Steve Reeves

And, uh, the cool thing, we have had a lot of science, because we got two Erics, but our history and culture has not quite been what I would like it to be as of late on Iron Culture.

I would say the culture's pretty good, because we've got the, uh, the, the man, the myth himself, uh, Steve Hall, who is doing these monthly with me, so we get to have chats of both of us just talking about being bodybuilders.

So we got this kinda monthly natural bodybuilding optimal kind of, uh, you know, focus from an athlete perspective.

But, you know, Steve is...

I, I love him, but he, he, he's not the guy who knows much about the power lifting or the weightlifting or the strongman.

He, he's a niche within a niche, right? So we've got some culture, at least elements of the culture that are, that are on regular rotation.

Steve Hall has become, you know, we, we've combined forces.

I got my man Trex, who is all about the science, but we, we need some more culture.

For obvious reasons, the best examples that can be cited are movie stars.

The corny, flamboyant femaleness of Jane Mansfield, Gina Lollobrigida – Jane Russell, Virginia Mayo, the exaggerated he-man-ness of Steve Reeves, Victor Mature.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks.

It's not a lamp, but a lamp.

So we have talked about Steve a couple of times, but I wanted to specifically talk about Steve, A, because it's super relevant to what we're going to talk about today.

B, because I want to highlight a different way that Steve trained that some people aren't familiar with, and it will make sense, okay? So Steve Reeves, in case you don't know, obviously one of the most iconic silver area bodybuilders, won the 1947 Mr.

America, won the 1950 Mr.

Universe, won He beat Reg Park in that competition and then concluded his bodybuilding career and then became a movie star.

And then he would rest even longer before the next muscle.

Okay.

What do you think of our Steve Reeves 1947 plan?

I think we actually did an episode talking about drop sets and, to a lesser extent, rest pause a while back.

Yeah, because he was built like a brick shithouse.

Yeah, well, and this actually made me look up Steve Reeves also.

You know, because if they wanted something visual that's not too abysmal, they'd...

Pick

a Steve Reeves movie.

Yeah, Steve Reeves played Hercules in the 1950s movies.

He's a bodybuilder and actor.

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And he was a K-

Well, these are all Steve Reeves knockoffs, including Schwarzenegger.

Let's be clear about this.

Okay, yep.