Old School Camraderie and Why Gold’s Gym Equipment Was The Best

Old School Camraderie and Why Gold’s Gym Equipment Was The Best - Ken Waller Interview

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@renxu9 9 ай бұрын

When the society doesn’t understand your endeavour, you bond close to your ‘comrades’

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Truth

@user-dn4lg1dv5v 9 ай бұрын

Awesome 👌 the older machines, the good ones, were so smooth and much better than a lot of the cheap garbage you find in gyms today.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

I totally agree!

@bradfordmcdermott2063 9 ай бұрын

Nautilus pullover and bicep curl was some of the best made

@devinrivers5808 9 ай бұрын

@@bradfordmcdermott2063Couldn’t agree with you more, I’ve had a chance to use an old school Nautilus pullover machine!..,plate loaded with the chain! Smooth like butter. I used this Nautilus machine and others when I was in High School my senior year for P.E. class…we used the machines that the football team used..it was amazing! I wish more commercial gyms had some of these pieces of Nautilus machines 👍🏿

@user-dn4lg1dv5v 9 ай бұрын

@@bradfordmcdermott2063 totally agree.

@porcupinecraig 9 ай бұрын

Anyone can have the camaraderie if they make friends in the gym with like minded trainers. At my gym, I started talking with other guys and girls who were training hard and consistently. Then we started going to dinner together and even playing golf. We always show up at the gym at the same time because we want to train together and feed off of each others energies. It's great. Maybe it isn't Arnold and Ken, but it's people that I like being around and it's fun.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

This awesome 👌 Well done 👏

@alainmallette2265 9 ай бұрын

Love those Pumping Iron outtakes. Thanks for sharing When l first joined a gym,was in 1982,they still had old school machines like half moon bench,vertical leg press,cast iron dumbells,ect...very rudimentary,yet guys were much bigger in those small dusty gyms than the one l go today,(World Gym) with brocoli heads teens glued to their phones. Miss those days.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Broccoli 🥦 head teens, hahaha, awesome 😅

@utopianseeker5493 9 ай бұрын

It's always good to hear from Ken Waller.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

He is a class act

@trinihammer 9 ай бұрын

i hear he is not in the best of health

@theenlightenedone1283 9 ай бұрын

We still use these things the basics and they r doing great for us

@odessafile75 9 ай бұрын

I noticed the same thing about modern cable crossover machines. They are much lower and not as effective as what I had access to in the 70s/ 80s

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

That's my point. I'm glad Ken brought this up

@timprice5739 9 ай бұрын

Wow this is unbelievable you’re so lucky to talk to these marvelous !

@knightveg 9 ай бұрын

Sorry I forgot to post on your new gym, looks awesome. The gym I went to in 90's it had the cast iron round plates on the machines, The sounds when they were moving was so motivational

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

I love the sound of metal plates clinking. It's the original beat of the gym. You didn't need music. The Iron sang with you as you trained

@STEVEREEVES4444 9 ай бұрын

Cable crossovers i always hit the floor on my knees to increase the range !

@elfrogtrainer 9 ай бұрын

Great video! I believe ROM was somewhat "uncharted territory" during the Golden Era, leaving bodybuilders to experiment more with their mobility and tolerances. Flexibility had already established itself as a key component of sport. Also, all of these guys understood the importance of having a strong background in bodyweight training prior to pumping iron. Their findings are a legacy making a comeback today. S & C from the 90s to the late 2000s hit a plateau regarding the importance of mobility. Mainstream fitness during those years approached ROM quite restrictively. I remember CT Fletcher being stoked whenever he found an old-school machine for his gym. He knows!

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

CT FLETCHER understands like I do. I try and scoop up as much old school machines as possible

@elfrogtrainer 9 ай бұрын

@@GoldenEraBookworm That's great! The acquisitions can be a living testimony to the era as well....hopefully even grow into a GolderEraBookworm Museum of Strength, someday.

@timprice5739 9 ай бұрын

Best Chanel on KZbin love it thank you so much 🙏🏻

@joshuakolling4869 7 ай бұрын

Does anybody know what the layout/ floorplan of the original Gold's Gym was? What equipment did it have and how it was arranged? What were the dimensions? Where this information could be found? Seems like it was a fairly small building.

@ChrisS-mp6et 9 ай бұрын

Great show! 👍

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Ken is a class act. Love his stories

@SteelyDavey 9 ай бұрын

The Gold's gym of old is the way they should still be these days. I used to go to a similar one in the mid nineties with good basic machines and plenty of free weights and looking back it was very small. These giant sanitised places that are common these days won't get you better results, there should be minimal distractions.

@retrobilly1719 9 ай бұрын

I Competed from about 80-87 and We all trained together spotted each other and joked and kitted around in the Gym, We were Young & Single and Hung out together ,Partied Etc.Was a Fun time, Had Cookouts,Not Unusual to eat a 1/2 to whole grilled Chicken in 1 sitting

@odessafile75 9 ай бұрын

Apparently Waller could consume 2-3 whole chickens at a time.

