Runboard.com
Слава Україні!

runboard.com       Sign up (learn about it) | Sign in (lost password?)

Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6 

 
mothom Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 8495
Karma: 5 (+9/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


the mr. O build is superior in that in the jungle, if a wild beast comes after the mr. O guy, all the guy has to do is strip down and go thru his posing routine and the animal will either die laughing or lose its appetite! emoticon
10/12/2009, 3:50 am Link to this post Send Email to mothom   Send PM to mothom Blog
 
mightymouse1974 Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Head Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 932
Karma: 0 (+0/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


quote:

RPR wrote:

The Navy SEALs quit weight training years ago because it really doesn't create the type of functional strength they need to do their job. It's all body weight, swimming, and running.



That's right. The only things they lift now, are their rafts and the 600 lb. logs they use to exercise with, as they are not balanced and create functional strength because of all of the stabilizer muscles that are developed by lifting them. The strongest guys in the world have always been heavy manual laborers, the same typs of guys that are still around in Eastern Bloc countries, that have not become automized and are still doing it like the coal miners, farmers, steel workers, dock workers, rail road workers, etc. did here back in the early to mid 20th century. That is raw, functional strength that beats the crap out of weightlifting strength any day of the week. That type of strength is scary!

10/18/2009, 5:19 pm Link to this post Send Email to mightymouse1974   Send PM to mightymouse1974
 
mothom Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 8495
Karma: 5 (+9/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


i read the other day that steve reeves didn't do ab work. that explains his 29 inch waist.
4/14/2010, 4:50 am Link to this post Send Email to mothom   Send PM to mothom Blog
 
RPR Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 07-2009
Posts: 4325
Karma: 1 (+5/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


He did crunches, but no work for the obliques to get the thin waist for the V look. All the old timers did complete ab work which is why they they looked thicker in the waist. Reeves was a true body sculptor. He knew how he wanted to look, according tho the Greek ideal, and built himself for that.
4/14/2010, 5:27 pm Link to this post Send Email to RPR   Send PM to RPR
 
mothom Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 8495
Karma: 5 (+9/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


when i examine the ancient statues of the greek and roman gods, i see eugene sandow, charles atlas, and tony sansone. with the exception of the farnese hercules, in which case i don't see anybody. in the end, and this is just my opinion, i think atlas did the best job at achieving the greek ideal. that's not to put down reeves. reeves, and zane have done the best job among post bbers to achieve the greek greek ideal and the modern ideal. atlas and sandow only had the old statues to go by for their bbing examples, unlike reeves and co. but, imo, in the purist sense, i think atlas embodied the greek ideal better than any bber. reeves probably had the best build of any post ww2 bber, but i really do think a 29" waist on a 6'1" frame is too small, and i think his forearms were underdeveloped as well. he didn't have that ugly veiny look that is so distracting. and his abs didn't have the insect look either, which is also distracting. reeves represents a compromise between the atlas build and the arnold build. atlas represents a compromise between the farnese hercules and the apollo belvedere. cutler, et al represents a complete perversion of the human form. one can't go wrong with either an atlas or reeves build. in the end, i wouldn't say either one had the better build. as far as looks go.
4/16/2010, 5:59 pm Link to this post Send Email to mothom   Send PM to mothom Blog
 
RPR Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 07-2009
Posts: 4325
Karma: 1 (+5/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


I have to agree that Sandow, Atlas and Sansone were the closest to the Greek ideal. Reeves is a pivotal character where he worked for the Greek ideal, but not in the waist. He wanted the V look and acheived it. The big difference between Reeves and his predicessors was weights. Reeves trained with weights only. The others were more diverse. Where guys like Sandow and Macfadden stand out is they really were the foundation of modern fitness and BBing. They didn't have training manuals. They wrote them. All the others benefited from them. They were the true inovators.
4/17/2010, 2:24 am Link to this post Send Email to RPR   Send PM to RPR
 
mothom Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 8495
Karma: 5 (+9/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


yep! contrast them with joe weider.
4/17/2010, 5:06 pm Link to this post Send Email to mothom   Send PM to mothom Blog
 
RPR Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 07-2009
Posts: 4325
Karma: 1 (+5/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


Weider is a con man.
4/18/2010, 2:21 am Link to this post Send Email to RPR   Send PM to RPR
 
mightymouse1974 Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Head Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 932
Karma: 0 (+0/-0)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


weider was good at pasting his head on someone else's body.
4/18/2010, 8:15 pm Link to this post Send Email to mightymouse1974   Send PM to mightymouse1974
 
mothom Profile
Live feed
Blog
Friends
Miscellaneous info

Administrator

Registered: 03-2007
Posts: 8495
Karma: 5 (+9/-4)
Reply | Quote
Re: BBing/P.C. in it's finest hour.


reg park's body. i wonder why he didn't glue his head on arnold's body.
4/19/2010, 3:47 am Link to this post Send Email to mothom   Send PM to mothom Blog
 


Add a reply

Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6 





You are not logged in (login)