The boxing girl at 8:00 mins in is "Battling" Barbara Buttrick. 4'11", 98 lbs, had 32 fights - won 30, draw 1, lost 1. Was undefeated for 10 years. Total badass. Still alive today!
Thanks for the props for my dad, Reg Park. If I say so myself, he certainly was a stud for those times and even present times. He was way ahead of his time, trained hard and heavy for a long time. He was a mans man, physically and mentally. I know you've been corrected by family members and others that my dad was born in Leeds in the UK but moved to SA, where he met my mom in the early 50's. Thanks again. I like your podcasts, grat stuff.
@garygallagher5545 Hi Gary, Yes, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. Reg played for Leeds United reserves when he was 16 and captained Yorkshire school boys. He wanted to turn pro but injured his knee. That's how he got into weight training through rehab. Good to know that people still talk about Reg and Dennis Wynn? All these years later.
One of your swimming students from the 80s is in the comments below.i left a comment on his post saying you are in the comments too I hope you both get re connected if you are not already 👍🏿
Jonjon (Reg Park’s son) was my swimming coach in the 80s. The training and nutrition advice that Reg shared with us was decades ahead of the times and accorded with a lot of what is advocated on this channel. Reg was indeed an inspiration to us all and a true gentleman
That actually reminds me of a like printed packet that I found at the Anytime Fitness I work at and it was from the 90s, but it had better nutrition and exercise, advice and information then most of the stuff that’s put out today. I was actually surprised that they were even talking about eating protein and eating carbs and eating fats and making sure that you don’t eat two little calories if you are burning a ton of calories and trying to put on muscle because it was way ahead of time in the 90s because it seemed like everyone was starving
I was literally in the middle of telling the wife how comparatively small even the best back then were, then he popped up on the screen...lol...he was a MONSTER for back in the day and even pretty big by today's standards! Damn impressive!!
@@rmp5s bro if you think the best of the 1940-50s bodybuilders are 'comparatively small' to modern naturals, imo you have some crazy body dysmorphia. these guys are naturals and plenty of them sporting 17 inch arms, 25 inch legs etc etc, and are very strong in a wide variety of lifts. the best of the 40s and 50s are elite natties even by todays standards.
Cleaning and housework was a legitimate workout back then, lol. Everything was heavier - pots and pans, vacuum cleaners. Products required more elbow grease (general cleaning/scrubbing, washing clothes, hanging the clothes). Carrying home groceries if hubby had the car. Maybe lifting around a child or two. And dishwashers were uncommon enough that most people did the heavy dishes by hand. By the end of the day, you would legitimately need to put on fresh clothes and touch yourself up, to not look super frazzled. 😅
@@HereIAm247 They used to get down on their hands and knees to scrub the floor (and the doorstep), they would beat the rugs out in the garden, boil white clothes (and nappies) in big old pots, scrub each thing by hand, wring them out by hand, then hang everything up in the garden on a washing line. Next day they had to iron everything! 1950s housework was brutal. 😂
I made an agreement with my man that if I cook with it...he cleans and conditions it. He likes the food I cook in it enough that he happily does it without a complaint. And we named the pan "Betty". I'll ask "did you rub Betty down with oil?" And then we just laugh. 😉
Back then, a dame's goal was to get as many cat calls as possible going past the construction site That way, you knew the thigh rollers and the slimming vibration belt were working really swell
Is that an inside joke? Cause he is doing an impression of Edward G. Robinson from a 1930s gangster movies. And I thought he was trying to talk like people from the 50s?
These pieces used to be shorts at the movie theaters of the time. The music was because it was in essence a preshow event, meant to entertain the audience as they shuffle in with their fresh popcorn and peanuts.
my high school had home economics in the 90s, boys and girls all took it, and it was paired with wood shop. i learned how to join fabric and wood in the same year, it was awesome.
same. Although next year we got to choose, and all the boys chose shop, all the girls home ec. To be fair to the girls, home ec was an easy class, and the shop teacher yelled a lot
My school never had home economics and I think that’s legitimately a shame. Not enough people my age know how to do basic household things like sew or cook
That accent you hear in old timey media, its actually an artificial accent known as the "mid atlantic accent", it was meant to get around the low quality of microphones available int he 30s-50s.
That's not the real, entire reason, I think. For one thing, I knew people who spoke like that, not on TV. Maybe TV reinforced it, but you can also hear regular people using that accent in "man-on-the-street" interviews. The accent screams "I am an upper class person who spends so much time on both sides of the Atlantic, I don't even know what I sound like anymore!", and I think they used it to give the show an air of authority and sophistication. The proto-Karen accent, you could call it.
@@ChannelMath No that;'s literally it, and you described how it continued to evolve. Because if you were a radio host you were mid-to-high level society (since obviously so many people would recognize your voice) so it just became associated to it.
