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What was it that caused you to start bodybuilding?
For me, it was gymnastics. I started gymnastics when I was young and excelled at trampoline. I became so good I they transferred me to a more advanced gym. I followed Olympic gymnastics and was always impressed by the build of the gymnasts. Around this time I saw the movie Rocky on television and my parents gave me an old weight set my grandfather had. Training arms was my specialty and one of my friends at the time had some incredible peaked biceps which became my target.
In junior high I was always good at the presidential physical fitness challenge which included how many pushups, sit ups, and pull ups you could do. That junior high also had a Steve Reeves Universal multi-station machine like the one shown below. It had a leg press, which is not shown in the picture. This started my fondness for machine training.
My Sophomore year of high school I ran cross country, which is a three mile race. While cross country runners may not have upper body development, their legs are usually great. Our coach would have us run hills repeatedly the day before a race. Our team didn't do so well on the race the next day, but we excelled later because of it. All the hot soccer girls would run cross country too and the male and female teams were combined. My friend was into Lora baby and I was into Heather a cute blonde.
Dave Palumbo was also a runner before he started bodybuilding and he was known for his legs. I can still stretch my legs without even thinking about it and my mind muscle connection with my legs comes from running.
Skip to my senior year in high school and I got a membership to a gym which I went to five days a week after school. I was probably over training out of ignorance of recovery time.
What's your story?
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I was a fat kid. Not crazy fat, but a 36-38" waist at #200 or so. Tried to thin out with regular sports and aerobics, but couldn't find anything I liked doing. One day I was over at a friends house and started looking through some mags he had laying around (they were mostly MM2ks), borrowed a few, and the rest is history.
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Kid brought in Franco's book in 7th grade (1978), went home and starting lifting like crazy (Dad had weights).
The bicep on the cover blew my mind.
Haven't stopped training since... :D
(https://i.thenile.io/r1000/9781945630163.jpg?r=5ee13b86dc7f3)
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It was probably Van Damme, Arnold, and Sly.
If you were the right age, those action heroes really set the stage for what teens wanted to look like.
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It was probably Van Damme, Arnold, and Sly.
If you were the right age, those action heroes really set the stage for what teens wanted to look like.
Have you gotten there yet with that
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Have you gotten there yet with that
I look more like Steven Seagal. It's a start.
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(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQo-si3uHSBnDNElxrmBAwO24xh0q2ZfNyAPg&usqp=CAU)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvoEuDyUcv3loaCEk_9GlHIGJ-pIIgV9t_MUf6b9-7GpZ6oGqYgaUP4VAevyNRQRr502U&usqp=CAU)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmVzI8FGx1jB2EZ8bVN79eXO5-eoz4gRcKEi-85hlBprrWmWqkfOeqenBQL6IpGAOMBUs&usqp=CAU)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwrUtiZANnoZ7zP61kDfYVNxvR7dsLZ2_WsMp5zmLKxGFThVEHB_Nv2opkVK6SfeB7orE&usqp=CAU)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjMdxpOsjq_lHXecE9N4K4LvN_emNVpHOyRg&usqp=CAU)
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Old Arnold and Stallone movies also the Incredible Hulk series.
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All the schmoes on here got me into bodybuilding. I'm doing it for you guys!
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used to like the physiques of Superheros in the comics
Captain America and Daredevil were big enough
Hulk and Thor too big
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Frank Frazetta cover art. I read some of the early Conan paperbacks in the 70's as a kid. Then I got the Pumping Iron book ( still got it)
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A cover of Frank Zane sometime in the 90s in London. Just surfed and skated before that, I didn't ever think of lifting. Still my goal physique, and I am nowhere close.
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Rocky movies, particularly 2 and 3.
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The incredible hulk TV series, he-man, commando, GI Joe toys, superheroes in general, seeing my uncle's muscle magazines
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My ego.
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My ego.
Bro...
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Bro...
Brutal if true.
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Kid brought in Franco's book in 7th grade (1978), went home and starting lifting like crazy (Dad had weights).
The bicep on the cover blew my mind.
