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GeneticFreak18
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i haven't seen an example of their diet plan but i know that bodybuilders of arnolds era ate a lot cleaner in the offseason than a current bodybuilder today does. also, bodybuilders of arnolds era didn't ignore cardio in the offseason either. they didn't let themselves get fat and overweight in the offseason like a 316lb kamali or priest does. but hey if they want to start 16 weeks out to cut then they can eat pretty much what they want knowing they have to be disciplined come pre contest.
bump for more info though.
bump for more info though.
GeneticFreak18
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NeoSoul said:
thanks bro, saw them live with deftones and the used. thrice outlayed them both.
check out story of the year too if you haven't already.
I don't know what all it consisted of but I can tell you based on what I have read those guys didn't really care as long as there was lots of protein. His daily calorie consumption was 10,000. How picky can you be if you're going to get down 10,000 calories?
GeneticFreak18
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ulter said:
10,000?! wow, i didn't know it was that high
interesting
Fina Junkie
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needsize said:
How does beer benefit you ?
I want to be like arnold so i'm about to pop the top on a michelob
Bulldog_10
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Fina Junkie said:How does beer benefit you ?
I want to be like arnold so i'm about to pop the top on a michelob
The beer was helpful because it washed down the chicken and added empty cals...like ulter said...your diet will be full of things like that when you're getting 10k cals per day (although that HAS to be exaggerated, right?)
Bulldog_10
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ulter said:
I guess 10k isn't THAT crazy...I've felt like I haven't eaten much some days and when I add it up it still comes out to like 3-4k...so tripling that wouldn't be too hard i guess. But I just don't see him sustaining that for too long. maybe he meant that some days he would get 10k. I don't know, just guessing.
str8cubano
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i read that back in the day, they pretty much just had some test, deca...and dbol and primo....something along the lines that Arnold to like 250mg of dbol a day???? 
And if he ate so much...how the hell was his waist like a girl's? Jesus he would suck in his gut and you could see his ribs
And if he ate so much...how the hell was his waist like a girl's? Jesus he would suck in his gut and you could see his ribs
He didn't take that much dbol, although he did use it a lot with primo.
Keep in mind that he trained 8 hours 6 days a week while consuming that 10k cal.
BTW Arnold's waist at the time was not one of the better waists. That's why he turned sideways when he posed and practiced holding it in all day. Something he suggests for training abs since they can not be overtrained.
Keep in mind that he trained 8 hours 6 days a week while consuming that 10k cal.
BTW Arnold's waist at the time was not one of the better waists. That's why he turned sideways when he posed and practiced holding it in all day. Something he suggests for training abs since they can not be overtrained.
Bulldog_10
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ulter said:
That's one of the best ab exercises out there (especially for strengthening transversus abdominus, key for back support).
wnt2bBeast
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OMEGA said:a chicken and a pitcher of beer
actually that is pretty healthy if you think abouT it
protein and carbs..thats what your supposed to eat postworkout, no?
NJextreme2
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I doubt he consistently ate 10K calories a day that is pretty difficult especially if most of your cals came form Protein...
I do know that he did take a lot of dbol and Primo.
I also know that bodybuilders in that day ate alot of eggs, redmeat, potatoes, and would even drink heavy cream...
I do know that he did take a lot of dbol and Primo.
I also know that bodybuilders in that day ate alot of eggs, redmeat, potatoes, and would even drink heavy cream...
Fina Junkie
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I bet he drank winny too.
wnt2bBeast
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Fina Junkie said:
how many cals in winny?
BOOEY
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Arnold is the man, and my ido in the bodybuilding world, but he does bullshit a lot. You never know if he's saying the truth or exagerrating or just plain lying (ie. pumping iron - the story about his dad dying). But in Raw Iron - Making of Pumping Iron, you do see Anrold and the boys at a restaurant, and he orders a Big Steak and Scrambled Eggs
WanderingClumsyFool
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Well this is an original type of thread isn't it...
