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Before You Buy a BARBELL... Investigate...

YORK

Without question barbells offer you the quickest and surest means of developing your body, strengthening your muscles and improving your athletic ability. BUT consider carefully before you buy a barbell. A sensible buyer should first investigate the claims of the various competing manufacturers. There are many good reasons why YORK is the oldest, largest and best-known company in this field.

Do you want to be a MONSTER?

A BARBELL alone is not the complete answer to your quest for a strong, shapely body. Actually a barbell is only as good as the course of instruction behind it. There are certain "muscle-bulging" courses marketed today that create monsters instead of men. The natural trim, wellproportioned athletic lines of the body are distorted by unnatural exercise methods into ugly lumps, varicose veins, ruptured and swollen tissues. Men trained by such methods lose speed, range of movement, flexibility and muscular coordination. We are reluctant to believe that any young man in his right mind wants to look like a freak.

A Man is Known by the Company He Keeps

The strongest and best-built men in the world during the past 25 years have all been trained by YORK methods. The York Barbell Club has won more championships than any other club in the world. Claims of certain Muscle Moguls that they are "Trainers of the Champions" are completely unfounded on fact.

York methods of sensible weight-training are not crack-pot theories, they have been proven by years of practical experience. The famous York principle of Medium, Light and Heavy Training has never been duplicated in any other Course of Instruction. York methods and York barbells are found in the leading schools, colleges, athletic clubs and YMCAs. Bob Hoffman has been the official AAU Olympic WL Coach for nearly two decades, and his York methods have won more world championships than any other coach anywhere in the world.

All these facts should be considered before you buy your first barbell. A man is known by the company he keeps. York-trained men go farther in the world of weights and athletics because York methods are respected by the world's leading authorities in the field of medicine, physical education and athletics.

Further, York's reputation for reliability and financial responsibility can easily be checked. You have only to ask any York bank, or the York Chamber of Commerce. Every York product is backed by our unconditional guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Get the facts before you buy...

Sensible Physical Training

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YORK BARBELL COMPANY

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Editorial..

Contents November 1957

Ed Enos, Football Star.. Art of Weightlifting. The Milo Idols.. The Austin Experiment. How to Build Muscle. Success Stories.... Help Wanted Now The Iron Grapevine. Behind the Scenes. Ron Lacy Story.

Advanced Methods of Weight Training.

Man of the Month.

Acquiring Shaplier Biceps.

To the Ladies.

Boys Club. Weightlifiting News.

To the Editor.

Your Training Problems.

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Harry Paschall 10 Bob Hoffman 12 Siegmund Klein 15 Lloyd G. Young 16.

Bob Hoffman 18 Steve Stanko 20 Ray Van Cleef 22 Staff 25

Harry Paschall 26

Ron Lacy 28 Bob Hoffman 31 Photo Contest 32

John Grimek 34 Vera Christensen 38 Department 40 42

Letters from Readers 64 John Grimek 66

Strength & Health Staff

Bob Hoffman, Editor and Publisher Harry B. Paschall, Managing Editor John Grimek, Associate Editor

Feature Contributors

Siegmund Klein Al Christensen Vera Christensen

Cecil Charles Don Young

Staff Photographers

Bob Jones Dick Lee

On The Cover

BILL GOLUMBICK Color Photo by Leo Stern

Ray Van Cleef Leo Stern Peter George

Arax of Paris Ralph Mazzaro

Spanish Language Edition

FUERZA Y SALUD Alan Hool, Publisher York-Mexico

Av. Morelos #87 Mexico 1, D. F..

British Representative

John Valentine Moortown Leeds17, England

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 1957, by Strength and Health Publishing Company, York, Pa.

BOB HOFFMAN'S Editorial

WHAT DOCTORS SAY ABOUT EXERCISE

E HAVE WATCHED with some amusement the change in medical sentiment toward Exercise . . . once a word. that was taboo among physicians. And we suspect that one of the reasons medicoes have changed their minds about keeping people in bed in hospitals for long periods is simply because there are not now enough beds to go around. So the current word is "on your feet," before the ether has evaporated from the atmosphere.

Not long ago a friend of ours had a diseased kidney removed, which weighed all of ten pounds. The second day they nudged the patient out of bed. But no matter why the doctors have switched their thinking-we are all for it. When you rest, you rust-and the longer you stay in bed the weaker you become.

In the current issue of Today's Health, published by the American Medical Association, a discussion on Gangrene Treatment says: "Walking looks like excellent treatment for gangrene of the feet and legs. It's just the opposite of the old treatment of pretty strict bed rest. The gangrenous condition healed in 21 of 22 patients who were encouraged to get out of bed and walk despite their ailment." Dr. William T. Foley, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, wrote this for Circulation, the American. Heart Association Journal. The one failure was a woman whose family felt it cruel to make her walk. Later her leg was amputated. All the patients had gangrene as a complication of various circulatory diseases which had reduced blood flow to the feet and legs.

Gangrene is a horrible disease, through lack of blood the tissues of the feet and legs literally die and rot away. Amputation results in thousands of cases annually in this country alone. Usually the result of arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, which may completely prevent blood from reaching the feet and lower legs.

Here's proof that even a little exercise will benefit one of the most insidious diseases known to modern man. For slow walking, which is all such patients could do is a very mild exercise. Even walking four miles per hour is a mild exercise, though a (Continued on page 4)

STRENGTH AND HEALTH • NOVEMBER,

1957