Resistance bands are the modern day strand pullers. You can develop an amazing physique with rubber bands of differing resistance and they are so much easier to move around and store than iron plates.
Was thinking the same,there was a time I couldnt afford a gym a few yrs ago and just used band and bodyweight,got me strong but as ridiculous as it sounds I convinced mysel it wasnt working due to me being so blinkered with conventional wisdom. Internet has blown the whole thing open and shown that conventionional strength training is but one way to get results.
Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell famously promotes resistance bands as accommodating resistance to weight training. Adding bands to the barbell allows for overload at the top of the exercise, etc.
Sandow advocated the use of light dumbbells, generally 5lbs for men, but did repetitions between 25 and 100 per exercise. Sandow emphasized feeling the muscles with your mind or the mind-muscle connection.
Pandour & Sandow added resistance to DBs by tensing their arms,(muscular co-contraction). This is 'mind-muscle connection'. Because the opposing muscle group weakens along w/the intended muscle, one can safely & effectively exert full effort on every rep.
@@ronrodriguez8971 Athleanx youtube channel even talks about dropping down in dumbbell weight and focusing more on the contraction. Really interesting Sandow's teachings still hold up today.
@@lazur1 So combination of static contraction the whole time and positive/negative with the lifting? First time i have heard of this but it sounds viable for sure
They sure didn’t live long for looking so healthy. Thanks for the pictures many I’ve never seen. My grandfather got me into weight lifting so a lot of the exercises I did came from him . Some of these were his heroes.
Interesting principle raised by the chest expander section of this vid. It reminds me of Arthur Jones' Nautilus machines which employed a similar variable resistance that got greater as the muscle contracted to its strongest position, but lighter as it stretched to its weakest positions. Sandow & the others were way ahead of their time. Nice vid GEB
The Chest Expanders were the first direct/variable resistance training devices that was the key concept behind Arthur Jones Nautilus machines with the eccentric nautilus shaped cam used in conjunction with chains/cables and pulleys. As you stretch the spring cables their poundages-resistance increase which is ideal as the strength curve of the muscle in it's contraction was alleged to do so as well according to Jones and his side kick Darden.
Two of the Bronze Era strongmen from your video impressed me. Bobby Pandour and Otto Arco Nowosielski. Bobby is incredibly ripped and would stand up to the ripped physiques of today. Otto's strength is impressive. So are his biceps.
The first modern bodybuilder with this level of muscularity was probably Pierre van den Steen of Belgium. Tiny guy, absolutely ripped to shreds. The cuts around his abs were so deep, you'd swear they had been bolted on.
I was going to write about how my long ago yoga teacher had been a 20s-30s strongman, using the weights plus yoga you described. Because he was only 5'0" or 5'2", I thought that circus stroongment enefited from being alone onstage lifting people and things that looked relatively larger. The excellent striation is due to the isometrics of yoooga, and the strength without injuries also due to the strething of tendons and ligaments , which, of course, prevented catastrophic tendon and ligament injuries (unless you jumped from too high a distance, landing wrong, ran up too many steep mountains, and overexuberantly climbed and exercised 7 days a week . THe yoga even helped heal spinal disc injuries (twice to me, coming completely back from displacements more severe than many who get the usual useless or exacerbating surgeries for it). THe list you mention, shows how alternative exercise forms can pull one through injuries. LaLanne, who developed the original cable weight system by 1942, also swam. He invented the quad extender that helped the postwar bodybuilders to improve their soft quad legs, like Park. He never never bothered to patent such stuff, and was like many bodybuilders, of a generous personality.* He was born about 1914, and influenced a lot of people, Including even my mom, who counseled us through a drunken abusive father, and would say to me: "Make sure you do some jumping jacks" or other such LaLanne stuff he showed in his 50sw tv show which she watched, using chairs for dips and leg lifts etc. I inherited a 1930s Paul Bragg cookbook from her. Bragg was a weightlift, calisthenics, and supplement (amino acids) seller who changed La Lanne's life as a teen back around 1930 * Arnold Schwartzenegger , although highly competitive, was also a generous open mind. Once, when young learning to ski I asked Arnold (everybody in Austria seems an avid skier, as he still must be) for strength and body building tips for skiing, learning a lot in two interesting conversations (or, really, Q&A's). Then , when I later saw his obvious humor in "Conan" "to kill my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women", I perceived his acting skill. Critics mistook his deadpan humor for seriousness. His Hollywood directors and writers cast him for his perfectly timed and spoken deliveries (I'll be Bach.") Critics were and remain in error. Although his real estate millions and a bit of SDO in his competitive strategies made him a republican, he understands environment, science, as of globalwarming, and retains a lively intellect. I had thought his high intensity efforts had brought on his cardiac arrhythmias, although he identified an odd genetic (or epigenetic) anomaly in the ventircal? valve as the reason for operation. which brings up a problem with extreme intensity and sustained exercise and failure to attend to body signals due to social reasons. Various kinds of damage CAN occur, although exercise intensity is also associated with longevity (I actually knew a man who was born in 1850, and some really buff hatha yogis in their 90s have been more agile at their age than many children and mass-oriented individuals). Our bodies/brains thrive at relatively high intensity exercise; we are NOT machines, but can and should be sensitive to inputs and outputs (said a guy with 10 broken bones, countless sprains, four achilles tears, reconstructed knee, hip labral tears from severe overdoing, a few more knee surgeries and other joint trauma). The relatively short lives of many of the body builders surprised me. Researching causes of mortality on these guys can be of value. The modern world is now filled with far more communicable diseases. Some of the buff striated 1920s and 30s bodies smoked tobacco; ANY amount of alcohol ingestion is correlated with increased cancer rates; infectious disease of bacterial origin was a problem until antibiotics in the late 30s early 40s; viral plagues like polio and other viruses, from CJD to influenzas knocked down the weak immune systems or slowly ate the brains and tissues of the overexhausted and underexercised living in crowds. Those traveling strongmen suffered all this exposure. et, teh 106 and 111year-old heavy exercisers who sought natural clean air and living ,lie my yoga teacher and a couple others I alluded to were both physically and mentally fit beyond the understanding of most. (LaLanne , I don't know. Swimming in his Morro Bay pool exposed him to excess chlorine, I thought, scarring his lungs. His reported fatal illness was pneumonia. Some inversion and aerobic action might have made a difference. Ocean air is great. Particulate matter in the air, as dust, smoke smog, exhaust fumes are inversely correlated with lifespan and health. Seeing him in public at age 96 I noted his jacket was padded. True old-age deaths, rather than disease/environmental death only starts to become causal at that age or later.) I REALLY suspect that those mustachioed guys toked a lot of cigars Tobacco is about the most popular killer on earth, and knocks out loads of Chinese, Koreans and otherwise healthy southeast Asians LONG before their time. I can hardly picture the mustachioed strongmen without a whisky and big cheroot. Their bodies show some related kind of abuse. .
