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Joe Roark has been studying the iron game since 1957, and by 1970 began a systematic gathering of information on index cards. By the time his first computer was acquired, there were several hundred thousand references to be typed into it.
For a few years he published his own newsletter called MuscleSearch: The Roark Report. By 1992 he was appointed as the IFBB Men's Bodybuilding Historian, and began writing about history for FLEX in his column Factoids. For ten years he contributed to Iron Game History from the U of Texas at Austin. Recently he also began writing All Our Yesterdays for FLEX.
His passion has always been the period between 1880 and 1920, with particular emphasis on the oldtime strongmen of that era. Joe will be offering bits of history for Cyberpump once per week, and the text will be relevant to the dates of the calendar for those events of yesteryear relevant to the coming week.
In this column, readers will also be able to ask Joe questions or comment on his posts. Note: The comments are solely for interaction between Joe and the readers only -- not reader to reader.
4/30/10: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark Sep 15, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
CAS (for Apr 30) Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark Sep 15, 2010
This is Part 1; part 2 next week.Dear Joe,
Thanks for your letter of the 12th, which made it here yesterday. My news first.MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT, the relic of S&H has finally been sold to some group in Long Island. Tis said they will concentrate fiercely on supplements, and are also giving the York men five years free advertising in the new publication, whatever it will be called. Further than this my spy says naught. When the consummation of the deal will take place is also not known, but I imagine it will be soon. Say ta ta to York.
My smoked salmon friend wrote a week ago or so. As usual--as he does in ALL his letters- he says he hasn't forgotten the fish. This time the excuse is that he just hasn't gone to his 'friend' who smokes it. And, it just so happens, he is bringing out a new book AND was reading through ALL my old articles when he SUDDENLY remembered he owed me a letter-- he hant (sic) written since February.
Then he rhapsodises on how lush his new book will be and would I PLEASE contribute a chapter about training after 40 and what my experiences were and what advice I have to offer and OF COURSE he will be sure to give me credit.
I felt like writing back and telling him to get stuffed, but restrained my anger at this sort of damned shit arsed brain picking, and said that I would, in the future, sue anyone who I found taking my old material and shoving it forth as their own. This wasn't exactly subtle and I did it after telling him my experiences with the British Mag and their using my shoulder belt article under someone else's name. It may have been a non sequitur, as to what he had requested of me, but I am the sort of bloke who uses a sledge hammer rather than the rapier. I hope he gets the point. I also said in a rather heavy way, that he had, of his own volition, promised me smoked salmon every letter he has written, that it was still as scarce around my house as duck fangs and would he please defecate or arise from the john. This is all so laughable to me, and I couldn't resist having a stab at him.
I do intensely dislike this sort of brain picking, especially so when one is getting paid for writing a book, or else reaping returns from it, then using other people' experiences and know how to shove it over, and up your own ego. But enough.
For the life of me I can't think of what Glossbrenner is trying to say when he opines that NO ONE WILL LIFT 600. They will lift 272.5. Now this is nit picking on his part. To echo the old adage 'No matter what way you slice it, it is STILL baloney, "272.5 ISN'T 600 but 599.5 pounds. And, if this weight was lifted in India they would say it was in SERS and if in China it would be in catties or TICALS. So call it kilos or pounds, it is still 600 or 272.5. And a lifter within the range of 600 would not lift it BY CHANCE. He would know way before hand how much weight he would attempt, and also know if he had any chance of making it. AND no record is broken by chance. So it matters not if a weight is in kilos or the once popular avoirdupois, it will still be what is on the bar- 600 or 272.5. After what he did to my article, and from what I have heard about him from other people WAY UP there in lifting echelons, the man is a prise prick. Or am I insulting pricks.
Nice to know the sub list is increasing. May it continue that way. [Roark note: this was in ref to my newsletter]
I fear you should drop the date back for the Inch material. I had a call from Joe Assirati the other day to tell me not to expect any more mail from him -- indefinitely-- since there was a postal strike in the UK. This was confirmed later when several letters I had written to blokes in England, were returned, marked 'service suspended'. Joe had planned to dig around and find out more stuff for me and send it along. I too had written letters to others who were at one time in the thirties, prominent in UK lifting. But I can't, until I don't know when. As I said, letters returned.
