1. Max Sick was a German strongman and gymnast who performed as Maxick.
10 Facts About Max Sick
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Between the ages of two and five, Max Sick was unusually weak, suffering with lung problems, rickets and dropsy.
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Max Sick's illnesses affected him so severely that he only learned to walk at the age of six.
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Max Sick trained as a mechanic at a local engineering works but at the age of 23 he left that employment and decided on a career that could better use his physical attributes, moving to Munich where he joined a gymnasium and where he quickly found work as an artist's model.
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Max Sick began to appear in German music halls, and as part of his stage routine he would make his various groups of muscles twitch in time to music.
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Accordingly, on October 26,1909, Max Sick arrived in London, where he quickly became a serious contender for the world professional middleweight weightlifting title.
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Max Sick was capable of a clean and jerk with twice his bodyweight.
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Max Sick wrote many books on muscle control and the muscle control courses he developed with Monte Saldo were still being sold into the 1970s under the name of Maxalding.
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Max Sick did not want to return to his native land and enlist, as he refused to serve under "Prussian bullies".
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Max Sick then left to explore Central and South America, finally settling in Buenos Aires.