Haven't stopped training since... :D
Me and a friend (who still owns the local gym I go to today 44 years later) pooled our weights together and lifted together. (12 yr old kids).
I then asked for Xmas for more weights and a bench (we were using makeshift stuff, saw horses, a yard bench seat, etc).
I then fashioned pulleys to the rafters for lats and tricep press-downs.
Been improving my home-gym since that day.
Three 110 lb. sets, pulleys, typical cheap bench, and I had a hollow curl-bar and tricep bar.
Also a speed bag and heavy bag.
Wish I had pics of it, it was pretty funny.
Great for the times though, and great memories.
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What was it that caused you to start bodybuilding?
For me, it was gymnastics. I started gymnastics when I was young and excelled at trampoline. I became so good I they transferred me to a more advanced gym. I followed Olympic gymnastics and was always impressed by the build of the gymnasts. Around this time I saw the movie Rocky on television and my parents gave me an old weight set my grandfather had. Training arms was my specialty and one of my friends at the time had some incredible peaked biceps which became my target.
In junior high I was always good at the presidential physical fitness challenge which included how many pushups, sit ups, and pull ups you could do. That junior high also had a old Marcy/universal style multi-station machine like the one shown below. It had a leg press, which is not shown in the picture. This started my fondness for machine training.
My Sophomore year of high school I ran cross country, which is a three mile race. While cross country runners may not have upper body development, their legs are usually great. Our coach would have us run hills repeatedly the day before a race. Our team didn't do so well on the race the next day, but we excelled later because of it. All the hot soccer girls would run cross country too and the male and female teams were combined. My friend was into Lora baby and I was into Heather a cute blonde.
Dave Palumbo was also a runner before he started bodybuilding and he was known for his legs. I can still stretch my legs without even thinking about it and my mind muscle connection with my legs comes from running.
Skip to my senior year in high school and I got a membership to a gym which I went to five days a week after school. I was probably over training out of ignorance of recovery time.
What's your story?
&t=440s that looks like steve reeves personal universal machine.
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Brutal of true.
My nikka
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used to like the physiques of Superheros in the comics
Captain America and Daredevil were big enough
Hulk and Thor too big
This except it was 80-90s wwf wrestling
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that looks like steve reeves personal universal machine.
Thanks Funk, that's the one.
I really liked the leg press. It was my first realization you could train your legs in the same way you train your upper body and it felt so right. The seat was comfortable and the handles were in the right place, all the ergonomics were correct. You could adjust the seat based on your height it was easy to adjust the weight. It was an epiphany for me on how to train with machines. I was hooked. The only problem was we only got to use this equipment a few times, but it planted the seed in my head.
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When I was a teenager, I was the epitome of the 98 lb. weakling. A friend of my parents who was in his early 30’s was a bodybuilder. He always went swimming in our pool when my parents invited him to barbecues. His physique was head turning… especially the heads of the middle-aged women at the party.
One time he invited me to join him at Vic Tanny’s gym in Reseda, CA and showed me a few basic exercises. After ‘working out’ he took me to lunch at a nearby Sizzler restaurant. We both had steaks… what else would a bodybuilder back then eat for lunch?
Walt invited me to attend a local bodybuilding competition. I was hooked. Been training ever since then.
When I was in my 20’s and we’d moved back to California, I trained with Walt at his home gym in his garage three times a week. It was great. -Never reached his level of development. He was my inspiration.
Anyone old enough to remember the Charles Atlas adds in the back of comic books?
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1fBjzfMGs9PqOp8pKjjFZwHaK9?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Vic Tanny's Gym... I don't remember it only being who were women working out.
(https://fitnessvolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Vic-Tannys-Bodybuilding-Gym.jpg)
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When I was a teenager, I was the epitome of the 90 lb. weakling. A friend of my parents who was in his early 30’s was a bodybuilder. He always went swimming in our pool when my parents invited him to barbecues. His physique was head turning… especially the heads of the middle-aged women at the party.