Re that 'History of Power Lifting' you are writing:
When the British Lifting Association, the BAWLA--British Amateur Weightlifting Association was formed in the VERY early part of this century, they had only TWO sets of lifts for competition purposes and this situation pertained right up to after the War--Two that is. These two sets were the Olympic Set and the Continental Set, this latter sometimes being called THE STRENGTH SET. THE POWER LIFTING SET didn't come in until way after WW2.
So be careful about talking on power lifts BEFORE WW2. There wasn't any power lifting (as we now know it,) until way way back when the first Power Lifting Championships were held in this country and won by the Reverend.
You MUST get hold of Bill Pullum's book. WEIGHTLIFTING MADE EASY AND INTERESTING. This of course, shows you how to do all the 42 lifts in the Brits lexicon of lifting, used for record breaking purposes, and an all round lifting club still is in being in the UK, run by Tony Cook, and using all the old 42 lifts.
One of these 42, the British used 6 to comprise the two competition sets. One was the Two Hands clean and MILITARY PRESS. The Two Hands Snatch and the Teo Hands Clean and Jerk.
The next competition set, and sometimes called the POWER SET was the Two Hands Clean and Push, The Two Hands Snatch and the Two Hands Continental and Jerk. NOT the TWO HANDS Continental CLEAN and Jerk, but the TWO HANDS CONTINENTAL AND JERK. This was lifting the bar to a belt around the waist, then from the belt into the shoulders.
In the Two Hands Clean and Push, you could bend forward, bend back, all you wanted. But there could be NO HEAVE from the shoulders and the legs could not be bent at the knees, but had to be kept lacked straight throughout the lift. AND ridged judging too. Why they called it the Strength Set at this time- and be it briefly- was more weight could be lifted and there was less 'science' involved-- or so they reasoned, and some blokes would give them an argument.
Posted by TheEditor @ 09:38 PM CST
4/24/2010: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark August 19, 1988
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark August 19, 1988
Dear Joe,
Thanks for yours post dated August 20th, it arriving some time while I was away at my daughter's home, staying with the two boys. Thanks also for the Davis cutting. Sad indeed, sad sad. What a waste of a human life. It so happened that a 'friend' was visiting me- a very religious bloke indeed. He saw the cutting and remarked "God needed him for another purpose so he TOOK HIM." This pissed me off so that it almost meant the end of a friendship. What utter tommy rot to make a remark like that.Speaking of friendship, one doesn't reckon this by the length of the letter one receives from a friend, but the fat that that friend cared enough about you to reply. Nuff said, nu?
I spoke to the Reverend and asked him about Kaz's forearm. He told me that he had personally been present when Willoughby taped it --STEELTAPE-- and watched Dave's eyes bug out like bulldogs' balls when the tape scored a flat 17. I can assure you that an arm- forearm- that big looks enormous. I can recall Goerner's forearm and it taping over 16 and that looked gigantic. So any schmuck who talks of 18 plus forearms is giving his ignorance away. It would, at that size, seem grotesque.
Not much to report. As I may have mentioned, I wrote to Joe Assirati and asked him to send me anything he had on Inch. I believe he knew Mr. Inch (as we ALL called him) well and may have a few tales to tell. And I am still digging around for the Aussie POWER DIGEST. Christ knows what I have done with them but they must be around somewhere. As promised, when and if I find them, they will come your way pronto.
[regarding drug testing] Frankly I think he [Weider] cannot afford to start testing now for the Mr. Olympia. It will cost him the IFBB and most of his business. For years now, he has paid lip service to the dangers of steroid use while cashing in on its 'benefits' if that they can be called. He has done little or nothing about them, filling the pages of his mags with shots of steroid monsters, allowing the young and the gullible to think they are the products of the Weider System, so that if it cracks down now on those who use steroids, he will risk their departure and forming their own association as a powerlifting bloke did when the PLA started to test for drug use.
These two articles by the Reverend and the other alleged to have been penned by Joe, might make an interesting topic in another of your news letters. 'CAN WEIDER AFFORD TO TEST.'
TTFN, best to you and yours,
Chas.Posted by TheEditor @ 08:42 AM CST
4/16/2010:Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark, dated Aug 13, 1988
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Whirlwind in the cul de sac
The pathway of the iron Internet leads sometimes to an alley, or a road, but less often to a highway with several lanes. It seems no U-turns are allowed, and on some sites no thoughts seem to be in need of reversal.
Anyone can run an iron web site. I do. Case closed. But not everyone runs a web site searching for positive results.
