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[12 pages] "I believe I have definitely proved to you by now that my greatest desire is to help build you he-man muscles and a he-man's strength, and to teach you how to think and act like a real he-man! To help you build strong muscles, yet fail to teach you the many useful -- and sometimes necessary - things you can do with them, would be to fail you as your instructor. It is with this in mind that I send you this Special Bonus Boxing Course, for surely there is no re-blooded he-man who doesn't want to learn how to protect himself or to valiently defend a weaker person when he must."...keep reading

[104 pages] Here's a little-known title that you probably weren't aware of: Ideal Physical Culture by Apollo aka William Bankier aka The Scottish Hercules. Originally published in 1900, Apollo provides material on a number of useful topics including a bit of autobiographical information, his favorite developmental exercises, and rather rare for the time, a great deal of dietary information. If you want to find out how to eat like a strongman, this is will give you the straight info from the man himself. (And unsurprisingly, the advice is just as valid well over a century later.)...keep reading

[3 pages] As A KID, Arthur Jones would sneak around the back of an Oklahoma barn to lift a barbell, dreaming of becoming a facsimile of Atlas balancing the world on his shoulders. He never made it. "By other people's standards, I produced unbelievable results," he recalls. "My legs grew rapidly. My arms exploded into double their size. But some sections of my body did not grow." Jones concluded his genes were wrong. Also wrong, he decided, was the equipment. A barbell was a static weight; it did not become lighter or heavier to fully exercise a muscle as the muscle moved. It did not offer variable resistance. "I realized all this in the 1930s," Jones says. "It doesn't take me years to discover that something doesn't work. If something doesn't work, I will try something else. Eventually, I will discover either something that does work or a bunch of things that don't."...keep reading

[42 pages]A Modernized Course of Instructions in the Science of Boxing, based on the World Famous System of Self-Defense Invented by De Witt Van Court, the Greatest Boxing Instructor in the World, and the man who Discovered and Taught James J. Jeffries, World Champion Heavyweight.

This Booklet Contains the Important Principles of Boxing used by all the best Scientific Boxing Champions, Amateur and Professional....keep reading

[8:44] Dennis Rogers shares some rare footage of Stanley's Steel in action at Coney Island...keep reading

[204 pages] Professor Desbonnet's ultra-rare classic book "The Kings of Wrestling"...keep reading

[32 pages]
* The Editor's Desk
* Exercise of The Month by Bob Takano
* Letters-Classifieds
* Junior Worlds by Bob Hise III
* USSR Cup '76
* All Time World List by Herb Glossbrenner
* Weightlifting Calendar
* Bulgaria's Weightlifters
* Scoreboard
* Philly Open '77
* Sports Medicine Seminar - Isometrics by Charles Scott MD
* This N' That

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[34 pages] * Editorial by Harry Good

* Food Faddists and The Barbell Man by James E. Mayer

* Advanced Leg Exercises by Harry L. Good

* Weightlifting as a Sport is Par Excellence by Ben McGinty

* "Stretching" by Tom Hiltz

* Strongly Yours by Gerard Nisivoccia

* Deciding Strong Man Titles by Harry L. Good

* How I came to London and Defeated Samson by Eugen Sandow

* Lifting News

* Stunt Department by Walter Good

* The Mail Box - Questions and Answers

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[36 pages]

* News and Views

* Bill Archer: Cover Man by Henry J. Atkin

* Olympic Lifting by Bob Hoffman

* Let Weights Keep You Young by Norman Morris

* Pete George - The Wonder Boy by Salvo Ellul

* Mainly For Ladies by Mollie Fearley

* Let's ALL do it!

