I was phenomenally lucky, so I will tell our story, will try to tell you something of what happened over there. There have been war books written by other men who were better writers than I—more fitted to place what they saw upon the printed page. But I don't believe a book about America's participation in the war has been written by a man who spent days, weeks and months in intensive fighting at or in front of the front, as my comrades and I did. There is nothing beautiful or particularly glorious about this story. I have told it as well as I could, but have been able to give you only a faint idea of the conditions we encountered during the five worst days any unit of the American army experienced in France—the five days of our battle of Fismette. You could fully appreciate its horrors only if you were there. Never was a group of men harder pressed by superior forces of the enemy, or more ill equipped to fight off those attacks than were we. No artillery support during most of the fighting, no trench mortars, no hand or rifle grenades, just a moderate amount of pistol, rifle and machine gun ammunition. No food, proper medical attention, or the opportunity to bury the dead. Our men in that battle, the handful who held the front of the front lines, covered themselves with undying glory. The telling of this story will give a better idea of what we did in France than have other war books I have seen. It tells the unvarnished truth about how we lived, slept, hiked, fought and died over there. There is another generation of men since those distant days of 1918. If this book does its part in showing them the folly, the uselessness, the tragedy of war, I'll feel well repaid for the time I spent in writing it." -Bob Hoffman This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1940 classic. The text remains exactly as written. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com
Being a gallery of pictures and biographies of old time strong men." - Bob Hoffman Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com
Broad shoulders are the most outstanding characteristic of a real man. Throughout the ages, broad, well muscled shoulders have constantly been admired. Proof of this is the fact that all men wear coats with padded shoulders. The advice and instruction this book offers will assure for you a broad, manly pair of shoulders, if you exercise as instructed. This is by far the most complete book ever written on the development of the shoulders. It will provide the answer to those thousands of body builders who seek the ultimate in strength and development. If you already have good shoulders, the instruction in this book will aid you to obtain still more impressive ones, and if you are a beginner, it will help you build a pair of broad, wide sweeping shoulders which will make your appearance more impressive, make you stronger, more forceful, more capable and confident." -Bob Hoffman This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1946 classic. The text remains exactly as written. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com
The man with a big chest almost without exception is superhealthy, usually healthy in proportion to the size of his chest. There are exceptions to all rules, but the man with the biggest chest should be, and most often is, healthiest because of the size of his chest; while the man with just big arms or broad shoulders is not necessarily healthy on account of them, but usually is healthy because the exercises which made possible his development have built a big chest and unusual internal strength too. As we will consider farther on in the chapters on anatomy, the upper chest contains a large part, a highly important part, of the vital organs—the heart and the lungs, in particular; and in the lower part of the chest, the stomach, liver, kidneys and spleen, as well as many important glands. When a man possesses a large, roomy chest box, there is plenty of space for these organs to develop, to increase in size, with a simultaneous increase in internal .strength and vigor." - Bob Hoffman
Few men grow to manhood without at some time during their early life passing through a period when their greatest desire is to be a strong man. They may know some man who is especially strong and wish to be like him. They may have visited the circus or the theatre and seen a powerful man who is their ideal. For at least a period they are filled with a desire to emulate the deeds of their temporary hero. There is no subject quite as fascinating to most young men as the subject of strength and development. The principal source of their conversation may be the deeds of their favorite athletic hero: a baseball player such as Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio; a football player like Biggie Goldberg, the great Pittsburgh halfback, or Ernie Nevers, the Pacific Coast fullback star of a few years ago; it may be George O'Brien of the movies, or one of the series of movie Tar- zans—Buster Crabbe, Johnny Weismuller, or Glen Morris. But the strength of the man is what they really admire, for it was strength and development more than any other physical or mental characteristic which made these men stars of the playing field or the movies. If you wish to prove my assertion that strength is more admired or talked about than any other subject among young fellows, start a discussion among your friends about strong men. Just tell your friends that a relative of yours, or some other friend or acquaintance, is certainly the strongest fellow in town, and then listen to the outbursts of rhetoric ..." -Bob HoffmanThis is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1940 classic. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com
Get more from Bob Hoffman and other great authors at www.StrongmanBooks.com Bob Hoffman was probably the man most responsible for bringing weightlifting to the masses with his York Barbell Company. Contains 51 principles of health, diet and success such as the following: York Advanced Methods of Weight Training The Best Time to Train It's Important to Breathe Properly How To Use The York Bar Bell Courses The Amount of Weight to Use Know Your Muscles Keep A Record Don't Neglect Your Dumbell Training Why Some Succeed and Others Fail Long Successful York Training Principles This is followed by 16 Time Proven York Training Principles: Time Proven York Training Principles The Single Progressive System The Double Progressive System The Three Days A Week Training System The Five Days A Week Training System Irregular Training Limited Programs Other Schemes of Progression The York Heavy and Light System The Compound System The York Set System Upper and Lower Body Training System Flushing The Muscles The Overload System Specialization The Thousand Exercises Advanced Routines Lastly, this book contains a total of 24 Complete Advanced Training Courses. COURSE NO. 1 THE POWER PLUS COURSE COURSE NO. 2 THE POWER COURSE COURSE NO. 3 THE WEIGHT LIFTING COURSE COURSE NO. 4 AN UNUSUAL COURSE COURSE NO. 5 AN EXCELLENT HEAVY DUMBBELL COURSE COURSE NO. 6 LEVERAGE EXERCISES COURSE NO. 7 BOB HOFFMAN'S FAVORITE BARBELL COURSE SIMPLIFIED STYLE COURSE NO. 8 ONE HEAVY DUMBBELL COURSE COURSE NO. 9 THE FOOTBELL COURSE COURSE NO. 10 CHEST EXPANDER SYSTEM COURSE NO. 11 INCLINED BOARD TRAINING COURSE NO. 12 PULLEY TRAINING COURSE NO. 13 SWING BELL COURSE COURSE NO. 14 MR. AMERICA COURSE COURSE NO. 15 MR. AMERICA COURSE COURSE NO. 16 NECK DEVELOPING COURSE COURSE NO. 17 ARM COURSE NO. 1 WITH BARBELL COURSE NO. 18 ARM COURSE NO. 2 WITH 5 IN 1 MUSCLE BUILDER COURSE NO. 19 SHOULDER BROADENING COURSE NO. 20 CHEST DEVELOPING COURSE COURSE NO. 21 DEVELOPING THE UPPER BACK COURSE NO. 22 DEVELOPING THE LOWER BACK COURSE NO. 23 SUPER ABDOMINAL COURSE COURSE NO. 24 DEVELOPING THE UPPER LEGS
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If all you want is to keep fit in the easiest possible way you can do this with the simplified course contained in this group of courses in a few minutes a day, three or four times a week, lifting only moderate poundages. Most of the other types of barbell men enumerated, will obtain all they desire in a physical way from the Four Famous York Courses which have developed more champions of strength and development, more lifting champions, more physique champions, than all other courses combined. Those who desire athletic improvement will succeed best by following the exercises of the Four York Courses, with particular emphasis on the weight lifting courses. Although this course can be used by any man who is not a complete beginner at weight training, it is primarily designed for the man who desires the limit in muscle, in strength and de- velopment. For the man who wants big, strong muscles in the right places so that he will have perfect proportions, the man who may wish to enter physique contests and win great honors and then go on to teaching others by running a gymnasium of his own." - Bob Hoffman This is an original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1951 classic. The text remains exactly as written. This book has many pages with old photographs and illustrations. This is a must have book for your physical culture library. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com
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