Training Methodologies of the 1960's by Dr. Ken E. Leistner

You had to find out who was doing something, go and watch, and then ask your questions. There was no Internet. There wasn’t a great deal of communication through the mail. You had to go and get the information yourself. For me, this ex tended to traveling down to York, Pennsylvania. I hitchhiked to York Barbell a number of times. Later with much hilarity, in a story I’d written about a few times in a number of publications, my later training partner Jack Lawrence and I traveled to York in a blizzard with no windshield wipers. We purchased a power rack we literally threw across the hood of the car in a blizzard so we could stay inside to watch the lifting. Only later did we try to secure it to the roof and then drive the five hours back to New York with a more or less secured rack on the roof. There was great value in being motivated enough to seek out information. If you were motivated to travel and get the in formation from people you didn’t know, nor had been intro duced to and who were certainly intimidating to watch — al though 99% of them couldn’t have been nicer once you made

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