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Wanna Bet?
by Bill Starr
For a competitive athlete to continuously improve in any sport, he must test himself against others on a regular basis. Not just at contests, but in training sessions as well…The small weight room had a record board where the top lifts in all the classes were recorded plus one column for the best overall lifter according to the Hoffman formula. The bets were for cartons of milk, which could be purchased from a vending machine in the lobby of the Y for a dime.
Platform: The Squat - Bar Position
Rip explains the positioning of the grip and the bar for the low bar back squat.
The Pioneers of Protein
by Daniel T. Hall and John D. Fair
In the 1950s when I started bodybuilding, most guys believed all you had to do to develop your body was lift weights. They didn’t think what you ate really mattered. Now we all know differently.
—Frank Zane
Doc Ziegler
by Bill Starr
While Bob Hoffman had the greatest influence on Olympic weightlifting, bodybuilding, and other strength sports in the sixties, Doc Ziegler had the greatest impact. Doc was a pure scientist who became fascinated with strength development. His innovations did more to alter the course of this aspect of physical training that any other individual, before or since.
Barbell Training is Big Medicine
by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD
”[A]t present there is absolutely no solid evidence that strength training—or any other exercise or dietary program—will substantially prolong our life spans. But the preponderance of the scientific evidence, flawed as it is, strongly indicates that we can change the trajectory of decline. We can recover functional years that would otherwise have been lost.”
The Tragic Death of the Military Press
The Tragic Death of the Military Press in Olympic and World Championship Competition, 1928-1972
by John D. Fair
For most of the twentieth century, the press was the standard means by which the strength of an athlete, especially in weightlifting, was measured. “How much can you press?” was the usual question directed by friends and fellow athletes to any young man who started training with weights… by the end of the century that the new query became “How much can you bench press?”
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March 9-11, 2012
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March 18, 2012
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April 13-15, 2012
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May 4-6, 2012
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