Old-School Arm Training Secrets: John McWilliams’s Arm Routine My most popular posts here at Integral Strength typically fall into two categories: old-school bodybuilding programs or serious strength and power routines. With that in mind, I thought I would do a series of articles on various old-school lifters and bodybuilders (the two overlapped once-upon-a-time), and on various old-school methods for training different bodyparts or lifts. Thus, this first entry is on old-school arm training, but others will be on old-school chest, shoulders, back, legs, squats, bench presses, overhead presses, power cleans, etc. And for this first entry, I decided upon an old-school bodybuilder cum powerlifter that many of you may never have heard of: John McWilliams. McWilliams's back double-biceps pose. He was impressive even in his 40s. When I first came across an article about McWil...
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