsaff5ca71.jpg)
^^Not the exact same pic,ours was from an advertisement from a Weider mag,but same pose just the same.
This pic enabled me to crank out a few extra reps with around a whopping 50 pounds or so and the lack of padding on the bench made it look like I fell off of a motorcycle onto my upper back while shirtless!
We`re talking road rash city here! LOL :D
Anyway,after a brief stint "training" with Alan, I got my first set of weights.......A Sears Golden Pro vinyl covered weight set,filled with cement.
My drunk ass father bought it for me......in fact he bought everything from Sears with a credit card,he bought so much in fact,that one day they came and took our TV set,Chevy Impala,Small Aluminum boat and motor,plus the trailer to haul the boat,huge tent and camping equipment up the ass,etc. etc.......but they didn`t get my gleaming set of gold plastic fucking weights..........HELL NO !! ;D
Ironically enough,we never used any of that shit anyway except the TV and the car because dear old dad was usually fucked up after work!
I used to say I was the proverbial 98 pound weakling,but in actuality,I most likely weighed around 85 pounds or so at a height of 5'5"............I had the bone structure of a sparrow,and the metabolism of a fucking hummingbird.
I`ll continue in a bit...........my typing finger is cramping.......gotta` grab so,me Potassium! ;D
To be Cont.
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what with all the oldest members who feel the need to tell us about their lives, first howard, now wes... i remember onlyme and derek doing the same months before dying.
Please skip thread,then please fuck off and die.
Thanks in advance sonny!! ;)
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Uberman,even you will like this thread because I`m gonna` reveal stuff about myself that you can use against me in the future.
::)
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Uberman,even you will like this thread because I`m gonna` reveal stuff about myself that you can use against me in the future.
::)
i pretty much never attacked you directly, except for your steroid use.
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i pretty much never attacked you directly, except for your steroid use.
Alright,I`ll start the new year off by saying I`m sorry.
Sorry bud.
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WES, With your consent and approval..... I'd like to join you in this 'conversation' and add a few facts and opinions of my own regarding the world of bodybuilding and fitness and drugs and stuff ,.... and how it all actually was way back then when the world and lifting heavy things and consuming strange "health food" stuff was so damn much different and relatively non-exostemt.
Those were the days before the health club boom and personal trainers and the stuff we now call supplements and so much other crazy shit.
Thanks. WES .... OLD STUNT (the original one)
GOF BLESS THE 101st! And Happy New Year to one and all.
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It's okay Wuss, we can read into your post. Daddy was a drunk and kicked your scrawny ass when he was lit up. You wanted to lift weights to get bigger (pun intended) than dear old Dad so you could stand up to him and kick his ass one day. But shitty genetics aside, you followed in his footsteps instead.
I can't wait for Episode #02!
Everyone knows Wes great bodybuilding achievements in life. What have you done in life besides talk shit and getting it pushed in ?
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I`m going back into the dark recesses of my chemical addled gray matter...........(my brain,not my hair),and I`m gonna` share with you freaks some of the ridiculous shit I did as a kid when I first got into training.
Keep in mind that this was almost around the time the barbell was invented and there were only 2 gyms on the entire planet.
If you are law enforcement,please do not read this thread............thanks . ;)
Love to hear them, Wes. F it, bring all the dirt. At the end of the day, you're a changed man.
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WES, With your consent and approval..... I'd like to join you in this 'conversation' and add a few facts and opinions of my own regarding the world of bodybuilding and fitness and drugs and stuff ,.... and how it all actually was way back then when the world and lifting heavy things and consuming strange "health food" stuff was so damn much different and relatively non-exostemt.
Those were the days before the health club boom and personal trainers and the stuff we now call supplements and so much other crazy shit.
Thanks. WES .... OLD STUNT (the original one)
GOF BLESS THE 101st! And Happy New Year to one and all.
My pleasure Bill,and Happy New Year !!
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Everyone knows Wes great bodybuilding achievements in life. What have you done in life besides talk shit and getting it pushed in ?
Love to hear them, Wes. F it, bring all the dirt. At the end of the day, you're a changed man.
Thank you gentlemen,I`ll continue when Walter Slobonaknob is away sneaking in a second days helping of a dick sammich` on rye with extra special sauce! :D
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bike nut my man, is that you ? LOL ;D
I'm being serious in saying that I'd like to hear how training has changed over the last 30 (?) years for a guy like you. For the younger guys like me, who have always had Internet, supplements, mags, personal training and fully equipped gyms we don't understand how lifting was different "back in the day".
I'm not saying either way is better.
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I'm being serious in saying that I'd like to hear how training has changed over the last 30 (?) years for a guy like you. For the younger guys like me, who have always had Internet, supplements, mags, personal training and fully equipped gyms we don't understand how lifting was different "back in the day".
I'm not saying either way is better.
There`s no comparison.....we trained our balls off.
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Well let a hear it.
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gonna tell stories or just argue with trolls....boring
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gonna tell stories or just argue with trolls....boring
I may do one,or the other,or both,and then again,I may not.
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I may do one,or the other,or both,and then again,I may not.
Will you at least fill us in on your cribbage strategies?
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Preparing some corn...
fixed
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Wes's old balls are probably all shriveled up and gross looking, just like prunes. His wife must feel disgusted when playing with them :/
(http://cdn.nuts.com/images/auto/801x534/assets/1aa9ae157ed930d2.jpg)
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Wes's old balls are probably all shriveled up and gross looking, just like prunes. His wife must feel disgusted when playing with them :/
(http://cdn.nuts.com/images/auto/801x534/assets/1aa9ae157ed930d2.jpg)
Yes, I hear she first takes drugs to dampen her emotions and then wears two pairs of latex gloves.
