Great footage of Ken Waller training for the 1976 Mr. Olympia. He would win the Heavy weight class. The footage of Franco is from Franco training in his home GARAGE for the 1976 Mr. Olympia. He was in Chiropractic school and did not have the time to spare to go to the gym. It was either he or Arnold that expressed that everyone thought Franco was jeopardizing his '76 Olympia preparation because no one thought a garage gym would provide the level of equipment or "atmosphere" needed to train properly for such a high level event.
I workout in my garage. No pills, no potions, no training partner. I'm surrounded by greatness in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger pictures. I have no choice but to get better.
WOW!! This is a true relic! Straight from the iron vault. . much of what could have been in Pumping Iron..wonder who filmed it, as it was focusing a lot on Ken and some on Franco. . RIP, Giant Killer. . still can't believe it. Thank you so much for unearthing this cult clip. Really appreciate it.
Best thing about this for me is seeing the original Gold’s as it was..the inside, the equipment including some custom pieces, the sounds, the fact that any great Venice gym should be right off the beach, as Gold’s and the Dungeon were; thus sufficiently casual as to allow bare feet. And of course the physiques, using only oral/injectibles, still with that athletic look that went away in subsequent decades.
I have NEVER seen this before but i knew Kenny had a great body. One that ALL body builders should picture when they set their goals. Today it’s not Bodybuilding, its a freak show. 😒
I see Franco at that old Barn/Garage theres some footage of Him training Sylvester Stallone there also. In that other clip Franco comes out of a House beside that Garage.. I wonder Whos place that Was?? Or did Arnold and Franco buy that place after living in the apartment??? Anybody know??
I trained harder than this when I was 12 years old, though now 58 years later still haven't gained an ounce of muscle. Makes one wonder about all those Tom Platz and Mentzer videos showing them training to the point of near death when all it took was this easy workout.
@Jason Striation Dude, you ain't shitting. Everyone's looking at their phone. Just quit my gym. Will workout at home for now on. Rusty iron's the way for me.
Best thing about this is seeing Gold’s as it actually was..if you’re in Venice a gym like Gold’s or the Dungeon should be right off the beach, and casual (no shoes), even street noise. And when they were only using orals/injectibles, an athleticism that was lost in subsequent decades.
@Jason Striation the gyms I use to belong to played rock/heavy metal music over the speakers. Bust each other's balls and tell them they were a fat weak piece of shit, made for a good workout. Now it's hard to even get a spot cause they're glued to their cell phone and have on big dumbass headphones. Hard to get motivated some days.
Seems like an awful lot of negativity here, complaining about how other people are making your gym experience negative. As long as the other people in your gym are not interfering with your workout, why do you care if they are taking selfies, or wearing headphones that are larger than the headphones you like, looking at their phone, etc? Do I think someone wearing a hoodie in a temperature controlled gym is odd? Um, yeah, sure do. But it doesn't affect my workout. If the 19 year old girl wants to take pics of herself, or some other guy wants to look at his phone for 10 minutes between sets, that's not going to prevent me from having a good workout. I refuse to let it. Pretty much anyone in my way, gets out of my way, and the lack of socializing between those of us who are grown ups (I am assuming most of us watching classic bodybuilding vids) and kids half to one-third of our age, shouldn't be an issue, unless you have some strange desire to have conversations with people 2 or 3 decades younger than you. Bottom line, learn to focus on you more and dial it in better.
Never saw this before! Great film. What's interesting is that the 2 guys in the video, Franco and Waller, both wound up that year posing against each other in the final posedown at the 1976 Olympia. Waller won the over 200 class and Franco the under 200 class. Franco, of course, won the overall Olympia. Franco stayed out of Gold's that year and did all of his training in his backyard gym. There's video out there of him training Sylvester Stallone in that same home gym. RIP Franco.
The preacher curls at the end might’ve been his home gym. No coincidence they both did well at the Olympia; they were both Weider boys, thus protected against better BBs who would’ve beaten them such as Oliva and Nubret, who didn’t bother entering knowing the politics. No way in hell was Columbu ever world’s best built man.
