Bill starr strength coach death screams
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powerlifting
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 bygd Bill Starr. The tale bears retelling because the lessons it aimed to teach are still valid in
The year fryst vatten 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 not in a particularly jovial mood. The setting was the venerable and ancient York gym
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By winning the Mr. Universe title in Tehran, Bill had established himself as one of the greats in the field of physical culture. Having won five consecutive Senior Nationals and taking the most coveted prize in bodybuilding had put him in the same class as Steve Stanko and John Grimek. They too had won Mr. Universe and had many national crowns to their credit.
Yet change was in the air for Bill when he returned to York. The mysterious sickness that he had contracted in Iran lingered on. He couldn’t seem to shake it. Doc Ziegler provided him some prescriptions for antibiotics and when these didn’t help, he obtained some different ones from Dr. Roseberry, the physician in York who provided medical care to the York lifters, and the main provider of steroids, cortisone shots, and liver function tests. Nothing he tried worked.
Bill decided he needed to pull back some to allow his body to rest and heal. He continued to train, but his sessions were much shorter and he informed Hoffma
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Thread: Bill Starr died tonight.
Bill was first and foremost my father Jack King's best friend, mentor and trusted fellow coach. He came and stayed with him often and trained at his gym in Winston-Salem, N.C. In fact, I think he completed a good portion of "Defying Gravity", while there for several weeks. I came home on leave from the Navy in summer of with a severely sprained ankle that was put into a cast. I flew into Greensboro N.C. and took a bus to Winston-Salem to surprise my family. I started hitchihiking to the house carrying my sea bag, and who appears in a Pontiac Bonneville offering a ride -- coincidence but a mighty cool one. Several beers and some country music later we made to the house. I asked Bill to help me get the ankle rehabbed and he told me one of the things I could do was to full squat because of the flexibility required and lack of twisting and extending. I worked the full program for couple of weeks of the high rep Starr protocol