IronMind Enterprises Highlights Timeline

 

• IronMind hosts 2004 Olympic gold medal winners in weightlifting from China, Zhang Guozheng and Shi Zhiyong, at the 2005 Arnold Fitness Expo
• MILO goes to Sofia, Bulgaria to cover the European W/L Championships
• introduce new line of performance wear
• MILO travels to Dubai, UAE, and Doha, Qatar to cover the 2005 Asian W/L Championships and 2005 World W/L Championships
• introduce the revolutionary IMTUG™: The Tune-up Gripper
• publish Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength by Brad Johnson
• introduce the Z1500 Belt and the Quarter-Ton Trucker Tote
• produce John Brookfield's Blueprint for Grip Strength DVD
• continue to make corporate donations to the Paul Anderson Youth Home and Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres)

• IronMind sponsors an international weightlifting exhibition at the 2006 Arnold Sports Festival, hosting Olympians from China, Bulgaria, and Georgia
• extend our line of performance wear for head-to-toe coverage
• MILO goes to Poland to cover the 2006 European W/L Championships
• MILO 14.2 predicts Phil Pfister to win WSM 2006 — he does!
• MILO attends the premiere of the Jon Pall documentary in Rjekyavik, Iceland
• MILO goes to China for the 2006 World's Strongest Man contest
• introduce Captains of Crush Grippers No. 1.5, No. 2.5, and No. 3.5
• expand our Vulcan Rack II+ System to include chinning bar and wrist roller axle set-ups
• publish The Conditioning Handbook: Getting in Top Shape by Brian Jones
• MILO covers the 2006 Worlds in Santo Domingo and the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar

• MILO covers the 2007 Men’s Shot Put at both the Indoor and the Outdoor Track & Field Championships
• introduce 4-color in MILO
• our website gets a whole new look
• MILO covers weightlifting at the 2007 Europeans in Strasbourg, France and the 2007 Worlds in Chiang Mai, Thailand
• MILO returns to Scotland after 10 years to cover the 2007 World Highland Games Championships in Inverness
• MILO goes to Austria to cover the IPF Worlds—a first
• Richard Sorin, the first-ever Captains of Crush, recertifies on the No. 3 CoC Gripper
• our Headstrap Fit for Hercules gets a new frame

• Mark Felix sets a new world record on the Rolling Thunder® with his 301-lb. lift at the Super Series Mohegan Sun Grand Prix
• IronMind launches the website for hand health – www.strongandhealthyhands.com
• IronMind’s Randall Strossen receives a Certificate of Merit from the European Weightlifting Federation, the first non-European ever to win this award
• IronMind’s president, Randall Strossen, and Captains of Crush Grippers are featured in a story in The Sacramento Bee
• IronMind’s Draft Horse Pulling Harness is shown on CBS’s The Early Show, as Derek Poundstone pulls a bus down New York’s 5th Avenue. Later,Phil Pfister pulls the same bus down 7th Avenue in front of Madison Square Garden—kicking off the Super Series Grand Prix
• MILO covers the groundbreaking FORTISSIMUS 2008 event, in honor of Louis Cyr
• IronMind’s Randall Strossen is inducted into the Louis Cyr Hall of Fame at FORTISSIMUS 2008 for his work as a journalist and photographer
• MILO is again—for the fourth time!—the only U.S. Iron Game publication to receive accreditation to cover weightlifting at the Olympics
• IronMind launches a specialty website for Captains of Crush Grippers – www.captainsofcrushgrippers.com
• IronMind adds closing the No. 3.5 Captains of Crush Grippers to its world-renowned certification program
• Stanford magazine spotlights Randall Strossen (Ph.D. ’79), IronMind, and Captains of Crush Grippers
• IronMind updates its classic book on grip strength, Mastery of Hand Strength, Revised Edition
• IronMind adds the Wrist-Relief Soft Weight to its line-up of hand health training tools
• IronMind introduces the CoC Key, and a precise way to assess your performance on the CoC Grippers
• New in 2009 are the CoC and IMTUG Caddies to keep your Captains of Crush Grippers and IMTUGs at hand and in line
• The Expand-Your-Hand Bands are now made of a more durable latex-free and non-petroleum-based material that is UV and ozone resistant
• IronMind publishes Grappling Basics: A New Twist on Conditioning, by Brian Jones, M.S.
• IronMind introduces the new High Country Hyper Bench to put some starch in your spine and give your aching back some relief

