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- Pre-Quantico Kit (1983)
[14 pages] The purpose of this document is to provide advance notice to FBI Special Agent applicants of the standards and requirements demanded of Special Agent trainees during the New Agents' Training Program at the FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia....keep reading
- Gymnastic Systems (1892)
[16 pages] "IT is not calling a thing by a name that makes it a system and that is the point I wish to urge in regard to the so-called American system. There is none. There are various attempts to systematize gymnastics in various parts of the country, under different people, with different and limited experiences. They join various exercises together, and tag them a, b, c, -- x, y, z, and claim that the result is a system."...keep reading
- ISOMETRICS: SIT-DOWN SPORT
[2 pages] This exercise program -- new to many -- is ideal for Navymen whose duties or location restrict their ability to engage in athletics or other forms of regular fitness activity. It previously appeared in All Hands.
What is isometrics?
Briefly, isometrics is based on the principle of one set of muscles working against another. You may have been practicing it for years, by some other name, or more likely, by none at all.
Here are nine isometric exercises designed specifically for office personnel and those in other sedentary occupations. All that's needed is a chair, a heavy desk or table, and one minute a day....keep reading
- The Miracle of the Bar Bells [1952)
[8 pages] Within the past few years more than three million muscle-mad males have taken the weightlifting way toward keeping fit.
An astonishing wave of elbow-bending is sweeping the country these days. And the surprising fact is that those who indulge regularly become trim physical specimens! That's because the bars involved are bar bells and the things being hoisted so frequently are considerably heavier and less moist than Martinis. In gyms, bedrooms, attics and garages all over the country more than 3,000,000 males from 16 to past 60 are going happily haywire over weightlifting. Less than 25 years ago there were no more than a handful of bar bell gyms in the entire country; now there are a vast number regularly attended by stage and screen luminaries, public officials, businessmen, writers, editors and people in every walk of life....keep reading
- PHYSIOLOGY at the Service of Physical Education
[56 pages] Arthur H. Steinhaus was one of the original researchers of Isometric training. Unbeknownst to many, Steinhaus wrote this incredibly interesting series of articles in a physical education publication in the 1930's. A number of topics are discussed and to our knowledge, they have never been compiled in one place before....keep reading
- International Olympic Lifter Magazine Volume 4 No.9 - September, 1977
[28 pages]
* The Editor's Desk
* Junior Worlds
* Mis Impresiones en el III Panamericano De Levantamiento De Desas
* Yuri Vardanian
* This N That
* Exercise of The Month
* Sports Medicine
* Scoreboard...keep reading
- The Complete Art of Barrel-Rolling (1901)
[6 pages] Different parts of the world have their own unique contests of strength and endurance ... here is one of particular interest from France that has been a competitive sport for over a century: barrel rolling. What follows is the only article on the topic in English that we have come across....keep reading
- The Athlete [1879)
[4 pages] - An Official Programme and Record of Athletic Games...keep reading
- 1947 Paramount Bar Bells and Dumbbells Mail Order Catalogue
[12 pages] "In my fifteen years of competition in weight lifting and instruction in body building, I have found much room for improvement in most methods of instruction for strength and health development. Consequently, I have designed the Paramount system to include the improvements that I believed were necessary.
The result is that, time and time again, the Paramount system has obtained desired results in less than half the time required by other training methods. The Paramount system is adaptable to the needs of any person, regardless of age, sex or present physical condition. Every movement in every exercise having its particular purpose, and is directed and explained so as to avoid any possibility of misunderstanding, any exhausting exercise or waste of time and effort. Thus, in choosing the Paramount system of health and strength development, you not only save money by buying high quality equipment direct from factory but, far more important, an improved sys...keep reading
- The Why and How of Muscle Control - Part Four (1951)
[6 pages] I THINK that the most astounding open challenge ever published was that put forward by Maxick in 1912 to prove the value of his method of training without apparatus. There was still some doubt as to whether Maxick had become strong without weightlifting, although this fact had been widely published on the Continent a long time before he came to England in 1909....keep reading
- How to Become a Weight Thrower (1910)
[42 pages]The object of this little volume is to give beginners some advice on their primary efforts when a professional or experienced coach is not available. The suggestions offered could doubtless be clothed in a more copious style and with more grandiloquent detail, but in treating the rudiments of any particular sport it is advisable that the treatise be plain and brief as possible. The briefer the admonition the more easy will it be to memorize the vital points....keep reading
- Kranz Manual of Kinesiology (1961)
[146 pages]The Kinesiology Manual by Dr. Leon G. Kranz has been widely used and respected through the years. As a professor who has taught kinesiology for ten years, and as one who has used this Manual, I share in this respect.
