Jill Day's Gym (1956)

Earls Court, London.
M/S of a girl working out in a gym under supervision of a man (personal trainer). High angle shot of the same girl exercising. C/U shot of man's face. Woman is Jill Day (pop singer and actress) and a man is her partner and trainer Rusty Hood, former PTI in the Australian Navy. Jill has been training for several years and she (and an increasing number of women) find weight training a great way to lose weight, gain weight or simply keep fit. Several shots of Ms Day exercising with weights.
Ms May has decided to open her own gym and it proved popular with her colleagues and other attractive men. Canadian actor Lee Paterson is seen bare chested, exercising with weights. Robert Brown, less fit and with more clothes on, is shown working out too.
M/S of two breath taking, muscly, sexy young men working out with weights. One is James Lawrie, Mister East of Scotland and another, South African Johnny Isaacs, a runner-up in the Mister Universe Competition. They wear only underwear so that their bodies are displayed. Great bodies! Wall behind them is covered in pinup girls - what else! Perfect macho image of the 50's. M/S of Ms Day coming to admire the guys. C/U shot of Ms Day's hand feeling Johnny's biceps is followed by C/U shot of her very pleased face.
Note: Mute and Track neg for this story are missing.
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[@jimmygonzalez8185]

this really makes one appreciate the amount of studying we've put into human health

[@daniellap.stewart6839]

These guys are jacked af what are you talking about?

[@boyl.8251]

@@daniellap.stewart6839 They legit just said deep knee excersize for legs chest and lungs like bruh. and that bicep curl is horendous

[@generallyafailure123]

​@@boyl.8251 He's doing breathing squats, not the type of squat usually done these days. The idea isn't to shift weight, it's to work on breathing. The belief of the time was that breathing exercises like the pullover and the breathing squat aid ribcage expansion and make the chest look bigger as a result. This is still hotly disputed today. These were staple exercises for people like Steve Reeves who had MASSIVE ribcages which really showcased their pecs. Pullovers definitely strengthen intercostal muscles, breathing squats is a little more dubious but these aren't actually bad exercises, in fact the pullover is an essential exercise in my opinion. The curl seems to be getting the job done as well to be fair.

[@boyl.8251]

@@generallyafailure123 yeah but by today’s standards its wouldn’t slide

[@generallyafailure123]

@@boyl.8251Not with you maybe. There's plenty of utter crap out there these days, fundamental exercises like this work better than a lot of bro-science peddled today. The techniques and diet of silver era bodybuilders tended to result in healthy, impressive physiques and they actually lived pretty long lives. I'd rather work a decent full-body routine incorporating breathing and joint mobility than 90% of the utter crap that most people do today.

[@shanebartissol607]

Ah yes squats, the ultimate pec builder.

[@aaronf.186]

Squats? No. Deep knee bends, yes.

[@briannunez4137]

That's really not that funny

[@yohunter5426]

@@briannunez4137 its pretty funny

[@xxrandmlinksxxbruh2419]

@@yohunter5426 yeah if you’re 10

[@Chris-ij8xb]

@@xxrandmlinksxxbruh2419 shut it. it's funny

[@IronHorse_464]

*Amazing Stuff*

[@chirstnguyen546]

No one cmt so i will cmt

[@steveo6408]

@@chirstnguyen546 nice cmt

[@C.A._Old]

All Of Times !

[@hazzzkayyy9026]

Athlean X spitting out his pre workout after seeing the form

[@enricmm85]

Jill Day's gym is killing your gains.

[@Pughhead]

That fake natty is a clown anyway

[@murtazahmed5770]

U got me🤣🤣

[@beburs]

Real weights are killing your gains

[@yassernomani2772]

Squats for legs chest and luunngssss holy helllll😅😅😅🤣🥳

[@AnthonyMazzarella]

Not squats deep knee bends

[@MrScottbrady1]

They literally didn’t have a clue what they were doing.

[@neets_edit2123]

Lol yeah

[@laurence2421]

The science was in the works, man. You can see an awesome picture of fitness before it became what it is today. I wish we could see ancient people in India, swinging weighted clubs to build muscle hundreds of years ago. People have always known heavy lifting will make you stronger. The science that made it safer and more efficient took time. It's still changing. People 100 years from now are gonna say the same thing about us

[@dfunlovingguy2575]

Yet they were in shape compared to more than 90% of the people who go to gym today.