If you seek arguments or childish name calling blended with blather, there are some sites sizzling hoping you will join, They chew on fresh meat. Some such sites aren't even sincere- they simply allow word games leading to one-upmanship. After the flurry of vowels and vehemence and cursing has slowed, nothing much has been learned except that some clever and literate people choose to participate in such diss-cuss-ions. To spend time at such sites hoping for an education about the iron game, much sifting and sorting will be needed, but such sites do not come equipped with the needed, basic fact filters. Seldom are specifics included.
A step up to another level: some sites have members who have great enthusiasm which is usually visually directed. Heavy on images, lighter on facts. Almost as though a physique judging panel started a website. Arguments are tossed about regarding who had the best arms, or chest, or whatever. Reviews are offered regarding who should have won a certain contest. But the date of the contest, the location, and other such indicators are often not included. And, corrections do not seem to be needed or wanted. Run with the first draft, especially if someone's feelings may be wounded with specifics.
No one is much mislead by such obvious shallow treatments of subject matter, but when other sites, purporting to be sources of good iron history do not adopt the new information available, but instead maintain the weary and worn storylines which have been shown to be false or at least shown to be non-proven, the real pseudo-intellectual battleground is armed. These sites are heavy on images and shallow on text, especially on fact-checked text. The former greats were good guys, and besides, why would they have lied? Maybe for the same reasons people still do?
Another type of site is one is which little is ever settled because opinions rather than facts are usually being discussed. What is the best way to advance American weightlifting? Lots of chat, some anger, some disrespect, and after all the writing and writhing is over, nothing has been added to the solution column, but the vent shaft is fully drafted!
Sometimes our policy at ironhistory.com of demanding details backfires on us in the sense that we lose members who make claims they cannot cement with evidence. Either their egos are fragile, or they think their claims should be accepted because of who they are in the iron community- that their word should somehow trump evidence. I almost left my own site when people began doubting I won the Mr. Olympia... (that is a joke)
We have a section called Red Pencil History wherein we point out errors of fact from the bodybuilding magazines or other print media, or indeed from other websites. Unfortunately, there are simply too many errors to corral, so this section has been- at least insofar as my input- stocked with only the more impacting mistakes.
Other sites are subject specific: Only Powerlifting. Only Weightlifting, Only Bodybuilding. Only Olde Time subjects. Veer from the menu and you will be ordering elsewhere.
If such sites interest you, by any and all means, enjoy them. But if you are looking for a group that digs for information and shares it, a group that respects other posters and accepts being corrected because what they want is stable history and not an unblemished posting history...
At ironhistory.com we try to include as much data as can be found when addressing an issue or person. No name calling, indeed real name registration is a requirement to join. Any iron subject can be included, and all updates including changing what we THOUGHT we had correct will be welcome. We are after the history of iron, not some version of it that stopped with someone's passing.
The cul de sac is at ironhistory.com, where we usually have about 300 members. When we reach that number I begin looking at members who have not visited recently, and deleting them. A sort of reverse library card system. If you do not check in, we will check you out. Of the 300 members a percentage online at any given time will equal or surpass other sites with dozens of times our membership. Some of those members have not visited those other sites in years, but have never been removed, making it appear that the thousands listed as members should be considered active members. If we had followed this policy at ironhistory.com, our membership would be about 4,300 right now instead of about 300. The last person I want to fool is myself, and the penultimate person I want to fool is anyone interested in accuracy. Allowing a false membership total to stand would be deceptive.
All the roads I mentioned above are one-way roads. But in our cul de sac, the whirlwind retains the argument and discussion until we can settle on a general agreement. And, at any time, the matter can be re-examined when fresh information (maybe decades old) is discovered. This process of revisiting information based on new insight disturbs some who think their 'heroes' should be beyond examination.
So if you have been searching for a website where the focus is on information and not about the persons posting it- if you truly want to study the history of iron, join us. If you try to register, use your real name as your display name, or you will not be joining us.
Having completed the installment of my cover person file up to the year 2000, we will now resume posting other material. I will start with more letters written from Charles A. Smith to yours truly. And interspersed among these letters may be more older articles from Weider publications as written by Willoughby or Gaudreau. Other material may also be posted.Thanks to all of you who subscribe to the cyberpump.com paysite. Although none of your payment comes to me, I benefit because of the space Bill Piche offers me for my forum ironhistory.com because I have been contributing these materials to the paysite. Keep in mind that my forum and this pay section of cyberpump.com are not pathways to each other. That is, people who contribute to the paysite may not automatically be granted access to ironhistory.com, which requires separate registration, and may in fact be the most strict discussion forum in our genre, tolerating none of the usual folly permitted in some other sites. But if you are serious about studying the history of iron, it may be suitable. I try to keep the membership to about 300. Your real name must be also your display name- anything else I delete.
