You can count Pro-Football Hall of famer Jim Taylor among the relatively few individuals who had their own “signature” weight sets. These weights were available mostly through Gimbel’s department stores at various locations around the state of Wisconsin in the 1960’s and if you were lucky, some afternoon you might have even found Jimmy Taylor himself on-hand to demonstrate. The Jim Taylor weights were cast at the Plymouth Foundry and Machine Co. in Plymouth, Wisconsin.

Also of note is that in 1961, Jim Taylor authored and released one of the first (if not the first) books ever written on weight training for football, Weightlifting for Athletics wherein he listed his training program.