classic physique is where I come from is where Arnold
Robbie Frank Zane that is classic physique they say physique but it's
really classic bodybuilding a lot of guys chasing me you know is the sport of
bodybuilding has grown tremendously and so have the number of competitors so yes
I do have a lot of added competition that Arnold didn't have to face during
this era eight Mr Olympias where you gonna go beyond that I felt that was
that was it for me but to win it eight years in a row at the age of 31
that was a miracle in itself it was a gift from God yes I had to work hard you
just don't hand gifts out you have to go get it and I went and got it with all of
my heart with that 8th Olmypia felt like I could finally exhale because when you're on
the top there's nowhere to go but down and so you're always focusing on how do
I stay here and you know I'm living and I lived you know I had two children
while I was training for the mr. Olympia stayed on top and was still reigning but
there's there's a certain amount of pressure I had businesses going on you
know there's a lot of stuff happening so that last Olympia I said what I
needed to say and I was ready to bow out and say thank you come in close with me
baby hey come on baby let's go
the intensity I generally try to work towards preparing for the Olympia 12
months out of the year the intensity starts to increase about six months away
from the show and then the final of 12 weeks is when I really start to pour it on
because the body cannot withstand a great deal of punishment an entire 17 18
weeks so 12 weeks is very intense well it's a lot different now because I have
younger bodybuilders that I meet at competitions and you know one of the
things that I'm a sticker on is what are your wheels looking like you know
you gotta have some legs listen I'm okay with physique and I love
physique but I love a full package too you know that's that's how I grew up and
that's where I am so I want to know that a guy actually have calves I want to
know they have legs you know so one of the things that I see that's sort of off
balance now is athletes don't give enough time to bring it about growth and
muscle maturity in the different body parts they're now in a system where they
would train one body part a week legs once a week
calves once a week particularly calves you know and that's a biggie for me I never
will forget when I first visit world's gym and you had Joe Gold there I mean
Joe golds was like one of the godfathers of bodybuilding when he came to the gym
world because he created worlds and golds gym his name was on both of them
so I never will forget as I came in for the first time at Worlds in California
ed Giuliano Eddie Giuliano was standing there and he said Joe come out the office and
check out this this young kid and so he did
in So Joe walked around the circling and watch me and said uh pull up your pants
leg kid so I pulled my pants leg up and he looked he said you're going places he
didn't give a crap about what he saw up top because everybody got something
up top if you don't have wheels you don't make it in the sport of
bodybuilding not in the sense of where I came from and the era prior to me so
that's a very important deal and so I meet a lot of young athletes you know
one of the things I actually I look and then I know it's a lot of them lack calves
so I how many days do you be training calves one - two - one two - hey man we
train our calves five to six days a week a calf is a stubborn muscle so how do we
expect for it to respond you've been walking around on them since you were
born so your calf is used to high endurance so in order to go beyond that
you got to give us something very different you have to stimulate and
nearly annihilate a calf in order for it to respond heavy hard consistent and
then I look at the fact that a lot of the athletes are training you know one
body part a workout it they have an arm day they have a chest day they got a
back day said how ridiculous is that and what I see a lot is immature muscle that
particular type of program is more designed for a power lifter the details
for actual bodybuilder and so you can see it in a physique the cross
striations and the muscle maturity is not here like it used to be so I spend a
lot of time rewriting and fixing programs for the younger generation of
body builders I'm definitely Pro classic physique classic physique is where I
come from if we Arnold Robbie Frank Zane that is classic physique they say
physique it is really classic bodybuilding that's what it is
it's beautiful bodybuilders you have a vacuum you have a nice lines
and yes you have the wheels you know so I see no difference in that I'm really
have to see that element of bodybuilding make its way back because I felt that
the physiques had sort of gotten out of hand
you know what made bodybuilding beautiful was no longer beautiful and
classic physique brings that back