Patreon Extra: Exclusive Harold Poole Training Article, Circa 1962

Jamie Chaos

August 27, 2020

Patreon Extra: Exclusive Harold Poole Training Article, Circa 1962

A badass reader named Landon Brock hooked up this article, which lists Poole’s training weights when he was 18 or 19. I’ll throw them into the conclusion of the Harold Poole series, which should drop in the next couple of days, but if you want a sneak peek or to read the article in full, here you go.

And the internet “lifters” began breathing wetly and murmuring the words “THICC BOI” into the aether.nt

As a heads up to the Patrons, the next series on which I am working is apolitical and seriously heavy on training, as it’s on unknown-by-name powerlifter/weightlifter/bodybuilder Bill Seno, who took the Most Muscular title in the AAU Mr America once Poole moved on to greener pastures. At at least three points in history, Seno had the world record in the bench press at three different weights- 198, 220, and 242, and his physique is the stuff of fucking dreams. In essence, between Bill Seno (who grew up in the projects) and Harold Poole (who had it even worse than that), any excuse any of us make for having a shitty physique or a shitty bench basically amounts to “I didn’t want it enough.”

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Jamie Chaos

I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

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