Observing Fifty Years of Gym Evolution, Part 2 Tommy Suggs | November 04, 2010 "The dynamics of rapid growth in the gym business consisted of three separate factors that evolved separately but were dependent, in the final analysis, upon each other. The giant leap forward in the development of machines was the spearhead of the gym renaissance..." Continue reading Observing Fifty Years of Gym Evolution Tommy Suggs | October 26, 2010 "I was home for Christmas vacation from The University of Texas. It was 1956 and my weight training had moved from conditioning and body building to competitive Olympic lifting. My home was on the Texas Coast, Lake Jackson, and there was not an Olympic bar in the county. Houston, sixty miles away, offered my best hope for finding a place to train during my two weeks at home for the holidays. After examining the Houston yellow pages, I found one gym listed..." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength Exercise IIIsotonic-Isometric Contraction, Part II Bill Starr | September 06, 2010 "[E]ven if you aren’t interested in using isos in your own program, learn how to do them so that you can teach others somewhere down the line. In my mind, it’s the ultimate strength exercise and it’s in danger of being lost. That can’t be allowed to happen." Continue reading Experiences in the Iron Life Jim Steel | August 30, 2010 "Man, I have been lifting weights for 30 years. Thirty years! ... I have been around so many gyms and so many great lifters. I have so many stories and anecdotes that I have saved over the years, and I want to share them. Since training with weights has been a part of my life for so long, I figured that I would share some stories of interesting folks and some interesting experiences. You may learn something from them, you may not. For me, these stories were unforgettable and helped forge my philosophy of weight training and life." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength ExerciseIsotonic-Isometric Contraction Bill Starr | July 22, 2010 "In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire...Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports...[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly." Continue reading First Page Previous Page Last Page
Observing Fifty Years of Gym Evolution Tommy Suggs | October 26, 2010 "I was home for Christmas vacation from The University of Texas. It was 1956 and my weight training had moved from conditioning and body building to competitive Olympic lifting. My home was on the Texas Coast, Lake Jackson, and there was not an Olympic bar in the county. Houston, sixty miles away, offered my best hope for finding a place to train during my two weeks at home for the holidays. After examining the Houston yellow pages, I found one gym listed..." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength Exercise IIIsotonic-Isometric Contraction, Part II Bill Starr | September 06, 2010 "[E]ven if you aren’t interested in using isos in your own program, learn how to do them so that you can teach others somewhere down the line. In my mind, it’s the ultimate strength exercise and it’s in danger of being lost. That can’t be allowed to happen." Continue reading Experiences in the Iron Life Jim Steel | August 30, 2010 "Man, I have been lifting weights for 30 years. Thirty years! ... I have been around so many gyms and so many great lifters. I have so many stories and anecdotes that I have saved over the years, and I want to share them. Since training with weights has been a part of my life for so long, I figured that I would share some stories of interesting folks and some interesting experiences. You may learn something from them, you may not. For me, these stories were unforgettable and helped forge my philosophy of weight training and life." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength ExerciseIsotonic-Isometric Contraction Bill Starr | July 22, 2010 "In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire...Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports...[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly." Continue reading First Page Previous Page Last Page
The Ultimate Strength Exercise IIIsotonic-Isometric Contraction, Part II Bill Starr | September 06, 2010 "[E]ven if you aren’t interested in using isos in your own program, learn how to do them so that you can teach others somewhere down the line. In my mind, it’s the ultimate strength exercise and it’s in danger of being lost. That can’t be allowed to happen." Continue reading Experiences in the Iron Life Jim Steel | August 30, 2010 "Man, I have been lifting weights for 30 years. Thirty years! ... I have been around so many gyms and so many great lifters. I have so many stories and anecdotes that I have saved over the years, and I want to share them. Since training with weights has been a part of my life for so long, I figured that I would share some stories of interesting folks and some interesting experiences. You may learn something from them, you may not. For me, these stories were unforgettable and helped forge my philosophy of weight training and life." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength ExerciseIsotonic-Isometric Contraction Bill Starr | July 22, 2010 "In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire...Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports...[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly." Continue reading First Page Previous Page Last Page
Experiences in the Iron Life Jim Steel | August 30, 2010 "Man, I have been lifting weights for 30 years. Thirty years! ... I have been around so many gyms and so many great lifters. I have so many stories and anecdotes that I have saved over the years, and I want to share them. Since training with weights has been a part of my life for so long, I figured that I would share some stories of interesting folks and some interesting experiences. You may learn something from them, you may not. For me, these stories were unforgettable and helped forge my philosophy of weight training and life." Continue reading The Ultimate Strength ExerciseIsotonic-Isometric Contraction Bill Starr | July 22, 2010 "In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire...Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports...[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly." Continue reading First Page Previous Page Last Page
The Ultimate Strength ExerciseIsotonic-Isometric Contraction Bill Starr | July 22, 2010 "In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire...Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports...[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly." Continue reading