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Yes, I hear she first takes drugs to dampen her emotions and then wears two pairs of latex gloves.
And wears leather gloves when playing with his old, shriveled weiner.
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And wears leather gloves when playing with his old, shriveled weiner.
SHE DOES NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 :(
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SHE DOES NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 :(
Are you sure?
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SHE DOES NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111 :(
PICS?
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PICS?
Yes, we need pics of her bare hands on his cock and balls to be sure.
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Fuck you guys! :D
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Fuck you guys! :D
Certainly gonna need pics before I can agree to that.
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OK! Where to begin?
I've been told by some damn tuff "investigators'" to start at the beginning, and end at the ending!
So that's what I'm gonna try to do in an effort to give you young sprouts some idea of what the lifting of heavy things was way back then and how the 'game' was played when there was almost no one who knew anything about it..... nor how to play it.
And apparently that still holds true today.
So I'll start at the beginning and end when it ends and hopefully give some of you guys and gals and ed-u-ma-ca-tion which won't help anyone one damn bit ... but may be of interest to a couple of the 'usual suspects' on this GetBig Board.
I encourage some of you other old time characters to jump in and agree or disagree, but you young-uns, I hope will only listen because there most likely is nothing you can offer other than rumor, gossip, conjecture, or plain old bullshit ... mixed with an occasional "I-wish -iit was-really-true!", wised-assed comment from the peanut gallery.
The beginning is the late 1940's!
And the ending may be tomorrow!
But in the meantime there is a story to be told if anyone wants to listen.
A story the way I personally witnessed it!
Everything is relative... but back in the 40's the words 'bodybuilding', 'olympic lifting, ''odd lifting', 'power lifting', 'health food', 'supplements', 'gym chains', 'personal trainers' , and a thousand other terms we are so familiar with today .... were relatively unknown.
But there were a couple of guys who were doing uncommon things of a physical nature and starting to get the recognition that they felt that they deserved.
One such individual was a friend across the San Francisco Bay by the name of Reeves. He was an exceptional kid whom a local newspaper wrote an article about the fact that he never had a cold and never had a cavity.
And it just so happened that he lifted heavy things at a small gym called Ed Yarick's in a downtown section of Oakland, California.
And every Northern California kid spent summer weekends 72 miles north of the Bay Area in a small resort 'settlement' on the Russian River called Rio Nido.
And that's where every Northern California kid met every other Northern California kid during the late 40 and early 50 summers.
And that's where and how we met Steve and many other personalities who aren't a part of this story-line.
And that's when Steve's fame was just getting started ... but very slowly.
And then there was an eccentric gym owner by the name of Jack Lalanne who ran a gym on the fifth floor of an old hig-rise building on Sasn Francisco's Market Street when that part of town was not too popular.
Jack's claim to fame was the fact that he pulled boats across the San Francisco Bay while swimming. And he did that more than once or twice which proved to be the start of his long term success.
And there was wait Baptiste whom the vast majority of you have never heard of ... so that's all you'll hear about Walt. But Walt was a pioneer.
These three and a small handful of other Northern California-ites were the 'founders' of something completely unexpected. Something that would take the world by storm sometime in the not too distant future.
And there were other parts of the USA where other characters existed just as well. Mainly within the New York, Florida, and southern California areas.
I say 'characters' because these individuals were thinking and acting differently that society's norm. "Pioneers" might be a more courtious term but some would be undeserving of so polite a term.
These characters were lifting heavy things for hours at a time and eating strange food-stuffs. A lifestyle completely unknown and strange to the general population, no matter where that 'population' existed.
And when that happens ....animosity arises!
To be continued .... ( if there is any interest.)
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Excellent.
History is everything.
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Stunts storytimes are always great
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I'm being serious in saying that I'd like to hear how training has changed over the last 30 (?) years for a guy like you. For the younger guys like me, who have always had Internet, supplements, mags, personal training and fully equipped gyms we don't understand how lifting was different "back in the day".
I'm not saying either way is better.
I remember one guy came back from summer vacation in high school about 35 lbs heavier. He was a skinny runt in the 10th grade and a jack SOB in the 11th. When we were required to do our max bench press during PE he pushed 225 when the previous year he could barely do 135. I remember the kids laughed as he struggled like hell bridging with his legs and arms trembling trying to get it up.
You could tell he was embarrassed as hell. The look on his face and the faces on the other kids as he slammed up the 225 the next year was inspirational to him and to us.
We all asked him want kind of training did he do? How often did he train? Set and rep scheme.
Nowadays when someone is making progress I always hear guys ask him, "What are you on?" "What are you taking?" Not "What are you doing?" like we did back in the old days.
I wonder if it would even be allowed nowadays to measure someone's one rep max on the bench in front of everybody these days and if someone could be sued for laughing at the weak ones? Sometimes a little public embarrassment gives one the fire to improve. How many of us started training because we were embarrassed to take off our shirt in public? And is that such a bad thing?
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Wes's old balls are probably all shriveled up and gross looking, just like prunes. His wife must feel disgusted when playing with them :/
(http://cdn.nuts.com/images/auto/801x534/assets/1aa9ae157ed930d2.jpg)
but how can you complain when he has his 10 inch cock in your mouth and gagging you? (no homo)