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Re: Pictures of Jon Cole
Posted By: Brad Reid (adsl-76-215-79-52.dsl.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net)
In Response To: Re: Pictures of Jon Cole (Marv Allen)
Date: Monday, October 1, 2007, @ 9:26 a.m.
Cole's lifting routines were rarely mentioned in the press but Ron Mann shared this with me from his records of what Ron Fernando wrote about Cole's training in a PLUSA magazine, February of 1982:
He normally deadlifted only once a month;
He did 5 workouts per two week period;
Squats and BPs were done in three of these sessions for sets of either five reps or 3 reps;
His major assistance exercises were - power cleans to a heavy single, upright rows, standing and supine tricep presses, front squats for heavy 5s and 3s, curls for 5 sets of 8 reps, and heel raises for 6 sets of 20 reps.
Pretty standard stuff... the magic wasn't in the routine but in the lifter, as always.
Marv may remember something I will never forget about Cole. When I first saw him lifting in Dallas as a superheavyweight weighing about 268, he was smooth and puffy looking from the weight gain. 268 was too much for his height of 5'10.5" and not very large boned.
A few years later, trimmed down to 242 weight class, sporting a beard, and taking on big Doug Young, I recall seeing Cole sitting in a chair awaiting his next attempt and I noticed he was extremely vascular in the forearms. By extremely, I mean his veins were so pronounced that they looked about the size of #2 pencils running all across his forearms. Other than that and muscular arms, he was dwarfed in the torso by Young, and Cole's legs were muscular but never large compared to many of the big squatters of the day. Very athletic looking for sure...
Cheers! Brad
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