Classic Muscle Film

[buccola13research]

Steroids may not have been around, but cocaine was readily available. Who knows what these guys were fueling up on.

[lauderdale8747]

John Gimeck and Bob Hoffman were Lovers for many years. Hoffman was the biggest closet case in history.....Had lots of anti gay editorials in his mags...Queen Please......XXX

[all66books]

Wow - the guys at :27 & :46 - impressive. This is the best REAL old timer vid I've ever seen. As a 50 something, I always thought of the guys from the 50s and 60s as the classic old timers & most of the guys in these photos pre-date them.

[pietroanania]

it is an example for all searching the essence of bb without junkies pills and steroids!!

[BaneTrogdor]

Great video of non steroid bodybuilders !!! Steroids are for pussies ! Period !

[BaneTrogdor]

Great video of non steroid bodybuilders !!! Steroids are for pussies ! Period !

[butchdiesel]

I think the guy at 1:33 eats people for breakfast. Sweet vid! :-)

[CLUCKMASTERDGIZLE]

more then half of these plp are on juice in these pictures you can only get so big with out roids bout u caint bad mouth them because plp on juice that are bodybuilders train 5 times harder then anyone else just being on juice dosent get you big u need to put in the work

[TheNandopro]

@CLUCKMASTERDGIZLE thats rightpeopledont understand the sport fuckem



[wildmandazza]

I don't give a fuck what anybody says ,roids came out in the mid 1940s before that it's all natural and you can build a great body without drugs and keep your gains. On roids you lose most your gains when you come off !!!!!!!!!

[FluticasonePropionat]

song please +1

[ah4fecksake]

I wonder why so little emphasis was placed on the chest back in the day...it appears as if it was overlooked for a long tme

[MurryFolt]

@ah4fecksake That's because in order to build REAL strength... you don't really need to build the chest. What we call "bodybuilding" today was started by Eugen Sandow (who can be seen multiple times in this video), who was an acrobat and strongman. Even decades after him, most bodybuilders continued to be strongman, powerlifters, etc. Even Arnold and his contemporaries put a high emphasis on strength, though they also included the chest.

[ah4fecksake]

@MurryFolt AH! .......quit 'bodybuiding' meself a few moths ago in favour of power/weight lifting and the overall strength gains are immensely superior to anything I'd done before hand.

And rightly enough it was from reading about the old-old-school lifters and how they stuck to the basics. managed to add 100lbs to my squat and deadlift in the past five months so theres trutht to it. But like you say strength 'building' and body 'building' are same but different.

[MrTheJackxter]

M83 Kim & Jessie ;) thanks Daan!

[werbeone]

I have to agree with "AlKindian" on this one. I don't know for a fact that any of these later guys (Colbert, Parks, Grimek, Reeves. etc.) took steroids, but your assumption that steroids weren't around during this era is totally false. The first oral steroid DIANABOL became commercially available to the public in the late 1930s. So, technically, several of these bodybuilders could have, indeed, been on steroids. It's a misconception that people have on how new steroids are.

[lodhater19]

@werbeone actually, DIANABOL didnt come out until at least the late 50s, early 60s tops, but steroids, such as testosterone propionate, have been isolated and synthesized since at least the early 30s, with many of the nazi scientists being the first to use on human subjects, Hitler being one of the many. So you are right in a since that steroids have been around, but dianabol came a bit later.

[enzOfake]

song please

[AlKindian]

Uh, those guys pre-1960 may have been clean but the last bunch... don't piss on my leg then tell me its raining.

[WONDERDRUGG]

@AlKindian piss on my back and say its raining ??

[koolherc1974]

people take note - hard work and dedication equals mucle and health, stick to training natural - these guys look better and healthier than the steroid junkies of today

[koolherc1974]

so many of the photos shown - before steroids were invented - people take note, you can build a great physique without chemichals.

[HamsFitness]

Thanks for this, a truly refreshing look at what a healthy body should look like - powerful and athletic. Now if you could just put together a female version of this so the females of our species can see what weight training can do for them too.

Regards,

Richard Ham Williams

Hams Fitness

[lonemapper]

This should be a must see vid for any kid starting out to train. These physiques are great and healthy. 99.9% of bodies seen in musclemags are unattainable without large amounts of pharmaceuticals. Honestly, these physiques shown here look better.

[jdmrkhm666]

the song is kim and jessi..by m83 good stuff

[Seth1Sell]

They might not have used testosterone replacement or testosterone boosting drugs but the use of hardcore stimulants by early bodybuilders and strongmen was rampant.

[keanzanelli]

Awesome vid, what's the song called?

[Jherolt]

De tout temps la recherche du beau ! ! !

[lazloryder]

What song was that ?

[Doricc]

Without drugs? Alot of these guys are on drugs...