Testosterone would first start to be used in American bodybuilding one year later. Reeves never took any, but Bill Pearl and Grimek would make that transition to using testosterone and their physiques definitely showed a large gain as a result.
@@JoaoPedro-tp7bl wrong steriods where being developed and tested on a few lifters in the LATE 50's around 1958/59 but it wasn't til 1962 that the general public had access to them with Dianabol
@@JoaoPedro-tp7bl nope silver era was the last one before steroids. All these physiques can be achieved naturally (wether you believe it or not). Steve Reeves said something like "If you don't have enough male hormones to develop a muscular body you can play ping pong"
The best because he was the best at the very end of the "clean" era. By the late 1950s Ciba Geigy produced Dianobol was available and the steroid abuse had begun.
Yet r These copycat bodybuilder s of today forget the innovators and foundation of building like John gremick ev Eugene sandow Steve reeves chet yorton Mohammed ish after Larry Scott reg parks chuck sipes arnold Schwarzenegger Frank Zane sandow
This is the bodybuilding contest scene from the film "Athena" from 1954. It was on Turner Classics recently and is well worth a watch. Steve Reeves and Richard (Dick) Dubois (credited as Richard Sabre in the film) are featured with speaking roles. This contest is a great look back in time to the way contests were run in 1940s and 1950s with those Olympic lifts.
Those lifts looked completely incorrectly approached. I mean, that whole "leaning backward" when they were trying to get the weight above their head - is that advisable? Anybody knows if this was the way they did it back then?
@@jondunmore4268Clearly you have not seen how they used to do the push press in the Olympics... The blond guy in this video did a continental style clean and jerk (badly, because the weight was too heavy for him). The leaning back makes it easier by allowing the chest to contribute, basically turning the shoulder press into an incline bench press.
I'm certain that any man on that stage would achieve a higher score on any physical fitness test used by the U.S., British, or Australian armed forces, than the out of proportion giants who grace the Mr. Olympia stage.
The dudes now are all size and nothing to do with being in shape. They couldn't, jog, jump or skip. I don't see what's so pleasing about being like that, but I guess it's because most people look at image and these guys can come off as that they are big and bad, but most decent fighters could rock them in a Muay Thai fight, I wouldn't say MMA because they are big enough to just take you down to the ground and just sit on top of you, they can't actually fight, they have zero stamina and too big to throw some good punches
@@ThePeacePlant if you took anyone who isn't a Muay Thai Fighter and put them in the gym with a Muay Thai Fighter the Muay Thai Fighter would beat him at Muay Thai this isn't like rocket science that's not like an incredible personal weakness. The Muay Thai Fighter is obviously going to beat them at something that the Muay Thai Fighter trains to beat people at
The effects of steroids for muscle development was discovered in the 30s but it wasn't until the 50s that the bodybuilders of the day would have gained access to them. It wouldn't surprise me if some or all of these guys had access.
I think Steve Reeves had the most balanced and appealing build of all time -- and it paid off. At one point he was the highest paid actor in Europe, at the height of his 'Hercules' movie fame.
Not natural, and also who wants to see guys looking like his in todays day? If so go to a natural show lol, they still look like that now. Me, I wanna see the freaks
Amazing!! Never guessed that this was going on in the 1950s, wow! All these bodybuilders are great. Steve Reeves is magnificent!! The professional bodybuilders of today should learn from these bodybuilders of the past. Proportion and symmetry make a better and more pleasing physique, than the huge out of proportioned muscles just for the sake of muscles!
This clip is from "Athena" , a 1954 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, Steve Reeves, and Evelyn Varden. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In fact, Steve Reeves also used steroids. In about five times lower doses than now, but he used it. That doesn't change the fact that his physique is unattainable.
Well, and a naturally gifted physique to build on. His forearms and calves took little training yet were massive. Plus you have to admit he had a very handsome face.
@@kittenluvzu Nothing prior to 1954 was capable of being administered orally or by injection that had a sustainable half-life in the body and therefore could not produce lasting anabolic effects. From 1954-58 the Russians had some success with testosterone injections but with very severe androgenous side effects. It was only in 1958 when Ciba Geigy released Dianobol, that there was an available high quality anabolic steroid with controllable androgenous effects. Those guys in 1954 were still clean; by 1960 the same guys were all juiced.
