JP
8/15/2009 11:24am,
I don't believe this has been posted yet.
I ran across it on my RSS feed via the rosstraining.com blog.
Here is an online museum dedicated to the original Iron Men.
Eugen Sandow & The Golden Age of the Iron Men.
Including entries for Charles Atlas and Farmer Brown. There are also PDF links to some of the books written about/by these men during their lives.
Some specific and very cool examples are:
Sanford Bennet:
"Bennett at the age of 50 had become an old man in poor health, suffering from a number of chronic complaints and many wrinkles.
Despairing of relief from doctors and drugs he finally devised a series of some 35 different exercises to be done in bed before arising in the morning.
After following them faithfully for years he had become, in all respects, a young man at 70. This was attested by medical examinations. His face had become smooth without a single wrinkle. His theory was that the body gets old through the accumulation of mineral deposits in the tissues, which finally become stiff and inelastic."
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Sanford_Bennett/sbennett-intro.htm
Louis Cyr:
"One of Cyr's most-talked about stunts occured on 10 December 1891 in Montreal. Four horses were tied to his arms (two on each side) and, while the grooms whipped and urged the horses to pull, Cyr managed to restrain all of them.
Louis Cyr died in 1912 and many say he ate himself to death. The official cause, however, was listed as chronic nephritis."
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Cyr/cyr.htm
I ran across it on my RSS feed via the rosstraining.com blog.
Here is an online museum dedicated to the original Iron Men.
Eugen Sandow & The Golden Age of the Iron Men.
Including entries for Charles Atlas and Farmer Brown. There are also PDF links to some of the books written about/by these men during their lives.
Some specific and very cool examples are:
Sanford Bennet:
"Bennett at the age of 50 had become an old man in poor health, suffering from a number of chronic complaints and many wrinkles.
Despairing of relief from doctors and drugs he finally devised a series of some 35 different exercises to be done in bed before arising in the morning.
After following them faithfully for years he had become, in all respects, a young man at 70. This was attested by medical examinations. His face had become smooth without a single wrinkle. His theory was that the body gets old through the accumulation of mineral deposits in the tissues, which finally become stiff and inelastic."
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Sanford_Bennett/sbennett-intro.htm
Louis Cyr:
"One of Cyr's most-talked about stunts occured on 10 December 1891 in Montreal. Four horses were tied to his arms (two on each side) and, while the grooms whipped and urged the horses to pull, Cyr managed to restrain all of them.
Louis Cyr died in 1912 and many say he ate himself to death. The official cause, however, was listed as chronic nephritis."
http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Cyr/cyr.htm