Year: 2023

Lou Ferrigno on his first trip to California in 1976 for a paid guest posing exhibition: As soon as the plane touched down in California, I knew that this was where I wanted to be. […]

Arnold experienced three losses in his bodybuilding career, securing second place each time. At the age of 19, he placed second to 26-year-old Chet Yorton in the 1966 NABBA Mr. Universe in London. In 1968, […]

Publisher Robert Kennedy on Serge Nubret, from Hardcore Bodybuilding, published in 1983: Serge Nubret has a unique way of training. At one time he trained very heavily and could curl over 240 pounds and bench […]

Rachel McLish’s Posing Insights: A Quote from ‘Pumping Iron 2: The Unprecedented Woman’ by Gaines and Butler I really don’t enjoy posing that much. I’d rather give a bodybuilding seminar instead of doing a guest […]

In 1970, Arnold Schwarzenegger reached the pinnacle of bodybuilding. In just about two weeks, he triumphed in the most prestigious contests held by the top three bodybuilding federations. His foremost victory was securing the NABBA […]

In the event that Arnold Schwarzenegger had chosen not to initially retire in 1975, one may muse over the prospective sum of consecutive Mr. Olympia titles he could have garnered prior to his inevitable encounter […]

Frank Zane on Preventing Injuries It was two weeks before the 1974 Mr. Olympia competition and I was training furiously to get as “cut up” as possible. Returning home after my workout, I noticed that […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Steve Reeves: I still think that Steve Reeves was the greatest of all time because the beauty he had and the body and all that stuff. It’s just like in the old […]

Lou Ferrigno from “Lou Ferrigno’s Guide to Personal Power, Bodybuilding, and Fitness”. I’d just gotten a new bicycle from my grandfather, and several neighborhood toughs had encircled me and were pushing and punching me, trying […]

When analyzing Gunnar Rosbo’s forearm development versus Ramon Dino’s, it’s hard not to take their respective frame sizes into account. Dino’s height is given as 5’11”, and Rosbo’s was 6’2″. But Rosbo looks like a […]