August 9th 2009
Yet another two excellent contributions from R. 'Doc' Ray. Firstly 'How to Increase Your Muscular Bulk & Strength' This was a freebie in a 1970s issue of MuscleMag International.
Secondly the rather strangely titled 'Herk U. Lees Bodybuilding System' published in 1975 by Ernest F. Cottrrell. Despite the gimmicky title this excellent publication contains some very interesting and unusual exercises.

August 3rd 2009
Here are two more great contributions from R. 'Doc' Ray. First is a rare book co-authoured by legendary Canadian Strong Man & Weightlifter Doug Hepburn called 'Hepburn's Law'.
Published in 1980 it explains Hepburn's training methods and exercises.

Second up is a booklet published in 1970 called 'Steve Reeves - He Knew What He Wanted - And Got It'. This was published as a supplemental to the Hercules II course.

August 2nd 2009
Another excellent Hoffman book from a new contributor.
It is 'The Big Chest Book' first published in 1941 (updated 1950) and contributed
by R. 'Doc' Ray who will be contributing further.

June 30th
Yet another contribution from Gil.
'Secrets of Strength & Development' by Bob Hoffman, originally published in 1940

June 14th 2009
Another contribution from Gil.
This one is 'Promotion & Conservation of Health, Strength & Mental Energy' by Lionel Strongfort.

June 11th 2009
Another Hoffman addition. 'Bob Hoffman's Daily Dozen'. Published in 1958 &
contributed by Gil Waldron.

June 7th 2009
A bumper lot of uploads. Firstly several contributions from 'Upbuilder' in the Swoboda section including a booklet entitled 'Succesful Evolution is the Cure All...' and some other items in a newly created Miscellaneous section.

Secondly a fine contribution from Michael Higginbotham in the George Jowett section entitled 'Nerves of Steel - Muscles like Iron'.

Finally (and at last) the complete book by Bob Hoffman 'Functional Isometric Contraction' - all 285 pages of it. This was contributed by our old friend Gordon Anderson.

March 24th 2009
From a new contributor, 'Upbuilder', comes an extremely interesting 1901 publication called 'Hints for Health and Strength' written by Adrian Peter Schmidt of New York.

February 20th 2009
Three important new books by Thomas Inch. Firstly 'Thomas Inch on Strength' which has appeared on the website as 'under construction' for far too long. It is now live. Also two very interesting pieces discovered by Gil Waldron. They are 'Advanced Exercises' and 'Strength Secrets'

August 29th 2008
Physical Culture for Beginners - Without the Aid of Appliances
by F.J. MacDonald contributed by Daniel Lurie. This very interesting publication came out in the 1950s and was reprinted in 1960.

July 3rd 2008
William Bankier - Apollo, The Scottish Hercules. Famous strongman, all round athlete and business partner of Monte Saldo. He wrote his famous book 'Ideal Physical Culture' in 1900 which is reproduced in full together with a biography by Ron Tyrrell.

March 9th 2008
At last the Swoboda section is now completely up to date. It now includes 4 parts of the 1902 6 part
'Swoboda System of Physiological Exercise' and a 1921 booklet 'A Matter of Great Importance' both of which were contributed by Gordon Anderson and a very interesting set of letters (date unknown) that were sent to pupils of the Conscious Evolution course and another booklet on 'The Dangers of Athletic & Gymnastic Exercise' both of which were contributed by Alfredo J. Martinez.

February 12th 2008
A nice classic 1956 UK Charles Atlas brochure ' How Dynamic Tension Makes you a New Man' contributed by Bill Gibbons from Calgary, Canada.

November 18th 2007
A complete new section on the fascinating Sanford Bennett, 'The Man Who Grew Young at 70'. He wrote a book in 1907 called 'Exercising in Bed' and in 1912 'Old Age, Its Cause and Prevention'. These are well worth a read.

August 24th 2007
After a long absence from this website the complete Bullworker book has now been restored. This is at the express wish of the Bullworker distributors and we thank them for their confidence in the Sandowplus website.

May 30th 2007
An interesting addition to the H. Broom section. This is an article by Broom about his
headquarters 'Broom Hall'

May 23rd 2006
We now have Lessons 1, 2 & 3 of the Athalding Course published by Australian Strongman Don Athaldo. Many thanks to Noel Flanigan who sent this original material to us for scanning all the way from Australia.

