168 was so muchsecrecy attached to Casey’s are notpermitted to tell you how heistraining!” coming amazingly fast. However, atpresent we greatly reduced working time, andresults are schedule, withaspecialprogramme and time heisback onanevery otherday workout but also stated thefollowing: “At thepresent single body part with the exception of abdominals! just after his Junior Mr America win, and clean sweep of every appeared in the September 1970 issue of The first detailed article and photos on CASEY VIATOR At thistime noonereally knew why there

week, doing thirty sets perbodypart had beentraining seven days a The article mentionedthatCasey RETROSPECTIVE FLEX physique stars ofall time, could notkeep up amazing Sergio Oliva, oneofthe greatest ments. Joneshimself even wrote thatthe for 14 reps, andotheramazingaccomplish- strength, suchasfull squats with 505pounds community, rumoursofsuperhumanfeats of circulated theworldwide bodybuilding synonymous. All kindsofclaims andstories Nautilus, andCasey Viator would become went by thatthenamesofArthurJones, workout routines. Itwas only asthemonths CASEY VIATOR Iron Man magazine, BY

CHRIS LUND, UK EDITOR SINCE 1985 SINCE PHOTOS BY EDITOR UK LUND, CHRIS ole Shrug: S houlder TRAPS N autilus Special Side Raise: Press: B ehind-The-Neck S tanding Lateral Side Raise: Three sets of DELTOIDS Chins: Three sets of20reps Pulldown: C ircular N autilus Pullover Machine: BACK another withoutrest! exercise nonstop, going from oneexercise to workout was thefact thatCasey dideach The most amazingthingaboutthisleg g Curl: L eg S quat: g Press: L eg LEGS followed duringthatperiod. amazing workout thatheclaimed Casey half hours. The writer thendetailed the workout lasted between two andtwo-and-a- workout, three timesperweek, andthateach fact thatCasey trained hiswhole bodyinone calves 18ins. The article also mentionedthe chest 50ins;waist 31½ins;thighs28and weight 217 pounds;arms193/8 ins(cold); measurements asHeight5ft8ins;body edition ofIron Man. This article listed Casey´s Kallos andpublished intheOctober 1971 during thisperiodwas written by Achilles best training article thatappeared onCasey though they were bigger thanhishead? The build those incredible armsthatlooked as workouts. with Casey duringoneofthese secret 150 pounds with 250pounds pounds Leg Extension:. Oneset of14-20 reps 20 reps with60pounds 280 pounds 505 pounds 20 reps with215pounds 20 reps 20 reps So justhow was hetraining? How didhe

One set of14-20 reps with One set of14-20 reps with One set of20reps with750 Three sets of20reps with Three sets of20reps. Three sets of Three sets of Three sets of CHRIS LUND CHRIS FLEX 171 CHEST CL: What was your diet like in those days? CV: I fi rst met Arthur at the 1970 Mr America also got me to do very short and faster Bench Press: Two sets of 20 reps with CV: I ate a lot, man! I drank lots of milk, ate lots contest, where I placed third, but won the workouts, which was a huge departure from 350 pounds of eggs, and lean beef, plus milk and egg protein most muscular award. He pulled me aside and the way I used to train. This type of high Incline Barbell Press: Three sets of 20 reps powder. I would say that I ate at least 250 told me how much potential he thought I had. intensity training worked really well for me, with 225 pounds grams of protein every day. Also, my dad used He told me, “Casey, you have the potential to and I did only one set of each exercise for the Parallel Bar Dip: Three sets of 20 reps with to raise cattle just to keep the fridge-freezer full become the greatest bodybuilder in the entire 12 months before the 1971 Mr America. 