moxohol
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Post by moxohol on Mar 23, 2023 15:25:08 GMT
Here is one that I like to do: Bubba will come a-calling. |
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Post by determinator on Mar 23, 2023 21:37:59 GMT
I remember checking this book out from the library of my junior high school when I was in the 8th or 9th grade, so I was close to 14 years old myself at the time. I recall that it described the olympic lifts in detail. It is now 50+ years later!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2023 22:45:27 GMT
Oh My Stomach,  ! Moxy is off his meds again. |
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Post by stormshadow on Mar 24, 2023 12:11:10 GMT
... My grandpa had given me a book called "Super Strength" by Alan Calvert, which I still have. He never talked about working out with weights when he was younger, but he had the old book that he gave me. The pullover was discussed in that book, published in 1924. That book got me started on how to use my first weight set.Way back in the day those old books were worth their weight in gold, the info contained within their pages was most definitely the key to getting good results in the shortest amount of time. The book that I purchased from a school 'book fair' when I first started lifting weights at 12 years old was 'Weight Lifting and Weight Training' by George W. Kirkley. I distinctly remember how annoyed my mother was when I got home from school and she saw that book. She had this irrational bias against men who lifted weights because she claimed it "wasn't natural" and also was for "big dummies who like to stare at themselves in the mirror"... Anyway, here's the book:  Great book Magnus. My Dad used to say stop pursuing artificial muscles. That one did not bug me as much as my son is into cosmetics, you know looking good in a mirror Your natural comment made me smile. The Book Fred mentions is my favorite |
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Mar 24, 2023 20:13:16 GMT
The first book I ever bought on exercise was "Muscle Building for Beginners" by Fallon and Saunders, published originally in the UK around 1960 or so. My Arco edition cost, if I remember correctly, all of $1.25 sometime in the mid-1970's...and it remains one of the best sources of info. Covered bodyweight exercises, cables, and weights...everything you needed, and nothing you didn't! |
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! Moxy is off his meds again.