@@ChannelMath mid atlantic accent is made up but in the sense that it wasn't anyone native accent but rather a bend of different english accent mixing in upper class circles. its not just made up as a whole, like known sat and thought how can he fake an accent, its something that happened when these different accent interacted and ppl tried to make it a native accent while also using it on radio cause it sound upper classy cause it was spoken by upper class ppl
Makes sense. Pitch is a big issue with audio equipment, and a lot of cheap, modern microphones struggle with bass tones. That’s why people get the Rogan mic, because of its fidelity.
@@espenstoro you’re not alone. I read the last word of his comment as the most Steve Erwin “eck-sint” I’m an American though, I ain’t gon’ have no accent (but I will be jealous of all of them, including that sweet Norwegian inflection)
@@SleekDiamond41Every single one of us has an accent. Yours just happens to be American (southern inflection, judging by the double negative of ‘ain’t got no accent’ ). There’s a bunch of American accents that I like, and they are all very distinct.
Re: Home Economics classes, you really should read "The Secret History of Home Economics" It was a branch of education overseen by serious academic women that was heavily responsible for training women for jobs and careers in STEM (including health sciences and nutrition) back at a time when a woman with any career outside of secretarial, menial labor or teaching was fairly uncommon, all while training the often minimally educated population inn healthy lifestyles (including a solid foundation in financial sustainability and household economics) based on actual scientific methods and evidence. It's a core reason why we had women in the space race, early biochem, etc., and pretty much underpinned the whole boom in food science/test kitchens during those eras.
@@VernCrisler Your sense of smell/taste decline as you age. There's also hedonic adaptation. When you get used to eating hyper-palatable flavor bombs, regular foods feel more everyday and bland. Finally, there's a decent chance that if your budget hasn't kept up with inflation/flat wages that they are just noticing the quality of the bottom shelf stuff, especially if they grew up in an area with local sourced foods.
the irony is that 1950s bodybuilders who barely had any muscle by todays standards were actually much more attractive to women. those girls werent even hired to be in the video, they just showed up and refused to leave
That is what a 1950s weightlifter looks like. If you do nothing but weightlift today, you would look similar. In fact, he looks pretty good for someone who likely doesn't focus on building muscle with isolation movements at all. If you want to see how a 1950s bodybuilder looked like, Reg Park is mentioned in this very video!
That clean was really clean. Might even call it a power clean. Or muscle clean I should say. And you always get full credit points when you show Clarence weightlifting or powerlifting. And to be fair that 50's body looks really aesthetic and well-rounded. It looks like a normal person who is very athletic. Sort of the look that Arnold had to his massive body. The lecturer really had it down, damn people in the 50's. "Go to shower and sleep well" is like just as good of advice today. Maybe even better. And many could take notes from the diet advice. Damn you 50's people.
I used to use the gym on the Air Force Base that my Dad was stationed at from 1970-5 and there were those rotating rolling pin massagers there. I tried it once and it hurt because I was skinny. They also had, and I was disappointed not to have seen here, those belt massagers. These also hurt me. Maybe they came later. My intuition at the time told me these were nonsense devices and I think others thought so too as I can't remember ever seeing anyone using them. Thanks for being a beacon of truth in a world full of the lack of it.
i wonder if in the 50s people saw reg park and thought "hes way too big and looks like a freak, i dont know why anyone would want to look like that" in the same way non-lifters now days look at a guy like ronnie.
They might have since steroids were really new at the time and seeing someone that swole (whether he's natty or not) would be super rare and maybe freakish. Now with people like Ronnie we're really pushing the boundaries of what people can even look like and of course not everyone thinks that it looks good.
Yeah. I feel like all the people who say they don’t like men that are too muscular, like a bodybuilder, were saying it back then. Some people just can’t accept anything out of their norm.
@16:00 I had home economics in the mid 2000s (as a guy), It was great, learnt the essentials of cooking, how to sew a button back on and patch clothes, budgeting ect. Very useful stuff
16:00 Something cool in my 8th grade son's class. As a part of their grade, their teacher pays the students to a fake bank account for tasks/choirs/cleaning the room/etc. and charges them rent from that fake account for their desk and supplies. At the end of each month then have to balance their fake account for a grade. Understanding that tracking money and keeping a budget is key to getting a good grade in that class and in life. reminded me a little of the idea of Home Ecom class.
A quick wikipedia search finds that Harold Cleghorn from New Zealand was the 1950 British Empire Games weighlifting champion in the 110kg class - at age 38 (because took the war off from being NZ champ - 1937 - 1940, 1949 - 1955). Dude lived until 1996
@@shoullin1761I did watch it (I clicked the notification and realized they made a mistake so I just didn't close the video until I watched it all) It is whatever you see here but more and when I say more I mean,at least for this video, 3 times more, it was an hour. So yeah it is better at least for me. I thought the uncensored version was at best 2 times longer and still thought It was worth it so yeah.
exactly! arnold even lived some time in england before he came to usa. but reg was real english gentleman which drank tea regularly :-) and btw he didn't inspired arnold to train. arnold started training before his 15 i think. first in weightlifitng club, which was even so progressive that they used "bodybuilding" as complementary exercises with success. than he did some kind of powerlifting. reg inspired him to be movie hero. he didn't inspire him as person initially (but later definitely) but as personator of hercules in movie. he also inspired him as orator what probably helped arnold to achieve, respective fullfil his political ambitions later...