All of these religions are preaching the complete opposite of the observable and verifiable reality, facts and truth. *Virus Mania How The Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion $ Profits:* archive.org/details/virus-mania-how-the-medical-industry-continually-invents-epidemics/mode/2up *BÉCHAMP or PASTEUR? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology by Ethel Douglas Hume:* digital.library.yorku.ca/yul-570312/bechamp-or-pasteur-lost-chapter-history-biology#page/44/mode/2up Or here: www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/Bechamp-or-Pasteur.pdf *The Contagion Myth by Thomas S. Cowan, Sally Fallon Morell:* www.pattoverascienza.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The_Contagion-MITH_W.pdf *The Blood and Its Third Element:* www.amazon.com/Blood-Its-Third-Element/dp/1541159357/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1620905249&refinements=p_27%3AAntoine+Bechamp&s=books&sr=1-1 Women (and their simpanzie-beta-cuck-mangina orbiters) gave birth in the last 1.5- 2 years to the New World Order called: Covidism with its New World Religion called: Covidianity.
This is the human body at its maximum developpement. You don't need any steroid to be really muscular and impressive. Modern Olympia monsters have ton of muscles maybe, but their bodies are pretty disgusting particulary in off season when they don't look muscular but only fat guys.
They look disgusting to you...nit everyone. Some people really like those types of physiques and a natural one isn't what they're looking for and thats ok.
@@themookshit thats actually not true. Steroids over time increase the satellite cells in the muscle and hgh puts more tissue on the body and even if what u said was true...who cares? We r all gonna be old and weak eventually soon anyway. Even working out naturally is fleeting at some point.
I used to do chest expander in early teens and a dumbbell of 10 pounds, plus I trained karatte, that was in the 70s , i developed a strong lean body ... I was very athletic
Well done vid, very unique, i only knew otto arco, he kept himself in great condition in his late 60s kinda like vince gironda.. i think high protein, high reps, high tension kept those guys ripped. Tension bands may be a good alternative to chest expanders. I use a towel and a rubber tube and do certain isometricss 4 tendon strength.
Get yourself an ISOBOW - no joint damage and great workout, although free weights have their place ,they are the be all and end all of strength and muscle development. In the 70’s isometrics were making a big comeback. (1) Bruce Lee . (2) bullworker . (3) Charles Atlas . (4) martial arts. Along came ‘ pumping iron ‘ and a host of gyms opening up , along with the host of gyms came a host of - (I) physiotherapists . (ii) chiropractors. (iii) osteopaths . (iiii) injury treatment lotions/ potions and devices and with remedial exercises for injury and inflammation. Mental health must be considered and not let Ego driven fallacy take the wheel -example - huge amounts of animal protein , unnecessary supplements, amino acids , fat burners - all of which drive further away from the original goal of being fit, healthy and strong .
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@@GoldenEraBookworm I just watched the video some of these Guys blow me away. especially Bobby Pandour and Charles Vansittart, But also that Chandoo Guy that Triceps and Six Pack the leaness. My God they must have been below 7 % Bodyfat. Amazing what can be achieved with i guess 10 years of Training and without Machines. They just had Barbells and Dumbbells and their Bodyweight exercises.
@@sheldoncooper8199 and chest expander, don't forget, some of these guys ONLY USED THE CHEST EXPANDER. It's a lost art. You can buy the course on my website
They naturally had higher testosterone levels back then. I’ve read where men today have 1/3 of the testosterone of previous generations. The soil wasn’t depleted of nutrients and the meat, poultry and fish weren’t full of hormones like today. They ate whole foods because processed crap in a box wasn’t invented yet. Although he didn’t live long. Life was rough so that was about average age right.
Forget all that.. Guys weren't fapping as much back then, draining their seed on the regular..The advent of internet porn fucked up men as a collective.
@@JihadBunnydick You are right to some extent. However, the lack of genuinely wholesome foods, as well as the lack of physical activity, play a more prominent role than pornography. Today people are bound to the TV, computer, video games, etc. Driving with the car instead of walking on foot. Due to lack of jobs close to their home and so on and so forth. Modernization of society as a whole came at the cost of healthiness as a whole.
Philipp H. You’re right, but all those activities you mention invariably lead to fapping, milk toast bitches of today just fap their vigor away into a tissue and then do half hearted pump sets sitting on a bench!
@@Xtramedium1961 What leads to masturbation is the fact that young boys and men are being brainwashed by sexual education in public schools, TV, computer. They're being taught it is okay to fornicate. Society pressures them into thinking that not being a virgin is cool, things like that. Pornography is a billion-dollar business, and they are obviously looking to manipulate men in every way possible so they can keep their income up, and it works. Very few people these days have never been exposed to pornography because it is everywhere. You can see it in your local newspaper, on your favorite billboard, after your favorite TV show and so on.
@@philipph.3876 you only get brain washed if the mind is weak, it comes back down to diet and excersize in keeping the mind strong and resistant to such BS.
