Remember
the old school bodybuilders?
Old school bodybuilders used to make custom dumbbells and barbells out of scrap metal or anything they find in their backyard.
Life was tough for
old school bodybuilders.
Reg Park is one of the most important figures in bodybuilding and he was one of the most massive, yet symmetrical
old school bodybuilders.
There's a reason why people respect and admire
the old school bodybuilders so much — back in the day, workouts were grueling and the secret to great gains was simply lifting heavy weights and classic movements.
How I discovered this method I stumbled across this by accident while reading about
old school bodybuilders.
Many
old school bodybuilders have compared today's 212 with the bodybuilding scene of the 1970's and early 1980's.
Also, I love Steve Reeves, Bob Prince, and some of the other
old school bodybuilders who really define aesthetics to me.
However, what they didn't realize is that by being a good
old school bodybuilder, I do plenty of:
Not exact matches
But if you're one of those modern
bodybuilders who wants to incorporate as much of the
old school physique ideals and philosophy into his training as possible, the following workout is exactly what you've been looking for.
There is a good reason why a lot of modern
bodybuilders are going back to the
old but gold techniques of the
old school pro's.
While it's true that the
old school pros used steroids, modern
bodybuilders have taken it to another level.
Spot reduction was huge back in the day with
old -
school bodybuilders, like Arnold and those dudes.
Not only that, I was always a big fan of
old -
school bodybuilders from the 60s, 70s and 80s that had physiques to resemble Greek gods.
Photo sources: Duke University Archives:
old school women's gym, Guillermo V: female
bodybuilder, Runar E: badass girl, MOVband UK: squat motivation
When I got started training, I was following the
old -
school, high - volume routines that
bodybuilders used 40 or 50 years ago.
I do a lot of things, at least for my
bodybuilders, of kind of removing some of the more
old school rules about needing to eat only a specific, short list of foods, or having to eat every 2 to 3 hours.