![]() ![]() His Hollywood bachelor pad had a rope in the ravine below his pool deck. My cousin Michelle told me he had a heavy bag and speed bag at his Vermont Horse Ranch. ![]() When he was roommates with actor, Jack Klugman, Jack said Charlie pounded out, “Pushups between milk crates, rope climbing from a rope hung in the alley, sit ups and running.” Historically I saw his heavy bag at his Bel Air home in 1986. His whole family, my Mother, Aunts, Uncles, etc. When he returned to Ehrenfeld he had gained muscle and leaned out. Dynamic Tension, squats, push ups, pull ups and sit ups. I have no idea who taught it, but from information I pulled from relatives, it was a Charles Atlas type of thing. During that time he attended a seminar on health and fitness. In his teens, due to less available work in the summer, Charlie went upstate to work on a farm. All the brothers and my late grandfather, Walter, did work in the mines in Ehrenfeld, PA. Orienting oneself for an athletic competition or photo session can be a powerful motivation, but maintaining fitness as an act of consistency represents an entirely different mindset. ![]() More than the idea of film popularity over decades, they represent fitness and conditioning methodology that stands the test of time. The photos above were studio shots taken nearly twenty years apart. ![]()
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