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Title: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: JAGO on July 08, 2017, 03:19:40 AM
Great for some of us to reminisce over.

J





Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: ratherbebig on July 08, 2017, 03:21:57 AM
tom platz is the kind of guy that wouldnt run a marathon, unless he could do it barefoot, naked, in a snowstorm.

Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: hipolito mejia on July 08, 2017, 10:59:47 AM
Tom Never did a seminar on how to develop upper body. I mean with so much knowledge and being as eloquent as he is.  :)
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Simple Simon on July 08, 2017, 11:03:03 AM
I cant be doing with all that fucking screaming and shouting, its just not required at all.

By his own words hes a failure in teh gym
He claims you always have 5 more reps left no matter where you are, if that was true he wouldnt ever stop a set.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Thin Lizzy on July 08, 2017, 11:08:09 AM
Yeah, that and it's just tough to take an old guy with a ponytail seriously.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Fortress on July 08, 2017, 11:36:52 AM
Love Platz. I know Tom Platz. Lifted with him, eaten with him, hung with him ...

The man is my earliest muscle inspiration.

However, I've come to consider much of his training approaches to be ill-advised, unnecessary and, indeed, harmful.

Tom's willpower and focussed intensity is frightening, but I think he fails to acknowledge how the anabolics essentially saved his ass from perpetual burnout. Measured and athletically tactical he was/is not.

Still, Platz rules, and his legend is assured. Fantastic guy. True iron warrior.

Hail to The Golden Eagle!
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: ratherbebig on July 08, 2017, 11:48:04 AM
Love Platz. I know Tom Platz. Lifted with him, eaten with him, hung with him ...

The man is my earliest muscle inspiration.

However, I've come to consider much of his training approaches to be ill-advised, unnecessary and, indeed, harmful.

Tom's willpower and focussed intensity is frightening, but I think he fails to acknowledge how the anabolics essentially saved his ass from perpetual burnout. Measured and athletically tactical he was/is not.

Still, Platz rules, and his legend is assured. Fantastic guy. True iron warrior.

Hail to The Golden Eagle!

is he jewish?
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Disgusted on July 08, 2017, 12:26:15 PM
Love Platz. I know Tom Platz. Lifted with him, eaten with him, hung with him ...

The man is my earliest muscle inspiration.

However, I've come to consider much of his training approaches to be ill-advised, unnecessary and, indeed, harmful.

Tom's willpower and focussed intensity is frightening, but I think he fails to acknowledge how the anabolics essentially saved his ass from perpetual burnout. Measured and athletically tactical he was/is not.

Still, Platz rules, and his legend is assured. Fantastic guy. True iron warrior.

Hail to The Golden Eagle!


Met Tom on a couple occasions and went to one of his seminars. He talked about his "famous" 1982 Olympia cycle which consisted of winny and deca of which the doses wouldn't have been high enough a for woman tennis player. lol Well maybe it would but point is it was low very low.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Henda on July 08, 2017, 01:01:29 PM
Looks like a ghoul in the video preview, did not watch
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Mr Anabolic on July 08, 2017, 01:13:41 PM
Looks like a ghoul in the video preview, did not watch

You are an ignorant A hole.  You couldn't hold Tom's jock strap. 

Platz is one of the hardest training BBers of all time.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Henda on July 08, 2017, 01:15:13 PM
You are an ignorant A hole.  You couldn't hold Tom's jock strap.  

Platz is one of the hardest training BBers of all time.

Yes correct

But What the fucks that got to do with anything you fucking idiot??
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Dokey111 on July 08, 2017, 01:22:17 PM
Yes correct

But What the fucks that got to do with anything you fucking idiot??

 :D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: balzac on July 08, 2017, 01:42:27 PM
how much t-shirts did he sell in europe ?  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: ratherbebig on July 08, 2017, 01:59:25 PM
i once went to a store in europe and all they had was tom platz t-shirts and levrone supplements
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: blackpele on July 08, 2017, 02:27:12 PM
He is such an inspirational guy...............great post JAGO!!!
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Obvious Gimmick on July 08, 2017, 02:29:37 PM
Jesus white people do not age well.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: rangerwil on July 08, 2017, 02:36:58 PM
I seem to remember reading somewhere he charges like 600 bucks to attend his seminar.
Anybody know for sure?

