by Tracy | May 8, 2018 | Tales from the Golden Era of Bodybuilding
My first trip to Len’s gym Having seen Len Sell pose and plucked up the courage to ask if I could train at his gym in Harlow I decided to make plans to visit him at the gym. I worked with a group of young lads in my company in the post section delivering the company...
by Tracy | Apr 28, 2018 | Tales from the Golden Era of Bodybuilding
My First Bodybuilding Competition My first bodybuilding contest was fascinating. Everybody looked bigger than me, (so I thought) and they all looked so calm. Whereas I felt like I could not stand still for five seconds. Its a bit like when someone joins a gym they...
by Tracy | Apr 16, 2018 | Tales from the Golden Era of Bodybuilding
Starting work and preparing for my first bodybuilding competition When I left school I worked for a company that had great sports facilities. It’s sports ground spread over quite a few acres of land. The central part of the complex had 6 football/rugby pitches on...
by Tracy | Apr 8, 2018 | Tales from the Golden Era of Bodybuilding
The Beginning I was on my way to change myself into Hercules. After all, I had the Mr America magazine with Hercules on the cover and all of the exercises that the champions used described in detail inside. It surely wouldn’t take too long maybe a year or so and...
by Tracy | Apr 8, 2018 | Tales from the Golden Era of Bodybuilding
My Lifetime of lifting – Part 1 It was all Hercules’s fault….I blame him! When I was a fifteen-year-old schoolboy, daydreaming, on my way to school. I stepped off the bus and in the window of the sweet shop and saw Hercules. He was right there, plastered all...