@@hardcorehouse I think Franco's biggest flaw was that he was too short and stubby. A taller, more aesthetic bodybuilder like Serge Nubret was way ahead of Franco. The Weider politics was obvious, and the most obvious was that terrible, dark time in bodybuilding history when Franco, suffering from a bad case of heavy gyno, won the 1981 Mr. Olympia nonetheless. That one just blows my mind. God, if ever there was a fix.
@@hardcorehouse Nubrets left/right side of the the body had poor symmetry. He had an asymmetrical waist as well and that is why it is rare to find him doing front poses straight on. He had high lats that got lost in overhead poses so he always slanted his arm shots. His thighs were not balanced to his upper body (even for 70's standards) and his calves were under developed for his thighs. Oliva always suffered on conditioning and muscle control. His best condition was 1972 and actually he looked his best off stage in the shots that were taken by Author Jones. I wouldn't argue that either of them wanted to play the way the whole Weider game.
Never in the decades I’ve seen him have I thought about the balance issue you’re suggesting. As far as “high lats” it’s not something I’ve thought about nor would it matter given that he still had less drawbacks from pretenders like Columbu who was not only too short n squat he also lacked specialness outside of a great torso. Arms, legs not nearly enough.
Waller was extremely rude to us when visited Golds. Luckily Robby Robinson was there and Roger Callard. Nice guys! Dave Draper was the gem of the lot. Showed us around and made us feel welcome, unlike KW.
405 with no tension in his muscles and zero rise in blood pressure. If you have ever pressed 405 raw even if you are a 700 presser it makes you experience tension and you don't perform reps that look like you are demonstrating a Bowflex. Total BS which is why they only show the bar when they close in on waller. He's stronger than Ronnie Coleman, Dallas McCarver, Nick walker ah no if you disagree it means you have never lifted 2/3s of this weight and at 220 on less drugs but stronger than most powerlifting champions I am going to say BS
Back when they didn’t do GH, that’s real bodybuilding if you ask me, now a days they are walking pharmacies. And that’s the kind of gym I grew up with, pure steel, no fancy machines.
Laura Lee I remember the first time I tried Primobolan, I was only taking a shot every 2 weeks and I was really scared, then I found out they were doing a lot more than me, but I never did any of the other drugs you’ve listed, maybe that’s why I never became huge, sounds like a lot!
My understanding was that it was mainly just D and Deca, maybe a little Primo. Don’t know about those others, though that list certainly sounds authentic. In any case, those combos were clearly such that the athletic look was retained that has now been lost in subsequent decades. Any idea how much of the year cycles were done then?
@@hardcorehouse the guys usually went drug free after the fall contest season until the serious training began late spring. Also, the amount of food was reduced to a "normal" level until the bulking phase began.
That sounds a little light...I’d guess that during the winter bulking phase, drugs would definitely be part of it-as opposed to just a few months pre-contest.
In the span of one year, Gold's Gym looks completely different from when Pumping Iron was filmed. Goes to show what a camera crew, lighting can do to change up the place. It looks more like a dungeon, kind of like how Arnold and the rest of the guys used to talk about the original dungeon. Love it...!
Trained out there in the 70's. Waller worked his legs hard. did perfect deep squats, a regular at rhe.rack. upper and lower legs were well developed and looked as though they were made of steel.
The Golden Era, when bodybuilders had the kind of physiques that any man would aspire to. RIP Franco.
50's 60's 70's 80's, were the last of the real deal of life as we know it, love to look back, and put myself there 🤘
Great footage of Ken Waller training for the 1976 Mr. Olympia. He would win the Heavy weight class. The footage of Franco is from Franco training in his home GARAGE for the 1976 Mr. Olympia. He was in Chiropractic school and did not have the time to spare to go to the gym. It was either he or Arnold that expressed that everyone thought Franco was jeopardizing his '76 Olympia preparation because no one thought a garage gym would provide the level of equipment or "atmosphere" needed to train properly for such a high level event.
