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A story I read about Charles Bronson:
“I was working out in a popular gym in Hollywood and I happened to notice Charles Bronson working out there. He was curling a 70 pound dumbbell in each arm, which is not impossible, but he was doing it like it was air, which was impressive. (Several young punks were watching him out of the corner of their eye, trying to match him, and failing.) I didn’t want to bother him but when he was at a break point I complimented him on his workout regime and he mentioned that he kept a membership in this gym for when he was visiting Hollywood and that this was his ‘maintenance workout.’
When I got home I looked up his birthday to find out his age. He was 71 at the time.”
So definitely a strong man. Any number of stories have mentioned how he and other Hollywood stars of the time would just rip out pushups between scenes and takes to keep themselves going."
He did a lot of his own stunts and one of his most successful films was "Hard Times" with James Coburn. He was a street fighter that was bet on. At 53, he looked pretty tough in that one.
“I was working out in a popular gym in Hollywood and I happened to notice Charles Bronson working out there. He was curling a 70 pound dumbbell in each arm, which is not impossible, but he was doing it like it was air, which was impressive. (Several young punks were watching him out of the corner of their eye, trying to match him, and failing.) I didn’t want to bother him but when he was at a break point I complimented him on his workout regime and he mentioned that he kept a membership in this gym for when he was visiting Hollywood and that this was his ‘maintenance workout.’
When I got home I looked up his birthday to find out his age. He was 71 at the time.”
So definitely a strong man. Any number of stories have mentioned how he and other Hollywood stars of the time would just rip out pushups between scenes and takes to keep themselves going."
He did a lot of his own stunts and one of his most successful films was "Hard Times" with James Coburn. He was a street fighter that was bet on. At 53, he looked pretty tough in that one.