Super nice man. He and Lou Ferrigno did a demonstration on lifting techniques. I had the honor of personally being coached by him in bench and deadlift after the program was over. They both were unbelievably nice and humble. An amazing human being.
I bought Franco’s bodybuilding book back in the late 70s! It was the first bodybuilding book I ever got. The second was Arnold’s Encyclopedia of BB. I’ve never needed another!
Me to...the book is titled coming on strong and the cover photo of franco doing a single biceps pose did it for me..back then we had no internet and muscle building books were hard for me to get so i spent hours reading and rereading feancos book
È mancato? Non sapevo! Mi dispiace! Non l'ho conosciuto di persona ma ho capito ch'era una persona dal carattere umile e buono. Dal suo comportamento si percepiva. In opposizione alla sua maestosa forza però era buono. È stato ciò nonostante un grande campione.
Io so di una gara a cui lui partevipava gremita di fans che riempivano il retropalco del teatro, lui avanzava tra la folla che premeva aprendosi un varco con la sola forza del suo possente passo.
Vero, era il tempo dei sogni, e questi personaggi ti facevano sognare un mondo davvero fantastico. Cominciando dall'attore e culturista Steve Rivens nei suoi spettacolari films.
Mighty Franco has always been one of my personal heros, i just wish he came with a warning label...you cannot be this strong dont try you will have several hurnias
I saw a film clip of Franco where he picked up one end of a car,while someone exchanged a wheel. I believe he trained Stallone for the first Rocky movie.
Un piccolo mostro di super forza umana. Un ercole dei nostri tempi. Anche se di statura più piccolo di Arnold, come fama era alla sua stessa stregua. Nutrivano l'uno per l'altro una grande amicizia e stima. Due grandi campioni di indiscussa celebrità nel mondo del culturismo e del Mister Olimpia.
So in the video at the 2:47 mark his name is spelled Columbo ending with a o which is an Italian name now everywhere his name ends with a u, is this part of the Mandella Effect if you don't know what it is look it up.
Franco was an unruly monster pound for pound (behond elite, lengendary and super special), however Coleman was a psycho and sacrificed his body to push those numbers.
One of my friends was over 300 pounds and got really fat and finally after his wife and father started winning body building competitions he lost almost 100 pounds in one year then spent another year after that so two years bodybuilding He took second at a competition and got a job working at a gym as his second job. He only did one competition because it's expensive to eat all the time. I can remember when I had bigger arms than he did and I was four inches shorter. Now I have had a stroke and I only train with twenty pound dumbbells and machines up to 300 pounds for my legs and 100 pounds for everything else
The Greatest Booing Contest of All-time, was said and written by Rick Wayne, who was there! People threw their programs on the stage as they were booing! Tom Platz was only repeating what Rick Wayne said first.
He was strong but I don't think he was the strongest ever. Pound for pound maybe. But Ronnie Coleman and Greg Kovacs moved insane poundages and those guys were way over 100 lbs heavier. Franco was a short man.
You have the facts mixed up. Franco moved to the United States in the late 60s not the early 60s. Arnold talked Joe Weider into bringing Franco over to the United States. Arnold and Franco had been training partners in Europe. Otherwise, I enjoyed the video.
********* @ 11:05 "apparently" "Arnie" said on a post on Feb 10th 2016 about Franco Columbo's death. According to Google Franco Columbo Died on (30th August 2019!!!) Yep.. I wasn't there so who's wrong?💯🤔😑
Once Franco went off of the drugs his lifts were no better than that of any natural gym rat. He lost all of his great muscle mass and he lost that uber impressive physique. So an entire generation worshiped Franco even though he was just drugs. I'm NOT impressed.
Peace be upon you. Believe in ALLAH (GOD) and the judgement day and do good deeds. Don't show non well covered women that will be better for you in this life and the heaerafter. Ladies cover your bodies that will be better for you in this life and the heaerafter.
