According to Zach Even-Esh, who dug this up, this footage is from Poland in the early 1970’s. Good display of assistance exercises too. The black & white makes this look even older.

Can you imagine having a 4 year old kid and telling him that if he wants to go to his room upstairs, he has to climb the rope his dad hung from the ceiling down to the bottom floor? According to Zach Even-Esh, that is exactly what athlete and physical culturist Steve Maxwell did with his boy.

In his article, like one of mine, “Pack Light, Train Hard“, which was featured on straighttothebar.com, Zack says some very telling things about grip strength, machines and where the serious strength athletes are going. Read the rest of this entry