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Remember this guy? Wish we saw more like this on the Pro stage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Nubret
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should have added more size.. he could have gotten away with it.
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should have added more size.. he could have gotten away with it.
Agree, so symmetrical the additional bulk would be perfect as long as abs remain tight.
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He was literally a getbigger
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I have a vague memory of Serge training hard for the 1975 Olympia. Then about month before he was notified he was banned because he competed in a competition outside of the IFBB. I assume he slowed his training and went off the juice. Last minute with the filming of Pumping Iron they realized they just had two tall men in the Olympia and invited him back. He looked amazing but what would he looked like without the break in training?
On a side note in that 1975 contest in Africa he was one of two guys that used free hand squats in his training routine. The other was small class Mr. Universe winner Wilf Sylvester.
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Parabolan (Negma- France) was a great drug.
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Parabolan (Negma- France) was a great drug.
Agree, so symmetrical the additional bulk would be perfect as long as abs remain tight.
Nubret's inspiration was Steve Reeves and it showed. Serge was handsome man with a physique to match. Much better than what has been tendered the last few decades.
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One of the greats. The physiques of the 70's were aesthetically the best I think.
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I have a vague memory of Serge training hard for the 1975 Olympia. Then about month before he was notified he was banned because he competed in a competition outside of the IFBB. I assume he slowed his training and went off the juice. Last minute with the filming of Pumping Iron they realized they just had two tall men in the Olympia and invited him back. He looked amazing but what would he looked like without the break in training?
On a side note in that 1975 contest in Africa he was one of two guys that used free hand squats in his training routine. The other was small class Mr. Universe winner Wilf Sylvester.
Freehand squats?
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Freehand squats?
Body weight squats without using weights.
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Body weight squats without using weights.
Do you have any more info on his use of bodyweight squats? Did he do hundreds a day? I know he was wary of thickening his waist so he used the barbell squat with lower weights so this could be a reason.
First time I've heard of a pro bodybuilder using bodyweight squats, though I do know that many (pro) wrestlers do a lot of bodyweight squats as part of their training.
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Do you have any more info on his use of bodyweight squats? Did he do hundreds a day? I know he was wary of thickening his waist so he used the barbell squat with lower weights so this could be a reason.
First time I've heard of a pro bodybuilder using bodyweight squats, though I do know that many (pro) wrestlers do a lot of bodyweight squats as part of their training.
I have the article on Wilf Sylvester buried in my old magazine collection. He said he use to use squats, hacks, leg extensions and leg curls. For the Universe in 1975 he switched to body weigh squats, leg extensions and leg curls. He said he used 400 reps but he never said how many sets were used
Serge is listed in one of the "Three more Reps" series as using multiple sets of body weight squats.
I'm sure you don't want to hear about my experience but for awhile I was doing 50 ass to grass slow negative bodyweight squats after I trained legs with weights. The pump was unreal. I also feel they contributed to conditioning too. I know in cross fit they are big on the movement but like so many bodyweight stuff they do they cheat to get the reps in under the stop watch. They flop down on the negative as fast as they can and many times go shallow.
On the topic of using moderate weight for development Pellius wrote on this site there was a guy in his gym that did set after set of front squats with 135 and he had great thighs.
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Fantastic upper body from the front.
Sadly a build like this won't even win a state level show nowdays. They all look like shit.
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Fantastic upper body from the front.
Sadly a build like this won't even win a state level show nowdays. They all look like shit.
a few other pics
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He was literally a getbigger
Explain. ???
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Explain. ???
Serge Nubret was an actual legit member of Getbig... sometime back in the mid/late 2000's.
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I have the article on Wilf Sylvester buried in my old magazine collection. He said he use to use squats, hacks, leg extensions and leg curls. For the Universe in 1975 he switched to body weigh squats, leg extensions and leg curls. He said he used 400 reps but he never said how many sets were used
Serge is listed in one of the "Three more Reps" series as using multiple sets of body weight sets.
I'm sure you don't want to hear about my experience but for awhile I was doing 50 ass to grass slow negative bodyweight squats after I trained legs with weights. The pump was unreal. I also feel they contributed to conditioning too. I know in cross fit they are big on the movement but like so many bodyweight stuff they do they cheat to get the reps in under the stop watch. They flop down on the negative as fast as they can and many times go shallow.
On the topic of using moderate weight for development Pellius wrote on this site there was a guy in his gym that did set after set of front squats with 135 and he had great thighs.
His name was Steve. He was an Asian guy, maybe Okinawan. He just had a 35 lb plate on each side so it was only 115 he would use. Just pumping out those front squats like a machine. I wish I took the time to count the number of reps he did for each set and how many sets he did. Great quads.
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Serge Nubret was an actual legit member of Getbig... sometime back in the mid/late 2000's.
I didn't know that.
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His daughter also posted updates (when I believe) he slipped into a coma.
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His daughter also posted updates (when I believe) she slipped something into his drink
allegedly
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When I was writing for Bodyfitness I had the pleasure of meeting/interviewing Serge shortly before he became sick and passed away.
