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

I occasionally took notes in a school notebook and then came back the following day to finish the magazine. When I got to the point I could actually buy them, I saved them and more or less memorized every issue. Like most young, enthusiastic trainees, this led to severe over-training, because month to month I tried to incorporate whatever material I gathered in the most recent issue and add — add, not substitute — add it to what I had already been doing. It didn’t take long to realize this method wasn’t going to work, so I began to pick and choose what I thought was the best ex ercises and best approach to training. I picked those exercises I could actually do on my limited amount of equipment and could continuously do. If I didn’t get bigger, I certainly got stronger, and I was very fortunate to be able to do so. In 1962 while in high school, I traveled to Manhattan. I start ed doing that regularly because I was already working on Sat urdays on my father’s truck or in the shop located in Man hattan. I would take time after work to visit Leroy Colbert’s health food store on 84th Street and Broadway. Leroy was a tremendous bodybuilder.

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