tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71768475409300158272024-03-15T21:10:38.818-04:00NATURALSTRENGTH.com - Old School Weight Training Strength Strongman Power Vintage BodybuildingNaturalStrength.com is an online think-tank, dedicated to truthful drug-free strength training information, (weight training, weightlifting, olympic lifting, powerlifting, strongman (competitive), bodybuilding, physical culture & iron game). Good articles about weight training, strength research, the harmful effects of steroids, the mental aspects of training, and iron game - physical culture history are always wanted. Email articles to the editor: bobwhelan@naturalstrength.comBob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comBlogger815125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-28875059567714546272024-03-12T12:02:00.001-04:002024-03-12T12:54:30.865-04:00Supplementary Exercises - By Jim Duggan Strength and Health was one of my favorite magazines during my early lifting days. By the time I joined Bruno’s in 1983, the best days of S&H- as well as American weightlifting- were certainly in the rear view mirror. Nevertheless, York’s flagship magazine was still capable of putting out quality issues that were devoured by the many long-time readers who couldn’t get enough Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-21340520814776662242024-02-28T05:28:00.000-05:002024-02-28T05:28:34.469-05:00THE MEANS OF WEIGHT TRAINING SUCCESS - LAYOFFS - BY DAVID SEDUNARYYour success and making your body as good as possible, so that it better serves your needs is within your reach. It is yours to attain, providing you follow the means to success and the selection of exercises as follows. LAYOFFS.A person who endeavors to build their body to a stage that they are genetically able to do so, must understand how muscles are developed, if he or she wants to Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-5933659911443660492024-02-24T07:59:00.006-05:002024-02-24T08:23:44.665-05:00Come See a Great Strength Training Clinic - Syosset, NY - By Jamie LaBelleContact Jamie LaBelle for more information. jcoach4134@gmail.com Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-78272997156178690612024-02-14T12:36:00.000-05:002024-02-14T12:36:29.264-05:00Training Atmosphere - By Jim Duggan By the time I joined Bruno’s Health Club in the Summer of 1983, I had been lifting consistently for several years. Each month, I would purchase the various muscle magazines. My favorites were the York publications, Muscular Development and Strength and Health. I had a particular reason for reading Muscular Development: Each month, it would have a feature dedicated to Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-42202290936911145322024-01-18T12:18:00.000-05:002024-01-18T12:18:18.267-05:00THE MEANS TO WEIGHT TRAINING SUCCESS - THE SET–REP SCHEME AND SELECTING THE PROPER POUNDAGES - BY DAVID SEDUNARYYour success and making your body as good as possible, so that it better serves your needs is within your reach. It is yours to attain providing you follow the means to success and the selection of sets and reps and proper poundage. It is important to pick the right exercises, but what is needed is the right use of the right exercises. Therefore picking a suitable set and rep scheme is the Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-72665306415358625992024-01-14T10:29:00.000-05:002024-01-14T10:29:22.906-05:00The Most Valuable Tool In The Training Arsenal - By Jim Duggan Over the years, there have been many articles written about the importance of keeping a training notebook. I’ve even mentioned it a few times myself. If you’re serious about your workouts, then it only makes sense that you should keep a training notebook, journal, diary, whatever name you want to apply to the written records of your workouts. &Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-44454745050731849852023-12-24T06:35:00.000-05:002023-12-24T06:35:36.612-05:00THE MEANS OF WEIGHT TRAINING SUCCESS - SELECTION OF EXERCISES - BY DAVID SEDUNARYYour success and making your body as good as possible, so that it better serves your needs is within your reach. It is yours to attain providing you follow the means to success and the selection of exercises as follows. YOUR SELECTION OF EXERCISES.The meat of your program is the selection of exercises you select and organize into your workout program. If you are tall and have long legs and Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-73228682240579190792023-12-15T08:55:00.002-05:002023-12-15T08:55:46.518-05:00A Man of Iron Speaks - By Jim Duggan Last month, I wrote about an article which first appeared in the June 1972 issue of Strength and Health magazine. As I had mentioned, there were numerous quality articles in that particular edition of Bob Hoffman’s flagship magazine. To