Ep. 9 - History of Lifting Part 2 (1900-1950s)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Eric and Omar are joined again by Dr. Dominic Morais, Physical Culture and Sport Studies scholar, to discuss the emergence of the “Iron Game” in the early to mid 1900’s. We learn what it was like to be a lifter when Muscle Magazines emerged. Communities formed around shared experiences created by the stories told in magazine columns. This contemporary history would be the first battle grounds between magazine owners, athlete icons, “gurus” and training philosophies. During this era Olympic Lifting underwent changes, bodybuilding became a legitimate separate endeavour and powerlifting would also formalize.

Further Resources:
1. https://www.starkcenter.org/
2. https://www.mbpowercenter.com/powerprof

Dominic (@brainybrawn)

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to another episode of Iron Culture, the podcast.
0:05.5	I'm joined by my co-host, host.
0:08.4	We don't make distinctions here, but Brother in Iron, Eric Helms.
0:13.6	Thank you for joining me once again.
0:15.5	It's a privilege to be doing this Iron Culture thing with you again,
0:18.5	and to have our first repeat guest, Dr. Dominic, more A's.
0:24.3	Yeah, Dr. More A's than B.
0:26.1	Dr. Dom, aka Dr. Domination, don't ask how that nickname came to be.
0:31.6	But this is the kernel of this podcast idea when myself and Ericic first started talking about it the origins were
0:39.3	historical where we wanted to take a historical look at the lifting culture as a whole that's the name
0:43.7	iron culture so now we have a historical cultural and then a scientific approach to lifting but history
0:50.0	was very much an important part of it and eric actually made me order two books, Mr. USA,
0:56.6	and then it's Muscle Smoking Mears.
1:00.8	Yeah, Randy Roaches, Muscle Smoking Mears,
1:02.9	and then John Fares, the tragic history of an American icon,
1:08.2	the story of Mr. America.
1:10.5	Yeah, and so we had our first episode with Ben Pollock and Dominic Mourdes taking a look at the history
1:17.0	of lifting from the 1700s into the 1900s.
1:20.2	This is going to be a sequel.
1:22.0	We do recommend that you listen to that first episode.
1:24.9	If however you haven't and you just want to listen to this episode,
1:28.2	it's all good. We're going to take a look basically from the 1900s all the way into the 1960s.
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