We Ate & Trained Like Old School Bodybuilders for a Day, Here's What Happened

What the hell have we gotten ourselves into in the golden era of the bodybuilding diet? It was a different time and options were limited with nothing close to the overwhelming selection of food options these former champions kept at old

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Whole Foods, nothing processed a modicum of sugar and with most workouts lasting longer than two hours eat eat eat for some this includes a gallon of whole milk a day today to improve modern era types will try this old

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diet will survive let's find out reg park about eating I like I ate like a king, but only food that was good for me.

My favorite food is steak, which I sometimes eat twice a day. We're at the grocery store and it's time to follow the old school diet from the golden age they followed with Whole Foods. They hadn't processed, they didn't have much of a selection, so they just went with the basics and the good thing is that the basics work, so we're going to grab some of that stuff right now. They didn't have masks either, but the times did. changed a little bit, so it will look a little different than it did in the 1960s, now everyone looks like Mortal Kombat and milk, well, stay, flip a coffee with cheese, one of the bodybuilding traditions of the golden era is that they drank a gallon of whole milk a day because a gallon of milk is very rich in nutrients, you have a lot of calories and a lot of protein that could be difficult to find in the past, so I have to start with this now.

I'd say it's about one-twentieth. I have to drink a lot of milk before this day is over ken Waller on eating I eat four eggs and a piece of meat at almost every meal people say that's not good for you in any way for my common people, neither of them It's on, it's the big booty bodybuilding omelet and as I ate it I loved every bite and lots of whole milk and now that I've had a little time to let it digest damn I'm so full I'm so satiated and right now I'm thinking that the last thing What I want to do is do a two hour workout, but we have to do it because a lot of times in the past they didn't track calories or macros, that didn't exist until the Back then, in the '80s and early '90s, They ate consistently, they were a lot of whole foods, they weren't processed, the sugars were a little lower and surprisingly, at least for me, the carbs were lower, plus they had a lot of protein and they had a lot of fats, most of them came from meats. and dairy, so to stay really big and then know when to lean in, they just eat the same things day after day, they would eat these whole foods if they wanted to add them.

They had a little bit more mass and if they wanted to lean down a little bit they added a little bit of cardio, so it's pretty simple, but the best thing is to look at those old school bodybuilder physiques. Sergio worked, all our means. I would drink a gallon of milk every day and drink two gallons of water a day. Now, in view of eating like an old school bodybuilder, we're going to train like one two and these guys stuck with very basic stuff and well known compound exercises, today we're going to do some upper body, incline rows, bench press flat bench, incline pulldowns, all the real great classic moves you can do and of course we'll also be super prepared because these guys always hit.

It's difficult when they are in the gym, not only did they do super sets, but they did a very high volume, so they did four to five sets in each exercise and many times a pyramid was formed starting with a lighter weight with 12 repetitions and then we slowly went up and up in weight as we lowered the reps to eight reps. We've done workouts like this in the past and I have to say we're big fans. We obtained many benefits and many results. So it's great to get back into this type of exercise, it feels great and of course when you're eating all that food and all that milk, you're ready to hit it hard in the bodybuilding of the 1960s and 1970s.

You were really doing exercise in general and gyms weren't as popular as they are now, it was really a niche thing so you had to travel somew

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like the mecca Venice, California to meet a bunch of like-minded people and it was a very small community, very tight knit community and these guys really inspired each other, they rubbed shoulders with a group, they're almost like a gang and I really love remembering those old school students because I feel like a little bit of that gets lost in The way and that really happens with anything when it's exposed, it can be a good thing, but then you lose that special little thing that you have in the past, maybe probably the way that some people who attended the first Comic Cons feel, maybe some of the people who attended a Metallica concert in the Bay Area on the day that that's

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they felt like they stumbled and it's almost like they found a treasure before everyone else, so that era may have past, but luckily it's captured, we can still relive it and I can still do exercises like this that kick your butt and make you feel a little like those old students, even if it's just for a Larry Scott Ani, I basically eat a lot of meat, cheese and eggs .