Also...
Whats going on here at the 0:49 second mark in this video??



...and why does the guys had linger there after that 'set' is over???
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Eric2 on July 08, 2017, 03:53:03 PM
Looks like absolute shit for only being 62 years old. Plus he rambles on and on about absolute nonsense. Sounds like he enjoys hearing himself talk even though he makes no sense when he speaks. Would not see him in person if I was paid to do so. He is a legend however, for breaking the barrier in leg development, light years ahead of everyone in his prime.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: tommywishbone on July 08, 2017, 04:00:04 PM
Before him, nobody had feathered cross striations on their lateralus- nobody. After people saw his, we ALL knew it was possible and we all trained with that in mind. It worked.

An absolute bodybuilding legend and super hero. Insane? It does not matter.  
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Simple Simon on July 08, 2017, 04:01:20 PM
Before him, nobody had feathered cross striations on their lateralus- nobody. After people saw his, we ALL knew it was possible and we all dieted with that in mind. It worked.

An absolute bodybuilding legend and super hero. Insane? It does not matter. 

fixed
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: jwb on July 08, 2017, 04:02:03 PM
One thing that never gets talked about is that platz was the first guy to train each muscle only once a week most of the time.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: tommywishbone on July 08, 2017, 04:04:01 PM
fixed
:D Valid point.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: FREAKgeek on July 08, 2017, 04:11:04 PM
Jesus white people do not age well.

he did get old, no denying it
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Simple Simon on July 08, 2017, 04:17:37 PM
"I almost died a few times" (training)

 ::)

Hes like one of those guys who just discovered pyramid selling but the initial excitement has never worn off.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: ratherbebig on July 08, 2017, 04:31:42 PM
no pain no gain!!!
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: beakdoctor on July 08, 2017, 06:21:55 PM
Is not aging well despite looking and sounding like he's still in great shape for his age. Always a fan of his physique but it's hard to listen to him. He always struck me as a headcase.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Van_Bilderass on July 08, 2017, 06:47:27 PM

Met Tom on a couple occasions and went to one of his seminars. He talked about his "famous" 1982 Olympia cycle which consisted of winny and deca of which the doses wouldn't have been high enough a for woman tennis player. lol Well maybe it would but point is it was low very low.

Said one fella on promuscle and I have no reason to doubt him. Quite a hefty Deca dose.

Quote from: Rex Feral
Oh, and Platz.  He was always kind of a strange cat, kind of like Pakulski maybe but way more likeable, maybe more like Kai would be a better analogy.  In that he was very difficult to learn from.  Although his old leg training manual is one of the best leg routines ever.  His upper body training was all over the place in contrast to the organization of his leg training.  He told me to take 1 vial of Deca per day to grow, which then would have been 200mg.  Amazes me that he doesn't sell this shit on Instagram or some shit.  That shit would sell same as it did out of the back of Muscle & Fitness back in the day.  You remember that manual he had?  I never put Turner together with Dickerson until now either.  Samir trained there too at some point I believe.  I trained back with Samir and his then brother in law Lee Labrada as a teenager in 1984 when Samir was 8-12 weeks out from being beaten by Lee Haney.  He went up to 405 pretty strict on bent rows and he weighed what maybe 220.  They said I should I be on suspension, prop, cyp, enan, dbol, anadrol.

Rex.

Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: dj181 on July 09, 2017, 12:24:52 AM
according to Mentzer he put 8-12 pounds of lean dry muscle tissue leading up to the 81 olympia
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Mr Anabolic on July 09, 2017, 04:53:17 AM
Yes correct

But What the fucks that got to do with anything you fucking idiot??

So some respect you ass wipe.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Henda on July 09, 2017, 05:22:55 AM
So some respect you ass wipe.

No, fuck you

Being a bodybuilding legend doesn't change the fact he's more wrinkled than the ball sack of a 90 year old man who fell asleep in the bath for 3 hours.