Sad that only the Italian movie makers had a good eye to see the greatness in Steve Reeves! Yet the Italian movies were damn good! Clint Eastwood also stared in Italian movies first.
@@DrDisinfect_TheWorld Spagehtti Westerns were done by the amazing Italians. In the 60s Clint Eastwood was in "'A Fistful of Dollars" an awesome movie. He also starred in the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Great movie and even better was the music
What a legend! You can clearly see and hear that barbell was really loaded. But also you can tell Steve Reeves was _acting_ like weight is heavy for him by how smooth and gently he puts it down at the end.
It was fake. There are publicity photos of it also being lifted by the movie's technical advisor, Bert Goodrich, who was Mr. America 15 years earlier. He's wearing a suit and Steve is next to him grinning.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 I never wrote it's REAL (due to no chance to see numbers on plates), tho. I wrote "really loaded". "Fake" could be a styrofoam model that my granny will lift with one pinky or just weight that _man who was Mr. America 15 years earlier_ can lift. But thanks for interesting facts anyway :)
Steve Reeves has been regard as one of my favorite actors !!! Great natural body & had the punch in various italian made b.movies but always defending on value enemy from bad to good & when I was a kid when I could effort it remembered going to theater sometimes during weekends to see Hercules with pleasure & witness his extraordinary power at the time of crisis from different stories taken from the great collection of Greek mythology !!!
He was an athlete phenomenon, a good actor too and the model athlete for me because was the reason that I started the bodybuilding...before many many years ago....until now....even the years have passed...!!!..
This is from the movie Athena, but bodybuilding and weightlifting have diverged so much since then that on contest day modern bodybuilders couldn't even hope to do a clean and press.
Notice how in the era where most Bodybuilders were natural, the Bodyfat % on stage that they had was more like 12-15%, an actually lean and healthy level. Whereas today, even the natural competitions have the expectation of having sub 8% Bodyfat, a level at which your biological functions don't even work for most people. What a shame.
Steve had it all including the best looking face , I remember growing up in Brooklyn and there was a rumor that Steve was the most evenly built guy in the world I was a kid hanging out , now I can confirm I believe that was not just a rumor but the truth.
Ваш коммент очень впечатлил.УВас Сэр определенно высокое Ай Кью .Действительно это Волшебный Божественный полёт Мега -Галактика. Не повторяется такое Никогда .Смею добавить собственное мнение ,это для Меня Как Неожиданный Непредсказуемый Фантастический Прыжок Боба Бимона !
@@alberteisenmann1023 No they didn’t, steroids didn’t get into mainstream until after the 1950s, the Russian weightlifting (Cold War effort) was one of the first to push the science. Even in the 1960s it was still a crude, and dangerous experiment.
@@Pulsonar This is 1954. Sterioids are developed in WW2 over a decade before this film is produced. I'm absolutly sure that most of them were on roids.
I have to agree with comments below. Men trying to bodybuild these days think they can’t achieve a great body. Wrong. These guys show us it’s possible and without steroids etc. Lets get back into that mentality
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Wow!! What a great find. Thanks for posting. I am a competitive Weightlifter and I appreciate the bodybuilding community. Back then, physique athletes were required to also perform the Olympic lifts. And the physique back then were classic and awesome and inspiring compared to modern-day bodybuilders.
Yeah but it not in the public yet and also it not also effective the first time they use it is in the 60s that were there noticeable size and looks so the silver era is all natural
I bought his Book that he published and was even fortunate to get his Autograph in the front of it.Its a really good Book and had a lot of Information that he shared in it.
Steve Reeves owned the Greek ideal of a perfect male physique. Reeves made some movies in Italy including Hercules... and Reeves had the most handsome face ! Also, Reeves was a natural bodybuilder as he used no steroids....(That's why Reeves has inspired countless bodybuilders like myself who appreciate and are inspired by his natural.physique)
I assisted Steve with his website and when he'd appear at autograph sessions. I still have a number of his signed photos I got from him. Such a sweet man.
There were No Steroids in the 1950,s these Men just Excersized properly, witch is also the reason their Bodies aren't Overly rediculusly muscled abnormally., Anyway, it's my opinion 👍
Imagine if there was no steroids, hgh or insulin and all the bodybuilders would just be naturals, bodybuilding would be so much bigger and the competition would be a lot bigger.
