To those of you who’ve stayed the course, congratulations, and to newcomers welcome. This is the final post in a long series about the remarkable weightlifting insights that we can learn from the oldtime strongmen. The majority of the resources on the internet can be found at Sandow Plus and Maxalding so please do visit [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Eugen Sandow'
The Golden Age of Strongmen
January 25th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: Eugen Sandow · old school weightlifting · strongman · strongmen
Maxalding
January 20th, 2010 Comments Off
To wrap up my (lengthy) series about the oldtime strongmen you can find on Sandow Plus, I’ve had a quick look at the Maxalding site as well. Maxalding is a small but perfectly formed sister site to Sandow Plus and predominantly covers the lives and work of just two strongmen, Max Sick and Monte Saldo. [...]
Tags: Eugen Sandow · Max Sick · Maxalding · Maxick · Monte Saldo · old school weightlifting · Sandow Plus · strongman
Sandow Plus: the other strongmen (part 8) – Strongfort to Zass
January 19th, 2010 Comments Off
I have already written about the great articles you can find on Sandow Plus about Eugen Sandow, the “father of modern bodybuilding”. In this post, I have written a brief introduction to some of the other strongmen featured on the Sandow Plus site. Lionel Strongfort Lionel Strongfort was born Max Unger in Berlin in 1878 [...]
Tags: Al Treloar · Alexander Zass · Alois P Swoboda · Eugen Sandow · Frederick Tilney · George Walsh · Lionel Strongfort · old school weightlifting · strongman
Sandow Plus: the other strongmen (part 7) – Pandour to Standwell
January 13th, 2010 Comments Off
I have already written about the great articles you can find on Sandow Plus about Eugen Sandow, the “father of modern bodybuilding”. In this post, I have written a brief introduction to some of the other strongmen featured on the Sandow Plus site. Bobby Pandour Bobby Pandour was born Wladyslaw Kurcharczyk in Poland between 1876 [...]
Tags: Arthur Saxon · Bobby Pandour · Eugen Sandow · Harry B Paschall · old school weightlifting · Sandow Plus · T W Standwell · Tony Sansone · W A Pullum
Sandow Plus: the other strongmen (part 6) – McFadden to Nordquest
January 12th, 2010 1 Comment
I have already written about the great articles you can find on Sandow Plus about Eugen Sandow, the “father of modern bodybuilding”. In this post, I have written a brief introduction to some of the other strongmen featured on the Sandow Plus site. Bernarr McFadden According to Wikipedia, Bernarr MacFadden was born in Missouri in [...]
Tags: Adolph Nordquest · Antone Matysek · Bernarr MacFadden · Eugen Sandow · Lieutenant J P Muller · old school weightlifting · Staff Sergeant Alfred Moss · strongman
