from Ben1 at MD, an ex-pro from the 80's
A Little Story About Bertil Fox............a little story about Bertil Fox,I saw Bertil many times on stage where on some occasions (like the 83 Olympia where he got 5th)he got screwed but I never talked to him.In 1985 and 86 when Eduardo Kawak was my trainings partner,we would travel a lot together to all these Expos (FIBO and others)also in Holland and Belgium.
One time we where in Belgium and Eduardo had a booth with his T Shirts and Pictures and I was standing in front of the booth while my hand was touching another table.I did not pay attention to which booth the table belongs until I heard this really annoying female kids voice who was talking to me.I thought man,what is this and turned around.Instead of a kid I saw Bertil Fox standing there and talking to me.I never heard a weirder voice in my whole life and it did not fit at all to a guy like this.He kept going and going and going,how I could dare to touch his table and I should never do this again and how bad I was and so on...
...I could not help myself but laugh that whole thing was so funny and Eduardo would start laughing as well,now Bertil got really pissed and called security?
yes he called security and when the security arrived,we where still laughing.He literally took his whole booth and pulled it 20 feet's away from us after security told him that there was nothing they could do and of course all his T Shirts fall on the floor and Eduardo and me where still laughing and wondering what a nut case he was.
Bertil Fox: Dumb Like a Bread StickYears later he came to our Gym to prepare for a competition,he had no clue about traing and was dumb like a bread stick (sorry but I am telling the truth here)He trained every exercise so heavy that he could not really lift the weight,he would do 1/4 reps and so fast like he was in a race or something,while grunting like a Bear.He trained every day like that 7 times a week,twice a day.He also had no clue about diet.He would literally shrink as the weeks went on.He looked good in the beginning but did not change at all after weeks with his definition.He was just 30 pounds smaller( and of course he was over trained)
I tried once to talk to him but"Who are you?,to even talk to me about that"was his answer,alright you the man I replied and walked away.Funny thing was that half the guys now tried to train like that to get big like Bertil but nobody had any success................w
onder why................Berti
l Fox was just a genetic Freak and no matter what he did,he would grow.
Another 4 years later he would show up in my Gym ( I owned a Gym from 89 - 93)and his friend (trainings partner or whatever he was)asked me if he could train here for some weeks(Bertil would not speak or asked the ordinary people himself.I did not have a problem with that and all BBs could train for free in my Gym when they came from out of town but when he screamed at me for not having enough weights for him (and believe me him screaming is not so pleasant with his weird female kids voice)and me screaming back,that he might should start to train right,he never came back.
The last thing I heard was that he killed his wife and mother in law and is waiting for the death penalty................w
hat a weirdo..................
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more stories to come,I am going to the USA tomorrow and Saturday and than I am off for a nice vacation................
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