One time he invited me to join him at Vic Tanny’s gym in Reseda, CA and showed me a few basic exercises. After ‘working out’ he took me to lunch at a nearby Sizzler restaurant. We both had steaks… what else would a bodybuilder back then eat for lunch?
Walt invited me to attend a local bodybuilding competition. I was hooked. Been training ever since then.
When I was in my 20’s and we’d moved back to California, I trained with Walt at his home gym in his garage three times a week. It was great. -Never reached his level of development. He was my inspiration.
Anyone old enough to remember the Charles Atlas adds in the back of comic books?
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1fBjzfMGs9PqOp8pKjjFZwHaK9?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Vic Tanny's Gym... I don't remember it only being who were women working out.
https://fitnessvolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Vic-Tannys-Bodybuilding-Gym.jpg
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(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=679680.0;attach=1379031;image)
Which is why you look like you do. You shut the door to the gym and stuffed your gut instead.
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Which is why you look like you do. You shut the door to the gym and ate too much food instead.
Damn Prime! Getting frisky in your old age. Getbig has rubbed one off on you.
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Damn Prime! Getting frisky in your old age. Getbig has rubbed one off on you.
That baby GIF is freaking hilarious...
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I started lifting at 14 for sports. They noticed i had naturally strong legs, so they pushed me to train 3-4 days a week.
Trained for football all through high school. I wasn't good enough to start, but i played second string WR and Safety, just because i could run fast and catch.
I went to a Texas football powerhouse school, we won state championships.
I wasn't that big, only 165 pounds my senior year, we had some monsters on the team.
So, me and the other backups would work out like crazy.
After high school i started competing in Olympic weightlifting for 3 years and did really well.
Then competed in a BBing contest at 21 years old, hated it.
Then competed in powerlifting for 7 years.
Decided the injuries were not worth it so back to BBing.
Like everyone else, Arnold was the one.
And we used to joke about how we wanted to look like JCVD.
Now i just lift weights to stay in shape, no point pushing the envelope in my 40's.
I look and feel great, that's what matters today.
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I started lifting at 14 for sports. They noticed i had naturally strong legs, so they pushed me to train 3-4 days a week.
Trained for football all through high school. I wasn't good enough to start, but i played second string WR and Safety, just because i could run fast and catch.
I went to a Texas football powerhouse school, we won state championships.
I wasn't that big, only 165 pounds my senior year, we had some monsters on the team.
So, me and the other backups would work out like crazy.
After high school i started competing in Olympic weightlifting for 3 years and did really well.
Then competed in a BBing contest at 21 years old, hated it.
Then competed in powerlifting for 7 years.
Decided the injuries were not worth it so back to BBing.
Like everyone else, Arnold was the one.
And we used to joke about how we wanted to look like JCVD.
Now i just lift weights to stay in shape, no point pushing the envelope in my 40's.
I look and feel great, that's what matters today.
Very cool TIO!
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Comic book super heroes. They really do influence young boys which is probably why they are creating gay super heroes now.
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Comic book super heroes. They really do influence young boys which is probably why they are creating gay super heroes now.
Not sure I would have prefered Captain Americas physique if he was getting buttfucked in the comics
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Being bullied as a kid
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Being bullied as a kid
What's changed? You are bullied as an adult.
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It all started the first time somebody called me “Jew boy”. Not being Jewish, I took great offense to this. I rode off on my rusty-fendered bike shouting, “I’ll show you Catholics that you’re the ones who are no good!”
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It all started the first time somebody called me “Jew boy”. Not being Jewish, I took great offense to this. I rode off on my rusty-fendered bike shouting, “I’ll show you Catholics that you’re the ones who are no good!”
Exactly. See, you can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things....it's going to roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the type of person...uh... who's the type of dog that....that...uh... Alright, say I'm a dog. I know I'm not really a dog but pretend. Let me start over. I'm a cat. Pretend I'm a cat----
Directot: Cut!
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Exactly. See, you can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things....it's going to roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the type of person...uh... who's the type of dog that....that...uh... Alright, say I'm a dog. I know I'm not really a dog but pretend. Let me start over. I'm a cat. Pretend I'm a cat----
Directot: Cut!