Mike from Elk Grove California age 63. OMG yes, I may not have been born during those times, 1958, training, physique, posing and judging was completely different, perhaps some of the old ways need to be incorporated again.
To the strains of the tango "jealousy" , Mr Steve reeves wins the Mr universe title. The beauty of a naturally developped body: just hard work, with smooth lines as a result!
Yeah, bodybuilding today is a total disappointment. I personally know some people who load up on the pharmaceuticals, skip training for 3 months and still look like they haven't missed a training session. One of them also had a heart attack. It just has nothing to do with a healthy lifestyle anymore.
То время когда мужчины были мужчинами, а женщины женщинами. Все настоящие и красивые. Вот это самые настоящие спортсмены натуралы, ни какой химии, естественная гармоничная красота и сила.👍
Interesting movie, not great, but interesting as a movie not only for Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell, but also for showcasing Steve Reeves' physique. People talk about Reeves being somewhat shallow in the chest when viewed from the side and compared to, say, Reg Park, who had an enormous barrel chest. Park was one of the first power bodybuilders who wanted to be as strong as he looked--and he was. He did a LOT of heavy benches and pullovers (plus other chest exercises) to achieve his look. Reeves simply didn't think a barrel chest was that impressive, so he did fairly light straight-arm pullovers which worked his serratus and lats and lower pecs (a bit). He wanted a more aesthetic look--and he had it. Period. As for steroids, while they had been synthesized in a lab as far back as the early 1930's, keep in mind that they'd be almost impossible to find in a local pharmacy much less having a doctor prescribe them. They were used for lab experiments and research purposes...but the Russians got their hands on the formula from the Germans after WW2 and probably started using them on their Olympic weightlifters at the 1952 Olympics where they cleaned up in competition. Dianabol wasn't invented in the US until 1958 by Ciba Pharmaceuticals, and I doubt that Reeves would use them, although he probably knew what they were. Here's a link. Please scroll to the bottom post and follow the link if you don't believe me. Not trying to start an e-fight, just saying... www.anabolicsteroidforums.com/threads/1925-bodybuilder.121661/
In fact, Steve Reeves also used steroids. In about five times lower doses than now, but he used it. That doesn't change the fact that his physique is unattainable.
tu te trompes y a des stéros aux usa depuis les années 1940, et en Allemagne depuis les années 1930. Steve Reeves était probablement chargé. Physique atteignable naturellement ? Peut être pour l'élite génétique, mais ça n'empêche pas.
@@robitaillecopeland1996Stop coping, there were bigger natties than Reeves. Namely Arthur Saxon, Hermann Goerner, Louis Apollon, and George Hackenschmidt.
I just cant believe ALL that others bodybuilders are uncredited!!! They are excelent in every way Pleaseee if someone is able to post ALL their names, something about them!!! Thanks a lot 2022 march 27 (and september 2017)
Apart from Reeves the one I recognized immediately was Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski; he's the one with the outstanding abdominals ( he never lost a best abs contest) - at the end of the clip you'll see him 2nd from centre on the left rank. The others I don't recognize except for the part-time actors who you will find on the cast list of the movie "Athena" (1954) on the IMDB website - they are Kip Behar, Bert Goodrich, Ed Fury and Joe Gold who started the Gold's Gyms and Dick Dubois who poses immediately after Reeves.
These gentlemen have great physiques that are not only achievable, but sustainable. A much healthier era for bodybuilding than in later decades.
Testosterone would first start to be used in American bodybuilding one year later. Reeves never took any, but Bill Pearl and Grimek would make that transition to using testosterone and their physiques definitely showed a large gain as a result.
Well achievable is debatable as you need excellent genetics for that but I know what you mean :D
@Neil Moore These MEN were true natural 'beauties. ' much more attractive and attainable than today's juiced up weight lifters
@@inquisitor4635 some sites claim that sergio olivia claimed that reeves was on.
@@xXAlmdudlerXx if this isnt achievable natty why even bother working out to get big
When bodybuilders were symbol of pure healthy physique & lifestyle..
"healthy lifestyle" after all they used roids
Now they just get heart attacks
@@JoaoPedro-tp7bl wrong steriods where being developed and tested on a few lifters in the LATE 50's around 1958/59 but it wasn't til 1962 that the general public had access to them with Dianabol
@@JoaoPedro-tp7bl nope silver era was the last one before steroids. All these physiques can be achieved naturally (wether you believe it or not).
