In height arthur saxon is 5ft. Addeddate 2016 03 29 160702 bookplateleaf.
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Arthur saxon height weight. Weight lifting by arthur saxon the iron master. The strongest man of all time. I lived in fulham where the local music hall is a small but not unimportant one as the granvillevisiting the hall one evening accompanied by my wife i. And in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century it was also home to some of the strongest and craziest men of all time. Publication date 1908 publisher london. There were three witnesses and the weight was weighed.
Most average naturals will never reach 200lbs at 510 without getting fat. A country famous for classical music beer sausages hairy women and genocide. He offered one hundred pounds sterling to anyone who could lift his barbell that was said to weigh 325 pounds. Indeed all three saxon brothers could get 400 plus pounds to arms length in the bent press but could not stand erect. Im sorry but the weight sounds ridiculous. Opening this book of 1910 gives you the feeling youve opened the training manual of strongmen of yore.
One such strongman that took him up on the challenge was none other than eugen sandow. Most places show the numbers in the table above. For now at least the best book on the training methods of the old time strongmen that ive seen. Of these the most famous and intriguing was a chap called arthur saxon. 200lbs at 510 equal a huge lifter even by todays standards. The text book of weight lifting by saxon arthur.
Arthur saxon challenges the world. Arthur saxon april 28 1878 august 6 1921 born arthur hennig and nicknamed the iron master was a german strongman and circus performer from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. I spent a lot of time digging for arthur saxons weight and height. Arthur saxon challenged anyone and everyone of the time to weightlifting contests. It was not long after my arrival in london at the age of 21 that i met a world renowned weightlifter who was fated to have a great influence upon my strength career the late arthur saxon. Saxon is best known for the bent press a lift in which he was far superior to any other strongman setting a world record of 168 kg 370 lbs which remains unbroken to this day.
Europeanlibraries digitizing sponsor wellcome library contributor wellcome library language english. His weight is about 212 lbs chest measurement 47 or 48ins biceps and neck each 17 12 ins. Health and strength collection wellcomelibrary. My friendship with arthur saxon by thomas inch. How to spend a little time ontrick exercises to be able to wow. The difference between liftingweights for health exercise purposes versus lifting weights tobecome ridiculously strong and what you need to do to change yourresults.
I meet and defeat the champion wrestler of ceylon. Saxon who in adulthood usually weighed 200 205 pounds was the first man to bent press 300.