I remember seeing Robby on the beach in 1977. He was by himself standing and staring at the ocean. He looked perfect. I had never seen a bodybuilder before and I wanted to get closer but was scared of someone who looked that way. I certainly didn't want to get confronted by him. Robby should of won Mr Olympia that year for sure
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
He looked phenomenal
@richbrake9910 Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Robby Robinson on Venice beach on Labor Day in 1978. I had just missed him by a few minutes in 1977 when he visited a gym in Detroit. He had the best back and biceps in body building at the time. Not being intimidated I talked to him for several minutes.
@davidbrianwells2058 Жыл бұрын
Robby Robinson's calves were non existent so he would never win the Olympia
@richbrake9910 Жыл бұрын
@@davidbrianwells2058 Man, those genetic flaws will really hurt ya.
@EzakLee-f6w7 ай бұрын
He should have beaten Zane in 1977 for sure. Zane didn't exactly have big calves himself.
@solarbear8888 Жыл бұрын
Was always blown away by his back. So much muscularity. So much definition.
@roseagain2 Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to train with an older guy when I was in high school who had trained with the Golden Era guys. I loved listening to his stories about them. The main exercises he had me do were 10×10 of pull ups, dips, and front squats. I'm 51 now and it amazes me to think I used to do that in high school 3 days a week, with weight! In addition to my football strength and conditioning workouts.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
That's a tough workout
@roseagain2 Жыл бұрын
@Golden Era Bookworm he had me do pull ups with straps as wide as possible because he said that's what Steve Reeves did.
@harolddelgadillo8638 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for that great story. I’m competing in the INBA Global World Cup in November and I’ll definitely incorporate that workout. I’m going for the Steve Reeves look.
@roseagain2 Жыл бұрын
@harold delgadillo That's great, good luck!💪
@harolddelgadillo8638 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Soon I’ll be posting videos. Probably around mid July. I live close to Venice Beach and hopefully I get to see some legends train for added motivation.
@JGD185 Жыл бұрын
His voice is really soothing and captivating. I could listen to him talk about bodybuilding all day.
@Justme85857 Жыл бұрын
He has a Radio announcers voice
@Jay2.0-7 ай бұрын
Pause
@theenlightenedone1283 Жыл бұрын
*One of the best Golden era physics and bodybuilder*
@zeroman155 Жыл бұрын
This has to be a surreal experience for you Carlos. These are guys from the golden era that you looked up too and now get to interview them. What an amazing feeling that must be! Congratulations on your success and may it continue. Thank you for your part in keeping bodybuilding and the golden era alive in the minds of your viewers.
@jackcakeblack Жыл бұрын
Robbie one the world's best physiques I have ever seen, easily! Thanks for sharing.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@theironforce3000 Жыл бұрын
RR Is definitely one of a kind. How many of that era, still alive today, can say they are stronger today than they were during their BB prime time ? 😧 Wild . Rest days not even once.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
Hard work!
@spottss Жыл бұрын
Such a legend from a legendary era that will never be seen again!
@RoidfreeSenior Жыл бұрын
So no big secrets, hard, consistent work has always and continues to work
@ronanhughes9498 Жыл бұрын
Loving these interviews with Robbie and Tom... Awesome 👍
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@theenlightenedone1283 Жыл бұрын
The golden era resurrected
@ericmarks7648 Жыл бұрын
Robbie is incredible! He took everything in front of him, then learned and adapted. WOW!
@JoseCandia-hw6zw3 ай бұрын
Mr.Robinson is the Goat
@adhardino9781 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing the wisdom of the old timers with us... Really appreciate it.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@frankbarberio8149 Жыл бұрын
great video!! could you do a interview with big CRAIG MONSON a very overlooked champ from the 80s.
@StreetTruckinTitan Жыл бұрын
Good interview. I liked seeing photos of Robbie working out with Denny Gable in the old Golds Gym.
@ashtonfrett2536Ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. Thank you both
@danrcockerham Жыл бұрын
Robby always had the perfect physique and was my all time favorite.....bar none!!!