I like cottage cheese and meat mainly. being in various ways I eat almost no carbs and very few vegetables hi my name is Steve Reeves and it looks like you just did some strenuous exercise now it's time to drink my custom shake that will build that lean body mass let's get started you'll need 14 ounces of freshly squeezed orange juice 1 tablespoon gelatin 1 tablespoon honey 1 banana 4 raw eggs, pasteurized of course 3 tablespoons egg whites 1/4 cup skim milk and 1/3 cup soy protein make my custom protein shake Steve Reeves is It's easy to start with the orange juice first and then continue adding each ingredient one after the other, throw all those vitamin and nutrient packed bodybuilder stuff into your blender and once you're done, puree, whether you're going to play Hercules or just finish hitting. weights, this protein-packed protein shake is sure to be a hit.

It's a good smoothie made by me. Steve Reeves, if you want to gain muscle, try my shake. It's delicious. Serge Gnabry's Army. I eat a lot of red meat, rice and beans, sometimes six. pounds of red meat a day when training for competition, one of the hallmarks of old-school

bodybuilders

was their legendary tanning sessions on the beaches of Southern California. This isn't exactly Southern California, but the sun is out, so we feel like it's a good time to get a little tan oh

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we go where's the baby oil baby oil? You know, I think baby oil was a bad idea Yeah, we're definitely going to need about three gallons of aloe vera The workout is over We took our post-workout protein shake and Now it's time for lunch I gotta be honest I'm still feeling a little full, it's that dairy I think more than anything is hitting me very hard, specifically milk, but we have a mission which is to eat like old school

bodybuilders

for today, so "Let's move on, let's do burgers for lunch throw them on the grill yeah oh yeah patek they're ready they've got some cheese on them and we couldn't forget our green so we sauteed some spinach we've got some tomatoes and of course. , this meal wouldn't be complete without a little more dairy, so we add some cottage cheese and voila, this is lunch, there are a lot more calories to put in these stomachs of ours and we're going to do it because we need all the fuel we can get. , we'll eat this and then exercise.

Franco Columbu's walk number two, eating the food was very different. Arnold liked to contain both. it's law and I said I don't like Arnold burgers and then a couple of times I used to burn them and then I said, oh well, now I don't have to eat them in a very familiar environment because it's time to exercise number two we did the upper body before and now it's time to do some lower body and speaking on number two, I think we're going to have to put diapers on those muscular guys because I've been drinking quite a bit of milk and I may be lactose intolerant.

We're about to find out Draper on how to eat: Our diets were high protein with an emphasis on meat and dairy, medium carbs with lots of salad and fresh fruit and medium fats, no fried or junk food, this is about half the size that you can do it here we go last it's a big WOW for a second anything I could do but the juice prevails yeah I just wanted to see how big I could get so I would give up eight to ten thousand calories a day and train more heavy to be in size just a little bit I feel like if someone punched me in the stomach right now, that gallon would have a price, you'd repaint it, yeah, it'd be like The Exorcist, instead of peace, you could be a gallon of milk, It could be coming out of your mouth.

We are on the ground because our legs no longer work. Yeah, that was pretty intense. very well if it wasn't for that damn gallon of milk which was probably the hardest part so you know I'm serious it's even hard to get a gallon of water oh my gosh and I mean a gallon of milk and of course you still have to feel hydrated you learned your workout you're trying to drink some milk but you come back like you just need some water you know so you feel so full all the time I'd be interested in trying this again with the two workouts .

I like old school. I love that they didn't have processed foods. It was like one ingredient, but man, the milk. The day you feel like it's okay, you don't feel to

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extent you're using that energy, but it was a very interesting experiment, so now you'll excuse us, let's use the bathrooms, yes, not at the same time. time we're going to rush to do it, you'll ever make it and the second person will basically have hell