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[44 pages] The TRI-POWER-CONTRACTIONAL SYSTEM is based on this simple truth: Muscular gains should be expected rom each and every training session without exception, and if you follow our system, results will always be obtained! All you have to do is use this system several times a week, for a period of less than 1/2 hour and you can completely re-build your body! Right before your eyes you will see your shoulders broaden, your arms thicken, your chest bulge while you trim your waist. Within the next year, your strength will double or triple fantastic but very probable!...keep reading

"The forty-six exercises with clubs used in my gymnasium, constitute a very complete system of training with this favorite means of muscle culture.

The club for adults, if made of beach, birch, or maple, should be about eighteen inches long, and three and a-half in diameter. The handle should be of a size convenient to the hand, with a nub at the end to keep the hand from sliding off."...keep reading

[88 pages] When you are digging through the annuls of strength history, once in a great while you come upon something so rare and so unusual, that it is simply mind blowing that it even exists in the first place.

That is the case from this truly unique training guide which was originally published in Vietnam in 1942. While this book is written in the native language, you can certainly get the gist of the selected programs thanks to the numerous images of barbell training, dumbbell training, Indian clubs, and calisthenic work....keep reading

[8 pages] Jim Evans' Gym was a center of physical training activity in Lubbock, Texas in the mid-20th century. The gym enjoyed a tremendous number of members, so many that Evan's created his own house organ bulletin to keep them updated. Early issues were entitled "The Home Gym" with an eventual title change to "The Weight Lifter." This is issue number 8 and provides a fascinating look into the state of the physical culture world during that time period....keep reading

[60 pages] Karl K. Klein's first book on preventing knee injuries....keep reading

[1 hour, 32 minutes] In 1975, Mr. Olympia Sergio Oliva co-starred with Mil Máscaras in a Mexican wrestling movie called "El Poder Negro" (Black Power).

Sergio played a super-strong dockworker who runs afoul of the local crime syndicate and helps Mil Máscaras to bring them to justice. His co-star was Venezuelan actress and singer Lila Morillo. While most certainly a "B" movie, this is still a chance to see one of the great ones in action....keep reading

"The Author is aware there has been a great want for one very important thing and that is, a simple course of instruction in the art of club-swinging, thus enabling all classes to possess themselves of it; and, believing himself capable in every way of giving a simple and accurate description of all the most important motions, taking particular care to word it in such a manner that it may be easily understood by all."...keep reading

[24 pages] To some people, physical fitness is a casual thing for someone else to worry about. To Verne Gagne it's an all-consuming interest, a way of life ... almost a religion. Because of his fascination with fitness, giving him that little edge in strength and timing, his prowess and honors in sports have made the name of Gagne a national legend among fans. . . Over the years, Gagne has spent a tremendous amount of time and energy in arriving at his present enviable state of physical fitness. Now that his busy schedule restricts his time to work out in the gym, he uses the isometric exercises described in this book daily at odd moments to preserve the muscle tone it has taken such effort to achieve. These simple exercises, tested in actual use for years by Verne Gagne, can be used to advantage by any man, woman or child for better health, appearance and body tone....keep reading

[15 pages] Despite its title, the meticulously researched and comprehensively documented information in "Strength Coaching in America" contains enlightening riches beyond the inception and evolution of the strength coaching role in modern athletic training.

In my opinion, the overarching illumination provided is the precise portrayal of the seldom-considered travails heavy progressive resistance exercise (PRE) endured on its way to reaching the massive cultural approval it enjoys today with athletes and non-athletes alike.

Weight training's struggle for acceptance? Younger readers, those under the age of approximately 40 or so, are asking themselves. When? How?

Such questions go right to the matter of who should be required to read this fine book....keep reading

[42 pages]

* Hail to the Dinosaurs!
* Mesozoic Mail
* Jurassic Jottings
* Answers to Your Training Questions by Brooks Kubik
* A Different Twist on Rest-Pause Training by Fred Fenn
* My Singles Experiment by John Grahill
* An Update on My Training Program by Allan Roth
* Try this Two-Week Divided Workout Program! by Rich Madigan
* The 2016 Stonelifting Tour (Part 2) by Peter Robert Jensen
* Build Strength and Muscle Mass with Reg Park! by Brooks Kubik
* A Result-Producing and Effective Workout by Paul Murray
* An Older Dino's Training Program by Jim Figurniak
* The Wrap-Up
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[2 pages] DEAR SIR:

In the last few weeks, I have received hundreds of letters saying "Be sure and send me Bulletin 49 -- because I want to learn all about your Doctrine of Ultimate Contractions."...keep reading

[48 pages]

COVER: John L. Sullivan in his prime

DEVELOPING POWERFUL MANHOOD by Bernarr Macfadden

THE REAL LIFE OF THE KING OF THE RING by R.F. Dibble

HOW TO HAVE A CHEST TO BE PROUD OF by Earle E. Liederman

WANT TO PUT ON THE GLOVES? by Sid Terris

LOOKING INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH by Walter Wheatley

HOW GOOD ARE YOU?

CANOEING AS A MUSCLE BUILDER by LT. G.H.G SMYTH...keep reading

[3 pages] Dave Pulcinella is my cousin, my training partner and my best friend growing up. We had both started lifting weights at around the same time but started for totally different reasons. Dave grew up in the rough neighborhood of Southwest Philly and was painfully frail and skinny as a little kid. He always seemed to be fending off various bullies in his neighborhood and always felt humiliated. Lifting weights for Dave was more a matter of survival as well as to salvage his pride. And because it meant so much to him not to get beat up every day, he trained with utter desperation as well as force feeding himself for years....keep reading

[11 pages] These plans were advertised in the back of Iron Man for years. These are from back in the days before many pieces of fitness equipment were readily available. It may not be necessary to put the time and the effort into constructing many of these plans, but there certainly are some interesting ideas presented....keep reading

Here's an interesting feature on the arm development of one James L. Montgomery a noted gymnast in New York city in the mid-1800's. You may recall Montgomery's name and dumbbells prowess mentioned in G.B. Windship's 'Autobiographical Sketches of a Strength-Seeker.' His level of arm development was big news back in his day. Montgomery built a 13-1/2 inch forearm and the ability to to "put up" a dumbbell weighing 130 pounds at a bodyweight of only 160 pounds both of which would certainly be impressive today.