I heard that they had to speak in those registers in that era because the recording equipment was less sensitive & could only pick up a limited range of pitches
Very narrow frequency range at every step of the chain, yes. But by far the biggest reason was there being an accepted global "Queen's English", BBC's Received Pronunciation; very much like modern publication's style guide for formatting & language.
If you listen to your channel intro and outro music at double speed, it sounds exactly like the 1940’s music you are talking about. They just had more “pep”.
Reg Park was from Leeds but lives in South Africa where his beautiful wife Mareon was from. Reg was my dad. Thanks for the recognition and acknowledgement of his greatness.
Reg Park is absolutely astounding for the time and a total inspiration even today. I don't even know if they knew what steroids were back then but they sure as shit didn't have the sports science we have today. His entire physique was basically built with nothing but free weights and only the slightest understanding of nutrition (where it relates to muscle growth with no supplementation). This was a time where it was weird if you DIDN'T smoke a pack a day!
Modern androgen therapy started in 1935 .with the rise of the anabolic steroid industry in the 1950s, bodybuilders like Ray park started experimenting with testosterone and other substances to enhance their performance.. if you compare his physique to bronze era lifter like Sandow, atilla, bobby pandour, or simon javierto you can see a huge difference in the physique before and after steroids. though park is a beast i seriously doubt he didn't get there by gear.
@@jamesadamik2710 These early anabolics were higly ineffective; you would've had to take hundreds of tablets a day to notice an improvement in physique and the pure amount of liver damage that you'd have taken would've had you dead in less than a decade. It really wasn't until the release of Dianabol in 1958 that, with extremely few exceptions, you could get your hands on actually muscle improving drugs, and until the early 1960s that steroids became systemic in the sport.
@@virding232”until they became systemic” this dude literally mentored arnold and benched 500lbs whilst lean. You have to be smoking some shit to believe this guy was natural just because of the time period.
Test was around but need to remember its 1951 forward, meaning extremely unlikely he built his physique in the 40s on gear. What little that was available were only for correcting severe handicap or life threatening medical conditions , there was no underground stuff, and no cultural reason to juice as it was'nt common knowledge for anyone outside specialist doctors. Regs physique is sub 25 ffmi and obtainable with above average genetics, I know I was close to his with good genes.
It’s so cool to see Clarence’s video included in the clean section, he has a great potential to lift dozens of kilos. True hero of upcoming amateur lifters.
Reg Park was from Leeds. Grew up down the road from him. He did move to South Africa later to raise his family though. Guy was an absolute unit for his day. Looked great and strong AF. Pretty much popularised 5x5 training too!
9:15 I really think you might be looking at this device a little differently than what it was intended for. That device is basically training wheels for stretching, and mild muscle tension work. You can still find very similar devices to this which are used for skiers and physical therapy. It is useless for "Building Muscles", but for people who have severe difficulty in stretching, especially people who have balance issues, using a pole to maintain balance while stretching forward is a big help. It's also good for people who want to make sure they've limbered up. I admit though the narrator is not being entirely truthful about its application.
Don't forget that Britain still had rationing into the 1950s, and most fruits and vegetables that we eat now weren't available until the 1970s or later. By the way, We girls were still doing home economics at school in the 70s.
You need to get an RP merch T-shirt dropped with “myah see” on it and your face with a top hat and monocle on 😂. This also has to be one of your funniest vids yet 🤙🏻
Damn, now we got a taste of daddy Mike talking shit for one hour straight. I guess we have no choice but to become an RP channel member and get instant access to over 30 hrs of exclusive in-depth training and advanced science content!
And those who look good like bodybuilders in 1950s are full of steroids. I actually went to follow 1950s Steve Reeves diet and i have lost 4.8 kg in 3 weeks. That's 10 pounds. In three weeks. Kings are still kings yo. 🫡✊️
What I love about the 50s guy is that he placed the weights gently in the floor. What I hate about men now days is that they throw weights around trying to be the most noisy.
I remember some of those weird machines for ladies in beauty salons. My mom went to high school in the 50s and girls were not encouraged to work out, but to stay slim. Mom was 5 ft 8 in tall. On the day she gave birth to my 7 lb brother in 1958, she weighed a whopping 117 lbs. Of course back then she was living on black coffee and cigarettes.
Hands down... this is the greatest RP video of all time! I died! The amazing bluntness of the 1940s is timeless and we need to go back to that... "The Weaker Sex" had me rolling!
The boxing girl at 8:00 mins in is "Battling" Barbara Buttrick. 4'11", 98 lbs, had 32 fights - won 30, draw 1, lost 1. Was undefeated for 10 years. Total badass. Still alive today!
Thanks for this. Dr. Mike needs her on the show
Golly! She sure is a special gal
Amazing!!