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It all started the first time somebody called me “Jew boy”. Not being Jewish, I took great offense to this. I rode off on my rusty-fendered bike shouting, “I’ll show you Catholics that you’re the ones who are no good!”
Excellent. This is why Getbig pays you big money.
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It all started the first time somebody called me “Jew boy”. Not being Jewish, I took great offense to this. I rode off on my rusty-fendered bike shouting, “I’ll show you Catholics that you’re the ones who are no good!”
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I red some DC comics in middle school, immediately hooked up with those muscle images. I went to store bought a pair of 10 lbs dumbbells, which led to my pro card after 26 years.
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Big arms. I’m not a bodybuilder just a guy who has always loved big arms so basically all my workouts are geared toward making my arms bigger. Honestly couldn’t careless what the rest of me looks like.
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when I was 8, I saw the first Steve Reeves' Hercules movie in the theatre next birthday I asked for and got a 70 lb golden billard set. I did presses , rows and curls for a few months. when I went to high school I played football and destroyed my leg was in a cast for a year., that started me lifting weights again to try to come back from the injury. during that time I realized I liked lifting weights more than playing team sports. I've been at it ever since, for better or worse till death do us { the iron ] part.
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Exactly. See, you can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things....it's going to roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the type of person...uh... who's the type of dog that....that...uh... Alright, say I'm a dog. I know I'm not really a dog but pretend. Let me start over. I'm a cat. Pretend I'm a cat----
Directot: Cut!
Legit lol’d! ;D
Excellent. This is why Getbig pays you big money.
I honestly wish this was a career choice. I’d probably already be retired with Taffin arguing about who gets to wear the Golden Thong today
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Not sure I would have prefered Captain Americas physique if he was getting buttfucked in the comics
:D Or Ironman sucking a big dick.
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It was probably Van Damme, Arnold, and Sly.
If you were the right age, those action heroes really set the stage for what teens wanted to look like.
It was a combination of watching Bloodsport as a kid and being obsessed with WWF and the Ultimate Warrior in particular. I also met Lou Ferrigno as a kid in 1992 (still owe my old man $20 to this day for the pic), and that had a huge impact on me as well.
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It was a combination of watching Bloodsport as a kid and being obsessed with WWF and the Ultimate Warrior in particular. I also met Lou Ferrigno as a kid in 1992 (still owe my old man $20 to this day for the pic), and that had a huge impact on me as well.
I believe it. I don't think Lou would give a discount, even to his own son.
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It was a combination of watching Bloodsport as a kid and being obsessed with WWF and the Ultimate Warrior in particular. I also met Lou Ferrigno as a kid in 1992 (still owe my old man $20 to this day for the pic), and that had a huge impact on me as well.
My WWF guy was young Tony “Mr. USA” Atlas. I couldn’t believe anybody could have arms like that.
I was maybe 12 at the time telling my mother that I wanted to look like Tony.
To which my mother responded “He’s Black!”😂
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I red some DC comics in middle school, immediately hooked up with those muscle images. I went to store bought a pair of 10 lbs dumbbells, which led to my pro card after 26 years.
This proves using very light weight does build muscle but very, very s-l-o-w-l-y.
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I watched Commando one too many times around 12/13 and I wanted to look like Arnold.
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My late dad got me into boxing when I was 11; the same year my dad got sick. Had to get a job at 15 as the oldest child. Dad died at 17 and I started lifting to get my aggression out. Then bodybuilding , competing, etc.
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I red some DC comics in middle school, immediately hooked up with those muscle images. I went to store bought a pair of 10 lbs dumbbells, which led to my pro card after 26 years.
Do you still train with 10lb dumbbells? ;D
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What was it that caused you to start bodybuilding?
For me, it was gymnastics. I started gymnastics when I was young and excelled at trampoline. I became so good I they transferred me to a more advanced gym. I followed Olympic gymnastics and was always impressed by the build of the gymnasts. Around this time I saw the movie Rocky on television and my parents gave me an old weight set my grandfather had. Training arms was my specialty and one of my friends at the time had some incredible peaked biceps which became my target.
