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Post by korak on Jul 2, 2019 23:37:22 GMT -5
Ok I know R.E.H was among other things an avid Physical Culturalist/Weight lifter and am myself the same thing and restrict my training methods to the 1800's through 1939 which is before bodybuilding became its own thing and am training using the late George Hackenschmidt's training methods laid out in his book The Way to Live.
Anyway I am trying to find out the names of any books and courses on Physical Culture and Weight lifting he might have owned and the names of the Writers of them so I can search out copies of them. Does anyone have any knowldge in this area of R.E.H. history?
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Sept 1, 2019 11:51:02 GMT -5
I have a few ideas on this that might help. I've been through Rusty Burke's "The Robert E. Howard Bookshelf" and I don't recall anything on weight lifting, but taking a look through it again might be of some use: The REH BookshelfThe other thing I tried was using Google Ngram. If you Google "Ngram" you will get the search engine for the entire corpus Google has scanned (still only a small percentage of the total number of books). You can use various terms and control the dates before generating a graph. At the bottom of the graph, they will have a link into Google Books for certain time periods, thus giving you potential sources that Howard might have been able to use. So, for instance, using the term "weight lifting" and 1800-1936, I came up with this: Weight Lifting NgramClicking on the books from the 1906-1927 time-frame, the time period in which Howard started his weight-lifting regime, several of the links were to Popular Science magazines. Anyway, this might render some assistance. |
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Post by sorcerer on Sept 1, 2019 19:56:46 GMT -5
"The Russian Lion?" And a very lucid writer as well; Hackenschmidt looks like quite an impressive figure!
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Post by korak on Oct 17, 2019 22:57:24 GMT -5
"The Russian Lion?" And a very lucid writer as well; Hackenschmidt looks like quite an impressive figure! Yep they called him that because of his strength from weight lifting and his ability to dominate wrestling opponents |
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Post by korak on Oct 17, 2019 23:06:42 GMT -5
I have a few ideas on this that might help. I've been through Rusty Burke's "The Robert E. Howard Bookshelf" and I don't recall anything on weight lifting, but taking a look through it again might be of some use: The REH BookshelfThe other thing I tried was using Google Ngram. If you Google "Ngram" you will get the search engine for the entire corpus Google has scanned (still only a small percentage of the total number of books). You can use various terms and control the dates before generating a graph. At the bottom of the graph, they will have a link into Google Books for certain time periods, thus giving you potential sources that Howard might have been able to use. So, for instance, using the term "weight lifting" and 1800-1936, I came up with this: Weight Lifting NgramClicking on the books from the 1906-1927 time-frame, the time period in which Howard started his weight-lifting regime, several of the links were to Popular Science magazines. Anyway, this might render some assistance. ok i. Conan:The Liberator on page 2 of the introduction it is meantioned "He kept himself in shape by bag punching and weightlifting. Also in page Vii of the forward on the novel to the movie Conan the Barbarian (Arnold version) it states "A shy and moody child,he became a voracious bookworm and a bodybuilder who enhanced his naturally powerful physique by boxing weightlifting and riding |
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