And now, a letter from Charles...
Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark, dated Aug 13, 1988Dear Joe,
Thanks for yours of the 6th, received by me on the 8th. Forgive me for not replying more promptly, but I just haven't been in the mood for letter writing. The weather has been too damn hot and my frame of mind distinctly shitty.News I have is that XXX left the financial side of York in one horrible mess. Bills not paid etc etc, leaving Terpak to sift out the debts, what has or has not been paid. This, it would seem, might put the kibosh on Grimek's suit. I also hear that a company made an offer to buy out the mg, plus carry York ads for FREE for five years. Don't know if all this is the true poop or just gossip.
There will be no article about Davis lifting the Apollon wheels or any other articles-- I had planned ones on Sheppard and Kono.
This is because of the stupid bloody way in which Glossbrenner messed around with my article, shoving in things I had not written, altering what I had written, to what he thought I should have said, etc etc. Misspelling words and generally fucking up the grammatical content so it looked as if a fifth grader had written the article instead of a grown and experienced man.
I told him before I sent the article in--and AFTER I sent it in not to alter the bloody content of the article without first getting in touch with me and asking me first, or telling me what changes he proposed. His reply was, 'I"M the editoe and edit I will.' I again warned him not to alter what I had written. He took no bloody notice.
Frinstance. I had written that the Apollon bar was SIX inches around---circumference. He altered it to THREE. I KNOW the bar is approximately 1.9 inches in diameter. I KNOW all these things since Davis personally told me, having shoved a tape around the apparatus before he lifted it-- day before. This meant nothing to Glossbrenner who seems to think that because he had the title of editor, he has to prove it.
In my description of seeing Ski at the 1947 world's championships, I had written that "we were all interested in seeing the Koreans lift, particularly Sun Jip Kim, a middleweight said to have pressed 290, and we were wondering if his prowess matched his publicity. We had little thought of Schemansky or even who he was. This was entirely cut out.
In another paragraph I had written that at one meet where I was reffing, I knew Ski would go too low in the snatch and was watching for knee touch. Sure enough, there was the white pressure patch on his knee as he recovered- indicative of his knocking his knee on the platform-- I redded him. Ski looked at me, grinned and told me I was full of that substance food turns into when ingested and digested. Glossbrenner wrote as you can see- that Ski gave me a dirty look and said, -well- you can see the childish thing he did. He also, against my wishes, crammed the page opposite to my copy with statistics, something I did not want done. I wanted just a pen profile of Ski and nothing else. Glossbrenner, intent on showing all and sundry that he was the "Official statistician for lifting", shoved in a page full of Ski's lifting poundages. People just ain't interested in a page full of figures.
There was other such stuff- misspellings, grammatical errors, and repetition of the same word to describe the same thing in one paragraph, something I ALWAYS avoid. To put it briefly I am vastly pissed off. What gets into these bloody blue pen idiots when they get some copy before them I am just unable to fathom out.
Me? I ALWAYS left copy as it was, apart from any spelling errors, and the like. I never changed the author's words.
I am very unhappy over this, and from the letter Glossbrenner enclosed when he sent me a copy of the mag with my article in it- rather the GLOSSBRENNER article in it, he had a very good idea that I would be unhappy with what he had done to my stuff.
I KNOW INCH did not die when I said. I was just guessing since I DIDN'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN. I just didn't remember or couldn't recall. I have written to Joe Assirati for you and have asked him to tell me all he knows about Inch since he knew him closer than I. I met Inch only a few times and only said, "Hello MR. Inch."
Yes I know he had a deal with H&S but this soured and his widow was hacked off at them. This was one of the reasons why she dumped all of Tommy's stuff, or memorabilia, into the trash for the dustman to haul off.
So much today, Joe is repeated as FACT when it isn't. Frinstance it is generally accepted that Apollon was one of the FOUR who cleaned and jerked the wheels. There is NO EVIDENCE THAT HE EVER LIFTED THEM OVERHEAD. There is MUCH evidence that he used faked weights in his act lifting lighter weights and claiming much more heavier poundages.