@lwskiner 9 ай бұрын

I truly believe that the equipment available by 1980 is all you need. With the York, Gold's and Nautilus pieces, all bases are covered.

@StreetTruckinTitan 9 ай бұрын

The stretch was important to develop big full muscle bellys. The old school machines and exercises performed concentrated on the stretch and then the contraction.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

This is so true, unfortunately I believe much of this style of training is lost with machine work.

@StreetTruckinTitan 9 ай бұрын

@@GoldenEraBookworm Thats true too. But also, noboby does full ROM anymore. Seated rolls, its now a sin to let the weight pull you al the way forward for a lower lat stretch that built the great backs of the 70s. Today, everybody sits like a statue. smh

@ClassicTor 9 ай бұрын

Doesnt really matter what everyone elke does or thinks if you just dont do that garbage than your good and even better since no one else does it@@StreetTruckinTitan

@geraldn1 7 ай бұрын

This was awesome, Carlos. Complete with John Holmes coffee serving cameo, lol.

@timo4051 9 ай бұрын

Yet another cool video. The camaraderie part would be especially cool to hear more about. Stories from back in the day, the brotherhood mentality and everything else. On a side thought, what’s your take on Mike Mentzer’s high intensity training philosophy?

@Richard-xg1vv 9 ай бұрын

Golden Era, your gym looks amazing, wow excellent job. If you can, ask Waller about their 'diet' in those days, what would have been typical for a days eating. Also, do you know when Golds moved from the location they filmed Pumping Iron (the gym in most of your videos on this subject) to the location in Santa Monica, I believe it was on 2nd street before they moved again to current location. Thanks, great video.

@ryanleclaire3948 9 ай бұрын

This is why kneeling at the cable crossover machine replicates this height difference, but for some reason, you never see anyone doing this. Who knows lol

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Very true, that's a great point

@goldenera4ever 7 ай бұрын

The camaraderie of the 70's is a big part of why that era intrigues me so much. It's like these guys were involved in something (bodybuilding) that was still foreign to most people and were looked at as freaks, but they didn't care. They had the weights and each other and nothing else mattered.

@johnkelley6278 9 ай бұрын

We will never ever see the like of , Hadi, Samson, Nick Walker, CBUM, James Hollingshead all working out together, eating lunch together and just having fun with each other in the gym like the old school guys were doing in this great video. Maybe there's too much money involved now days for comraderi.

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Would be nice though

@kkwok9 9 ай бұрын

Great video. Golden age, silver age, bronze age bodybuilding is the ONLY bodybuilding!

@r.e.4640 9 ай бұрын

There are A LOT OF GYMS like Joe Gold's gym today. Even MUCH BETTER!!

@kevinchouinard9539 9 ай бұрын

We have gold gym to thank. Better equipment? I disagree and I think you missed the point of the type of equipment Sean. Maybe it’s best to say that today’s big gyms have more equipment 😁

@knightveg 9 ай бұрын

In UK hardcore bodybuilding gyms are dying breed, Nowadays I use commercial gyms and the machines are so crap, And I look at KZbin videos of people on machines and I think They nothing like the machines I used from 90's As most of them were from the 70's

@ignitionfrn2223 9 ай бұрын

I do wonder how the camaraderie was in the bronze & silver era...

@stayhungry76 9 ай бұрын

Is Bill Pettis at 00:42 ? Thanks for Your precious documentaries!

@odessafile75 9 ай бұрын

Dave Dupree

@stayhungry76 9 ай бұрын

Are You sure?

@GoldenEraBookworm 9 ай бұрын

Dave Dupre

@odessafile75 9 ай бұрын

@@stayhungry76 100% positive.

@gb8814 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic.

@roadstar499 9 ай бұрын

Smooth working machines allowing you to get a full stretch is the key...10 ft high is fine,but not necessary...

@nicholasraso6742 9 ай бұрын

Very cool

@dylanlooker129 6 ай бұрын

Always wanted to know who the girl was sat watching Arnold and Ed Corney working out .....she was gorgeous 😍

@mipawe1575 9 ай бұрын

Ist es nicht möglich, dass sich eine Firma finden lässt die die alten Maschinen exakt gleich nachbaut? Kabeltürme mit runden Gewichtsblöcken, Bänke mit den alten Polsterungen, Hantelscheiben aus Eisen, etc. ? Das sollte doch möglich sein. Man könnte diese Linie dann "Joe Gold Serie" nennen? 😍❤🤗

@davidmacmillan6898 4 ай бұрын

Best Equipment Ever Better then any Pieace if Equipment Made ti this Day !!.💯🔥

@jameskirchner2655 9 ай бұрын

Gyms are not like this anymore. More like a photo studio especially the woman made it terrible

@Richard-xg1vv 9 ай бұрын

Exactly, the hard core days are over, unfortunately . . . so glad I got to Golds, Worlds gym in 77-79-81 before it got what's out there today. Oh well, progress I guess . . . .