Better, Stronger, Faster: A Performance Enhancing Podcast

#14: Bodybuilding and Body Slams with Muscle Beach OG, Ric Drasin

04.17.2019 - By Chris Bell, William Shewfelt, Muscle Beach MediaPlay

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Ric Drasin pumped iron at Muscle Beach Venice and Gold's Gym in the heyday of West Coast Bodybuilding with the likes of Arnold and Franco. His professional wrestling career spanned five decades and led to running his own wrestling shows. Actor, stuntman, author, graphic designer and digital pioneer, Drasin still trains, eats and mostly looks like he did when he took the ring as "The All American Boy." The doodles he sketched on napkins have appeared on countless t-shirts as the logos for Gold's Gym and World Gym. He ate beef, eggs and cottage cheese before anyone knew the term "keto," could bench over 450 lbs and had a 31 inch waist. What can we say? He's the man.

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