I workout in my garage.
No pills, no potions, no training partner.
I'm surrounded by greatness in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger pictures.
I have no choice but to get better.
Same here. I’m competing in the INBA this November. I’m going to surprise a lot of people with the shape I’ll be in.
WOW!! This is a true relic! Straight from the iron vault. . much of what could have been in Pumping Iron..wonder who filmed it, as it was focusing a lot on Ken and some on Franco. .
RIP, Giant Killer. . still can't believe it.
Thank you so much for unearthing this cult clip.
Really appreciate it.
Gary Snow Hours and hours worth is somewhere. Arnold Schwarzenegger owns the rights to all Pumping Iron footage.
When bodybuilders looked good
Ken Waller was a real champ ,and gentlemen
great vid!!!! love the old school
Best thing about this for me is seeing the original Gold’s as it was..the inside, the equipment including some custom pieces, the sounds, the fact that any great Venice gym should be right off the beach, as Gold’s and the Dungeon were; thus sufficiently casual as to allow bare feet. And of course the physiques, using only oral/injectibles, still with that athletic look that went away in subsequent decades.
Of course, training in bare feet is a great idea! Nothing bad can happen from that, nothing at all!!!!!!!
I have NEVER seen this before but i knew Kenny had a great body. One that ALL body builders should picture when they set their goals. Today it’s not Bodybuilding, its a freak show. 😒
Amazing footage
Great footage. Thanks for sharing this.
WELL ITS PART OF THE TEN THOUSAND ROLLS OF FOOTAGE CHARLES AND GEORGE PICKED FROM TO MAKE PI.THIS FOOTAGE DIDN'T GET USED BUT KENNY LOOKS BETTER HERE.
Not 10,000, lol... they have 100 hrs of footage, which is still a ALOT.
Damn Ken, grease that seated calf machine!
I see Franco at that old Barn/Garage theres some footage of Him training Sylvester Stallone there also. In that other clip Franco comes out of a House beside that Garage.. I wonder Whos place that Was?? Or did Arnold and Franco buy that place after living in the apartment??? Anybody know??
that was francos house
I trained harder than this when I was 12 years old, though now 58 years later still haven't gained an ounce of muscle. Makes one wonder about all those Tom Platz and Mentzer videos showing them training to the point of near death when all it took was this easy workout.
franco looked like he was carved out of granite.
When REAL men had sideburns!!!
Apparently fake weights existed then too
Seems like a lot of them used bad from with some of the exercises back then by today's standards, oh well it obviously worked!
They used full range of motion. Todays techniques are bad form.
😭💝💝
Saw both of them in 70’s.Ken Waller was cursed by his pale skin tone and being covered with freckles,not a good complexion
Need to check spelling.
Love it.That's a gym,just the clanging of weights and no unwanted music.
Very rare footage and much appreciated.
Love the full range of motion on their lifts! Don’t see it so much nowadays.
Mark Allen they know their being filmed. Perfect form for the camera
@Michael Cass Agreed. Does work for some.
Where in the world today can you train in your bare feet?
When weight training gyms were real gyms and people actually trained. God only knows what they have become now.
@Jason Striation Dude, you ain't shitting. Everyone's looking at their phone. Just quit my gym. Will workout at home for now on. Rusty iron's the way for me.
Best thing about this is seeing Gold’s as it actually was..if you’re in Venice a gym like Gold’s or the Dungeon should be right off the beach, and casual (no shoes), even street noise. And when they were only using orals/injectibles, an athleticism that was lost in subsequent decades.
@Jason Striation the gyms I use to belong to played rock/heavy metal music over the speakers. Bust each other's balls and tell them they were a fat weak piece of shit, made for a good workout. Now it's hard to even get a spot cause they're glued to their cell phone and have on big dumbass headphones. Hard to get motivated some days.
Seems like an awful lot of negativity here, complaining about how other people are making your gym experience negative.