Steve Reeves said something like "If you don't have enough male hormones to develop a muscular body you can play ping pong"
a good chunk of body builders today look like science experiments
The way he set the bar down effortlessly is a testament to his acting.
A testament to the real weight that setup had, perhaps? 😅
lol
It was 40kg lighter on the way down 🤣🤣🤣
Может быть это потому, что это сцена из фильма?
You realize that there was probably only one actual real plate on either side right lol it's a movie
Steve Reeves posing is simply legendary! He’s an absolute icon. One of the best of all-time!
the best
The best because he was the best at the very end of the "clean" era. By the late 1950s Ciba Geigy produced Dianobol was available and the steroid abuse had begun.
Steve Reeves really was perfection
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 TO That One!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨!Sam!
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These copycat bodybuilder s of today forget the innovators and foundation of building like John gremick ev
Eugene sandow Steve reeves chet yorton Mohammed ish after Larry Scott reg parks chuck sipes arnold Schwarzenegger Frank Zane
sandow
Yes he was but he used steroids but low dose of steroids
@@ananddeonarine6913 you forgot Sean Connery
@@actionfigurescollectionssu7854 That's hard to believe since the first anabolic steroid wasn't available until 1956.
Steve Reeves was a absolute unit. The man looked like a Greek statue that came to life.
Hercules
This is the bodybuilding contest scene from the film "Athena" from 1954. It was on Turner Classics recently and is well worth a watch. Steve Reeves and Richard (Dick) Dubois (credited as Richard Sabre in the film) are featured with speaking roles. This contest is a great look back in time to the way contests were run in 1940s and 1950s with those Olympic lifts.
Thanks for the info 😊
DuBois had an incredible physique…not Steve, but very impressive.
Those lifts looked completely incorrectly approached. I mean, that whole "leaning backward" when they were trying to get the weight above their head - is that advisable? Anybody knows if this was the way they did it back then?
@@jondunmore4268Clearly you have not seen how they used to do the push press in the Olympics... The blond guy in this video did a continental style clean and jerk (badly, because the weight was too heavy for him). The leaning back makes it easier by allowing the chest to contribute, basically turning the shoulder press into an incline bench press.
@@jondunmore4268 Mitch hooper the current world strongest man, does a lot of hos over head presses with that lean bavk technique
The bodybuilders of that era was better than mass monsters
Absolutely! Without The Use Of Steroids!
They had a flatter chest,proportional arms but wider back
Definitely agree
@@kballenger53ify they still had steroids. Steroids were from 50ties
@@kballenger53ify They were on roids at that time. But mutch less than today.
I'm certain that any man on that stage would achieve a higher score on any physical fitness test used by the U.S., British, or Australian armed forces, than the out of proportion giants who grace the Mr. Olympia stage.
I'm sure Cedric McMillon who was in the service until his death routinely failed APFTs.
With ease.
The dudes now are all size and nothing to do with being in shape. They couldn't, jog, jump or skip. I don't see what's so pleasing about being like that, but I guess it's because most people look at image and these guys can come off as that they are big and bad, but most decent fighters could rock them in a Muay Thai fight, I wouldn't say MMA because they are big enough to just take you down to the ground and just sit on top of you, they can't actually fight, they have zero stamina and too big to throw some good punches
@@ThePeacePlant if you took anyone who isn't a Muay Thai Fighter and put them in the gym with a Muay Thai Fighter the Muay Thai Fighter would beat him at Muay Thai this isn't like rocket science that's not like an incredible personal weakness. The Muay Thai Fighter is obviously going to beat them at something that the Muay Thai Fighter trains to beat people at
U said out of proportion and then said Grace the stage?
Amazing 🥹 love this era. No steroids, just hard work!
The guys on roids work hard
Scientists were discovering steroids during that period.
The effects of steroids for muscle development was discovered in the 30s but it wasn't until the 50s that the bodybuilders of the day would have gained access to them. It wouldn't surprise me if some or all of these guys had access.
@@Jac70the use of steroids started in 40s
@@isaacmettle Extremely hard. They are one of a kind
I think Steve Reeves had the most balanced and appealing build of all time -- and it paid off. At one point he was the highest paid actor in Europe, at the height of his 'Hercules' movie fame.
Was fascinated watching Hercules when I was little. Frank Zane and Larry Scott were awesome too.
Don't forget Frank Zayne.
