So You Want to Acquire Super Powers…
August 9th, 2006
from Action Comics #4 (September 1938)
from Action Comics #6 (November 1938)
from Action Comics #8 (January 1939)
The first exercise makes sense: it’s just weight lifting using furniture instead of gym weights. The second one seems a little suspicious to me. Isometrics really don’t work all that well, and that wagging the wrist is more likely to sprain a ligament rather than grant a “crushing hand-grip.” As for that last one, what exactly does “unusual vision” mean? All I can tell is the vision exercises seem to make you lose hair and go bald.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:32 am
At the risk of tooting my own horn: this reminds me of Doc Savage’s Exercises. More details here.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:50 am
“All I can tell is the vision exercises seem to make you lose hair and go bald.”
Now the truth is revealed! Lex Luthor hates Superman not for destroying his lab, but for ripping him off with a fake self-help book, “How to gain Super Powers in 30 Days or your money back!”
January 12th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I can’t speak for the jerking the wrist part, but clenching your fists tightly that way regularly WILL give you an incredible grip. It works especially well if you imagine cruching something, like a brick.
Isometrics works if you work it. it is a FANTASTIC excercise for developing awesom functional strength. No, it won’t give you bulging muscles like lifting weights will, but it will most DEFINITELY give you outrageous strength. Find some Isometric excercises online and give them a serious go for 30 days, you’ll know I’m telling the truth.
May 13th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
FYI Constantly clenching your fists over and over again will lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.
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