Luigi Borra was a strongman, weightlifter and gymnast born in 1866 in Italy. He worked as a telegraph instrument maker until the age of 23, when he decided to join a circus and perform as a wrestler. Throughout many European tours, Luigi performed various strength and gymnastics feats, aside from …
Ian Mac Batchelor
Ian Mac Batchelor was a strongman and arm wrestler born in Scotland. At the age of 5, his family moved to the US and that’s where he became famous. Mac was most famous among wrist-wrestling champions, but his strength in other areas was incredible as well. Believe it or not, …
All About Round Back Deadlifting
A new article all about round back deadlifting has been put on Breaking Muscle. Deadlifting With a Rounded Back: If the Best Do It, Why Can’t You? “You’re going to CRIPPLE yourself!!!” It’s annoying. For whatever reason, YouTube seems to be the worst place for receiving the most off-the-wall and …
Charles Rigoulot
Charles Rigoulot was a strongman from France born in 1903 who started training with weights as a child. Aside from setting numerous weightlifting world records and winning the gold medal in the light-heavyweight class during 1924 Summer Olympics, Charles was also a race car driver, an actor and a professional …
More Deadlift and Chinnup PR’s
As I mentioned earlier I feel like my progress is accelerating. Here are two more big PR’s for me that happened back to back. The first is a partial Jefferson deadlift. Working at about a 3/4 range of motion this is a fairly powerful position. I know I could have …
Bill St. John
Bill St. John was a famous old-time bodybuilder and strongman who took part in a number of contests and placed second in the Mr. USA contest in 1971. Among things which make Bill interesting is his focus on neck training. One of the exercises he liked to do quite frequently …
Podcast: Questions and Answers
I take on many of the questions I receive on a daily basis and answer them in this podcast. [display_podcast] Want to get bigger, stronger, more agile and look better? Here’s what to do first… Two ways to deal with stubborn fat What to do about the voice that says …
Harry Griffin
Not much is known about Harry F. Griffin, as he wasn’t that famous around the world, but only locally. Harry was a firefighter from Los Angeles and well-known throughout the west coast and especially his home town. He was a great firefighter, but he often performed as a strongman. Harry …
Abbye Pudgy Stockton
Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton was a strongwoman born in 1917 in Santa Monica, California. Despite the fact that she weighed around 115 pounds at a height of 5’2″, “Pudgy” got her nickname as a child and it stuck until the end of her days. Abbye and her husband Les Stockton, whom …
505 lb Deadlift (again)
In working towards a 600 lb. deadlift I have broken the 500 lbs. once again. You can compare this to my deadlifting 505 almost two years ago. It took a little longer than expected to get back to this level, but truthfully I think I’m stronger. I did this much …
Bert Assirati
Bartolomeo “Bert” Assirati was a British Heavyweight Champion in wrestling born in 1908 in England. Aside from his impressive professional wrestling career, Assirati very much enjoyed various feats of strength. He set a British record in 1938 when he pulled over a 200 pound barbell at arms length while lying …
How to Punch Harder
This video is all about how to punch harder. Of course, the most important aspect of this is to learn the proper punching technique so you can translate all that body power into your target. The key to this is to use your body power and strike from the hip. …
Joe Weider
Co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilders, Joe Weider, was a bodybuilder born in 1919 most famous for publishing numerous fitness magazines, like “Shape”, “Muscle & Fitness” and “Flex”. When he was only 14 years old, Weider started “Your Physique” magazine and constructed a set of barbells with things he …
How to get a Six Pack
What do you need to do in order to reveal six pack abs? Instead of focusing on how to get a six pack, we should rather think about steps which need to be taken to reveal them. First of all, you need to get rid of that excess fat. As …
Lifting Over 1000 lbs.
This wasn’t a main goal of mine, but ever since I bought my 110 lb. plates I figured I was close enough to go after it. Amazingly I hit it even faster than was expected. The rack pull or quarter deadlift is a great exercise. It is a partial movement …