Gold’s Gym Venice, California.

Gold’s Gym Venice is synonymous with bodybuilding. There was no place on this planet when it came to bodybuilding during the golden years like Gold’s Gym in Venice California. If you’re a fan of the iron game, check out our exclusive interview with bodybuilders Dave Draper, Ed Corney, Danny Padilla, Mike Katz and Bill Grant on training, the movie Pumping Iron and Gold’s gym Venice. During the Golden years of bodybuilding, Gold’s Gym Venice was the place to be! You could grunt, sweat, occasionally drop your weights, laugh and have fun. There was camaraderie training next to the same people day after day forging friendships that transcended the gym. Then when you were done with training, take a swim across the street in the Pacific Ocean. Those were the days!

Unlike today’s gyms where they now have Gym Police watching your every rep from that eye in the sky, eagerly waiting to throw you out or even suspend you for sweating too much, wearing a muscle revealing Physique Bodyware Y-back stringer tank top, hogging the mirror or making grunting sounds during your best workout ever! There’s even a chain of gyms that will even buzz you for making too much noise! And after repeated warnings they’ll just throw you out! Not at Gold’s.

The air in the Venice beach Gold’s Gym was electric, charged with enough energy to light up the entire state of California while brimming with hope and enthusiasm. The equipment, still being used today, was way ahead of its time and was all hand made by owner Joe Gold. Setting the standard for many of today’s top equipment manufacturers. Before long, the word began to spread among the bodybuilding & celebrity community via Joe Weider, Bob Hoffman and Dan Lurie magazines that Gold’s Gym Venice was the place where champions were built! This sparked a host of photo shoots for the little Venice beach gym with body men from around the world using Gold’s Gym as the backdrop. In 1965 bodybuilders from all over started leaving their little hometown gyms, garages and basements in hope that Gold’s Gym Venice would turn them bodybuilding legends like Steve Reeves or Gold’s Gyms first professional member, Dave Draper. But unfortunately the fitness craze that we know today wouldn’t take off ‘till the early 80’s but that’s another story!

1975 was the year that everything changed for Gold’s Gym Venice and the sport of bodybuilding. That’s right, Pumping Iron, a low budget documentary film based on the blood, sweat and tears of professional bodybuilding featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Katz, Ken Waller, Lou Ferrigno, Bill Grant and a host of bodybuilders that would soon become household names exploded on to the scene. Now the entire world was exposed to Golds Gym Venice & the sport of bodybuilding.

Now told for the first time ever, read our exclusive interview with the cast of the movie Pumping Iron and the physique legends of Gold’s Gym Venice during the golden years training at the Mecca of bodybuilding. For the first time ever, you’ll hear what Dave Draper, Mike Katz and Bill Grant have to say about their training, diets and even drugs during their glory golden days at Golds Gym Venice. Read their views and comments on the sport today and the future of bodybuilding. Don’t miss this! As a bonus, we’re going to find out once and for all what they thought about Arnold! Pumping Iron fans now read what Arnold Schwarzenegger was really like when the cameras stopped rolling. Also, during our rare and candid interviews, Frank Zane, Danny Padilla, Ed Corney, Mike Katz, Dave Draper and Bill Grant discuss what their days were like living the life as professional bodybuilders both in and out of the Venice beach Gold’s Gym. Click link below to read this interview now!