underscore that point, this month I am going to write about another article which caught my attention. The article is about the former Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-26473044440437045932023-11-13T10:40:00.000-05:002023-11-13T10:40:22.904-05:00Priority Training - or Training Your Weak Areas - By Jim Duggan I love looking through back issues of the classic muscle magazines. Today’s muscle magazines, at least those that are still around, have absolutely NO appeal to me. Pumping, steroids, split routines, and other silly ideas are everywhere today. Even if there are few, if any, actual magazines around, there is no shortage of foolishness being disseminated online and via Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-67167627938769597382023-11-01T21:20:00.000-04:002023-11-01T21:20:41.746-04:00THE MEANS TO WEIGHT TRAINING SUCCESS - THE TIME ELEMENT - BY DAVID SEDUNARYHaving just moved home, and unpacking all my many educational books, and weight training diaries and filing them on the new bookshelf, I came across notes I have taken over my years of training in Broken Hill.Of late with all the confusion and upheaval of moving to a new home 400 kilometers from my home of some 51 years, I have not had the inclination to write for Natural Strength. Reading these Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-27951564836127190732023-10-21T14:20:00.000-04:002023-10-21T14:20:15.797-04:00In Praise of Folly: 2023 - By Jim Duggan I would like to start out by saying that this article is in NO way an attempt to summarize, comment on, or review the essay of the same name written by Dutch satirist Desiderius Erasmus in the 16th century. I will attempt to write about lifting and getting stronger, so just be patient. To be perfectly honest, I know next to nothing about Erasmus or any of the writers of his time Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-32460571994430514262023-09-18T10:25:00.001-04:002023-09-18T10:34:20.693-04:00Appreciation Through Discipline - By Jim Duggan The May 1969 edition of Muscular Development magazine was definitely one of the better issues. The Table of Contents reads like a Who’s Who of Iron Game legends. Vic Boff, Reg Park, Jim Witt, along with regulars Bob Hoffman and John Grimek, all contributed articles for the doubtless benefit of the readers of this fine York publication. When this issue first appeared, I was Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-81420367480969424392023-08-20T07:04:00.000-04:002023-08-20T07:04:42.424-04:00In Search Of A Small Pond - By Jim Duggan I stopped training in a commercial gym several years ago. Fortunately, it was before Covid so I didn’t have to scramble to find a place to train when everything shut down during the Spring of 2020. I have never regretted my decision to do all of my lifting at home. Being a “cellar dweller, “ even though I have no cellar, or a “garage gorilla,” even though I don’t have a Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-40445013327173154432023-07-28T09:24:00.000-04:002023-07-28T09:24:04.696-04:0059 in 59 - By Jim Duggan When I was growing up, there used to be an electronics company called “Crazy Eddie.” Like many businesses during that time, it was their commercials that stood out. The commercials featured an actor, I forget who it was, who the role of Eddie. The loud, energetic ads would always end with “Eddie” loudly exclaiming “Crazy Eddie’s prices are INSANE!” They must have Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-46153038311727349492023-07-18T21:27:00.000-04:002023-07-18T21:27:02.319-04:00What motivates you and me to train - By David SedunaryI am often asked “what motivates you to train David, you have been at it for 56 years, aren’t you sick of it, why aren’t you bigger? Are you stronger? You do not look like the modern body builders, what do you get out of it ?" It goes on and on. There are only some people such as Bob Whelan my mentor and coach, who gives me inspiration. So they are the people you look forward to talking to and Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-60054354883625757802023-06-13T08:03:00.000-04:002023-06-13T08:03:31.134-04:00Muscular Weight - By Jim Duggan By the Spring of 1981, Strength and Health magazine had seen its best days ( the magazine would fold five years later) but it was still capable of putting out some quality articles. The May 1981 edition certainly qualifies as one of the “good ones.” To begin with, Bob Hoffman’s editorial was devoted to the brand new Weightlifting Hall of Fame at Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-87792906551709857352023-05-14T08:09:00.000-04:002023-05-14T08:09:30.021-04:00Deadlifts In The Grass - By Jim Duggan I was going to title this article “Deadlift Variations,” because it’s basically about different ways to provide variety to