[@Kosh_]

@@dfunlovingguy2575 that’s why people go to the gym idiot

[@tushardahiya4514]

@@laurence2421 nothing to add more into it, truly well said brother 👏

[@xoom8980]

Why am I on a 1960s binge rn

[@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503]

This film is from 1956: that's 1950s, not 1960s. xx

[@MrAngryman69]

Wearing heels during a workout is amazing lol

[@georgyhot1]

Women back then were naturally beautiful ☺️

[@brownbanana1970]

You’re trippin. Do you know the amount of hairspray and makeup you need to look like that

[@georgyhot1]

@@brownbanana1970 They used a little bit of makeup and didn't have plastic surgery. Now most women wear a full mask 10 layers of makeup, inject botox and get plastic surgery done to their face. Just go to your local pub, mall or bank the proof is there 💁

[@marianaramirez738]

lmao

[@caligari665]

There were feminine and subtle, that's for sure.

[@Squeakypickles619]

@TXSTDMMY "OmG dId YoU jUsT aSsUmE.." LOL stfu🤣

[@maxim13able]

This was the fitness and gym standard in the Western word in 1940s-1960s In Russia today they still have the 60s gym and fitness mindset standard...

[@boombox9509]

bullshit

[@abhijeetmacho1027]

Do they have old equipments there ??

[@TrumpetPlayer68]

В какой деревне ты живешь?

[@siddharthraychaudhuri7250]

Yeah that is why Russia is a superpower in Olympic strength sports!

[@snapmatic2178]

@@TrumpetPlayer68 Чернобыль

[@OlafKnolaf]

Hello to all men of culture who are watching this.

[@I0MSammy]

The guy in the blue shorts looks like Robert De Niro if he was a bodybuilder

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

Lol when looks at the woman he has the same expression! squatting guy in red tracksuit Al Capone the guy with 'de niro' Clint Eastwood.

[@kenneth2656]

He looks like Jimmy Greaves face on but when he turns his head to the side definitely De Niro

[@electrical_cord]

video: 7 years ago comments: 2 days ago

[@tg2956]

She’s beautiful 💪🏼

[@sethking4311]

That biceps curl 👌🏻🤌🏻 perfect form

[@Doomslayer5301]

💀

[@MilkANDMagic]

You need to understand that this is the 50s. The science was still in the works back then and its not like they have the knowledge we have now. 100 years from now the same thing may be said about us

[@MatteoFitness]

@@MilkANDMagic no bro we have known muscular anatomy since the englightenment period in europe and before

[@paulrickard-steelphantom4476]

😂😂

[@whitty9027]

Those curls were horrendous

[@swapnilprasad6136]

Perfect in my eyes💪🤣

[@lessalazar9068]

No control at all lol

[@billhosko7723]

@@lessalazar9068 Move on... Karen

[@billhosko7723]

Move on... Karen...

[@the_real_bromel]

@@billhosko7723 hes not wrong tho

[@adnaanu]

@0:53 Every one mocking his form, but this is what Leroy Colbert and Steve Reeves used to do. Raising your elbows up after a curl gives a powerful contraction.

[@skrtskrt8539]

dogshit form still

[@Reactiontime6000]

And shoulder pain

[@yea4253]

​@@Reactiontime6000 if you're a weak, sure

[@Reactiontime6000]

@@yea4253 yeah Ronnie Coleman has pain in his old age because he’s weak, for sure

[@praga2967]

@@Reactiontime6000бля 😂

[@jamesvanbergeyk2353]

Robert Deniro at the end 😂

[@floridafireandflood8284]

I came to comments to find this exact comment. Looks just like him

[@kidguerrila]

Lmao, Othe guy looks like James Dean too

[@bhu3050]

Johnny Isaacs told my father and his training partner weightlifting champion Harry Dubois , that he (Johnny Isaacs) lent Sean Connery 5 pound to get a cab to an acting audition as he was broke. He said you know he never paid me back. Typical Scottsman. The interesting part is that the audition was for James Bond.

[@TheEpicProjects300K]

That's a wild story since Sean Connery is my favourite Bond! Did your father pursue bodybuilding at all?

