Yes, I read about it numerous times… but did many women train those years (40s-early 60s)? Or the facilities were used for gymnastics, calisthenics etc. as well?
Not necessarily. Take what Reeves did vs. Haney. Reeves did 3 exercises for 3 sets each per body part for the Mr. Universe and that was a common volume by all the guys at the time. That’s taken directly from Reeves; book. Lee Haney always said to “stimulate don’t annihilate” and he did around 8-9 sets per body part 2x a week. Arnold’s workouts that people actually saw him do and not what was written by ghost writers were around 12 sets a body part 2x a week. So volume was fairly comparable.
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I beg to differ
Lee Haney…did about 12 to 15 sets for the big muscles and about 8 to 12 sets for the smaller muscles and he followed a 3 on 1 off routine
Arnold…did about 20 to 25 sets for the bigger muscles and 10 to 15 for the smaller ones and he followed a 6 day split and each body 2x/week until contest time when he trained each body part 3x/week twice per day
I have Reeves three books, I have Arnold’s books, I used to have Haneys books
Arthur knew who he was working with. A naturally blocky and short-legged guy like Casey could much leg stimulus from 1 or 2 sets on the Nautilus Squat machine. And what dbol504 said about leg work robbing energy applies too!