• Business Week features the article “IronMind Captains of Crush: A Lesson in Clever Marketing” in its SmallBiz magazine
• Two more people certify on the No. 3.5 Captains of Crush Gripper…could a new No. 4 certification be far behind?
• IronMind brings the German men’s Olympic weightlifting team to the IronMind Invitational at the Arnold where they wow the crowd . . . and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger!
• Rich Williams ups the ante by certifying on both the No. 3 and the No. 3.5 Captains of Crush Grippers on the same day at the Arnold’s Grip Gauntlet
• Police and Security News highlights Captains of Crush Grippers in the article, “The Secret to Better Subject Control? Grip Strength is the Key” in its 25th anniversary issue
• Sam Solomi is the first gripster to meet the Jesse Marunde Teenage Capatins of Crush Challenge by Certifying on a No. 3 Captains of Crush Gripper as a teenager, and IronMind donates $500 as pledged to the educational trust fund of Jesse Marunde’s children
• IronMind publishes a grip training program for practical and tactical weapons users: “ Using Grip Products by IronMind” by Ron Avery

 

• launch monthly IronMind sports psychology column in IRONMAN magazine, will run continuously for over 12 years

• publish SUPER SQUATS ®: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks

• introduce SUPER SQUATS Hip Belt™

• first IronMind catalog, featuring cambered squat bars and a multitude of grip equipment, including our world-famous Captains of Crush® Grippers
• certify Richard Sorin as the first Captain of Crush for closing the No. 3

• introduce Pillars of Power™, Heavy Hammer II ™ and Olympic Husky Handle Dumbbell Bars™, among other new products
• introduce the concept that grip strength comprises three major elements: crushing, pinching, and supporting
• John Brookfield becomes the second person certified on the No. 3 Captains of Crush Gripper

• launch MILO®: A Journal For Serious Strength Athletes
• make first-ever weightlifting training hall video and introduce the concept of the “no-no-no” squat
• develop Just Protein®

• MILO covers World MusclePower Championships in Scotland, sparking US interest in strongman competitions
• introduce our Apollon’s Axle™ among other new products

• our Elephant Steps™ and Bulldog II™ collars are launched
• publish IronMind: Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies
• Steve Jeck and the Inver Stone make a major splash via MILO

• MILO is the only American Iron Game publication credentialed to photograph weightlifting at the Atlanta Olympics
• offer the Snowball™
• publish Paul Kelso’s Powerlifting Basics, Texas- Style: The Adventures of Lope Delk
• recognize John Brookfield as having bent a Red Nail™

• publish Steve Justa’s cult classic, "The Barrel Lift"
• introduce the Hardy Handshake™
• publish Of Stones and Strength by Steve Jeck and Peter Martin

• launch www.ironmind.com
• publish David Webster’s Sons of Samson, Vol. 2
• publish Rock, Iron, Steel: The Book of Strength by Steve Justa
• Joe Kinney becomes the first to close the No. 4 Captains of Crush® Gripper
• the Buffalo Bar™ bulks up to 1-3/8” in diameter

• publish Paul Anderson: The Mightiest Minister by Randall J. Strossen, Ph. D.
• create our Draft Horse Pulling Harness™

• MILO gets a face-lift in the March 2000 issue
• Randall Strossen covers weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics as the IWF photographer
• the premiere Rolling Thunder™ World Championship is held at the Beauty and the Beast contest
• publish Louis Cyr: Amazing Canadian by Ben Weider

• on-line store opens for business
• publish Training with Cables for Strength by John Brookfield
• introduce the Outer Limits Loops™

• the Draft Horse Pulling Harness™ is used at the World’s Strongest Man contest, and MILO covers the event
• MILO covers weightlifting at the Asian Games
• introduce the Go-Really Grip™ Machine, the Close-the-Gap Straps™ and the Claw Curl™
• publish The Grip Master’s Manual by John Brookfield
• publish the “Dexterity Ball Training for Hands” course by John Brookfield

• introduce the Twist Yo’ Wrist™, the Holle-It-Up™ Dumbbell, and the Captains of Crush Grippers Shield of Arms
• go over the one hundred mark on those certified as having closed the No. 3 Captains of Crush Gripper
• Nathan Holle is the second person to close the No. 4, and soon others follow
• publish Captains of Crush Grippers®: What They Are and How To Close Them by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D., J.B. Kinney, and Nathan Holle
• include new insert “Training with IronMind’s Crushed-to-Dust!™ Grip Tools” by John Brookfield in our 2004 catalog
• MILO celebrates its tenth anniversary

• our website and on-line store get a complete make-over
• MILO goes to Almaty, Kazakhstan and Kiev, Ukraine to cover the Asian and the European Weightlifting Championships respectively
• MILO three-peats as the only Iron Game publication receiving accreditation to cover weightlifting at the 2004 Olympic Games, Athens, Greece
• publish Winning Ways: How to Succeed In the Gym and Out by Randall J Strossen, Ph. D.
• introduce the first of its kind, the Expand-Your-Hand Bands™ for hand health
• introduce the Hand Gripper Helper, revolutionary “plate-loading” device for progressing on the Captains of Crush Grippers
• introduce the Captains of Crush ID Card
• publish The Complete Sandbag Training Course by Brian Jones
• the IronMind News (www.IronMind.com) cements its position around the world for its "fast, accurate, and objective" coverage of top strength stories
• five people are now certified on the No. 4 Captains of Crush Gripper