He was in his 70's and was preparing to guest pose. He was still very sharp and engaged. An interesting guy who I'd have liked to have spoken to for much longer.
I was sad to hear of his passing. It's over a decade ago now too!
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I asked Serge about pumping iron and how small a part he played in it.
He explained he had been filmed for more of the movie but at the time was making films in France and was a known actor. He would have done pumping iron for free as he knew it was an independent film, but was so insulted by the amount they offered to pay him he told them to pull his footage from the film.
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Made phag porn.
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Made phag porn.
True? So he joins the long list of famous bodybuilders.
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I have the article on Wilf Sylvester buried in my old magazine collection. He said he use to use squats, hacks, leg extensions and leg curls. For the Universe in 1975 he switched to body weigh squats, leg extensions and leg curls. He said he used 400 reps but he never said how many sets were used
Serge is listed in one of the "Three more Reps" series as using multiple sets of body weight squats.
I'm sure you don't want to hear about my experience but for awhile I was doing 50 ass to grass slow negative bodyweight squats after I trained legs with weights. The pump was unreal. I also feel they contributed to conditioning too. I know in cross fit they are big on the movement but like so many bodyweight stuff they do they cheat to get the reps in under the stop watch. They flop down on the negative as fast as they can and many times go shallow.
On the topic of using moderate weight for development Pellius wrote on this site there was a guy in his gym that did set after set of front squats with 135 and he had great thighs.
very solid post
thank you
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His daughter also posted updates (when I believe) he slipped into a coma.
Didn't his girlfriend poison him?
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Pumping Iron the movie was scripted.
All BS to make a movie.
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Body weight squats without using weights.
What'd he do, like 1000 per set? Not efficient or effective. Serge used to train for hours and hours at the old Block's gym down in Placentia on the early 90s. He and Kenny (?) something and I think Rory Leidlemeyer did these real high rep workouts. Not sure how Serge paid his bills. Not sure he had anywhere else to go.
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What'd he do, like 1000 per set? Not efficient or effective. Serge used to train for hours and hours at the old Block's gym down in Placentia on the early 90s. He and Kenny (?) something and I think Rory Leidlemeyer did these real high rep workouts. Not sure how Serge paid his bills. Not sure he had anywhere else to go.
Seemed to have worked for him?
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His name was Steve. He was an Asian guy, maybe Okinawan. He just had a 35 lb plate on each side so it was only 115 he would use. Just pumping out those front squats like a machine. I wish I took the time to count the number of reps he did for each set and how many sets he did. Great quads.
was that the iron man article in the 60's ?
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Made phag porn.
Yep. Heard it was back in France where he first started.
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was that the iron man article in the 60's ?
Funk, can you post the full article? Would like to read it.
Thanks!
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What'd he do, like 1000 per set? Not efficient or effective. Serge used to train for hours and hours at the old Block's gym down in Placentia on the early 90s. He and Kenny (?) something and I think Rory Leidlemeyer did these real high rep workouts. Not sure how Serge paid his bills. Not sure he had anywhere else to go.
Most bodybuilders would struggle to do 50.
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I heard his "diet" for shows consisted of eating one 12 ounce steak per day. Nothing else. No other protein, no other carbs or fat.
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I heard his "diet" for shows consisted of eating one 12 ounce steak per day. Nothing else. No other protein, no other carbs or fat.
Probably true. Mentzer ate 800 calories a day before a contest. This is probably why they looked so much better in photos on the beach or gym than they did on contest day.
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I heard his "diet" for shows consisted of eating one 12 ounce steak per day. Nothing else. No other protein, no other carbs or fat.
I've also read that Serge ate three pounds of horse meat a day.
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I've also read that Serge ate three pounds of horse meat a day.
Correct. He posted on Ironage and said he only ate once a day and it was always horse meat.
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Correct. He posted on Ironage and said he only ate once a day and it was always horse meat.
Why not just eat dog food?
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Why not just eat dog food?
;D
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Made phag porn.
No he never. Serge was the king of Europe. He made was making decent money before he blew it.
It's kind of depressing looking back at the golden era guys. The ifbb empire was built off of that small circle, but they got absolutely played by the weiders.
How much would it have hurt the Weider bros to put 100k in a pension account for someone like serge or Zane.
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Made phag porn.
I had some guys that trained up at Gold's tell me it was more a "soft core" hetero porn-ish scene in some foreign (non-Amurican) film but the truth was it was simply Weider being Weider, i.e., a whole ass.
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was that the iron man article in the 60's ?
I don't understand your question.
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I don't understand your question.
sorry i was replying to the guy you were replying to about wilf sylvester. sorry.
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Funk, can you post the full article? Would like to read it.
Thanks!
here's the end of it. my scanners been out of commission for almost a year. so i can't do the rest of it.
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Correct. He posted on Ironage and said he only ate once a day and it was always horse meat.
They eat horse meat in France, but don’t think they do much any more other than out in the boondocks. There was a poison story with the family (sad) but I doubt the early career gay porn story. Never heard anything along those lines.
