FROM PRINCE TO KING – KINGS OF IRON REALITY SHOW, ROBBY ROBINSON CLASSIC AND TOURS ALL OVER THE WORLD – ROBBY’S INTERVIEW IN NATURAL MAG INTERNATIONAL

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT MY LIFE AND ALL THE BLESSING THAT CONTINUE TO COME MY WAY. IT TAKES TIME TO DEVELOP A SUCCESS, CONSCIOUSNESS “DEVELOP A BURNING DESIRE” THROUGH DETERMINATION, SUSTAINED EFFORT; AND CONROLLED ATTENTION. 

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I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY OWN OUTCOMES

I THINK, PEOPLE USE AGE AS A CRUTCH OR A REASON TO BE LAZY... IN MY WORLD, AGE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ABILITY.

WHO WANTS TO RETIRE?

BY: Robby, for how many years have you been off of steroids?

RR: I have not used any steroids since 2001

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BY: You mentioned that most of your competitors used diuretics the last couple of days before a show, but you used posing. You wrote, “I was convince that sessions of flexing did a better job because a diuretic pulls water from every part of your body, including muscles, causing them to lose size and fullness and wind up looking flat.” 

Throughout your career did you always use this technique or did you ultimately enlist the aid of the pharmaceutical-grade diuretics?

RR: As for diuretics, they drain you and make you look weak on stage. They decrease the muscle size. I’ve always used the posing technique. It drives all the water in the skin and under the skin, directly into the muscles. You are the artist. 

THE POSING IS A PAINT BRUSH

IT CREATES A FINISHED ART PIECE

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BY: Let’s talk about Kings of Iron. How did you get involved with this project?

RR: I was manning on IRON MAN Magazine booth at a show and I noticed this guy kept walking by the booth over and over again. It made me nervous because I didn’t know what his intentions were. He finally walked by again and I handed him a magazine. In return, he asked me if I was Robby Robinson and I verified I was. He looked at me and said, “you’re the King of Iron!” He gave me his card and asked me to call him on Monday. 

It turns out the man was Joe Mendoza, CEO for United Artist. I called him later that week and he told me about his idea for a reality show called Kings of Iron, that would give the world a peek into the real world of bodybuilding: the struggles, the triumphs, ups and downs, and ultimate decisions every bodybuilder has to make at one point. 

I agreed to meet with Joe and his director at the famous Firehouse restaurant here in Venice to discuss in more detail the main idea of the show. The rest is history.

BY: That’s awesome, Robby. So, as I understand, you are one of the trainers on the show? What can you tell me about the role you play?

RR: I am the only trainer for the show. Mike is only marginally involved with the project. I am the trainer that helps get all the athletes into their top ohysical condition. All the athletes won their division and placed very well under my tutoring. I am proud to have worked with them and expect them to go far in their bodybuilding careers.

BY: Congratulations! That is fantastic. The Kings of iron project focuses on naturla, drug-free athletes, correct?

RR: Yes, all the athletes and myself are natural. The INBA/PNBA tests all their competitors prior to the show. Anyone who uses is not allowed to compete.

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BY: Is personal training also your primary occupation?

RR: No, I have three businesses. I work with bodybuilding enthusiasts from all over the world, in my master classes. I work with people to reshape their bodies. I also work on Facebook to help educate others that are body conscious individuals. All three of my businesses are very successful. I feel blessed and lucky to be able to do something I love and enjoy.

MY GOAL IS TO HAVE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE 

COME TO ME SO I CAN WORK WITH THEM 

AND SHARE MY KNOWLEDGE OF BODYBUILDING 

WITH THE WORLD

BY: Sounds like you have a very full plate. It’s great to see that, after all you have accomplished in the sport, you are still driven to do more, and to help others. Robby, obviously, those of us that are natural bodybuilders and athletes are happy to know that you are now steroid-free, and promoting the natural way. 

You have truly transformed yourself from that dark Prince to an everlasting King. What is left for Robby Robinson to achieve?

