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VITAL STATS
Name: Albert Beckles

Nickname: Albert "Peak" Beckles

Born: July 14, 1930

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Current Residence: North Hollywood, California


Competitive Record

1992 Niagara Falls Pro Invitational - IFBB, 8th

1992 Chicago Pro Invitational - IFBB, 16th

1991 San Jose Pro Invitational - IFBB, 5th

1991 Pittsburgh Pro Invitational - IFBB, 12th

1991 Olympia - IFBB, Didn't place

1991 Night of Champions - IFBB, 7th

1991 Niagara Falls Pro Invitational - IFBB, Winner

1991 Grand Prix Switzerland - IFBB, 8th

1991 Grand Prix Spain - IFBB, 9th

1991 Grand Prix Italy - IFBB, 8th

1991 Grand Prix Finland - IFBB, 9th

1991 Grand Prix England - IFBB, 7th

1991 Grand Prix Denmark - IFBB, 7th

1990 Night of Champions - IFBB, Didn't place

1990 Niagara Falls Pro Invitational - IFBB, 12th

1990 Houston Pro Invitational - IFBB, 11th

1990 Arnold Classic - IFBB, 9th

1989 World Pro Championships - IFBB, 4th

1989 Olympia - IFBB, 15th

1989 Night of Champions - IFBB, 8th

1989 Grand Prix US Pro - IFBB, 4th

1989 Grand Prix Sweden - IFBB, 9th

1989 Grand Prix Spain - IFBB, 10th

1989 Grand Prix Spain (2) - IFBB, 10th

1989 Grand Prix Melbourne - IFBB, 4th

1989 Grand Prix Holland - IFBB, 11th

1989 Grand Prix France - IFBB, 9th

1989 Grand Prix Finland - IFBB, 9th

1989 Grand Prix England - IFBB, 9th

1989 Arnold Classic - IFBB, 7th

1988 World Pro Championships - IFBB, 10th

1988 Olympia - IFBB, 15th

1988 Night of Champions - IFBB, 5th

1988 Grand Prix Spain - IFBB, 7th

1988 Grand Prix Spain (2) - IFBB, 8th

1988 Grand Prix Italy - IFBB, 8th

1988 Grand Prix Germany - IFBB, 8th

1988 Grand Prix France - IFBB, 11th

1988 Grand Prix England - IFBB, 7th

1988 Chicago Pro Invitational - IFBB, 4th

1987 World Pro Championships - IFBB, 3rd

1987 Olympia - IFBB, 7th

1987 Grand Prix Germany - IFBB, 4th

1987 Grand Prix Germany (2) - IFBB, 6th

1987 Grand Prix France - IFBB, 4th

1986 Olympia - IFBB, 4th

1985 Olympia - IFBB, 2nd

1985 Night of Champions - IFBB, Winner

1984 World Pro Championships - IFBB, Winner

1984 World Grand Prix - IFBB, Winner

1984 Olympia - IFBB, 4th

1984 Canada Pro Cup - IFBB, Winner

1983 Olympia - IFBB, 7th

1983 Night of Champions - IFBB, 3rd

1983 Grand Prix Switzerland - IFBB, 5th

1983 Grand Prix Sweden - IFBB, 5th

1983 Grand Prix Portland - IFBB, 4th

1983 Grand Prix Las Vegas - IFBB, 3rd

1983 Grand Prix England - IFBB, 5th

1982 World Pro Championships - IFBB, Winner

1982 Olympia - IFBB, 5th

1982 Night of Champions - IFBB, Winner

1982 Grand Prix Sweden - IFBB, 4th

1982 Grand Prix Belgium - IFBB, 2nd

1981 World Grand Prix - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Professional World Cup - IFBB, 6th

1981 Night of Champions - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Grand Prix World Cup - IFBB, 6th

1981 Grand Prix Wales - IFBB, 3rd

1981 Grand Prix New York - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Grand Prix New England - IFBB, Winner

1981 Grand Prix Massachusets - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Grand Prix Louisiana - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Grand Prix California - IFBB, 4th

