Joe Roark's IronHistoryArchives.com

The HUGE library of Iron History compiled by Joe Roark.

 

Welcome to Iron History with Joe Roark!  

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.

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5/30/2008: Willoughby's reply to the Austin Formula, Your Physique August 1951

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Posted by TheEditor @ 09:32 PM CST

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5/23/2008: The Conclusion of Charles Coster's Austin Formula

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Posted by TheEditor @ 08:43 PM CST

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5/16/2008: Charles Coster on the Austin Formula, Your Physique July 1951

Friday, May 16, 2008

Posted by TheEditor @ 06:16 AM CST

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5/9/2008: Willoughby Continues on the Mechanics of the Squat from Your Physique, June 1951

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Posted by TheEditor @ 08:44 PM CST

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5/2/2008: Willoughby on The Mechanics of the Squat, from our Physique, June 1951

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Posted by TheEditor @ 07:15 PM CST

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