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The article discusses the actor Charles Bronson and how he maintained an extremely fit physique throughout his career despite often playing more average characters. It also talks about his attractive wife Jill Ireland.

The article is about the actor Charles Bronson and how despite often playing more average characters, he actually maintained an incredibly fit physique for much of his career and life.

The article discusses Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland as being a very attractive celebrity couple, with Jill Ireland being described as having a very desirable figure.

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Ireland would have laughed Sir Mix-A-Lot the fuck out information to anyone- if
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pic, to give you an idea of the kind of shape he Jamie is a nerd wrapped
walked around in. in tattoo-covered muscle.
With a BA in History and

For most of us, if you know of Charles Bronson it’s East Asian Studies from
from his Death Wish Slms (the Srst of which was the University of Arizona,
based on the badass Brian GarSeld novel of the same an MBA from the Vienna

name), in which Bronson stars as an aging architect- University of Economics

turned-Punisher-style-vigilante after his wife is killed and an iMBA from the

and daughter is put in a coma during a brutal New University of South


York City mugging. Bronson proceded to blow the Carolina, he's only got
buttcheecks off a couple dozen bad guys over the three degrees to show for

course of the movie, and a couple hundred more years of graduate study

baddies over the course of the 20 years the Sve-Slm (which also included a
series went. Rather than being the hard-eyed, hard- year of law and some
bodied cint-eyed badass of his cowboy Slm past, coursework in History),
Bronson played a “soft” upper middle class dude he's got ample academic

pushed to the limit by the shitbags with which New credentials to add to his

York was teeming at the time. He pulled it off so lifting resume, which
convincingly that we all forgot how insane, includes a all-time, all-
unbelievably, preposterously hard Chuck Bronson federation WR

actually was a few years prior to that. powerlifting total at


181lbs (raw) in 2012, and
would still be #3 on the
all-time list at 165 if he'd
made weight in 2013
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He's trined in basement
gyms in Beijing,
penthouse gyms in Hong
Kong, meathead gyms in
Vienna, dirt roads in
Bronson maintained his ridiculous shape throughout Tibet, and just about
his career- the pic on the right is from the badass every legendary gym in
Sght cick Hard Times, which was released about the United States, to
twenty years f=rior to the Slm, Tennessee Champ (a name a few, and he's
shitty evangelican Christian boxing B-movie) on the thrown all of that
left, knowledge into the most
:
Born in 1921, the eleventh of Sfteen children to a expansive history of
Pennsylvania coal miner, Bronson could not have had lifting, Sght sports, and
an easy childhood- those mines have produced some nutrition the world may
of the hardest people the world has seen over the last ever see.
two hundred years, and Bronson’s dad was apparently
meaner than the majority of them, which is like calling
a boxer meaner than Mike Tyson clones deliberately
SUBJECT
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to speak English as a teenager (they only spoke
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school in his family while pulling double time in the
mine and school (he worked in the mine from age ten
DESTROY
onward).
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shit/)
Bronson worked the mine until enlisting in the Air
Force in 1943, serving as a aerial gunner in a B-29
CULTURE
Superfortress on 25 combat cights. For those of you
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who are unaware of the giant brass balls this job took,
shit/culture/)
Bronson had to stuff himself into a tiny tube and
crawl down an unlit metal tunnel the exact width of a
man so he could then stuff himself into a glass egg RANT
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aircraft. Riding a luge down a radioactive rockslide shit/rant/)
while people in what amounts to cying motorcycles
with guns strapped to them attempt to blast you out EAT
of assistance would be a fair comparison, though that (https://plagueofstrength.com/catego
scenario lacks the constant fear of catching Sre and
falling 40000 feet to your death at any time. COOK
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DIET
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way-to-eat/)

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B-29 Gun Turrets
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Needless to say, Bronson’s pedigree as a bad
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motherfucker is Srmly established between his mine
motherfuckers/)
work and his 25 combat missions (he did receive a
purple heart on at least one mission), but adding to
BODYBUILDING
that was the fact that Chuck Bronson trained
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constantly. That’s not to say he lifted, because
Bronson was an amateur boxer who might have
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to time (his contemporaries Jack Palance and Robert (https://plagueofstrength.com/catego
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rocks for strength, then do massive amounts of (https://plagueofstrength.com/catego
calisthenics, rope jumping, and roadwork to be in top workouts/)
Sghting shape.