RR: Black Prince Productions is in the process of putting together a ROBBY ROBINSON CLASSIC show, with the INBA/PNBA for late 2014. 

I just signed an agreement to work with a balancing act from September 6^th-8^th, a pair of brothers, Steve and Sam Atlas, from Seattle, Washington. I will be working with them to improve their strength, dexterity and overall physiques. They will be performing at THE NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS competitions, September 28^th. My goal is to make sure they are in the most awesome muscular shape of their lives. they will be carrying the Black Prince brand. Muscle size, shape, and lines are the ultimate goal.

Early next year, 2014, I will be touring out of the country, to New Zealand and maybe even Mexico. I will continue to train athletes who are preparing for competition in my masters classes. We are also in the process of a crossover into the Spanish speaking audience, and we are translating my Black Prince, Hustle vs. Muscle book into Spanish.

Today, I was notified by United Artist CEO, Joe Mendoza, that this coming weekend, the cast and crew of Kings of Iron will be viewing the teaser trailer for the KOI reality show at the West Coast Boot Camp Gym in Pasadena, California.

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I am very excited about my life and all the blessing that continue to come my way. It takes time to develop a success, consciousness “develop a burning desire” through determination, sustained effort, and controlled attention. I am responsible for my own outcomes. I think, people use age as a crutch or a reason to be lazy... in my world, age hast nothing to do with ability. Who wants to retire?

FROM PRINCE TO KING – WEIDERS EMPIRE AND STEROIDS – ROBBY’S INTERVIEW IN NATURAL MAG INTERNATIONAL

TRAINING AND DIET PROTOCOLS

FOR A NATURAL BODYBUILDER

AND ONE ON STEROIDS ARE

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

The "Godfathers of Bodybuilding" BEN and JOE WEIDER with the Legends 
of the Golden Era of Bodybuilding ROBBY ROBINSON, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, 
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BY: It is amazing that you won countless titles as a 100% drug-free bodybuilder. You were beating athletes who were not only taking steroids, but also prescription-grade diuretics. 

However, your drug-free status would change when you received that fateful call from Joe Weider, who instructed you to “go see my doctor... he’ll give you the supplements you need.” What you would receive, as you wrote in your book, was a shot of the steroid Deca Durabolin.

Do you think, as Joe Weider was herding his athletes in to see “the doctor” that he had any idea the impact drugs like these would have on the sport for decades to come?

RR: I was in my own world of training and developing my physique, I had no clue what steroids were. 

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT YOU BUILD YOUR BODY

WITH GOOD NUTRITION, HARD WORK

AND VISUALIZATION OF WHAT YOU WANTED

YOUR BODY TO LOOK LIKE

I would envision what I wanted my body to look like and I worked towards it. 

I entered all those shows. I didn’t win all of them, but the ones I didn’t place in, I won all the body parts (best arms, chest, back, abs) and most muscular. I was blessed with genetics that created a shockwave in bodybuilding.

I am sure that Joe was aware of the echo he was creating in the world of bodybuilding, when he directed us towards visiting his doctor, for the “supplements”. 

All you have to do is read the book about the 3^rd Reich in Germany, it will tell you everything your want to know about Deca. It was widely used by the German soldiers. 

I was injected with 200 mg of Deca Durabolin every two weeks with B-12, Calcium and Glutatione, intravenously. It transferred my blessed natural genetics into a marvel that still stands out today, even at the age of sixty-seven... 

MY PHYSIQUE WAS MADE FOR BODYBUILDING

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BY: It really hit home for me when you talk in your book about Joe Weider and his magazines being the initial inspiration for your to become a bodybuilding. Many of us can really relate to that. It was those same sorts of images that planted the seed in us, that if we worked hard enough, we could achieve the level of health, fitness and physique that we dreamed about.

