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

This provided the basis for my strength training education. Everything I did after that followed much the same learning procedure. When Nautilus became popular — something new and very mysterious in 1970 — there came a time a number of years later, though not too many years later, when I was considered to be one of the original guys in the second wave of original Nautilus guys. Not only did I go down to Florida, ask questions and sleep in my van in the parking lot of the factory, I got a job in the factory. I got a job working for Arthur Jones, doing demolition in his new home. I got to live in that house as I worked on it and had free access to Arthur. I became a tractor-trailer driver for Nautilus, and wound up working in the prototype shop, and in the machine shop for seven years. After moving back to the New York area, I would be called upon to do special projects for Arthur. It was a matter of get ting firsthand experience, going to where the information was, learning as much as possible and applying what I felt would work for me.

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