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Re: Box squats & board presses American in origin?

Posted By: Jeff Aguirre (cache-ntc-ab01.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2007, @ 9:24 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Box squats & board presses American in origin? (Paul Kelso)

I train with Joe DeMarco ,the Inventer of the Lever belt, He is, along with Bill West, the founder of "Westside Barbell" back in March of 58. Joe moved to veince beach in 1953 From Minnesota were he First started lifting in 1945. In 1948 He joined a new gym that just opened owned by "Mr. America" Alan Stephan.Joe said Alan didn't like to do squats so he squated on a bench,I have a picture taken from that time to prove it....We powerlifters owe a bodybuilder for the idea...
So anyways in 1965 or so when the guys were getting no where on their squats Joe remembered Stephan and they gave it shot . at first they used a metal reinforced "Knudsen" wood box turned up for "Hi box"and over for the "low box".soon they started using a strong 19"bench for Hi box cause they were all using 600-900lbs for reps.Joe said George added alot of techniques to the box squats and he still had the Knudsen box when he died last year....Joe is still lifting at 77 and is competing at the aau worlds this weekend.

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