1981 Grand Prix Belgium - IFBB, 2nd

1981 Canada Pro Cup - IFBB, 2nd

1980 World Pro Championships - IFBB, 4th

1980 Universe - Pro - IFBB, 4th

1979 World Pro Championships - IFBB, 2nd

1979 Olympia - IFBB, LightWeight, 7th

1979 Grand Prix Pennsylvania - IFBB, 3rd

1979 Best in the World - IFBB, Professional, 3rd

1978 Olympia - IFBB, LightWeight, 8th

1977 Olympia - IFBB, Short, 4th

1977 Olympia - IFBB, 7th

1975 Universe - IFBB, Medium, 2nd

1975 Olympia - IFBB, LightWeight, 3rd

1973 Universe - IFBB, Medium, 1st

1973 Mr Europe - IFBB, Medium, 1st

1973 Mr Europe - IFBB, Overall Winner

1971 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 1st

1971 Universe - IFBB, Medium, 1st

1971 Universe - IFBB, Overall Winner

1971 Mr World - AAU, Most Muscular, 1st

1971 Mr World - AAU, Medium, 1st

1971 Mr World - AAU, Winner

1971 Mr Britain - NABBA, Winner

1970 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 2nd

1970 Mr Europe, Medium, 1st

1970 Mr Europe, Overall Winner

1970 Mr Britain - NABBA, Winner

1969 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 3rd

1969 Mr World - IFBB, Medium, 2nd

1969 Mr Britain - NABBA, 2nd

1968 Mr Britain - NABBA, 2nd

1967 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 1st

1967 Mr Britain - NABBA, 3rd

1966 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 6th

1965 Universe - NABBA, Medium, 3rd

1965 Mr Britain - NABBA, 5th



Albert Beckles


For how popular Albert Beckles is there is surprisingly little information on him. He is still active in the bodybuilding world, judging IFBB shows. He has had a long successful career and his name will go down in bodybuilding history along with Sergio Oliva and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He has been on the covers of Iron Man, Muscle Up, and Muscle Mag International. He has been featured in Iron Man, Muscle Up, MuscleMag International, Muscle Digest, and Flex. One surprising tidbit of information is that Albert Beckles has had such a successful career while being a vegetarian!

THE ITALIAN STALLION SLY WEIGHT TRIANING ROUTINE

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he splits his training into two sessions per day as follows:

Stallone’s Morning Training:
Chest, back and abs workouts, including bench presses, lateral pull downs and crunches.

Stallone’s Afternoon Training:
Shoulders, arms and more abs, including military presses, lateral raises, bicep curls and tricep extensions, and more crunches and leg raises.

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays Stallone also trained morning and afternoon.

Stallone’s Morning Training:
Calves and thighs, including calf raises and squats.

Afternoon Training:
Rear deltoids, traps and more abs, including rear deltoid / bent-over rows, shoulder presses, upright rows and more crunches.

Stallone’s routine was a very intensive six days per week with a double split, which is the style of weight training that professional bodybuilders use when competing – not surprising, seeing that he employed a professional bodybuilder to guide him.

Sly followed a standard 8-12 repetition with 3-4 sets pattern. He did 3 to 4 exercises per body part. Each day he varied the exercises using instinctive training, to keep the muscles form falling into a routine, and ensuring a plateau was not reached too soon. He also exercised his abs furiously, with abdominal routines daily.


Sylvester Stallone’s Ab Training
Sly Stallone’s abdominal workout consisted of a total of 1000 repetitions, by training four different areas with combinations of sit-ups, leg raises, side leg raises and side bends. Often 50 reps of each exercise would be done for each 5 sets, i.e. 5 sets of 200 exercises. This was old school circuit training done to the extreme, which any military training instructor / drill sergeant would be proud of.

Sylvester Stallone Training Mentality
Sylvester Stallone learned how to train like a professional with the help of Franco Columbu, and he built on these training routines throughout his career to build himself up into one of Hollywood’s greatest action heroes. Sylvester Stallone’s is certainly one of the 20th Century’s great action heroes, and by following his workouts and nutrition advice, you too can sculpt the body of an action hero.

