EUGENIZATION.

Dear Mr. Jones,

I regret that I waited so long since I first heard the news, but I wanted to make sure, since rumors of your death circulate every year or so (then again, I should’ve believed Dr. Darden).

I never got to thank you for everything, like enabling my career, or helping me to learn to question so-called “authorities”, or introducing a new paradigm for thinking about strength training in terms of a drug to be dosed, as opposed to big, dumb exercise.

And for inventing the MedX Lumbar Extension machine. What a great piece of equipment.

I’d thank you for introducing cam effects into exercise machines to provide for variable resistance, but Gustav Zander beat you to it.

Your words still ring true today, years later. You will be missed.

N.B. - It would be remiss of me not to include the infamous “buff” picture of Arthur Jones in his younger days, so here it is:

Above: All in the years before steroids and Photoshop. RIP, Arthur.