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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2008, 03:38:34 PM »
We were always "ragging on" each other..............a couple things that stand out
I Told Chris after i had taken a short layoff from the gym "Muscle has memory"
he said "yours must have amnesia then"


haha so that's where you got that classic line used in the "mike arvilla pics" thread ;D

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2008, 03:39:23 PM »
Yeah...he had tons of potential

If that was his first & only show....it's obvious if he stayed with it a few years he could have easily won a card

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2008, 03:41:24 PM »
Hey mike,
have u got any pics of you hitting some mandatories?
Good Delts btw!
Do u train your shoulders heavy? I have a problem developing my delts

   Too lazy to dig up pics lol!............here is a video hitting some "shots"
   thanks!
    i do train em heavy but to be honest genetically they are a strong bodypart for me (shoulders do the work that's why my chest is weak)
   

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2008, 03:45:25 PM »
This is actually After i started working out  lol

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2008, 03:50:19 PM »
Annnnnd this lovely picture is from 1985 (first year of college)



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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2008, 04:02:16 PM »
haha so that's where you got that classic line used in the "mike arvilla pics" thread ;D

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   yup!                        ;D

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2008, 04:28:12 PM »
   yup!                        ;D

mindspin was owned ;D

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2008, 04:42:21 PM »
mindspin was owned ;D

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  hahhahahahahahah!.................the "good ole days" of Get-Big  ;)

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #33 on: September 28, 2008, 07:56:11 PM »
Chris and I

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #34 on: September 28, 2008, 08:03:29 PM »
Chris and I
...and the infamous "LeBaron"   ;D
:D Weee

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #35 on: September 28, 2008, 08:09:33 PM »
...and the infamous "LeBaron"   ;D

 i had that car for 40 years................... ........................ ......<seems like!>

                       had it when i first met you..................... ...(and we were young!)      time flies

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #36 on: September 28, 2008, 08:23:37 PM »
i had that car for 40 years................... ........................ ......<seems like!>

                       had it when i first met you..................... ...(and we were young!)      time flies
We were just kids.  :D
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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #37 on: September 28, 2008, 08:27:58 PM »
Look-alike thread still around?

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #38 on: September 28, 2008, 08:29:39 PM »
Look-alike thread still around?
                                    >:(

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #39 on: September 28, 2008, 08:40:09 PM »
                                    >:(

Too easy, guy.

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #40 on: September 28, 2008, 08:43:09 PM »
Too easy, guy.

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  you could have gave me Billy Squire or something............... .(insulting enough cause hes a homo/but not "serial killer insulting")
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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #41 on: September 28, 2008, 09:11:30 PM »
  you could have gave me Billy Squire or something............... .(insulting enough cause hes a homo/but not "serial killer insulting")
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Billy Squire is gay?  :o
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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #42 on: September 28, 2008, 09:14:40 PM »
Chris and I

Lookin swole in that shot bro, nice work.

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #43 on: September 29, 2008, 07:04:53 AM »
Billy Squire is gay?  :o

Gayer than Nightstalker Mike's Flashdance midriff.

You decide:




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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #44 on: September 29, 2008, 07:51:26 AM »
Chris and I

u two were pretty f'in large lol

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #45 on: September 29, 2008, 09:28:02 AM »
Lookin swole in that shot bro, nice work.


Thanks TB and Tombo.................bu t as you can see in that pic i have wide shoulders (wide clavicle structure whatever you want to call it) but Chris is like "barndoor wide" it was crazy!

such a waste of bodybuilding potential (to be honest with you guys Chris didn't even train hard at all/in the middle of us working out he would go sit at the juice bar and say "i pulled something" or "I'm thrashed dude/I'm done" ...every single workout,you hear about guys who would "just look at a weight and would grow" that' was Chris,it was frustrating to me that i worked twice as hard and he looked twice as good!)
and diet..................Ch ris ate Wendy's, McDonald's,pizza etc every day (i used to eat like he did and i got soooo fricking fat/while he stayed lean) the day of his show like i said we ate at pizza hut (BEFORE prejudging)
after Chris won his class at "The New Englands" some supplement company used his picture and gave him free
supps",also when we met Victor Richards and Jean Pierre Fux they both asked Chris when his next show was (before he had ever stepped foot on a stage) and pretty much ignored me
i was always playing "catch -up" it was incredibly motivating! (being the low man on the totem pole does have it's advantages ) both Chris and Stan could "rep-out" with 405 lbs on the bar and could do a single with 500 lbs (the whole gym used to stop and watch us bench)
i would put 405 on the bar and come sooo close but not get it (then Chris would hop under it and do 8 reps easy!) frustrating!!!!!!.............it took a long time but i finally got there!
we were all close to 300 lbs and pretty strong (had a blast working in niteclubs with fights etc )
but with guys like Paul DEmayo,Mike Matatrazzo in the gym we were always motivated to be better (we actually used to travel to go to the gyms with these guys for motivation) it was a great time in my life!
i thought we would always be friends/training partners ...........now both of them don't even work out/go to a gym (one is addicted to drugs the other is fat and his wife bosses him around like a lil bitch)
for awhile tho we were "Kings Of The World!"                           :)

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #46 on: September 29, 2008, 09:34:47 AM »

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #48 on: September 29, 2008, 09:57:33 AM »
you should grow your hair again Mike, you looked like a real stud back then.

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Re: Friends and training partners..........
« Reply #49 on: September 29, 2008, 10:04:35 AM »
you should grow your hair again Mike, you looked like a real stud back then.

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