Kinesiology is not an easy subject to teach, and my primary objective in revising this Manual has been to help the students to better learn and understand all aspects of the subject. An attempt is made to give a clear pic ture of individual muscle movement as well as group action. The drawings indicate the shape and appearance of the muscles. The blackened areas on the bones indicate the origin and insertion, while the arrows direct attention to the various movements the muscles produces on the bones....keep reading
- International Olympic Lifter Magazine Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1977
[28 pages]
* The Editor's Desk
* This N' That
* Sports Medicine Seminar - by Charles Scott MD
* '76 Top Ten USSR Lifters/World Records
* Exercise of The Month by Bob Takano
* Scoreboard
* Centerfold-Norikyan (Bul)
* Calendars/Sr.- Jr.
* Junior World Scene by Falameev
* Classifieds
* Doc's Poetry Corner - Moose
...keep reading
- Practical Football: Preventing Injuries (1934)
[13 pages] Much has been written about the care of athletic injuries. That is a subject belonging to the doctors and trainers, and is outside the scope of this book. Those who are interested may find several excellent books and numerous articles on the subject. It is here intended to deal only with the prevention of injuries, which is primarily the coach's responsibility and, therefore, properly belongs in a football manual for coaches....keep reading
- Compulsive Power (1983)
[4 pages] World Powerlifting Champion Hugh Cassidy's short story from 1983...keep reading
- Glima: The Wonders of the Secret Sport of Iceland (1908)
[7 pages] In the following article, specially written for THE STRAND MAGAZINE, Mr. Johannes Josefsson, the world's champion "Glima" exponent, explains, for the first time, the secrets of this Icelandic form of self-defence. Mr. Josefsson, who represented Iceland in the Olympic Games of 1908, first won the World's Championship in 1907, throwing twenty-four competitors in six hours without incurring a single fall. In the following year he again won the championship from fourteen competitors, since when his title of champion has not been opposed. Until recently Icelanders took the minutest precautions to prevent the secrets of this form of self-defence from leaving the island. That Glima" is a more efficacious form of self-defence than Ju-jitsu Mr. Josefsson recently demonstrated by throwing Diabutsu, the champion Ju-jitsu wrestler, twice in the short space of fifty-seven seconds....keep reading
- Hammer-Throwing (1891)
[7 pages] THE exercise of weight-throwing is purely a muscular one, and many physicians who do not approve racing, strongly advise weight throwing as a means by which any one with athletic tastes many expend his energy. The two events on weight-throwing which are best for general development of the upper part of the body are throwing the hammer and throwing the 56-pound weight. Both are heavy gamesm and although they may be indulged in simply as an exercise with much satisfaction, no matter how weak comparatively the athlete is, only one with a physique far stronger and heavier than the average can accomplish any distance thought to be remarkable....keep reading
- View Transaction History
For your records and receipts, a report listing your credit card transactions within this site....keep reading
- Colorado Experiment Workout #2 - May 2, 1973
[2 pages] Colorado Experiment Workout #2, performed May 2nd, 1973....keep reading
- Isometric & Isotonic Drills for Swimmers (1961)
[8 pages] James E. Counsilman has been acclaimed as one of the greatest swimming coaches ever developed in this country. At the 1961 Outdoor National AAU Championships, his Indiana boys collected five new world records, their fifth straight team championship. His Indianapolis Club smashed the world record in the 400 meter medley relay that had been held by the U.S.A. Olympic team....keep reading
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