That being said, later in the book there sits one of the most powerful and hard hitting passages ever. It reads,

"... with Ben Weider controlling the competitions, the IFBB and its worldwide affiliates, and Joe’s magazine proclaiming himself the trainer of the champion. the Weiders had successfully monopolized bodybuillding. Joe sent me, one of his top athletes, to doctors who administrated steroids, just as Hitler was known to have done to his soldiers, and to athletes before the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Joe’s propaganda was convincing people around the world that they could achieve the physiques of his stars by using his supplements and following the diets and routines printed in his magazines. The part he left out was that these bodybuilding stars were on steroids, not weight-gaining supplements, and that training and diet protocols for a natural bodybuilder and one on steroids are completely different. Joe ahd his Muscle Builder magazine were misleading fans and aspiring bodybuilders, and I was part of the machine. Yet staying with the Weider empire was the only way for me to realize the dreams I had dedicated my life to... "

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Robby, Joe Weider, the undisputed "Godfather of Bodybuilding“ recently passed, leaving behind his legacy. How should the thinking-man’s bodybuilder remember Joe Weider?

RR: If I had not gotten the letter from Joe, you nor others in the world, would have hear about Robby Robinson. I never would have gotten far. I never would have won all those big shows. 

Yes, I did have some adversity, but it made me a stronger person, both mentally and physically. I was glad to be part of the stable of bodybuilders that Joe had assembled. I feel he earned the title “The Godfather of Bodybuilding”. 

THANK YOU, JOE

FROM PRINCE TO KING – GENETICS VS STEROIDS AND REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY – ROBBY’S INTERVIEW IN NATURAL MAG INTERNATIONAL

IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE NATURAL GENETICS, YOU CAN DO ALL THE EXERCISES IN THE WORLD AND STILL NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN. SOMETIMES THAT’S WHY SOME TURN TO STEROIDS, TO TRY AND MAKE UP FOR WHAT GENETICS DID NOT SUPPLY.

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BY: Early in your book your wrote about your father’s incredible genetics. In the 1940’s, in the South, your steroid-free father was in his prime at 6’2’’ and 225 pounds, ripped. Even by today’s standards those numbers are very impressive, especially from the natural bodybuilder’s perspective. You were confident that you had what it took to be one of the best bodybuilders ever, citing discipline, determination, ad of course great genetics as key factors.

How important do you feel genetics are, within the sport of bodybuilding?

RR: Genetics should play a very important role in the sport of bodybuilding. That’s what the judges should be looking at when competitors are on stage. If you don’t have the natural genetics, you can do all the exercise in the world and still not have what it takes to win. Sometimes that’s why some turn to steroids, to try and make up for what genetics did not supply.

ROBBY ROBINSON - FROM PRINCE TO KING
ARTICLE IN NATURAL BODYBUILDING MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2013
Read about RR's training and life experience, about other legends of Golden Era of bodybuilding 
and what really happened behind the scenes of Weider's empire - in RR's BOOK 
"The BLACK PRINCE; My Life in Bodybuilding: Muscle vs. Hustle" 
- ▶ www.robbyrobinson.net/books.php

BY: You wrote about the 1975 AAU Mr America contest, an important show for you at the time. You brought an incredible package (which seemed to be the trend with you) to that show. It would be the first time the California bodybuilding fans and judges would get to see you do battle on stage. 

You make a poignant point as you describe how, “it is amazing to see a competirot’s muscles eflate before a show just by seeing another competitor in better shape.”

RR: The use of reverse psychology proved itself to be very beneficial to me, especially backstage during a show. One instance in particular, I was at that show in Culver City, the 1975 AAU Mr America, when I walked into to the room and stated, “y’all, may as well go home.” Immediately, I witnessed every physique, deflate and go flat. 

My plan had worked, egos were flattened, and I was ready to win, but win I did not. The AAU committee gave Dale Adrian the honor. I came in fifth place overall and won the coveted AAU “Most Muscular Man in the World” title. I was very proud to win the title over the other great body builders. I was a complete unknown and was the talk of the city.

