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Bodybuilding is a highly competitive sport that is growing in popularity every single day. Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most exciting things about bodybuilding is the anticipation leading up to each show. You know which athletes are going to be competing several months in advance, but...

Bodybuilding is a highly competitive sport that is growing in popularity every single day. Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most exciting things about bodybuilding is the anticipation leading up to each show. You know which athletes are going to be competing several months in advance, but...

Finally, the sounds of pumping iron have become music to Lou Ferrigno’s ears. When your list of accomplishments include two Mr. Universe titles, standing onstage with Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Mr. Olympia, competing in the first World’s Strongest Man competition, and playing the starring...

Lou Ferrigno recalls getting the call from the casting people at The Hulk. “It was 1977, and I was training for the upcoming Mr. Olympia. I met with the director and producer and they offered me the role. I knew I couldn’t take the job and train for the Olympia, too. So, I asked Joe Weider for...

Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock New Mexican criminals better think twice before making Socorro County’s deputy sheriff angry—because they wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Lou Ferrigno, the former bodybuilder and legendary Incredible Hulk TV actor, will be deputized as a deputy sheriff in the county...

Nancy Rivera/Shutterstock Lou Ferrigno is angry, and you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. The actor and former bodybuilder—who rose to fame by playing Bruce Banner’s alter ego in The Incredible Hulk—recently said he was “disappointed” with how the green monster was portrayed by actor Mark...

Lou Ferrigno reached bodybuilding legend status in his prime, going toe-to-toe with Arnold Schwarzenegger himself on the Olympia stage and playing the Incredible Hulk in the days before CGI was around to turn a man into a jade-jawed monster. It goes without saying that Ferrigno has always taken...

Steve Granitz / Getty It's been nearly 20 years since Lou Ferrigno last appeared onscreen as the Incredible Hulk and more than 40 years since he won his second Mr. Universe in 1974, but that doesn't mean he's set the weights down for good. At 66 years old, he's still hitting the gym and...

Lou Ferrigno is at the top of his game. And that’s saying something, considering he starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the legendary 1977 documentary Pumping Iron before landing his hallmark role in The Incredible Hulk shortly thereafter. Most bodybuilders would have peaked in their 20s...

Photographs Courtesy of WEIDER HEALTH & FITNESS & SHANNA FERRIGNO Just as Bruce Banner mutated into the Hulk, TV’s original not-so-jolly green giant, Lou Ferrigno transformed himself into bodybuilding’s ultimate mass monster. At 6'5" and 275 while in his early 20s in the early ’70s, he was the...