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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Weightlifting through the years


Today's theme is weightlifting though the years,
starting with this fellow from about 1900.

 

7 comments:

  1. Would it have been common to work out in the raw back then? I know there were a few men at the Y who worked out naked, before females were admitted to the Y.

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    1. I hope so. There are some photographs of men's gymnasia of that era, showing members exercising nude.

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    2. I think we need to rent a time machine to go back and find out.

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    3. I recall reading somewhere that Sandow conducted his gym sessions in the nude.

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    4. Interesting, but he posed with that damned fake fig leaf.

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  2. Or were they exercising their nude members?

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