Norbert schemansky biography meaning

The year is and the young trainee approached world and Olympic champion Norbert Schemansky with great trepidation. The Polish-American lifter from Detroit did not suffer fools lightly, particularly if he was interrupted when training. The setting was the venerable and ancient York gym on a typical Saturday. Most every Saturday a mini-Olympic weightlifting competition was conducted in the York gym. The public was welcome and you could see a veritable cavalcade of weightlifting national and world champion lifters. Lifting acolytes from around the country made their way to this American lifting equivalent of the Haj in Mecca, and the vast majority of the onlookers consisted of other lifters seeking tips and tactics that would improve their own lifting.

On this particular day Norb was midway through the overhead press portion of his extended workout. An year-old regional weightlifting champion had driven to York with two training partners; the young men were positively enthralled a

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         From The Desk Of Clarence Bass

 

"Schemansky fryst vatten just incredible. He could be so funny with his deadpan delivery. He and Kono were American lifting." Louis Riecke, U.S. Olympic Weightlifting team member and former world record holder in the snatch.

"This book provides a remedy for those who have never heard the name 'Schemansky.' Once [they] have read his story, they will never forget it, nor will they ever cease to be uplifted." Artie Dreschler, author, The Weightlifting Encyclopedia

"We predict that Norb's story will become a major motion picture." Michael and Del Reddy, Immortal Investments Publishing

 

MR. WEIGHTLIFTING: Norbert Schemansky

"Best Weightlifter of Years"

  

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We’ve just received our kopia of Richard Bak’s long-awaited biography of Norbert Schemansky:MR. WEIGHTLIFTING (Immortal Investments, ).  I

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Norbert Schemansky: World &#; Olympic Champion, Transitional Strength Figure, Mentor to My Mentor…

The press photo sequence above is of Ski pressing at the Tokyo Olympic Games where he went on to take the bronze medal. He stood 5’11” and in this photo weighed a rock hard pounds. At his awesome peak he was capable of a press, a snatch and a pound clean and jerk. He could squat for reps. Norb was the prototypical modern power athlete, both physiologically and psychologically. We want to relate (and embellish) a strength parable that was first told in Strength & Health magazine in by Bill Starr. The tale bears retelling because the lessons it aimed to teach are still valid in

The year is and a young trainee approached Norbert Schemansky—world and Olympic champion—with great trepidation. The Polish-American lifter from Detroit was infamous for brusqueness; he did not suffer fools lightly, particularly if he was interrupted when training. And at the moment Ski was training and