Yes Frank Zain!
Reeves was well ahead of game in the 50s with his looks and charisma and clothes he wore -a true one off much like Bruce Lee
I'm a Larry Scott fan myself
Steve Reeves was my boyhood hero! I watched every Hercules movie he made! A true bodybuilder without the benefit of steroids.
CORRECT NATURAL BUILD NO JUICE IN THAT BODY,POWERHOUSE,and DAVE DRAPER
And today we have juice monkeys with GH guts. Bring back the good old days.
Nobody would come to watch
@@user-hz2mk8fh7h you are sadly mistaken. Much better seeing aesthetics and proper proportions versus a freak show.
Por algo David laid y Jeff seid eran más conocidos y apreciados que Phil Heat
So beautiful to watch this, perfect body back in the days, watching this guys is a real motivation..
Bodybuilding nowadays just hurts peoples eyes 👀..
This is what a muscular human body looks like without using chemistry, 100% natural, that is health and not what is now.
NOT NATURAL. MANY WERE ON STEROIDS BACK THEN TOO. INCLUDING STEVE REEVES💉💉💉💊💊💉💊💊💣💊💉💊💊💉💉💊💊💊
Steroids been around since the mid 1930s….he wasn’t natural buddy.
@@johnny6610 You're 200 percent CORRECT.
was not natural
Not natural, and also who wants to see guys looking like his in todays day? If so go to a natural show lol, they still look like that now. Me, I wanna see the freaks
and these guys were acutally at a healthy bodyfat percentage
This is called natural bodybuilding. ❤️
Yeah but the sad thing is none of those guys are natural they all used steroids just low does of steroids
I this this too. Almost for Steve Reeves
*think
why, theres no need to use steroids to accomplish physiques like this, all these physiques are naturally attainable
@@dindjarin2988 we don't talk about the others, they have natural physique, no doubt about It. I Just speak for the body of Steve Reeves
Amazing!! Never guessed that this was going on in the 1950s, wow! All these bodybuilders are great. Steve Reeves is magnificent!! The professional bodybuilders of today should learn from these bodybuilders of the past. Proportion and symmetry make a better and more pleasing physique, than the huge out of proportioned muscles just for the sake of muscles!
He was my idol and inspiration back then.
I agree with you!🙂💪💪👍
Its been going on since the late 1930s.
@@DrLeroyArch actually since the 1890s when lifting got popularized
Its not the guilt of modern bodybuilders, its all about commercials
This clip is from "Athena" , a 1954 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, Steve Reeves, and Evelyn Varden. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He was the purest of of Body Building back then...no short cuts...just hard work and Devotion...
In fact, Steve Reeves also used steroids. In about five times lower doses than now, but he used it. That doesn't change the fact that his physique is unattainable.
Well, and a naturally gifted physique to build on. His forearms and calves took little training yet were massive. Plus you have to admit he had a very handsome face.
Hate to burst your bubble, bro, but all these guys in 1954 were on high-quality steroid drugs. Yes, it's a big disappointment.
@@kittenluvzu Nothing prior to 1954 was capable of being administered orally or by injection that had a sustainable half-life in the body and therefore could not produce lasting anabolic effects. From 1954-58 the Russians had some success with testosterone injections but with very severe androgenous side effects. It was only in 1958 when Ciba Geigy released Dianobol, that there was an available high quality anabolic steroid with controllable androgenous effects. Those guys in 1954 were still clean; by 1960 the same guys were all juiced.
@@kittenluvzu cope harder
Steve Reeves, the perfect physique! Timeless.
No steroids no fancy gym unique body and a real bodybuilding.
Sad that only the Italian movie makers had a good eye to see the greatness in Steve Reeves! Yet the Italian movies were damn good! Clint Eastwood also stared in Italian movies first.
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Steve reeves was supposed to act as Tarzan
What were those Eastwood movies called? And why were they called that? You can Google it lol
@@DrDisinfect_TheWorld Spagehtti Westerns were done by the amazing Italians. In the 60s Clint Eastwood was in "'A Fistful of Dollars" an awesome movie. He also starred in the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Great movie and even better was the music
@@pepsiq11965 well look at'chu 🤣 But correct. I grew up on "Spaghetti Westerns".
Damn, the US's changed a lot. And I can't say it's a good thing.
yeah it's grim
Brutal, inhuman capitalism!!!