May 19th 2206
Two new pictures of George Walsh at the age of 18. Contributed by Ron Tyrrell

April 13th 2006
A couple of new ads in the Swoboda section and a new ad both in the Atlas and Liederman section where Charles Atlas endorses Liederman's course. All contributed by Gordon Anderson .

March 22nd 2006
New addition - Spalding's Muscle Building written by Luther Gulick M.D., a man with a remarkable pedigree being a leading light in the foundation of the YMCA and a pioneer in the development of Basketball .

March 15th 2006
A couple of nice photos of George Hackenschmidt for a series taken for Health & Strength.
plus 'If Sandow Were Alive Today' written by Earle Liederman in 1961. Both contributed by Gil Waldron.

January 26th 2006
Update on Bernarr Macfadden with brief details and postcard reproductions of his Deauville Hotel at Miami Beach.

December 27th 2005
Here's a nice Christmas Present contribution from Gunther. It is the original 1945 Joe Bonomo Power-Plus Course. Excellent photos as usual from Bonomo including some very nice ones of Tony Sansone.

December 18th 2005
Brand new section on Alois P. Swoboda, one of the most important figures in Physical Culture at the turn of the 20th Century and now almost forgotten even though he was the inspiration behind Charles Atlas and even Bob Hoffman. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

November 11th 2005
Interesting article about Alexander Zass written for Health & Strength (Early 50s) by W.A. Pullum. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

November 6th 2005
Comprehensive new section on Don Dorans, British & World Champion, Trainer and innovative designer of equipment. This whole section was kindly contributed by David Gentle

September 16th 2003
Two new entries. Firstly part 2 of the York Hand Balancing Course. Secondly three courses from the 50s from the Body Sculpture Club of England.

August 23rd 2005
A very early and extremely interesting book on Indian Clubs; The Indian Club Exercise by Sim D. Kehoe published in 1866

May 8th 2005
At last! Just some of the photos accompanying the Sansone Course have been found. We are pleased to be able to show the illustrations for Lesson 3 - posed by Sansone. These are courtesy of Jim Lovelace who is Sansone's Grandson.

Also Part 1 of the York Handbalancing Course contributed by Ron Tyrrell.

May 6th 2005
New discovery. 50 Exercises for Health & Strength. Published circa 1908 by Health & Strength Magazine, one of their earliest publications. Contributed by Gil Waldron.

December 5th 2004
New section on Goerner the Mighty with a copy of his biography, contributed by Gordon Anderson and
several articles about him reproduced by kind permission of American Powerlifters.com

Also in the Sandow section a reproduction of a French booklet with instructions for the Sandow Developer,
Printed circa 1902 and contributed by Gil Waldron.

November 9th 2004
Two new additions to the India section. Firstly, courtesy of Ron Tyrrell, comes an extremely rare publication
'Muscle Building in Six Months', published in 1940. The quality of reproduction is very poor but it is well
worth a read.

Secondly, 'Streamlines' - an interesting book published circa 1940. Part of the book is physique 'art' photography
and it is the nearest we are likely to get on this website to being of 'gay interest'.
The second part is a series of illustrated exercises with a very distinct Yoga bias.
A very interesting publication in all. Contributed by Gil Waldron.

September 11th 2004
Two fine contributions courtesy of John Digby. 'How to Develop Powerful Legs' by Chas. T. Trevor, from the 50s
and 'Muscles of the Body' published by Link House, London in 1947. Both excellent reads.

September 8th 2004
An extract from 'Developing Grip Strength' by David Gentle & David Webster.
The extract is 'Isometric Muscle Work' and contains illustrations of Alexander Zass.
Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

August 29th 2004
Another great find by Gordon Anderson. From 'Artists & Models Magazine' August 1925.
How to Develop a Perfect Body - Charles Atlas' Secrets of Success - an excellent 8 page article
written by 'Doc' Frederick W. Tilney with many good pictures of Atlas.

June 19th 2004
Another little treasure fom Gordon Anderson. 'Strong Arms for Men, Women & Children' by Prof. Anthony Barker. A small 32 page booklet published in 1938 for 50 cents.