YOOO this just made my day! Adding her to my list of people I want to be like when I grow up.
whaaa I'm 4'11", guess I have someone my height to look upto 😅
Mike says not to touch people, but he's touching my heart in every video.
He is touching my other organs, one in particular seems to be getting more attention than most. It's not the heart.
@@dirimi6352 Is it your second heart? Also, off topic, but why do humans use the expression "secondheart embarrassment"?
Me too
@@ordinarryalienI think it's second hand embarrassment not second heart
@@shoobzy3431i think you are correct
Thanks for the props for my dad, Reg Park. If I say so myself, he certainly was a stud for those times and even present times. He was way ahead of his time, trained hard and heavy for a long time. He was a mans man, physically and mentally. I know you've been corrected by family members and others that my dad was born in Leeds in the UK but moved to SA, where he met my mom in the early 50's.
Thanks again. I like your podcasts, grat stuff.
same as me a leeds lad people still talk about your dad and dennis in leeds gyms
Awesome to get your feedback man,your dad is a TRUE LEGEND for all times and all eras
@garygallagher5545 Hi Gary, Yes, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. It's good to know people still talk about Reg and Dennis Wynn?
@garygallagher5545 Hi Gary, Yes, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. Reg played for Leeds United reserves when he was 16 and captained Yorkshire school boys. He wanted to turn pro but injured his knee. That's how he got into weight training through rehab. Good to know that people still talk about Reg and Dennis Wynn? All these years later.
One of your swimming students from the 80s is in the comments below.i left a comment on his post saying you are in the comments too I hope you both get re connected if you are not already 👍🏿
Jonjon (Reg Park’s son) was my swimming coach in the 80s. The training and nutrition advice that Reg shared with us was decades ahead of the times and accorded with a lot of what is advocated on this channel. Reg was indeed an inspiration to us all and a true gentleman
Well your old coach is in this comment section few comments above
@johnpark7097
That actually reminds me of a like printed packet that I found at the Anytime Fitness I work at and it was from the 90s, but it had better nutrition and exercise, advice and information then most of the stuff that’s put out today. I was actually surprised that they were even talking about eating protein and eating carbs and eating fats and making sure that you don’t eat two little calories if you are burning a ton of calories and trying to put on muscle because it was way ahead of time in the 90s because it seemed like everyone was starving
100% agree with Dr Mike. Seeing Reg Park display that level of muscularity all the back in 1951 is absolutely inspiring.
Reg Park got shredded in a cave with a box of SCRAPS!
I was literally in the middle of telling the wife how comparatively small even the best back then were, then he popped up on the screen...lol...he was a MONSTER for back in the day and even pretty big by today's standards! Damn impressive!!
unrelated, but nice physique bro 👌🏼
"Well I'm sorry, I'm not Reg Park"@@henrycavillsrealmustache3553
@@rmp5s bro if you think the best of the 1940-50s bodybuilders are 'comparatively small' to modern naturals, imo you have some crazy body dysmorphia. these guys are naturals and plenty of them sporting 17 inch arms, 25 inch legs etc etc, and are very strong in a wide variety of lifts. the best of the 40s and 50s are elite natties even by todays standards.
Lady's in the 50's had to be tough When I started cooking with cast Iron pans I thought my wrist was gonna snap!
Lol.
Cast iron is deceptively heavy. You lift a medium pan and it’s like 20lbs.
@@justinbarnett9476I got used to it lol...I do all the cooking and I like cast iron lol...😂
Cleaning and housework was a legitimate workout back then, lol. Everything was heavier - pots and pans, vacuum cleaners. Products required more elbow grease (general cleaning/scrubbing, washing clothes, hanging the clothes). Carrying home groceries if hubby had the car. Maybe lifting around a child or two. And dishwashers were uncommon enough that most people did the heavy dishes by hand. By the end of the day, you would legitimately need to put on fresh clothes and touch yourself up, to not look super frazzled. 😅
@@HereIAm247 They used to get down on their hands and knees to scrub the floor (and the doorstep), they would beat the rugs out in the garden, boil white clothes (and nappies) in big old pots, scrub each thing by hand, wring them out by hand, then hang everything up in the garden on a washing line. Next day they had to iron everything! 1950s housework was brutal. 😂
I made an agreement with my man that if I cook with it...he cleans and conditions it. He likes the food I cook in it enough that he happily does it without a complaint. And we named the pan "Betty". I'll ask "did you rub Betty down with oil?" And then we just laugh. 😉
"myah see, you'll get all the dames" is exactly what i hoped dr. mike would say today
Back then, a dame's goal was to get as many cat calls as possible going past the construction site
That way, you knew the thigh rollers and the slimming vibration belt were working really swell
Myaaah 🎩🚬
When he said “hoes” 😂
Is that an inside joke? Cause he is doing an impression of Edward G. Robinson from a 1930s gangster movies. And I thought he was trying to talk like people from the 50s?
That wasn't the 50s lol.
These pieces used to be shorts at the movie theaters of the time. The music was because it was in essence a preshow event, meant to entertain the audience as they shuffle in with their fresh popcorn and peanuts.
