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Health & Physique

Posted on Monday, July 29th, 2019 by John Wood

In order to promote the GOOD Barbell company, Harry Good made a smart move in the late 1930’s and started publishing his own magazine. The cover of Issue 1, No. 1 of “Health & Physique, which came out in July of 1938, is shown above featuring Harry and his two famous brothers Walter and Bill. Health & Physique ran only for 10 issues (no doubt because trying to produce a publication on top of running a barbell company is a Herculean task). High resolution scans of this issue and several more are posted in The Iron League.

Strength and Health Magazine, March, 1934

Posted on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 by John Wood

The great weightlifter Art Levan on the cover of the March, 1934 issue of Strength and Health Magazine. This is one heck of an issue: Check out the lineup of strength authors: George Jowett, Earle E. Liederman, Harry Good, Bob Hoffman and Professor Paulinetti (among others.)

The Good Brothers

Posted on Friday, November 10th, 2017 by John Wood

The Good Brothers, Harry, Walter and Bill, were a trio of weightlifters and Strongmen from Eastern Pennsylvania. Bill was the strongest of the three, winning seven Senior National Weightlifting Titles (1930-1937) and competing in two Olympic Games (1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin). Bill Good was the first American to Clean & Jerk 350 Pounds. Walter Good competed in the 1936 Olympics as well. Harry was the U.S. Professional Champion in 1933 in addition to writing training articles for a number of different strength publications and training courses. Harry Good went on to establish the “Good Barbell Company” in the late 1930’s. Mark Berry also used the Good Brothers to demonstrate several of the exercises in his book Physical Training Simplified (1930).

Harry Good

Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 by John Wood

Like many strongmen, Harry Good was very talented at feats of grip and forearm strength. Here he lifts a set of heavy farm equipment gears weighing over 300 pounds with one finger. His best performance in this lift was with over 450 pounds.