Those of us who grew up during the 1950s might well remember the weekly western television shows… “The Lone Ranger,” “The Cisco Kid,” “Gene Autry,” “Roy Rogers,” “Maverick,” “Gun Smoke,” “The Rifleman,” and... “Cheyenne!” Clint Walker starred as Cheyenne Bodie, and...
Here’s a question I just received from a reader that enters everyone’s mind at one time or another... "Who said train to failure?" Good question. But a better question would be... What is your definition of failure? By now everyone should know that progression is the...
I have noticed a phenomenon regarding the training programs of many seasoned trainees. Believe it or not, as time goes on, they begin to do less and less and still get as much or more out of their training. Let me explain... One pattern that I noticed is the...
Add A Half-Inch To Your Arm In Just One Day Approximately 12 or 15 years ago we experimented with a specialized training method that gave us some remarkable results. In fact, they were so remarkable that many people would not believe them. We eventually called this...
So much has been written about Abraham Lincoln that he is perhaps the best-known American president. What may not be so well-known, however, is that as a young man he was renowned for his exceptional physical strength, and from all recorded accounts of all the...
Four Suggested Routines The title of this article is a well known old axiom which has been applied in so many various ways in the past and I feel it very definitely applies to weight training. As in so many fields of endeavour, and even in business, the same old...
At one time Siegmund Klein held world records in lifting and was considered one of the best built men in the world. His admonition of moderation in youth and later life is worth considering. Why do I, a man who has done so much heavy lifting in the past and who has...
Whilst man's physical make-up conforms everywhere to the same constructional pattern, historically successful efforts imposingly to improve that structure have not always followed a pattern as similar. One thing, however, it would seem, has almost invariably been...
As the title of this article implies, it is for the benefit of those who have done little or no weight-training whatsoever, for the individual who up to now would like to start training but who does not know how to go about it. The first essential is, as you would...
It was Tuesday night, August 27, about 6:30, to be exact, when I heard the phone ring upstairs, as I was squatting on my home-made squat rack in my home-made gym, in my dingy, clay-walled yet unexplainably comfortable ”snake pit” of a cellar. "Honey," my little wife...