# Strength & Health

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{{Short description|American bodybuilding magazine}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2026}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title         = Strength & Health
| image_file    = Strength and Health 1937-05.jpg
| image_size    = 
| image_alt     = 
| image_caption = May 1937 issue
| frequency       = 
| founder         = [Bob Hoffman](/source/Bob_Hoffman_(sports_promoter))
| founded         = 1932
| firstdate       = 
| finaldate       = {{End date|1986}}
| finalnumber     = 54
| company         = York Barbell Company
| country         = USA
| based           = [York, Pennsylvania](/source/York%2C_Pennsylvania)
| language        = 
| oclc            = 2251991
}}

'''''Strength & Health''''' was a bodybuilding/fitness/[Olympic weightlifting](/source/Olympic_weightlifting) magazine, one of the earliest magazines devoted to [fitness](/source/Physical_fitness) and [bodybuilding](/source/bodybuilding).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Building Upper Body Strength and Resiliency with Double Kettlebell Press |url=https://strongandfit.com/blogs/news/build-insane-upper-body-strength-and-resiliency-with-the-double-kb-press |access-date=2023-11-03 |language=en}}</ref> Until the late 1960s, it was the most popular weightlifting magazine in the [United States](/source/United_States).<ref name="biblio"/>

==History==
The magazine was published between 1932<ref name="Morais"/> and 1986 in 54 Volumes, a volume a year in 6 parts, published every 2–3 months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://musclememory.com/mags.php?mag=sh|title=Strength & Health| work=Muscle Memory|accessdate=15 January 2013}}</ref> It was published by York Barbell Company, which was established by [Bob Hoffman](/source/Bob_Hoffman_(sports_promoter)).<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Kimberly Beckwith|author2=Jan Todd|title=Strength. America's First Muscle Magazine: 1914-1935|journal=Iron Game History|date=August 2005|volume=9|issue=1|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/IGH/IGH0901/IGH0901c.pdf|accessdate=4 May 2016}}</ref>

In the 1940s, several early gay physique photographers, including [Bob Mizer](/source/Bob_Mizer), contributed photos to the magazine and advertised homoerotic (sometimes nude) photographs in its back pages. This eventually gave rise to [physique magazines](/source/physique_magazines) designed for gay audiences, starting with Mizer's ''[Physique Pictorial](/source/Physique_Pictorial)'' in 1951. In an article titled "Let Me Tell You a Fairy Tale", the editors of ''Strength & Health'' decried the emergence of "homosexual magazines", warning of their corrupting influence on youth.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=David K. Johnson|last=Johnson |first=David K. |title=Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement| location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-231-18911-8}}</ref>

==Editors==
Its first editor was Lithuanian-born weightlifter [Walter Zagurski](/source/Walter_Zagurski).<ref name="sportsreferencezagurski">{{cite web|title=Wally Zagurski|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/za/wally-zagurski-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418053753/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/za/wally-zagurski-1.html|url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020|website=Sports Reference |accessdate=March 3, 2019}}</ref> Managing editors during the magazine's history included: [George F. Jowett](/source/George_F._Jowett), Gord Venables, Jim Murray, [Ray Van Cleef](/source/Ray_Van_Cleef), [Harry Paschall](/source/Harry_Paschall), Bob Hasse, [John Grimek](/source/John_Grimek), [Terry Todd](/source/Terry_Todd), Tommy Suggs, and Jan Dellinger.<ref name="biblio"/>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="biblio">{{cite journal |title=A Briefly Annotated Bibliography of English Language Serial Publications in the Field of Physical Culture |year=1991 |journal=Iron Game History |url=https://www.starkcenter.org/igh/igh-v1/igh-v1-n4-n5/igh0104k.pdf |last1=Todd |first1=Jan |last2=Roark |first2=Joe |last3=Todd |first3=Terry}}</ref>
<ref name="Morais">{{cite thesis|author=Dominic Gray Morais|title=Strength in numbers: "Strength & Health" brand community from 1932-1964|url=https://starkcenter.org/igh/igh-v9/igh-v9-n1/igh0901c.pdf|type=PhD|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=22 May 2023|date=May 2023}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
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*[http://musclememory.com/mags.php?mag=sh Strength and Health - Cover Page Collection]

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Category:Physical culture
Category:Fitness magazines
Category:Bodybuilding magazines
Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1986
Category:Magazines established in 1932
Category:Sports magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines published in Pennsylvania

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