doing deadlifts. However, the song “Grazing In The Grass” has been playing in my mind ( thank you Sirius XM) and I thought that it would be a nice title for a Deadlift article. Incidentally, the version to which I am referring is the Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-85309248245595019182023-05-06T17:45:00.005-04:002023-05-07T12:04:07.501-04:00Peary Rader: The Iron Man - By RJ Hicks MS, CSCSPeary Rader was an early bodybuilder, weight lifter and strength training writer who left a huge impact on the Iron game. As a young, undersized boy he built himself up with heavy, high repetition back squats. In just a few years of training his weight shot up 80 pounds as he focuses on lifting heavier and heavier weights in high rep back squat, eventually earning local success in competition as Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-7766288036998771402023-04-29T09:29:00.000-04:002023-04-29T09:29:03.579-04:00A Few 'Old School' Success Principles - Message from Rich SadivIn my experiences as the head performance coach at Parisi Speed School Fair Lawn, I regularly receive questions related to my overall coaching philosophy. These discussions often gravitate around a central theme: the concept of so-called “old-school” training methodology in a modern setting. This approach can be jarring for athletes at first, as they aren’t always used to these enduring Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-76004791800629111592023-04-15T08:00:00.001-04:002023-04-15T08:00:24.453-04:00Forty-Six in Six Minutes - By Jim Duggan Four years ago, on April 6, 2019, the Iron Game lost one of its finest people, with the passing of Dr. Ken Leistner. Quite often, when we lose someone special, the years that pass seem to play tricks on our sense of time. There are times when it seems like only yesterday when we received the sad news. Other times, is seems like it happened decades ago. Yet four years Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-38456490849460571012023-04-09T07:01:00.000-04:002023-04-09T07:01:55.220-04:00Improvement in Training and Life - By David SedunaryWhen I was a young man growing up my Father gave me good street smart advice, none of this woke advice you hear and see today, which makes one near vomit with the thought of it .I believe the best piece of advice my Father gave me was : “Never stop trying to improve yourself son.” Improvement means “The state or process of improving.”Firstly determine yourself what your major goals are in life, Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-40938598505413774802023-03-30T20:20:00.000-04:002023-03-30T20:20:55.967-04:00A Great Training Message - from Dick Conner At 85 I still train about 15 people a week. I have trained one man for 55 years and another for 60 years.The second man is 76 years old and still enters deadlift contests. His goal is to lift 400 lbs in the near future.In his last contest he pulled 378 lbs – so he is well on his way.The two men never work out more than one time a week. Even less most of the Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-63794243434421088642023-03-09T19:34:00.000-05:002023-03-09T19:34:46.263-05:00Who Is The Strongest? - By Jim Duggan Anyone who is reading this is interested in strength. The building, testing, demonstration of strength. In all its forms, categories, sub-categories. For as long as man has walked the Earth, there have been tests, challenges, and contests devoted to the goal of physical strength. Throughout recorded history, and even before, men ( and women ) have challenged Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-67133654568734092422023-03-03T12:11:00.001-05:002023-03-03T12:11:38.821-05:00The fixation of training four to six days a week - By David SedunaryIt has always amazed me how a person can weight train 4 to 6 days a week, lift heavy, be consistent, train to failure, give your bloody all, enjoy it and benefit from it. I don’t believe it can be humanly possible unless the person per se is a genetic freak, is putting into himself steroids, or growth hormones which enable that person to recover, and to be able to have the recovery ability and Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176847540930015827.post-58117520755446343142023-02-11T10:13:00.000-05:002023-02-11T10:13:05.929-05:00A Favorite Training Routine…..From Seventy Years Ago - By Jim Duggan A sad fact of life is that very few lifters have a sense of history. What I mean by this is that many people who train have little or no knowledge of those who have made their name in the Iron Game. If it didn’t happen within the last ten years, then it didn’t take place at all. It’s human nature to forget the past, and the world of physical culture is no exception. &Bob Whelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13060993828934513071noreply@blogger.com