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Sharing The Secrets: October 20th 2000
| Making Your Dreams Come True... |
| "Sharing The Secrets" |
| October 2000 |
By
Larry Scott |
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Larry Scott & Associates
(http://www.larryscott.com)
- - - - - Friday - October 20, 2000 - - - - -
1 - Off To The Olympia...
2 - Bill Pearl And Forearms
3 - Fat Loss Herbals - A Secret From Ancient China
1- Off To The Olympia
Well I'm off to the Olympia contest. Doesn't seem possible, 36 years of Olympia contests. I am going as a guest speaker not a contestant. And quite frankly I go with mixed feelings. I always feel a little uneasy entering an arena where one person is esteemed higher than another. There's so many different feelings. Adulation, gratitude, egotism, dedication, love appreciation. Yes, I feel grateful for the adulation and the outpouring of love coming from the Olympia fans.
I feel grateful to wear the crown of a Mr. Olympia. There has only been 10 winners. It's quite an honor actually. But more than that... I feel the desire to bring... some goodness... better understanding of how fitness fits into life. I'll only have an hour in front of everyone but during that hour I hope to share and help us feel more like brothers and sisters. I'll be back with a full report for next Fridays newsletter. Until then, take care.
Larry Scott
2 - Bill Pearl And Forearms
I would like to share some training insights on building forearms which
I have learned over the years and have now corroborated with my One On
One clients.
Forearms are almost identical in structure to the Gastrocnemius
muscles but they do have some interesting differences.
First, they are also comprised of red muscle fibre, tendons and
ligaments. This means they require the same high reps as do the calves in
order to stimulate growth. High reps of course mean lots of pain.
The pain in the forearms is similar to calf pain but is much easier to
bear. In addition a good forearm workout fills one with a feeling of
power unlike working any other body part. I guess it's all that
concentrated blood down close to the end of the limb. Something akin to a
Medieval War Weapon like a Ball and Chain. It's almost as if you could
swing those iron forearms through brick walls with impunity.
In order to really get the feeling of power of which I am speaking,
not only the forearms must be gorged with blood, but muscle covering the
wrists must be engorged with blood.
How good it feels to sense this raw power. Vince used to have
swinging doors separating the locker rooms from the workout area.
You know the kind I mean. The kind where Matt Dillion would stomp up
the wooden sidewalk burst through the doors and challenge the outlaw to
get out of town.
Vince had these same type of doors which we had to go through to get
to the drinking fountain between sets. As our forearm workout progress
we would begin to bang our way through the "swinging doors" to get our
drink of water. Before the tight pump really settled in, there might
have been some slight bone shock, but as the workout progressed things
changed. The doors would fly off our "hams" as if our forearms were great
balloons. If almost felt as if we could literally batter our way
through ways using our pumped forearms as battering rams.
Many trainers have neglected putting much emphasis on their forearm
development. Bill Pearl was one notable exception.
When I first visited Bill's gym he was still located on Melrose in Los
Angelos. I was looking forward to meeting Bill as he had been a source
of inspiration to me for years. It was with a little nervousness I
approached the actual occasion of meeting someone of his renown.
Bill greeted me in his normal quiet manner. He was wearing a three
quarter cut off sweat shirt. He was much bigger than I thought he would
be. The size of his shoulders and chest under his sweatshirt made me
light headed with awe.
Then I noticed those two swollen hunks of meat laced with pencil sized
veins hanging out of his sleeves. I'm sure my mouth dropped open.
Before I said "Hello, How are you; nice to meet you", or anything of proper
social grace, I blurted out, "Where did you get those forearms".
Bill a little taken aback at my unabashed adulation mumbled, "Oh I
work forearms regularly".
"Self consciously, I found myself tugging at my short sleeve shirt,
trying furtively to create a covering to hide my miserable excuse for
forearms.
"Here's the bench we use to work our forearms". Bill pointed out.
Bill's voice and the word, forearm, snapped me out of my trance and I
began to focus my eyes on the bench in front of me. It was a funny
looking thing only about twelve inches by twelve inches. It was heavily
padded with two identical parallel indentations running the length of the
Bench. It looked as if to 110 millimeter Howitzers had been nesting on
it. I stole a quick glance at Bill's forearms and I could see whose
big guns had crushed that high density rubber padding into permanent
deformity. "How much weight do you use on forearms, Bill", I heard a high
falsetto voice coming from my throat ask, promising myself that on the
next question I would shoot for a lower octave.
"About two fifty for wrist curls," Bill said as he reached up to
scratch his ear.
I couldn't decide whether he meant two fifty pound dumbbells or could
he actually mean he used 250 lbs on a barbell. I drew in my breath,
lowered my chin and prepared to ask for further clarification. Before I
could get out the question, my eyes settled on the belly of Bill's
forearm as he scratched away the itch on his ear. Along this huge mass of
flesh was a series of veins running up from the elbow to the wrist. The
center vein stood out like a piece of rope licorice. With my eyes riveted
on that pulsing channel of life, I heard that same embarrassing squeaky
voice say,
"Do you mean 250 lbs on a barbell?"
"Yeah, about 250 lbs or so on the Olympic set", Bill said as his eyes
swung to catch mine still drinking in the vein symphony on
his forearm. I was beginning to get a little concerned that he would
put gaping, drooling mouth together with high falsetto voice and come up
with, "I'm afraid this guy is crazy."
Actually, nothing of the sort happened, Bill realized I was going
through the first throes of a love affair with forearms. Bill was very
helpful and supplied me with everything he knew about forearm training. I
took everything back to Vince's gym for experimentation and further
testing.
Through the years my love of forearm work has never dimmed and I have
learned lots of things which can make or break a forearm program.
Let's cover a couple of those details now. First as mentioned earlier one needs a
small twelve by twelve bench heavily padded to avoid any extra pain
caused by poorly padded benches. If the bench is about 14 inches high it's
possible to use the Olympic Bar without the 45 lb plates hitting the
ground with the wrists fully extended. If the bench is much higher than
this, it makes it difficult to get the heavier weights into position to
do the wrist curls. (After many years of development I came across I design
I was please with... we sell a version of this bench here. Follow this link
to take a look... (http://www.larryscott.com/index.cgi?item_num=forearmbench)
Whenever I see an article in the Muscle Magazines showing someone
doing forearm work and they are straddling a standard workout bench and
their thumbs are wrapped around the bar, rather than underneath it, I know
they are just posing for the camera. I know they haven't really gotten
in to forearm training. These are just a couple of tips for the forearms for more info
please look at my training reports...
(http://www.larryscott.com/idex.cgi?item_num=trainingreports)
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