@tokyojon4344 Жыл бұрын
Just amazing interview.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@swbestlife2 ай бұрын
Robbie needs to have a Netflix documentary or movie . From the old days of racism , to the Olympia’s and keeping his body now - his story needs to be told
@saintlouis10873 күн бұрын
He has a movie through Generation Iron called The Blueprint
@colsan8984 Жыл бұрын
I trained as a youth at Sammy's Better Body Fitness Centre in the early 80's. But even before then. Men like Robby Robinson were the Ones. All of them say, the next generation forerunners in a field that has had more than it's fair share of criticism. These men were not easily seen then no interenet or Mobile phones. So again for to Watch the interviews you present with the remnants of these men in these times even now is just awesome. Also the thing is I know for a fact there are many athletes in most areas of the sporting community that have used Roids or other drugs. Just they aren't concentrated on. Not like Body Builders that have been dragged across the coals for tens of years. I even took them for a while in that era. But I also did Vince's 12 eggs a day for 3 week cycles. That was a ripper! 😂😅 I am not saying drugs are good but many have used them in more athletic fields than just body building and these guys know the body and physicality so well. Maybe I am waffling now so just saying thanks for your work & investigations.
@DavidAntunes-rm7dq Жыл бұрын
As a small child I was fascinated by the bodybuilders in the muscle magazines and I would dream of being a bodybuilder myself. I knew all the bodybuilders. But for some reason it was Robby Robinson that made an indelible upon me and inspired me the most. He was a majestic poser on stage and in pictures.
@FitblkmanMr4 ай бұрын
Robbie and Charles glass are legendary
@vintageweightspgh Жыл бұрын
Great interview. I found Robby's memories of his challenges as a Black lifter very interesting.
@silverbackgorilla2112 Жыл бұрын
Robby was always one of my favorites
@pratiksengupta3534 Жыл бұрын
Great interview serieses. Keep it going.
@sevirz13 Жыл бұрын
Great content man, it's good someone's documenting the knowledge from these era's of bodybuilding
@bodyby_z7272Ай бұрын
Living legend
@torinowens61034 ай бұрын
Robby is the Goat! 1love
@0713mas Жыл бұрын
I used the 10x10 for a few months back in the early 2000s. It is a no joke routine, I feel like it was too much volume for a myself as a sustainable routine but it definitely worked. The biggest takeaway for me was just having a better knowledge of my stamina and my 10 rep numbers.
@lwskiner Жыл бұрын
Classic physique with one of the best chiseled and V-shaped backs of all-time. Would have loved to see him square off with Flex Wheeler both in their prime, that would have been interesting!
@bryanbailey961 Жыл бұрын
True legend
@fitlifestylebiggainz Жыл бұрын
Way to overcome Racism 💪 Robby! They was jealous of your genes Nd the ancestors!
@roarbertbearatheon8565 Жыл бұрын
Love hearing from the golden era guys. They really had the best physiques of all time
@fender1000100 Жыл бұрын
Nobody has ever bettered Robbies double biceps pose from the back. Not even Arnold. I'm anti Steroids. But Robbie had a very natural balanced physique in his prime. And back in the 1970s. They werent taking a qtr of the crap they force into their bodies now.
@lastsonofkrypton3918 Жыл бұрын
It's almost a meme nowadays for people to sh!t talk Mike O'Hearn but if you watch him there is no debating the guy is one of the hardest working beasts in the gym walking around today.
@zombiewanderer7 ай бұрын
All that’s true but no one respects the fact in this era he takes everyone for a fool with his natty bs
@lastsonofkrypton39187 ай бұрын
@@zombiewanderer Don't be a hater, my guy. He *is* natural. His testicles naturally produce trenbolone 😂
@topshelfbullys78895 ай бұрын
True but NO ONE likes a liar!!!
@anthony342 Жыл бұрын
do miss ric drasin
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
Me too, and I am trying to continue his work best that I can
@anthony342 Жыл бұрын
@@GoldenEraBookworm nice one ...
@ericjablonski8838 Жыл бұрын
@@GoldenEraBookworm You are doing an awesome job . Thank you very much.
@ericjablonski8838 Жыл бұрын
@@GoldenEraBookworm I bet Ric would be proud
@theenlightenedone1283 Жыл бұрын
@@GoldenEraBookworm respect for that ... I used watch every episode... please make a video about him ... again ?!!!
@utopianseeker5493 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Carlos!
@alonsozambrano7073 Жыл бұрын
excelllennnnnnnttttt
@wildmanz8233 Жыл бұрын
I trained next to Robby in the 80s at a gym in ny. It was so depressing..I was incline curling the 70s, him like the 40s and my arms could NEVER look like his!
