Abbye Pudgy Stockton

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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 …

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Strength and Health

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Strength and health are tied together. At least that’s the way it should be. That’s the reason that probably the greatest physical culture magazine was called by that name. Yet today more than ever people seem to divorce the two. There should be little if any difference in training for …