To achieve the game of bodybuilding, it’s greatest to have a coach or a coach that can assist you within the health club. Even when you already know your method round a weight room, an additional pair of eyes or somebody with completely different experience generally is a nice benefit. That’s the place Chris “Psycho” Lewis can step in. The California native may be very accustomed to what it takes to succeed on the large phases as a result of he noticed it first hand on the legendary Gold’s Gymnasium Venice, often known as the Mecca of Bodybuilding.
“Chris Cormier, Flex Wheeler, and Charles Glass, these guys have been there earlier than me, however I got here quickly after within the early 90’s,” he instructed Dennis James on a current episode of The Menace Podcast. Whereas most gyms have excessive vitality and embrace motivated athletes, Lewis defined that the vibe was simply completely different within the legendary Gold’s Gymnasium again then.
“That was what created the ambiance in Gold’s Gymnasium. You by no means know what to anticipate,” Lewis mentioned. “Folks would get in form simply to return to Gold’s Gymnasium and work out.”
Like Charles Glass, Lewis went on to coach a number of high rivals, together with the 2018 Mr. Olympia, Shawn Rhoden. Lewis credited sneaking away from his building job to take a seat below the educational tree of a few of bodybuilding’s all-time greatest.
“I might sneak away to go train with Cormier and Wheeler, help Charles, and do no matter I might do…I might take ‘three-hour’ lunch breaks to go prepare at Gold’s. That’s how thrilling it was again then.”
These days, Lewis runs his personal coaching firm, Psycho Health, and his health club, Psycho’s Physique Store. His focus is on serving to folks make massive enhancements for the stage or life in a setting that makes them comfy sufficient to place within the work.
“It may be a lawyer that should lose 80 kilos or a housewife that desires to get into Bikini (division), but it surely may be an Olympian preparing for the most important present of his life.”
Lewis and James dive extra into the Gold’s Gymnasium days, the bodybuilding scene now versus within the 90’s, and even DJ’s appearances in Gold’s with the Sizzling Skins outfits. Watch each episode of TMP by subscribing to the M&F YouTube channel.