😂 okay I chuckled when he said "visiting the weaker sex", but when he said "vital statistics" and gave her chest-waist-hips measures I lost my s**t 😂
They knew what was important back then!
😂😅
I thought the same lol
This was unbelievable
lol it took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what they meant by “vital statistics” after hearing the numbers they gave.
my high school had home economics in the 90s, boys and girls all took it, and it was paired with wood shop. i learned how to join fabric and wood in the same year, it was awesome.
Is that a euphemism? 😂
same. Although next year we got to choose, and all the boys chose shop, all the girls home ec. To be fair to the girls, home ec was an easy class, and the shop teacher yelled a lot
My school never had home economics and I think that’s legitimately a shame. Not enough people my age know how to do basic household things like sew or cook
We had both in the late 2000's. half the year in the workshop, other half in the kitchen.
I really appreciate Dr. Mike calling out Dr. OZ for what he is, thank you!
That accent you hear in old timey media, its actually an artificial accent known as the "mid atlantic accent", it was meant to get around the low quality of microphones available int he 30s-50s.
That's not the real, entire reason, I think. For one thing, I knew people who spoke like that, not on TV. Maybe TV reinforced it, but you can also hear regular people using that accent in "man-on-the-street" interviews. The accent screams "I am an upper class person who spends so much time on both sides of the Atlantic, I don't even know what I sound like anymore!", and I think they used it to give the show an air of authority and sophistication.
The proto-Karen accent, you could call it.
@@ChannelMath No that;'s literally it, and you described how it continued to evolve. Because if you were a radio host you were mid-to-high level society (since obviously so many people would recognize your voice) so it just became associated to it.
ChannelMath so interesting ❤
@@ChannelMath mid atlantic accent is made up but in the sense that it wasn't anyone native accent but rather a bend of different english accent mixing in upper class circles.
its not just made up as a whole, like known sat and thought how can he fake an accent, its something that happened when these different accent interacted and ppl tried to make it a native accent while also using it on radio cause it sound upper classy cause it was spoken by upper class ppl
Makes sense. Pitch is a big issue with audio equipment, and a lot of cheap, modern microphones struggle with bass tones. That’s why people get the Rogan mic, because of its fidelity.
As your resident South African, thanks for the appreciation of our accent
It's a cool accent, and a tough one to imitate without sounding Scottish, Australian or something completely off. I'm Norwegian, that's my excuse.
@@espenstoro you’re not alone. I read the last word of his comment as the most Steve Erwin “eck-sint”
I’m an American though, I ain’t gon’ have no accent (but I will be jealous of all of them, including that sweet Norwegian inflection)
@@SleekDiamond41Every single one of us has an accent. Yours just happens to be American (southern inflection, judging by the double negative of ‘ain’t got no accent’ ).
There’s a bunch of American accents that I like, and they are all very distinct.
Yay! I'm not alone!
Me too. Shout out from Joburg! Kiff impersonation, bru.
Re: Home Economics classes, you really should read "The Secret History of Home Economics" It was a branch of education overseen by serious academic women that was heavily responsible for training women for jobs and careers in STEM (including health sciences and nutrition) back at a time when a woman with any career outside of secretarial, menial labor or teaching was fairly uncommon, all while training the often minimally educated population inn healthy lifestyles (including a solid foundation in financial sustainability and household economics) based on actual scientific methods and evidence. It's a core reason why we had women in the space race, early biochem, etc., and pretty much underpinned the whole boom in food science/test kitchens during those eras.
"Food has just gotten better. Thats why were all fat today. Food is amazing." The literal cause of the obesity epidemic.
10 times the calories, 1/10 the nutrients. That's the most food of today.
I'm not sure about better. My folks always complain that nothing tastes good like it used to.
@@VernCrisler maybe they have long covid.
@@VernCrisler Your sense of smell/taste decline as you age. There's also hedonic adaptation. When you get used to eating hyper-palatable flavor bombs, regular foods feel more everyday and bland. Finally, there's a decent chance that if your budget hasn't kept up with inflation/flat wages that they are just noticing the quality of the bottom shelf stuff, especially if they grew up in an area with local sourced foods.
@@VernCrisleryep, I agree, as far as fruits and vegetables are today.
I love the shout out to Reg Park in this video ! Bronze and Silver Era bodybuilding is a shining example of how far a natural physique can go
He looked great
@@freehatespeech6804 dude was generations ahead of his time
Didn’t he openly admit to using steroids ? At least in the later years of his career.
Dude was inspirational but he was in no way natural. Steroids were available over a decade before he became a bodybuilder.
@@LucLB01 no, he actually stopped judging bodybuilding competitions because he didn't like the way the sport was going as a result of PEDs
Many thanks I appreciate your kind and complimentary words. My best to you.
Reg Park was from England. He moved to South Africa. He had an English accent. But, I do appreciate the compliment, being from South Africa myself...
