George Hackenschmidt, Bodybuilder

"As a principal rule I should stipulate for regularity of training. There are only two principal means of acquiring strength. EXERCISE and PERSEVERANCE."
- George Hackenschmidt (1908)

George Hackenschmidt, author of the 1908 bodybuilding guide “The Way To Live” is best known for having invented the hack squat and bench press, but can be credited more generally for introducing a general awareness of anatomy to bodybuilding and the notion of training the heads of a muscle individually.

Here’s a series of him not wrestling, as he usually did, but on display as a model and bodybuilder.

See also our write-up on George Hackenschmidt’s remarkable wrestling career.

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