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Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow (1867 - 1925) is probably most known from Olympic body builder award that is a statue shaped like E. Sandow. He has, also, been the author that has been credited as celebrated as the founder of body building. This book is interesting in historical aspect, not as a training manual as it does not contain any good programs. It is written solely for educating tool for his timers about his physical culture and results and not for strenght training even one would like to believe so from its title.

The real interesting point is the bibliography of his life at the part II. Conserning only these aspects I give the book full 5 stars. For true strenght training manuals I say that his books: " "Body Building or the man in making" and "A Study in the Perfect Type of the Human Form" are good for giving set of exercises that are interesting to see or even to try.

The book came without the chart. The book by it's self isn't worth the paper it is written on, nothing but letters about how great the author is. Since I didn"t get the chart I returned the book for a refund.

If the reader overlooks the racial bias which the author has, and it is not very savory, and just remember when it was written, and see it as a exercise book (in fact one of the first exercise books) then there is some good advice in it especially for its time. But I gave the book 3 stars because of the author's bias.