Isometric Exercise and
Isometrics Training
Alexander Zass Father Of Isometrics
The Amazing Samson
Alexander Zass was born in Vilna, Poland in 1888, but lived most of his early
years in Russia and after 1924 in Britain.
He lifted a 500 pound girder with his
teeth, carried a small horse, caught a woman fired from a cannon and allowed
professional boxers to hit him in the stomach,.
His greatest talents were in
bending steel bars and breaking chains which were the center piece of his music
hall exhibitions.
Tree Climbing
At first Alexander Zass developed himself by climbing trees, running and with
home made dumbbells and barbells.
Later he trained under some of the great
Russianprofessional strongmen including Krelov, Anokhin, and Demetrioff who
taught their systems in person and through correspondence. Anokhin taught his
system to George Lurich who eventually became famous as a world champion
strongman and wrestler.
Alexander Zass was very innovative and started bending green branches and
twigs to develop his grip strength. Perhaps this was the start of his great
belief in the application of isometric exercise and "maximum tension" (a concept
that is present in Russian training methods to this day) for the development of
strength.
He believed such an approach superior to the use of weights in
developing strength.
Isometric Exercise
Isometric exercise was later validated in the 1920's by scientist studying
the effects of inactivity on the muscles. In one experiment, using a frog, with
its legs tightly bound together to prevent any movement and kept that way for a
long time, scientist discovered that the frogs legs were significantly larger
and more muscular than the control group of frogs who’s legs were not bound.
Frog Leg's Prove Isometric Exercise
And Training Works
The frogs that had their legs bound had strained against the bindings
struggling to get free. This contracting and tensing against their bindings had
resulted in this incredible muscular growth.
But this was all before Alexander Zass had figured out the very same thing
while in prison. In fact...
Whilst a prisoner of war he continued to develop his strength with the use of
isometric exercise by pulling on the bars and chains. This episode and the
knowledge that he obtained from it later became the basis of his mail order
course which featured isometric exercise in the form of pulling on chains of
various lengths.
Alexander Zass lived a very full and exciting life on many fronts. In
addition to being a strongman he was also an accomplished animal trainer. At one
time he worked for military intelligence in Russia and later as cover for his
manager, Captain Howard, who was a British secret agent.
Zass lived to the age of 74, but what's strange is that his death at this old
age did not come from natural causes. Instead he was found murdered in 1962.
An unfitting end to the father of Isometric Exercise 1888 - 1962
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