I realize that there is another spot to place this LARRY SCOTT topic but since I first met Larry on the Santa Monica Beach (the former Muscle Beach), I’ll place it here.
It was sometime during the early 60’s while I was stationed at Pendleton and happened to be in the LA area with a side trip to the beach and ran into Larry who was taking a day off and getting a sun-tan while talking to some of his friends.
That first meeting was just a casual “Hello. How ya doing?”, but our paths were to cross on many different occasions during both our lifetimes.
I worked with Larry during a couple of his seminars and have to admit that he offered the best bodybuilding seminars I’ve had the opportunity to attend or to participate in.
Larry would start off with a brief introduction and then ask the audience to ask questions which he would then proceed to write on a blackboard resulting in something similar to the following ….
DIET
TRAINING
CONTEST PREP
SUPPLEMENTS
STEROIDS
JOE WEIDER
VINCE GIRONDA
ETC.
ETC,
ETC.
Once the questions were complete he’d start at the top and discuss each topic in great detail.
The “JOE WEIDER” question always arose because at that time there was some problem between Joe and Larry, but Larry would discuss the subject with a great amount of respect.
(Does anyone recall what that problem was? I have forgotten long ago.)
When discussing “VINCE’… it always centered about leg training techniques as Vince believed that heavy squats were not beneficial.
So Larry would train elsewhere on ‘leg day’.
At the end of each seminar Larry would offer to answer individual questions if anyone wished to stay for the next half hour or so.
I may be wrong here, but I think it was Larry who initiated the off season, bulk-up phase in which he would increase his body-weight substantially and then go into a pre-contest phase 12 weeks before the contest date.
Does anyone recall what Larry’s heaviest bodywt happened to be?
RIP, Larry