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Isometric Exercise- Alexander Zass, The Father Of Isometric Training
By admin | September 6, 2007
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The Incredible Strongman
After leaving prison Alexander walked out with more than a strong desire to see his family, he walked out with an incredibly muscular body and more importantly a new way to train that would revolutionize the world strongmen. Now you too can learn about Isometrics and the incredible Alexander Zass.
Zass was born in Vilna, Poland in 1888, but lived most of his early years in Russia and after 1924 in Britain.
- He lifted a 500 pound girder with his teeth,
- carried a small horse, caught a woman fired from a cannon a
- allowed professional boxers to hit him in the stomach,
but his greatest talents were in bending steel bars and breaking chains which were the center piece of his music hall exhibitions.
Building Himself Up
At first he developed himself by climbing trees, running and with home made dumbbells and barbells.
Later he trained under some of the great Russian professional strongmen including Krelov, Anokhin, and Demetrioff who taught their systems in person and through correspondence.
Anokhin taught his system to George Lurich who eventually became famous as a world champion strongman and wrestler.
The Russian Training Secret
Zass was very innovative and started bending green branches and twigs to develop his grip strength. Perhaps this was the start of his great belief in the application of isometrics and “maximum tension” (a concept that is present in Russian training methods to this day) for the development of strength.
He believed such an approach superior to the use of weights in developing strength. Whilst a prisoner of war he continued to develop his strength with the use of isometrics by pulling on the bars and chains.
This episode and the knowledge that he obtained from it later became the basis of his mail order course which featured isometrics in the form of pulling on chains of various lengths.
Zass lived a very full and exciting life on many fronts. In addition to being a strongman he was also an accomplished animal trainer.\
KGB- Soviet Intelligence
At one time he worked for military intelligence in Russia and later as cover for his manager, Captain Howard, who was a British secret agent.
Zass died of murder in 1962.
Alexander Zass (The Amazing Samson) 1888 - 1962
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