I think that was Franco Columbo a 5' 6" Olympian body builder that was show and go..
He was on Merv Griffin back in the day, exploded a hot water bottle blowing into it with his lungs faster than an air compressor could.
I used to be a power lifter , started lifting at 11, when I was 19 I benched 390 free weight for 3 reps, squatted 705 full squats for 5 by age 25. Always dead lifted between 620 and 660 free weight as well and could clean and jerk 300 over my head when I left High Scool.
I was 2times strong than most people I ever met, yet these guys are more than twice as strong as I ever was..
At age 39 still was able to bench 350 and squatt over 600, then on the way home in SoCal one night on the harley a jerk in a Honda delibertly ran me over and I slamed the freeway, that was bad enough when my helmet broke, ripped my chin part way off and blow out my right shoulder, but then a drunk in an F350 drove over my left arm.
Lucky I was buff, it did not crush it, but F..ed me up for life, can still bench about 250, but I can no longer work out like that at now age 48 due to major nerve damage.
I have so much respect for these guys.
it is drug free and many thousands of HRs of hard training.
PS you should see a list of how much and what kind of food you have to eat to be like that.
it is akin to driving a dual quad blown hemi at 8000 rpms.
thanks for the post!
