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⭐CT Fletcher's training partner: Richard Schoenb ⭐CT Fletcher's training partner: Richard Schoenberger⭐
"Anyone who is interested in hard training and has an internet connection knows who CT Fletcher is- but not everyone knows of CT’s training partner, Richard Schoenberger. There are two awesome videos on CT Fletcher’s YouTube channel in which he introduces Richard to the world and explains to all how Richard is more than a training partner to him, he is a brother. The first video details how CT calls Richard the Silverback and how they trained together on Monday nights at the American Eagle Gym in Norwalk, which at that time was owned by the super supportive Sherry Houston. Monday night was bench night and I was fortunate to observe their workouts for over a year while they were nearing their peak in strength in 1993.

Richard humbly speaks on this first YouTube clip and he describes how he is a husband, father, and son before he is a lifter. He began weight training for football as a high school sophomore weighing only 165 lbs – he would increase his bodyweight by almost 200 at the peak of his bench pressing career.

Rich, long a professional engineer by trade, recalled that he gained 30 lbs of bodyweight per year once he began training. Richard provided CT with some interesting information such as how he pushed a Camaro two miles and after High School he lifted a Volkswagen to win a bet with his dad. CT stated that he could bench press 405lbs when he turned 18, which Richard added that he benched 425 lbs when he was 16 years young!

Richard humbly said that he was very fortunate to be born strong as his father was unbelievably strong from working on automobiles his entire life without mechanical lifts. Richard was also heavily influenced by his High School Football Coach Hennigan who started him lifting weights. (...)

🏆Richard’s best official bench press was 625lbs raw, which was a world record in the American Amateur Athletic Union. Richard never wore a bench press shirt, at time when they were the most popular." 🏆

Article courtesy of Paul Leonard @powerliftinghistoryillustrated
🏆Follow the link in the Bio for the full article🏆 @c.t.ali.fletcher 
#strongman #benchpress #powerlifting #america #gym
⭐BERT ASSIRATI – BRITAIN’S SUPER STRONG MAN⭐
At the age of twelve, he started training. In the beginning he juggled with any old weight or heavy object in an unorthodox fashion. He was  his own trainer but always had a listening ear to those better informed in the Iron Game.

He came under the notice of Alan P. Mead, the famous physical culturist and muscle control expert, who saw great possibilities in the boy and generously presented him with an up-to-date barbell and dumb-bell set.

From that moment Bert never looked back, but continued in a more orthodox fashion weight – lifting, strand – pulling, muscle contracting and deep breathing, always working in a dour fashion and with perseverance.

About this time he joined the Ashdown Wrestling Club and laid a foundation for his later career. By the age of 17 he had built himself up and was a splendid speciment of early manhood. It was then he came in contact with a well- known professional acrobat called Mello.

They teamed up and toured the world as “Mello and Nello.” So, as well as being strong, Bert became a first-class acrobat. The experience gained stood him in good stead in his later wrestling career; he knows how to hit the floor and bouncec back without turning a hair.

Whilst touring on the stage he always sought local clubs where he could lift, wrestle and exercise according to the facilities afforded there. Breaking from Mello, he joined a troupe of wrestlers managed by Hack Carrol and Peter Gotz.

He improved tremendous under the expert tuition of these grand wrestlers and toured the country challenging all comers. Desiring to be a full – sized heavyweight, he specialised in barbell and dumbbell training, and built himself from 13st 9 lbs. to 16 stone.

He is a great believer in open-air exercises and deep breathing, and is a sun – worshipper. He claims his strength was mainly built up with weight training. For light work he likes swimming, running and cycling.

His advice is: “Work hard at any form of training in which you are engaged, rest plenty and eat of the best foods attainable – such as meat, eggs, milk, fruit and vegetables. " #strongman #muscle #oldschool #strength #history #barbell
🏆MAC BATCHELOR – THE UNDEFEATED ARM WRESTLER🏆

If you Google best arm wrestler in the world, John Brzenk, Devon Laratt, and the Russian Mutant Dennis Cyplenkov will pop up. While it is awesome to see huge curls and arm wrestling matches on Instagram and YouTube, let us look back to a pioneer in arm excellence, Mac Batchelor.

