The Evolution Of Gold's Gym | Bodybuilding Chronicles

[@aaronparra4521]

I’m an LA local and this video is an accurate description of what you’ll experience if you work out at Gold’s Gym Venice. One of the perks of working out here is when the professionals see you doing something wrong and they come over and give you advice on how to accurately perform an exercise. The bodybuilders might be huge, but they’re teddy bears 😊

[@GREGG_VALENTINO]

I WAS THERE BEFORE SHAWN WAS THERE....AND WHAT'S THERE NOW IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT I EXPERIENCED IN 1980-81-82-83 AND SAME WITH WORLDS GYM SEEING ARNOLD IN THE GYM AT 5am TRAINING STILL YOUNG AFTER WINNING THE 1980 MR OLYMPIA WAS SOMETHING I AM PROUD TO SAY I WAS PART OF!!!!...GV

[@vaiona5156]

Gregg Valentino YOU WERE LUCKY TO SEE IT ALL IN THE GOLDEN ERA. LUCKYGUY!!!

[@GREGG_VALENTINO]

THANK YOU MY BROTHER,,,YOU ROCK!!!!...GV

[@mrlegs1544]

Electric

[@dreambigdoc]

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[@Colossus1993]

Bodybuilding in the 80s and 90s looked so cool, the atmosphere in the gyms, the camerydy between people. I'm from 93, training since 2011 obviously I didn't experienced that, like Shawn said, now days, it's the world off technologys/influencers... Great video, thanks 💪

[@belingonza318]

First time for me was 1974 different atmosphere back then. Nobody had money but they liked to work out. Haven't been out there since they rebuilt the weight pit on the beach. I know I'm old but i have alot of memories!

[@rorycampbell8753]

Belin Gonza you’re a legend!

[@paulhupp4293]

You were one of the lucky ones that trained n the original GG on Pacific Ave....

[@Stanly-Stud]

Golds was full of schmoes, drugs & homosexuality 😮

[@deanhoward7455]

Such rich history well told by someone who was there

[@dquinn8344]

Really? He was there at 1006 Pacific Ave and 1452 2nd Street?

[@steviethomas1988]

I lived in Venice 89-94 trained at golds twice a day all what Shawn is saying is correct all the pros were there and when there was a pro show comin up ALL the pros were there I’ll never forget one day walked in in the middle room doing incline bench press was Lee Haney then also doing hamstring curls was Dorian Yates and Lee labrada Vince Taylor and Mike Christian in the gym too and don’t think there was ANY show on ! (Maybe photo shoots) I say 80% if not more all pros came to golds and they used to nearly all stay at the Marina pacific hotel on Venice beach (now hotel Erwin I think ) in that hotel at restaurant was the chef named RAJ who done all the pro bodybuilding food for the pros !... yes they trusted Raj!! He was that good of a chef ... I think honestly for golds Venice the peak years were (once it moved to where it is now) 89 to 99 I would say ... nothing stays the same ... it’s not BAD now it’s just DIFFERENT ...... change of times

[@kerpal321]

what a great time in history to have been there

[@rochelleholmes9271]

I competed in the 80's and 90's. I'll always remember those days!!

[@maggimar3118]

Great story told by a great man, Shawn Ray

[@TheOpenScroll]

GREAT VIDEO !!! Thanks Shawn Ray and Generation Iron 💎💎💎👍😊

[@asadniazi227]

Amazing video!

[@JohnnyCage333]

Awesome! Alot of history. Classic! Venice Beach Golds Gym!🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♀️💪

[@jefferyyoder9785]

Perfect analysis! Great video!

[@flexrose2552]

It souns like bodybuilding heaven! Cool story!

[@tiberiusxv]

wow very interesting video!

[@richardciotti2697]

Great video Shawn. How have you been? Thanks for bringing back some great memories! I doubt it will ever be duplicated.

[@jefferyyoder9785]

My best experience in BB was living in Orlando FL in the 1980s training at Orange Avenue Gym. It was old school and folks weren't mega dosing and I seen guys do 415 seated shoulder presses and 500lbs squats for 30 reps. Monsters but were genetically gifted through God and not Chemically gifted!

[@AllenHarrison]

I'm going to make my first pilgrimage to Golds Venice in march, can't wait!

[@ericp1470]

Allen Harrison it’s fucking amazing man!

[@dquinn8344]

Shawn is not talking here about the first 2 Gold's gym locations (in Venice at 1006 Pacific Ave and then Santa Monica at 1452 2nd Street) which were gone before he came to California. Those 2 iconic photos (were first seen in Weider's magazine) at 8:57 and 9:01 are at the 2nd Gold's in Santa Monica taken in late 1978....

[@dreweray5586]

Awesome content generation iron.you the man shawn

[@goldenera4ever]

I would love to visit Gold's Venice. I may be wrong but I've seen Mike O'Hearn using a pull up bar that looks an awful lot like the same one we've all seen Arnold using at the Original Gold's in those old black and white photos. If that is indeed an actual original piece it should probably be in a museum, but how awesome would it be to use the same piece of equipment that golden era bodybuilders used?

[@sharkdoo25]

Great content

[@ianwalsh9552]

An entertainment centre rather than a hardcore gym

[@mmmmmmm9915]

Good video

[@FilipDropulic]

The Blade came and never go! 😅💪🏻🤙

[@seand67]

Awesome video

[@iamJROD]

Vince's Gym North Hollywood was another classic gym.

