page_title: Al Treloar
section_title: Los Angeles
hierarchical_section_title: Al Treloar / Biography / Los Angeles
caption_attribution_description: English: Los Angeles Athletic Club building — at 431 West 7th Street, in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The 1912 Beaux-Arts style clubhouse, designed by John Parkinson, is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. "This is a difficult building to photograph from street level because it is hemmed in by other tall buildings."
context_page_description: Al Treloar was an American bodybuilder, athletic trainer, author and artist's model. He won the first international bodybuilding contest in 1904, appeared in early silent films, and toured the United States as a vaudeville performer. He was physical director at the Los Angeles Athletic Club from 1907 to 1949.
context_section_description: The Los Angeles Athletic Club offered Treloar the position of physical director, and he began work there in February 1907. He wrote a weekly column on health and exercise for the club's newsletter, and added healthier choices to the menu served in the club's dining room. 
  Al. G. Treloar, physical instructor, has been trained by many years of practical work and almost can see at a glance what his many pupils require in the line of physical training. He was born in Allegan, Michigan, in 1873, and graduated from the Manistee high school at an early age. He then entered Harvard university, where he took up the normal course in physical training, and after graduating from the university acted as coach for the Harvard freshman rowing crew for one year. He then accepted the position of physical instructor of the St. Paul Athletic club. Later he taught privately, and for ten years he traveled all over the country, giving private lessons to a host of pupils who had heard of his system of teaching. In January, 1907, the directors of the Los Angeles Athletic club learned of his success and lost no time in employing him. The veteran coach of Stanford university, "Dad" Moulton, since has termed him "one of the finest instructors in the country." In addition to teaching wrestling and coaching the four-oar crews of the club, Treloar is an expert on the flying rings, traveling rings, horizontal bars, parallel bars, vaulting horse and buck, pulley weights, both upper and lower back, wrist machine, finger machine, vertical bars and punching bags, in all of which he gives daily instruction to large classes of members.
caption: Los Angeles Athletic Club, 431 West 7th Street, L.A.
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