Alexander Zass Isometric Exerciser: His Secret Isometric Exerciser Revealed!

Have you heard of Alexander Zass? He was also known as the Amazing Samson.

Do you know the isometric exercise of Alexander Zass?

Zass was best known for his feats of strength. To many he was considered… AMAZING!

Most people thought he got his strength from lifting weights, but in fact, unlike other strongmen of the day, he refused to do any feat of strength that required lifting weights. This angered the weightlifting community of his day.

Because they were firmly convinced that this was how he developed his incredible strength and ability to break the chains that were wrapped around his chest.

Here is a little history about this amazing strong man.

Alexander Zass was a strong man of yesteryear, born in Poland in the 19th century, but later his family moved to Russia.

As a child, he was motivated to develop his strength when he saw circus performers and the incredible feats they performed. He started out by climbing trees and made some homemade weights and dumbbells to start his workout. As he got older, he began to exercise with some of the great Russian strongmen of the day.

In some of the books he wrote, specifically Samson Systems and Methods, he laid out his idea that to have true strength you need to have what he called… Tendon Strength.

He felt that he first needed to develop his connective tissues, the tendons, instead of concentrating on the muscle fibers. He concluded that the best method to use is what we now call isometric exercise.

Most of his conclusions arose from his imprisonment during World War I. He escaped so often that the guards had to change him into his cell. He practiced and learned to break his chains. He would later use these chains to maintain his strength and conditioning by using them in his isometric workouts. And so he developed the Alexander Zass isometric exercise.

He would later publish a training program in an instructional course detailing his use of isometrics employing a chain-shaped exercise device.

Here are some of his feats of strength that he performed:

* Lifted a 500 pound beam with his teeth
* Carried a small horse
* Caught a woman shot from a cannon
* Several professional boxers punched him in the stomach

But his most exciting demonstrations include being wrapped in chains and then snapping them in front of people and, of course, bending steel bars.

People in London were amazed at his incredible feats of strength and several newspaper articles were written about him. This created a boom in sales of his books on instructional courses on Alexander Zass Isometric Exercise Training.