Monday, November 7, 2011

Alpha Male of '91

So what movies came out in 1991? Okay, I don't know all the answers to that one; but I do have one movie in particular in mind. That movie is the Beauty and the beast. Looking back on it, I noticed something very interesting.

Did you know that in that movie it is revealed how to become "roughly the size of a barge"? The main villain of the film, Gaston, is a bit of a selfish jerk who wants Belle. However, he is also a very big and strong man, who knows a little trick about size and strength that is often ignored today.

I know, I know, it's just a cartoon. But there are real people who got real results by using the same strategy that Gaston used in the film. I embedded a clip below. Can you find Gaston's "secret"?



Okay, here's a hint. Around the mid point of the film, Gaston states that as a lad, he ate 4 dozen eggs (48) every morning, but now eats 5 dozen eggs (60). It is because of this that, as Gaston puts it, he is "roughly the size of a barge". Now this may all seem a little unrealistic, but hold on just one more minute.

Vince Gironda, known as the "Iron Guru", was a famous bodybuilder who's knowledge was so valued (and controversial) that even the famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger came to him for training advice. Why do I mention this? Because Gironda advised eating up to 3 dozen eggs a day. He believed that this many quality eggs a day could actually have similar effects to the anabolic steroid, Dianabol. Interestingly enough, Dianabol was one of the steroids Arnold used to become so large.


And in the video, Gaston ate up to 60 eggs a day. Notice how big he was? Gaston was an image of the alpha male in 1991. And honestly, he's a better image then most I see today. True, he was a selfish jerk, but he built a strong, healthy body through safe, natural means. If people were to pick up on that aspect of Gaston these days, things would be a little better.

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