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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

  • Arthur Jones, Nautilus and Hard Training


    • Arthur Jones

    The year was 1970 and in the strength world the inmates were running the asylum. In their quest to become bigger and stronger, bodybuilders were spending hours in the gym, "bombing and blitzing" their muscles with set after set after set.

    And then the bomb dropped...

    a series of articles in Iron Man Magazine by a mystery man named Arthur Jones outlined very clearly and carefully, and in very plain english why many, if not most, bodybuilders were wasting their time.

    And what's more, the key to unlocking strength wasn't doing workouts that lasted for hours or spending all day in the gym but a handful of properly performed exercises done in a workout lasting 45 minutes or less.

    And then there was talk of a "wonder machine" -- the Nautilus Pullover -- that would build upper-body size and strength faster than any other exercise. More developments followed and the strength world has never been the same...

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    posted by John Wood @ Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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