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04-23-21 11:36 AM - Post#909851
Loaded carries appeared unexpectedly in a book I’m halfway through, One Summer/America, 1927 by Bill Bryson. With such a limited scope, Bryson’s able to include great detail about subjects like Lindberg, Ruth, Hoover, Prohibition, and flag pole sitters. Regarding the latter, Bryson explains how “Shipwreck” Kelly managed to sleep while perched for 12 days on a platform the size of a stool at the top of a 50’ flagpole.
Bernarr Macfadden, who owned a tabloid in the 20s, was a vegan and a bodybuilder. Here’s what Bryson wrote about him, “Well into his eighties he could be seen walking around Manhattan carrying a forty-pound bag of sand on his back as a way of keeping fit. He lived to be eighty-seven.”
If you Google Bernarr Macadden workouts, there’s some interesting material about him.
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