Ian Gordon Bachelor was known as Mac. Mighty Mac was undefeated in arm wrestling from 1931 to 1956. Muscle Power Magazine from October 1956 documented that for the twenty five year period, Mac beat 4,000 opponents arm wrestling without a loss!

Mac was not just a one trick pony regarding his physical cultural pursuits with arm strength. He possessed full body power that he increased by training in his well stocked home gym, performing Powerlifting based workouts twice per week- doing speed squats cold with 350lbs for 20 reps without wraps or a belt!

Willis Reed, a powerfully built man and gym owner in Hollywood, California, wrote an article about Mac Bachelor. Reed described how athletic Bachelor was, able to do handstand push-ups at 325 lbs bodyweight, while playing competitive basketball and wrestling. Willis documents Mac’s best lifts as a 220 lb curl, 500lb squat, 400 lb bench press, a 700lb deadlift, and a 275lb military press with heels together- which ranked him at that time as one of the strongest men who ever lived.

Mac made his living as a bartender in one of the most popular bars in Los Angeles, with a magnetic personality that drew professionals for every walk of life who were drawn to Mac and his memorable conversational abilities. Like a lot of big strongmen, Mac died later in life while suffering from numerous health ailments in 1986 – 30 years after he had been the world wrist wrestling champion of the world. I prefer to reflect on all Mac’s strength accomplishments then to dwell on his demise which proved he was a mortal.

⭐FULL ARTICLE: LINK IN BIO⭐

#armwrestling #strongman #muscle #barbell #oldschool #strength #history
🏆BODYBUILDING LEGEND Vern Weaver (1937 – 1993 🏆BODYBUILDING LEGEND Vern Weaver (1937 – 1993)🏆
He started with weightlifting at the age of 16. Jules Bacon, 1943 Mr. America, worked at the barbell company “York Barbell” and used to deliver any kind of weight lifting equipments to the customers. In August, 1953 Jules Bacon drove to the Weaver’s property to deliver a “York Big 12 Special”

Vern Weaver remembered the day very well and wrote: “He got out of the car,
opened the trunk, and dumped a 100-pound box on the ground. Then he handed
me the bar and other accessories. As he was getting back into his car,
Jules said, ‘I hope you will win Mr. “A” someday!’.”

Vern Weaver was very athletic and for the 100-yard dash he was able to run 10.3 seconds, but weight training was the only regular physical training he ever followed.

⭐️Somewhere I Belong⭐️
Weaver: “Training was the big thing in my life. As soon as I got home from school I would dive into the cellar for a few hours with the weights.My family thought I was crazy: they didn’t know why I had to train.”

His thoughts and road to the top is well-documented in the Strength & Health magazine November 1963. He felt quite often lost in life and wanted to belong somewhere. Several times he tried his luck with becoming an actor and tried learning from the bests like Tuesday Weld and Paula Prentiss. But again he realized that an acting career was not for him and his searching for a purpose in life seems to be endless, but later he realized that bodybuilding could solve some of his problems.

⭐️1963 Mr. America: A Dream Come True⭐️
Vern Weaver faced the greatest competitors ever such as Harald Poole, Bill Seno and Craig Whitehead. After winning the title he was just numb. He was not able to realize what happened. He felt very proud and privileged to have been chosen as Mr. America 1963. It seems he finally found the reason for “the being”. He wrote endless articles for muscle magazines. Gave training tips and inspiration!

#gonebutneverforgotten #bodybuilding #muscle #strength #america #oldschool #silverera #neckberg #gloryoldschool #retro #goldsgym #motivation #barbell #weights #weightlifting
🏆 LIFTING LEGEND ROGER ESTEP (1948 - 2005) 🏆 🏆 LIFTING LEGEND ROGER ESTEP (1948 - 2005) 🏆
FOLLOW THE LINK IN MY BIO FOR THE ROGER ESTEP ARTICLE WRITTEN BY LEONARD

Short Excerption:
"I am fortunate to have met and known Roger Estep personally the last ten years of his life. I grew up seeing pictures of Roger in Muscle and Fitness magazine when he was training as a power bodybuilder and contemplating entering physique contests. (..)

