Franco shows off his massive chest muscles in his prime Franco Columbu was one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time. He's also one that I have hesitated writing about simply because I was never a big fan. I have no real clue why that is/was! When I was younger, and first getting into bodybuilding in the late '80s, he should have been one of my heroes. I was smaller in stature than most lifters/bodybuilders in the gym - just like Franco - and I was also a lot stronger than most bodybuilders that I trained with, even from a young age - just like Franco! Maybe it was the look of his physique, or the fact that I always loved the other bodybuilders in that quasi/pseudo-documentary "Pumping Iron" better than he. Oh, well, whatever the reasons were, I definitely missed out on using some of Franco's awesome training advice, which I have come to appreciate more as I've aged and matured, and (hopefully) grown in wisdom. If you do a cursory search on the web fo...
Essays on Old-School Strength Training, Classic Bodybuilding, Traditional Martial Arts, and Budo Philosophy