Brooks Kubik's Iron Game Collection - List No. 1 - Bob Hoffman's Strength and Health Magazine

Brooks Kubik’s Iron Game Collection – List No. 1 – Bob Hoffman’s Strength and Health magazine

I have 469 issues of Bob Hoffman’s Strength and Health magazine from various dates in 1933 (the first year of publication) through 1986. Other than as noted below (magazines with loose covers, no back cover, etc.), all magazines are in good or very good condition.

I have divided these magazines into sets based on the year of publication. Each set is priced individually. The prices listed below do not include shipping and handling; we'll calculate shipping and handling charges based on where you live and what you order, and give you a total that includes shipping and handling charges.

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STRENGTH AND HEALTH magazine

1933 (Vol. 1 - 1^st year of publication) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Issue 3  – no covers

Issue 7 – loose cover

Issue 8 – loose cover

Issue 12 – loose back cover

1933-34 (Vol. 2) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Issue 1

Issue 4

Issue 5

Issue 6

Issue 7

Issue 8

Issue 9

Issue 10

Issue 11

Issue 12

1933-34 (Vol. 3) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Sept. and Nov. have loose covers.

1935-36 (Vol. 4) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

11-issue set from Dec 1935 (issue 1) thru Nov 1936 (issue 12). Missing the Feb 1935 issue.

1936-37 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1937-38 (Vol. 6) – 100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 13-issue set (not a typo – there were 13 issues from Dec 1937 through December 1938). (Hoffman changed the publication schedule in 1937, and each year began with the January issue and ended with the December issue rather than over-lapping two years, as had been the case with volumes 1 – 6. Hoffman also dropped vol. numbers, so I will identify each later set by year of publication alone.)

Note: The 1937-38 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1939 – 100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Note: The 1939 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1940 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Jan 1940

May 1940

Aug 1940

1941 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Note: The 1941 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1942 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1943 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1944 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1945 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1946 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1947 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1948 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

11-issue set. Missing Jan 1948.

1949 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.  

1950 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1950 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1951 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 11-issue set. June/July is a combined issue.

NOTE: The 1951 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1952 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1952 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1953 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1954 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1954 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1957 - $12.00 plus shipping and handling

May 1957 issue (this is the only issue I have from 1957).

1958 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1959 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1960 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1961 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1962 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1963- $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1964 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1965 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1966 - $80.00 plus shipping and handling

10-issues. (Missing Nov and Dec issues.)

1968 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1969 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1970 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1971 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 11-issue set (May-June is a combined issue).

1973 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1974 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – loose front cover, missing back cover.

May

Oct-Nov combined issue (Strength and Health switched to bi-monthly issues in 1974).

1975 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – Sept

Oct – Nov

Dec 75 – Jan 76

1976 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May (loose/torn covers)

June- July

Aug - Sept

Oct- Nov

1977 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb - March

April - May

June - July

Aug - Sept

Oct - Nov

1978 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb-March 

June- July

Aug – Sept (loose, wrinkled cover)

1979 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec - Jan

Feb -March

June - July

Aug - September

Oct – Nov

1980 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1981 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

1982 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – Nov

1983 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

1984 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1985 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1986 - $10.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

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John Grimek's Back of the Chair Curl

John Grimek's form in the one-arm deadlift.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes, and then we'll talk
training - as in, the long-forgotten but
very effective back of the chair curl.

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3. The Back of the Chair Curl

John Grimek started weight training
in the early 1930's, and ended up
being the best built man in the
entire world - as well as one of the
strongest men in the world.

And he met, knew and trained with
many of the other top men of the
era.

So he had a pretty good idea of
how they did things back in the
day.

In the mid-1970's, Grimek wrote an
article comparing the way men trained
back in the 1930's - and he noted that
even though they didn't have as much
equipment, they were able to get
things done very effectively.

It just took a little bit of ingenuity.

John Grimek and other champions of his era accomplished amazing things with very basic, simple training equipment.

For example, they didn't have a
special stand for doing preacher
curls (a/k/a Scott curls).

No one made or sold that kind of
stand back then.

But it didn't matter.

Grimek and others of his era would
use an old wooden chair instead.

They'd turn it around, stand it in
place, brace it with one hand to
keep it from tipping - and do one
arm dumbbell curls over the back
of the chair.

He said it worked great - just as
well as doing preacher curls on a
modern preacher bench.

He gave other examples of how the
old-timers got it done with a very
limited amount of basic equipment.

They just had to be creative.

That made things interesting for
them - and I'm sure it made things
lots of fun, as well.

That was one of the good things
about the Iron Game.

You had to think about what you
were doing and what you wanted
to achieve - and you had to figure
out ways to do the job without an
equipment manufacturer doing it
for you.

Many of us do somewhat similar
things today - especially if we train
in a home gym.

We don't let anything hold us back.

We figure out how to do the job -
and then we do it!

As always, thanks for reading and
have a great day. If you train today,
make it a good one!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

John Grimek with a classic collection of old iron at the Weightlifting Hall of Fame in York - including the legendary Cyr dumbbell.

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"Iron and ingenuity will do the job
every single time."

- Brooks Kubik

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Buried in Hate Mail - And You Won't Believe Why!

I'm a big fan of old-time bodybuilders like John  Grimek - but everyone who sent me hate mail the other day seems to have forgotten that.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

One quick note, and then we'll
talk training.

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2. Buried In Hate Mail

I sent out a very good email the other
day.

It listed some things I wish I had done
back in high school, when I was training
for high school wrestling.

In the email, I noted that one of the
things I wish I had done was NOT
READ the muscle magazines of the
era - because they didn't have very
good advice.

In response, I got buried in hate
mail.

One guy even unsubscribed from my
email list because (he said) I was
"unfair to bodybuilders."