You piece of absolute shit
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: mental_masturbator on July 10, 2017, 03:02:07 PM
Watching the squat tutorial, it strikes me that he seems to have zero mobility issues with his hip and knee joints.  I see way too many people his age who are on their way to hip and or knee joint replacements.  Perhaps there is something to the "purity" of the upright squat (Tom's adjective). 
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Simple Simon on July 10, 2017, 03:07:12 PM
(https://fitisafeministissue.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cfc9e-toddler-squat1.jpg)
(http://www.executiveparkpt.com/images/newsletters/20131013/download.jpg)
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Van_Bilderass on July 10, 2017, 03:15:15 PM
Watching the squat tutorial, it strikes me that he seems to have zero mobility issues with his hip and knee joints.  I see way too many people his age who are on their way to hip and or knee joint replacements.  Perhaps there is something to the "purity" of the upright squat (Tom's adjective). 

He was genetically made to squat. Not everyone has that mobility and it could even be harmful to try to force it through stretching.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: ProudVirgin69 on July 10, 2017, 03:57:32 PM
30 years later and these are still the best legs ever
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3a/f2/bd/3af2bd9995a36e382c469c04d58b7e99.jpg)

Also this is probably the most impressive lifting of all time:
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: wes on July 10, 2017, 04:57:11 PM
I just turned 62 this past June and he makes me look young.

Thanks Tom !   ;)
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: wes on July 10, 2017, 04:59:25 PM
As an addendum,I was and always will be a big Platz fan.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Hypertrophy on July 10, 2017, 05:24:48 PM
Jesus white people do not age well.

Sure looks sun damaged. He was working in Phoenix for a while (where I am right now) and I see that a lot with people who don't stay out of the sun. I had a 38 year old female friend who looked 60- and she spent hours in the sun working out for triathlon. You keep to under an hour here and use lots of SPF50. It is so different than in the northeast where I used to live. The sun is much more intense and unfiltered in the desert southwest.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 11, 2017, 01:46:54 AM
He was genetically made to squat. Not everyone has that mobility and it could even be harmful to try to force it through stretching.

No, he isn't. He has just normal mobility of an athlete and it isn't same than mobility of couch potato whose only exercise is masturbation.  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 11, 2017, 01:56:32 AM
Looks like absolute shit for only being 62 years old. Plus he rambles on and on about absolute nonsense. Sounds like he enjoys hearing himself talk even though he makes no sense when he speaks. Would not see him in person if I was paid to do so. He is a legend however, for breaking the barrier in leg development, light years ahead of everyone in his prime.


Well, at least he has a track record to talk about, while you are just anonymous little kid, and quite stupid one: if you can't understand what he speaks, fault is in your head.  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: judochoke on July 11, 2017, 08:54:55 AM
Looks like a tranny. 120 pound old man. Why would I listen to anything this tranny says??
Because he had big legs 40 years ago??? Please😡
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Hypertrophy on July 11, 2017, 10:57:16 AM
(https://fitisafeministissue.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cfc9e-toddler-squat1.jpg)
(http://www.executiveparkpt.com/images/newsletters/20131013/download.jpg)

Haha - that is perfect
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: falco on July 11, 2017, 11:07:46 AM
Tom Platz is one of the most charismatic bodybuilders ever.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Hypertrophy on July 11, 2017, 11:17:42 AM
Watching the squat tutorial, it strikes me that he seems to have zero mobility issues with his hip and knee joints.  I see way too many people his age who are on their way to hip and or knee joint replacements.  Perhaps there is something to the "purity" of the upright squat (Tom's adjective).  

Platz squatting in his prime looked like a piston going up and down. Amazing form.

Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Rudee on July 11, 2017, 12:48:03 PM
Compared to Ronnie, who talks like he has a mouth full of marbles, it's refreshing to hear a bodybuilder speak clearly.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 11, 2017, 10:53:26 PM
Looks like a tranny. 120 pound old man. Why would I listen to anything this tranny says??
Because he had big legs 40 years ago??? Please😡

Because he knows what he is talking about, and he has a bunch of trophy's to prove it? Why anyone should listen to you, who has an illusion that he has something to say, but who lives in his mom's basement  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Fortress on July 11, 2017, 11:41:14 PM
Platz squatting in his prime looked like a piston going up and down. Amazing form.