June 15th 2004
Woodward section modified and expanded. Now includes Muscle Control / Auto-Resista articles from 'Skill' Magazine
(1967) which includes poses by Tony Holland. There is also an obituary article about Tom Woodward.
This has been jointly contributed by Tony Holland, David Gentle & Gil Waldron, who did all the detective work.

May 15th 2004
New addition to Danks section. The Danks 'Rapid' Forearm & Wrist Strengthener contributed by Jane Phillp.

April 9th 2004
Revised and expanded section on the Good Brothers & addition of book by Harry Good - ' The Keynote to Great Strength'
Addition to Hoffman section - 'Bob Hoffman's Simplified System of Barbell Training'
Addition to Paschall section - 'The Bosco System of Progressive Physical Training'
All contributed by Gil Waldron.

Further additions to the Hackenschmidt, Aston & Sandow sections - being articles written for The Superman Magazine in the 1930s by Monte Saldo and others. Contributed by Ron Tyrrell.

April 2nd 2004
New addition. 'Young at 73 - And Beyond' by Frederick Tilney. 'Doc' Tilney was the inspiration behind MacFadden, Charles Atlas, Hoffman and others. This is a remarkable book. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

November 3rd 2003
New addition to website. Manual of Physical Training for use in the United States Army - 1914. Well illustrated and extremely comprehensive.

October 24th 2003
TAnother vintage 'find' from Jim Bartlett. 'Home Gymnastics' by Professor Hoffman - published in 1899

October 11th 2003
Entirely new section containing the full autobiography of Alexander Zass 'The Amazing Samson' added. This is a real find, contributed by Gordon Anderson and as well as many photos of Zass also contains a foreword and end section by W. A. Pullum.

Also (and at last) the missing 3 sections of Treloar's 1904 'Science of Muscular Development' have finally been restored.

Finally a new entry. 'How to be Fit' by Robert Kiphuth. He was the Director of the Gym & an Associate Professor at Yale University. This interesting and well illustrated book was written in 1942. Contributed by Carl de Lorenzo

April 27th 2003
Some more Aston Weightlifting articles courtesy of Gil Waldron plus 'Modern Weighlifting' circa 1935 from the collection of Ron Tyrrell.
Also from Ron is 'The Danks System of Physical Culture'. This dates from around 1900. Danks was an exponent of Cable Exercisers and his course is built round that apparatus.

April 13th 2003
Two great additions. Firstly 'My System' by J.P. Muller of Denmark who wrote this book 1905. It went on to become a world best seller being translated into 24 languages and it was still being published well after his death in 1938. Also another book by Earle Liederman - 'Secrets of Strength' - written in 1925. Both items contributed by Gil Waldron.

April 2nd 2003
Been rather a busy day with 4 additions to the site. Firstly a brand new (to the site) publication from 1972. This is 'Tensile Contractions - Master Build' contributed by Sax Hallam. Sax has also contributed an article from the Readers Digest 0f 1942 about Charles Atlas - 'Self Made Man - and Body'. There are 2 new articles by Edward Aston on Heavy-Weight Lifting. These date from early 1931 and were contributed by Gil Waldron.
Finally the first inclusion of a book by Chas. T. Trevor, a UK publisher and postal course seller from the 50s. This book is called 'Training for Great Strength'

March 30th 2003
Exciting new find - A 1906 book called 'Strength & Heath' by Viking who was in reality Adolph E. Nordquest - otherwise known as 'The Young Sandow'. This book contains a wealth of Bodyweight exercises that predate Atlas, Liederman, Jowett, Bonomo & others.

March 23rd 2003
Revamped index page for Thomas Inch section and added new book 'A Manual of Physical Training' courtesy of John G. McEneany.
New section on George Hackenschmidt. Biog. by David Gentle - with added pictures and his famous book 'The Way to Live' - courtesy of Gordon Anderson.

Feb 24th 1002
Excellent new section on The Mighty Young Apollon, famous Yorkshire Strongman of the 20s and 30s. This comes courtesy of Warren Pember who has contributed his large collection of Apollon items.

January 5th 2003
Additions to the Jowett Section. Index revamped and new section with promotional material contributed by Gordon Anderson.
Additions to the George Walsh section, also revamped and with two articles from 1948 & 1950 Health & Strength Annuals. Contributed by Gil Waldron.

