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by David Gentle » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:48 am
This subject is interesting and most frustrating as i have a page out of an early Iron Man with ages listed both young and old of strongmen. In no order, just as i think, Terry Robinson wrote to me right up until his death, he also painted very well, i have his letters and will find them out. In the list of which i can only find one page and not even the date, it lists Prof Anthony Barker as over 101" and another guy name of Roy White at "over 108" someone i dont know off hand.As i guess at time of list, it goes on to say various names as "over 90" Paul Bragg, who Bob Kennedy knew, said he was around 90 and still alive at the time we were corresponding. wish i had the full list and date of mag, it has a photo of Hack saying he lived to 90.by contrast the list of who died young is interesting, with almost all dying of heart attacks, which may have lead to the common myth that "strongmen die young" Floyd Page was 37,Louis Cyr 49 Karl Swoboda 50, Sandow 58 Bobby Pandour 38 and so on, it then goes on to list strong men who supposedly died at an "average" age, but is not much use as at the time of the article, most were still alive anyway.I do have books with most strongmens profiles in, including their deaths, but it would be a mammoth task to list them all.Personally i dont think the weight training or lifting had any effect whatsoever, but am a believer in its your genes that list your date of demise. My father died in his 40s, but my mother was over 95 and had all her marbles . Finally if we bring the female of the species into the list, i am sure we would have some amazing figures, at this very moment our "WW11 Sweetheart Very Lyn has just died age 103. They say women live longer to clear up the mess men leave when they die, sound right to me. David Gentle One last thought, it used to be quoted that the Russians lived the longest, but the more probably reason was that the men simply lied to avoid military conscription. The only elixer of youth is love.(just found out the list was by David Willoughby)
