Starting Strength

George Jowett, the ACWLA & the Milo Barbell Company

by John D Fair

“It is my belief that the present day official amateur lifting in Canada and the United States is the natural result of the efforts and accomplishments of George Jowett in regulating and promoting lifting and creating interest in progressive exercise.”(1)  —Ottley Coulter, 1956


“He is so notorious for drawing the long bow, that what he says is of little value and not to be relied on. He always told it to the advantage of George Fiusdale. Nothing he claimed was so. No titles. No Awards. No nothing.”(2)  —Charles A. Smith, 1989

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