December 20th 2002
From 1964 - 'Isometric Power Exercises' by Bruce Tegner - a very interesting set of programs for men and women. Contributed by Jeffrey Crews

December 15th 2002
The final two lessons (11 & 12) from the renowned Farmer Burns Course of 1912. We now have the complete set thanks to Gordon Anderson. At present these final 2 lessons are not available in PDF format - but they will be!

December 1st 2002
New article on Sandow - "Size & Strength - Eugen Sandow - the King of Bodybuilders" - written in 1973 by Terry Todd & Paul Anderson.
Also 'Health & Strength - or Practical Athletics for Busy People' - written in 1891 by Alex Whitely - the inventor of the Whitely Exerciser. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

November 24th
The start of what looks to be some very exciting additions - mainly to the Sansone section. Jim Lovelace, Sansone's grandson is contributing material of his grandfather's. This will include unpublished personal photos, publications and other exclusive material. We're starting off with a brochure called 'Apollo, Adonis and You' which is a promotion for Sansone's Bodybuilding course. Also Jim has contributed 'Rudolph Valentino tells: 'How You Can Keep Fit', a Macfadden publication from 1926.

November 27th 2002
Completion of Achilles course - 9 month Personalised Weight Course contributed by Sax Hallam. Sax has also contributed a fine article from the Sunday Times Colour Supplement of 1969 - 'But Ladies, I'm 76' - an interview with Charles Atlas. Also a small section on Reg Park with his 'Reg Park System of Cablec Training' from the late 60s - contributed by Pete Luckin who has also contributed the 'Hercules II' course from the late 60s/early 70s together with the 'Super Routine' from the mid to late 70s. Thanks to both of them for a set of fine additions to the site.

October 12th 2002
After having a nightmare with Crosswinds I've now dumped them and we now have our very own domain www.sandowplus.co.uk, yes British and proud of it. Please do NOT quote any Crosswinds pages if you are referring this site anywhere. Thanks.

September 21st 2002
Recently added is a full colour instruction book for the Bullworker. Contributed by Pete Luckin.
Today - a new section on Harry B. Paschall, he of Bosco fame and a full reproduction of his excellent book 'Muscle Moulding' contributed by Gil Waldron

August 24th 2002
An important addition to the Liederman section. We now have a full reproduction of his 1924 book 'Muscle Building', probably his best work. This book had over 90 full page photographs of many famous strong-men.

Also the oldest book on the website. 'How to Get Strong - and How to Stay So' by William Blaikie. Published in 1879. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

August 21st 2002
An important addition to the Earle Liederman section. The site now has the full 1923/25 Muscular Development Mail Order Course.
Also, courtesy of Gordon Anderson we now have the second and final part of Charles Atlas's 'Building the Physique of a Greek God' from 1921.

August 11th 2002
Further addition to the Macfadden section. We now have a complete copy of a 1925 'Muscle Builder' which contains an article by Jack Dempsey 'How I Got & Keep My Fighting Muscles' Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

August 4th 2002
A nice addition to the Prof. K.V. Iyer section. We now have a new book of his from the early 30s entitled 'Muscle Cult' courtesy of Vinaya Kumar.

Another earlier version of 'Muscular Development' by Earle Liederman. This was issued in 1920 and claims Charles Atlas as a pupil - a claim that was noticeable by its absence in later issues. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

Also new is a UK publication from the 40s entitled 'Scientific Bodyculture' by Ian MacQueen who is now President of the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation.

August 2nd 2002
A new section on Bernarr Macfadden has now been added and contains a reproduction of one of his earliest and probably his best book 'Muscular Power & Beauty'. This is an exceptionally well illustrated book on Resistance Exercises.

July 17th 2002
At lomg last the famous Farmer Burns course of Lessons in Wrestling & Physical Culture is now on the website. This is courtesy of Gordon Anderson. Dont miss your chance to see this rare publication.

July 14th 2002
Another excellent contribution from Gordon Anderson. This is a 1924 brochure from Charles Atlas entitled 'Secrets of Muscular Power & Beauty' and is the booklet that appeared in so many of the early Atlas adverts. It is crammed full of excellent photos as well as biographical details. This is a 'must see'
Also from Gordon is a small Sandow booklet from 1924 containing personalised exercises.

