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

Of course, the sense of athleticism is a concept that just no longer exists. It isn’t in the consciousness of the bodybuilding public. As far as the lifters are concerned, a sense of athleticism isn’t in their consciousness either. They’re interested in the numbers. They’re interested in hav ing a big squat, a big bench and a big deadlift. Nothing else really matters. Health doesn’t matter either. This is one of the things from the 60s where we began to see a deterioration of an adherence to practices that promoted good health. Even with guys who were early steroid users — and early drug users because the recreational drugs became a very ma jor part of the bodybuilding culture — there was a continuing awareness one needed to follow what was called the physical cultural lifestyle that included proper eating, proper rest and proper living or, for lack of a better term, proper living pat terns. One of the things everybody did who was either involved in bodybuilding, powerlifting or Olympic lifting was to eat a diet

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