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HA!
Of course you all know that picture was faked. I mean, we were in the Leistner kitchen and some of us did eat ice cream. Just not the person in that photo.
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Great article. I like the look on Dave's Face. It says "this is going to haunt me"
"my joints are squealing like a truckload of pigs on their way to the Spam factory."
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HA!
Of course you all know that picture was faked. I mean, we were in the Leistner kitchen and some of us did eat ice cream. Just not the person in that photo.
That's hilarious Laree,
I remember someone at the Santa Cruz Bash scooping out a big bowl of ice cream and offering it to Dave. He politely refused!
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I remember someone at the Santa Cruz Bash scooping out a big bowl of ice cream ...
Right! Reminds me of this shot:
Turnabout's fair play (that's Dr. Ken digging into the Marianne's).
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09-05-08 12:33 PM - Post#479889
That dang ice cream in Santa Cruz....LOL....back then, that was a evil thing for me to eat, but I did along with some Lucky Charms at the breakfast buffet....I've lightened up since then...LOL:-)
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09-05-08 03:46 PM - Post#479976
dhartnet, thanks for posting that. Those articles are priceless.
zim
"If a pig officially becomes a hog at 180 pounds, why do I tolerate weighing 195"??
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09-05-08 06:20 PM - Post#480011
Keep an eye on the history of powerlifting link because apparently he's going to keep writing.... says it'll be many installments.
Fun stuff!
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10-06-08 11:06 PM - Post#489409
Is there any new writing out yet?
zim
"If a pig officially becomes a hog at 180 pounds, why do I tolerate weighing 195"??
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Real fun seeing a Leistner garage before all the clutter. :~)
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10-09-08 07:57 PM - Post#490490
Great article,
thanks for posting
"For sure, grit and spit will get you so far but it will also grind you down and leave you spent.
Good movement, superior movement, that is where grace and power live."
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10-09-08 09:28 PM - Post#490510
More great stuff. Can't wait till next month. zim
"If a pig officially becomes a hog at 180 pounds, why do I tolerate weighing 195"??
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10-09-08 09:53 PM - Post#490520
What a great article by a gentleman with a sterling reputation.
If you like Dr Ken's writing along with that of Dave and Dick Tyler, then Randy Roach's new book will keep you up reading all night for a couple of weeks - Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors, volume 1, about 550 pages covering the things from the mid 19th century through the sixties - volume 2 is due out next year and covers the rest up to now.
Closing in on fifty years in the Irongame, I must confess to being a sucker for historical works. There just aren't enough of them to suit my tastes. Roach's work staggers my imagination - his range of coverage is so thorough.
I think of Dr Ken in that respect - he's in the book, by the way, along with Dave. Both bodybuilding, powerlifting and chiropracty were looked on as strange, certainly marginal for much of the 20th century. And they had there roots in Physical Culture, a movement stressing prevention of illness through healthy living (diet, working out, etc), and were ruthlessly persecuted by the cartel of monopolistic interests in orthodox medicine (disease and emergency oriented), pharmaceutical corporations, insurance companies, and the Food and Drug Administration as security police for Big Pharm and Big Food (denatured, unhealthy stuff). That makes Dr Ken a heroic pioneering figure in much of his life. How fortunate we are that he, Dave, and others are keeping our history alive and passing its torch of wisdom and lore to succeeding generations. It doesn't get much better.
Marianne's ice cream - jeez, it's been 16 years since I left the Bay Area, Marianne's doing fairly well then while much of Santa Cruz was just rebuilding from the Loma Prieta earthquake. That's incredible ice cream.
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Great read, thanks Laree.
What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.
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05-31-09 10:25 PM - Post#556437
Thank you Laree, I love these writings. I grew up going to the old downtown YMCA back in the days when all us guys had to swim nude, and the weights were in a little room in the basement. Off limits to us little kids! I really don't think todays generation can even start to imagine what the 60s gyms were like. Almost lost to time I think. zim
"If a pig officially becomes a hog at 180 pounds, why do I tolerate weighing 195"??
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05-31-09 10:47 PM - Post#556445
I wish Doc knew where Utah is.
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06-02-09 10:41 AM - Post#556793
I love Dr Ken's writing style. He really takes you on a journey through his writing. Very visual. Thanks for posting!
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There's a great close up of Bill March doing a limited range curl in one of the old York power racks - one with a far smaller footprint than today's knock-off designs, and with far closer spacing of the pin holes.
I wonder if anyone has one or knows the dimensions - for the simple reason that I want to build one!!!
Thanks and best
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06-09-09 12:01 AM - Post#558319
Thank you Laree, I love these writings. I grew up going to the old downtown YMCA back in the days when all us guys had to swim nude, and the weights were in a little room in the basement. Off limits to us little kids! I really don't think todays generation can even start to imagine what the 60s gyms were like. Almost lost to time I think. zim
Right on! When I first walked in the San Jose YMCA in 1960, a fairly new building, I could have been in heaven for just that weight room. After high school, three of us went on to develop a garage gym in Sunnyvale - Bob's Garage. Bob went on to set the last Olympic press record in the Pan Am Games in 1971 with 418. That simple little garage was soon being visited by outstanding lifters and bodybuilders - John Gourgott, John Corvello, Craig Whitehead, Mike Dadigan and many others.
I doubt youngsters today could imagine Gold's from the late 60s through the 70s, or other 'state of the art' gyms of that time. Thanks to the Nautilus Quick Fix gyms of the late 70s onward, the age of the machine came to be - along with the age of physical decline.
I hear tell youngsters now equate training and fitness with those wii things. Jeez, gimme a break.
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 07-26-11 11:01 AM - Post#699829
I tried to cut and paste the series into Word, so I could read it at home, but no can do
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07-26-11 01:10 PM - Post#699844
I'm happy to say I ate the ice cream
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07-27-11 12:41 PM - Post#699966
Everytime I see something on the history of Power lifting I think of Peanuts West.
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07-28-11 01:24 PM - Post#700050
A really great series of articles.
I wonder if the rack pictured was constructed using channel steel?
Most of the modern ones are made of square tubing.
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11-04-11 04:42 PM - Post#711553
Thanks, Ty, and WOW did we get behind!!
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12-07-12 05:59 PM - Post#755613
Thanks, Ryan!
I wonder when he had time to get that done. They've been triple-overtime helping people after the hurricane. But then, Doc Ken doesn't sleep, so he gets more done than the rest of us.
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