Good to hear you mention Ghosh. Bishnu Ghosh of Calcutta was a leading physical culturist and trained the first Mr Univers of India in 1951. He also was a master of combining yoga and weight training, and also a jui jitsu coach. Vacuuming is a yoga technique called Uddiyana Bhanda or abdominal lift. Like Frank Zane's classic photo. Thanks .
I think Bobby"s physique looks way more balanced and cut compared to Eugene Sandow. Tho , I'm sure Eugene was more popular due to marketing. I have two full sets of rubber strand-pullies that John Wood use to sell but the company that made them for John discontinued them. One set is cracked and the other one I keep in a black bag to help it retain its integrity. I use them occasionally in training. There's 3 strands of each 7 colors of different weight. So you can combine any of them.
This is when they say a body of a greek god. This is what it looked. And always will be. From todays bodybuilders I haven't heard not one to say they have that kind of beautiful body. In my eyes todays bodies are ugly. Natural is always the best. These are the best. Nice video. Cheers.
For all the people that are talking about processed foods. Here in italy we eat very little of processed foods: we mostly cook our foods from raw ingredients, but we aren't all ripped for sure and many have heart and diabetes problems. This is because every food can make you fat and ill, if you eat in the wrong proportions: processed meat contains lots of salt and saturated fat, guess what: you can get too much of it from clean and healthy food too. Maybe you cut on sugary drinks, but then you eat 2 lb of whole-wheat pasta every day: you can get diabetes from that too. We need to eat more vegetables and fibers, limit our carbs, substitute some saturated fats with unsaturated ones and limit our consumption of sodium even if we eat unprocessed "healthy" foods.
I have an old VHS tape of classic bodybuilders. They look so much better than the bubble guts of today. If I find it I will upload it to RUclips. It's has Sandow, Charles Atlas and Arnold.
Take up gardening, or get in touch with someone who is already into it. If I know only one thing about gardening, it's that you always end up with too many cucumbers and tomatoes. lol
I was a bodybuilder back in the late 70s, and would take my steel spring chest expanders with me in my suitcase when I went somewhere. Could use them for lots of various exercises. I should have kept a couple sets I had, they are like antiques now! I use the rubber “bands” they have now. I used to hate it when I’d my chest hair pulled out using those early steel springs!
@@GoldenEraBookworm you can die from a brain aneurysm walking down the street. How uninformed you are about that which you talk about. The internet I've discovered is filled with individuals "who don't know what they don't know ".
I agree. I was going to say that athletes were leaner in the 1970s than they are today, and I attribute it to store bought and farm foods being healthier. I suppose he was eating more natural foods than the guys in the 70s. The Greek statutes were just general guys - not bodybuilders - and they look great. Yes art, but the artist new what the body looked like because there were guys who looked that good. The vacuum today is missed. Dudes just think big is good now.
Forgive me for chiming in on this so late. But ,if you go to a modern Martial Arts ( MMA Gym) all of these tools and combinations of training methods are back in style. They never really died out in the Martial Arts community. Gymnastics,Yoga, Weight training including kettle bells,one arm snatches etc. Are all receiving a huge comeback. And as another gentleman wrote . The rubber bands are the modern Chest expander . You would be hard pressed to find a modern MMA Gym that didn't have rings or at least TRX and tires with a sledgehammer .
Courses on the use of Golden and Bronze Era equipment are great but what about how to acquire such equipment? Fifty and sixty years ago I had many such implements, mostly from Joe Weider or Peary Rader. Who makes them today? If I had the where with all to do so I would build a factory and start producing such equipment for today's market.
in strong man line please also look about K.V.Iyer who is also a strong man combined with yoga from india. also look about great gama who is also a strong man.
Everything is genetics. These men were already born with good genes/muscle placement and bone structure for building amazing definition. It's a harsh reality for some but it is science. When they work out this is the result(some with minimal effort). Some can, some can't regardless of diet excercise. Genetics is everything
Hey alot of the oldtimers before the 1940s reccommended anywhere from 3 to 4 and even 6 or 7 days a week.Could you do a video explaining who a person following the old time training methods could train 6 to 7 days a week and still build muscular strong and shredded physiques without overtraining?
@Golden Era Bookworm, in the Sandow video, you were champion his 5 pound dumbbell technique, but in this one it seems when you talked about the 10 pound dumbbell technique, it was as if you did not believe that it was true. Could you please clarify? Thank you!
Idk if you got an answer or still care, Sandow used 5lbs but Pandour used 10lbs. I believe in this video he's referring to Pandours use of the light dumbell workout.
and people today will still say that men who look like this must be on steroids. It's really hard to find an excuse for not having a physique like this with all of our modern technology if these men could clearly lift more and look better than you without any of what we have today. I feel that the stigma around steroids demotivates many people from actually working hard to achieve their natural limit. Perhaps this video might change a few minds.
Quote me if I’m wrong because I’m starting to understand the subject better but Isolated exercises with weights will do very little when building muscle but composing them to be more dynamic like isometric exercises like gymnasts tend to build muscle more rapidly that is why these gymnasts were more shredded they train for strength by building tension hardly ever using a lot weight.
@@wavecat8242 I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, your entire comment is one giant run on sentence so forgive me if I misinterpret. First off, the processes for building strength are different than those for building muscle. You don't have to lift heavy to build muscle; it all goes down to mechanical tension, metabolic stress, and muscle damage. This can be done without using a heavy weight (You can build a serious amount of muscle using only light weights if you train till failure). Meanwhile, building strength requires a stronger neurological response than hypertrophy. It's impossible to make serious strength gains by not lifting heavy. Strength is also correlated with body fat. Let's say we have two people, both same lean muscle. One person has a higher body fat than the other. The person with more body fat will be stronger, this is because your body relies on that fat for energy. (Of course you don't want to be too fat, there is a limit). That said, calisthenic exercises like gymnastics are great for building strength because you are putting a heavy load on your body, and they are also great for building muscle. These men were gymnasts, and they were also wrestlers, all around athletes. These men's athletic lifestyles allowed them to remain lean since they were burning a serious amount of calories, not because they lifted light weights. If I remember correctly, they also had several tools they used when working out, from chest expanders and dumbbells. So it's not like they didn't have tools.