Arnold's dosages were very conservative because he was alaways very health conscious. I would assume he averaed about 400-500mg/week. All those drugs were experimental and new back then and people had much more reverence for them. I have read an interview with Sergio (Mr. Olympia prior to Arnold) where he says he thinks the dosages used by guys nowadays are obscene and how guys back in his day were basically scared of steroids. They used them as sparingly as possible because they respected the fact that they were trowing their biology a major curveball . Now before people start shitting their pants over my ideas here, they have to realize that Arnold (and his peers) is puny compared to the guys nowadays, he and his peers just looked better, probably because they were much more healthy and people ave an eye for that somehow. Also, the thing that people don't understand is this, they were on all the time, they didn't cycle, at least that is my guess. Being on, all the time for years, you don't need hardly any juice. In fact you want to keep the dosages low so you avoid health consequences and side efects that casue you to have to stop. I would also assume that the pros nowadays don't cycle either, they are also on all the time, they are just on a hitload all the time. If any of them do cycle it is from low dose regiments to high dose regiments.
Bottom line is that Arnold and is peers back in what was arguably the golden age of bodybuildig had a completely different approach to gear, training and diet that is superior to what people do nowadays. Why? Because most people who juice nowadays fall into two camps; they either have no respect for their health and just want to become mutant monsters or are lazy out of shape bastards who suddenly decide they want to lift weights and get huge overnight. Also, most people are like sheep and they just want to follow the trends in current pro bodybuilding or pro wrestling. They just get obssesed with their weight, percent BF and that is all they care about.
Arnold's dosages were very conservative because he was alaways very health conscious. I would assume he averaed about 400-500mg/week. All those drugs were experimental and new back then and people had much more reverence for them. I have read an interview with Sergio (Mr. Olympia prior to Arnold) where he says he thinks the dosages used by guys nowadays are obscene and how guys back in his day were basically scared of steroids. They used them as sparingly as possible because they respected the fact that they were trowing their biology a major curveball . Now before people start shitting their pants over my ideas here, they have to realize that Arnold (and his peers) is puny compared to the guys nowadays, he and his peers just looked better, probably because they were much more healthy and people ave an eye for that somehow. Also, the thing that people don't understand is this, they were on all the time, they didn't cycle, at least that is my guess. Being on, all the time for years, you don't need hardly any juice. In fact you want to keep the dosages low so you avoid health consequences and side efects that casue you to have to stop. I would also assume that the pros nowadays don't cycle either, they are also on all the time, they are just on a hitload all the time. If any of them do cycle it is from low dose regiments to high dose regiments.
Bottom line is that Arnold and is peers back in what was arguably the golden age of bodybuildig had a completely different approach to gear, training and diet that is superior to what people do nowadays. Why? Because most people who juice nowadays fall into two camps; they either have no respect for their health and just want to become mutant monsters or are lazy out of shape bastards who suddenly decide they want to lift weights and get huge overnight. Also, most people are like sheep and they just want to follow the trends in current pro bodybuilding or pro wrestling. They just get obssesed with their weight, percent BF and that is all they care about.
BOOEY
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http://www.musclememory.com/articles/
Check out the section: Anabolic Steroids: "Roid Madness"; this is what they did know, or didn't know, back in the late 60s and early 70s about steroids.
Check out the section: Anabolic Steroids: "Roid Madness"; this is what they did know, or didn't know, back in the late 60s and early 70s about steroids.
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WanderingClumsyFool said:
OK now this is complete BS. They took whatever they could get their hands on to win. ARNOLD WOULD DO ANYTHING TO WIN. How can you possibly believe different? And how is staying on all the time more health conscious?
If what they did was safer than today's bodybuilders is arguable, too as the knowledge level was less in their day so some of them did things that were totally stupid. I personally worked out at a gym and knew of a pro during the 70s that ate a bottle of dbol a day (Ciba-giegy $8/bottle). He died a few years back. If you look at old muscle mags you will see more gyno in the 70's and 80's. Today's standards just call for bigger and more massive builds which leads to increased risks. Pros in Arnolds day did not have access access to the same knowledge level and types of drugs, and the standards of the day were more asthetic, unlike the big bloated insulin and HGH freaks.
It really has nothing to do with them being more health-conscious. Competition at the highest levels in virtually all physical sports is not about health.
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ulter said:
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