In 2002 he brought out a book on fitness and weight training, called Sly Moves. Here is one readers review of the book:

“I am a fitness instructor and a huge “rocky” fan and wanted to see what sly recommended in his training guide. As expected we get the usual, “exercise changed my life” comments and a few really interesting insights from the man who was once named “body of the 80’s”.
The book itself is excellent reading, with good exercises. Even the diet is humane, with none of the “egg-whites only” expected from a Hollywood star, and he even recommends seeing a trainer before beginning the exercises shown. All in all, thoroughly worth buying, please write more SLY!”

Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream, By Sylvester Stallone

Stallone’s Fitness Book:

SYLVESTER STALLONE'S DIET.

Fancy yourself as a lean, slim-hipped, red hot Latin lover? Try Sylvester Stallone’s anti-ageing, high energy, vegetarian diet. Sly lost 7 pounds (3.2kg) in just 2 weeks on the diet, without feeling hungry. You may lose even more than this, depending on your starting weight and lifestyle.

Girls can follow the diet too, but cut out the treats and drink, only half the alcohol allowance!
DAILY ALLOWANCES: 1/2 pt skimmed milk for your tea and coffee, unlimited water and mineral water, 2 glasses dry wine OR 1 beer or lager. Calories: 300.

Now choose ONE Breakfast, ONE Lunch, ONE Supper, and THREE high-energy treats every day.

BREAKFASTS (200 Cals):

Fresh fruit salad: chop 1 banana, 1 apple, 2 kiwi fruit, 1 large slice of melon, 1 orange and top with 2 tbs natural yogurt.

Muelsi: 1-1/2 oz unsweetened muesli with milk from allowance, 1 apple or pear

Wholemeal Toast: 2 slices wholemeal toast topped with grilled tomatoes and 1/2 oz grated low-fat cheese.

LUNCHES (300 Cals):

Rocky Pasta Specials: 4oz any wholemeal pasta, topped with one of the following sauces: 4 oz mushrooms poached in 1 can low-cal mushroom soup, with l/2oz grated low-fat cheese; 1 large can tomatoes, herbs, garlic, topped with 2 tbs sour cream and chopped chives; 1 small (5oz) can baked beans, pinch of curry powder, chopped tomatoes, 1 tbs yogurt. ADD large, mixed salad with lemon juice dressing.
Rambo Sandwiches: Make triple-decker sarnies using 3 small slices wholemeal bread with a choice of fillings from this list: chopped tomato, onion and parsley, 1oz grated low fat-cheese mixed with 1 tsp tomato sauce; sweetcorn and 1 tsp sweet pickle; 1 tbs baked beans with cucumber and lettuce; 2 tsps peanut butter. There is a lot of energy in peanut butter, so go easy.

SUPPERS (400 Cals):

Stallone Macaroni: small can (7oz) macaroni cheese, grilled tomatoes, 1 slice wholemeal toast, large mixed salad, 1 banana.

Sly’s Tofu Treat: stir-fry chopped carrot, parsnip, swede, and onion in a little oil with 1/2 tsp ground ginger until tender. Add 4oz tofu, cut into small squares, squeeze of orange juice and 2 tbs drained kidney beans. Heat through for 5 minutes and serve with a large mixed salad and crusty roll.

Italian Aubergine Bake: cut one large or two small aubergines in thick slices. Place in an oven proof dish, in layers, with tinned tomatoes, herbs, 1oz grated low-fat cheese. Top with a layer of wholemeal breadcrumbs and bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold with 1 tbs plain boiled rice, a large green salad and low-calorie fruit yogurt to follow.

Hollywood Veggie Feast: Chilled low-calorie tomato soup, wholemeal roll with a grilled vegetable/bean burger, broccoli, carrots, 1 tbs plain boiled rice, fruit salad with grapes, melon, and raspberries.