Yeah I was confused about that until I looked up Park's bio...
the irony is that 1950s bodybuilders who barely had any muscle by todays standards were actually much more attractive to women. those girls werent even hired to be in the video, they just showed up and refused to leave
The secret is that it was never about attracting women
The value of getting jacked is greatly depreciated
I'm thinking even if the 1950s dudes weren't as muscular, I would imagine they were stronger in regards to endurance and grip strength
That is what a 1950s weightlifter looks like. If you do nothing but weightlift today, you would look similar. In fact, he looks pretty good for someone who likely doesn't focus on building muscle with isolation movements at all. If you want to see how a 1950s bodybuilder looked like, Reg Park is mentioned in this very video!
Did you not see Reg Park? What do you mean no muscle.
That clean was really clean. Might even call it a power clean. Or muscle clean I should say. And you always get full credit points when you show Clarence weightlifting or powerlifting. And to be fair that 50's body looks really aesthetic and well-rounded. It looks like a normal person who is very athletic. Sort of the look that Arnold had to his massive body.
The lecturer really had it down, damn people in the 50's. "Go to shower and sleep well" is like just as good of advice today. Maybe even better. And many could take notes from the diet advice. Damn you 50's people.
I used to use the gym on the Air Force Base that my Dad was stationed at from 1970-5 and there were those rotating rolling pin massagers there. I tried it once and it hurt because I was skinny. They also had, and I was disappointed not to have seen here, those belt massagers. These also hurt me. Maybe they came later. My intuition at the time told me these were nonsense devices and I think others thought so too as I can't remember ever seeing anyone using them. Thanks for being a beacon of truth in a world full of the lack of it.
You just weren't smoking enough healthy cigarettes to see the beneficial effects of 'The Jiglomatic (TM)'
I remember as a kid during the 80's my nan actually had one of those belt massager machines at home she used everyday lol
They thought they could melt cellulitis with it.
@@user-pz6hs6wi6flunch?! that much movement would make me nauseous lmao
Ngl I lowkey love the fact that Tame Impala came on after Mike said "acid" 😆
Yeah, editor knew what he was doing. 😉👉🏻👉🏻
i wonder if in the 50s people saw reg park and thought "hes way too big and looks like a freak, i dont know why anyone would want to look like that" in the same way non-lifters now days look at a guy like ronnie.
Saw him same way as Reg Park from 1950 today.
Idk normies would probably still say reg park is too big and ronnie is a mutant
They might have since steroids were really new at the time and seeing someone that swole (whether he's natty or not) would be super rare and maybe freakish. Now with people like Ronnie we're really pushing the boundaries of what people can even look like and of course not everyone thinks that it looks good.
Yeah. I feel like all the people who say they don’t like men that are too muscular, like a bodybuilder, were saying it back then. Some people just can’t accept anything out of their norm.
@16:00 I had home economics in the mid 2000s (as a guy), It was great, learnt the essentials of cooking, how to sew a button back on and patch clothes, budgeting ect.
Very useful stuff
16:00 Something cool in my 8th grade son's class. As a part of their grade, their teacher pays the students to a fake bank account for tasks/choirs/cleaning the room/etc. and charges them rent from that fake account for their desk and supplies. At the end of each month then have to balance their fake account for a grade. Understanding that tracking money and keeping a budget is key to getting a good grade in that class and in life. reminded me a little of the idea of Home Ecom class.
this old-style clean looks a lot like current axle clean from strongman. i never knew where the term “clean” came from. thanks dr mike!
A quick wikipedia search finds that Harold Cleghorn from New Zealand was the 1950 British Empire Games weighlifting champion in the 110kg class - at age 38 (because took the war off from being NZ champ - 1937 - 1940, 1949 - 1955). Dude lived until 1996
Probably because he’s from New Zealand! Great country
Why? 🫁
Damn that boxing girl was weirdly adorable.
top 10 feminism moments tbh
She packs a punch alright. I like girls like that. Idk why, there's something really attractive about tough girls.
Bro I gotta find a girl like that. Failing the standing eight count 'cause I'm seeing little cupids
Adorable AND badass. Had 32 fights, 30 wins, 1 draw and one loss. Still alive at 94
I didn’t watch the whole members only version before they sequestered it 😥
Was is better?
@@shoullin1761I did watch it (I clicked the notification and realized they made a mistake so I just didn't close the video until I watched it all) It is whatever you see here but more and when I say more I mean,at least for this video, 3 times more, it was an hour. So yeah it is better at least for me. I thought the uncensored version was at best 2 times longer and still thought It was worth it so yeah.
@@shoullin1761 no full is just more boring most inprotant in in here so lol
I appreciate your humor. And your approach to fitness.
