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To: Young Werther
About 6 months ago another Olympian legend died that was a hero of mind that I had a pleasure of knowing: Perry O’Brien. http://functionalpathtraining.blogspot.com/2007/04/perry-obrien.html
17 posted on 10/02/2007 10:36:00 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: Uncle Hal

Yep Bob Hoffman of York Barbell used to feature him in his S&H magazines

Bob Hoffman probably had more influence on athletes in this country than ANYONE

He was always featuring weight training for all classes of sporting events and running articles about athletes like O’ Brien—Mal Whitfield— Stan Jones—Bob Richards—Fortune Gordien etc in the early 50s when the vast majority of coaches frowned on weight training as making you muscle bound

Hoffman continued his crusade and look at where we are now


21 posted on 10/02/2007 1:14:02 PM PDT by uncbob (m first)
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