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Bronson learned to Sght, as kids of the day often do,
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from his older brother. Chuck’s oldest brother Jack
lifting/)
was apparently a monster barSghter, and at least one
reputable source (author Tom Furhman) asserts that
older brother Jack was none other than legendary POWERLIFTING | ODD LIFTING
boxer Jack Dempsey. Certainly, the two look similar, (https://plagueofstrength.com/catego
fought similarly, and were on some of the same Slm odd-lifting/)
projects (Hard Times in particular), so it’s not outside
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young Professor X put on a bit of muscle for a we-are-lifting/)
single Slm, meanwhile Bronson was fucking
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without eating, and often the only possessions March 2021
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bindle he carried with him from town to town.
Long before Dempsey met the amoral Kearns,
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At home in boxcars, bust towns, fleshpots,
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January 2021
more time on the wild side than can be
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expected for a man who eventually developed
such a stellar reputation.”
December 2020
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hobnobbing with high society superstars, and


he felt increasingly inadequate among the fine November 2020
manners of the nouveau riche. Like something (https://plagueofstrength.com/2020/
out of The Great Gatsby, Dempsey embarked on
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and the grammar of a stevedore into a
celebrity bon vivant. Part of that process September 2020
involved recasting his colorful but sordid past. (https://plagueofstrength.com/2020/
But that past exists independently of attempts
to downplay it over the decades” (Acevedo).
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July 2020
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June 2020
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Hard Times 1975 Charles Brons…
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Chuck’s Stness obsession wasn’t just the result of March 2020


having the hardest upbringing in history, however- he (https://plagueofstrength.com/2020/
genuinely enjoyed working out. When he was in the
gym or training at home, Chuck’s routine consisted of February 2020
everything from dumbbells to thousands of pushups (https://plagueofstrength.com/2020/
between milk crates, hundreds of situps, squeezing a
tennis ball for grip and forearm muscularity, running,
January 2020
rope skipping, cable machines, medicine balls, and of
(https://plagueofstrength.com/2020/
course a ton of heavy bag work, but Chuck’s favorite
exercise was rope climbing. On set, his training was a
December 2019
bit different, but Chuck was apparently a fucking
(https://plagueofstrength.com/2019/
perpetual motion machine on set, doing “Pushups
between milk crates, rope climbing from a rope hung
in the alley, sit ups and running” (Fuhrman). He was November 2019
also heavily into the isometric style of training (https://plagueofstrength.com/2019/
popular at the time, like Charles Atlas’ dynamic
tension (https://www.awesome-workout- October 2019
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December 2018
I’ve no idea if that is an actual Chcuk Bronson
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workout, but you could do far worse for a home
workout than this thing.
November 2018
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Costars said Bronson never stopped pumping up on
set, lifting dumbbells whenever the cameras stopped
September 2018
rolling, and even his girlfriends and wives claimed
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Bronson was fucking obsessed with his muscles.
Don’t allow yourself to think of him as Zyzz, though-
this dude could actually move weight and fuck shit August 2018
up- his workouts were just as old school manly as you (https://plagueofstrength.com/2018/
can get, adding “horseback riding, motocross,
swimming, knife throwing and shooting” to all of the July 2018
other shit he did, making him much more of a Bruce (https://plagueofstrength.com/2018/

June 2018
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Lee than a Brad Pitt sort of actor. And not unlike (https://plagueofstrength.com/2018/
Bruce, Chuck’s diet was uncharacteristically
restrictive for the era. May 2018


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April 2018
“He was always STRINGENT with food. Limited (https://plagueofstrength.com/2018/
calories. At my Grandma’s funeral, during the
filming of “Once Upon a Time in West”, Charlie
March 2018
mentioned loving the food in France, but
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practicing, “push aways”, because you have to
limit intake to stay in shape. During that
February 2018
afternoon, he indulged in a piece of my Aunt
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Janet’s incredible cherry pie. One piece with
his cup of Yuban co"ee brewed in a porcelain
January 2018
pot” (Fuhrman).
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Peeled, but also strong as fuck. On the set of September 2017


Breakheart Pass, costar Archie Moore recalled, (https://plagueofstrength.com/2017/
“When the director yelled, “Cut!”… “I started pulling
myself up with both arms, then I looked over and
August 2017
saw Bronson pulling himself up with ONE arm!”
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So for those of you (and we are legion) who are


July 2017
champing at the bit to get back into the gym, maybe a
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change in perspective is what you need in order to
:
fully embrace the situation in which we now Snd
June 2017
ourselves. You could get all Chuck Bronson on the
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deal and get to the point where you can leap moving
cars, do one-arm pullups up the side of a moving
October 2016
train, and bang the hottest people on planet Earth just
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by virtue of a badass physique and enough swagger
to make a real-life pimp look shy by comparison.
When in Spain shooting Spartacus, weights and other August 2016
training equipment were hard to come by, so Bronson (https://plagueofstrength.com/2016/
and his costar Laurence Olivier simply did a Willy
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to have a lot more to do with not having an off switch
than how much you squat.
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August 2015
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legend turned actor, Jim Brown, stated
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family man. He also stated, ‘He wouldn’t


June 2015
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next to take me out.’ Charlie said, ‘Well,


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Woody Strode is another badass I’ve only just


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If you’re unfamiliar with Woody Strode or his workout, September 2014


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LG says:
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Damn, that Hard Times Sght scene was
pretty brutal given the era of the Slm.
Yet another rockin article. Thanks Jamie

Jamie Chaos says:


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Thanks man! According to Tom Furman,


the choreography in that Sght was
inspired in large part by the methods
used by Jack Dempsey in his barroom
brawl phase of his career. Check out
Tom’s articles- they’re really cool insight
into Dempsey and Chuck Bronson.

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