Jack Dempsey: How I got, and keep, my Fighting Muscles (ARTICLE / FILE)

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  1. BCS8

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    I sent that coupon and I still don't have my book. Jimmy DeForest is a swindler!!
     
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    Damn snake oil merchant I tells ya.
     
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    Many of the past greats developed their physicality via hard labor.

    Fitz hammered away hour upon hour upon an anvil as a blacksmith.

    Jeffries was a boilermaker.

    Johnson worked hard labor on a farm.

    Truly hard work builds both body and mind. Toughness both physically and mentally. This was cited by many regarding the old timers including Fleischer.
     
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    Jimmie foxx when asked how he hit baseballs so far said manual labor ....if you can't get powerful being say a miner , there is no hope for you
     
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    This video shows a very short clip of Dempsey performing labour work.

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    D Brown's coloured Dempsey training clip.

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    Things never change...
     
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    I did a lot. This was much more unique then expected.

    That exercise he mentions in the beginning about the neck press is so old school.

    Magnificent for your neck development I use it to this day and it brought a smile to my face to see it mentioned.

    Hence forth when people say "What the hell are you doing!" I will bark back with pure enthusiasm "Have you heard of Jack Dempsey?"
     
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