Ep. 2 - History of Lifting Part 1 (1700s-1900s)
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eric and Omar are joined by Dr. Dominic Morais and Dr. Ben Pollack, not only accomplished strength athletes but also experts with PhDs in Physical Culture and Sport Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. The guests take us through the history that leads to modern lifting culture. We trace the strongmen and strongwomen doing Vaudeville performances in the 1700s to the early 1900s where the earliest organized strength sports were forming and when the culture-shifting Eugen Sandow emerged, planting the seed for bodybuilding.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone. Welcome to the Iron Culture podcast. This is our first episode where it's not just me and Omar, you know, sharing romantic musings between one another. We've actually have legitimately important guests on. And we're going to be covering the history of lifting to really give the foundation of this podcast where we hope to help |
| 0:23.3 | all you folks who love lifting to find a little more meaning and why you do it. And to do that, |
| 0:28.0 | we need to discuss kind of the history of how we got here today. So I have with me Dr. |
| 0:33.9 | Dominic Moraes and Dr. Ben Pollack, who are joining us. And they are both physical culture |
| 0:41.5 | experts. And thanks for coming on, guys. Thanks for having us. Most definitely. I really appreciate it. |
| 0:49.9 | Awesome. Awesome. So I want to, you know, take some onus off of you for being narcissists and |
| 0:56.6 | do a little introduction of you, but then I'll hand it over just so you don't feel that awkward |
| 1:00.8 | whole like, hey, tell us why you're awesome thing. But we'll start, you're comfortable saying |
| 1:05.8 | how you're awesome you are? Good. Good. Hey, if you want to talk yourself up, we have no problem |
| 1:10.2 | with posting. Yeah, absolutely not. Yeah, that's want to talk yourself up, we have no problem with posting. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, absolutely not. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | That's a big part of physical culture, as we'll probably see. |
| 1:16.4 | So, yeah, first we've got Dr. Ben Pollock. |
| 1:21.0 | I think the first thing to state is that you were really strong. |
| 1:24.6 | So Ben Pollock is a world record holding powerlifter. |
| 1:28.7 | I believe he's currently the first ranked in the world in the under 198 class for raw with wraps. I believe you have a |
| 1:34.4 | world record total at around 925 kilos, which is just ridiculous. And beyond being unreasonably strong, |
| 1:43.3 | you're also a man of academics. You got your BS from |
| 1:48.0 | University of Virginia, and you did your PhD at the University of Austin, Texas, studying physical |
| 1:53.3 | culture and sports studies. And I believe you did your dissertation on Jack Lane. Is that correct? |
| 1:59.7 | It is, yeah. That is awesome. That is |
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