Roger Estep was a huge influence on me with his original Westside Barbell training routine, his great lifts, and his out of this world physique. Everything a young strength athlete wants to be and achieve.

Roger had an impressive scrap book of memories that he maintained into his last days on earth. He has the letter he received from the Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball team which was a contract for his skills. The Reds were one of the premier teams in all of baseball during the 1970s, so that will show you the type of athletic ability Roger had. (..)

Roger was a Nuclear physicist, who owned the California Medical Imaging Registry of Orange, California. Roger’s house was beautiful on a steep hillside over looking much of Orange County.
 (..)

#powerlifting #strongman #muscle #rogerestep #strength #oldschool #bodybuilding #motivation
Those of us who are and have been avid admirers of Those of us who are and have been avid admirers of size and strength, can well remember the days before powerlifting became the recognized sport it is today.

In California there was a group of men that used bodybuilding exercises with unlimited poundages and the results had to be seen to be believed. These men existed and trained from the mid to late 1950’s to the late 1960’s.

They never entered contests, so often they were thought of as fictitious characters with no credits to their names, other than the rumors that surrounded them.

Whenever the magazines reported a strength feat about the men, it was usually prefaced with “mystery man.” To a degree, they were mysterious, preferring to train when few people were around. But, the word still spread. There was Chuck Ahrens with his extremely heavy dumbbells, using them in such exercises as the Dumbbell Inlcline Press (250 pound dumbbells in each hand), Dumbbell Press (over 300 pounds), seated Dumbbell Curl (200 pound dumbbells in each hand), and a 405 pound Bench Press for 20 reps. He was strictly an upper body specialist, and weighed 330-340 pounds.

He was living in the Santa Monica area, but preferred to remain to himself.

Next was Richard Kee, who was known for his incredible shoulder width which tapered to a very thin waist. He had great strength, Bench Pressing 525 back in 1957. He, too, weighed over 300 pounds.He was a probation officer.

The third man, and probably the least mysterious of all was Steve Merjanian. Steve has been seen by man people, performing a variety of exercises, so he is very real.

At one time, Steve trained for three years with Bill Peanuts West and Pat Casey at the famous Westside Barbell Club, where everyone there trained heavy. Since one of Steve’s favorite exercises was the Incline Press, it was not uncommon to see him take 350 pounds as a warm up and perform 10 easy repetitions. His maximum was 495 pounds. The other exercise he considered a favorite was the Press Behind the Neck seated; 335 pounds for 7 repetition were Steve’s best attempts. #strongman #arnoldschwarzenegger #power #oldschool #muscle #bodybuilding
John Kuc was born in 1946 in the US state of Penns John Kuc was born in 1946 in the US state of Pennsylvania. John, of Polish extraction, started training with weights at home at the age of 15 to increase size and strength for football, wrestling and track, which he participated in while in high school. He was 5’11″/180cm (still the same) and weighed in at 160lb/72kg. 

He trained for three years while in school between the sport seasons all on his own instructions. Even with this haphazard method he gained 35lb/15kg. After school he joined the Marine Corps and then he became interested in lifting weights.

🏆John Kuc’s first Power Lifting Meet🏆
The contest was the Southland Championships held in Daytona Beach, Florida in January 1969. It was a close contest, but he won his first time, and it was the biggest thrill of his life. After Daytona he had the confidence and drive that set him in the direction of bigger contests and totals. There was soon to be only one goal in his Life. His goal was to become the best lifter in his chosen weight class.

🏆November, 1972 The 2nd World Powerlifting Championships🏆

John Kuc, now weighing 153 kg, was in top form and his 410kg (RECORD) squat, 272.5 kg in bench press and 382.5 kg in deadlift resulted in the unbeatable total performance of 1065 kg. He was world champion!!!

Life After Powerlifting
Kuc wrote his book during this period: John Kuc speaks on Powerlifting” and founded with his friend Bob Gaynor the “Kuc’s Fitness- Shop”. So he stayed connected to the sport. The founding of the American Drug Free Powerlifting Association (ADFPA) was the catalyst for a renewed return to Kuc´s in the powerlifting arena.

