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I have obviously been into biography lately. In someways Jerry Lee Wilson has been just as, if not more influential, than the Weiders, Arthur Jones, and Body by Jake.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/fitness/2011/01/how_the_soloflex_changed_america.html

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That was a fine article. Thanks for posting it Jon.
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Arthur Jones invented the Nautilus in the late 60's, so he preceded Jerry Lee. Both men had impacts on what became the home fitness equipment industry. The Soloflex is a good piece of equipment. The rubber bands for resistance are like today's resistance and strength bands. Where resistance increases through the movement actually making them more efficient than weights.
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Jerry Wilson stated once that "they were all indebted" to Arthur Jones.
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I prefer both of them over the boys Weider.
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I read his "Soloflex Story" yesterday at work. You can find it free on PDF. Anyway, he started working with designs, how to keep it small so it would fit in almost anyone's house, resistance, etc. I guess he (Jerry Wilson) had a prototype in his garage (very middle class at the time), and had friends and neighbors using it. Most stated they would buy one. But, leave it to the lady to make the most obvious observation: "Jerry, unless these are aesthetic, no one will buy them on a mass scale..." (paraphrase) His wife was onto something.

So, he went back to work redesigning, renaming (the original name was "Buck Steel"), and while taxi-ing at LAX realized he could use airplane shock rings for resistance.



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This will probably take up an exponetially large amount of space, but it demonstrates the aesthetics:
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that's an understatement.
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I do not know how to reduce the size.
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That's alright. I would rather see the picture than my idiotic words. They sold many of those and I wish they would have sold one more, to myself.
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