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

We rekindled the old relationship, although I’m not sure he remembered me and he certainly didn’t remember me as well as I remembered him. He had already won the Mr. America contest and a number of other major titles. It had been a couple of years since we had seen each other, but he could not have been nicer and gave us great training information. He explained his training had been at the Dungeon, which was another place that was really fascinating. For those of you who have seen Dick Tyler’s 1961 film, Proj ect Power, quite a bit of it was filmed in the Dungeon, which was the basement of an old hotel. It was dark, damp, dank and dingy. Guys would sit on reinforced milk crates while pressing 150 or 180-pound dumbbells. They had wooden planks set up across cinder blocks, and guys would bench 500 lying on that. It was a testament to making do with what you had, very much like I had with my truck axle and flywheels, and then pro gressing to the point of national prominence through moti vation and hard work. It didn’t take fancy equipment. It didn’t take very much equipment at all.

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