Author Topic: Friends and training partners.......... (Read 22752 times)

I got this car after i sold the Roadrunner (and kept it 15 yrs )
1968 SS CAMARO big block 396 (CA title car, i had the car painted twice and replaced the entire nose/door skins but the rear quarters and all the floor boards were "cherry" without even a hint of rust on them)
had "line-lock" 373 read end gears,4 speed munice "stone crusher",engine was bored .60 over 11 and a half to one commpression etc etc
pulled high 12's low 13's in the quarter mile

i sold it for 6 grand lol .........it's worth ten times that now

michael arvilla · « **Reply #57 on:** September 30, 2008, 10:10:22 AM »

Here is a picture of me (in highschool around 18 yrs old) on the boulevard in Gloucester Mass sitting on the trunk of my 1973 Plymouth Road Runner (340 "six-pack",pistol grip shifter),from the right that's me,my girlfriend (lol my first girlfriend ever!)and my friend and her cousin George) ..........lonnggg time ago

knny187 · « **Reply #58 on:** September 30, 2008, 10:23:13 AM »

Mike, you have long arms/limbs. Thats why you always had a harder time. Your friend was just lucky.

michael arvilla · « **Reply #59 on:** September 30, 2008, 01:21:52 PM »

Quote from: knny187 on September 30, 2008, 10:23:13 AM

Mike, you have long arms/limbs. Thats why you always had a harder time. Your friend was just lucky.

yea..............i always thought tho if i worked twice as hard (trained harder/dieted harder just worked harder in general) i could equal or surpass him ......that's not the case/superior genetics will always win in the end

(kinna disillusioned me,it was more what you were born with...rather than whoever works the hardest wins!)

i remember one time Chris said to me "if it was who works/trains the hardest Mike you would be MR OLYMPIA",........................another thing i heard a lot back then from guys in the gym
"Why are you training so hard Mike? it's not like you are getting ready for a show"
"your never going to be a great bodybuilder stop killing yourself"

QuakerOats · « **Reply #60 on:** September 30, 2008, 01:27:13 PM »

one of the best threads on here in a long time, awesome stuff Mike.

michael arvilla · « **Reply #61 on:** September 30, 2008, 01:33:19 PM »

Quote from: QuakerOats on September 30, 2008, 01:27:13 PM

one of the best threads on here in a long time, awesome stuff Mike.

Thx Dave!!!....................

Camel Jockey · « **Reply #62 on:** September 30, 2008, 01:52:21 PM »

Quote from: michael arvilla on September 28, 2008, 02:53:49 PM

Here is a pic of me from college (around 1986 -87 dressed up for halloween)
clearly my superior bodybuilding genetics are on full display!

The coke and Budweiser stack

Thanks for sharing, Mike.

michael arvilla · « **Reply #63 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:02:44 PM »

Quote from: Camel Jockey on September 30, 2008, 01:52:21 PM

The coke and Budweiser stack

Thanks for sharing, Mike.

n/p i highly reccomend it!! (for fun lol)

Laura Lee · « **Reply #64 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:13:27 PM »

Quote from: Mars on September 30, 2008, 09:55:07 AM

thats not you.

Actually it is him, Mars.

Permabulker · « **Reply #65 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:18:17 PM »

Quote from: Laura Lee on September 30, 2008, 02:13:27 PM

Actually it is him, Mars.

Hahahahah! Its the picture she used to identify the girlfriend ...

When she hunted her down and killed her! J/K

michael arvilla · « **Reply #66 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:18:21 PM »

come on..................how could that not be me!

Laura Lee · « **Reply #67 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:25:50 PM »

Quote from: michael arvilla on September 30, 2008, 02:18:21 PM

come on..................how could that not be me!

I thought he was talking about your video at the top of the page.

Edit (I can't type today, lol)

michael arvilla · « **Reply #68 on:** September 30, 2008, 03:22:35 PM »

Quote from: Laura Lee on September 30, 2008, 02:25:50 PM

He thought was talking about your video at the top of the page.

oh....................ga ve me an excuse to post that pic again! (i thought that picture was lost forever!/at the time that pic ran on the front page of our local paper,i was such a delinquent i didn't even save it,my friend had it tacked up to a cork board in his house,after about 10 years i took it down and put it somewhere until my sister just found it recently)
soo many good times memories/some of the guys in my area/gym included Fred Bigot and Craig Licker...you guys ever heard of them?

one time i was in an "NPC" tank -top at my gym when Paul DEmayo took his T-michael off and started hitting some "shots" in the mirror
i threw my shirt back on soooo fast my friends were cracking up!
i felt like i had never touched a weight in my life when i saw that

kimura · « **Reply #69 on:** September 30, 2008, 04:08:11 PM »

Quote from: QuakerOats on September 30, 2008, 01:27:13 PM

one of the best threads on here in a long time, awesome stuff Mike.

I agree.

Mike we must have crossed paths at one time or another. I grew up in Arlington, but I trained at World's in Somerville, Gold's in Everett, and Nautilus in Revere from 89 to 96. You must know Eric Canisco (sic?), Matt Mclaughlin, and Kevin McGaunn.

DOGGCRAPP · « **Reply #70 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:00:24 PM »

Kevin Mcgaunn---great physique....later went on to tear both quads badly..... he used to train from time to time with my old training partner Donnie Lemiuex (2 time Mr Massachusetts)....

Mcglaughlin---very sad story there....

Permabulker · « **Reply #71 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:03:18 PM »

Great thread Mike.

kimura · « **Reply #72 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:10:28 PM »

Quote from: DOGGCRAPP on September 30, 2008, 05:00:24 PM

Mcglaughlin---very sad story there....

yeah - what a shame. At 19 years old, he had killer wheels. He use to date this blonde stripper with dreadlocks. She was insane.

michael arvilla · « **Reply #73 on:** September 30, 2008, 06:13:22 PM »

Quote from: kimura on September 30, 2008, 04:08:11 PM

I agree.

Mike we must have crossed paths at one time or another. I grew up in Arlington, but I trained at World's in Somerville, Gold's in Everett, and Nautilus in Revere from 89 to 96. You must know Eric Canisco (sic?), Matt Mclaughlin, and Kevin McGaunn.

i am./was good friends with Matt Mclaughlin ...............Kevin McGaunn also (he managed Jimmy Decotis's Gyms/nautilus plus danvers where i also trained)
Worlds Somervilla was Pat Catino's gym .............(i got to know pat when i was working/bouncing at The Palace in saugus)
is it Eric Caswell?

(i worked with him at Tantra in saugus/after-hours club and Caruso's Diplomat)

michael arvilla · « **Reply #74 on:** September 30, 2008, 06:16:00 PM »

Quote from: kimura on September 30, 2008, 05:10:28 PM

yeah - what a shame. At 19 years old, he had killer wheels. He use to date this blonde stripper with dreadlocks. She was insane.

Lisa ........................ lol!! (Lisa and i were very good friends for many years,she used to bang Nassar and Stripped at The Squire) Lisa Chiloni ("Venice)