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Most bodybuilders would struggle to do 50.
yes..... so I did some body squats today. harder then you think
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Probably true. Mentzer ate 800 calories a day before a contest. This is probably why they looked so much better in photos on the beach or gym than they did on contest day.
interesting any reading on this??
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Probably true. Mentzer ate 800 calories a day before a contest. This is probably why they looked so much better in photos on the beach or gym than they did on contest day.
did you think they look "flat" on stage vs beach shots?
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yes..... so I did some body squats today. harder then you think
ive done sissy squats every leg workout for the last 20 years... theyre just as brutal now as they were then.
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I heard his "diet" for shows consisted of eating one 12 ounce steak per day. Nothing else. No other protein, no other carbs or fat.
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ZANE used to do this too, basically Steak and lots of Winstrols and Thyroid!!!
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ZANE used to do this too, basically Steak and lots of Winstrols and Thyroid!!!
Zane used Armour thyroid.
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Zane used Armour thyroid.
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Yes, I heard this as well... When dieting it was a huge steak every day plus these added Primo, Winstrol, Armour Thyroid...
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I met Serge when he was training at Brocks gym in Orange County in the very early 80s. He was incredible. 6 sets x 12 reps on everything except abs. Personally i think he was one of the best at that time...
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He looked amazing, no doubt, but Arnold was bigger and better
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I met Serge when he was training at Brocks gym in Orange County in the very early 80s. He was incredible. 6 sets x 12 reps on everything except abs. Personally i think he was one of the best at that time...
How long would he spend in the gym and what weights was he using?
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here's the end of it. my scanners been out of commission for almost a year. so i can't do the rest of it.
That's a great article - thanks for posting Funk
I love the fact that he "drinks 11/2 pints of milk a day, which he finds sufficient for his own particular needs"
But "as for tissue drugs, he thinks they are greatly overrated and would never risk taking them himself," stating "one never really knows what unpleasant after-effects there might be"
Simpler times... :)
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ZANE used to do this too, basically Steak and lots of Winstrols and Thyroid!!!
interesting
both Zane and Serge did look amazing on stage!!
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Yes, I heard this as well... When dieting it was a huge steak every day plus these added Primo, Winstrol, Armour Thyroid...
Just the finishing touch. That and A1 sauce.
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That's a great article - thanks for posting Funk
I love the fact that he "drinks 11/2 pints of milk a day, which he finds sufficient for his own particular needs"
But "as for tissue drugs, he thinks they are greatly overrated and would never risk taking them himself," stating "one never really knows what unpleasant after-effects there might be"
Simpler times... :)
So Nubret was natty??
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How long would he spend in the gym and what weights was he using?
Heard one eyewitness account that he was using 80lbs for the press behind the neck. If he was doing 6 x 12 reps with a short rest then the 80lbs must have been really heavy when he got close to his 72th rep.
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I met Serge when he was training at Brocks gym in Orange County in the very early 80s. He was incredible. 6 sets x 12 reps on everything except abs. Personally i think he was one of the best at that time...
But was it one exercise per body part or multiple exercises - each for 6 x 12?
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So Nubret was natty??
No dude, Funk's article was about a Brit from the '60/70s - Wilf Sylvester - he was mentioned because of the freehand squats thing coming up
(http://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.LFs3qlebPAoJR4oXOK3yQQHaK2%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
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No dude, Funk's article was about a Brit from the '60/70s - Wilf Sylvester - he was mentioned because of the freehand squats thing coming up
(http://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.LFs3qlebPAoJR4oXOK3yQQHaK2%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
Great physique, ty my nikka
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Great physique, ty my nikka
better than guys today
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But was it one exercise per body part or multiple exercises - each for 6 x 12?
Multiple.
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No dude, Funk's article was about a Brit from the '60/70s - Wilf Sylvester - he was mentioned because of the freehand squats thing coming up
(http://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.LFs3qlebPAoJR4oXOK3yQQHaK2%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
The article where he talked about free hand squats was a Weider mag. I know I have it but I'm not about to look for it in my basement.
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No dude, Funk's article was about a Brit from the '60/70s - Wilf Sylvester - he was mentioned because of the freehand squats thing coming up
(http://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.LFs3qlebPAoJR4oXOK3yQQHaK2%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
he's got a beautiful body mayn.
the more I hear about old school lifters, bruddas in the pen, and gymnasts (even the little kids are jacked), the more I think that high volume, high frequency, daily work is the most natural way of working out.
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he's got a beautiful body mayn.
the more I hear about old school lifters, bruddas in the pen, and gymnasts (even the little kids are jacked), the more I think that high volume, high frequency, daily work is the most natural way of working out.
It is, but it takes a lot of time. Much easier to convince people to work out once or twice a week.
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That's a great article - thanks for posting Funk
I love the fact that he "drinks 11/2 pints of milk a day, which he finds sufficient for his own particular needs"
But "as for tissue drugs, he thinks they are greatly overrated and would never risk taking them himself," stating "one never really knows what unpleasant after-effects there might be"
Simpler times... :)
BS too.