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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => History - Stories - and Memories => Topic started by: funk51 on July 10, 2013, 09:57:24 AM
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;D rick wayne bodybuilder, singer, journalist, author, and more.
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when rick wayne moved to england, he saw an ad for a bodyman, he applied not knowing it was for a car repair shop. ;D ;D ;D
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He wrote some good stuff too. One of my favorites.
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He wrote some good stuff too. One of my favorites.
that's the truth i have most of his books. only one i could never find was the bodymen 2 don't know if it was ever really published.
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one of the last things rick did in bodybuilding was to try and ake a comeback and enter the mr o for one last try at it. he injured himself in training pinching a nerve in his neck while doing seated db presses. his one arm shrunk over 4 inches thus ending his comeback. :(
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his three more reps were a great training series he did this in collaboration with george snyder and olympus gym systems.3 volumes now condensed to one.
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;)condensed book.
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I'm a historian by profession and this is why I appreciate your posts in this section so much.
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I'm a historian by profession and this is why I appreciate your posts in this section so much.
i appreciate that. thanks.
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thanks funk!!!
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Funky Bro... ;D
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he also wrote a book called musclewars which i have but can't find a pic. ::)
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Thanks for the pics Steve,a lot of these are new to me,would have loved to have seen Rick in the 76 Olympia.
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I remember musclewars,the best book he wrote,been trying to find a copy for some time now,i read it in excerpts when I was a teen.
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I remember musclewars,the best book he wrote,been trying to find a copy for some time now,i read it in excerpts when I was a teen.
it's not cheap 110 dollars new on amazon and 43 and up used also on amazon. you could probably get a better deal at a used book store if you can find it.
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I remember rick writing with brutal honesty for flex and muscle and fitness.he even talked about the use of anabolics by different athletes in his Olympia articles including Arnold and Samir.
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Never seen this pic of Rick before,posted by Martin Yates Brown on facebook.
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Never seen this pic of Rick before,posted by Martin Yates Brown on facebook.
me either , ::)classic rick wayne story. when rick first came to england he answered an ad for a bodyman nor realizing it was for a auto body worker. ::) ::) ::)
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;D this is a hard way to do curls.
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Funky ;D
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had amazing arms for his days. vascularity ala clint beyerle almost
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I saw Rick many times at shows in the UK during the 60's, his physique always impressed me, though I always felt if he could just bring his calves up to being half as good as his arms, he would have won almost anything. He had a very outgoing personality, and a quick, perceptive mind. He always said exactly what he thought and sometimes that did not sit to well with the establishment on both sides of the Atlantic.
I remember one time when I had competed in a big junior contest in Manchester and after a quick change and a run to the station, I was sitting in the train when Rick, who had been one of the guest posers walks in and sits across the aisle from me. After a few words of congratulations, as I had won the contest, he took a cigarette out and lit up. I had settled down to sleep on the journey back to London, but the unusual smell of the burning tobacco puzzled me. Rick smoked two or three cigarettes and I was feeling quite odd, very light headed in fact. Only days later did I realise that it wasn't Marlboro Lights he was puffing!
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I saw Rick many times at shows in the UK during the 60's, his physique always impressed me, though I always felt if he could just bring his calves up to being half as good as his arms, he would have won almost anything. He had a very outgoing personality, and a quick, perceptive mind. He always said exactly what he thought and sometimes that did not sit to well with the establishment on both sides of the Atlantic.
I remember one time when I had competed in a big junior contest in Manchester and after a quick change and a run to the station, I was sitting in the train when Rick, who had been one of the guest posers walks in and sits across the aisle from me. After a few words of congratulations, as I had won the contest, he took a cigarette out and lit up. I had settled down to sleep on the journey back to London, but the unusual smell of the burning tobacco puzzled me. Rick smoked two or three cigarettes and I was feeling quite odd, very light headed in fact. Only days later did I realise that it wasn't Marlboro Lights he was puffing!
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Wild Willie, asked me if that story about Rick Wayne is true, yes absolutely true. Many years later I was working, well laying in the sun for a week, while on a stop over for the international airline I work for in Saint Lucia, where Rick originates from. So I went and found his gym and trained there for a couple of days. His wife, Mae Mollica, ran the gym. Rick at that time was into journalism and writing for the island newspaper. Though now he is into politics I believe. I always liked his quick, intelligent wit. He was too quick for Joe Weider, and probably too truthful as well.
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Didn't Rick also serve as editor for a newspaper publisher?
Guy definitely had some brains!!
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Wild Willie, asked me if that story about Rick Wayne is true, yes absolutely true. Many years later I was working, well laying in the sun for a week, while on a stop over for the international airline I work for in Saint Lucia, where Rick originates from. So I went and found his gym and trained there for a couple of days. His wife, Mae Mollica, ran the gym. Rick at that time was into journalism and writing for the island newspaper. Though now he is into politics I believe. I always liked his quick, intelligent wit. He was too quick for Joe Weider, and probably too truthful as well.
seems like a few of the old time champs enjoyed a little puff here and there......nothing wrong with that.
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:o this is the only one of the lot i don't have.