Clarence Bass Born 1937 (age 79–80) Education Alma mater Website Clarence Bass (born 1937 in ) is an writer, fitness expert, and retired lawyer. He is best known for his fitness book and DVD series Ripped that chronicle his own fitness, including becoming a past-40 bodybuilding champion. Bass was a writer for where he had a question and answer column. He has continued to write, documenting his fitness over a span of approximately 60 years in various books that he has released since 1980. He is also featured in the books Second Wind and Legends of the Iron Game. In the June 2017 issue of, Bass was named 'one of America’s greatest fitness visionaries.'

Contents • • • • • • • Early life and education [ ] Bass was born in in 1937. His parents were both in the health field, one being a doctor and the other a nurse. He attended where he excelled in wrestling, placing second in the New Mexico State Championships his senior year. A year prior as a junior, he won the New Mexico State Championship in the pentathlon. Although he began lifting weights at the age of 13, it was during high school that he began to get into Olympic lifting which helped lead him into a career in health and fitness. Bass went on to study at the where he received his undergraduate in psychology. He moved on to after graduating.

While obtaining his law degree, Bass focused his athletics primarily on weightlifting, achieving a 275-pound Olympic press, a 245 snatch and 325 with a body weight of 180 lbs. After graduation, he went on to practice law in Albuquerque.

Career [ ] Bass began his professional career as a lawyer practicing in Albuquerque. During his time as an attorney, he became prominent in the world of fitness and retired from the legal field in 1994 to concentrate on health and fitness full-time. Although working full-time as a lawyer, Bass entered numerous bodybuilding competitions and won numerous awards. Bass entered his first bodybuilding competition in 1976. A year later in 1977, he measured a of 2.4%, measured using hydrostatic weighing at Lovelace Medical Center. His first successful competition was at the New Mexico Bodybuilding Championship in 1978, taking home the award for Best Legs and Most Muscular.

The same year he began competing in the national Past 40 competitions, winning the AAU Past 40 Mr. America, short class.

The next year he won his class in the AAU Past 40 Mr. Forza Horizon 2 Pc Torrent Free Download. USA, along with the overall awards for Best Legs, Best Abdominals, and Most Muscular Man. His final year of competition came in 1980, again competing in the Past 40 Mr.

Includes photographs and monthly training articles. Ripped 2 The All-new Companion Volume to Ripped: the Sensible Way to Achieve Ultimate Muscularity!, Clarence Bass, Jan 1, 1982, Sports &. Clarence Bass is the very definition of the term ripped. Long before the bodybuilding world knew what it meant to be truly ripped to shreds, Clarence was amazing readers across the globe with his physique. Now, in his 70's, Clarence Bass is still going strong. He is as lean as ever. For more information on.

He placed 2nd in the middleweight class and subsequently retired from competition. Bass was featured in the book Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete. In the book, he addressed his reasons for retiring from competition, stating, “I had nothing to gain and everything to lose. Beta Frontiers Hondo Download Games. ” He added, “I developed my reputation with new photos [every few years] and these contests aren’t a lot of fun.”. Bass wrote his first book in 1980, the same year he retired from competition.