Just a correction, Reg Park was not South African, but English. He only lived in SA until his death. Do agree that the accent sounds dope!
exactly! arnold even lived some time in england before he came to usa. but reg was real english gentleman which drank tea regularly :-) and btw he didn't inspired arnold to train. arnold started training before his 15 i think. first in weightlifitng club, which was even so progressive that they used "bodybuilding" as complementary exercises with success. than he did some kind of powerlifting. reg inspired him to be movie hero. he didn't inspire him as person initially (but later definitely) but as personator of hercules in movie. he also inspired him as orator what probably helped arnold to achieve, respective fullfil his political ambitions later...
yes, Reg never really adopted a SA accent. his son has a full-blown one, though
I used to live down the road from him
Do more of these...maybe 60's and 70's...than 80's and 90's
Dr Mike reacting to Clarence Kennedy would be a genius video!
I heard that they had to speak in those registers in that era because the recording equipment was less sensitive & could only pick up a limited range of pitches
Very narrow frequency range at every step of the chain, yes. But by far the biggest reason was there being an accepted global "Queen's English", BBC's Received Pronunciation; very much like modern publication's style guide for formatting & language.
@@5thgearouttahere Ahh, I see! Thanks!
9:43 since the video is from the 50's one presumes he was advisor on physical culture to Franco's Spanish Army...
Explains the touching
If you listen to your channel intro and outro music at double speed, it sounds exactly like the 1940’s music you are talking about. They just had more “pep”.
Reg Park was from Leeds but lives in South Africa where his beautiful wife Mareon was from. Reg was my dad. Thanks for the recognition and acknowledgement of his greatness.
Reg Park is absolutely astounding for the time and a total inspiration even today. I don't even know if they knew what steroids were back then but they sure as shit didn't have the sports science we have today. His entire physique was basically built with nothing but free weights and only the slightest understanding of nutrition (where it relates to muscle growth with no supplementation). This was a time where it was weird if you DIDN'T smoke a pack a day!
Modern androgen therapy started in 1935 .with the rise of the anabolic steroid industry in the 1950s, bodybuilders like Ray park started experimenting with testosterone and other substances to enhance their performance.. if you compare his physique to bronze era lifter like Sandow, atilla, bobby pandour, or simon javierto you can see a huge difference in the physique before and after steroids. though park is a beast i seriously doubt he didn't get there by gear.
@@jamesadamik2710 These early anabolics were higly ineffective; you would've had to take hundreds of tablets a day to notice an improvement in physique and the pure amount of liver damage that you'd have taken would've had you dead in less than a decade. It really wasn't until the release of Dianabol in 1958 that, with extremely few exceptions, you could get your hands on actually muscle improving drugs, and until the early 1960s that steroids became systemic in the sport.
@@virding232”until they became systemic” this dude literally mentored arnold and benched 500lbs whilst lean. You have to be smoking some shit to believe this guy was natural just because of the time period.
Test was around but need to remember its 1951 forward, meaning extremely unlikely he built his physique in the 40s on gear. What little that was available were only for correcting severe handicap or life threatening medical conditions , there was no underground stuff, and no cultural reason to juice as it was'nt common knowledge for anyone outside specialist doctors. Regs physique is sub 25 ffmi and obtainable with above average genetics, I know I was close to his with good genes.
Apparently they could find steroid who was first used for making bigger cow, don't know if it trie but still
It’s so cool to see Clarence’s video included in the clean section, he has a great potential to lift dozens of kilos. True hero of upcoming amateur lifters.
Reg Park was from Leeds. Grew up down the road from him.
He did move to South Africa later to raise his family though.
Guy was an absolute unit for his day. Looked great and strong AF. Pretty much popularised 5x5 training too!
Back when moving TO South Africa was a good idea.
At one stage in the 70's before sanctions kicked in, it was 2 U.S. dollars to every S.A. Rand. Crazy
Reg Park was an absolute beast.
This has got to be your funniest video yet!!!!!! So much entertainment!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love to see you breakdown a jack lalanne exercise video
I'm only three minutes into the video, and your 1950's voice is everything! 😂😂
Reg Park was from Leeds in the UK
Correct. Actually played for Leeds United reserves.
9:15 I really think you might be looking at this device a little differently than what it was intended for. That device is basically training wheels for stretching, and mild muscle tension work. You can still find very similar devices to this which are used for skiers and physical therapy. It is useless for "Building Muscles", but for people who have severe difficulty in stretching, especially people who have balance issues, using a pole to maintain balance while stretching forward is a big help. It's also good for people who want to make sure they've limbered up. I admit though the narrator is not being entirely truthful about its application.
17:47 enjoy mike as a cat anytime you want. comment how many time you pressed it please
at least 3 times.
Don't forget that Britain still had rationing into the 1950s, and most fruits and vegetables that we eat now weren't available until the 1970s or later. By the way, We girls were still doing home economics at school in the 70s.
You need to get an RP merch T-shirt dropped with “myah see” on it and your face with a top hat and monocle on 😂. This also has to be one of your funniest vids yet 🤙🏻
6:13 This picture looks like it was taken today and grayscaled. Unreal.
Love that you mention one of the best of all time Reg Park but he was a British bodybuilder who moved to South Africa and not South African
Well done Dr. Mike.
Dude back in the 1950's even McDonald's was nutritious and healthy.
Healthier, yes. healthy, no.
