This video gives a short overview of what you’ll find in The Development of Physical Power by Arthur Saxon. Get this book from Amazon here. This book by Saxon is short but jam packed with strength building tips and exercises. Well worth reading.
The Amazing Samson
Here is a short video overview of The Amazing Samson. This autobiography written by Alexander Zass details his life from growing up, joining the circus, his trials at war and much more. You can buy The Amazing Samson here. This book will soon be featured in the Physical Culture Book …
Old Time Strongman Diet
This article discusses the old time strongman diet. Of course every old time strongman ate differently so we’ll just be looking at a few different examples. The truth is like the greatest strongmen today you’ll find lots of differences, so if you’re looking for the magical diet you need to …
Rolling a Frying Pan with Bare Hands
I was browsing flea markets and yard sales the other day and I came across this frying pan. I thought why not? I had never done the feat of strength where you roll up a frying pan with your bare hands before, simply because I never had gotten a pan …
Valentin Dikul
Valentin Dikul is, in my opinion, one of the greatest athletes ever to grace the earth. Here is a short biography from one of the following videos: A circus acrobat, Valentin took a bad fall and broke his back when he was seventeen. Dikul said no to the wheel-chair and …
Book Club: Muscle Building by Earle Liederman
Introducing the Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of July we’ll be reading Muscle Building by Earle Liederman. This continues off of reading Secrets of Strength, another book by Liederman, last month. Or want to get all …
Treadmill Handstand Success
In a previous post we covered a bunch of handstand fails, one of which was the close to famous handstand on treadmill fail. Well when looking at that video I also came across the opposite, a treadmill handstand success. There is one big main difference I can tell in what …
June’s Book Club Article
Just finished putting up the new article on Junes’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for Secrets of Strength by Earle Liederman. This is a phenomenal book!
Easy Hand Strength Workout
When you get into grip and hand strength you tend to buy up a bunch of crazy tools and the more the merrier. At least that has been my experience and that of many of my friends. But to build crazy grip strength you don’t need much. My friend Adam …
Breathing Squats
Breathing squats are the name for doing a high number, usually 20, of repetitions of barbell back squats. This was made famous as the mainstay of the routine found in Super Squats by Randall Strossen. Here is an example of Breathing Squats in action. This is an intense exercise. The …
Bodyweight Squats vs Weighted Squats
In this article we’re going to discuss bodyweight squats vs weighted squats and which is better. There is quite a bit more difference here then in the bodyweight vs. hindu squat debate. Once again the answer is it depends on your goals. Why do bodyweight squats? Great for flexibility in …
Muscle Control by Maxick
Muscle Control by Maxick is one of the most classic books of the oldtime strongmen. There are many other great books on the art of muscle control, but none are as popular as this one. It’s probably because the book is quite simple and the exercises are easy to follow. …
Alexander Zass
Alexander Zass is one of my favorite oldtime strongmen (of course I like them all, but a few stand out to me.) He was known as the Amazing Samson and performed all over Russia and Europe back in his day. One of the most amazing things about him was that …
Feats of Strength Festivus
There may be more interest in feats of strength from Festivus then from the actual feats of strength performed by oldtime strongmen. In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, this was a fake holiday invented in the sitcom Seinfeld. Feats of Strength Festivus There are a number …
Guest Post at Ferocious Strength
I recently wrote an article about Making Training Your Own over at Matti’s site Ferocious Strength. Check it out.