GREAT VIDEO, AMAZING ,I THINK THAT TYPE OF TRAINING IF MORE FOCUSED IN STATIC STAGES AND SUPPORT EVEN HIM DOING EXTENSION AND CONTRACTION QUALITY WAS MORE STATIC AND NOT PUMPING AND WAS USED AFTER . IF YOU WATCH CHILDREN PRACTICING GYMNASTICS DOING WORK ON BARS AND PARALLELS AND RINGS WHICH FORMS OF BODY SUPPORT INVOLVING THE ESCAPULAR WAIST DEVELOP THIS QUALITY BUT NOT ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NO HORMONES TO GENERATE HYPERTROPHY, THEY HAVE SURE LEVEL STRENGTH AND THE TRAINING WILL GENERATE RESULTS AT TENDON LEVELS AND LIGAMENTS. IT IS MORE STATIC MOVEMENTS ARE EXPLOSIVE AND WITH PAUSES.
I feel sad that we don't have pictures of some of the old Greek warriors and athletes. There are some on RUclips who don't believe any of them could have been as ripped as they are portrayed in the statues.
Great information on this channel. I have an uncle who used the chest pullers along with basic barbell lifts! Curls, OHP, Skull crushes, Squats, Barbell rows. That's it. He said his frame expanded during his teenage years. At age 15 he used them for over 18 months and it widened his torso, he said he didn't know how much weight he put on but he believes it was around 25kg (18 months) in that time. He's about 52 now, stripped lifting years ago. I swear I've never seen a frame like his in my life.
better quality food (organic) and higher testosterone levels in men back then. each generation that is born the T levels go down a bit lower. look up the history. also back then people worked hard so were constantly busy which would have also contributed to higher T levels. When you see someone walking around that is ripped and natural...besides genetics you'll find those people usually have a higher than normal T count in most cases.
@@1969MARKETING oh for gods sake I’m a chemist you idiot. Testosterone was isolated for the first time in 1935. That same year it was synthesized. That was the year they could detect it in blood tests. Do your research. Lol
@@1969MARKETING what were the levels in this era? Where are these results published? How were they able to extract testosterone from the blood when it was not yet discovered yet alone isolated at the time?
As I saw Bobby Pandour or Sandow or Maxick I was blown away... I practice muscle control and Maxalding since.... Thanks for the amazing content!
Resistance bands are the modern day strand pullers. You can develop an amazing physique with rubber bands of differing resistance and they are so much easier to move around and store than iron plates.
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Was thinking the same,there was a time I couldnt afford a gym a few yrs ago and just used band and bodyweight,got me strong but as ridiculous as it sounds I convinced mysel it wasnt working due to me being so blinkered with conventional wisdom.
Internet has blown the whole thing open and shown that conventionional strength training is but one way to get results.
Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell famously promotes resistance bands as accommodating resistance to weight training. Adding bands to the barbell allows for overload at the top of the exercise, etc.
And dot forget a TRX or a set of rings !
I been natty for 20+ years, I train martial arts and I love old strongman lifts, I do one handed lifts and I do chair lifts
“Those must be some heavy 10 lb dumbbells” 😂
Sandow advocated the use of light dumbbells, generally 5lbs for men, but did repetitions between 25 and 100 per exercise. Sandow emphasized feeling the muscles with your mind or the mind-muscle connection.
Pandour & Sandow added resistance to DBs by tensing their arms,(muscular co-contraction). This is 'mind-muscle connection'. Because the opposing muscle group weakens along w/the intended muscle, one can safely & effectively exert full effort on every rep.
@@ronrodriguez8971 Athleanx youtube channel even talks about dropping down in dumbbell weight and focusing more on the contraction. Really interesting Sandow's teachings still hold up today.
Time under tension
@@lazur1 So combination of static contraction the whole time and positive/negative with the lifting? First time i have heard of this but it sounds viable for sure
These are the best vids ,just pure natural strength
More coming on the Bronze era
@salamango81 medicine wasn't as advanced either
Incredible pictures, great work, truly original channel.
It is
They sure didn’t live long for looking so healthy. Thanks for the pictures many I’ve never seen. My grandfather got me into weight lifting so a lot of the exercises I did came from him . Some of these were his heroes.
Different times and WW1
Before antibiotics.
I mean, living till 80 is not bad. Times were hard and some of them did not have a great lifestyle despite the training.
I've been most fascinated by the bronze era too, I'm glad you're covering it
These guys look amazing.
Interesting principle raised by the chest expander section of this vid. It reminds me of Arthur Jones' Nautilus machines which employed a similar variable resistance that got greater as the muscle contracted to its strongest position, but lighter as it stretched to its weakest positions. Sandow & the others were way ahead of their time. Nice vid GEB
The Chest Expanders were the first direct/variable resistance training devices that was the key concept behind Arthur Jones Nautilus machines with the eccentric nautilus shaped cam used in conjunction with chains/cables and pulleys. As you stretch the spring cables their poundages-resistance increase which is ideal as the strength curve of the muscle in it's contraction was alleged to do so as well according to Jones and his side kick Darden.
The great gentlemen, and perhaps women, with their hard work and physiques make it look very attainable. That's what impresses me.
Thanks for this.
This is what I want to see, thank you so much
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Two of the Bronze Era strongmen from your video impressed me. Bobby Pandour and Otto Arco Nowosielski. Bobby is incredibly ripped and would stand up to the ripped physiques of today. Otto's strength is impressive. So are his biceps.
The first modern bodybuilder with this level of muscularity was probably Pierre van den Steen of Belgium. Tiny guy, absolutely ripped to shreds. The cuts around his abs were so deep, you'd swear they had been bolted on.