@zenfitnutrition8908 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic thanks 💪🏽
@silverpanther985 Жыл бұрын
Great interview!
@stankormy5717 Жыл бұрын
Robby Robinson can still go!
@svetozarozegovic3684 Жыл бұрын
Hi to champion Roby from Australia. 👍💪
@CharlesWessel2 ай бұрын
Super Smart Man
@jacob-go7pj Жыл бұрын
Legend
@85passthru Жыл бұрын
Met him in the 70'S was at Freddie Mitchells gym in Canada...first pro i ever saw...was just a cool mellow guy.
@invictus5958 Жыл бұрын
Nice video
@jeffreyetherton3185 Жыл бұрын
Robbie's right about in the 70s if you did bodybuilding you were seen as gay. I remember having to go into London to get a copy of Joe Weider's muscle magazine and it was always on the top shelf amongst the porn magazines!!
@obsaeikeland9371 Жыл бұрын
Yeeeees the prince once again
@edge7799 Жыл бұрын
On another subject the Wieder crossed arms bust statue is Mr Robonson's body.
@fitlifestylebiggainz Жыл бұрын
500lbs leg press 100 reps. Okay! Any questions on what the rest period was like with George doing the 10x10 or the purpose of that type of training?
@michelrood2966 Жыл бұрын
Hypertrophy of course. Quads react best to high reps.
@lastsonofkrypton3918 Жыл бұрын
GEBW did a video on Gironda's / GVT 10x10 here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWPFZXeLZ8aLhNU
@counterbalancelife4305 Жыл бұрын
I'm assuming 10 sets of 10 with 500lbs. It's the 2,000lb leg presses for 20 reps with Mike O'Tren that made me spit my coffee out. 1" rep range maybe.
@richbrake9910 Жыл бұрын
I saw Porter Cottrell leg press 800 lbs for 70 reps....
@richbrake9910 Жыл бұрын
20 to 30 sec between sets. that's it...
@kamilkhoury8786 Жыл бұрын
Hey man about the 30 eggs a day diet can I keep doing it for ever and does it have steroid side effects. If I cannot how many days of the cycle till I can do it again
@michelrood2966 Жыл бұрын
You must be joking, eggs having " steroid side effects" ? 🤡
@brucemfvane4148 Жыл бұрын
According to Vince garanda Eating that much eggs does!! have a steroid effect I read his book. Eating that much eggs for too long will eventually hurt you you need to cycle off of it just like steroids. He had a steak and egg's diet and a whole lot of butter. And that's all you could eat
@brucemfvane4148 Жыл бұрын
@@michelrood2966 its true
@allaround6833 Жыл бұрын
Hey bro. Why did you hide Tom Platz interview where he spoke about his cycle?
@PeteCerqua9 ай бұрын
Can I get clarification on Robby's 10x10 routine in the beginning of his career? I understand he did total body workouts, one exercise per body part per day for 10x10... my question is "how many days per week did he do this?"
@whitefang22 Жыл бұрын
What a back robby has!!!!
@nickps2251 Жыл бұрын
Hey what workout plan do you follow?
@StephenDoty84 Жыл бұрын
Robby must have modeled his physique and training after Joe Weider, based on his upper body, given what we know about Joe from that bust made of Joe.
@GoldenEraBookworm Жыл бұрын
LOL
@Ve-suvius Жыл бұрын
😂 👌 According to Joe, everything in bodybuilding was invented by Joe. Joe Weider's training principles.... 😋
@lastsonofkrypton3918 Жыл бұрын
A little known fact is that Joe himself made that bust of Joe with his own two hands.
@Ve-suvius Жыл бұрын
@@lastsonofkrypton3918 😂 Joe is the Master Blaster, being the Über Master himself. He's King of all and everything.
@StephenDoty84 Жыл бұрын
@@lastsonofkrypton3918 How do you know that? What was his training as a master sculptor, silly? Rather, he had someone else make it with their hands, jerky.