John’s retirement was to follow in 1986 at the ADFPA Nationals. The meanwhile 40-year-old Kuc won 877,5kg (330-190-357.5) and landed his 4th victory in a row. But it was his last big performance. In spring 1988 his friend Bob Gaynor announced John’s resignation.

#powerlifting #strongman #motivation #deadlift
The first Mr. Olympia competition was staged on Se The first Mr. Olympia competition was staged on September 18, 1965, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Larry Scott competed against Harold Poole and Earl Maynard. 

Mr. Scott aka. THE GOLDEN BODY won that competition 🏆!

Larry Scott was trained and taught by Vince Gironda, the Hollywood fitness guru. He brought Larry Scott up from a 157-pound weakling with average genetics to a 207-pound winner!

Larry entered Vince's gym for the first time in 1959, after winning the title Mr. Idaho. 
This introduced the exercise known as the "Preacher Bench Curl". It is a unique and legendary fitness apparatus to fully stimulate the biceps. 

Larry Scott swears by this exercise and wrote:

"From that moment in July of 1959 until today, I have never given up the preacher bench.
I have varied my curls, changed from barbell to dumbbells and back, but always I have remained with the preacher bench. Why? 

Because nothing else was ever the equal of it for building not just big but beautiful arms."

Swipe for Larry Scott's legendary Arm Routine! 🧐🧐🧐

#muscle #bodybuilding #fitness #mrolympia #larryscott #armworkout #oldschool #fitness #history
#motivation #philosophy #powerlifting #strongman # #motivation #philosophy #powerlifting #strongman #muscle
Lee Phillips was the biggest and most promising he Lee Phillips was the biggest and most promising heavyweight lifters in the United States but also one of the least seen and therefore least known..

Lee Phillips Bulk Up Schedule

He just ate a lot of food and drank 16 quarts of milk a day. After all, that’s one quart of milk for each hour you are awake.

Lee was a good athlete in high school and college. He was all C.I.F. (California Interscholarstic Federation – includes about 350 high schools) in three sports – football, track and gymnastics. In college he continued his gymnastics, but received most of his honors in football where he made Little All American. After graduating from Los Angeles State College with a B.S. in Chemistry, he entered the service and made the “in service” All American team. In fact, Lee had an offer to play football with one of the top pro teams, but wanted to retain his amateur status.

This 35 year-old powerhouse from San Gabriel, California has been successful in other sports, but wanted most of all to be a top international lifter and trained with this object in mind.

In the powerlifts, Lee listed his official best lifts as: squat, 700lb; deadlift, 700lb, and benchpress, 430lb. Unofficially he claimed a 720lb squat, 735lb deadlift (with straps), and a 455lb benchpress. In the Olympic lifts his best official lifts are: press, 390; snatch, 303; and clean and jerk, 400. Unofficially he claimed a 415lb press, 310lb snatch, and a 410lb clean and jerk.

Lee’s typical diet

Breakfast: eight ounces of raw milk, three eggs yolks, two tablespoonfuls of protein supplement, two bananas, one pound of meat, fruit and fruit juices, and supplements (two multiple vitamin-mineral tablets, two iron and liver tablets, two hundred units of vitamin E, and two ounces of germ oil).

Lunch: about the same as breakfast.

Dinner: one pound of steak, one baked potato with cheese, eight ounces milk of milk, and all the supplements that he took at breakfast.

#strongman #diet #bodybuilding #muscle #strength #power
Chester ‘Chet’ Yorton, Mr. Universe (Amateur) Chester ‘Chet’ Yorton, Mr. Universe (Amateur) Winner (1966), early teenage years were just boring and normal. He graduated from high school and he was not strong or athletic. He just participated only in baseball and basketball for fun. Chet used to go out and have fun like other normal teenagers. But overnight Chet’s life has changed immediately.

This incident would even change and influence Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s life later.

One night Chet’s friend was driving him home. He hit a speed of 40 miles per hour and it happened. He missed a curve in the road and the car struck a tree.