Potato Special: 10oz jacket potato, baked in microwave or oven, served with a large portion of vegetables and salad, and ONE of these toppings: small can (5oz) baked beans, 1oz grated low-fat cheese; small carton Eden Vale Reduced Calorie coleslaw, 1tsp mixed nuts; 2tbs sweetcorn mixed with 1 egg scrambled in a little milk from allowance. ADD: 1 carton Fromage Frais.


Daily Treats Options (100 Cals each): A few small treats are allowed, but do not make it a habit. Never go over the limit, and try to go a few days a week without any treats if the weight is not coming off.

1 large banana;
1 wholemeal salad roll;
1 large digestive biscuit;
2 wine gums;
1oz jelly babies;
2oz your favourite ice cream.
Do not be fooled into thinking that this is what Sly Stallone always ate. This is just a slimming diet that he used early in his career. To build muscle, more protein is required. If you are struggling to lose weight, reduce the high Gi items, such as the baked potato and boiled rice, and eat more leafy green salads.

HOW TO GET MUSCULAR WITHOUT STEROIDS.

Anabolic-androgenic steroids are man-made substances related to male sex hormones. 'Anabolic' refers to muscle-building, and 'androgenic' refers to increased masculine characteristics. Steroids refer to the class of drugs.

Many athlete's abuse anabolic steroids in an attempt to improve their performance and/or stamina. They fail to take into account what the consequences maybe or possibly they just have an 'it can't happen to me mentality'.

There are many side effects from abusing anabolic steroids, the major one's being cancer and liver tumors, jaundice, fluid retention, high blood pressure, increases in LDL (bad cholesterol), and decreases in HDL (good cholesterol). Other side effects may include such things as kidney tumors, severe acne, and trembling.

Obviously the risks just aren't worth it and really are unnecessary.

You have probably noticed some people's reaction when seeing a well defined body builder either on television or even at their local gym, their first reaction is 'they must be using steroids', well to tell you the truth most of the time it's just not true. Many great bodybuilders such as Vince DelMonte for example do not use steroids or any supplements and they have built great muscular bodies.

So 'how do I build muscle without steroids?', well the answer is by following a sensible nutritional and muscle building program.

You need to concentrate on exercises that develop both your power and muscle mass. Squatting and Deadlifting are considered two of the most important exercises as they work out 75% of your whole muscle system.

Squats and Deadlifts affect your growth hormones forcing them to release huge amounts of these hormones which in turn leads to faster and larger muscle growth throughout the body. This all tends to transfer to the rest of the body increasing overall strength and resulting in bigger muscles.

Compound Exercises

Try to stick to compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, chin ups, overhead presses etc. Don't just concentrate on your arm or leg muscles as this will not build up your overall muscular system.

Rest Periods

The first thing you need to do is get yourself a stopwatch as these are invaluable to the muscle builder as they allow him to measure his rest periods so that he can get a consistent result. In other words make sure you are consistent with your rest periods as this can seriously affect your overall results.

Generally, the closer you lift to your one rep max, the longer your rest period needs to be and the higher the number of reps, the shorter your rest period. This is a vitally important matter, which is often overlooked, yet will determine whether you create the right training response.

For example, if you are training for maximum strength which will require at least 3-5 minutes rest between sets and you are only taking 1 or 2 minutes, you are not giving your nervous system a true workout. If you are training to increase your muscle size which requires shorter 30-90 second style recoveries but are gazing at the pretty girl on the treadmill, letting your rest periods deviate from these times, you are not giving your metabolic system an honest workout.

Remember if you don't monitor your rest periods you won't be able to tell if you have truly improved or not. One time you may be giving yourself a longer rest period between, for example bench presses, so that where last week you could lift maybe 125 pounds for 3 sets of ten and this week you can lift 135 pounds for 3 sets of ten you may be able to lift a greater weight for a longer period of time than last week but you have not taken into account that you had a longer rest period between lifts.

Start using these techniques and you will show vast improvement and begin to build hard dense muscle throughout your body