100 pounds of fi rst-class cuts of meat. He was always world, but you’re training way too often. You Cable Crossover: Three sets of 20 reps with supportive of me in that way, but he could never need to cut back on your sets, and the length CL: After you won the 1971 Mr America 40 pounds. quite understand the many hours of torturous of your workouts.” I knew that Arthur was a you did not compete for another seven ARMS workouts that I put myself through. You see, it much respected person who certainly knew years, and I can remember reading that Barbell Curl: One set of 20 reps with was all so new to him back in those days, but his stu , and he was just starting to promote Arthur told you that you should never 200 pounds when he saw my progress, (and all the trophies his Nautilus machines at the time. So I was all compete again. I never quite understood Nautilus Biceps Curl: One set of 20 reps I brought home) he became so proud of me. ears! this. Nautilus Triceps: One set of 20 reps with CV: “Yeah, you’re absolutely right, except 120 pounds CL: You will be forever associated with CL: How did Arthur have you train that he just said, “Don´t compete for a Nautilus Pushdown: One set of 20 reps with Arthur Jones, the inventor of Nautilus, between 1970 and the 1971 Mr America? while” so I didn’t. I just continued to train 110 pounds because he trained you for the 1971 Mr CV: Arthur convinced me to cut way back on extremely hard, did seminars for Nautilus, Compound Triceps Movement: One set of America and drastically changed your way my volume training, and got me to really pour and other public relations things. Two years 20 reps of training. How did you meet him? on the intensity throughout every set I did. He later, Casey´s name was inserted into the CALVES Seated Barbell Calf Raise: Two sets of 20 reps FOREARMS Wrist Curl: Two sets of 20 reps LOWER BACK Deadlift: One set of 30 reps with 400 pounds Even now, 42 years after it was written, this workout is nothing less than simply incredible, especially when you consider that the weights Casey was handling were for 20 reps! Having already won the 1971 Mr America shortly before that article went to print, Casey´s appearance at the 1971 NABBA Mr Universe in London was eagerly anticipated, but unfortunately it never materialised. And then Casey Viator disappeared from the face of the bodybuilding world and its publica- tions! I got to know Casey well when we both about the way my chest looked because, to be CV: “Even though I realised I had more than lived in California, way back in 1980; it was honest, I wasn’t even training it. So, average genetics to build strength and 32 years later that I contacted him for an eventually, I started doing bench presses and muscle, I still trained in the most gruelling exclusive Looking Back article. heavy parallel dips, which quickly fi xed the manner possible. I mostly followed split problem. I also started doing heavy bent-over routines in my training and I trained with as Chris Lund: Why did you begin training in rowing and heavy wide-grip chins which much intensity that I possibly could. Sure, I the fi rst place? made my whole upper body respond rapidly. knew even back then that I was overtraining, Casey Viator: One of my uncles actually got Pretty soon I dropped the Olympic lifts, and but you know, when you are a teenager your me started. He was a big “muscled-up” guy concentrated purely on bodybuilding. body can take a lot of punishment. I would from the 1950s. I was only about 13 years old usually train for three hours, doing 40 sets a at the time, but I was way ahead of everybody CL: When you won the Mr America in 1971, body part, fi ve days a week. I then walked fi ve else in my age group on all the strength you was only 19 years old, and suddenly miles back home, after every workout. I know moves, which included Olympic lifting. I became the biggest sensation in body- it seems like a helluva lot, but that’s what I gained lots of size and strength right from the building. How did you accomplish this at did back then. Anyway, the walk back home beginning. However, I wasn’t too pleased such a young age? was a good way to get my cardio in!

