George Jowett Lifts 168 Pound Anvil

George Jowett Lifts 168 Pound Anvil
George Jowett was one of the first strength authors to highlight the incredible importance of grip and forearm development in his writings.

Jowett understood that "strength" begins in the hands.... He made it a point to make his fingers, hands, wrists and forearms as strong as he possibly could, usually through regular work with thick-handled equipment.

Due to his immense grip strength, Jowett became a champion at "Wrist Westling" and could perform a number of unusual strength feats including cleaning and pressing a 168 pound anvil with one hand, as pictured above.

(As a side note, anvils have always made very popular pieces of training equiment with many of the oldtime strongmen, a topic we will, however, save for another time.)

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