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Bill Smith Workout
Vince Gironda said about Bill Smith "I still get letters at the gym asking for Bill's workout routine. He's the most popular actor with bodybuilders. He was an aggressive, super-serious trainer. Many ask me how he built his great-looking triceps, He favored overhead extensions with the upper arm held close to the head."
William Smith was born in Columbia, Missouri USA on March 24th 1933. Bill was destined to be a movie actor because his long acting career started when he was only 8 years old, but Bill Smith went on to make over 300 different movies during his lifetime.
Depending on your age ofcause, you may remember Bill playing the role of Anthony Falconetti in the mini-series called Rich Man, Poor Man made in the 1970's. Bill is 6"2' tall and full of muscle as he has been training with weights his whole life.
Before cigarette advertising was eventually discontinued on television Bill has the distinction to be the very last Marlboro Man before any and all cigarette advertising was stopped. But Bill Smith is not stupid either as he achieved a Bachelor of Arts at Syracuse University and then went on to achieve a Master's degree at UCLA in Russian Studies.
Bill was actually teaching Russian at UCLA when he decided to abandon his Ph.D. studies because MGM offered him a contract for stunt doubling to stand in for Lex Barker performing in his Tarzan role in the 1958 film The Strange Awakening. Bill went on to perform in well over 100 movies for TV and film.
William Smith was a huge bodybuilder and was first seen on TV as a cowboy in the series "Laredo". He went on to do over 100 films and TV shows before he finally retired. But Bill was also a competitive bodybuilder and has won more than one bodybuilding show.
At the 1984 Gold’s Classic Bill presented a professional-caliber, well balanced body with plenty of muscle and a low body-fat. He was only 19 at the time and walked away with the teenager title as well as the open overall title. He competed again a year later and placed 2nd in the 1985 heavyweight class.
When this blond behemoth placed third in the Nationals, everyone thought that he would take his well-muscled body standing 6'2" on stage weighing 260-plus pounds directly onto the pro circuit, but Bill had other plans. He started devising nutrition programs with supplements.
He then launched his own company called INTRAFITT selling supplements and nutritional guidance to bodybuilders. Bill also spent three seasons, 1990 to end of 1992 playing the part of Thunder on the show called American Gladiators. After nearly ten years away from standing as a bodybuilder onstage Bill returned to competitive bodybuilding weighing 274lbs at the USA Championships where he placed 5th in the heavyweight division, he never competed again.
Throughout his career Bill was guided by Vince Geronda who had explained that they only way to keep gaining muscle after you already have a lot of muscle is 'planned variation'. This means that any good bodybuilding routine needs to include an alternating between volume and strength training.
Vince explained exactly why both these techniques can and should be done in the same workout. The two different forms of workouts will complement each other providing great muscle building results. Although science has still not been able to clearly demonstrate why these two workout styles always work so well together, training like this continuously gets the best results. Based on the real world results, not some intellectual mumbo jumbo scientific theory.
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