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still come to train there, I hear the price is OK, advice on training is given freely and he enjoys sharing his knowledge with anyone willing to listen. For 38 years Alan Cayer has been lifting with Dick! He now possesses 3 World Titles and has made outstanding recognition in the Power-Lifting World.
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His forte, so to speak, in years past, especially, was training school kids. Jerry
Perkins had some of his wrestlers train with him to develop added strength. It worked out well. Several hundred kids have trained at his gym for the betterment of their sports skills and after college and during they
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records in Maine. Regular training took place until Mike Roy talked him into power-lifting competition. By 1980 he won his first world title and has continued on ever since, never once being defeated. He says, I wonder what it’s like to come in second? In his mind, that’s the first loser. He has a
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In 1946 at the age of 17 he quit school and went to work for the Gulf Oil Co. in
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