Chuck Vinci- America’s Last Great Male Oly Lifter Was a Near-Midget Bodybuilder
If you imagined the little Hobbit from LOTR as a jacked Olympic weightlifter who resembled nothing so much as a Honey I Shrunk the Kids version of Sylvester Stallone in 1982, you'd picture America's last great male Olympic weightlifter, Chuck Vinci (b. 1933 –d. 2018), correctly. Or perhaps if you pictured a taller Verne Troyer
Throwback Thursday! There Is Nothing New Under The Sun #4
Having covered most of the older training methods and implements, it's time to head into the "modern" era. In terms of weight training, I would classify the modern era of weight training as the era in which the plate loaded barbell and dumbbell came into wide use, which means that the modern era would