Friday's Forgotten: A weekly series that looks at a forgotten or rarely seen exercise, giving a short history and then performing the activity.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of reading a 100 year old book by Arthur Saxon. His excellent work from the early 1900s, The Development of Physical Power. Saxon has a no nonsense attitude and frankness, the work does not seek to deceive or flatter. Instead, one of the strongest men of his generation sets out his remarkable strength and some of the means used to sustain it. Many of the exercises set out by Saxon are still done today, except for the above mentioned dumbbell swing.
Writing in 1939, York’s Bob Hoffman (some one else for a future Friday's Forgotten) described the dumbbell swing thusly:
THE DUMBBELL, WHICH AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LIFT MUST BE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LIFTER’S FRONT, SHALL, KEPT IN THAT POSITION THROUGHOUT, BE TAKEN TO ARM’S LENGTH OVERHEAD. THE LIFT MAY BE PERFORMED IN ONE MOVEMENT, OR IN A SERIES OF MOVEMENTS, BUT IN THE LATTER INSTANCE THERE SHALL BE NO PAUSE BETWEEN ANY OF THESE MOVEMENTS, NOR SHALL ANY PART OF THE BELL BE BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH THE FLOOR AFTER IT HAS BEEN LIFTER THEREFROM. IN “FIXING” THE BELL THE TRUNK AND LEGS MAY BE BENT TO ANY EXTENT, AND THE BELL MAY BE BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH THE FOREARM; BUT TO LOCK THE ARM OUT BY PUSHING SHALL BE CAUSE FOR DISQUALIFICATION.
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