Vince Gironda

We know it works.

Vince Gironda was a high rep guy.

Look at Vince, look at his clients.

Guess what? We know it works.

You know, bodybuilders are kind of experimental, always have been, and that's way before, you know, anabolic steroids.

Like, look at some of the exercises that Vince Gironda was trying out and the conversations.

Like, people are figuring out, "How do I keep growing?" as they get, you know, more and more advanced, and then they can tell.

And I feel like there's a lot of people right now that, um, they're looking to be convinced and to be sold, and I want a, a great, you know, exciting thing, which is, like you said, Brian, not always a bad thing.

I guess I want to respect your time.

Before we wrap up, I would love to ask is what are the key learnings from you from Vince Gironda?

Well, from Vince Gironda, definitely diet, not necessarily training because training was a little bit dogmatic.

Eight times eight.

What that means? That means that none of these sets is close to failure because if I go 12 reps first set, there is no way I'm going to do 12, 12, 12.

Now, it's important to understand that this has developed over time, and I'd say probably the most negative aspect of it has arisen in the last five to ten years, you know, where it's really gone mainstream.

But we can start with, um, this idea of golden age bodybuilding, where you had Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Mentzer, Vince Gironda.

And I know I'm, I'm not super well-versed in the culture myself, but a lot of these, these golden era greats, you know, in the '80s and the '90s, early 2000s, that you have sort of these glorious, Tom Platz of course, these glorious montages of them lifting huge heavy-ass weights, Ronnie Coleman loading up the squat, loading up the lat pulldown, loading up the deadlift, the bench press, doing a lot of incline pressing.

It was very much focused on free weights and also training outdoors in the sun.

And this, this is a problem as well, right? Because they weren't training for the same level of leanness.

There are stories of Vince Gironda in the 1960s being marked down for being too lean on stage.

They weren't training for the same level of leanness that a modern bodybuilder would.

Their training protocols and programming were very different to a modern bodybuilder's.