July 1st 2002
The start of a section on 'Farmer' Burns. Soon to come will be a full reproduction of his famous and very hard to find 1913 course 'Lessons in Wrestling & Physical Culture'. Until that is completed you can read his 30 page promotional booklet 'Physical Culture Wrestling' which is packed full of photos, facts and testimonials. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

June 26th 2002
An addition to the Sandow Dumb-bells section. We now have the full instruction book with illustrated exercises, courtesy of Gordon Anderson.

June 8th 2002
Crosswinds seems to have stabilised so currently all visits to this site are being redirected to http://sandow.crosswinds.net. Hopefully it will stay there!

June 3rd 2002
Some additional photos of the Saxon Brothers have been added to a new section called Saxon Scrapbook.

The experimental mirror site has been a bit of a 'Curate's Egg' (please email if you do not know what this means!). Crosswinds have had periods of shutdown due to equipment failure. At present the mirror is off as I'm waiting for them to change the site name to sandow.crosswinds instead of sandow2. At this moment you should be looking at the sandow.plus.com pages.

May 28th 2002
As an experiment, visitors to the Sandow Plus site are being transferred to a mirror URL which is www.sandow2.crosswinds.net. The original Sandow Plus ISP which is Plusnet have both limits on webspace and bandwidth. The first is getting perilously close as the site increases in size and the second has been exceeded causing the threat of financial penalties from the ISP. Crosswinds who are in Canada are unlimited on both. Crosswinds are slightly more unreliable in as much as they occasionally go down. The situation will be closely monitored over the next few months. Any direct links that you may have or that appear in other websites, message boards etc. will still take you to the Plusnet URL. Only the main URL www.sandow.plus.com will transfer. Please advise if there are ANY problems.

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May 18th 2002
A nice new section about Sandow's spring loaded Dumb-Bells. Gil Waldron has found an article about them from an 1899 copy of Sandow's Magazine which includes a set of dumb-bell exercises and the web page also includes photos of the dumbells in different forms together with advertisements.

May 6th 2002
Something a little different. The full set of 52 Cigarette Cards from Wills's 1914 'Physical Culture' series.

May 5th 2002
Three new entries. From 1900 the earliest isometic exercises on this board, way before Charles Atlas. 'Physical Culture with Resisting Exercises' by Bernarr Macfadden, contributed by Gordon Anderson. Also contributed by Gordon is 'Physical Culture by Means of Muscular Resistance & Breathing Exercises' by Prof. Edward Ittmann, published in 1904. Finally, from 1913, 'Prof. Attila's 5lb Dumb-Bell Exercises' -all fully illustrated.

May 3rd 2002
Just a few additional photos added to the Sig Klein & Otto Arco sections.

May 1st 2002
Two important additions. Firstly 'Klein's Bell' a short lived magazine / newsletter that was published by Sig Klein in 1931/32. Each one is a gem of information and there are many excellent photos. Many thanks to Gay W. Ng for contributing this complete set.
Secondly, thanks to Gordon Anderson for contributing the 'Milo Body Building & Muscle Developing Course' written by Alan Calvert in 1911 and distributed with Milo Barbells.

April 29th 2002
New addition to the Sandow section. 'Eugen Sandow - an appreciation by Alan Calvert' which was written for Klein's Bell in May & June 1932.
Contributed by Gay W. Ng.

April 27th 2002
New section devoted to Bob Hoffman. There are already 4 publications included with more to follow.
Contributed by Gordon Anderson, Gil Waldron & Others.

April 17th 2002
Addition of a very rare book contributed by Gil Waldron. 'Modern Physical Culture' by C. Lang Neil, published in 1904. This book examines, among other topics, the methods of Macfadden, Sandow, Apollo, The Swedish System and others.

April 16th 2002
The rare Pullum book 'How to Use a Barbell' is now completed and on the website. Contributed by Gil Waldron.

April 7th 2002
Newly discovered booklet by Max Unger (Lionel Strongfort) called 'Intelligence in Physical Culture'.
Strongfort wrote this around 1910 and was still using his real name.
This a a very honest appraisal of the PC movement and not only advertised his new course but showed details of his Health & Strength Institute in New York City. Contributed by Gordon Anderson.

April 6th 2002
An article by David Willoughby entitled 'Eugen Sandow' which examines and argues the belief that Sandow had a perfectly proportioned body. A highly detailed and reasoned article with much close detail of Sandow's measurements and feats. Source & Date unknown. Contributed by Tony Holland.

