48 FLEX| JUNE 2017
CLASSIC MUSCLE LOOKING BACK
Lou Ferrigno placed 12th at
the 1992 Mr. Olympia, the year
Dorian Yates won, but this only
encouraged him to train even
harder for the 1993 event.
However, he would be the first
to tell you that he had a lot to
learn, because, let’s face it, the
sport had changed so much
while he had been away. When
Lou was trying to win the Mr.
Olympia back in the 1970s, there
were only a few great
bodybuilders to compete
against. 17 years later, he would
face at least 20 of the greatest
competitors in the world, each
of them in a muscular shape
unheard of back in the
seventies.
Before the 1992 “comeback”
Olympia, Lou followed a three-
on/one-off split routine right up
to the day of the contest, and he
also did aerobics right up to the
day of the show, every day, fortwo hours a day!
For the 1993 event, Lou
changed his training regime to
four days on, one day off, and
he didn’t train as heavy as he
used to. He just kept training
harder and harder so that his
muscles would take on that look
of maturity. As a result, he
weighed in at an incredible 320
pounds with only 9% body fat.
He had all the size he ever
needed, so he simply tried his