CARLOS, YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT RESOURCE.....THANKS MUCH, GEB
I was going to write about how my long ago yoga teacher had been a 20s-30s strongman, using the weights plus yoga you described. Because he was only 5'0" or 5'2", I thought that circus stroongment enefited from being alone onstage lifting people and things that looked relatively larger.
The excellent striation is due to the isometrics of yoooga, and the strength without injuries also due to the strething of tendons and ligaments , which, of course, prevented catastrophic tendon and ligament injuries (unless you jumped from too high a distance, landing wrong, ran up too many steep mountains, and overexuberantly climbed and exercised 7 days a week . THe yoga even helped heal spinal disc injuries (twice to me, coming completely back from displacements more severe than many who get the usual useless or exacerbating surgeries for it).
THe list you mention, shows how alternative exercise forms can pull one through injuries.
LaLanne, who developed the original cable weight system by 1942, also swam. He invented the quad extender that helped the postwar bodybuilders to improve their soft quad legs, like Park. He never never bothered to patent such stuff, and was like many bodybuilders, of a generous personality.*
He was born about 1914, and influenced a lot of people, Including even my mom, who counseled us through a drunken abusive father, and would say to me: "Make sure you do some jumping jacks" or other such LaLanne stuff he showed in his 50sw tv show which she watched, using chairs for dips and leg lifts etc.
I inherited a 1930s Paul Bragg cookbook from her. Bragg was a weightlift, calisthenics, and supplement (amino acids) seller who changed La Lanne's life as a teen back around 1930
* Arnold Schwartzenegger , although highly competitive, was also a generous open mind. Once, when young learning to ski I asked Arnold (everybody in Austria seems an avid skier, as he still must be) for strength and body building tips for skiing, learning a lot in two interesting conversations (or, really, Q&A's).
Then , when I later saw his obvious humor in "Conan" "to kill my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women", I perceived his acting skill. Critics mistook his deadpan humor for seriousness. His Hollywood directors and writers cast him for his perfectly timed and spoken deliveries (I'll be Bach.") Critics were and remain in error.
Although his real estate millions and a bit of SDO in his competitive strategies made him a republican, he understands environment, science, as of globalwarming, and retains a lively intellect. I had thought his high intensity efforts had brought on his cardiac arrhythmias, although he identified an odd genetic (or epigenetic) anomaly in the ventircal? valve as the reason for operation.
which brings up a problem with extreme intensity and sustained exercise and failure to attend to body signals due to social reasons.
Various kinds of damage CAN occur, although exercise intensity is also associated with longevity (I actually knew a man who was born in 1850, and some really buff hatha yogis in their 90s have been more agile at their age than many children and mass-oriented individuals).
Our bodies/brains thrive at relatively high intensity exercise; we are NOT machines, but can and should be sensitive to inputs and outputs (said a guy with 10 broken bones, countless sprains, four achilles tears, reconstructed knee, hip labral tears from severe overdoing, a few more knee surgeries and other joint trauma).
The relatively short lives of many of the body builders surprised me. Researching causes of mortality on these guys can be of value.
The modern world is now filled with far more communicable diseases. Some of the buff striated 1920s and 30s bodies smoked tobacco; ANY amount of alcohol ingestion is correlated with increased cancer rates; infectious disease of bacterial origin was a problem until antibiotics in the late 30s early 40s; viral plagues like polio and other viruses, from CJD to influenzas knocked down the weak immune systems or slowly ate the brains and tissues of the overexhausted and underexercised living in crowds. Those traveling strongmen suffered all this exposure. et, teh 106 and 111year-old heavy exercisers who sought natural clean air and living ,lie my yoga teacher and a couple others I alluded to were both physically and mentally fit beyond the understanding of most.
(LaLanne , I don't know. Swimming in his Morro Bay pool exposed him to excess chlorine, I thought, scarring his lungs. His reported fatal illness was pneumonia. Some inversion and aerobic action might have made a difference. Ocean air is great. Particulate matter in the air, as dust, smoke smog, exhaust fumes are inversely correlated with lifespan and health. Seeing him in public at age 96 I noted his jacket was padded. True old-age deaths, rather than disease/environmental death only starts to become causal at that age or later.)
I REALLY suspect that those mustachioed guys toked a lot of cigars Tobacco is about the most popular killer on earth, and knocks out loads of Chinese, Koreans and otherwise healthy southeast Asians LONG before their time. I can hardly picture the mustachioed strongmen without a whisky and big cheroot. Their bodies show some related kind of abuse. .
All of these religions are preaching the complete opposite of the observable and verifiable reality, facts and truth.
*Virus Mania How The Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion $ Profits:* archive.org/details/virus-mania-how-the-medical-industry-continually-invents-epidemics/mode/2up
*BÉCHAMP or PASTEUR? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology by Ethel Douglas Hume:*
digital.library.yorku.ca/yul-570312/bechamp-or-pasteur-lost-chapter-history-biology#page/44/mode/2up
Or here: www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/Bechamp-or-Pasteur.pdf
*The Contagion Myth by Thomas S. Cowan, Sally Fallon Morell:* www.pattoverascienza.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The_Contagion-MITH_W.pdf
*The Blood and Its Third Element:* www.amazon.com/Blood-Its-Third-Element/dp/1541159357/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1620905249&refinements=p_27%3AAntoine+Bechamp&s=books&sr=1-1
Women (and their simpanzie-beta-cuck-mangina orbiters) gave birth in the last 1.5- 2 years to the New World Order called: Covidism with its New World Religion called: Covidianity.
When Bronze turns out to be Diamond, due to keto flow yoga grip strength, fresh air, deep sleep and no abuse from the mother in law.
This is the human body at its maximum developpement. You don't need any steroid to be really muscular and impressive. Modern Olympia monsters have ton of muscles maybe, but their bodies are pretty disgusting particulary in off season when they don't look muscular but only fat guys.
