Bernarr Macfadden

Every one of them got strong by lifting heavy weights, usually with a barbell, but they sold something instead that fit in an envelope.

One of the loudest and most eclectic voices in the business was Bernard McFadden.

And I'm not saying that wrong.

Bernard.

She won the whole thing because she took six of the eight athletic events.

And in that contest, one of the women lifted 550 pounds on the two hands lift in 1905, 15 years before American women could vote.

So Bernard McFadden did more for women's strength training in the 1900s than anyone else in America.

He wanted women strong so that they would produce stronger children, much like Sparta.

So he decided to launch a newspaper called the New York Daily Mirror that would kind of out tabloid the Daily News and become even more, be even more lurid and outrageous.

And around the same time, there was a publisher named Bernard McFadden who had kind of built a small empire of these kind of pulp confession magazines like True Stories and True Detective.

It's really kind of more like just explicitly lowbrow, non-journalistic sort of content.

But he decided to start a tabloid newspaper also in 1924 called the New York Evening Graphic.

As Ernest Robert later explained, quote, any match between us now was sure to be a good hot 15 minutes of work.

This event also featured a match with another professional wrestler destined to become a famous physical culturist, Bernard McFadden.

Now that's a name for those of you who Know about physical culture in the early days of it, bodybuilding, weightlifting, that stuff.

Bernard McFadden is certainly a major name.

Now, it's unclear if Muldoon and the Missourian met at the show, but it seems likely.

Is that not McFadden wrestled Muldoon's protege, Hugh Leonard, and had a recent match with William Muldoon's brother, Martin Muldoon? In the early 20th century, the earthly and controversial McFadden positioned himself primarily through his magazine, Physical Culture, as the fitness guru of the masses, while Muldoon carved out his own niche as a rejuvenator of the well-heeled.

This is the World Bread Fund show.

William Muldoon battled Ernest Robert to a draw in a 15-minute exhibition.

You can also combine it together with eye exercises.

There's a great book by Bernard McFadden in 1932 called Strengthening the Eyes.

And he talked about how you could just use eye exercises, you know, moving your eyes left and right, up and down to also strengthen the eyes.

So this has been around for a long time, and this is how eye professionals first used to operate.