Reprint of a fascinating old book that everyone who is interested in sports and athletics must read. Everything one should know about how one can gain unusually great strength, about the famous strongmen of the past and their training methods... By one of the absolutely best informed - the authentic strength training super-expert Earle Liederman.

"EVERY man should be able to save his own life. He should be able to swim far enough, run fast and long enough to save his life in case of emergency and necessity. He also should be able to chin himself a reasonable number of times, as well as to dip a number of times, and he should be able to jump a reasonable height and distance. If he is of the fat, porpoise type, naturally he cannot do all, if any, of these things; and he has nobody to blame but himself, and his way of living that has brought his body into its condition of obesity. Suppose-and it has happened many times-there should be a...