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Titus Built This Arm!
Titus Built This Arm! - how awesome is this advertisement from Professor Henry W. Titus, circa 1927? I'll take panther muscles over clumsy beef any day.
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The Mighty Atom Bends Steel
Here's a look at "The Mighty Atom" Joe Greenstein bending a steel beam over the bridge of his nose with a little help from his friends. This extremely rare shot was taken in the ring at Madison Square...
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SEAL Log Training
"First-phase Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students feel the pain of log physical training in this 1975 picture taken on the Silver Strand in Coronado, California. The team is in unison, and though...
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Tom Burrows' First Club Swinging Record
On March 20th, 1895, Australian club swinging champion Tom Burrows set out to break his own record of 24 hours on continuous club swinging. In order to do so, he set forth the following conditions: 1....
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The Wrestler's Bridge
THIS is why wrestlers practice bridging ~ a strong neck may just be the only thing keeping the shoulders off the mat. This outstanding example of bridging occurred at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
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Albert Maes
Albert Maes was a Belgian weightlifter who competed in the featherweight class in both the 1924 Paris and 1928 Amsterdam Olympic games (finishing 13th and tied for 17th, respectively.) Interestingly,...
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Frank Zane on a Pogo Stick
Ladies and Gentlemen, "Mr. Universe" Frank Zane on a pogo stick! - This was taken at Sunken Gardens botanical garden in St. Petersburg, Florida on January, 17th, 1969. On that day, Zane set an...
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Yury Vlasov's Bench Press
How does a World Champion Olympic weight lifter build upper-body strength? The great Russian lifter Yuri Vlasov used the bench press (among other exercises) in his program back in the 50's and 60's. Of...
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The Reg Park Muscle Builder Set
You used to be able to find ads for 'The Reg Park Muscle Builder Set' on the back of Reg's magazine "The Reg Park Journal." If you saved up your allowance for one of these sets, you got quite a haul: a...
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Neil Lewis Arm Wrestling Trainer Advertisement Featuring Chuck Sipes
Here's a real blast from the past: an advertisement for the famous Neil Lewis Arm Wrestling Trainer featuring Chuck Sipes. You'd often find the Neil Lewis trainer in the pages of Iron Man magazine....
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Reg Park and The Swing Bell
Here's a very determined looking Reg Park training with a swingbell. You don't see swingbell training much these days but it is a shame because it is both simple and effective... in other words,...
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Axle Öfverstén
Axle Öfverstén was a Swedish strongman who performed with the Carl Busch and Mosebacke Circuses. His signature feat was to lift a horse, and as you can see, he also had excellent taste in equipment....
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Radwan's Steel Bending
Here's a closer look at Stanley Rawan's hand in action, bending some steel.
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Rocky Marciano Stone Lifting at Greenwood Lake
One of the famous boxing training "camps" could be found in Greenwood Lake, New York. The list of of great champions trained there for their biggest fights is long and impressive: Joe Louis, Billy...
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Armwrestling's First Super Match
Starting in the 1930's, the man to beat in the armwrestling (sometimes called "wrist wrestling") world was California strength athlete and tavern owner Mac Batchelor. People came from far and wide to...
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Bruce Randall Barbell & Dumbbell Exercises
The Billard Barbell Company tapped 1959 Mr. America Bruce Randall as their spokesman and he often promoted weight sets at Sears and Montgomery Ward stores all over the country. Who knows how many...
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Bob Hoffman's Protein From The Sea
Bob Hoffman's Protein From The Sea!Straight from the pages of early 1960's Strength and Health magazine comes Bob Hoffman's Protein From The Sea! You remember the ads and if you ever tried it you sure...
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Latvian Sport Club, 1970
The view from a Latvian Sport Club, circa 1970. Not that it's any great revelation but kettlebells were (and are), very popular in eastern Europe countries.
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Iron Man Lifting News - Vol.4, No. 4 - December, 1959
Iron Man Magazine was mostly oriented towards bodybuilding so Peary Rader started up another side-publication oriented towards heavy weight lifting and what would eventually become Powerlifting. "Iron...
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