I'll admit it, although born in the early 1990s, I was a Hulkamaniac. Aside from growing up during the WWF attitude era, where individuals like Triple H, The Rock, Mark Henry and Stone Cold were living embodiments of strength, I regularly went through back catalogues of… Continue reading Wrestling and Weightlifting: The WWF and Fitness in the 1980s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIPv2TqXZ8 The internet can be a truly wonderful way to occupy one's time and recapture childhood memories. As a child of the 1990s, who grew up with television shows from the 1980s, I had two twin loves, wrestling and the World's Strongest Man (WSM) competitions. Sadly for me, television broadcasting in Ireland during that time… Continue reading Two Worlds Collide: Bill Kazmaier and Cactus Jack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycGlTq8Bb4 Wrestling has always held a special place in my heart. Thanks to my grandparent's old VHS collection, I grew up with the WWF and later the WCW firmly moulding my impressionable mind. Like countless others I was a 'Hulkamanic' growing up but I was always fascinated by the Iron Sheik. Known for kickstarting Hulk… Continue reading The Iron Sheik’s Persian Club Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXadANmrXc Admittedly a little bit longer than the normal videos I post here, the following film is too interesting to pass up on. Produced in the late 1980s in the final years of the Soviet Union, the film is part propaganda and part instructional exercises. Done to show the training needed to be a champion… Continue reading ‘Speed and Power Exercises for Wrestlers’, a Soviet Documentary from the 1980s
I'll admit it, although born in the early 1990s, I was a Hulkamaniac. Aside from growing up during the WWF attitude era, where individuals like Triple H, The Rock, Mark Henry and Stone Cold were living embodiments of strength, I regularly went through back catalogues of… Continue reading Wrestling and Weightlifting: The WWF and Fitness in the 1980s
Thanks to a schedule that keeps me on the road over two hundred days out of the year, this area has become my specialty. Charles Glass and one of his partners, noted nutritionist Mike Watson, have given me so much valuable guidance related to eating, but none may have been more important for me than… Continue reading Triple H, ‘Eating on the Road’, Triple H’s Approach to a Better Body (New York, 2000)
Picture the scene. It’s 1911 and famed Wrestler George Hackenschmidt has finally retired from the squared circle. Looking forward to a life of relaxation and leisure, the man from Estonia grants you the privilege of an interview. In his strength and wrestling career, Hackenschmidt has popularised the Bear Hug, the Hack Squat and even set… Continue reading Training with Titans: George Hackenschmidt
Picture the scene. It’s 1911 and famed Wrestler George Hackenschmidt has finally retired from the squared circle. Looking forward to a life of relaxation and leisure, the man from Estonia grants you the privilege of an interview. In his strength and wrestling career, Hackenschmidt has popularised the Bear Hug, the Hack Squat and even set… Continue reading Training with Titans: George Hackenschmidt
