@CT I recall you used to advocate reading material from the past because those were the muscular guys in their basements tinkering and figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Is there any old school training book you could recommend?
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The books I talked about are those that are from the 1800s and early 1900s so you wont find them in bookstores. There is a website with scanned versions of many of those books.
Bill Hinbern has reprinted some of them, check out his web site: SuperStrengthTraining.com.
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Super Strength by Alan Calvert was a pretty good book. It discusses some of the history of the strength athletes back then (Saxon, Sandow, Cyr) and how they trained and ate. It also lays out a general set of principles for lifting, like the importance of leg and back training as the foundation, and then building from there.
How to Get Strong and Stay So by William Blakie is an interesting one, less so about how to get strong and more of a general “we need better physical fitness for health, and here’s some things you can do”. Not necessarily useful, but interesting since it was one of the early books that sparked the late 1800s health and fitness movement in the US.
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