Everyone looks like a beautiful piece of art😊
I will go back to this every time I feel like missing a workout routine or to stop cutting
he forgot to still pretend it was heavy when bringing it down
just about any woman will tell you these men are far more desirable than the bodybuilders of today.
Thats why men dont do it for women.
100% these men look fantastic and healthy
What a legend! You can clearly see and hear that barbell was really loaded. But also you can tell Steve Reeves was _acting_ like weight is heavy for him by how smooth and gently he puts it down at the end.
the sound you hear are added effects. the inside plates are genuine plates the rest are props.
@@Jafmanz not gonna argue, seems reasonable)
It was fake. There are publicity photos of it also being lifted by the movie's technical advisor, Bert Goodrich, who was Mr. America 15 years earlier. He's wearing a suit and Steve is next to him grinning.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 I never wrote it's REAL (due to no chance to see numbers on plates), tho. I wrote "really loaded". "Fake" could be a styrofoam model that my granny will lift with one pinky or just weight that _man who was Mr. America 15 years earlier_ can lift. But thanks for interesting facts anyway :)
Steve Reeves, The Perfect Human being.
My favorite era of bodybuilding 😊
Richard Dubois comes in right after Reeves and was a Mr. America of 1954. He later was in Mae West's troupe of musclemen in her touring show.
Even for a muscles contest they had classy music playing
That’s all the music they can do. Back then, music was always classy.
Steve Reeves has been regard as one of my favorite actors !!! Great natural body & had the punch in various italian made b.movies but always defending on value enemy from bad to good & when I was a kid when I could effort it remembered going to theater sometimes during weekends to see Hercules with pleasure & witness his extraordinary power at the time of crisis from different stories taken from the great collection of Greek mythology !!!
He was an athlete phenomenon, a good actor too and the model athlete for me because was the reason that I started the bodybuilding...before many many years ago....until now....even the years have passed...!!!..
Steve Reeves is perfection😘😘
Самый содержательный, замечательный ,лаконичный коммент! Быстрый и результативный как удар хлыстом .
WHEN BODY BUILDING WAS GOOD FOR HEALTH AND BODY !
How you know they werent on drugs? You people know so little ab whats achivable clean and not clean. Lol
This is from the movie Athena, but bodybuilding and weightlifting have diverged so much since then that on contest day modern bodybuilders couldn't even hope to do a clean and press.
This is when bodybuilding was a pure sport,no drugs and no hormones.Beautiful bodies.
nope...
These men are so beautiful
Those lats and the V is amazing..he really looked like he was drawn and walked off the page
Notice how in the era where most Bodybuilders were natural, the Bodyfat % on stage that they had was more like 12-15%, an actually lean and healthy level.
Whereas today, even the natural competitions have the expectation of having sub 8% Bodyfat, a level at which your biological functions don't even work for most people.
What a shame.
That was a much , healthier, attractive and respectable Era in bodybuilding! Today, most bodybuilders are on Roids/Peds.
These guys look like ancient greek statues, this must be what a bodybuilder must look like.
they look much better than the one we have these days
Steve had it all including the best looking face , I remember growing up in Brooklyn and there was a rumor that Steve was the most evenly built guy in the world I was a kid hanging out , now I can confirm I believe that was not just a rumor but the truth.
Very handsome guy and very muscular
Yup. He was symmetrical.
What about Roy DeMeo, he was a pretty well built kind of guy?
@@chiricahuaapache5132 I’m not aware of Roy but I’m sure if your saying it you are probably correct.
@@saintanthony7718 He was big, very big. Lived in Long Island, but came from Canarsie or Bensonhurst.
Probably the pinnacle of what is naturally achievable.
Ваш коммент очень впечатлил.УВас Сэр определенно высокое Ай Кью .Действительно это Волшебный Божественный полёт Мега -Галактика. Не повторяется такое Никогда .Смею добавить собственное мнение ,это для Меня Как Неожиданный Непредсказуемый Фантастический Прыжок Боба Бимона !
This is where Sean Connery started before he became an actor
These guys look like Greek statues so much more pleasing to the eye. Steroids ruined bodybuilding.
They had a flatter chest,proportional arms but wider back
They took sterioids at that time.
But those guys were on steroids already they just took low dose of steroids
@@alberteisenmann1023 No they didn’t, steroids didn’t get into mainstream until after the 1950s, the Russian weightlifting (Cold War effort) was one of the first to push the science. Even in the 1960s it was still a crude,
and dangerous experiment.
