Old-School Strongmen - Photo Gallery - LIFE

Old-School Strongmen - Photo Gallery - LIFE: "In an age when plastic surgery, human growth hormones, anabolic steroids, and other 'enhancers' can quickly change (occasionally for the better; often for the cringe-inducing worse) a person's appearance, there's a lot to be said for the strongmen of old, who usually altered their physiques the old-fashioned way: by, for example, frequently bending iron bars around their necks. Like the man said ... there's no school like the old school."