Bodybuilding has had quite a bit to show human beings about their very own our bodies. For instance, it has been recognized for hundreds of years that coaching with weights could make you larger and stronger. However no person ever predicted the type of muscle dimension and muscularity that you just see these days in high professional bodybuilding rivals. That is much more true in relation to girls. Till very not too long ago, the mass, definition, and muscularity of Ms. Olympia champions like Andrea Shaw would have been unthinkable.
One other revelation has been Robby Robinson. These educated in regards to the results of weight coaching on staying match as you age have at all times identified how this sort of train helps the physique keep robust and match as you become old, however prior to now, there haven’t been examples like seventy-seven-year-old Robby Robinson to exhibit the diploma to which that is potential.
Robby is a marvel. He has clearly aged, and his muscle tissues now not have the fullness and density they did years in the past, however the fundamental muscular growth remains to be there, and his muscularity and definition are unbelievable. Different champion bodybuilders of his period don’t look something like this. How has Robby managed to do what none of his contemporaries have equaled?
“Once I was younger and simply stepping into bodybuilding,” says Robby, “I used to be instructed that to appear to be a bodybuilder you could dwell like one. That’s, bodybuilding isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life.
Through the years, I’ve by no means deserted that lifestyle. The way in which I dwell, prepare and weight loss program has stayed nearly the identical because it was after I was a 20-year-old would-be bodybuilding champion with my sights set on being on the duvet of Muscle & Health and Flex magazines.”
Though we nonetheless have a number of champions with us, a lot of whom are a lot youthful than Robby, why is it that there are few different examples of veteran bodybuilders who can nonetheless pose, flex, and impress? The explanation, Robby thinks, is generally that it’s troublesome to maintain pursuing this sort of way of life within the face of the numerous distractions you might be confronted with as you mature.
“This isn’t simply true in bodybuilding,” Robby factors out. “The identical is true of different athletes who get married and have households, create companies and are provided so many different alternatives to capitalize on their success in sports activities. Plus, as you become old, the bodily effort and the issue of accidents proceed to extend. Mixed with the fact that, as you age, you aren’t going to take care of the extent of excellence you had when youthful, motivating your self to place within the effort and make the mandatory sacrifices turns into more and more troublesome.”
All of the above are what make the longevity of soccer quarterback Tom Brady extra outstanding. No athlete has had extra potential distractions or alternatives than “Tom Terrific.” This additionally explains why the nice and celebrated Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he continues to work out and make films, doesn’t have the type of youthful definition and muscularity as Robby. Arnold has and has had much more distractions and alternatives than Tom Brady has even considered.
Robby does take his hat off to fellow “Golden Age” bodybuilder Tony Pearson. Robby and Tony used to each work out within the Nineteen Seventies on the unique Gold’s Fitness center and though Tony is youthful, Robby is impressed with how good he was capable of look in current pictures.
“Tony works as a private coach,” Robby says, “and has saved his life easy and streamlined. So, he has been capable of keep a lifestyle very similar to we each did coaching within the health club many years in the past.”
Robby does private coaching himself. He additionally now has a sponsor who has created a brand new web site for him at www.strongerthanme.org. He’s additionally popping out with a particular pores and skin cream, particulars of that are on his web site. However Robby is adamant that private coaching or getting concerned with enterprise enterprises shouldn’t be going to distract him from having the absolute best physique for his age that’s humanly potential.
All of it boils down, in accordance with Robby, as to if you might be keen to pay the value and make the sacrifices that make being a bodybuilder the primary focus of your life – to make coaching and obligatory weight-reduction plan the first focus of your cause for being.
Only a few can summon up this sort of motivation. Which is why Robby Robinson stays just about in a category by himself.
Robby Robinson’s competitors awards have included the next:
- 2000 – Mr. Olympia – Masters Over 50, 1st
- 1997 – Mr. Olympia – Masters Over 50, 1st
- 1994 – Mr. Olympia – Masters – IFBB, Winner
- 1991 – Muscle Fest Grand Prix – IFBB, Winner
- 1989 – World Professional Championships – IFBB, Winner
- 1988 – Niagara Falls Professional Invitational – IFBB, Winner
- 1987 – Mr. Olympia – IFBB, fifth
- 1981 – Mr. Universe – Professional – NABBA, Winner
- 1979 – Pittsburgh Professional Invitational – IFBB, Winner
- 1979 – Night time of Champions – IFBB, Winner
- 1979 – Grand Prix New York – IFBB, Winner
- 1979 – Finest within the World – IFBB, Skilled, 1st
- 1978 – Skilled World Cup – IFBB, Winner
- 1978 – Night time of Champions – IFBB, Winner
- 1978 – Mr. Olympia Heavyweight, 1st
- 1977 – Mr. Olympia – IFBB, Tall, 1st
- 1976 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, Middleweight, 1st
- 1976 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, Total Winner
- 1976 – Mr. Worldwide – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1976 – Mr. Worldwide – IFBB, Total Winner
- 1975 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1975 – Mr. World – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1975 – Mr. World – IFBB, Total Winner
- 1975 – Mr. America – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1975 – Mr. America – IFBB, Total Winner