As long as the other people in your gym are not interfering with your workout, why do you care if they are taking selfies, or wearing headphones that are larger than the headphones you like, looking at their phone, etc?
Do I think someone wearing a hoodie in a temperature controlled gym is odd? Um, yeah, sure do. But it doesn't affect my workout.
If the 19 year old girl wants to take pics of herself, or some other guy wants to look at his phone for 10 minutes between sets, that's not going to prevent me from having a good workout. I refuse to let it.
Pretty much anyone in my way, gets out of my way, and the lack of socializing between those of us who are grown ups (I am assuming most of us watching classic bodybuilding vids) and kids half to one-third of our age, shouldn't be an issue, unless you have some strange desire to have conversations with people 2 or 3 decades younger than you.
Bottom line, learn to focus on you more and dial it in better.
@@thomass789 Brilliant!
Hey guys I'm still looking for my t-shirt...anybody seen my goddamned t-shirt. LOL
No music ,cell phones, BULLSHITTING PRIMA DONAS...
Never saw this before! Great film. What's interesting is that the 2 guys in the video, Franco and Waller, both wound up that year posing against each other in the final posedown at the 1976 Olympia. Waller won the over 200 class and Franco the under 200 class. Franco, of course, won the overall Olympia. Franco stayed out of Gold's that year and did all of his training in his backyard gym. There's video out there of him training Sylvester Stallone in that same home gym. RIP Franco.
The preacher curls at the end might’ve been his home gym. No coincidence they both did well at the Olympia; they were both Weider boys, thus protected against better BBs who would’ve beaten them such as Oliva and Nubret, who didn’t bother entering knowing the politics. No way in hell was Columbu ever world’s best built man.
@@hardcorehouse I think Franco's biggest flaw was that he was too short and stubby. A taller, more aesthetic bodybuilder like Serge Nubret was way ahead of Franco. The Weider politics was obvious, and the most obvious was that terrible, dark time in bodybuilding history when Franco, suffering from a bad case of heavy gyno, won the 1981 Mr. Olympia nonetheless. That one just blows my mind. God, if ever there was a fix.
And, his arms never compared with the torso.
@@hardcorehouse Nubrets left/right side of the the body had poor symmetry. He had an asymmetrical waist as well and that is why it is rare to find him doing front poses straight on. He had high lats that got lost in overhead poses so he always slanted his arm shots. His thighs were not balanced to his upper body (even for 70's standards) and his calves were under developed for his thighs.
Oliva always suffered on conditioning and muscle control. His best condition was 1972 and actually he looked his best off stage in the shots that were taken by Author Jones. I wouldn't argue that either of them wanted to play the way the whole Weider game.
Never in the decades I’ve seen him have I thought about the balance issue you’re suggesting. As far as “high lats” it’s not something I’ve thought about nor would it matter given that he still had less drawbacks from pretenders like Columbu who was not only too short n squat he also lacked specialness outside of a great torso. Arms, legs not nearly enough.
Nice job.
Ken Waller was an amazing bodybuilder and Franco never looked better than when he won the 76 olympia
Stellar footage.....and, it is filmed at the original Gold's Gym.
I almost don’t want to watch this because I want there to still be Original Golds Gym/ Golden Era footage I never seen.
Waller was extremely rude to us when visited Golds. Luckily Robby Robinson was there and Roger Callard. Nice guys! Dave Draper was the gem of the lot. Showed us around and made us feel welcome, unlike KW.
Is Ken still alive? And if so does he still train? Just wondering?
He is still alive. He doesn't train anymore. Had children, life revolved around them.
ken waller is still alive however he doesn't look too good now. judging from what I saw of him I don't think he trains anymore.
405 with no tension in his muscles and zero rise in blood pressure. If you have ever pressed 405 raw even if you are a 700 presser it makes you experience tension and you don't perform reps that look like you are demonstrating a Bowflex. Total BS which is why they only show the bar when they close in on waller. He's stronger than Ronnie Coleman, Dallas McCarver, Nick walker ah no if you disagree it means you have never lifted 2/3s of this weight and at 220 on less drugs but stronger than most powerlifting champions I am going to say BS
Nice job.
