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

Most of the guys, and this included Olympic lifters and odd-implement lifters, which later progressed to the sport of powerlifting — Olympic lifters, bodybuilders and powerlift ers — everyone trained more or less around a foundation of the same basic exercises. Everybody did overhead pressing and bench pressing. The Olympic lifters specialized and did more low-repetition pressing. The bodybuilders did higher repetitions. The pow erlifters overhead pressed to augment their bench pressing. Everybody benched, including the Olympic lifters. No one worried about having tight shoulders or anything like that. This was just seen as another exercise one needed to do. Everybody benchpressed; bodybuilders perhaps with higher repetitions and more sets. Powerlifters specialized more on triples and singles. Olympic lifters also spent a lot of time doing bench presses. Everyone squatted. Almost everyone did front squats. Front squats were not the exclusive province of Olympic lifters then. The powerlifters did them to augment regular squats. The bodybuilders did them to provide direct work for the quadri ceps. Many of the bodybuilders did a ton of front squats and

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