There is NO evidence that Rigoulot ever cleaned and jerked the APollon wheels either, but just the word of Cayeux that Rigoulot did clean and jerk them in Cayeux's gym. So it MAY well be that Davis and Ski are the only ones who ever did C&J them under official conditions.
I am retired and find it easy to shove myself into other peoples shoes and empathize with them. But I also know--even though I am RETIRED and with, presumably loads of time on my hands- that just as I was in helping to shove out NOT ONE BUT FOURTEEN MAGS- that you are never too busy that you can't find time to display some small courtesy and answer a letter, if only briefly.
In my opinion the IM editors so as Glossbrenner did. They edit whether it is called for or not, just to justify their titles and keep the bread rolling in....and I can also tell if an article needs editing. I never did edit an article just because I carried the title of editor. In other words being an editor didn'y go to my head-- and I am sure you will agree that the mags Weider put out during the time I was with him--8 years--were the best mags EVER put out ANYWHERE.
But enough. Thanks for writing. I should be sorry to see RRMS [Joe note: Roark Report MuscleSearch] go the way of so many others-- and lesser publications, but you have to do what you have to do.
Might I suggest a wider appeal than you now present, might lead to a subscription increase to a point where gloomy thoughts of the letter's demise, may be a lot farther from your thoughts than they are now,
Best to you and yours,
Chas.Posted by TheEditor @ 08:25 PM CST
4/9/2010: Joe Roark's Guide to Iron Game Magazine Coverpersons Through 1999 - Starting with Z
Thursday, April 8, 2010
( A - Z )
JOE ROARK
IFBB Men's Historian, P.O.Box 320 St. Joseph, IL 61873THE COVER APPEARANCES OF MEN AND WOMEN ON BODYBUILDING MAGS through 1999.
Code abbreviations for various magazines:Adonis Adonis
BAWB British Amateur Weightlifter & BBer
BBW Body Beautiful (Weider)
BodyBeaut Body Beautful (Paschall)
BI Body International
BIH Bodybuilding an Illustrated History
BL Bodybuilding Lifestyles
Body & Pow Body & Power
BT Body Training
CB Chicago Bodybuilder (later, The Bodybuilder)
DBN Delaware Bodybuilding News
Demigods Demi-Gods (Weider)
DIG Muscle Digest
EX Excel
F Flex
FemILL Female Illustrated
FPP means full page pho(tos)
FemBB Female Bodybuilding
FMN Florida Muscle News [Florida Muscle Plus]
FPA Female Physique Athlete
Fla.WM Florida Weight Man (Hale)
GLFG Great Lakes Fitness Guide
HIT High Intensity Training [Hard Training]
HS Health & Strength
IG Iron Game
IGH Iron Game History
IS Iron Sport
IM Ironman
I.MAST The Iron Master
IOL International Olympic Lifter
IS Iron Sport
Jem Jem
KB Klein's Bell
LA The Lady Athlete
LN Lifting News
M2000 Muscle Media
Mr.A Mr. America
Mr.A (AAA) Mr. America (All American Athlete)
Mr.U Mr. Universe (Reg Park)
Mr.UW Mr. Universe (Weider)
M&BB Muscle & Bodybuilder
MaxM Max Muscle
MB Muscle Builder
MB[MacF] Muscle Builder by MacFadden
MBN Modern Bodybuilding Newspaper
MD Muscular Development
ME Muscle Elegance
MF Muscle & Fitness
MFH Muscle & Fitness HERS
