Tag: Arm Development

Nail Driving With The Amazing Samson

Posted on Friday, April 27th, 2012 by John Wood

Alexander Zass “The Amazing Samson” shows his stuff with a little nail driving action. Looks like those “Oldtime” training methods seem to have been working pretty well… I doubt “Samson” ever did a concentration curl in his life, but any bodybuilder would kill for that kind of arm development.

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Jack LaLanne: January 1942 Strength and Health Coverman

Posted on Friday, October 7th, 2011 by John Wood

Strength and Health 1942, Jack LaLanne

Before he was selling juicers, breaking records for pushups, and urging the world to do calisthenics on their living room rugs, Jack LaLanne was featured on the cover of Strength and Health Magazine several times — four, to be exact. This is his earliest cover, January, 1942, and Jack is looking pretty impressive.
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Eugen Sandow

Posted on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 by John Wood
Eugen Sandow was the prototypical strongman, the first true strength Superstar and can rightfully be called “The Man who Started it All.”
Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow
Sandow thrilled audiences all over the world with his classical physique as well as his amazing feats of strength. In fact, many of the most famous Iron Game luminaries such as George Jowett and Alan Calvert (among others) were inspired to begin training after seeing Sandow in action.

Once he tired of the performing life, Sandow established the very first “Health Studios,” mail order training courses, mail order training equipment and physical culture magazine — all “firsts” for things which are now commonplace in the modern age.

British Champion T.W. Clarke

Posted on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 by John Wood
T.W. Clarke, February, 1933 Strength and Health
The 11 stone British Amateur Weightlifting Champion of 1913, T.W. Clarke is shown here on the cover of the February, 1933 issue of Strength and Health Magazine (Making this is the third issue ever.) Clarke was famed for his arm development — 15-1/4 inches – which was quite impressive for a man of his size and weight class. Clarke trained at the Camberwell Weightlifting Club and was coached by “The Wizard of Weightlifting” W.A. Pullum.