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

In a sense, that art — that procedure— is something that has been completely lost in the last couple of generations. People now look on the Internet, maybe send an email. They get in formation. I don’t think it’s valued as much. I don’t think it’s applied with patience. I remember when we owned the Iron Island Gym. Guys would come in and we gave them routines. They’d use it for three weeks and say it didn’t work, or guys would train for six months and when they didn’t win the New York State Power lifting Championship, so they decided to do something else. That’s not how it was in the 60s. We got the information sometimes through an arduous jour ney. We were patient. We applied the knowledge. We really found out if it worked for us. After meeting Dave and seeing him a number of times at Le roy’s store, I became a fan because he was in the magazines, which gave him instant credibility. He was big. He was strong. He certainly was something I would have aspired to be had I been interested in physique contests. I wasn’t, but I did aspire to be very big and very strong like Dave.

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