@4thecollectors Жыл бұрын
Robby should be the new voice for Darth Vader this is proof that you can grow stronger as you get older
@007stopjockin Жыл бұрын
Didn't Vince Gironda have an 8X8 system? I never heard of the 10x10, but I guess its similar lol, just 2 more reps and 2 more sets. RR looks good still for his age, but the mass and fullness he had from when he was young is definitely gone. Sucks we have to get old! Still is a legend to still be going strong! I guess he doesn't have any arthritis problems? Pretty amazing to be lifting those kind of weights at his age! I definitely can NOT lift heavy like when I was very young anymore. 007
@ZaneLike Жыл бұрын
I have seen Vince reccomend 10x10 (Later to be known as German Volume Training), 8x8 and 6x6, all with the Gironda staple of ultra short rest periods between sets.. I learnt all about these during the 90s reading MMI Ironman and countless books.. These old school guys from the 60s to 90s were the best in my opinion.
@michaelmackenzie6396 Жыл бұрын
Just 2 more reps and 2 more sets, but that equates to 36 more reps total. Both high volume though I get your point
@mayankshuklla2251 Жыл бұрын
Kindly ask him about how he build such beautifully developed biceps
@shack7631 Жыл бұрын
Simple. He was born with them. He would have got those biceps regardless of how he trained. He was simply born lucky.
@lawrenceroadloonie3847 Жыл бұрын
@@shack7631 yes and no he had the genetic potential for the shape but if he never trained them properly they wouldn't of looked any good no matter what his genetics were
@shack7631 Жыл бұрын
@@lawrenceroadloonie3847 Nope. All down to genetics. Use Robbies biceps routine and see if you get the same results. You are either born to have arms like that or you are not. Robbie would still have great arms if he did no direct work for them at all. Lee Haney used to say he could get into shape with just bench press, barbell rows and squats. The pros are the choosen few.
@lawrenceroadloonie3847 Жыл бұрын
@@shack7631 and again if he didn't train hard his arms wouldn't be near to what they were just like if he never used anabolics they wouldn't either
@ScribescholaOfficial6 ай бұрын
💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
@christopherwilliams427011 ай бұрын
Robby Robinson the black King!! 😂😅
@sannitafl890 Жыл бұрын
The Black Prince got his crown one day and it’s already there: HUGE RESPECTto who has brought the Bb till today and as “fathers” of the game ALL THE BEST ROBBIE:you’re not gone, but only let others keep on.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻( p.s. his OBLIQUES and core area - all the others departments apart, which are “his blend&potion” he’s unique for too, bis peak and “cobra lats” on top- have always blowed my mind(!)And still blow(!)🤍✨👍🏻👊🏻
@seeballgetball9375 ай бұрын
His biceps were 2nd to none as well
@Lemon-squeezer Жыл бұрын
Great physique
@DominickVotto Жыл бұрын
How old is Robby Gordon
@DominickVotto Жыл бұрын
How old is Robby Robinson
@invisiblerevolution Жыл бұрын
10 sets of TEN reps... or 5 sets of TWENTY reps... Dag!!!!!
@stephensuddick2557 Жыл бұрын
To this day, Robby had the best front double biceps pose in the sport. No one has matched it. No one.
@omarpryor74656 ай бұрын
How in the world 😂 that people think that if someone works out or powerlifting you would be gay 😂, that doesn't sound right, Arnold Schwarzenegger worked out they never thought 🤔 he was gay, something doesn't make any sense, maybe he's black an black people couldn't work out in that gym, a lot of people are very racist, it's very sad that they're very ignorant. Robby Robinson looked pretty awesome 💯 back then.
@stephanM5 Жыл бұрын
Had he trained like Mentzer and Yates he would have been even better than he was.
@Katana_00 Жыл бұрын
Robby is healthier than Dorian. And Mentzer is dead. So… I think Robby is better in the long run.
@terrystrand Жыл бұрын
Who cares what his routine was? He was on gear for 15 years... so just keep doing your smart routine, 'cuz nothing much that he duz applies to natties, no ??
@UnbiasedTruth.. Жыл бұрын
🤏🧠🤡
@thebear_beforethebear12 күн бұрын
2000 lbs leg press?? come on.
@RRTheBlackPrinceАй бұрын
Please stop posting this none interviews . Using photo
@rationalmuscle Жыл бұрын
Robby gets overlooked in GOAT conversations for the GE BBers, but he should be in the talks. Just an outstanding physique, and a back shot WAY before its time. Plus he's still doing it. Arnold is old and fat, and Robby is still crushing it. Give me RR's physique any day over Arnold's.
@ericeinar8 ай бұрын
Very high respect to Robby. No respect to mike………fake natty.