Vince Gironda was born on November 9, 1917 in Bronx, New York, moving from very young to Los Angeles where his father gets a job as stuntman in the film classic Ben Hur. Is at 22 when he started weight training inspired by a photo of John Grimek, in search of a more muscular body and more physical. His first eight months Training took place in the YMCA gym, and then continued his training at the Easton Brothers' gym. It is the latter where the guru of iron begins his career as a coach and then opened in North Hollywood's classic Vince's Gym in 1948. Experimenter and intellectual, Vince starts to make his own line of thought as to training and nutrition. Controversial to this day, I always try to distinguish how their training must address a person as your goal is devoted to bodybuilding or power lifting. With a vision that could be called art of bodybuilding, not advocating the extreme development but vascular bodies, symmetrical and defined. 
As the athlete nutrition could say that was the forerunner of what today is known as a diet low in carbohydrates, giving a value more than important to the quality of food and a plenty of carefully selected supplements. It is he who is credited with saying that bodybuilding is 85 percent nutrition. Turning to training, popularized Gironde impressive flow periods to which different modifications were performed to optimize the work done. Among the array can be named, the Sissy squat, the Dips style bar V Gironde, the sternal Chin, The Press to the neck, squat "thight" (which Gironda's version of the front squat that has 3 submovements), the squat Roman Bank, The Hack squat (in two versions, including introduction of machine Hack) Various versions of the low-pulley rowing. Gironde Arsenal is almost infinite, and each of their movements and characteristics and have had a reason. "It's honest work that counts" Gironda said that he believed more in training with short rest and a high workload but in a limited time. That is, much of what today are Gironde had exposed the foundations of what is called "training of accumulation of fatigue." With a character often criticized, Vince Gironda, had no in his gym classic squat rack for this exercise because disowned by their ability to increase the size of the buttock in man (except in certain cases such as Sergio Oliva). Never worried about the weight to use, but more than anything in the training itself, the technique, rest periods and volume of work, to note that bodybuilding is not just heavy lifting, why is awarded phrase "we are bodybuilders, weightlifters no" when asked at his gym as raised in some exercise. 
already into the early 50's, was recognized as a great trainer of bodybuilders and movie stars. But with the victory of one of his most memorable pupils, Larry Scott, who in 1965 in the recent competition at the time MR. OLYMPIA, he defeated Chuck Sipes and Harold Poole. Throughout his career, Vince Gironda wrote training manuals, publications in journals and Musclemag IRONMAN, the latter being the hand of Robert Kennedy, who collaborated on the publication of his classic book The Wild Physique. " Being a supporter of natural supplementation, wrote manuals on nutrition, supplementation and then began developing his own line of exclusive supplements Vince's Gym. Suffice it to say, except for therapeutic purposes, was totally against the use of steroids. Among his other outstanding pupil is MOHAMED MAKKAWY. Finally in 1995, Vince, in complete disagreement with the direction being taken by the bodybuilding, fitness center closes its one of the most prominent clubs of the very history of bodybuilding. Two years after the Iron Guru leaves the physical plane is transformed into one of the legends of bodybuilding, still controversial, still inspiring, and in my humble opinion, one of the greatest coaches of all time bodybuilding.
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