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Syd Strachan Lifts The Dinnie Stones
Syd Strachan, of Aberdeenshire, is among the few strength athletes to successfully lift The Dinnie Stones. Syd was six feet tall and weighed just under 200 lbs. when he lifted the stones which weighed...
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Power Vol.1 No.1
POWER magazine, was noted bodybuilder Barton Horvath's foray into magazine publishing. Above is Volume 1, Number 1 featuring Ray Moldonado on the cover -- (it was one only issue ever put out.)
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John Y. Smith and His Unique Barbell
Gotta love some of the unique and usual weights that many of the strongmen found to lift. Here's a rare shot of the great Oldtime strongman John Y. Smith as he shoulders an unusual barbell, in his...
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Archie Vanderpool in Action
Here, the mysterious Archie Vanderpool performs a pretty unusual feat of supporting strength... With his back against a stone wall, Archie braced his legs against a car driven at full throttle for 52...
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The Hip Lift
One of the most interesting training techniques of the Oldtime Strongmen is to use short-range movements with very heavy weights. This not only gives a super workout for the muscles, but strengthens...
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Baillargeon's Backlift
Here's a rare shot of Adrian Baillargeon (of the great Baillargeon Brothers) performing a backlift of well over 3000 pounds.
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Jack LaLanne
Jack LaLanne once did 1033 pushups in one hour, swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf while handcuffed and towing a fleet of boats, and starred in the longest running fitness show in the...
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Reg Park in a Suit...
Three-time Mr. Universe Reg Park in a suit... still looking as big as life.
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The 1946 U.S. World Weightlifting Team
A look at most of the 1946 U.S. World Weightlifting Team left to right: John Davis, Emerick Ishikawa, Frank Spellman, John Terpak, Stan Stanczyk, and coach Bob Hoffman. (not pictured: Frank Kay)This...
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Paul Von Boeckmann: Chest Expansion Specialist
Paul Von Boeckmann was a strongman from New York City toward the end of the 19th century. Over time, he developed a unique system of chest expansion methods which allowed him to build "the largest and...
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Tullus Wright: The American Sampson
Tullus Wright, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, traveled the country in the late 1800's, performing in fairs and carnivals as "The American Sampson." Here's a look at a few of his great stage weights....
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Barrel Lifting at "The Pit"
No matter how you slice it, barrel lifting is a great workout, as shown on this classic cover of Hardgainer Magazine (issue #30, May-June 1994 ). In this shot, Bob Farris from Dick Conner's place "The...
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Alan Calvert
A very rare picture of Milo Barbell Company founder and noted strength author Alan Calvert. Calvert established the Milo Barbell company in 1902, one of the very first training publications "Strength"...
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Robert Conrad
The TV actor Robert Conrad, who was best known as Tom Lopaka in "Hawaiian Eye" in the early 1960's, and Jim West in The Wild Wild West" in the mid and late 1960's, was also avidly into weightlifting,...
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The Collins Dynamometer
Many of the oldtime strongmen and physical culture pioneers were big on measurement (or Anthropometry, as it was known) for the sake of better understanding their training techniques as well as...
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The Mighty Atom's Performances
We actually know several individuals who saw The Mighty Atom perform back in the day. Here's a few bits of memorabilia from when you could still catch his live show.
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The Vindobona Athletic Club
A look a the Vindobona Athletic club (Vienna) and some of their excellent training equipment, circa 1900. Their most famous member, the great strongman and wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko, sits front and...
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Oscar Marineau
Oscar Marineau, the great Canadian Strongman is shown here with a unique exhibition feat: that's 850 pounds supported on his back which he took out for a stroll. The two engines weighed 346 pounds each...
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The Medart Upper-Body Conditioner
The Fred Medart Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri, prodused a number of interesting pieces of training equipment. Something that was ahead of its time was this upper-body conditioner, which...
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Light Indian Club Swinging
Swinging the light clubs is a training methods that has been practiced for thousands of years in other cultures but has only been going on in the U.S. relatively recently. Traditionally this method has...
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