Larry Scott

...recently learned the great bodybuilding icon, Larry Scott, passed away last month, he was 75 years old - he was a big influence on anyone interested in "pumping iron" back in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's...

 ...held every bodybuilding title at one time or another, and was the first 'Mr Olympia'...

... equally famous for co-developing and popularizing the 'Preacher Bench', which is attributed in part to developing his massive 20 inch biceps - a technique known as 'Scott Curls'...

...  bet most don't know, but until the early 1970's, weight training was considered a total waste of time "... you'll just develop big, useless muscles and become 'muscle bound'" - bodybuilders were right up there with the circus sideshow 'bearded lady' - baseball and football coaches and such even forbade players from weight training (no eating ice cream, either, even after "practicing" for three hours - could never understand that one) - yea, in a way I guess, even had so-called "child development experts" back then... 

... so anyway -  Scott, Oliva, Schwarzenegger, Columbu, Zane... etc... etc... sailing aboard the USS Wieder, eventually changed all that - the Pittsburgh Steelers as well by the way - first pro sports team with a strength training program and the first to employ a strength coach as I recall (may be wrong) - definitely worked...

... Scott was, by the way, a for real "90lb weakling who became a strong man", as they used to market strength training back in the day...

... used to have the "Charles Atlas' ("the world's most perfectly developed man" - always wanted a pair of those leopard-print tights) workout program - wasn't bad, actually - basically, work out hard with weights - nothing like the crazy TV gimmicks now'days...

... a quote from Scott's excellent book, 'Loaded Guns': 

... while in grade school I was always smaller than my friends, but I was kind of cute... when junior high came along, however, the guy's voices started to get deeper and they began to grow in height and other places... I was still small and slow in developing everywhere it counted.. seventh grade gym classes, with mandatory showers, were a torture for us "late bloomers"...

(... Sheesh!!.. now'days all the highly educated "child development experts" would have had him in all kind of therapy, convincing him he was "f*k'd up", and takin' all kinds of drugs - until he finally flipped out and jumped off the f*k'n school roof...)

... so he started "lift'n weights"...

... Larry Scott...

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