Sunday, September 27, 2009

  • Sig Klein


    • Another look at Sig Klein bent-pressing the Rolandow Barbell. Sig was very proficient at this movement and a tremendous fan of it as a strength builder. He wrote a training course on the bent press and even held several Bent-Press Contests (won by Elwood Holbrook.)

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    Posted by John Wood @ Sunday, September 27, 2009

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    Wednesday, April 15, 2009

  • Ellwood Holbrook


    • A look at strength star Ellwood Holbrook at the time when he rightly took home the 'Best Arms' sub-category and placed fourth overall at the 1941 AAU Mr. America Contest. Holbrook weighed only 165 pounds or so and routinely bent-pressed well over his bodyweight. Hollbrook didn't do any special training other than his focus on the bent-press. After a long day of construction work he trained in his garage with nothing more than an Olympic set.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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    Sunday, April 05, 2009

  • 1941 AAU Mr. America Results

    • John GrimekJohn Grimek
    The 1941 AAU Mr. America contest is notable since it was the second time it was won by John Grimek - the first and last time any man won it twice.

    The next year they changed the rule so that someone could only win it once -- figuring (probably rightly so) that Grimek would keep winning the contest indefinitely.
    		1. John Grimek
    2. Jules Bacon
    3. Frank Leight
    4. Elwood Holbrook
    5. Ludwig Schusterich
    6. Terry Robinson
    - Paul Como
    - Paul Davis
    - Roland Essmaker
    - Melvin Kahn
    - Constantine Kosiras
    - Tommy O'Hare
    - Joseph Peters
    - Steve Stern
    - Kimon Voyages
    - Elmer Witmer
    - Harold Woomer

    Most Muscular:
    Ludwig Schusterich

    Best Chest:
    Frank Leight

    Best Back:
    Paul Davis

    Best Abs:
    Melvin Kahn

    Best Arms:
    Elwood Holbrook
    The contest was held at the Arena Sports Palace in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the AAU weightlifting contest (which several of the Mr. America competitors competed in as well.)

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    Posted by John Wood @ Sunday, April 05, 2009

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    Saturday, January 17, 2009

  • 1951 AAU Mr. America Results

    • 1. Roy Hilligenn
    2. Malcolm Brenner
    3. Marvin Eder
    3. George Paine
    5. Pepper Gomez
    6. Keith Stephan
    7. Victor Nicoletti
    9. Joe Sanceri
    9. John Witkowski
    10. Ken Cameron
    - Max Grunig
    - Ed Heckinger
    - Elwood Holbrook
    - Ed Holovchik
    - Dominick Juliano
    - Alvin Lee
    - Newman Lewis
    - Ralph Mascaro
    - Allen Moraes
    - Elias Rodriguez
    - Stan Stanczyk
    - Carlin Venus
    - George Waselinko
    - Monte Wolford
    		Roy HilligenRoy Hilligenn won the "Most Muscular"
    award as well as the overall title

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    Posted by John Wood @ Saturday, January 17, 2009

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    Friday, May 02, 2008

  • Elwood Holbrook - Master of the Bent Press

    • Elwood Holbrook - Master of the Bent PressElwood Holbrook - Master of the Bent Press

    Elwood Holbrook took 4th at the 1941 AAU Mr. America Contest AND took home the "Best Arms" award (He had also competed in the afternoon's weightlifting contest where he finished 6th with a 715-pound total in the 165-pound class.)

    While Holbrook was a very talented strength athlete and equally good at bodybuilding as well as weightlifting, his real gift was the bent press -- he won the national Bent-Press Championship in a contest held by Sig Klein.

    Holbrook was also one of the few men to bent press the famous Rolandow Dumbbell - a feat which he did on his first try and without a warmup.

    Here's a shot of a 48-year old Elwood Holbrook bent-pressing 240 pounds -- 75 pounds above his bodyweight. That unique dumbbell belonged to Paul Anderson.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Friday, May 02, 2008

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