MILO MILO
MMA Muscle Mag Annual
MMI Muscle Mag International
MMOO Mighty Men of Old
ModM Model Man
MP Muscle Power
M&P Muscle & Power
MS Muscle Sculpture
MTI Muscle Training Illustrated
Mus & Beaut Muscle & Beauty
MusBoy Muscleboy (Weider)
MusCo Muscle & Company
MusMan Muscleman
MusUP (or M-up) Muscle UP
MW Muscle World
Mwest Muscle WestMagazine & Book code for Joe Roark's Files (con't)
NatM Natural Muscle
NatBB Natural Bodybuilding
NatPhy Natural Physique
NBF Natural Body & Fitness
NPC NPC News
OX Oxygen
PC Physical Culture
PD Power Digest
PH Powerhouse
Phy Physical
PI Physiques International
PLUSA Powerlifting USA
PM Planet Muscle
PP Physical Power
PPP Parrillo Performance Press
Ppress Pumping Press (McGough)
PUMP Pump
RENO Reno's WL Newsletter
RPJ Reg Park Journal
S Strength
SA Super Athletes
SA The Strength Athlete
SAK Strength Athlete (Kirkley)
SFit Sports Fitness
SH Strength & Health
SJ Steele Jungle
Sly Phy Sleek Physique
SOS Sons of Samson
SOS2 Sons of Samson 2
SPA Superior Physique Association
STFB Strength Training for Beauty
Strongman The Strongman
Superman Superman
T Testosterone
THG The Hard Gainer
Vim Vim (Eells)
WASP Womens and Strength Periodical/Publication
WO Workout for Fitness
WPP Women's Physique Publication
WPW Women's Physique World
WSP Women's Strength Periodical
WWL World Weightlifting
YP Your Physique
Young Young Physique
Zagurski, Wally SH: Dec 1932 May 1934
Zaino, Chris NatM: Sep 1997
Zajac, Ed IM: Mar 1982r
Zane, Christine MB: Feb 1980
MF: Aug 1980Zane, Frank IM: Sep 1966r May 1969r Mar 1973
Jul 1977r Mar 1978
& Mar 1978r Mar 1980 May 1983
Sep 1986
MB: Nov 1966 Aug 1970 Oct 1970
Jul 1971 Oct 1974 Sep 1976
Feb 1977 Mar 1977 Aug 1977
Jan 1978 Jun 1978 Feb 1979
May 1979 Feb 1980
SH: Jan 1967
Mr.A: May 1967 Jul 1968 Sep 1969
Nov 1969 Feb 1970 Oct 1970
FlaWM: 2:5
Mr.A/AAA: Jan 1968
MTI: Sep 1969 Apr 1984
DIG: 1:5 Oct 1978 Mar 1983
MMI: Aug 1975 Nov 1978
Mar 1980 May 1980
Sep 1982 Mar 1983
May 1983 Feb 1984
Oct 1984 Jul 2000(drawing)
MU: Apr 1980 Feb 1981
MF: Aug 1980 Feb 1984
Dec 1989
F: Jan 1984 Dec 1989
Mus & Power: Nov 1984
HS: Nov/Dec 1972 Jan 1973
Zarella, Joe PLUSA: Oct 1977
Zatkoff, Brian NatPhy: Mar 1989
Zdrazila, Hans SAK: Nov 1964
Zebrowski, Ed SH: Aug 1934 Sep 1938
Zeller, Artie MB: Jan 1955
BodyBeaut: Jan 1955 May 1955rZetterqvist, Inger F: Apr 1984
Zimmerman, Denise WPP: Mar/Apr 1986
Zimmerman, Dick SH: Jun 1935
Zimmerman, Phil SH: Jun 1969
Zimmerman, Sandy SH: Jun 1969
Zinkin, Harold SH: Jun 1947 Sep 1950
TomsMan: Dec 1951rZuccolotto, Troy MTI: May 1991
DIG: Oct 1981
BL: Jul 1991 Apr 1992
MF: Nov 1986 Mar 1989
May 1990
IM: Feb 1990
MD: Feb 1990
MMI: Mar 1990
F: Mar 1990 Apr 1995
NPC: Mar 1990Zuelke, Mark MensFit: Aug 1989 Jun 1990
Zwierzchowski, Andrzey Muscleman: Jul 1953
HS: Apr 30, 1953 Oct 15, 1953Zych, Amy FB: May 1995
Posted by TheEditor @ 09:44 PM CST
4/2/2010: Joe Roark's Guide to Iron Game Magazine Coverpersons Through 1999 - Starting with Y
Friday, April 2, 2010
( A - Z )
JOE ROARK
IFBB Men's Historian, P.O.Box 320 St. Joseph, IL 61873THE COVER APPEARANCES OF MEN AND WOMEN ON BODYBUILDING MAGS through 1999.