170 FLEX FLEX 171 bodybuilding record books. This is how it fat count at the Colorado State University, heavy training pieces. Many tons of consumed to a minimum, although I did happened. During the month of May 1973, which was a very complex process. Dr Elliott equipment was moved to that second fl oor. consume carbs 45 minutes before training. Casey Viator made the largest muscular gains Plese used the Merrimac Body Fat Counter. We also brought a new line of negative-only “My muscles were coming back rapidly. in body weight recorded on a human being. The body fat counter was contained in a solid prototypes that we used for the experiment. This was a true case of muscle memory, Under the guidance of Arthur Jones, he lead room with a huge crystal that was For example, you moved the weight up into although many people have questioned the undertook a scientifi c exercise experiment at placed over my body. The radioactivity from the contracted position of the muscle by validity of this study. A lot of factors came the Colorado State University. The experi- my muscles registered my lean body mass. using the feet, and lowered it with your into play, one of which was my genetics. ment was conducted under the supervision of Remember, this was the 70s and this biceps or triceps. We even had a negative- The average man would not have been able Doctor Elliot Plese, director of exercise at the particular machine was considered state of only bench press which worked in the same to gain 63 lbs of raw muscle, and Arthur Jones physiology laboratory at the University. The the art, back then. I never questioned the fashion. There were many other prototypes and I have been defending this study for years. experiment lasted from May 1st until May accuracy of this piece of equipment. such as the single-pad squat machine, which There have been a lot of questions regarding 29th. Casey trained only three days per week, “This experiment actually showed that was a great training piece, but in the end, the steroid use during the experiment, because and each workout lasted only 30 minutes. even at my low starting body weight, mechanism that locked you in and out of the many people claimed that I loaded up for Only Nautilus Machines were used and after I gained muscular weight and lost body fat. machine could not be perfected, hence it this experiment. just 28 days or 12 workouts, Casey recorded I averaged around 12 exercises per workout, never ended up as a production model for I can honestly say that there was no use of the following unbelievable results! during the experiment, training every other Nautilus. But all considered, this was a great steroids during this study, which is a very day, and no two workouts were the same. machine. important point. I was also closely monitored INCREASE IN BODY WEIGHT: 45.28 lbs Eating was quite easy the fi rst week, after “The fi rst week or so, these training in a closed-door environment. LOSS OF BODY FAT: 17.93 lbs I had been dieting down for six whole weeks. sessions were very di cult. I was untrained “Believe me, I would have done anything MUSCULAR GAIN: 63.21 lbs “With a healthy cash incentive per pound for 5 months before the experiment, and my to have gained that weight, but I knew my of muscle that I gained, I was raring to go, but right hand had atrophied quite a bit from a rebound potential to gain muscle, and I also In March this year I asked Casey about his the next step was to convert the physiology fi nger accident. After the fi rst two sessions knew I would make remarkable gains even memories of the Colorado Experiment and lab into a training facility. We had about 20 I ended up on the fl oor, purple, with a pulse before the study began. Plenty of rest is very this is what he told me. pieces of Nautilus equipment and proto- rate close to fi brillation (200 bpm). But, as important when a gruelling entire body “I really had to diet hard to get my body types to move to the second fl oor. There was they say, what won’t kill you, will only make workout is performed. When you work all weight down to 168 lbs before the Colorado even talk of the structural integrity of the you stronger! body parts three times a week briefl y, but Experiment, but when we fi nished it, 28 days second fl oor, accommodating all these “I tried to keep my fat intake down during intensely, your body has to grow. But proper later, I had gained 45 pounds of muscle! We sequence of pre-exhausting exercises is very calculated that my diet before the experi- important also. The safety factor is observed ment was less than 800 calories per day. very closely, especially during the fi rst part of During the 28-day experiment, I consumed each set. This is when you have the strength around 5000 calories a day. to injure yourself. The last part of any exercise “I can remember fl ying to Colorado in one is usually not the most dangerous point, of Arthur Jones airplanes, a single prop, because your muscles are simply too weak at Cherokee Six. Arthur always fl ew very high in that stage. Throwing a weight, or dropping or the commercial jet lanes in a decompressed lowering a weight too fast, at any time can