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The official website of Charles Atlas

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Re: The official website of Charles Atlas

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Post by davidjhall »

conception wrote: post #3
OfSanguineFire wrote: post #2

Reading Marvel Comics in the 1990s, Charles Atlas was still just enough part of American culture that parodies appeared of its classic advertisement about a bully at the beach "Hey, quit kicking that sand in our faces!"[0]. I recall "Hey, quit kicking our faces!" and "Hey, quit kicking Sandman in our faces!" Long shot, but if any HN readers have an encyclopedic Marvel Comics knowledge and could find those two parodie…

I’d check an archive of “What the?” - https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/What_The--%3F!_Vol_1 If anywhere would have had it I’d guess it would have.

It's in What the--? Vol 1, Issue 3 -- last page (36) edit: Here's a partial image : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_(Earth-9047)

Re: The official website of Charles Atlas

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Post by peff »

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #2

Reading Marvel Comics in the 1990s, Charles Atlas was still just enough part of American culture that parodies appeared of its classic advertisement about a bully at the beach "Hey, quit kicking that sand in our faces!"[0]. I recall "Hey, quit kicking our faces!" and "Hey, quit kicking Sandman in our faces!" Long shot, but if any HN readers have an encyclopedic Marvel Comics knowledge and could find those two parodie…

This is the one I remember seeing as a kid:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbookcollecting/comments/15vvfj...

Re: The official website of Charles Atlas

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Post by User23 »

lucasfcosta wrote: post #10

It’s quite impressive how the muscularity standard for men has increased over time.

It’s pretty much an open secret that every Hollywood actor that needs to be muscular for a role uses some kind of anabolic androgen. You see stories like “he put on 30 pounds of muscle for this role in six months” and it’s obvious what’s going on. Also the signature overdeveloped upper traps and that trenbalone “dryness.”

All that being said I’m still curious about the activity efficacy of the dynamic tension method. My understanding is that you basically flex to make your opposing muscle groups work against each other as a training stimulus.

Re: The official website of Charles Atlas

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Post by I_Am_Nous »

lucasfcosta wrote: post #10

It’s quite impressive how the muscularity standard for men has increased over time.

Yeah, the photos on the homepage just show a very fit, normal guy and it's true that nearly anyone can look like that. Compare it to Arnold Schwarzenegger (who later admitted to using steroids) and it's nuts.

Re: The official website of Charles Atlas

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Post by askonomm »

noSyncCloud wrote: post #7
_the_inflator wrote: post #4

Great one. This is what it still was like to surf the net with an iPhone around 2010.

This was still what it was like to surf the web with a Nokia in 2000, you mean.

Damn what Nokia did you have. Mine could only send email and play Snake at the time :(
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