'Hulk' Lou Ferrigno was Michael Jackson's personal trainer? Seriously?
If you were international music and dance icon Michael Jackson, who would you hire to get you into shape for a comeback concert tour?
Michael chose -- wait for it -- "Hulk" star Lou Ferrigno.
This whole thing keeps getting stranger and stranger.
"When the promoter hired him to do the tour it wasn't any question for me to train him again because he knew that he trusted me especially with toning and shaping his body," the musclebound Ferrigno tells People. "Being such an icon and he couldn't afford to have any injuries."
Using "conditioning, toning, and increasing his flexibility and stamina," Ferrigno says he helped the entertainer to increase his leg strength.
No heavy weights. More stretching and a light walk on the treadmill. Ferrigno adds, "Being 50, his body went through a lot of stress getting ready for the tour, but he was awesome."
Fifty? That's not old. Ask Mick Jagger.
Ferrigno was shocked by his longtime friend's sudden death. "I was devastated. I mean I was shocked. I still think of it as like a joke or like a dream," he admits.
After all, they'd made plans to collaborate if Lou made it on "Dancing With the Stars."
"He heard I was in the running to do "Dancing With the Stars," so he said that he would teach me the moonwalk if I did the show," Ferrigno says. "We had a lot of fun."
We sure hope Lou makes it on the show. This we will watch! How about you?
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Lou Ferrigno...really??
I have had 60 year old women that could bench press more than Micheal.
The sad thing is with some high profile clients and some people in Hollywood is that they are used to dictating and getting their own way...even during training sessions.
The comment Lou made of "not using heavy weight because he is a dancer" is insane because golfers and Olympic figure skaters are lifting weights and doing heavy training.
I am not taking anything away from Lou but as a USA Weightlifing Sports Performance Coach and dealing with various types of athlete people need to get over the idea that lifting heavy weights is dangerous.
It's all about proper and professional instruction.
MJ will be truly missed and I was really hoping for a moonwalk instructional DVD series
Gifted people always die younger . Now, people wil apreciate his music even more
May be other musicians should learn from this and stay grounded knowing they, the same as us, could ge away anytime
God bless you MJ
Well you know, Michael was fascinated by albino gorillas. So there you go.
But remember that Mick Jagger doesn't dance. It's difficult to dance like Michael at 50. As you get older, you get stiffer, and you lose stamina. So better to concentrate on stretching and aerobics.
Would you please stop using "wait for it." It is so tired and lame. Not unlike, wait for it, you.
Maybe it was smart to have Lou as the trainer. Lou is partly deaf so he wouldn't have to hear Michael's whiny little voice all the time.
Give me a break... Lou your full of lie's claiming Michael Jackson was in shape. This is the same Michael the would be in and out of wheel chairs and wear PJ's to court....
I didn't really care before, but now I hate Michael Jackson and all of his myopic followers.
Hey, lifting weights is not about getting hurt. It'sabout building bulk which is something dancers don't really want. They want long, stretched out muscles, tyhey want endurance, they want breath control. Diffeent strokes for different folks, people. BTW, has anybody noticed how bulked up Tiger Woods is getting?
Let's face it Lou.....this is your latest chance at your 15 minutes of fame. If you truly believed Michael was in great shape, then not only are you deaf, you are blind too!
Get a life Lou, you were just another in a long line of Michael enablers that had an investment in him!
These children were bought and paid for by a narcisstist who was also a drug addict and are being "willed" to a 70 year old woman who could not protect their father from abusing her own children. Anyone who was not a celebrity probably wouldn't in the first place have been able to have children created for their own ego pleasure/needs. Then keeping them from normal interactions, having them wear veils or masks in public, dangling them from balconies, all the time taking drugs that are so powerful they aren't legally allowed to be used outside of a hospital...come on, if this was anyone else no one would even be discussing this family as good for children.
My heart aches for these children, who were created to meet the needs of a talented freak.
I think debbie ross must be real evil to give up her kids full custody. It is evil to sell your kids. Kids can't be bought, should not be bought. You cannot buy love, or friendship. I wish I knew before that he had kids. I didn't know until recently cause I don't keep up with what is going on with the musicians or actors. Kids need love, and attention. She should be ashamed of herself. I don't she should ever get her kids back after the way she has treated them!!!