That video is far removed from his prime.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Fortress on July 11, 2017, 11:49:31 PM
30 years later and these are still the best legs ever
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3a/f2/bd/3af2bd9995a36e382c469c04d58b7e99.jpg)

Also this is probably the most impressive lifting of all time:


That's a very cool video, but he was long past his best (by a lot) when it was shot (a publicity stunt squat-off against Fred "Dr. Squat" Hatfield for the WBF). Also, he wore a single-ply suit under his sweats.

Tom squatted 635 for 12 only a few weeks before the O in, I think, 1984/5. Now that is incredible. Olympic style. Belt only.

P.S. It's obvious your knowledge of elite strength performance is extremely limited, by the way. While some of Platz's feats are worthy of top honours, mountains of verified lifts throughout the last 50-plus years also deserve the same. I mean, jeez ...
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Tha Grim Lifter on July 12, 2017, 12:07:02 AM
I saw a seminar he did in 1993, after the O, where he said Dorian showing up like he did was everything he was trying to be. I think it was in England.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Dieter on July 13, 2017, 11:19:47 AM
I'd bet good money Mr Platz has no health insurance and probably hasn't gone to the dentist in years. :'( :'(
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: falco on July 13, 2017, 12:59:51 PM
He was genetically made to squat. Not everyone has that mobility and it could even be harmful to try to force it through stretching.
He actually needs heels to squat properly. People made to squat can squat ass to grass barefoot, without heels or steps.
If one has a smaller femur than the tibia (lenght), squat become easy. Longer femur and you squat like Mike O hearn
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: judochoke on July 13, 2017, 04:20:46 PM
listen to me because I'm freaking 60 years old, still training 5 days a week, balls to the wall. I'm 270, maybe a little fat in the gut, but people watch me train in the gym!!! who watches you train? your mom???? all my shit is on you tube.
no lies, no tricks, just hard work, good food, clean life. platz does look like a old ball sack.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Eric2 on July 13, 2017, 06:09:53 PM
listen to me because I'm freaking 60 years old, still training 5 days a week, balls to the wall. I'm 270, maybe a little fat in the gut, but people watch me train in the gym!!! who watches you train? your mom???? all my shit is on you tube.
no lies, no tricks, just hard work, good food, clean life. platz does look like a old ball sack.

Gave you shit before. Gotta hand it to you, you are legit at your age pushing the iron living life your way. Good job, most people give up.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 13, 2017, 11:20:12 PM
He actually needs heels to squat properly. People made to squat can squat ass to grass barefoot, without heels or steps.
If one has a smaller femur than the tibia (lenght), squat become easy. Longer femur and you squat like Mike O hearn


So do you, but he has brains to understand it. This is the reason for the seminars. You blockhead morons think you know it all, while it is just an illusion in your empty heads. When seasoned pro come and tells how to do it right, you argue with him and his methods completely forgetting that he has won a truckload of trophy's, and you have none. He hasn't won those bodybuilding contest by the accident, while it would be your only mean to win even one contest  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 13, 2017, 11:28:58 PM
listen to me because I'm freaking 60 years old, still training 5 days a week, balls to the wall. I'm 270, maybe a little fat in the gut, but people watch me train in the gym!!! who watches you train? your mom???? all my shit is on you tube.
no lies, no tricks, just hard work, good food, clean life. platz does look like a old ball sack.


