Bodybuilding has taught humans a lot about their bodies. For example, it has been known for thousands of years that training with weights makes you bigger and stronger. However, no one predicted the muscle size and muscle quality found in top professional bodybuilding competitors today. This is even more true for women. Until very recently, the weight, definition and muscle mass of a Ms. Olympia champion like Andrea Shaw would have been unthinkable.
Another revelation is Robbie Robinson. Those familiar with the benefits of weight training for staying fit as you age have always pointed out how this type of exercise can help keep your body strong and healthy as you age. But in the past there was no such example as 77 years old. One-year-old Robbie Robinson demonstrated just how much this is possible.
Robbie is a wonder. He’s clearly aged and his muscles don’t have the fullness or density they had a few years ago, but he still has some rudimentary muscle development and his muscularity and definition are unbelievable. That’s about it. No other champion bodybuilder of his era looks like this. How was Robbie able to achieve something unmatched by any of his contemporaries?
“When I was young and just started bodybuilding, I was told that to look like a bodybuilder, you had to live like a bodybuilder,” says Robbie. Bodybuilding is not just a sport, Lifestyle.
Over the years, I never gave up on that way of life. The way I live, train, and eat is pretty much the same as when I was a 20-year-old aspiring bodybuilding champion on the cover of a magazine. muscle and fitness and flex magazine. “
We still have some champions, many of them much younger than Robbie, but there are still few other examples of seasoned bodybuilders who can still pose, bend, and impress Why not? Robbie believes it’s mainly because it’s hard to keep up with this kind of lifestyle with so many distractions as you grow up.
“This is not just the bodybuilding world,” Robbie points out. “The same is true for other athletes who get married, have families, start businesses, and have many other opportunities to capitalize on their sporting successes. Combined with the reality that as we age, we are no longer able to maintain the level of excellence we enjoyed when we were younger, it becomes increasingly difficult to motivate ourselves to work hard and make the necessary sacrifices. It becomes more difficult.”
All of the above makes the longevity of football quarterback Tom Brady all the more remarkable. No athlete has more distraction possibilities and opportunities than “Tom Terrific.” This also explains why the great and famous Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t have Robbie’s youthful spunk and muscle, even though he continues to work out and make movies. Arnold has had, and still has, more distractions and opportunities than Tom Brady ever thought possible.
Robbie takes his hat off to fellow “Golden Age” bodybuilder Tony Pearson. Robbie and Tony used to work out at his gym in the 1970s, and even though Tony was younger, Robbie still sees how beautiful he looks in his recent photos. I am impressed with
“Tony works as a personal trainer,” says Robbie. So he was able to maintain a lifestyle similar to the one we used to train in the gym decades ago. “
Robbie does personal training on his own. He now also has a sponsor who has created a new website for him. www.strongerthanme.org. He also plans to launch a special skin cream, details of which can be found on his website. But Robbie is adamant that personal training and corporate involvement will not distract him from getting in the best possible physique for his age as a human being.
According to Robbie, it all comes down to being willing to make sacrifices to make becoming a bodybuilder the primary focus of your life—training and the diet you need to be the main focus of your raison d’etre. It depends.
Few people are able to inspire such motivation. That’s why Robbie Robinson is left mostly alone in class.
Robbie Robinson’s competition awards include:
- 2000 – Mr. Olympia – Masters Over 50, 1st Place
- 1997 – Mr. Olympia – Masters Over 50, 1st Place
- 1994 – Mr. Olympia – Masters – IFBB, 1st
- 1991 – Musclefest Grand Prix – IFBB, winner
- 1989 – World Professional Championship – IFBB, 1st
- 1988 – Niagara Falls Pro Invitational – IFBB, 1st Place
- 1987 – Mr. Olympia – IFBB, 5th
- 1981 – Mr. Universe – Pro – NABBA, 1st
- 1979 – Pittsburgh Pro Invitational – IFBB, 1st
- 1979 – Night of Champions – IFBB, Winner
- 1979 – Grand Prix New York – IFBB, Winner
- 1979 – World Best Award – IFBB, Professional, 1st Place
- 1978 – Professional World Cup – IFBB, winner
- 1978 – Night of Champions – IFBB, Winner
- 1978 – Mr. Olympia Heavyweight, 1st generation
- 1977 – Mr. Olympia – IFBB, tallest, 1st place
- 1976 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, middleweight, 1st place
- 1976 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, overall winner
- 1976 – Mr. International – IFBB, Medium, 1st Place
- 1976 – Mr. International – IFBB, Overall Winner
- 1975 – Mr. Universe – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1975 – Mr. World – IFBB, Medium, 1st
- 1975 – Mr. World – IFBB, overall winner
- 1975 – Mr. America – IFBB, Medium, 1st Place
- 1975 – Mr. America – IFBB, Overall Winner
