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Advanced METHODS.... of WEIGHT TRAINING
The Latest Course by Bob Hoffman
One might wonder why another course is needed. The answer is simple. There have been so many courses put out by others, so many articles which contain so much confusing advice and so many extravagant claims that many body builders don't know exactly what to do, what to believe and what system to follow. This new and complete course is designed to eliminate the confusion that is hindering the training efforts of so many body builders. In the latest and most complete training course we are offering definite routines of exercise, exact training schedules, methods of specialization, and advanced exercises. These systems of training have been used by the great champions of strength and development such as Grimek, Stanko, Bacon, Eiferman, Delinger, Hilligenn, Farbotnik, Reeves and many others who live in York or who came here to train before attaining their greatest triumphs. This combined course contains the most complete treatise on advanced weight training ever offered. Never before has so much superior instruction, so many courses, so many effective exercises, so many training secrets and so many methods of specialization and advanced training been offered in a single volume. No body builder can afford to be without this most complete
course.
FREE!
FREE! FREE!
You can obtain a copy of ADVANCED METHODS of WEIGHT TRAINING, Bob Hoffman's latest course, absolutely FREE by ordering one of the wonderful YORK BIG 12 SPECIAL sets. This special gift is in addition to all the other courses and charts regularly provided with this unsurpassed body building combination set. ACT NOW! This valuable gift offer is available for a limited time only.
(Advertisements for the BIG 12 SPECIAL appear on back outside cover and on page 44.)
COURSES CONTAINED
in This TREATISE
1. The Power Course.
2. The Power Plus Course.
3. A weight lifting Routine.
4. An unusual course.
5. An excellent heavy dumbell course.
6. Leverage exercises.
7. Bob Hoffman's Favorite Barbell Course.
SPECIAL TRAINING SYSTEMS CONTAINED in This SUPER COURSE
8. A heavy, simplified System of Barbell Training.
9. The foot bell course.
10. A set System With Expanders.
11. Inclined Board Training Methods.
12. Pulley Training System.
13. The Swing Bell System.
14. The "Mr. America". Course.
15. The Neck Developing Course.
16. Arm Developing Course No. 1.
17. Arm Developing Course No. 2.
18. Shoulder Broadening Exercises.
19. Chest Developing Course.
20. Developing the Upper Back.
21. Developing the Lower Back.
22. A Super Abdominal Course.
23. Developing the Upper Legs.
24. Developing the Lower Legs.
A total of 24 courses, involving at least 500 of the best exercises, make up this complete course. When you desire to specialize you will have a definite course with the best available exercises to employ.
1. The York Set System of weight training. A
dozen suggested methods.
2. The Compound System.
3. The Double Progressive System.
4. The Single Progressive System.
5. The York Heavy and Light System.
6. Irregular Training.
7. The five days a week training system.
8. The three days a week training system.
9. Limited programs,
10. Upper and lower body training systems.
11. Flushing the muscles.
12. Overload System.
13. Other schemes of progression.
14. Specialization.
15. The Thousand Exercises.
All of these successful and widely used systems
of training, with the exception of the single progressive, the 3 day a week system and limited training system, were exclusively and originally York and are contained in the York courses which have been offered to the Strength, Health and Muscle seeking public for more than 2 decades. They have long been a part of "The Best Way," the York or Bob Hoffman way.
ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY
THIS SUPER COURSE
IS ONLY
$500
Send CASH or MONEY ORDER TO
Bob Hoffman
YORK, PA.
STRENGTH
and HEALTH
Editorial
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECEMBER 1956
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BOB HOFFMAN'S
Weightlifting News... Bodybuilding-Questions and
Answers
Bob Hoffman 8 10
Who Wants to Be a Monster?.. Breathe Better to Live Better...... Beasley II Strongmen Remember Best.
..Siegmund Klein 12 Kono's Training System......Tommy Kono 13 Barbells and Basketball.... Harry Paschall 14 And now-Melbourne........Chas. Coster 16 Strongmen The World
Over...
Success Stories..
The Iron Grapevine..
Ray Van Cleef 20. Steve Stanko 22 Staff 24
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Behind the Scenes........... Harry Paschall 26 How Can You Get Enough Protein? Bob Hoffman 28 Health and Strength Picnic. Beware of Unnatural Exercises............ Man of the Month.
To the Ladies
..John C. Grimek 30
Photo Contest 32 ..Vera Christensen 34
Letters from Readers..
36 64
Boys Club.
Your Training Problems..John C. Grimek 66
Strength & Health Staff
Bob Hoffman, Editor and Publisher Harry B. Paschall, Managing Editor John Grimek, Associate Editor
Feature Contributors Siegmund Klein Ray Van Cleef Chas. Coster
Vera Christensen
Leo Stern
Peter George
Staff Photographers
Cecil Charles Don Young
Bob Jones Arax of Paris Dick Lee Ralph Mazzaro
On the Cover
BERT ELLIOTT
British Representative John Valentine 23 Deanswood Drive, Moortown Leeds 8, England
Spanish Language Edition FUERZA Y SALUD Alan Hool, Publisher York-Mexico
Av. Morelos #87 Mexico I, D.F.
STRENGTH & HEALTH is published monthly by the Strength and Health Publishing Company, P.O. Box 1707, York, Pa., Subscription rate $3.00 per year; 35c the single copy. All pictures and manuscripts submitted become the property of Strength and Health unless a return request and sufficient postage are included. Published material becomes the property of Strength and Health. Copyright 1956, by Strength and Health Publishing Company, York, Pa.
STRENGTH AND HEALTH
IT
THE
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 1956
Editorial
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
T HAS BEEN TWENTY YEARS since my first book was published. In the introduction to How To Be Strong, Healthy and Happy I wrote these words, "I am trying to offer the system of living that has meant so much to me to you who read this book, so it will bring you a similar measure of strength, health and happiness. It is a good book now, but in twenty-five years it will be a still better book, for it contains much information which is not now generally known but which will be accepted as truth more widely in the future. . .
Twenty-five years have not elapsed, but on this twentieth anniversary of its publication, this book has already fulfilled this prophecy. The medical profession has accepted many of the facts pointed out in this book, such as early ambulation after operations and childbirth, exercise instead of lengthy bed-rest for sick and injured patients, sensible exercise and activity for heart patients. Physical education leaders have come to accept weight-training as an ideal strengthening and conditioning program for athletes in other sports. Schools and colleges have installed barbell equipment in their own physical departments and gymnasia. There is hardly a YMCA in the land without a weight-room. The precepts of right living and exercise first postulated in this book have been widely accepted all over the world.
We live in an age of rapid changes. All of us have witnessed radical changes in our mode of living, in our diet, our methods of manufacturing, in transportation, even in the thinking habits of most of our people. This is a fluid era, and sometimes entire designs change so rapidly and completely that it is hard to recognize merit in products over five years old. Every year, for example, the automobile manufacturers make changes in the outward appearance of their cars.
Yet it is dangerous to conclude that change itself is a guarantee of progress. The human body, for example, has not changed a particle in a thousand years. We still have legs, arms, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and all the usual complement of glands and organs. The principles involved in developing that body have not changed for the same thousand years. The ancient Greeks and Romans developed many perfect physical specimen several thousand years ago by the same principle we have employed in modern and sensible weight-training.
The York System of Barbell Training and Weight-lifting is the same now as it was many years ago. Its effectiveness has now been (Continued on page 4)
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