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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Bluto on July 13, 2007, 09:18:41 AM
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by Lou Schuler
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I remember sitting in a theater in 1976, watching Rocky soon after it came out. The theater was packed. There's a scene where Rocky, played by Stallone, is trying to seduce Adrian, played by a famous director's younger sister. Stallone pulls off his sweater, and you could hear a gasp from the audience, the women as well as the men. Stallone was wearing a wife-beater underneath the sweater, and his muscles were soft and smooth, compared to the sliced-and-diced flesh he would display in subsequent movies. But still, by bicentennial standards, he was a specimen. And everyone noticed.
I can't prove that Stallone's delts kick-started the strength-training craze of the '80s and '90s. To my knowledge, nobody was even keeping track of exercise trends back then. But I do know it was the height of the running boom, and you never had to wait to use a bench in your local gym. Within a few years, there were more gyms, bigger gyms, and no such thing as an uninterrupted workout at any of them.
Sure, Stallone was never half the muscle icon Schwarzenegger was, which is why Arnold is #1 on this list and Sly is #9. And we'd probably all agree that the bigger Stallone got, the worse his movies became.
But I can't shake the idea that a lot of people sitting in that audience in 1976 started thinking about muscles for the first time after seeing the Stallion in his wife-beater. The women couldn't help but notice how a few pounds of contractile tissue profoundly improved a man's reproductive suitability, and the men couldn't help but notice the reaction of the women.
Whether it's correlation or coincidence, a lot of people who saw that movie in 1976 started working out with weights soon after.
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I remember that screen shot of him in that pose became a real big selling poster at that time too. No, I didn't have one, I was more of a Leif Garret guy.
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I remember thinkng that scene was total bs. He looked like he smelled so rank, any woman would have run straight out the door, even a four-eyed retard.
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To bad he got busted in Sydney by Australian Customs the toughest in the world, he got done with about 20 vials of HGH he left the country soon after but his lawyer on his behalf recieved the penalty and Sly was fined 22000 thousand dollars.I got a huge boxfull of mexican steroids about 3and half years ago how he brought them in is beyond me because Australian Customs can sniff a single Anadrol tablet out of a dogs arse.
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well australia is at the end of the world so why anyone wanna go there is beyond me
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well Australia is at the end of the world so why anyone wanna go there is beyond me
Try beautiful country very good food amazing spectacular scenery idyllic lakes and breathtaking structures and (her is the best) a long and outstanding history..
Oh you were talking about Australia I meant Austria ;D...yeah fuck it the country is a desert with worlds most feared and ruthless prisoners as relatives.
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well australia is at the end of the world so why anyone wanna go there is beyond me
I've been here for several years now. When I have an answer for you, I'll let you know.
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Try beautiful country very good food amazing spectacular scenery idyllic lakes and breathtaking structures and (her is the best) a long and outstanding history..
Oh you were talking about Australia I meant Austria ;D...yeah fuck it the country is a desert with worlds most feared and ruthless prisoners as relatives.
Yeah the first immigrants to Australia were Convicts
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I've been here for several years now. When I have an answer for you, I'll let you know.
Hey If I would come over to Australia would you sponsor me?
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Hey If I would come over to Australia would you sponsor me?
All the Muscletech you want bro!
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He was never really a musclehead, given that other movies around the time of Rocky included Mandingo with Ken Norton, Apollo in Rocky, and various blaxploitation movies with Jim Brown to name a few legit guys.
As far as his influence on working out, i worked out then and it never occurred to me to consider him as a legit good physique. Just wasn't there.
Just a regular guy with a decent physique, later heavily altered to make a regular guy look athletic and lean through monies expended on the LA trainer approach, lots of free time & drugs. The lack of a great physique didn't matter because the Rocky story was predictable but popular with some. A big part of the appeal of the original Rocky was that physically he didn't stack up with Apollo.
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by Lou Schuler
(http://www.t-nation.com/img/photos/06-203-feature/image013.jpg)
I remember sitting in a theater in 1976, watching Rocky soon after it came out. The theater was packed. There's a scene where Rocky, played by Stallone, is trying to seduce Adrian, played by a famous director's younger sister. Stallone pulls off his sweater, and you could hear a gasp from the audience, the women as well as the men. Stallone was wearing a wife-beater underneath the sweater, and his muscles were soft and smooth, compared to the sliced-and-diced flesh he would display in subsequent movies. But still, by bicentennial standards, he was a specimen. And everyone noticed.
I can't prove that Stallone's delts kick-started the strength-training craze of the '80s and '90s. To my knowledge, nobody was even keeping track of exercise trends back then. But I do know it was the height of the running boom, and you never had to wait to use a bench in your local gym. Within a few years, there were more gyms, bigger gyms, and no such thing as an uninterrupted workout at any of them.
Sure, Stallone was never half the muscle icon Schwarzenegger was, which is why Arnold is #1 on this list and Sly is #9. And we'd probably all agree that the bigger Stallone got, the worse his movies became.
But I can't shake the idea that a lot of people sitting in that audience in 1976 started thinking about muscles for the first time after seeing the Stallion in his wife-beater. The women couldn't help but notice how a few pounds of contractile tissue profoundly improved a man's reproductive suitability, and the men couldn't help but notice the reaction of the women.
Whether it's correlation or coincidence, a lot of people who saw that movie in 1976 started working out with weights soon after.
ummmmm.....That's not a picture of Stallone.
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ummmmm.....That's not a picture of Stallone.
I wondered if anyone else noticed that. ;D
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After viewing "Lords of Flatbush" back in 1974 I began raising pigeons on my roof.....
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brutal 11" arms
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He's got nothing on this guy. ;D
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Hey If I would come over to Australia would you sponsor me?
Saving my money for Amsterdam next year for the Motorcycle Dutch TT Sorry
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ummmmm.....That's not a picture of Stallone.
what took you guys so long
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what took you guys so long
As if you knew ???
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what took you guys so long
Dammit >:(
You're not gonna do the crying game next are ya mate?
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As if you knew ???
both pic and text was cut and paste