Monte Saldo

Monte Saldo, born Alfred Montague Woollaston in Highgate, London in 1879, was an early bodybuilder and strongman who died on 23 February 1949. Apprenticed to Eugen Sandow in 1897, he formed a stage strongman act with his brothers, billed as The Montague Brothers, and became known for supporting a heavy motor car with its passengers on a bridge. With Maxick he developed the Maxalding system of muscle control, and in 1914 he published the book How to Pose. He also opened the Apollo-Saldo Academy in London and helped organise the British Amateur Weightlifters Association.