cabin, which always gave me the worst injure you. You simply must keep perfect headaches from fl ying at that altitude. exercise form during every exercise. Arriving from Florida to Fort Collins, Colorado, “The Denver Broncos came in for training I had more to contend with than I had sessions and to watch us go through my prepared myself for. We were actually one fast-paced training. Dick Butkus of the mile high in Colorado, and I had to acclimatise Chicago Bears was also there training, and to the altitude quickly, but I knew lots food my 6-8 meals per day, and just about any into the set, and made me achieve better observing what was going on. I was very was coming soon. All that dieting was over. type of protein source was fair game to eat. gains. This was a game he and I played for proud of the results that took place in “We arrived at the Lamplighter Inn, just I averaged around 400 grams of protein a day. almost 10 years o and on. One thing about Colorado, and feel that this study has outside of Fort Collins, where I was going to With this type of growth rate, I needed every the man, he sure knew how to agitate contributed to the awareness of how much spend the next 28 days of hard work, training gram of protein I could lay my hands on. someone to make them work harder through time is wasted in most individual’s workouts. and eating, no fun, maybe a movie now and “During my workout sessions, Arthur would their workouts! This experiment is still being studied in then, because we were there to get results, more or less sit in a chair and read the “My workload was so intense that my body colleges across America today, and can also not play. Think about it, every day for the next newspaper (eyeing me the whole time). If he absorbed everything I ate. The majority of my be found on the Internet. month—eating, training my brains out, saw that I was slowing down my pace, he diet was high protein foods such as lean beef, “I must say that I have injured myself on sleeping—that was my job! would say something insulting to egg me on; I chicken, lots of dairy products including milk, many an occasion in the gym with pectoral “The next step was my weigh-in and body would get mad, which pushed me even harder and lots of seafood. Carbohydrates were tears, lower inguinal hernias and many other

172 FLEX FLEX 173 CONTEST CAREER his thick Irish brogue. “Never mind the calves, scary to watch, and we nearly always had look at those forearms!” I replied. crowds of people watching us train over at 1969 I have seen Sergio Oliva pump up, nonstop, the old Gold’s Gym in Santa Monica.” AAU Teen Mr America, 6th for what seemed like a whole hour. I have Casey was doing really well with the IFBB, 1970 AAU Mr America, Most Muscular, 3rd witnessed Don Ross pump himself blue in the but then he suddenly quit bodybuilding AAU Mr America, 3rd face from his isokinetic contraction exercises, competitions after the 1982 Mr Olympia in AAU Teen Mr America, Most Muscular, 1st and I have watched Roy Duval pump his pecs London. This is his explanation: AAU Teen Mr America, 1st till they almost burst. But I have never ever “I did win a few shows with the IFBB AAU Mr USA, Most Muscular, 1st seen anyone pump up like Casey Viator. It was between 1980 and 1982, but when I was AAU Mr USA, 1st not just because he worked so hard at it. It handed the third place award at the ‘82 1971 was because he didn’t not feel any pain. I Mr Olympia behind Chris Dickerson and Frank AAU Mr America, 1st AAU Mr America, Most Muscular, 1st watched him perform dips, towel curls, towel Zane, I thought, ‘This is it, I´ve had enough!’ AAU Junior Mr America, Most Muscular, 1st triceps extensions, Power Crusher squeezes, It was the deciding factor which made me AAU Junior Mr America, 1st plus all the other standard pre-contest stop all the madness. Dickerson and Zane 1978 pump-up moves. All the time, he was chewing placing ahead of me was a horrible thing to NABBA Mr Universe, Medium, 2nd gum and he had a strange expression on his encounter, because I was in the best shape of 1979 face. It was as though he was willing his body Canada Pro Cup, 5th my life! It´s really quite funny because I 1980 to withstand as much pain as possible. In fact, received bags of mail telling me how I had Grand Prix California, 3rd he looked as though he loved every minute of been screwed at that show. It’s even funnier Grand Prix Louisiana, 1st it. In between exercises, he would strut around now, because today people are still saying I Grand Prix Miami, 2ndGrand Prix Pennsylvania, 1st the dressing room like a human powerhouse, got screwed at that show, 30 years later!” Night of Champions, 5th and I thought to myself, “He will blow them “So, you never felt that urge to compete Mr Olympia, 14th all to bits.” again?” Pittsburgh Pro Invitational, 1st 1981 When Casey’s name was called out at the “Naw, what was the point? The 1982 Grand Prix California, Did not place pre-judging, he immediately bounced onto Mr Olympia was either political or perhaps 1982 the rostrum and blasted the audience with a the judges were blind or something. It’s funny Grand Prix Belgium, 4thGrand Prix Sweden, 3rd few