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BY: I too have witnessed this phenomenon backstage and on stage at shows, when “that guy” appears. On the other side of the coin, I have also seen confident competitors with lesser physiques beat competitors with better physiques, but who seemed to lack a confident flare in their presentation.

Robby, could confidence be equally, if not more important?

RR: I was thinking in terms of the fact that I knew I already had a great physique, I already knew I had a great body. It was already in my mindset that had been instilled in me since I was young. 

IT WASN'T AN ATTITUDE, 

IT WAS AN ASSURANCE WITHIN MYSELF.

I had already read about the other competitors, I already knew what their capabilities were. I had studied them and knew what they were not doing, and what I was doing. 

IT CAME DOWN TO THAT ONE LAST REP, THE DIET, 

THE DISCIPLINE, AND MY FOCUSED MINDSET.

FROM PRINCE TO KING - ROBBY ON THE COVER OF NATURAL MAG INTERNATIONAL

AT 67 I HAD THE MOXIE TO RE-BUILD MY STRENGTH & PHYSICAL BODY - ALL 205 LBS OF HARD AS STEEL QUALITY MUSCLES - 20 INCH ARMS, 29 INCH WAIST. 

12 YEARS WITHOUT STEROIDS, BUT INSTEAD RELIED ON THESE SOUND 3 ELEMENTS: EATING, TRAINING AND SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM - THEY ALLOW ME TO STILL GO INTO THE GYM AT 67 AND TEAR THE WALLS OFF THE PLACE. 

GENETICALLY BLESSED, I FEEL HEALTHY, YOUTHFUL AND FULL OF ENERGY. I HAVE ALWAYS DONE WHAT THE FAILING PERSON DOESN'T LIKE TO DO. 

ENJOY THIS ARTICLE IN NATURAL MAG INTERNATIONAL, #15 AUGUST 2013

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By Ben Yosef / Editor-in-Chief Natural Magazine International

Many of you may be wondering why an IFBB legend is gracing the cover of natural Mag. Well, 

ROBBY ROBINSON HAS BEEN STEROID-FREE 

FOR TWELVE YEARS

So, technically his “natural” status would meet the criteria of the top natural ogranizations as well as WADA testing.

I recently had the opportunity to read Robby’s book, The Black Prince and I was completely blown away. Here is a man who has been triumphant at the upper echelon of the sport. At the same time he has experienced the dard and ugly side of bodybuilding and has lived to tell about it. And, along the way, rubbing shoulders, as wellas butting heads, with everyone from Joe Weider to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Throughout the pas decade Robby Robinson has reinvented himself as a drug-free, natural bodybuilder. Ironically, after his thirty-plus years as a top IFBB pro bodybuilder, the “natural way” is where he has always felt the most comfortable.

Today Robby Robinson is sixty-seven years-old and living a pure, drug-free life. The former bad boy Prince is now a King, and as such, is one of the major players in the upcoming natural bodybuilding reality show, Kings of Iron.

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BY: Robby! Let me start off by saying that it s a tremendous honor and a pleasure to get a chance to feature you in NaturalMag. to say that Robby Robinson is legendary would be a gross udnerstatement.

I read your book and found it very difficult to put it down. It is filled with triumpf and defeat, sadness and perseverance, fame and betrayal, and so much more. All the while you maintain an intrinsically introspective essence that is unparalleled. The detail and clarity with which you recount the particulars of your journey through life and bodybuilding sent chills down my spine on numerous occasions.

How are you able to recall so much, so vividly, after all this time?

RR: Thank you for the compliments on the book. Memories have a way of shaping our lives, so as to give us unique perspectives on how we should live and treat others. My life was a training ground on how to relate to others and hot to carry myself through life in a way that not only uplifted myself, but those around me.

I’m glad you liked the book an found it so compelling. My aim was to give an insight into the life of a professional bodybuilder and to let others know it’s not just about the muscles and the fame. It’s a lot of hard work and dedication, and the tenacity to do what others won’t do, to get where I have gotten as a pro bodybuilder.

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