April 2nd 2002
The beginning of a new book in the Bonomo section. This is a 220+ page, 10 week course called 'Barbell Training Routines' and is up to the usual high Bonomo standard. Week one is now on line. The following 9 lessons will go live weekly over the next 9 weeks. Contributed by Dan Weston.

March 30th 2002
Another contribution from Gordon Anderson. Charles Atlas at 79. An illustrated interview from Iron Man - Sept 1972.

March 27th 2002
The Otto Arco 'How to Learn Muscle Control' 4 part series is now complete.

March 25th 2002
Interesting article by W.A. Pullum from 1955 entitled 'Weights are Great!' and which contains some nice photographs of both Maxick & Saldo. Contributed by John Haywood.

March 17th 2002
A long awaited (by me at least) section on Otto Arco is now open. Courtesy of Gay W. Ng we now have a series of articles from Body Molding Magazine 1925 including a 4 part well illustrated series entitled 'How to Learn Muscle Control' written in conjunction with Alan Calvert. This is currently under construction - parts 3 and 4 of the above still to go but plenty there to be going on with.

March 12th 2002
Probably one of the 'best' Charles Atlas finds for quite a while. 'Building the Physique of a Greek God' by Angelo Siciliano was written by Atlas for Physical Culture Magazine - November 1921 - The year he won the 'World's Most Handsome Man' Competition. This is almost certainly pre-Tilney and most definitely pre-Roman as there is no mention of a course. Athough it was probably ghosted there are still some revealing statements in the article. Thanks to Gordon Anderson for securing this article.

March 11th 2002
I'm pleased to advise of an absolutely fascinating article written especially for this website. In 2001 Vinaya Kumar met Monohar Aich, then nearly 89. In this article, which is well illustrated with published and personal photos, Vinaya tells of this meeting and of an amazing display of strength and muscle control. This is a 'must-read'

March 10th 2002
Another contribution from Vinaya Kumar. This is a selection of pages from The Encyclopedia of Indian Physical Culture - 1950 and shows Nals (Stone Dumb-Bells), Sumtola (Indian Barbells), Stone Ball Lifting, Stone Wheels, Ekka & Karela (Heavy Clubs) and Gada (Maces). These are all traditional Indian Bodybuilding tools and there are plenty of illustrations as well as exercises for the adventurous!

March 3rd 2002
Article from Muscle Power April/May 1946 - Sandow - My Impressions when First We Met - by Earle Liederman

February 24th
Several small additions. Some more photos of Monohar Aich, courtesy of Vinaya Kumar. These are now in a proper Picture Gallery.
A new addition to the Saxon section with an informative article from a 1955 Health & Strength about The Saxon Trio.
A brief article in the Sandow Section about Jim Pedley who was Sandow's Chief Trainer at St. James's.

February 20th 2002
Many changes and additions today. The Tony Sansone section has been revamped and as well as some reorganisation a new Picture Gallery (currently 34 pictures) has been added. A slideshow feature is available on the gallery.
Following on from a not inconsiderable amount of material that has come from Vinaya Kumar, with more to follow, a complete new section has been added devoted to Body Building & Muscle Control in India. Some of this was alread on site but a new addition is a section on Prof. K.V. Iyer. Considering how big Bodybuilding was and is in India it remarkable that there is virtually nothing about it on the Internet. There will soon be sections on Monohar Aich & Monotosh Roy, India's two biggest bodybuilding names from the 50s. The remarkable article with pictures of Prof. Chandrashekhar has been copied over from the Maxalding site.

February 18th 2002
An entirely new section devoted to the legendary W.A.Pullum. Currently this section contains magazine articles by and about him and a full reproduction of his book 'Weighlifting Made Easy & Interesting' first published in 1922. The articles come courtesy of Gil Waldron and the book from Ron Tyrrell. Work now commences on another rare book by Pullum.

February 2nd 2002
From some time around the 50s - The Auto-Resista Course from the Woodward School of Physical Culture in Blackpool, UK
Contributed by Gay W. Ng.

January 26th 2002
Something quite different this time. Catherine Hunter has unearthed a full page advert from a 1912 edition of the Daily Telegraph - a London broadsheet newspaper. This advert 'A Remarkable Threefold Health Offer' included details of a set of previously unknown Sandow publications - 'The Illustrated Health Library'.

