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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: wes on February 15, 2023, 03:50:26 PM
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Awesome videos thanks for posting Wes
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Did Jeff do a lot of neck work or did he have a naturally big neck?
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Awesome videos thanks for posting Wes
My pleasure Cook.
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Did Jeff do a lot of neck work or did he have a naturally big neck?
He used the Nautilus 4-way Neck Machine 3 X a week.
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Jeff worked at George Turner's Gym in Saint Louis around 1986-7. I spoke to him and got to see him train on a daily basis. He was a really good /thick bodybuilder for the time.
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WOW
Awesome find
I've never seen this before
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Jeff worked at George Turner's Gym in Saint Louis around 1986-7. I spoke to him and got to see him train on a daily basis. He was a really good /thick bodybuilder for the time.
Yeah I trained at the same gym as him in Springfield Mass. when he attended Springfield College.....he stayed in Springfield for quite a while.
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What's the backstory to this wood paneled training session?
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What's the backstory to this wood paneled training session?
Looks to me like he was doing some guest posing and seminars in foreign countries.
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The guy who owns the channel has some great old school stuff.....check it out.
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Jeff worked at George Turner's Gym in Saint Louis around 1986-7. I spoke to him and got to see him train on a daily basis. He was a really good /thick bodybuilder for the time.
Probably the most underrated bodybuilder of the time simple for not being in the IFBB.
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Great vid's Wes, I've never seen these...
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Great vid's Wes, I've never seen these...
Yeah the guy just put these out very recently GR.....has some great stuff but a lot of it isn`t in English.....real good one on a younger Munzer.
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A REALLY young Andreas Munzer ^^^^^
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A REALLY young Andreas Munzer ^^^^^
And very fat. He must have been at least 6% bodyfat there. ;D
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And very fat. He must have been at least 6% bodyfat there. ;D
I know huh...the fucking slob! ;D
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Probably the most underrated bodybuilder of the time simple for not being in the IFBB.
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He was definitely very good & not on the radar due to not competing in the IFBB
Not sure how he would've stacked up in an Olympia line up - I'd guess at being in
the top 6 , certainly would've been an interesting addition.
He gave up / disappeared off the circuit far too soon.
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He didn`t really just give up.....Weider wanted him to enter all of the smaller IFBB contests such as the Mr. America and the Universe and he had already won the AAU and NABBA versions respectively and told Weider to get fucked.
It was as if he had to start over from the bottom after all the years and work he put in as if he was just a nobody and he felt he had already paid his dues which in fact he did.
I still would have loved to see him compete in the IFBB though.
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He didn`t really just give up.....Weider wanted him to enter all of the smaller IFBB contests such as the Mr. America and the Universe and he had already won the AAU and NABBA versions respectively and told Weider to get fucked.
It was as if he had to start over from the bottom after all the years and work he put in as if he was just a nobody and he felt he had already paid his dues which in fact he did.
I still would have loved to see him compete in the IFBB though.
I'd be pissed off, too.
Some great content there, btw.
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I'd be pissed off, too.
Some great content there, btw.
Thanks bud! :)
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He didn`t really just give up.....Weider wanted him to enter all of the smaller IFBB contests such as the Mr. America and the Universe and he had already won the AAU and NABBA versions respectively and told Weider to get fucked.
It was as if he had to start over from the bottom after all the years and work he put in as if he was just a nobody and he felt he had already paid his dues which in fact he did.
I still would have loved to see him compete in the IFBB though.
he did the same to joe meeko. the aau boys had to pay their dues.
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Here`s another from that channel....Albert Beccles looking thick and freaky.
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he did the same to joe meeko. the aau boys had to pay their dues.
That photo is awesome, was this Bob Gruskin's living room?
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That photo is awesome, was this Bob Gruskin's living room?
Joe Meeko's mom's/family home.
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He didn`t really just give up.....Weider wanted him to enter all of the smaller IFBB contests such as the Mr. America and the Universe and he had already won the AAU and NABBA versions respectively and told Weider to get fucked.
It was as if he had to start over from the bottom after all the years and work he put in as if he was just a nobody and he felt he had already paid his dues which in fact he did.
I still would have loved to see him compete in the IFBB though.
yes i can understand him being pissed at the pettiness of joe. and clearly he was a very good level of physique - only he was swapping organisations & he would've expected
some hoops to get through, I'd of thought it fair & reasonable for him to have to win/place top 3 in the IFBB pro universe before going into the Olympia.
If he thought he was good enough to compete at Olympia level then winning or placing very well at 1 contest like the pro universe wouldn't be asking a lot, I think
Either way it's a shame he never competed in the IFBB.
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I dont know which contests qualified for pro cards back then but I thought what the Weiders wanted was for him to win his ifbb pro card. Which he felt he was already pro material?
He did an interview on the legends of bodybuilding and explained it. It wasn't a matter of qualifying for the Olympia. He had to to qualify to even be an ifbb pro. Which wasn't guaranteed. Not saying he didn't deserve to be an ifbb pro but i think back then if you didn't win the overall you had to wait another year to try and qualify again?
It was an good interview. I think he's a county deputy or state trooper now.. Still looks fit but not you'd never know he was a bodybuilder.