[@bhu3050]

@@TheEpicProjects300K Extremely successfully, yes. Weightlifting , bodybuilding and powerlifting in fact he was known as a very strong man in the region and so was invited to the very first ever powerlifting meet in the country. Before that it was weightlifting bodybuilding and odd lift competitions where they would perform an overhead press , a curl and or some other “odd lift” such as the continental clean and jerk where the weight is cleaned to the belt and hitched. Too many people were tearing tendons especially bicep in the strict curl so they formed 3 lifts and regulations and the sport of powerlifting was born. My father was also a training partner and very good friends with Reg Parks. He was owner of the iconic gym that he training at purchasing it solely because the owner was in financial difficulties and he didn’t want the gym he trained at to close and everyone came through the circuit , Arnold , Zane, Draper , Bill Pearl , Tom Platz , Bill Kazamier and other top tier powerlifters weightlifters and strong men from around the world including Eastern European weightlifters. He still trains people privately to this day and is still an international judge for the ifbb and ipf. There’s so much history to strength sports and gym culture in fact most people don’t know that Sean Connery was a bodybuilder and worked as a grave digger before he was an actor.

[@begus817]

no one is going to talk about ripped robert de niro 1:24

[@bazookabullet101]

Straight up Robert de niro and captain sparkles combined

[@benkenobi5128]

1:15 That guy was just straight-up using gravity

[@garrysucks4190]

The guy with the dumbbells or the barbell?

[@milky9854]

​@@garrysucks4190dumbells I'm guessing

[@JGrocks18]

Form is impeccable

[@vargalevente1144]

The exercise are very irregular. But I like it nice muscles!

[@AlexanderSwallow]

Today is the 100th birthday of Rusty, the trainer in the video. He's a friend, wonderful man :)

[@Pete4474]

Back when pre-workout was a cigarette to open up the lungs

[@stephenguppy7882]

The two guys together near the end are gorgeous.

[@bryanreed316]

That last guy looked like Robert DeNiro

[@seyonmahendran7182]

0:57 atrocious form, yet now we learned a lot from them. The pros and cons of each and every exercise, studied the proper form from the past mistakes. I wonder what more changes are there to make in future.

[@bentleyv1233]

Right like no wonder my grandparents got all those surgeries that early they were just picking up the weights and doing whatever they felt worked

[@saypuppy4266]

I can see what the barbell curl they were trying to work the bicep from both insertion points. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work.

[@tiedemann2107]

Ultra turbo super based

[@thezoom5416]

EL DE TRUZA AZUL, AL FINAL, NO SOLO ES MUSCULAR SINO MUY SEXY. EL SE MERECE TODO EL VIDEO......

[@ДаДа-п8о]

The shoes and the hair

[@EmilioRamirez-p5r]

The man in the blue looks so fit

[@SpeedCola]

Great content :)

[@splatterman4074]

Nice squat👍

[@Zawazuki]

Jill is smoking

[@Zawazuki]

was*

[@mvyper]

She makes me thinks of Babs in Family Guy.

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

The guy in the blue trunks has the perfect physique.

[@rory6229]

Ew no

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

@@rory6229 why? Off topic but he looks like Robert Deniro lol

[@odevrim5845]

its a miracle he even achieved it with the knowledge they had back then

[@deltaid1439]

@@odevrim5845 yes thats why its perfect for that time

[@odgarig8601]

His arms look anorexic

[@ghossk1767]

Ah yes squats the best exercise to hit the muscle group LUNGS

[@b0leg23]

You do breath alot when doing it, maybe its true.

[@jj-oo6oi]

Deep knee bends for the chest and lungs. Thanks for the info.

[@FrankZen]

I want that pullover cushion!

[@Biranavan]

1 comment but 600k views wth?!

[@noahtheg451]

yes

[@afrosamurai6969]

happens

[@keboonplumeria5266]

So much better and moderate form back then

[@aldoringo439]

The "two hands curl"

[@ericgallardo682]

Que bellas mancuernas

[@thelastsamurai2414]

Blud really said squats for chest

[@LucyHaskell-qx6nu]

Me:cartoon wolf noises-1:15

[@EARSHOTA7X]

Just here to add to the oddly low number of comments.

