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the Forgotten Strength Secrets
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Since the Facebook group page for Forgotten Strength Secrets has its limitations, Those of you who are into Old School stuff will be directed here for special goodies like scanned pictures and articles from awesome old strength magazines. I hope that you will participate and scan some of your own great items from your personal collections for all to share. This of course will be a free service to all fans & supporters of Forgotten Strength Secrets.
I am a huge fan of the defunct "Zuver's Gym" of Southern Cal, late 60s.
My friend Reuben Weaver found this gem for me, which later became an excerpt of the Tyler book "West Coast Bodybuilding Scene"
Was this place a lifters dream or what????
This one is a "95 Powerlifting USA article from the coach of my club,
the Twin City Barbell club. You can see his Olympic lifting background's influence on this deadlift routine
Dr Nick 95 PLUSA routine.pdf
I promised more of my friend Pete Vuono's PLUSA articles from the 80s, so here are a few:
Pete Vuono POP series 2 Jan9.docx
(Click the link to read all the articles)
Here is an Awesome Bill Pearl Training article from a '54 Health & Strength issue
See the whole thing here:
Bill Pearl Shoulder Article 54 SH.docx
I just got almost the entire set of the Pioneeers of Power series penned by Pete Vuono who wrote many articles for Powerlifting USA, Muscular Development & Strength & Health, and there are a couple of his articles at the Ditillo Blog spot
I will be sharing these here, starting with the intro to the series, on Chuck Ahrens. Keep in mind, there is an entire chapter about Chuck in the "Forgotten Secrets of the Culver City Westside Barbell club revealed" book available on the "Suggested reading" page here
Pete V POP intro, Chuck A.pdf
Here is another Pete V article from an '80s era Muscular Development article he wrote called
Titans of the Squared Circle ( 3 pages)
Pete V wrestling article1.pdf
Pte V wrestle2.pdf
PeteV wrestle3.pdf
Here is a little excerpt from "Forgotten Strength Secrets of the Culver City Westside Barbell club revealed"
The Muscle Builder from Oct,’66
contained Sipes’ “Triceps Power Cheats” article
