What routine did he suggested to you? Could you elaborate please .. :)

You should totally upload that online and send us the link! I would love to see what a legend wrote. Good for you friend :)

@@Mr_Bones. #metoo

Yeah man !!! Upload what he had written . I'm extremely curious to know how he wrote and what had he written...

Wow

You are right Bro' it's true 💐💐

Arnold actually never truly hit the mark overall as a Man/Bodybuilder as did Reg Park!

Not at all. To me there are only two champions; Park and Steve Reeves. 20th Century Titans. Everyone else lifts and builds in their shadows.

Maybe today with the grotesque physiques, but Frank Zane still takes some beating.

Bodybuilding in the 2020s is in a bad place. The guys look ridiculous.

Just about.

He was already lifting before he heard of Reg, but he inspired Arnold thats true

Jason H He met Kurt Marnul manager of the Athletic Union Graz in Graz just before he turned 15 in july 1962 and at that time he started lifting. Not long after that in that same summer after he turned 15 he saw his first picture of Reg Park.

Don't forget Steve Reeves

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Yeah those were the days ,my father had lent his WEIDER barbell and dumbells to a friend of his and i kept on asking if he had finished with them. Then one day my dad pulled up in his work van and started unloading the WEIDER lol barbell set. I used two tool boxes for a bench until one day my dad made me one,and then i got a pair of squat stands for christmas. My dad met this guy who was a temporary landlord of his local pub, he took me to see him one night and this guy was a wrestler a huge guy massive traps and arms .He gave me a recipe for a weight gain drink that consisted of Milk,eggs, black strap molasses, raw cane sugar ,and soya flour. Once blended it was one and a half pints and tasted like Liquorice ,id drink it all just before bed and lay there feeling bloated.But i did gain some weight with it . My dad named it Gunge.LoL.

Steve Reeves had a much better physique in my opinion. Doubt that Steve Reeves would have approved of Arnold's steroid use so probably would not have mentored him the way Reg Park did. Steve Reeves was a class act!

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Kevin the answer is: no. Steve Reeves was chosen because the Italians directors of Cinecitta were looking for an Hercules. Cottafavi did not even know what was bodybulding, and was looking in the direction of Jean Marais, a french actor very proportionated but muscled more like a swimmer or a decathlete. One day, his daughter went to see a comedy, Athena, where Steve Reeves played a part, and coming home she said to her father: "I have found your Hercules." He was chosen because he had the muscles, the face, the acting, everything. Him in the place, the trend of bodybuilders began. Reg Park did I guess five movies, two goods and three bad, but perhaps the "best" one out of Steve Reeves was Lou Degni, who finished 10et or 14th at Mr America, lacked calves but had a pretty face and body, a good voice (he became an opera singer) and became a very decent Maciste. Reg Park was chosen, yes, because he was a bodybuilder (and what bodybuilder) but because Reeves gave the idea to Italian filmmakers. And when tested at Cinecitta, was very natural, very relax... A sort of natural talent. And you note that nobody asked for John Grimek and Bill Pearl who were icons in bodybuilding but could not attract moviemakers.

There is nothing to closely examine. They were no steroïds on this time. The first registered steroïd user was Bill Pearl in 1957. He was beaten by Delinger, who was natural and incredibly big, could not accept that, was searching something else... and found Bolden, a cattle testosterone. He told himself the story. His weight went from 95kg to 105kg.

Thats an interesting bit of info unfortunately theres a tid bit thats inaccurate it was reeves during his short stay in Germany circa 1943 and then in phillipeans that he learned of dianabol an injection that Hitler was using to increase stamina and aggressiveness to improve fighting ability within the third Reich. Although not experimenting until his contracts with cecil b demil.He did in fact suggest to delinger it would increase strength. little did he know the reality and would complain of it being overly used in the early 90s.As far as pearl is concerned there is no way he could have succeeded as much as he did merely by lacto ovo vegetarianism. He was no doubt experimenting.

+Thomas demartino Good to report a better understanding about anabolic steroids. Strength & Health reported them in there 1938 magazine.

Thomas don't believe these things!!Steve Reeves never went in Germany in 1943, he was at school in 1943, being seventeen and a humble beginner in bb, and the son of a modest cook (Mrs Reeves, having lost her husband in Montana years before, i guess in 1930, went in California and became a cook, and survived cooking; se was remarried and sent Stephen as an intern in a school). When he was 18, he went in the army, was trained in camps for months, lost most muscles, and fought the Japanese, and the informations on this time were very weak. The story of Philipeans who learnt him of dianabol injections is the best story I have heard, what a fiction, better than "Star Wars"!!! Dianabol was created in 1956 by the Ciba laboratories. And the first steroid was not in injections but in pills. It is easier to say that Steve Reeves used a time machine, being friend with HG Wells, went with the time machine in 1960 to buy Dianabol, returned in 1945, thanked HG Wells and began to use these products of the future to prepare his contests.ah! That's a good story.

The fact that you don't have a brain is no more top secret, ape...

Ok.. Was it illegal when he took it?

Steve Reeves made photos at 18 (fantastic). He did not return from the war before 1946, at twenty. He was in not so bad shape, having trained in the last six months of his military service, with a bar of 100 pounds, and weighed 200-203' I guess. He returned to the Ed Yarick gym, in Portland. In Philippines, he was a private in barracks during the war, and not searching during his permissions if these poor Philippinos peasants and villagers had the secret of bodybuilding!! In these times, bodybuilding was a very little thing and 90% US!!

Steve Reeves was born in january 1926. He was more than 20 returning from the Pacific war. Reeves did not enter a competition before the fall of 1946, being 20 years old. BUT, he could have been better than Steve Stanko in 1944 and Clarence Ross in 1945 when he went to fight.

teddylilley What's wrong with Joe Weider?

You have steroids in your blood just less ;) There is nothing more natural then the hormones ;)

Why not be your self?

So did everyone in the 70's?

Bullshit

RF Johns But steroids where hard to get and almost impossible to get they where just in labs.

Michael! My Super Zero!!

Can you show me this infamous piece of Strength & Health? It was written by a "journalist" who did not even know of what he was speaking! And even if, what that means?? Nobody knew steroids, it was the discovery of testosterone, and they were very far to produce it industrially; the capacities of the molecule were quite unknown at this time, they were intended to enhance masculinity and sexuality, not to develop the muscles. The first potential clients for these products were old people (as today), not young bodybuilders who could not imagine to take a product 1) for impotence; 2) not even existing in the market!!!What is incredible is this way to rebuild the past according the représentations of today. In 1940, a letter was sent in five, ten, fifteen days, now and email in three seconds, and everything went at that speed.

+Kasey Ovens Have you tried looking on www.amazon.com? :) Just Google the DVD's. I never knew Reg Park played Hercules back in the day. I though it was ONLY Steve Reeves. Love to buy all the Hercules films starring either of them. I'm familiar with Steve Reeves in the role. Loved him...in that role. I think he "owned" the character. Just as I think Sean Connery WAS "Bond" and Christopher Reeve "Superman". :) They said Reg Park was the last of the "natural bodybuilders". Some claim even RP used a little. Others disagree. Just as most believe Steve Reeves also didn't use. I think since he was promoting drug free bodybuilding. Be a bit hypocritical for him to say one thing and do another.

sorry wrong!

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