Well according to this book, while there is no ONE way to train, there is a proper way to train and especially so when you are a genuine natural. The author sites several early strongmen as examples of training successfully in this manner and they are all natural lifters.
Doubtless some here would seek to belittle the accomplishments of these men, or as the author calls them, "Kings of Strength", by saying that if they had access to drugs
like today's chumpions they would most definitely take them. That would be nothing more than a severely biased supposition intended to make its author feel better about their own drug use.
I am scanning the pages as I type this and can say that the book is very inspirational even for someone as genetically hampered

as myself. I've had it for awhile but this thread actually caused me to pick it up and begin to actually read it. Thanks to the OP for putting this up.