So you say in the internet, yes, and all what is in the internet has to be true. Let's play it is true? You are 60 year old, and you still write like 14 years old, and want some credit because you are dumb old fuck who has been training all his life only to get fat? I am sorry for your handicap, but you are just about as good to give advices as big Lenny or that other handicapped moron whose name I don't even remember. Exactly how we could know that the fat slob in your videos isn't you fat ass dad, but you yourself?  ;D
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: falco on July 14, 2017, 12:25:58 AM

So do you, but he has brains to understand it. This is the reason for the seminars. You blockhead morons think you know it all, while it is just an illusion in your empty heads. When seasoned pro come and tells how to do it right, you argue with him and his methods completely forgetting that he has won a truckload of trophy's, and you have none. He hasn't won those bodybuilding contest by the accident, while it would be your only mean to win even one contest  ;D
I was only adressing the mechanics of the movement. Winning trophies is not my objective. Props to Tom.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Ropo on July 14, 2017, 11:25:31 PM
I was only adressing the mechanics of the movement. Winning trophies is not my objective. Props to Tom.

And I was addressing your lack of real knowledge to argue this thing. Of course you can squat barefoot or without the loft under your heel. What Platz is telling to you is the fact it will change your posture, so if you use lofts, you will use more of your quadriceps femoris and less your gluteus maximus. And this is a fact, and only reason why you don't know it is the stupidity which told you not to try it. Why it is so obvious you haven't try it? Well, if you would have try it, you wouldn't have any arguments against Platz knowledge.  ;D

Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: judochoke on July 15, 2017, 08:50:47 AM
 Legend ?? Tom platz is a legend? Let me tell you about legends. How about at the mr Olympia expo,
When frank zane, Sergio Olivia, and ed cortney are sitting together, each in there own area, ,selling pictures
And autographs, and nobody comes up to them!!!! I mean they are just sitting there all alone!!!! It's freaking sad. I can see the young kids maybe not knowing who these greats are, but even the older guys don't stop and buy a picture.

You wanna learn how to squat???? Get in the squat rack and get to it. It ain't that hard.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: bigbychoices on July 15, 2017, 01:30:10 PM
tom is not a legend in the way arnold. lou ed corney frank zane sergio etc are. BUT he is in his own way. tom brought leg development to a whole new level. his intensity was second to none. borderline crazy. and to anyone who thinks "get in a squat rack and squat " is all you have to do. i laugh at that. a real squat is very hard to do properly. sure anyone can get in a squat rack and squat but most do half squats at best. most do quarter or less. everything he has said is true. try it with heel lifts. standing on a board( heels only) or buy those "squat shoes" which already had the lift in the heel for you. it does make it more easy and correct and any time you push on your heels more you activate more hams and glutes. when you push with toes its mostly quads.  toms upper body was huge but his legs dwarfed him. there was no way at his height could he bring his upper body up enough to catch his legs. he tried. he needed to stop training legs and focus on upper body. BUT his legs is how he made his money.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: Slik on July 15, 2017, 09:41:10 PM
Tom is every bit a legend and more so than Ed Corney. Ed was a great poser but mostly known for his role in pumping iron. If u r going to throw Ed Corney in with the other legends Tom more than qualifies for legend status.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: bigbychoices on July 16, 2017, 06:18:14 AM
ed is a legend due to his posing and the time he came along. he didnt do anything that really stood out except his posing. he just happened to be in during the golden years and won a few main titles. tom wasnt really in during the golden years he came along after really (  or just as it was ending and bodybuilding was taking off)  but he never got good recognition until the 80s ( other than his legs) so thats why in my opinion he isnt a legend like the others but he is a legend. i met tom several times and was always a great guy. he ate slept and lived for bodybuilding. he didnt have great genetics but he worked harder than anyone i ever seen.
Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: The Scott on July 16, 2017, 10:48:32 AM
From Golden Eagle to Gray Beagle, time waits for no  manlet.

Title: Re: Tom Platz Seminar
Post by: bigbychoices on July 17, 2017, 06:06:12 AM
funny true story ( i heard directly from tom himself) he was in toledo ohio giving a seminar of sorts at a mall there called north town mall i think for a gnc store. anyways he was late getting there rushed rushed a bit was doing his thing and of course someone said show the legs.  he had a t shirt and sweat pants on i beleieve he said. so he drops the pants then remembered he didnt have trunks on or underwear either!! lol pulled them up super fast. lol  this is what he told me didnt ask how much was seen and didnt care.