[@Philotus]

She was only 26 here. She looks older.

[@NAVEENCHAURASIYAA]

Why is ahe making funny faces

[@neilmcmahon]

I still see people doing barbell curls like that in 2024.

[@pradyumn2453]

❤❤

[@Autoverkauf2024]

Those curls ^^

[@ScantaniouslyCombust]

i'm still trying to work out if this is satire or not

[@wasabi5338]

Probably not, its the 50s, the knowledge and whatever we discovered today is still unknown back then.

[@michaelvaluciek8893]

No its not satire.

[@kansasarkansas585]

nope, they didnt have steroids back in the 50s

[@the_real_bromel]

@@kansasarkansas585 what does that have to do with anything

[@kansasarkansas585]

@@the_real_bromel so they dont look like typical gym freaks nowadays

[@ghostface7591]

This is so Fallout

[@codedstar25shotz29]

The form 💀

[@siddharthraychaudhuri7250]

Even though some may find it funny they were strong, fit and functional enough. No doubt physical training science has come a long way, why we see the great feats in pro sports. But these people were healthy in most other ways....except the smoking ofcourse!

[@michaelderenne9838]

Lol knee bends. There called squats guys

[@lfcwilli]

Jill needs to keep her hands to herself when man’s lifting

[@Glombre]

These bros getting their pump before heading off to the bath house

[@matt49125]

Robert Brown = M in the 1980s bond films

[@ThiHills]

1:30 Lola Melnick? É você?

[@sp1nn1ngax3l7]

Ah yes, the classic “deep knee bends”

[@Jagged1]

Wish I could go back to compete in old mr universe I’d actually do not half bad

[@MRRIllustrations]

Why did I suddenly have Village People songs in my head at 1:15 :D

[@Joel_1993]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@choquestephane620]

Bob Brown who was play M with Roger Moore

[@underdogmage5607]

Omg the goofy curls

[@Brown87]

I do love a good lung pump on the squat rack (!) 😂

[@ThatDevError]

Going to the gym in the 50s to hit the doohickey machine

[@jungefrau]

I dont think the men there are inspired by women. 😉

[@user-wd4ky6ck7p]

"Deep knee bends"

[@aldoringo439]

No one: Gym rats rn after seeing the first exercise 👿😡🤬

[@MAllen-ng8pl]

At 1:25, is that Robert deniro from 1991’s Cape Fear?

[@leftysr2stupid354]

Hahahahahahahaha this is great

[@Regenwurmbaendiger]

Jill did a lot investment for Pick up ...

[@DSUL85]

Wow videos like these at least no trolls can say steroids got them ripped.

[@RisitasPolonais7335]

The fitgame in the 50's

[@AliJan-go3jo]

Squats for legs chest and lungs 🫡

[@shahjehan]

Why is this guy working out shirtless and sweaty?

[@pichass9337]

why is she wearing earings and make-up?

[@Feber2001]

I would've been an absolute menace

[@hrishikeshshankarbora]

*ok*

[@Thomas_Couto]

1:05 "Legs, chest and lungs"

[@ショボショボ爺は要介護]

Jill is so hot.

[@keremyldrm7918]

o haraketi yanlış yapıyosun karşm

[@wackwack7214]

Ah deep knee bends for big lungs 💪!!!

[@JCKtube]

1:00 The 80s "M"

[@roaming740]

Is thay Robert di nero? Perhaps a clone

[@21nameyuser]

Bro science ast its peak

[@Mr_ULTMT]

Im laughing these comments are funny af

[@briannunez4137]

Da da da da...atadadada

[@चेतन_महाराष्ट्र]

That exercise is bad for the shoulders

[@bodybuilding4ever]

Curls all the way up to their necks? Are they trying to hang themselves up with those barbell?

[@MrPlayGame991]

they are all dead 🧐

[@shiekhwaladimiral-protein8726]

@Khalid Shareeh 🤣🤣

[@dysquest]

1:24 Robert De Niro?

[@StefanoPobleteinF]

Would

[@jithinjayachandranpk]

Ain't they all doing it wrong?

[@devetuncayy]

1:05 what lungs

[@arminbaron839]

"Are we doing these exercises the right way?" ...shut up we only have one roll of film keep going

[@gebo9346]

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