They look disgusting to you...nit everyone. Some people really like those types of physiques and a natural one isn't what they're looking for and thats ok.
once the roids are over it all goes away
Well a lot of people worked in factories, during this time period. So, every aspect of their life correlated to physicality.
@@themookshit thats actually not true. Steroids over time increase the satellite cells in the muscle and hgh puts more tissue on the body and even if what u said was true...who cares? We r all gonna be old and weak eventually soon anyway. Even working out naturally is fleeting at some point.
@@davidnurse1028 I would rather not regret those decisions when I'm old
I used to do chest expander in early teens and a dumbbell of 10 pounds, plus I trained karatte, that was in the 70s , i developed a strong lean body ... I was very athletic
Best channel out here
Thank you for this fantastic review of bodybuilders of the past!
Could you sell a Golden Era Mustache course?
Well done vid, very unique, i only knew otto arco, he kept himself in great condition in his late 60s kinda like vince gironda.. i think high protein, high reps, high tension kept those guys ripped. Tension bands may be a good alternative to chest expanders. I use a towel and a rubber tube and do certain isometricss 4 tendon strength.
EXCELLENT
Otto Arco had a real baby-face in his left hand picture @6:39. Looks age 16, max!
Get yourself an ISOBOW - no joint damage and great workout, although free weights have their place ,they are the be all and end all of strength and muscle development.
In the 70’s isometrics were making a big comeback.
(1) Bruce Lee .
(2) bullworker .
(3) Charles Atlas .
(4) martial arts.
Along came ‘ pumping iron ‘ and a host of gyms opening up , along with the host of gyms came a host of -
(I) physiotherapists .
(ii) chiropractors.
(iii) osteopaths .
(iiii) injury treatment lotions/ potions and devices and with remedial exercises for injury and inflammation.
Mental health must be considered and not let Ego driven fallacy take the wheel -example - huge amounts of animal protein , unnecessary supplements, amino acids , fat burners - all of which drive further away from the original goal of being fit, healthy and strong .
Just joined patron for the $10 a month plan after buying the chest expansion 36page article yesterday from you on your website. Keep up the phenomenal work!🔥👌
Great bodies! Great video!
Thanks
Bought a orginal sandow expander today! Feel so privileged to own one!
Wow ,what a great video, I'm learning so much.
I always thought Rich Gaspari was the first to have ripped glutes. Silly me, I was way off.
Hehe, no his great grand daddy had shredded glutes
Oh no! Steve Davis had ripped gluteus maximus in the 1970s, ten years before Gaspari was heard from.
Most likely back then didn’t stuff their faces with food every 3 hours like the drug bodybuilders today. No wonder they were so lean!
@Robert Demarais TRUE Lol
@Robert Demarais
They didnt want to weigh 270 Ibs. They just wanted lean msucle. Plus steroids didnt exist in 1920.
@@sheldoncooper8199 test levels in men were much higher back then too
@@GoldenEraBookworm
I just watched the video some of these Guys blow me away. especially Bobby Pandour and Charles Vansittart, But also that Chandoo Guy that Triceps and Six Pack the leaness. My God they must have been below 7 % Bodyfat. Amazing what can be achieved with i guess 10 years of Training and without Machines.
They just had Barbells and Dumbbells and their Bodyweight exercises.
@@sheldoncooper8199 and chest expander, don't forget, some of these guys ONLY USED THE CHEST EXPANDER. It's a lost art. You can buy the course on my website
This was so nice!
They naturally had higher testosterone levels back then. I’ve read where men today have 1/3 of the testosterone of previous generations. The soil wasn’t depleted of nutrients and the meat, poultry and fish weren’t full of hormones like today. They ate whole foods because processed crap in a box wasn’t invented yet. Although he didn’t live long. Life was rough so that was about average age right.
Forget all that.. Guys weren't fapping as much back then, draining their seed on the regular..The advent of internet porn fucked up men as a collective.
@@JihadBunnydick You are right to some extent. However, the lack of genuinely wholesome foods, as well as the lack of physical activity, play a more prominent role than pornography. Today people are bound to the TV, computer, video games, etc. Driving with the car instead of walking on foot. Due to lack of jobs close to their home and so on and so forth. Modernization of society as a whole came at the cost of healthiness as a whole.
Philipp H. You’re right, but all those activities you mention invariably lead to fapping, milk toast bitches of today just fap their vigor away into a tissue and then do half hearted pump sets sitting on a bench!
@@Xtramedium1961 What leads to masturbation is the fact that young boys and men are being brainwashed by sexual education in public schools, TV, computer. They're being taught it is okay to fornicate. Society pressures them into thinking that not being a virgin is cool, things like that. Pornography is a billion-dollar business, and they are obviously looking to manipulate men in every way possible so they can keep their income up, and it works. Very few people these days have never been exposed to pornography because it is everywhere. You can see it in your local newspaper, on your favorite billboard, after your favorite TV show and so on.
@@philipph.3876 you only get brain washed if the mind is weak, it comes back down to diet and excersize in keeping the mind strong and resistant to such BS.
Loved the film . Great research thank you
Welcome
Good to hear you mention Ghosh. Bishnu Ghosh of Calcutta was a leading physical culturist and trained the first Mr Univers of India in 1951. He also was a master of combining yoga and weight training, and also a jui jitsu coach. Vacuuming is a yoga technique called Uddiyana Bhanda or abdominal lift. Like Frank Zane's classic photo. Thanks .
yeah,,,,he is famous here in calcutta...i got to meet him too...trained in his son's gym...
I think Bobby"s physique looks way more balanced and cut compared to Eugene Sandow.
Tho , I'm sure Eugene was more popular due to marketing.
I have two full sets of rubber strand-pullies that John Wood use to sell but the company that made them for John discontinued them. One set is cracked and the other one I keep in a black bag to help it retain its integrity. I use them occasionally in training. There's 3 strands of each 7 colors of different weight. So you can combine any of them.
Absolute kudos to you sir for covering muscle control and barbell exercise 💪 👏
Wowwwww... Very interesting. Thank you for the research.
