I trained from age 12 until 6 months ago at age 72 when arthritis finaly nailed me. I have trained with Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, a dozen others and most recently Troy Alves. All champions sharing similar diciplines, good/bad habits, goals and love for Bodybuilding. Each and every man had his own dietary oddity, unique sets/reps/time in gym. Some men smoked like a forest fire, some loved booze, others pot and a lot snorted cocaine. In the mid 50s on it was rare to find a major Bodybuilder who did not secretly use Ciba Labs little blue pill...Dbol. I have watched so called natural men nearly blow out their kidneys taking 3-500+ gms. daily of protein. I watched one 'natural' champion drink a liquid protein drink evey hour in addition to his 3 squares. Had to be 750 grams. I have seen men with several dozen bottles of specific aminos which they took a prescribed time of the day, night. Alarms were set at late sleeping hours for Arginine and or other aminos. Crazy you say? Its something about the champs. Driven, chance taking, experimental. Yes there is that rare DNA exception. Rare.
I myself, a former alcoholic/adict, do not condone drugs of any sort unless they are for life exention or post surgery pain reduction. I do accept and love the wild and crazy champs of yester year and their little foibles/secrets, but less the idiots who waddle their gorilla belly physiques on to todays stage and who use HGH and insulin. I do like the look of most 212s who compete today....Troy Alves and his 29" waist is my fav.