of his most famous poses: the double because Arnold kept asking me to compete Mr Olympia, 3rd biceps to the front, side chest, one-arm the following year in Munich (at the 1983 1995 biceps, calf and thigh shot. But no sooner had Mr Olympia) but I just turned him down and Masters Olympia, 12th he appeared, than he suddenly disappeared! told him that I had had enough of all this compete in that year´s amateur Mr Universe In the end they placed him second to Dave craziness. I was totally pissed o so I left LA contest. Along with the entry form, Casey sent Johns, who was a more seasoned veteran to and moved to Arizona. I started up a personal some amazing black and white photos which bodybuilding competitions. training business, and I’ve never looked back. showed that he was in terrifi c muscular In 1979 Casey joined the IFBB and placed Today I do mail order personal training, which condition. He was as big as ever, but cut to 5th at his fi rst show, the Canada Pro Cup. He is really doing very well.” ribbons; he was coming to win! then moved to California. I asked him why. “Do you ever go to the bodybuilding It was with great excitement that I made “Yes, that´s correct,” he said. “I moved to LA contests nowadays, and what is your opinion the trip to London, to see for myself how the shortly after the Canada Pro Cup, and I made of bodybuilding today?” injuries. However, I really managed to stay intensity training is not the average type of shape. I followed a three-days-a-week split great Casey Viator would match up to the move because all my friends and fans “Not really. I only attend a show if one injury-free using high intensity heavy training. workout. People interested in reading more routine, plus a whole-body workout on NABBA´s previous winners, namely Messrs kept telling me that I was too good not to of my clients is competing. As far as today’s I am 61 years old now and my current lifts are: about The Colorado Experiment, can learn Saturday. I trained as hard as I possibly could, Park, Pearl, Zane, Coe, Dickerson, Nubret, and be competing in world-class bodybuilding bodybuilding is concerned, all I can say is, 550 lbs squat, 500 lbs bench press, and 900 all about it in my new book Articles Of Mass using high intensity training methods. On of course Arnold! contests. Also, I had already asked Arthur for a I wouldn´t do the things to myself that the lbs leg press. However, as I mature, I feel Construction [Editor’s note: More information Monday I trained my chest and biceps. On I fi rst set eyes on Casey backstage as he hefty raise in salary and when he declined, I just guys of today are doing. You have to think moderation would have been better for my on this book can be found of Casey’s website Wednesday I did shoulders, and legs including was pumping up prior to the pre-judging. picked up my stu and moved to California to about what the drugs will do to you down overall well-being. Every injury I incurred was www.caseyviator.com.] calves. Finally, on Friday I worked my upper To say I was impressed would be a gross train with the big guys, at Gold’s Gym.” the line. It´s just not worth it, as far as I´m caused by bad form or explosive movements. I asked Casey if he then got the urge to and lower back, and traps, followed by triceps. understatement. He was wearing a knee- “Was this about the time when you started concerned!” If I can teach one person the hazards of compete again. On Saturday I trained the whole body with length steel grey dressing gown (how I training with Mike Mentzer?” I asked. Incredibly, it’s 41 years since Casey Viator explosive training, I would really be very “I sure did. The bug bit me because seven only one set per exercise in high intensity remember that I´ll never know!). Walter “Yes, Mike and I were a fantastic team, and won the 1971 Mr America at the age of only 19, happy. If any trainee is considering doing this years is a long time, man, and I was eager to fashion.” O´Malley, the top British physique star, was when we started training together we made and 30 years since he quit the sport after the type of training, I would make sure that they come back, so I chose the 1978 NABBA Mr During the early half of 1978, Oscar standing next to me, and he just couldn’t keep unbelievable gains. We both trained with 1982 IFBB Mr Olympia. He quit the sport work at their own individual pace and push Universe in London. I trained mostly in high Heidenstam, president of NABBA in London, his thoughts to himself. “Look at those calves, tremendous intensity along with some because he felt that he had been robbed of themselves just enough so that they can intensity fashion, but I also added a little received a very surprising but welcome, entry will you? I’ve never seen anything like that in volume training as well. Later, when Ray the Mr Olympia title in London. Personally, fi nish the entire full-body routine. High volume training to help get me into contest form from Casey, stating his intentions to all my years in the game,” exclaimed Walter, in Mentzer joined us, our training was actually I have to agree with him! FLEX

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