Damn, would you look at ottos obliques!!! Goals right there.
Great presentation! Thank you!
man this channel is awesome. keep em coming
Great video man so amazing.
Thanks
Keep up the good work. You always give us viewers great content.
Thanks man
These guys look carved like the Ancient Greek Statues!
Correct
gold info great job
Thanks
Good genetics, manual work. no processed foods.
Thanks for this amazing information.
This is when they say a body of a greek god. This is what it looked. And always will be. From todays bodybuilders I haven't heard not one to say they have that kind of beautiful body. In my eyes todays bodies are ugly. Natural is always the best. These are the best. Nice video. Cheers.
For all the people that are talking about processed foods. Here in italy we eat very little of processed foods: we mostly cook our foods from raw ingredients, but we aren't all ripped for sure and many have heart and diabetes problems. This is because every food can make you fat and ill, if you eat in the wrong proportions: processed meat contains lots of salt and saturated fat, guess what: you can get too much of it from clean and healthy food too. Maybe you cut on sugary drinks, but then you eat 2 lb of whole-wheat pasta every day: you can get diabetes from that too. We need to eat more vegetables and fibers, limit our carbs, substitute some saturated fats with unsaturated ones and limit our consumption of sodium even if we eat unprocessed "healthy" foods.
Interesting fabulous channel . added . sir
These guys look more like actually strong men than the overgrown freaks that dominate the current body building scene.
You know mens physique competitions exist rt
Some serious ancient trivia here. I'm blown away at their conditioning considering the time frame they hailed from
Yeah, it's worth investigating
HandyGym and other Flywheel is bringing strand pulling back.
I have an old VHS tape of classic bodybuilders. They look so much better than the bubble guts of today. If I find it I will upload it to RUclips. It's has Sandow, Charles Atlas and Arnold.
I do strand pulling.
I've pulled all my hair out
Everyone wants to blame everything on genetics but never account for consistency and hard work.
Great job.
We need their meal plan. and our on farms to grow nutrient dense foods.
val just buy non gmo foods and supplements of veggies and fruits with no gmo or additives... That's the world we live in. Learn to adapt
Take up gardening, or get in touch with someone who is already into it. If I know only one thing about gardening, it's that you always end up with too many cucumbers and tomatoes. lol
Time to homestead lad
Can you do a video on Alexander zass
I was a bodybuilder back in the late 70s, and would take my steel spring chest expanders with me in my suitcase when I went somewhere. Could use them for lots of various exercises. I should have kept a couple sets I had, they are like antiques now!
I use the rubber “bands” they have now. I used to hate it when I’d my chest hair pulled out using those early steel springs!
True 😂
Uncle had a chest expander when I was a kid.. bunch of Springs handles for the east side strange looking things..
They all died relatively young and were very short in stature but so be it for these pioneers!!!!
@Da Gaffer or just cause they were crazy alphas...Sandow died because he tried to pull his car out of a ditch...brain aneurysm I think
@@GoldenEraBookworm you can die from a brain aneurysm walking down the street. How uninformed you are about that which you talk about. The internet I've discovered is filled with individuals "who don't know what they don't know ".
@@olderthanyoucali8512 like you?
@@GoldenEraBookworm Dude, that was just a madeup story. He died of Syphilis...
Hackenschmidt died at 90, Steinborn 95, Strongfort 89, some were fucked up by world war 1 like Saxon.
Astounding physiques! Makes today's steroid and hormone babies look bad.
LOL
True
These Golden era bodybuilders look better than these bloated modern era bodybuilders.
Bronze era
Golden era is Arnold
I like this channel
I loved training with expanders, have difficulty finding decent strands
Common theme it seems from that era
Gymnastics, wrestling, lifting people
Could you please do a video on the diet during the bronze era?
All of them probably were reading Nietzsche...unlike people today...reading muscle magazines
Get shredded reading Nietzsche! LOL
@@mikevaldez7684 LOL
Dumbest thing I've ever read
Back then, people were reading whatever they were interested in. www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/victorian-readers
@@chilldude30 probably you ve asked somebody else to write this...so i dont know who is more dumbezt..
Love this channel. Also check out KV Krishna iyer. The vegetarian body builder from Mysore, South India. Wonder how come he's not mentioned here
cool share manythxs-
www.goldenerabookworm.com/ sorry got blank page with no info-today is august 24 2019 just thought you would like to know-
Nice to hear how excited you are about this guys 😁😉
To be so in shape and natural, most of these guys didn't live very long.
Sherif Lotfy that sounds like “ the muscle turns to fat” bullshit, no cigar!
I agree. I was going to say that athletes were leaner in the 1970s than they are today, and I attribute it to store bought and farm foods being healthier. I suppose he was eating more natural foods than the guys in the 70s. The Greek statutes were just general guys - not bodybuilders - and they look great. Yes art, but the artist new what the body looked like because there were guys who looked that good. The vacuum today is missed. Dudes just think big is good now.
Forgive me for chiming in on this so late. But ,if you go to a modern Martial Arts ( MMA Gym) all of these tools and combinations of training methods are back in style.
They never really died out in the Martial Arts community.
Gymnastics,Yoga, Weight training including kettle bells,one arm snatches etc. Are all receiving a huge comeback.
And as another gentleman wrote . The rubber bands are the modern Chest expander .
You would be hard pressed to find a modern MMA Gym that didn't have rings or at least TRX and tires with a sledgehammer .
thanks
Welcome
I can’t believe Gaspari is considered the “first” competitor with shredded gluten! Those photos were insane!!! Great stuff!!
Gaspari was a mess, strange physique
EXCELLENT!!!
Courses on the use of Golden and Bronze Era equipment are great but what about how to acquire such equipment? Fifty and sixty years ago I had many such implements, mostly from Joe Weider or Peary Rader. Who makes them today? If I had the where with all to do so I would build a factory and start producing such equipment for today's market.
