Legends of the Iron Game - Volume One

A fascinating look at the world of strength training, from its roots in ancient times, to the movers and shakers of the physical culture world up to the 1950s. Teeming with photographs and illustrations, it's all here: strongmen and women of vaudeville; Sandow, bodybuilding's first superstar; Charles Atlas who introduced more beginners to bodybuilding than anyone before him; 'Milo' Steinborn; the great John Grimek; Jack and Elaine LaLanne whose physical fitness television show was shown in all corners of the world; and dozens of others many of whom became household names. Some of their lives read like works of fiction and will hold the reader spellbound.


Table of Contents for Volume One

Foreword

Prologue

Thomas Topham

Johann Gutsmuths

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

Hippoyte Antonie Triat

Archibald MacLaren

Angus MacAskill

Donald Dinnie

Professor Louis Attila

Richard Kyle Fox

Martin Burns

Apollon

Louis Cyr

Eugen Sandow

Edmond Desbonnet

Bernarr Macfadden

John Grunn Marx

Minerva

Apollo

Al Treloar

Alan Calvert

Bobby Pandour

Warren Lincoln Travis

The 'Saxon Trio'

George Hackenschmidt

Lionel Strongfort

Monte Saldo

Otto Arco

Thomas Inch

Maxick

Karl Swoboda

Edward Aston

Katie Sandwina

Earle Liederman

Bill Pullum

Ottley Russell Coulter

Hermann Goerner

George F. Jowett

Lillian Leitzel

Charles Atlas

Karl Norberg

The 'Mighty Atom'

Henry ‘Milo’ Steinborn

Bob Hoffman

David P. Willoughby

Joe Bonomo

'Sig' Klein

Charles Rigoulot

Joseph 'Joe' Rollino

Tony Sansone

Bert Goodrich

Peary and Mabel Rader

Ian 'Mac' Batchelor

John Grimek

Bob Peoples

Oscar Heidenstam

Vic and Armand Tanny

Charles A. Smith

Sam and Joe Loprinzi

Walt Marcy

Jack LaLanne