{"id":17918,"date":"2014-11-02T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17918"},"modified":"2014-11-02T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T23:12:59","slug":"lou-ferrigno-incredible-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/lou-ferrigno-incredible-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Ferrigno, Incredible Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/feriggleg.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lou Ferrigno (right photo) \u00a0is known for his 6&#8217;5&#8243; tall stature and muscular physique. Participants will have a chance to\u00a0meet the legend once known as\u00a0&#8220;The Incredible Hulk&#8221; at his Ferrigno Legacy competition in Santa Barbara Nov. 28 &amp; 29, 2014. Hosted by Lou Ferrigno in partnership with the promoter of the NPC\/IFBB Tahoe Show, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ferrigno-fitness-bodybuilding-festival.html\">Ferrigno Fitness &amp; Bodybuilding Festival<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0promises\u00a0the production and polish second only to the fantastic physiques that will grace the contest stage at the historic Granada Theatre. Registration is open for the contest, though most will just want to watch the show. Tickets are available at granadasb.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/lou-ferrigno.html\">LOU FERRIGNO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quoting Socrates, Lou Ferrigno agrees with this philosphy: \u00a0&#8220;The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lou Ferrigno was born on Nov. 9, 1951 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York as the son of a police lieutenant.<\/li>\n<li>With\u00a075%\u00a0hearing loss\u00a0and\u00a0childhood diagnosis, Ferrigno lets film and production crews know\u00a0so they will understand his special challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Ferrigno was a\u00a0sheet metal worker for three years, but gained fame\u00a0competing against Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen in the the Pumping Iron documentary (1975).<\/li>\n<li>Ferrigno is married with three adult children. His wife, Carla, and he have acted as next door neighbors in the TV show, King of Queens.<\/li>\n<li>Ferrigno and daughter Shanna Ferrigno are\u00a0co-founders of Ferrigno FIT health and\u00a0fitness\u00a0program.<\/li>\n<li>As a trainer Ferrigno worked with Michael Jackson in the 1990s and was preparing the singer for his 2009 &#8220;This is It&#8221; London show\u00a0that never occurred due to Jackson&#8217;s death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Ferrigno (right photo) \u00a0is known for his 6&#8217;5&#8243; tall stature and muscular physique. Participants will have a chance to\u00a0meet the legend once known as\u00a0&#8220;The Incredible Hulk&#8221; at his Ferrigno Legacy competition in Santa Barbara Nov. 28 &amp; 29, 2014. Hosted by Lou Ferrigno in partnership with the promoter of the NPC\/IFBB Tahoe Show, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}