@@Pulsonar This is 1954. Sterioids are developed in WW2 over a decade before this film is produced. I'm absolutly sure that most of them were on roids.
I have to agree with comments below. Men trying to bodybuild these days think they can’t achieve a great body. Wrong. These guys show us it’s possible and without steroids etc. Lets get back into that mentality
Who wants to look average? THeyse guys look ok but not more.
Bodybuilding certainly has changed its a freak show now
matches the general society. it deserves to be destroyed and rebuild with some sanity.
Gosh! It was fun doing all this stunts in front of my grandma, aunties and mommies at 16 ... They are all such a beautiful flower in my life ...
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1:23 so that’s where Frank Zane got his routine!
All natural. Amazing. Not a single one with a pulsating neck and veins on their ashole.
When bodybuilders still looked like men and not like amorphous beasts.
Wow!! What a great find. Thanks for posting. I am a competitive Weightlifter and I appreciate the bodybuilding community. Back then, physique athletes were required to also perform the Olympic lifts. And the physique back then were classic and awesome and inspiring compared to modern-day bodybuilders.
Natural bodybuilding always produces perfect bodies.
they were not natty... there is gear in america since the 40s, germany since the 30s...
@@terminator9099you’re probably a twig if you think these guys are on gear
Yeah but it not in the public yet and also it not also effective the first time they use it is in the 60s that were there noticeable size and looks so the silver era is all natural
Steve Reeves calves are goals.
They all look good for its era 🎉
Most of us look like ¢rap for all eras, even today 😂
Back when proffessional bodybuilders weren't lab rats...
Это бействительно красиво сложенные тела... Не то что последние 30 лет нам показывают стероидных монстров на т.н. Олимпии Джо Уайдера.
ну Стив Ривз тут тоже на стероидах. дозы просто другие были
На каких стероидах? Первый стероид метандиенон был синтезирован только в 1955@@dimka781
This is true bodybuilding
Yh. Using steroids.
The true bodybuilding, no doping, no medics, no cheat, no drugs.
glaubst du noch an den Weihnachtsmann?????
They looked really good for not having any modern training equipment and being 100% natural.
From where I sit all those guys on stage are winners.
before the mass era , before the golden era, there was the "NORMAL" era
Gorgeous men
They looked much better then. Now they have muscles on the places that there are not muscles naturally.
People in TikTok: Hes not shredded, did he even train?
Makes today's BB look like a mockery.
Bodybuilders today are dropping in like flies
They should go back to a more natural physique, like these guys !
Quite like American women with breast implants, buttocks, bottox, and other anti-depressants!!!
This guys are perfect models for a T-800 series Terminators...
In the days before widespread steroid abuse, the natural body looks so much better/healthier
Loved the Steve Reeves Hercules movies.He eas in effect a fine actor.
Meh
What a beauty
I bought his Book that he published and was even fortunate to get his Autograph in the front of it.Its a really good Book and had a lot of Information that he shared in it.
Steve Reeves owned the Greek ideal of a perfect male physique. Reeves made some movies in Italy including Hercules... and Reeves had the most handsome face ! Also, Reeves was a natural bodybuilder as he used no steroids....(That's why Reeves has inspired countless bodybuilders like myself who appreciate and are inspired by his natural.physique)
This. Is. Bodybuilding.
No drugs, no belt, no straps, no chalk, no shoes.
Thats how real men train.
yes drugs, since 1950
Nah, by that time they were already on roids
Testosterone was available back then
I assisted Steve with his website and when he'd appear at autograph sessions. I still have a number of his signed photos I got from him. Such a sweet man.
There were No Steroids in the 1950,s these Men just Excersized properly, witch is also the reason their Bodies aren't Overly rediculusly muscled abnormally., Anyway, it's my opinion 👍
All of them are just great
This RIGHT HERE, represents the limits of muscle building possible without steroids.
Thats what it looks like without the juice. Much better and healthier
Somehow the mankind reach perfection at that moment in art culture and fitness.
Действительно философский вопрос. Дело наверное в Божественной эволюции.Непредсказуемой .Запрятанной за семью замками .
Imagine if there was no steroids, hgh or insulin and all the bodybuilders would just be naturals, bodybuilding would be so much bigger and the competition would be a lot bigger.