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yes i can understand him being pissed at the pettiness of joe. and clearly he was a very good level of physique - only he was swapping organisations & he would've expected
some hoops to get through, I'd of thought it fair & reasonable for him to have to win/place top 3 in the IFBB pro universe before going into the Olympia.
If he thought he was good enough to compete at Olympia level then winning or placing very well at 1 contest like the pro universe wouldn't be asking a lot, I think
Either way it's a shame he never competed in the IFBB.
Good points my friend.
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I dont know which contests qualified for pro cards back then but I thought what the Weiders wanted was for him to win his ifbb pro card. Which he felt he was already pro material?
He did an interview on the legends of bodybuilding and explained it. It wasn't a matter of qualifying for the Olympia. He had to to qualify to even be an ifbb pro. Which wasn't guaranteed. Not saying he didn't deserve to be an ifbb pro but i think back then if you didn't win the overall you had to wait another year to try and qualify again?
It was an good interview. I think he's a county deputy or state trooper now.. Still looks fit but not you'd never know he was a bodybuilder.
He`s a reserve state trooper and a physical therapist in Greenfield Mass. the last I heard.
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drugs,food aside,jeff has the genetics of a wrestler type of build that even lighter weight guys have'look'neck,calves,different muscluture to start with then you get bigger and you look like'jeff'gymnasts start that way too.i'd say jeff was similar to eddie robinson who was built like a tank as a teen as well..
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drugs,food aside,jeff has the genetics of a wrestler type of build that even lighter weight guys have'look'neck,calves,different muscluture to start with then you get bigger and you look like'jeff'gymnasts start that way too.i'd say jeff was similar to eddie robinson who was built like a tank as a teen as well..
Yeah,similar type build as Eddie.
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It so cool seeing how these guys trained back them
The equipment was so basic yet they built incredible physiques
Interesting to see Beckles benching with that really wide grip (like Arnold used to use)
Maybe that's why so many guys had great pecs back in the day
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Here`s another from that channel....Albert Beccles looking thick and freaky.
Them freaky bi's !!
Albert Well into his mid to late 50's and looking Great - shows it can be done.
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drugs,food aside,jeff has the genetics of a wrestler type of build that even lighter weight guys have'look'neck,calves,different muscluture to start with then you get bigger and you look like'jeff'gymnasts start that way too.i'd say jeff was similar to eddie robinson who was built like a tank as a teen as well..
Eddie Robinson could have been Jeff's twin.
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This is awesome!!!!! Thank you for posting this Wes.
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Jeff King, one of my favourites. He did a combination of bodybuilding and powerlifting to build up his body. Here's his leg workout. One is the typical bodybuilding straight sets routine, the other a powetlifting routine where you pyramid up the weight to a couple of heavy top sets (the first few sets being warm ups)
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According to Mentzer he would have gotten bigger training his legs 1 set a week. ::)
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According to Mentzer he would have gotten bigger training his legs 1 set a week. ::)
That and accusing Jeff of "overtwaining"
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This is awesome!!!!! Thank you for posting this Wes.
No problem brother....that entire channel is pretty good......not that many videos though.
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Jeff had a really unique way of doing leg presses (or maybe it was common back then??) with that "duck" foot position and lowering the weight so that his thighs were virtually parallel with his torso
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Those vertical leg presses were tough. Like reverse squats.
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I watched this leg training video all the way through last night
It's interesting to see watch how he performs each movement.
In part of the video he's doing single leg curls using a leg extension machine and his form is so precise.
You can see that he's time the rest intervals. Also, at ~ 23:30 mark he talks about how he varies his training from light to heavy and a bit about his diet and other stuff like having to "prove" himself in the US even after winning Mr. America and the Universe. This is really a great blast from the past
I noticed that he did light good morning exercise for his hams but I don't think I've ever seen him doing RDL (not sure they even called them that back then) or SLDL for hams
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Nobody did RDL back then.....Jeff did do heavy deadlifts though.
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^^^Pulling at Big Daddys Gym in Springfield Ma.
If you notice Jeff always wears a watch in all his training pics/videos....he timed his rest periods from 30-60 seconds only.
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Very cool. Thanks.
I like how he mentions the book Psycho Blast by Denie.
It was a new one, then.
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Very cool. Thanks.
I like how he mentions the book Psycho Blast by Denie.
It was a new one, then.
My pleasure Rob,and that is a cool book....I owned it back in the day.
Denie was a pretty good photographer/writer also.
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(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=657541.0;attach=924345;image)
One of my personal pics I put online of Jeff taken by my training partner at Central City Gym in Springfield.....now it can be found all over the web.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=657541.0;attach=779774;image)
Jeff squatting at Central City with Richard Roy one of his training partners.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=657541.0;attach=924344;image)
Another pic of Richie outside Central City Gym.
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YOU took that pic of him squatting?!
That’s, like, an infamous oldschool photo, brother.
Awesome.
Sorry. It was your friend. Still, VERY COOL.
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YOU took that pic of him squatting?!
That’s, like, an infamous oldschool photo, brother.
Awesome.
Sorry. It was your friend. Still, VERY COOL.
No my training partner took the pic above the squatting pic,but I put it online some years ago.
I have no clue who took the other shots.
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