[@hassanphoenix5479]

Vic Richards 19 yrs old 30 inches quads Now that’s something we never heard

[@paulhupp4293]

LOL @4:35 Rachel McLish working out on the back deck of World Gym, not Golds.... 😎😎

[@dreambigdoc]

The Hampton Drive location Shawn speaks about is the third location of Gold’s. The original at 1006 Pacific was open from 1965-1976. The second location was 1452 2nd Street in Santa Monica from 1976-1981. Then the Hampton location that Shawn is speaking about here, is the third. Joe Gold sold Gold’s in 1970 and nothing to do with it from then on. The video is a bit confusing in terms of historical accuracy.

[@dreambigdoc]

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[@archilonshadowheart7]

its a historical landmark google cant just buy it that'll be a controversy, somebody needs to buy it and keep bodybuilding alive we need a place a foundation or stronghold otherwise we dont have a place that's the place to be it'll end up flipping to the east coast and being Bev Francis gym. the bodybuilding scene has been there since the 30's really built up in the 50's. with Tanny's and Gironda's i mean its fucking historic how can it be taken and just bought?

[@ovathere93]

And now we have...Bev Francis Power House. The east coast Mecca.

[@gv4476]

Shawn Ray . You had the best body ever.. ..I also like Arnold body Cool man 👍 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@gunsandpoker7432]

1:18 Ric Drasin and Jeff Goldblum

[@stevenguzman4591]

i grew up in la but i didn’t think there was a golds gym in the 2005s

[@shannonmonroe5873]

I think people forget how big Pete Gyrmkowski truly was when he was training and competing.

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

Pete was the biggest monster BB in the late 70s...Robbed of many deserved IFBB wins...

[@mattmuscle8249]

Nice

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

The Gold's Shawn is talking about is the 3rd one that was later moved to that location after Pete Grymkowski bought it in 79.....

[@dreambigdoc]

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[@RadPitt]

Shawn start your own channel man your show was the shit back in the day

[@vaiona5156]

80S 90S AND EARLY 2000 MUST OF BEEN AWESOME THERE! NOW ITS FULL OF KZbinRS😂😂😂😂 FML

[@jimmyjohnson6232]

Ban cell phones in the gyms

[@jimmendence6383]

how can you tell someone how it was you had to be there

[@amandeepv]

1.20 guy next to Goldblum ,is he dead?

[@Reinhardt4444]

There will always be another gym.

[@vaiona5156]

Judge Dredd HOPE SO!!!

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

What Shawn said was very accurate...You don't NEED a Gold's...You could do it in your backyard...

[@mrlegs1544]

Is he talking about original golds from pumping iron

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

No...Shawn is talking about the 3rd Gold's location....

[@Mani_Matter]

this is natural bodybuilding

[@Jcecil17]

Annoys the fuck out of me how I can't go to gold's gym because of travel cost and dangers of driving.

[@LacosteBoy1]

Gold's Gym = Arnold Schwarzenegger

[@OriginalPuro]

"You see literally every celebrity on their phones between sets" That's not a good thing, the world is too addicted to phones and social media, especially young women and girls.

[@robertarnold7187]

Everything Ray does has to somehow be about him.

[@iktomi5]

💯🤩

[@BobbyTompkins-hp1nc]

Think in the Locker Room they had A Used Needle Ben to dispose your Needles.

[@Thecraig23]

The golds franchise in Australia is a joke, most have closed, they, and world gym are hard sell “health clubs” more interested in “classes”than being a gym. I went to Golds Santa Monica in 97 and got to meet a number of the top guys, great atmosphere even then. Now it’s fully corporatised and

[@Thecraig23]

Relying on the name only.

[@ottohernandez8818]

Like anything, Google will fuck this up too....try and rewrite their own version of history of this place...

[@justindelaney9987]

It's funny what he said in the beginning. Around 1986 my Grandparents took me up to Venice beach. We went to Gold's first. Place had a party environment. I still remember Prince 1999 was playing. Then we went to World's gym. Place was old school. No music. Just clanking of weights. Got to meet Tom Platz that day.

[@bic50channel]

Gold gym VITAGYMXL

[@phaedo1384]

Place really isn’t that special the past 15 years. Hardly any of the top pros train there anymore. Today it’s nothing more than celebs and people taking pics on their phones

[@PaulKretz]

*Overexposed, missed focus and even voice distortion* ... and I'm not talking about the Shawn's attitude :D I'm talking about the episode quality. What's wrong with the cameraman?

[@dbo1236]

No matter how positive the theme of the video is Shawn Ray will always find a way to be negative.

[@alexgrey333]

Skibidi rizz

[@jimmendence6383]

sorry you will be gone.just like me i was there before you

[@capt.shaffer8655]

go to metroflex!

[@antz19coyote73]

Funny enough everyone one of them you mentioned probably cant stand you.

[@EdgarFreindly]

That just seemed like a total contridiction slating the shit out of it then saying it's still golds get yourself down their

[@stankakol5195]

Athletes? He means junkies!!!

[@SoleMax23]

That voice….😂🤣😂🤣🤦🏽‍♂️🥴🤷🏽‍♂️

[@dquinn8344]

Those crappy wood frame houses under construction behind Shawn look awful...Looks like cheap 3rd world construction....

[@fabioyslie1664]

second comment!

[@dr.jaspreetsinghkhandpurChest]

9:19 it feels great to see a fellow sikh man in generation iron as animation and graphics expert - Mr. GursimranJeet Gill

[@franbelta1533]

Hogan pre NWord should be in captions lol