'.there are a great many amateurs who are so infatuated with biceps development that they never take the trouble to acquire the bodily strength of even the average day laborer.'Īlmost a hundred freakin' years ago and Calvert was already seeing guys over-focused training abs, benching, and building their arms!įortunately, the rest of the book discusses general methods to build total body strength and size. 'In some localities, there is a vogue for lifting barbells while lying flat on the back.' If you pick up a magazine devoted to exercises, you are almost sure to find pictures showing young men with their bodies bent forward so as to make the muscles on the front of the abdomen stand out in ridges.' '.the development of the abdominal muscles has become almost a fad with some physical culturists.

But throughout the book, he drops multiple hints about a different training mindset on the horizon. The training style Calvert advocated was along the lines of 'train for strength and muscular size will follow,' a popular and effective approach that continues in modern times.

Back in 1924, what we just call 'training' today was more broadly known as 'physical culture' and Alan Calvert, then editor of Strength magazine and owner of Milo Barbell Company, wrote Super Strength to share the benefits of strength-focused lifting. Your great-great-grandfather was probably a bro lifter.

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