Arthur saxon april 28 1878 august 6 1921 born arthur hennig and nicknamed the iron master was a german strongman and circus performer from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. Europeanlibraries digitizing sponsor wellcome library contributor wellcome library language english.
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Arthur saxon height weight. Arthur saxon challenges the world. Weight lifting by arthur saxon the iron master. Most average naturals will never reach 200lbs at 510 without getting fat. His weight is about 212 lbs chest measurement 47 or 48ins biceps and neck each 17 12 ins. A country famous for classical music beer sausages hairy women and genocide. One such strongman that took him up on the challenge was none other than eugen sandow.
Opening this book of 1910 gives you the feeling youve opened the training manual of strongmen of yore. And in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century it was also home to some of the strongest and craziest men of all time. The strongest man of all time. For now at least the best book on the training methods of the old time strongmen that ive seen. Health and strength collection wellcomelibrary. The text book of weight lifting by saxon arthur.
Publication date 1908 publisher london. It was not long after my arrival in london at the age of 21 that i met a world renowned weightlifter who was fated to have a great influence upon my strength career the late arthur saxon. The difference between liftingweights for health exercise purposes versus lifting weights tobecome ridiculously strong and what you need to do to change yourresults. I lived in fulham where the local music hall is a small but not unimportant one as the granvillevisiting the hall one evening accompanied by my wife i. Saxon is best known for the bent press a lift in which he was far superior to any other strongman setting a world record of 168 kg 370 lbs which remains unbroken to this day. Im sorry but the weight sounds ridiculous.
How to spend a little time ontrick exercises to be able to wow. I meet and defeat the champion wrestler of ceylon. Most places show the numbers in the table above. 200lbs at 510 equal a huge lifter even by todays standards. Addeddate 2016 03 29 160702 bookplateleaf. Of these the most famous and intriguing was a chap called arthur saxon.
Indeed all three saxon brothers could get 400 plus pounds to arms length in the bent press but could not stand erect. I spent a lot of time digging for arthur saxons weight and height. In height arthur saxon is 5ft. There were three witnesses and the weight was weighed. He offered one hundred pounds sterling to anyone who could lift his barbell that was said to weigh 325 pounds. Arthur saxon challenged anyone and everyone of the time to weightlifting contests.
Saxon who in adulthood usually weighed 200 205 pounds was the first man to bent press 300. My friendship with arthur saxon by thomas inch.
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