The cigarettes that they smoked like chimneys were pretty nutritious too
@@HostaMahogeygotta get your greens in
This is my favorite, these old school videos are so fun to watch and mike's (and scott's ) commentary so priceless
10:31 I didn’t realize that Vincent Price was a fitness expert.
I'd bet money that that dude was cast specifically because he looked like him.
Please add the 50s black and white music to your next workout video. I want to see people puking in a trash can to tickertape parade music.
Awww they released the 59min long "uncensored" video accidentally to subs (should be members-only, which it is now)
It was still censored, I remember the beeps heh
Damn, now we got a taste of daddy Mike talking shit for one hour straight. I guess we have no choice but to become an RP channel member and get instant access to over 30 hrs of exclusive in-depth training and advanced science content!
I knew I should have watched it while I had the chance
I think he should have kept it as an example of what you get as a sponsor
Got the video loaded lets gooo
Did not know that fact concerning the clean. Learn something new every day.
How did those bodybuilders feel safe with all those creepy women staring at them?
You think they weren't having sex with some of them.
Back in the days when men were men, women were women and cigarettes were recommended by your doctor
Reg Park wasn't South African - he was British. Born & grew up in Leeds, Yorkshire. He moved to SA in the 50s.
8:00 That lady probably became the most menacing Mom to he kids lmao. That's actually badass.
Awesome, Matt. It worked well for Reg in his early days, and even to this day, many are still olliwing the
5 x 5 with great results x 3'a week.
And Reg Park was the second man to bench press 500lbs! Wow
this might be my favorite video on this channel ever
2:40 that is actually hillarious
I think Reg was from UK, Leeds or something, but his wife Marion was South African and Reg moved there and lived there for the rest of his life.
The pop from when he hit the bag vs. when she hit it 👀 he wasn’t gonna f with her haha
10:59 And there it is. Was waiting for that
Without steroids, UA-cam, perfect studies and just dedication to look like them? Most don’t look that good in modern days
And those who look good like bodybuilders in 1950s are full of steroids. I actually went to follow 1950s Steve Reeves diet and i have lost 4.8 kg in 3 weeks. That's 10 pounds. In three weeks. Kings are still kings yo. 🫡✊️
Your Edward G. Robinson impression is spot on.
wonder if there will be someone in 60 years time critiquing Dr Mikes videos ;-)
Good video RP, been watching yall for over an year.
Just in time, I just finished 59 minute version
"Yeah a lil get up & go"😂 scott's too relatable
As an Afrikaans South African, we don't speak English really, we speak Afrikaans with an english accent😂
I'm from South Africa, and i can confirm that the South African accent is quite unique..
lol
You are a great inspiration. Respect
Do a push up for every "meh see" Dr. Mike uses
MYAAAAH !
"Yeah she can still get it"
Doctor!! U are insanely hilarious!! I love it!!
The Cagney impression had me laughing all the way through the video. Thanks for that, plus the good advice.
Looks down, gently rubs the table and, "Scott the video guy..." I know I'm about to laugh
What I love about the 50s guy is that he placed the weights gently in the floor. What I hate about men now days is that they throw weights around trying to be the most noisy.
And can't re-rack
Bro, you and your editor are painfully funny, love it
Did you accidently make the members only version public at first?
I think they did, because I just watched this
Yes they did 😂
Why nobody downloaded it and leaked it damn
Aww an hour of that would've been gold!
Actually, Reg Park was from Leeds, in northern England - he moved to South Africa in the 1950s or 1960s.
Didn't realize I commented on an accident posting. Anywho, you should still do P90X, Body By Jake, and similar old infomercial programs like that
I remember some of those weird machines for ladies in beauty salons. My mom went to high school in the 50s and girls were not encouraged to work out, but to stay slim. Mom was 5 ft 8 in tall. On the day she gave birth to my 7 lb brother in 1958, she weighed a whopping 117 lbs. Of course back then she was living on black coffee and cigarettes.
10:40 "yeah, she can still get it"
Bro we NEED a round 2 of this
That accent you're doing is more of a 1930's thing. Specifically Edward G. Robinson's gangster comedies.
Reg Park is a legend. Originally from Leeds, England, and moved to South Africa. I have a huge picture up in my Leeds gym.
10:55 bro this sht cracked me up 😂😂😂
@10:35 I spat out my shake😂😂
10:37 Im crying 😂😂😂
9:26 Let it Happen guitar riff hell yeah
Hands down... this is the greatest RP video of all time! I died! The amazing bluntness of the 1940s is timeless and we need to go back to that... "The Weaker Sex" had me rolling!
its not wrong tho. people were more honest back then.not like now where you have to consider everyones feefees
Reg Park was English, from Leeds, he just lived in South Africa.
that is not a smith machine, she's doing free-weights barbell squats on that ledge
I dont even workout but love watching your videos man. Your humor is great.
Just want to give the shout out to Scott for putting in a snippet of Tame Impala!!!
For the acid reference
i really enjoyed that, theyve done it before with another acid reference
Reg park was from Yorkshire England,he moved to South Africa later