January 20th 2002
Another excellent contribution from Vinaya Kumar - Barbell Exercises by Chit Tun. This is a well illustrated book written in 1926 by a noted Burmese Strongman & Muscle Controller who moved to India at the turn of the last century.

January 13th 2002
The book 'Muscle Control & Barbell Exercise' as mentioned below is now complete and live on site. It is a remarkable and fascinating
volume and recommended reading.

January 8th 2002
New section - Full reproduction of 'That's Muscle Control' the well known book by the late Ed Jubinville. Contributed by Ron Tyrrell.
Also the first (small) part of what looks to be a most exciting find. 'Muscle Control & Barbell Exercise' by B.C. Ghosh & K. Sen Gupta
and published in Calcutta in 1930. Many thanks to Vinaya Kumar for this contribution. Keep watching as the pages are added.

December 26th 2001
The Gospel of Strength According to Sandow - Rare 1902 publication from Australia which includes a lifesize photograph of Sandow's arm.
Courtesy of Gordon Anderson.
The Sandow Story - a Four Part article that appeared in the Weightlifter & Bodybuilder Magazine in 1951
Contributed by Ron Tyrrell.

December 18th 2001
Now live - Sandow's System of Physical Culture (1894) - all 245 pages of his first book - courtesy of Gordon Anderson

November 17th 2001
The start of a series of articles and other items from the collection of Jim Bartlett, President of the I.S.S.P.A
The first article is about Sandow and comes from The Body Builder Magazine of 1954 and is written by Edgar Muller.

October 28th 2001
Long awaited (by me at least as I've been trying to get round to doing it for ages) page on Bobby Pandour a man who rivalled Sandow for physique
but was not a 'strong man'. If you want find out why and see a collection of photos of him - read on!

October 26th 2001
A new entrant in the Competition section. Contributed by Gil Waldron. 'Physical Culture' by J.J. Miller
Published in Scotland circa 1908

October 20th 2001
Another Bonomo treasure. 'Joe Bonomo's Famous Three - Week Speed Course' contributed by
Gordon Anderson

October 17th 2001
Another interesting book by Arthur Saxon, courtesy of Gordon Anderson - 'A Text Book of Weightlifting'

September 5th 2001
Addition to the Bonomo section. 'Vibro-Power', a 3 week Isometric Isotonic Speed Course
contributed by Gordon Anderson

September 1st 2001
Completion of Tony Sansone's 'Progressive Home Physical Training Course' courtesy of Gordon Anderson

August 15th 2001
The 1907 Sandow book 'The Construction & Reconstruction of the Human Body' is now live on the site.
Thanks to Gil Waldron for contributing this rare volume.

August 14th 2001
New Bonomo item added courtesy of Dan Weston. 'The Powerplus Barbell 3 Week Speed Course'

August 9th 2001
Two new items in the Charles Atlas section. They are an advertisement from 1923, when he was just starting his mail order course and an article by him in Physical Culture of July 1937 entitled 'Are You Rich or Poor in Strength?' Contributed by Gordon Anderson

July 18th 2001
New section on Ottley Coulter added starting off with 'How to Perform Strongman Stunts' and contributed by Gordon Anderson.

July 14th 2001
Addition to the Atlas section. Full reproduction of 'The Life & Times of Charles Atlas' by George Butler & Charles Gaines (Also known as 'Yours in Perfect Manhood, Charles Atlas). Contributed by Gil Waldron

July 13th 2001
Sandow's Easy Way to Strength & Fitness, a leaflet detailing all the 'Sandow' equipment that was available - probably early 50s.
Also opened a new 'Sandow Miscellany' section for small items of interest.

July 12th 2001
Support being added for Netscape users. Netscape doesn't seem to like the 'hotspots' that are embedded on most of the 'index' pages within this site. For users of Netscape (Windows & MAC) there will be alternate indexes to allow navigation to chapters of the books. These are being introduced one-by-one starting with 'Bodybuilding'.

July 4th 2001
New Message Board launched linking Sandow and the Iron Men with the Maxalding site. This board can be browsed by guests without registering but in order to reply or start off a new topic registration, which is very simple, must take place.