In junior high I was always good at the presidential physical fitness challenge which included how many pushups, sit ups, and pull ups you could do. That junior high also had a Steve Reeves Universal multi-station machine like the one shown below. It had a leg press, which is not shown in the picture. This started my fondness for machine training.
My Sophomore year of high school I ran cross country, which is a three mile race. While cross country runners may not have upper body development, their legs are usually great. Our coach would have us run hills repeatedly the day before a race. Our team didn't do so well on the race the next day, but we excelled later because of it. All the hot soccer girls would run cross country too and the male and female teams were combined. My friend was into Lora baby and I was into Heather a cute blonde.
Dave Palumbo was also a runner before he started bodybuilding and he was known for his legs. I can still stretch my legs without even thinking about it and my mind muscle connection with my legs comes from running.
Skip to my senior year in high school and I got a membership to a gym which I went to five days a week after school. I was probably over training out of ignorance of recovery time.
What's your story?
I didn't always have cable when I was a kid. And there was no bodybuilding on regular TV. So, the programs that had guys with muscular physiques was pro wrestling.
And my high school had that Universal multi-station thing. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, in terms of exercise equipment, until I went to my first commercial gym.
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I didn't always have cable when I was a kid. And there was no bodybuilding on regular TV. So, the programs that had guys with muscular physiques was pro wrestling.
And my high school had that Universal multi-station thing. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, in terms of exercise equipment, until I went to my first commercial gym.
I was a kid back in the dark ages, almost literally. Not only was there no cable but before I was 8 years old, I don't think I ever watched television. The first TVs were in black and white with tiny screens and if you were lucky, maybe three channels to choose from, all of which didn’t broadcast during the wee hours of the day. Today the choices of what to watch are infinite.
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Non-anatomically correct GI Joe action figures, toxic masculinity action movies, and muscle magazines in the grocery store.
Then I noticed all the attention I was getting from all the guys asking me what I bench and disgusted looks from women….so I was hooked at that point, lol.
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I honestly wish this was a career choice. I’d probably already be retired with Taffin arguing about who gets to wear the Golden Thong today
I'm just keeping it warm (and soiled) for you, Brah 8)
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As for Palumboism's question: For me, it was kind of a sequence of events
I was always drawn to the muscle mags in the early '80s, and the Marvel/DC comics with their super-muscular heroes also must have struck some kind of chord - subconsciously, I guess - as I had no intention of training or anything at that time (teens)
But being 6'1" I strained my back one day, and a friend took me to the local YMCA and had me doing good mornings, hyper-extensions, ab-work, general core stuff. He was doing what he explained to me as Olympic lifts, but that looked like hard work(!) I stuck at it though, going 2 or 3 times a week. Then I saw this film - and I got fixated on this physique
(http://i.postimg.cc/jdZTYRhW/Dolph-He-Man.jpg)
:P
Told my friend, and after he'd finishing laughing his ass off he put me on a M-W-F push-pull sort of split, and that was it!
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I'm just keeping it warm (and soiled) for you, Brah 8)
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As for Palumboism's question: For me, it was kind of a sequence of events
I was always drawn to the muscle mags in the early '80s, and the Marvel/DC comics with their super-muscular heroes also must have struck some kind of chord - subconsciously, I guess - as I had no intention of training or anything at that time (teens)
But being 6'1" I strained my back one day, and a friend took me to the local YMCA and had me doing good mornings, hyper-extensions, ab-work, general core stuff. He was doing what he explained to me as Olympic lifts, but that looked like hard work(!) I stuck at it though, going 2 or 3 times a week. Then I saw this film - and I got fixated on this physique
(http://i.postimg.cc/jdZTYRhW/Dolph-He-Man.jpg)
:P
Told my friend, and after he'd finishing laughing his ass off he put me on a M-W-F push-pull sort of split, and that was it!
lmao!
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It was probably Van Damme, Arnold, and Sly.
If you were the right age, those action heroes really set the stage for what teens wanted to look like.
I thought you were inspired by Slimer from Ghostbusters?