Seems to me , bodybuilding these days is much more a chemistry experiment,than it was in the old days... And also, the bodybuilders in pumping iron ,the sport was kind of a fun lifestyle and the bodies looked attractive and more attainable with hard work( obviously they weren't natural either ,but the comparison between then and now is night and day). and also you would want to attain those bodies back in the seventies, they stand up today. The guy who runs my gym , was on a stage with arnold several times, Arnold went to party several streets away from me when he lived the UK, They had some laughs. Arnold really was a fun guy to go out drinking with.
I can kind of imagine, the guys in generation iron, it is like a full time job to them, And theres those videos on you tube of current generation bodybuilders , at pool parties and people seem to shy away from them, when the likes of arnold, frank zane, serge nubret went to those pool parties women would fawn all over them. Back in the time of pumping iron,arnold referred to a bodybuilder as similar to an artist, and in actual fact, it was artists from local art galleries who bankrolled pumping iron and saved it as they ran out of money, does art, have any place in modern bodybuilding these days?Thats the main problem it's all about size and freakishness, art has lost it's influence.