Steve Reeves has the most perfect physique ever…no drugs, just good eating and heavy workouts. 30 inch waist, 53 inch chest…huge lats.
Actually he had a 29inch waist and for the size he was that is crazy slim.
lol they did steroids even back then
sorry to wake you from you dream, but there already gear in america since the 40s...
Mike from Elk Grove California age 63. OMG yes, I may not have been born during those times, 1958, training, physique, posing and judging was completely different, perhaps some of the old ways need to be incorporated again.
Pure and healthy
To the strains of the tango "jealousy" , Mr Steve reeves wins the Mr universe title. The beauty of a naturally developped body: just hard work, with smooth lines as a result!
Yeah, bodybuilding today is a total disappointment. I personally know some people who load up on the pharmaceuticals, skip training for 3 months and still look like they haven't missed a training session. One of them also had a heart attack. It just has nothing to do with a healthy lifestyle anymore.
То время когда мужчины были мужчинами, а женщины женщинами. Все настоящие и красивые. Вот это самые настоящие спортсмены натуралы, ни какой химии, естественная гармоничная красота и сила.👍
Come erano belli...corpi armoniosi ...eleganti e forti nello stesso tempo... fantastici
The era of healthy real men that lives as he was meant to live.
Interesting movie, not great, but interesting as a movie not only for Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell, but also for showcasing Steve Reeves' physique. People talk about Reeves being somewhat shallow in the chest when viewed from the side and compared to, say, Reg Park, who had an enormous barrel chest. Park was one of the first power bodybuilders who wanted to be as strong as he looked--and he was. He did a LOT of heavy benches and pullovers (plus other chest exercises) to achieve his look. Reeves simply didn't think a barrel chest was that impressive, so he did fairly light straight-arm pullovers which worked his serratus and lats and lower pecs (a bit). He wanted a more aesthetic look--and he had it. Period.
As for steroids, while they had been synthesized in a lab as far back as the early 1930's, keep in mind that they'd be almost impossible to find in a local pharmacy much less having a doctor prescribe them. They were used for lab experiments and research purposes...but the Russians got their hands on the formula from the Germans after WW2 and probably started using them on their Olympic weightlifters at the 1952 Olympics where they cleaned up in competition. Dianabol wasn't invented in the US until 1958 by Ciba Pharmaceuticals, and I doubt that Reeves would use them, although he probably knew what they were.
Here's a link. Please scroll to the bottom post and follow the link if you don't believe me. Not trying to start an e-fight, just saying...
www.anabolicsteroidforums.com/threads/1925-bodybuilder.121661/
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Se Coleman viajasse nesse tempo 1954 o povo iria dizer que é de outro planeta!
back before bodybuilding became a freak show.
Steeve Reeves is Arnold before Arnold
All natural bodybuilder.
lol stop
In fact, Steve Reeves also used steroids. In about five times lower doses than now, but he used it. That doesn't change the fact that his physique is unattainable.
tu te trompes y a des stéros aux usa depuis les années 1940, et en Allemagne depuis les années 1930. Steve Reeves était probablement chargé. Physique atteignable naturellement ? Peut être pour l'élite génétique, mais ça n'empêche pas.
@@robitaillecopeland1996Stop coping, there were bigger natties than Reeves. Namely Arthur Saxon, Hermann Goerner, Louis Apollon, and George Hackenschmidt.
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I just cant believe ALL that others bodybuilders are uncredited!!! They are excelent in every way Pleaseee if someone is able to post ALL their names, something about them!!! Thanks a lot 2022 march 27 (and september 2017)
Apart from Reeves the one I recognized immediately was Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski; he's the one with the outstanding abdominals ( he never lost a best abs contest) - at the end of the clip you'll see him 2nd from centre on the left rank. The others I don't recognize except for the part-time actors who you will find on the cast list of the movie "Athena" (1954) on the IMDB website - they are Kip Behar, Bert Goodrich, Ed Fury and Joe Gold who started the Gold's Gyms and Dick Dubois who poses immediately after Reeves.
@@gefazel is Zabo at 2:17 the guy 5th from the left or standing second highest from the left side?
I believe Sean Connery may have been there too.
@@rashakor
Sean? Is impossible because was very TALL for the standars those days ....
@@potatosalad5355 Connery was competing in 1952-54. So I wouldn’t say impossible.