The Strongest Men on Earth

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The Strongest Men on Earth

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The Strongest Men on Earth:

This book covers olde time strongmen acts and the culture of fitness during 1800s/early 1900s. While it mainly focuses on the figureheads, their stage acts, and the eccentrics/con artists of the era, it also goes into areas like weightlifting, boxing, wrestling, ju jitsu, club bell swinging. There's a lot to get through, and most of the history i found dry, but there was enough here that interested me about the events themselves and the psychos that partook.

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Is it available (to lazy t o check myself) as a REAL book?
You`ll toughen up.Unless you have a serious medical condition commonly refered to as
"being a pussy".


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Yeah Bobby, available in hardcover.

Should mention there isn't a lot of training info in there. I guess it's more a historical text than anything.

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Looks cool, I may check it out.
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Luke wrote:Yeah Bobby, available in hardcover.

Should mention there isn't a lot of training info in there. I guess it's more a historical text than anything.
Wait, so this is a book about anal sex then?
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baffled wrote:
Luke wrote:Yeah Bobby, available in hardcover.

Should mention there isn't a lot of training info in there. I guess it's more a historical text than anything.
Wait, so this is a book about anal sex then?
Grease and GO! :takitass:




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Re: The Strongest Men on Earth

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Hahah it goes very easy on the gay, given Sandow's preferences.

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