How did George Hackenschmidt get so JACKED?

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  @NattyLifeYT · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @ProgrammedForDamage · 3 years ago

  Let&apos;s not overlook the fact he also looked absolutely killer in a suit. I might have to get that book.

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  @FiFiFilth · 3 years ago

  Hackenschmidt must have had the most insane stabilizers. It&apos;s absolutely insane, doing a leg press by balancing the bar on your feet. No wonder this guy was a top level wrestler.

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  @theghostofsabertache9049 · 3 years ago

  I would prefer the physique of a bronze era bodybuilder over that of a mass monster any day.

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  @soyanchd5439 · 3 years ago

  HackenChad in 1908: <b>understands progressive overload</b><br>Gym bros 120 years later: E G O &nbsp;L I F T

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  @VanguardJester · 3 years ago

  people who say bronze age body builders look small are the same people who say &quot;6&apos;0ft is average height&quot; and &quot;8 inches is small&quot;

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  @danielsmith8452 · 3 years ago

  I learned in his book that today men are taught to shovel as much food in their mouths as possible and lift for two hours a day to get big and strong. Hackenshmidt and his colleague Arthur Saxon had a completely different idealogy. They taught that looking after every aspect of mental and physical health made you better and stronger. He emphasized not only sleeping well, but taking care of your own skin by not wearing tight clothes, exposing your skin to the sun everyday for a given time, keeping your bed chambers clean because you spend most of your life in there, and much more things that are never brought up when trying to get physically strong. Simply fascinating

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  @rossedwardmiller · 3 years ago

  The most impressive thing is that he built that physique without headphones.

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  @solotopp · 3 years ago (edited)

  How people are saying these guys are small/unimpressive is beyond me. They look jacked af and 99% of the population would be beyond happy if they had a physique like those.

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  @Ease54 · 3 years ago

  I remember reading he was refused induction into the army, because the doctors thought he was so muscular, there had to be something wrong with him.

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  @mydasdriver · 3 years ago

  Can we acknowledge the fact that &quot;Hack&quot; built that physique without steroids and obviously was doing something right in that he lived just short of one hundred years, no modern &quot;advanced&quot; bodybuilders, strength competitors, or fitness stars are coming close to that these days.<br>Just an opinion! <br>By the way, love your channel and what your doing with your videos.

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  @premiumbackgroundmusic · 3 years ago

  What impressed me the most is how well-spoken and smart his writing was, he clearly wasn&apos;t a &quot;meat-head&quot; but a learned athlete and intellectual which I think more gym-bros should strive to be.

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