He also said, "we're all in the health
and fitness business together."

So let's talk about that a little bit.

First of all, I have no problem with
old-school bodybuilders and old-
school bodybuilding.

After all, I wrote a complete course
about John Grimek - and I talk about
Reg Park quite a bit - and I've written
articles and emails about Bill Pearl
and Clarence Ross - and about
Tommy Kono's four Mr. Universe
titles.

And I've written plenty of articles
about how to build a better physique -
many of which are reprinted in my book,
Strength, Muscle and Power  - and
I've written Dinosaur Arm Training,
which teaches readers how to build
bigger, stronger and more muscular
arms - which sounds an awful lot like
bodybuilding.

And in Gray Hair and Black Iron I list
a number of bodybuilding workouts for
older Dinos - and I expressly note that
many older Dinos may do better on
bodybuilding workouts that are easier
on their joints than the heavier work-
outs that many younger Dinos do.

We also have a number of readers who
were competitive body-builders, or who
trained with competitive bodybuilders -
including one reader (Ian Duckett) who
used Dino-style workouts to win the
Master's World Championship in drug-
free bodybuilding.

So I'm not opposed to bodybuilding per
se.

But I am opposed to modern body-
building - because drugs have taken
it over.

And I'm not going to support, condone,
glorify or publicize any kind of drug use.

I'm also very opposed to modern body-
building supplements. Many of them are
dangerous. But modern body-building
exists primarily as a way to sell modern
supplements.

In addition - modern bodybuilding is
NOT in any way shape, or form focused
on health and fitness.

The drug use, supplements, and extreme
diets make that impossible.

Remember, we've had elite bodybuilders
DIE at big contests.

And we've had many top bodybuilders
from the modern era encounter severe
health problems - or die young - which
is kind of crazy given the fact that old-
school champions often lived very long
and healthy lives.

So I don't talk about modern body-
building.

I just can't do it.

If that's a problem for anyone, I'm
sorry.

But that's the way it is - and the way
it's going to continue to be.

I should also note this - my comment
about muscle magazines not being
helpful was in the context of a teen-
ager training for wrestling.

It had nothing to do with bodybuilding.
The comment was a simple observation
about an undeniable fact:

The muscle magazines of the 1970s
didn't offer very much in the way of
training for sports.

The Weider magazines pretty much
ignored the topic in the 1970s.

Weider launched one sports-oriented
magazine but it only lasted for a couple
of issues - and that seemed to sour his
writers and editors on writing articles
about weight training for sports.

There was a little bit in the York
magazines (Strength and Health
and Muscular Development) - and
a very tiny bit in Peary Rader's Iron
Man - but it wasn't very good or
very complete.

For example, I don't recall any article
that covered the points I made in
yesterday's email - or an article that
covered even two or three of them
in the context of training for sports.

It would have been wonderful if the
magazines of the 1970s had included
regular articles by and about the top
amateur wrestlers (and other athletes)
of the era and how they trained - but
they didn't.

After all, this was the era of Dan Gable
(google him if you don't know), and
amateur wrestling was on the up-tick
in the USA - and articles on strength
training and conditioning for wrestlers
would have been well received.

But the magazines pretty much (not
entirely, but pretty much) ignored
the topic of effective sports training
and conditioning.

That's a shame, but that's the way it
was.

That was the point I was making - and
I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers -
but apparently I did.

Hence the hate mail.

Quite a bit of it.

None of which I'm going to answer
individually - but I thought I should
address it here.

Anyhow, I've got a big project to work
on, and I'm going to get back to it.

As always, thanks for reading and have
a great day. If you train today, make it
a good one.

Oh - and don't forget to grab issue no.
3 of The John Wood Report. It's a
good one:

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Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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athletes:

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Tons of old-school dumbbell exercises -
and over 50 complete workouts.

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Dinosaur Bodyweight Training

A complete course in old-school body-
weight training - with plenty of killer
exercises - and more than 50 workouts.

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2.  My other books and courses are
right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

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Kindle

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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: 

"If you have time to send me hate
mail, you have time to train - and
seriously, training is a much better
use of your time."

-- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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I Remember When . . .

I started training at home with a 110-pound barbell set more than 50 years ago - and today, at age 61, I'm still training that way: at home, with a barbell, keeping it spartan, simple, basic, effective and fun.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I remember when . . .

1. It was more important to have guts than
to have glutes.

2. You built your muscles with barbells and
dumbbells instead of syringes and needles.

3. It was a power rack, not a curl rack.

4. Plates were iron, platforms were homemade,
and you never dropped a barbell unless it was
the only way to keep from killing yourself.

5. The coaches didn't want us to lift weights -
but we lifted them anyway.

6. We all knew that the only way to build
serious strength and muscle was to train
hard and eat right.

7. Somehow or other we all learned how to
train - and how to do our exercises the right
way - without this mysterious thing they
call the Internet.

8. No one brought a water bottle to the gym
because everyone used the water fountain -
and if we HAD brought a water bottle to the
gym, we sure as heck wouldn't have left it
sitting in the power rack.

9. The sweat was real, not sprayed on from a
water bottle.

10. Training was about squats instead of photo
ops.

11. Gym time was for training, not for talking.

12. You either trained at home, which was spartan
and basic - or you trained in a school weight room
or a local gym that was spartan and basic - and
spartan and basic worked pretty darn well.

That's how remember the Iron Game when I got
started more than 50 years ago.

Do you remember it?

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. If you remember the way the Iron Game
used to be - or if you honor and respect the
old-school way of doing things, then you'll
love Dinosaur Training:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_training.html

2.  My other books and courses are
right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

P.S. 3. Thought for the day: 

"Live and lift in the present, but honor
the best of the past."

-- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

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