93 Year Old Strongman. Son Of The Mighty Atom

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Maybe it's metaphysics from a specific point of view. I actually know how he does it. I'm a great fan of old time strong men. I study them. I have a library of books written by them.

It's really a matter of the muscle fibers not wanting to all contract at once. It's a safety feature we all have...an internal braking system. It keeps us from tearing our muscles, ligaments, bursting blood vessels.

Some of it is technique. And most of it is training yourself to incorporate more of your muscle contraction potential, at one time.

Even body builders will only use maybe 30% of their absolute maximum strength in training. They think it's more like 90%. But it's 90% of the weight that 30% of their muscle will lift. Then there is a barrier that keeps them from incorporating more fibers into that single effort. It's why they can keep doing reps. They keep incorporating different muscle fibers.

But if you train your body to ignore the "warning signs" that you are lifting too much weight...you can actually lift much more.

And, these feats of strength are using the whole body. When you see someone bend steel in their bare hands, they are using every muscle in their body in coordinated effort. And they are ignoring the "screaming" of their body..to stop.

And these strong men have also spent decades conditioning their tendons and ligaments to take the strain. Their bones are denser. Their tendons are stronger than the rest of us.

It's a matter of unrelenting training, and desire to do the feat. If you want to call that Metaphysics, it's OK with me.

To everyone; The book is available on Amazon.com, but only through 3rd party sellers. And it isn't cheap. The book The Mighty Atom is the title of the first edition. Maybe there is a copy on E-bay. It's worth the trouble to find it.

A short story from the book. The Mighty Atom was giving a demonstration of his strength. A young man in the audience asked if he could try to do the feat of strength. It was bending a thick metal spike in your hands. The young man took the stage, spent several minutes trying to bend the steel spike. He became drenched in sweat. He trembled from the strain. His hands bled.... and the spike finally bent in a U shape. At the end of the demonstration, The Mighty Atom (Greenstein) asked the young man, "How did you do that?"..and the kid said "I decided that I would rather die, than not bend that spike". Greenstein said "You know the secret. The rest is just practice".