- Alan P. Mead -
Speaking of Alan P. Mead, we must respect the last two articles written, make a temporary brackets and back to the beginning of the twentieth century, at which time the great Strongman of the day performed their acts of strength, skill and a lot of cases of muscular control (including highlighted Eugene Sandow, Bobby Pandour, Monte Balance and Max Sick). Muscle control training itself was not only poses for presentation, but also exercises of flexibility, mobility, coordination and even extreme use of isometric contractions of type (a big fan of this type of isometric training was also Alexander Zass) which, along with weight training made certain strongman and top athletes of the century, men who had muscular artistic quality, impressive levels of strength and body control and each of its outstanding muscles.
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- Alan P. Mead -
English by birth, Alan P. Mead fought in the First World War leaving him as a balance to what they claim was a heroic performance, the loss of one leg. It is for this reason that in his performances and photographs used Mead pants. Far from having decided to spend the rest of his life away from physical activity and muscle training, Alan P. Mead, from his recovery, he begins to do weight training and working in what was later called "muscle action and muscle control" (this is the title of an article published in February 1933 in the journal "The Superman Magazine" .) With extensive knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics, Mead explained in the article previously noted, it is a concentric contraction, eccentric contraction (which for him was an expression contradiction in terms) and on, which for him also misleading name, contractions static. Among other aspects, Alan P. Mead theorized on muscle activity and, using modern language, the synapse between nerve and muscle cell and muscle function. Called by their level and quality of muscle "The human anatomic chart (the chart human anatomy), Mead advised beginners to learn about anatomy and movement of muscles, and in this way know how to properly stimulate each them and thus come to understand the notion of what he called "muscular control," a concept that appears in publications beginning of the twentieth century from the hand of other athletes, such as English Maxick (previously named Max Sick) that among other brands, could make a press with about 115 kilos (1911) having a weight of 10 st. 10 lbs. (Which last a few kilos would be about 68 kilos in weight). Among other great athletes who wrote about these techniques can be named Joe Bonomo. It is worth noting that in no way these athletes relativized the use of weights in training, but in any case all technical deployment was aimed at achieving becoming more and more "complete" as the top athletes of the century were 20, end of 19, where as in the case of Sandow, the influence of Greco-Roman culture where heroes were beautiful and virtuous, was very present, but this will be the subject for a future article.
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