Lately, a number of people have been asking me about muscle control. So, I figured it was time to give my unabashed opinion on it. Muscle control is great…and, at the same time, it’s not quite all it’s cropped up to be. Back around the early 1900’s, there were a …
The Great Sandwina
To spice things up, today we’ll learn more about Kate Brumbach, better known as The Great Sandwina. She was a strongwoman born into a circus family in 1884 in Austria. Her parents were well-trained circus performers with their own qualities, both in terms of strength and muscle proportions. Sandwina started …
Monte Saldo
Monte Saldo was a bodybuilder, stage performer and an author born in 1879 in London. Saldo showed interests in bodybuilding and strength training as a teenager. With a help of his uncle, who was a well-known and respected police inspector, Saldo became an apprentice to Eugene Sandow in 1897, at …
Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow, the man who started it all and the father of modern bodybuilding. His real name was Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, but he took his stage name for two reasons – 1) it was a custom to do so as a stage performer and 2) he left Prussia to avoid …
April’s Book Club Article
Just finished putting up the new article on Aprils’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for System of Physical Training by Eugene Sandow.
Book Club: System of Physical Training by Eugene Sandow
This is Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of April we’ll be reading System of Physical Training by Eugene Sandow. Or want to get all 12 books for this year in one package right now? You can get …