[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]IamMarqaos wrote:
At the risk of sounding like a tool…
I met him at Gold’s Gym Venice. He was inhumanly large. Tall, tree trunk of a man. Perhaps he appears less large because he didn’t have the widest structure but from the side he looked like he could block the sun. Enormous arms and quads. That video does NOT do him justice.
And he was throwing some serious weight around. He was training chest and I was asked to spot him on 150lb flies with which he die 12 perfect reps and another 4 with me assisting him. He wanted to do more but I simply could not continue spotting him with that kind of weight.
He mentioned that normally he would have his partners move the weight up and than he would lower the weight for 12 seconds for another 4 reps.
He was a bit miffed I could not move 300lbs back into position :)[/quote]
Maybe you are correct. In that video he did not look particularly massive (by O level bodybuilding standards) but i also wasnt aware that he was that tall. [/quote]
I agree. Not sure about the time frame of the video. I met him (only once, mind you) in 2001 I think. Just a few years before he passed away.
He did NOT look like a bodybuilder, hence me describing him as a tree trunk of a man.
And 400lbs? Of course I cannot know because it is not like he was on a scale but I was 260lbs at the time (at 6 foot) and he utterly dwarfed me. I mean, I looked like a kid standing next to him.
So for whatever that’s worth…
I got no stake in it. He actually did not come off as that likable…
But 150lbs strict flies was memorable, I will tell you that. And benching 5 plates on each side for slow mo reps is still pretty much the most amazing thing I have ever seen in the gym.
Each rep must have taken 8-10 seconds and he did twelve of them, I believe, before he did another 4 reps with a guy helping him and another 2 that were agonizingly slow on the eccentric! (two guys helping him get the barbell back up).
Plus, it wasn’t just the eccentric that was slow, he would do 4 sec up and 4 sec down. That’s real, real control of the weight.
Funny the direction this thread has taken though…