Tom Platz

But the Quad Father, noted wacko, um-

Tom Platz, thank you, um, was, was all about building gigantic quads.

Yes.

And so, what, two years ago we started doing the Quad Father thing.

Back then, we did quarters.

By the time you did four fucking quarters up and down those steps, fucking had fucking calves on you like Tom Platz.

Right.

So.

Which is a very old reference and very few people-

I've...

So far, we've gotten in, um, Tom Platz.

We've gotten in, I think, K-19 might've been written pre-1980, I wanna say, right?

Eyewitnesses like Danny Padilla, Boyer Coe, Franco Colombo, also his autobiographer, Johnny Little, and many, many others.

Tom Platz, who saw him training with him, always said Mike was always training like everybody else.

What happens later was purely business.

Interesting.

Because he did everything else fine.

He was doing heavyweights.

You know, Tom Platz used to do 500, 600-pound squats as well.

Not 800, 600.

Hell yeah.

[laughs] Dude, it, that's a rite of passage, isn't it? I di- I actually, I was talking to someone about the, the Tom Platz breathing squats, you know.

That was-- I used to do that once, once a month.

Like the Widowmakers, put your 10 RM on and try and do it for 20 reps before you rack the bar.

It just becomes more accessible.

A fun fact, speaking of Tom Platz, I think we spoke about that before.

Frank Zane said he was very overrated.

He said he was all legs.

I mean, the legs are amazing.

In general, I mean, it was great.

When I see Tom Platz and the Frank Zanes, these guys were pioneers.

They're like the early day pre-practitioners of this thing.