Chet braced himself against the floorboards but the impact drove his hips out of their sockets. He flew up hitting the dashboard, shattering his thighs. He was thrown against the windshield, smashing it, and cutting his left eye, right through the eyeball. He also ripped open his left forearm from the elbow to wrist.

He lay in the car for half an hour until the police arrived and pried the doors open with crowbars. The ambulance rushed him to the St. Francis hospital where the doctors debated about amputating his right leg, but they tried performing surgery on it for 4 hours. They put in a 5-inch steel plate and eight screws around his right bone.

Three days later they performed surgery on his left thigh bone. They cut his hip open and drilled out the hollow where the steel rod was to be inserted down the center of the thigh bone.

While in a wheelchair at the hospital, he noticed a set of dumbbells in the corner of a room. He never touched a weight prior to his accident. He asked his doctor if using weights would assist his recovery.

Chet:
“The doctor exclaimed heartily that some mild, but very mild at first, weight exercises would benefit me(..). It was very hard at first as I was so exceptionally weak but gradually I saw a little improvement and later on, much more of it. I even surprised myself during the next two years by first gaining 55 lbs. in bodyweight in the first seven months and then making a total gain of 80 lbs., until I found myself at 240 lbs. two years later and in good muscular shape! “

#rip #legend #bodybuilding
Before and After Picture of John Farbotnik! John Before and After Picture of John Farbotnik!

John Farbotnik was the popuilar winner of the 1950 AAU Mr. America contest, held in the Academy of Music in Phliadelphia.

The contest, with 32 contestants, was one of the more successful AAU Mr. America events. Farbotnik scored a total of 71 points out of a possible 75, with Melvin Wells at 68, and Roy Hilligenn at 65.

At the time Farbotnik won the Mr. America contest, he was an instructor at the Physical Services Institute of Bruce Conner and Harold Zinkin, located in Los Angeles.

Later he partnered with Les and Pudgy Stockton to open a gym in Pasadena, California. In the early 1960s, he immigrated to Eastern Canada and became heavily involved in commercial real estate.
John Farbotnik died in 1998, at age 72. [source Bill Pearl fanpage]

#bodybuilding #legend #oldschool
Dave Draper THE DAD, with darling daughter Jamie Dave Draper THE DAD, with darling daughter Jamie

#bodybuilding #dad #muscle #golden #strength
In 19th century Europe - especially in Germany and In 19th century Europe - especially in Germany and Austria - many beerhalls also serced as places where men gathered to lift weights and test their strength.

In 1988, Joe Weider commissioned his friend Oregon artist Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (b. 1931), to commemorate that tradition in oil.

Joe and wife Betty Weider have been longtime supporters of what is known as The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas in Austin. Over the past fifteen years, the Weiders and Weider Foundation have contributed more than two million dollars toward the Stark Center's operations and have also given to the University many hundred of book, thousands of magazines, and Joe Weider's personal collection of sculptures and paintings - including Ghiglieri's painting
#strongman #iron #history #weider #bodybuilding #strength
The first time Bill Kazmaier deadlifted was his fi The first time Bill Kazmaier deadlifted was his first day of college when he pulled 600lb/272kg. Genetics anyone?

By the way Paul Leonard (writer for my website) was at Kazmaier's seminar and wrote this piece of strength history: 

"Bill stated that he developed his incredible work ethic at an early age because he worked for a tree surgeon during which he had to cut and haul trees from beside a lake up to a work truck.

Kaz’s work ethic immediately endeared him to California Powerlifters such as Joe Free and Bud Ravenscroft. Kaz described that once in California he would often do 7 sets of 7 reps for many of his exercises, intensely telling the seminar that by set 4 or 5 he would be “rolling.” Kaz who held the world record Powerlifting total for almost the entire decade of the 80s, had competitive bests of 925 661 837 2425. Kaz fondly recalled some of his gym repetition personal records such as deadlifting 650 for 10, cheat curling 315 for 15 with lots of back heave, and dumbbell pressing 156lb dumbbells for a set of 10.

