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Lifter Profile: Jules Leotard, Inventor of the Leotard and Crazy-As-Fuck Trapeze Artist Who Died Badly Because He Was an Anti-Vaxxer

Jamie Chaos

Oct 30, 2021

And before anyone with a double-digit IQ chimes in, there was not a vaccine for smallpox at the time, but smallpox inoculation…

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It’s Time You People Knew That a Lifting “Program” Cannot Be “Programmed”- AKA You’re Thinking of the Wrong “Program”

Jamie Chaos

Oct 30, 2021

Continue Reading: It’s Time You People Knew That a Lifting “Program” Cannot Be “Programmed”- AKA You’re Thinking of the Wrong “Program”
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As it Turns Out, the “Arnold Schwarzenegger” of Bodybuilding is Actually 1954 Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay

Jamie Chaos

Oct 30, 2021

It’ll make sense in a minute.

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Without Eva Tanguay, We Might Not Have Modern Lifting Culture… But She Didn’t Lift and Had Zero Fucks to Give About the Opinions of the Masses

Jamie Chaos

Oct 30, 2021

For those of you who don’t know, non-lifter women have played a major role in the popularization of muscularity in popular culture.…

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Lifter Snapshot: the Baillargeon Brothers, Forgotten Lumberjack-Lifter-Wrestlers of the Vaudeville Era.

Jamie Chaos

Oct 16, 2021

Per @slamwrestlingoficial “The six Baillargeon brothers — Jean, Charles, Adrien, Lionel, Paul, and Antonio (Tony) — were the Ice Capades or Harlem…

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Fustigation Fury X Female Fustigators: Swashbuckling Courtesan Lola Montez and the “Frenzy of Frisco” Adah Menken- the Chicks Who Invented the Role of Action “Movie” Star in the 19th Century Would Merk You IRL (Part 1)

Jamie Chaos

Mar 29, 2021

This article began under an entirely different title, the hyper-rad alliterative gem “A Brace of Buxom, Brawlin’ Broads Battle Bitches, Bros, and…

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