* World of Weights

* Of Course It's Possible by Henry J. Atkin

* Your Training Problems by Jon Barrs

* Posing Competition Final Series for 1946 by Dermot O'Brien

* How to Succeed With Your Bodybuilding by John Barrs

* London League Bulletin

* Northern Notes by Fred Hirst...keep reading

[1 pages] One week I wanted to give myself a break from deadlifting, so I came up with this workout. It's basically a ton of rowing all in one lat-inducing session....keep reading

[50 minutes] This truly fascinating presentation examines the role of tendon, ligaments, and bone in sport performance....keep reading

"...there is no sport known to the athletic world that is more conducive to health and symmetry than wrestling. Its practice exercises every muscle, and stimulates the action of every organ. Because of the health that it brings into being, it makes for good temper, an active brain and a rounded personality. As fellow expert Frederick Toombs says, "Wrestling is an unequaled pastime, an unsurpassed means of self-defence, a developer par excellence of the body and an unfailing aid to health," and I stand ready to declare that it deserves the praise of that authority." ...keep reading

You won't see one of these very often: The Rules and Definitions for Competitive lifting in the Australian Weight-Lifters' Association, circa 1938. As noted by the inscription on the first page, this rare booklet was a gift to Peary Rader from Mark Pervino, secretary of the Australian Weight-Lifters' Association.

These were the days when there were SEVEN competitive Olympic weightlifting movements: Press, Snatch, Clean and Jerk, One Hand snatch (right and left) and One Hand Clean and Jerk (right and left)....keep reading

MOST of us know that exercise increases the size and strength of the muscles, quickens the circulation, stimulates the heart, and improves the digestion. It is my purpose, rather than to extol the well-known and multifarious benefits of proper exercise, to show that even delicate persons can easily obtain by cultivation extraordinary health and extraordinary strength.

Physical man is entirely animal, and he absolutely requires a certain amount of vigorous exercise or he will degenerate. Compare the figure of a house dog that does not run about much with that of an active, trained animal that follows either a bicycle or a horse for a few hours each day. Both may be of the same breed, but their shape is quite different. One has a fat, heavy body with very slender and poorly muscled legs; the other has a contracted belly, a deep, powerful chest and remarkably well-developed limbs....keep reading

[4 pages] " Would you like to have a body like this? You can by enrolling for My System of Body Building"

Check out this advertising booklet for 1946 AAU Mr. America Alan Stephan. The course is incredibly rare (although we will post it at some point) but the advertising material like this booklet are impossible to find....keep reading

[66 pages] Physical training covers many varied and useful activities. The subjects and areas of training treated in this publication can be used with gratifying and beneficial results. The limitations necessarily imposed by the scope of the field call for a selection of activities that are practical, easily executed and administered. All of the activities treated herein possess value for the attainment and main tenance of that high level of fitness and mental alertness so vital to us as individuals and as a nation.

LT Joseph O. Fournier, USN, who prepared this manual, has been assigned by the Navy to the Physical Education Department of the United States Naval Academy. During LT Fournier's fourteen years of duty afloat, he has assisted in the promotion of weight training and general fitness programs aboard ship. He is graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in the field of Physical Education, earning Varsity letters in Football and Crew, of whic...keep reading

|[82 pages] A super-sized double edition of December 7th, 1935 issue of Health and Strength magazine.

The amount of Iron History contained therein is staggering: Clevio Massimo, boxing, gymnastics, Donald Dinnie, Arthur Saxon, the H. Broom Course, Mind power, Thomas Inch, The Mighty Young Apollon, the list goes on......keep reading

These are the basic E-Z- Kurl barbell exercises. There are many variations of these exercises possible. Any barbell movement that imposes strain on the wrists and forearms can be performed wmuch more effectively with the York E-Z-Kurl Bar....keep reading

The undoubted popularity of boxing renders eulogy on the part of its advocates superfluous; its utility is unquestioned and its advantages widely recognized. The practice of pugilistic arts is a splendid mental and physical exercise: mental in that it fosters and develops pluck, determination, coolness, nerve and evenness of temper; physical, in gifting its votaries with strength, activity, health, suppleness of limb and grace of bearing. There may be differences of opinion on the suppression of the prize ring, but there can be nothing but honor and praise for the noble art of self defense....keep reading

[2 pages] This is the workout -- as in the ACTUAL workout -- performed by Casey Viator on May 5th, 1973 during the famed Colorado Experiment. In addition to the scan of the workout sheet from Arthur Jones' note pad, we also provide a typed version (as near as we can tell) for what is written on the sheet. N.B. On the right, Tom Wood oversees Casey Viator on the Nautilus Hip and Back Machine....keep reading