Kaz told the audience about his usual bench press workout which included 550 for 5 sets of 5 with a down-set of 430lbs for 30 reps, not locking out the reps because he always trained triceps the day after bench pressing. Kaz proudly described that he would “smash” 35 to 47 work sets for his lats while occasionally supersetting rear delt work between. Kaz had a preference for higher reps and this continued into his retirement from contests when Kaz described that he would powerbuild his delts by seated pressing the 100s for 38 reps when he was in his late 40s."
@powerliftinghistoryillustrated 

#strongman #billkazmaier #history #training #iron #muscle #flex #seminar
"We drank our shakes 2 or 3 times each day, and it "We drank our shakes 2 or 3 times each day, and it was not uncommon for a man to gain 10 kg/22lb or more in a year.  Arnold never had a problem devouring large quantities of food, he could eat like a berserker!
I remember a time in Liebenau, Austria….after the training we stopped at the Austrian eating house called “Zur Endstation”. They offered sour beef and as dessert pineapple or peaches with a little whipped cream.
This was Arnold’s favorite dish at the time and his secret recipe for proper mass growth. Going out to eat with Arnold was always fun. His motto was always: “Eat, eat, eat – whatever it takes”.

- Karl Kainrath (more: neckberg.com)

#bodybuilding #shake #arnoldschwarzenegger #oldschool
BENCHPRESS LEGEND BIG JIM WILLIAMS While incarcera BENCHPRESS LEGEND BIG JIM WILLIAMS
While incarcerated, Big Jim Williams discovered that benching every day with a high level of intensity mixed with low volume increased his bench exponentially. Jim was no one trick pony as he held the world record in the squat with an 860lb effort as documented in Ironman Magazine in 1972. In a 1993 Powerlifting USA Magazine article Jim defended his need for daily benching by saying what a mess the world would be if football players, carpenters, and surgeons only applied their skills infrequently. As documented in the March 1971 Ironman Magazine, Jim held the world record in the bench at 660lbs.

#neckberg #strongman #benchpress #history #strength 
#tipandtricks #training
Józef Bednarski (born January 21, 1941) is a Poli Józef Bednarski (born January 21, 1941) is a Polish-American former professional wrestler and football player, best known by the ring name Ivan Putski. He was given the nicknames “The Polish Hammer” and “Polish Power”.
Bitten by the IRON BUG
It was at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin that Joe was introduced to the American game of football. Soccer had been the sport in Europe.

Football became Joe’s first love and it still is. He played for two years in junior high and then moved over to William B. Travis High School.

After three years with the Travis Rebels an event happened that was to prove of great benefit to his career.

It was Joe’s senior year and one day as he crossed the campus he saw a fellow student struggling with a heavy object. Joe crossed the campus to have a look. It turned out to be two wheels on an iron bar (not weights). The student engaged in lifting the cumbersome bar was Danny “Wildman” Hodnett.

He offered Joe a shot at cleaning and jerking the bar, and he made it on the first try. Danny suggested to Joe that he get on a program of weightlifting. Joe worked out on and off for about a year but by his own admission did not become a serious trainer until he went into the army.

Joe was naturally husky, weighing 185-190lb on a 5’9″ frame at the time he began lifting. But with the advent of his serious training schedule he built himself up over the next six years from 190 in 1959 to 220 pounds of solidly packed, well distributed muscle.

Joe’s physique is worthy of a few words, for although he has never trained with bodybuilding as his major objective, he has acquired one of the most massively impressive builds in the world. Naturally blessed with a stocky yet graceful framework of the John Grimek type, he had added to it by his years of regular training and his participation in athletics. He exudes power. He is sturdy and thick from every angle without being fat. From his bull neck down to his 18 1/2 calves, he is herculean.

#wrestling #muscle #strength #power #football
Leniodas Arkona's arm Wrestling Secrets! Visit my Leniodas Arkona's arm Wrestling Secrets! Visit my website for more. Link in the Bio

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Doug Young's powerlifts speak for themselves: 611 Doug Young's powerlifts speak for themselves: 611 lb /277kg benchpress, 740lb squat and 760lb deadlift. The grizzled Young looks massive next to his beautiful 120 pound wife.

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