Code abbreviations for various magazines:Adonis Adonis
BAWB British Amateur Weightlifter & BBer
BBW Body Beautiful (Weider)
BodyBeaut Body Beautful (Paschall)
BI Body International
BIH Bodybuilding an Illustrated History
BL Bodybuilding Lifestyles
Body & Pow Body & Power
BT Body Training
CB Chicago Bodybuilder (later, The Bodybuilder)
DBN Delaware Bodybuilding News
Demigods Demi-Gods (Weider)
DIG Muscle Digest
EX Excel
F Flex
FemILL Female Illustrated
FPP means full page pho(tos)
FemBB Female Bodybuilding
FMN Florida Muscle News [Florida Muscle Plus]
FPA Female Physique Athlete
Fla.WM Florida Weight Man (Hale)
GLFG Great Lakes Fitness Guide
HIT High Intensity Training [Hard Training]
HS Health & Strength
IG Iron Game
IGH Iron Game History
IS Iron Sport
IM Ironman
I.MAST The Iron Master
IOL International Olympic Lifter
IS Iron Sport
Jem Jem
KB Klein's Bell
LA The Lady Athlete
LN Lifting News
M2000 Muscle Media
Mr.A Mr. America
Mr.A (AAA) Mr. America (All American Athlete)
Mr.U Mr. Universe (Reg Park)
Mr.UW Mr. Universe (Weider)
M&BB Muscle & Bodybuilder
MaxM Max Muscle
MB Muscle Builder
MB[MacF] Muscle Builder by MacFadden
MBN Modern Bodybuilding Newspaper
MD Muscular Development
ME Muscle Elegance
MF Muscle & Fitness
MFH Muscle & Fitness HERS
MILO MILO
MMA Muscle Mag Annual
MMI Muscle Mag International
MMOO Mighty Men of Old
ModM Model Man
MP Muscle Power
M&P Muscle & Power
MS Muscle Sculpture
MTI Muscle Training Illustrated
Mus & Beaut Muscle & Beauty
MusBoy Muscleboy (Weider)
MusCo Muscle & Company
MusMan Muscleman
MusUP (or M-up) Muscle UP
MW Muscle World
Mwest Muscle WestMagazine & Book code for Joe Roark's Files (con't)
NatM Natural Muscle
NatBB Natural Bodybuilding
NatPhy Natural Physique
NBF Natural Body & Fitness
NPC NPC News
OX Oxygen
PC Physical Culture
PD Power Digest
PH Powerhouse
Phy Physical
PI Physiques International
PLUSA Powerlifting USA
PM Planet Muscle
PP Physical Power
PPP Parrillo Performance Press
Ppress Pumping Press (McGough)
PUMP Pump
RENO Reno's WL Newsletter
RPJ Reg Park Journal
S Strength
SA Super Athletes
SA The Strength Athlete
SAK Strength Athlete (Kirkley)
SFit Sports Fitness
SH Strength & Health
SJ Steele Jungle
Sly Phy Sleek Physique
SOS Sons of Samson
SOS2 Sons of Samson 2
SPA Superior Physique Association
STFB Strength Training for Beauty
Strongman The Strongman
Superman Superman
T Testosterone
THG The Hard Gainer
Vim Vim (Eells)
WASP Womens and Strength Periodical/Publication
WO Workout for Fitness
WPP Women's Physique Publication
WPW Women's Physique World
WSP Women's Strength Periodical
WWL World Weightlifting
YP Your Physique
Young Young Physique
Yamazaki, H. SAK: Sep/Oct 1964Yang, C.K. SH: Apr 1964
Yarborough, Charlotte DIG: Nov 1982
Yates, Dorian F: Oct 1990 Nov 1991 Jan 1992
Feb 1993 Dec 1993 Jan 1994
Jun 1994 Aug 1994 Jan 1995
Jun 1995 Jul 1995 Sep 1995
Dec 1995 Jan 1996 Aug 1997
Jan 1998 Jul 1998 Nov 1999
MMI: Apr 1991 Jan 1993 Jan 1994
IM: Sep 1991 Jan 1995
MF: Jan 1994
Pump.P: Mar 1991 Jul 1991
NPC: Jan 1996Yazbek, Kassem MD: Mar 1973
Yockey, Mary F: Dec 1998 Feb 2000
MF: May 1999York, Carla SPA: Feb 1981
York, Pat SJ: Jun 1999
Yorton, Chet SH:: Sep 1964
Mr.A: Mar 1965
MB: Jul 1965 Apr 1967
IM: Mar 1967 Dec 1967r Sep 1976
Jan 1978
MTI: Oct 1978
NatBBer: Oct 1981
HS: Oct 27, 1966 Apr 27, 1967
Aug 17, 1967Youker, Beth WE Oct 1994
Young, Doug PLUSA: Mar 1981
Young, Hillary MensFit: May 1991
Young, Janet IM: Feb 1960 Dec 1962
Young, June HS: Jul 14, 1960
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