Have you done a video on bronze and silver era conditioning? More specifically what kind of training was done
in strong man line please also look about K.V.Iyer who is also a strong man combined with yoga from india. also look about great gama who is also a strong man.
4:39 So this was before you’ve seen the light Dumbbell system?
Everything is genetics. These men were already born with good genes/muscle placement and bone structure for building amazing definition. It's a harsh reality for some but it is science. When they work out this is the result(some with minimal effort). Some can, some can't regardless of diet excercise. Genetics is everything
Hey alot of the oldtimers before the 1940s reccommended anywhere from 3 to 4 and even 6 or 7 days a week.Could you do a video explaining who a person following the old time training methods could train 6 to 7 days a week and still build muscular strong and shredded physiques without overtraining?
8:45 I’ve never seen pecs like that on a bronze era guy. Dude was buff
Mostly just great genetics. I read Sandow's biography, it's free online. He said no special diet, he ate whatever he wanted.
Modern processed foods didn't exist
Mool Chand reminds me of Andreas Muntzer.
@Golden Era Bookworm, in the Sandow video, you were champion his 5 pound dumbbell technique, but in this one it seems when you talked about the 10 pound dumbbell technique, it was as if you did not believe that it was true. Could you please clarify? Thank you!
Idk if you got an answer or still care, Sandow used 5lbs but Pandour used 10lbs. I believe in this video he's referring to Pandours use of the light dumbell workout.
and people today will still say that men who look like this must be on steroids. It's really hard to find an excuse for not having a physique like this with all of our modern technology if these men could clearly lift more and look better than you without any of what we have today.
I feel that the stigma around steroids demotivates many people from actually working hard to achieve their natural limit. Perhaps this video might change a few minds.
Quote me if I’m wrong because I’m starting to understand the subject better but Isolated exercises with weights will do very little when building muscle but composing them to be more dynamic like isometric exercises like gymnasts tend to build muscle more rapidly that is why these gymnasts were more shredded they train for strength by building tension hardly ever using a lot weight.
@@wavecat8242 I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, your entire comment is one giant run on sentence so forgive me if I misinterpret.
First off, the processes for building strength are different than those for building muscle. You don't have to lift heavy to build muscle; it all goes down to mechanical tension, metabolic stress, and muscle damage. This can be done without using a heavy weight (You can build a serious amount of muscle using only light weights if you train till failure).
Meanwhile, building strength requires a stronger neurological response than hypertrophy. It's impossible to make serious strength gains by not lifting heavy. Strength is also correlated with body fat.
Let's say we have two people, both same lean muscle. One person has a higher body fat than the other. The person with more body fat will be stronger, this is because your body relies on that fat for energy. (Of course you don't want to be too fat, there is a limit).
That said, calisthenic exercises like gymnastics are great for building strength because you are putting a heavy load on your body, and they are also great for building muscle. These men were gymnasts, and they were also wrestlers, all around athletes. These men's athletic lifestyles allowed them to remain lean since they were burning a serious amount of calories, not because they lifted light weights.
If I remember correctly, they also had several tools they used when working out, from chest expanders and dumbbells. So it's not like they didn't have tools.
GREAT VIDEO, AMAZING ,I THINK THAT TYPE OF TRAINING IF MORE FOCUSED IN STATIC STAGES AND SUPPORT EVEN HIM DOING EXTENSION AND CONTRACTION QUALITY WAS MORE STATIC AND NOT PUMPING AND WAS USED AFTER .
IF YOU WATCH CHILDREN PRACTICING GYMNASTICS DOING WORK ON BARS AND PARALLELS AND RINGS WHICH FORMS OF BODY SUPPORT INVOLVING THE ESCAPULAR WAIST DEVELOP THIS QUALITY BUT NOT ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NO HORMONES TO GENERATE HYPERTROPHY, THEY HAVE SURE LEVEL STRENGTH AND THE TRAINING WILL GENERATE RESULTS AT TENDON LEVELS AND LIGAMENTS.
IT IS MORE STATIC MOVEMENTS ARE EXPLOSIVE AND WITH PAUSES.
Yes!
Haha
I feel sad that we don't have pictures of some of the old Greek warriors and athletes. There are some on RUclips who don't believe any of them could have been as ripped as they are portrayed in the statues.
Those people are stupid af
Great information on this channel. I have an uncle who used the chest pullers along with basic barbell lifts! Curls, OHP, Skull crushes, Squats, Barbell rows. That's it.
He said his frame expanded during his teenage years. At age 15 he used them for over 18 months and it widened his torso, he said he didn't know how much weight he put on but he believes it was around 25kg (18 months) in that time.
He's about 52 now, stripped lifting years ago. I swear I've never seen a frame like his in my life.
AWESOME
ive used allot of these methods now
Good lord! These guys were so ripped!
yes ! the striated ass is so impressive. they make me hard (I must confess I'm gay)
Could you please tell me the song in the intro?
better quality food (organic) and higher testosterone levels in men back then. each generation that is born the T levels go down a bit lower. look up the history. also back then people worked hard so were constantly busy which would have also contributed to higher T levels. When you see someone walking around that is ripped and natural...besides genetics you'll find those people usually have a higher than normal T count in most cases.
Nonsense about the testosterone level hypothesis
@@lomoholga absolutely false...better do more research. The activity in lifestyle is one of the main factors
@@1969MARKETING oh for gods sake I’m a chemist you idiot. Testosterone was isolated for the first time in 1935. That same year it was synthesized. That was the year they could detect it in blood tests. Do your research. Lol
@@1969MARKETING what were the levels in this era? Where are these results published? How were they able to extract testosterone from the blood when it was not yet discovered yet alone isolated at the time?
I do weightlifting and Kung fu and strong man and powerlifting as well
Fred Rollon was a beast. It's said that his chest expanders could resist the pull of horses.
Please make a video on Manohar Aich. Pocket Hercules of India
Millennials want the quick fix. No one wants to put the hard work in these days 🤙🏾