Ken Waller was an amazing bodybuilder and Franco never looked better than when he won the 76 olympia
Back when they didn’t do GH, that’s real bodybuilding if you ask me, now a days they are walking pharmacies. And that’s the kind of gym I grew up with, pure steel, no fancy machines.
HGH was very expensive back then and limited in availability while the more exotic growth factors were not yet developed. However, moderate doses of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) were used. The drugs only worked in the conditions of intense training and disciplined dieting, and many of the bodybuilders of this era did experience adverse side effects. The typical 'stack' included: Bulking Cycle - 10 Weeks
: Sustanon 250. 1 cc, week 1; 2 cc, weeks 2-10; Dianabol, 5 mg tablet. 1 tablet daily, week 1-2; 3 tablets daily, weeks 3-8; 2 tablets daily, week 9; 1 tablet daily, week 10.; Anadrol 50. 1/2 tablet daily, week 2; 1 tablet daily, weeks 3-9. Cutting Cycle - 12 Weeks
: Nandrolone phenylpropionate, 100 mg. 1 cc, week 1; 2 cc, twice weekly, weeks 2-11; 1 cc, twice weekly, week 12. Primobolan, 100 mg. 1 cc, twice weekly, week 1; 2 cc, twice weekly, weeks 2-12. Winstrol, 5 mg tablets. 2 tablets daily, week 1; 3 tablets, twice daily, weeks 2-12.
Laura Lee
I remember the first time I tried Primobolan, I was only taking a shot every 2 weeks and I was really scared, then I found out they were doing a lot more than me, but I never did any of the other drugs you’ve listed, maybe that’s why I never became huge, sounds like a lot!
My understanding was that it was mainly just D and Deca, maybe a little Primo. Don’t know about those others, though that list certainly sounds authentic. In any case, those combos were clearly such that the athletic look was retained that has now been lost in subsequent decades. Any idea how much of the year cycles were done then?
@@hardcorehouse the guys usually went drug free after the fall contest season until the serious training began late spring. Also, the amount of food was reduced to a "normal" level until the bulking phase began.
That sounds a little light...I’d guess that during the winter bulking phase, drugs would definitely be part of it-as opposed to just a few months pre-contest.
Those guys were awesome Champion bodybuilders back then
R.I.P Franco Columbu
Fantastic film!!! - Thanks for sharing!
the gym should be quiet and dark.. like a church
good old days
After 75 pumping iron all the glitter was taken for Arnold...just darkness
Franco the Bat. Waller had a good tan here.
i prefer ken then loud mouth Arnold
Super! Pumping iron two 👍
I liked Waller stopping to make friends with the cat. Little human touches like that give you a fuller picture of someone.
some of the best natural bodybuilder
they werent natural. Steroids were legal back then.
No bubble guts.
In the span of one year, Gold's Gym looks completely different from when Pumping Iron was filmed. Goes to show what a camera crew, lighting can do to change up the place. It looks more like a dungeon, kind of like how Arnold and the rest of the guys used to talk about the original dungeon. Love it...!
They had covered up the windows for the shots of Waller to have all the lighting coming from the skylights. That's why its so dark.
The Original Gold's is my dream home gym.
❤
Sad ken waller is old and feble now
dont get old bro
Hard as stone
Trained out there in the 70's. Waller worked his legs hard. did perfect deep squats, a regular at rhe.rack. upper and lower legs were well developed and looked as though they were made of steel.
Thank you for sharing this
More please!
wow i cant believe how properly
pumped up they really are,,,listen
to me now, and believe me later,
but dont think about it eva!!!
Shape of Franco back then was impressiv.
More footage?
California in the '70s. Bodybuilding, free love and porno being filmed in the valley. Great place to be.
This is amazing
Nowadays, poor Ken looks like Franco RIP.
To bad they had to get old but back in the day wow
Awesome 💪💪💪
Great f****** clip