DRMMRMN’s BodyBlog

On Feb.3,2008 the world lost one of the first men to see advantage of weight lifting in sports and in a better health. This great man was Bill Klock born in Nicaragua in 1937 to modest parents moved to New Orleans at age 2 in high school began lifting weights in his back yard with his older brother. When he began playing football at Tulane in 1956 the coaches told him to stop all of that lifting shit it would make him muscular and gain weight. As a 6′1 195 O tackle he was faster and stronger then anyone on the team so he would have to work out in his back yard. A few years later he would design Tulanes first weight program. threw the 60’s he would serve our great country in the army wile training in Olympic weight lifting winning contests threw the south and winning a dual meet in Mexico City 1968. His love of training started to sped though his friends and family. Bill and his brother Chris started training young men in a shed of there back yard. Then in 1977 coach George Allen of the Washington Redskins hired Bill to bring his work out ideas to his team. After that he returned to  New Orleans and started working with troubled teens as a social worker. In the 90’s he started competing in the the Senior Olympics setting records in the swimming,biking,and running events. He worked out in some form twice a day seven days a week. In 2002 he was diagnosed with cancer for the first time he did the kemo never stopping his work outs. Two more times he would find out that he would have cancer never giving in and never stopping him from finding a way to work out. Just this past June he was benching 310 pound.He never gave up and never complained he just said "Are you gonna talk or lift". This great man will be missed by many and I will be one of them he was my Uncle Billy.