Author: Paul Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882076515
Category : Weight lifting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Nicolas Debon
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 0888997310
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Presents the life and accomplishments of Louis Cyr, a weight lifer who astounded audiences throughout North America and Europe with his amazing feats and mammoth proportions.

Author: Lucie Papineau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782733846148
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Follow the adventures of larger-than-life, kind-hearted Louis Cyr, the world's strongest man!

Author: Eddie 'The Beast' Hall
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753548720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall is the first Brit in 24 years to win the World’s Strongest Man competition, beating The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Everything about Eddie is huge. Standing at 6’3 he weighs almost 30 stone, and to make it through his hellish four-hour gym sessions he needs to eat a minimum of 10,000 calories a day. He eats a raw steak during weight sessions. His right eyeball once burst out of its socket under the strain. He put it back in. In his remarkable autobiography, Eddie takes you inside the world of the professional strongman – the nutrition, the training and competitions themselves. This is a visceral story of sporting achievement, an athlete pushing himself to the limits, and the personal journey of a man on the path to becoming being the best of the best. Contains strong language.

Author: John Wooten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692487266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Adventures of John Wooten World's Strongest Man, Master of Masters is a collection of ten short stories including my autobiography, which introduces the reader to my career and adventures. The collection begins with young John's introduction to Kung Fu; each story is a different adventure. In my stories, the World's Strongest Man is presented as a superhero figure who does whatever he can to help all of humankind, to prevent evil and promote good works. I would like to share my experiences and life lessons with children, teens, and adults everywhere, to show them that they can accomplish anything with perseverance and fortitude. I hope to entertain as well as show that the possibilities are endless. As the Worlds Strongest Man, I am the holder of 143 strength records. See my feats of strength on YouTube, under Strongman John Wooten.

Author: Grant Edwards
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1760851116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink Grant Edwards was once an elite athlete, Olympics qualifier and Australia’s strongest man. His Guinness Book of Records feats of strength were acclaimed internationally, and as a high ranking police officer he spent decades protecting vulnerable people around the world. But nothing could shield him from catastrophic harm in the line of duty. Rising above his tough beginnings in 1970s suburbia, where he was bullied for his father’s decision to live as a gay man, Edwards found sanctuary in sport. But he found his true calling with the Australian Federal Police, rising swiftly through the ranks to Commander and personally establishing cybercrime units to fight child exploitation and human trafficking. A highly sought after and disciplined security advisor for governments around the world such as East Timor, Afghanistan and the Americas, Edwards was considered the last person to ‘crack’ – but a narrow escape from a deadly attack in Kabul pushed him to breaking point. This is the story of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary battle back from the brink.

Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: New York : Dutton, 1971 [c1970]
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Meghan McCarthy
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553507850
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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He could tear phone books in half, bend iron bars into giant Us, and pull a 145,000-pound train with his bare hands. But Charles Atlas wasn't always one of America's most famous strong men. Once upon a time, he was a "97-pound weakling" who was picked on by neighborhood bullies.Using her trademark humor, Meghan McCarthy brings to life the story of Charles Atlas, the man who would become "the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and, with his fitness campaign, inspired the entire nation to get in shape, eat right, and take charge of our lives.

Author: Gideon Rachman
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635422817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization. This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. What’s more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy. Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career. While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders. In the process, he identifies the common themes in our local nightmares, finding global coherence in the chaos and offering a bold new paradigm for navigating our world.

Author: Robert Rubinstein
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN: 0761339604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Tells the story of Zishe Breitbart, a poor Polish Jewish boy who became the featured strong man of circuses around the world and was known as The Iron King.