Hand-Balancing for Muscular Development by Bill Hinbern “Join the Ranks of…the Upside Down Club! Learn Hand-Balancing Today!”   Here it is! The training manual all you “body-weight” exercise trainees have been waiting for! Want to develop a powerful upper body? Want to amaze your friends, relatives and passersby? Kick-up into […]

The Henry Higgins Strength and Muscle Course by Henry Higgins “How Did the Old Time Strong Men Really Train?… Learn How With This Training Course!”   If I’ve been asked once, I’ve been asked a thousand times, “How did the old-time vaudeville, circus and stage strong man train to lift […]

The Way to Live In Health & Physical Fitness by George Hackenschmidt “So Powerful in the Ring… They called him the Russian Lion!”   The beauty of this book is that it is 4 books in one…a biography, a photo album, a book about a strongman, a book about a […]

Anthony Ditillo Famous Writer for Peary Rader’s “Iron Man Magazine”! Author of “The Development of Muscular Bulk and Power!” In the late 1960s I started to contact anybody and everybody that was even remotely connected with strength training. All the big names…bodybuilders, weightlifters, writers, gym owners, etc. I scanned all […]

Progressive Resistance Exercise by DeLorme and Watkins What is the “Set System”? Why is it used in physical training? Finally, the answers to these questions and more! Have you ever questioned why the repetitions you use in your training are grouped together into “sets”? Has anyone ever explained to you […]

Michael H. Brown Your Modern Day Renaissance Man! Author of “The Strength of Samson: How to Attain It” In 1974, an ad caught my eye in Peary Rader’s old “Iron Man” magazine . The Madison Co. advertised an interesting catalog of unusual books, courses and equipment on a variety of […]

Learn from the Trainer of John C. Grimek… author and Olympic Coach, Mark H. Berry Most of the training routines used by old time strong men up until the late 1920’s used compound movements. Previous to that time the squat, or deep knee bend as it was called back then, […]

How to Develop a Powerful Grip by Edward Aston Britain’s Strongest Man 1911-1934   Born in the village of Yeadon, Yorkshire, England, in 1884, Edward Aston started lifting weights at the age of ten.At the peak of his career he stood 5′ 7 3/4″ tall, weighed 170 lbs. and had […]

How to Bent Press Correctly by Harold Ansorge New Release! In Stock and Ready to Ship! The Only Man in the World to Ever Officially Bent Press 300 Pounds With the Left Arm!   The Bent Press was the pet lift of strongmen like Arthur Saxon, Eugen Sandow, George Hackenschmidt, […]

Paul Anderson “The Dixie Derrick!” The Strongest Man In Recorded History! I had heard of Paul Anderson in the late 1960s and sent for my first copies of his weightlifting courses shortly thereafter. There was no doubt, his training methods worked. I discovered this after picking up various tips and […]