Alois P. Swoboda

Who was Alois P. Swoboda?

Alois P. Swoboda was a Physical Culture mail-order instructor. His course did not use apparatus or exercise equipment. Claims in Swoboda's courses included the ability to regrow lost limbs and heal a heart damaged by a heart attack.

Charles Atlas who won the title of The Worlds Most Perfectly Developed Man, became an icon of bodybuilding, and created one of the most famous bodybuilding courses of all time said, "Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda."

Swoboda was born in Vienna on March 8, 1873, and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1881 with his father, Adolf Swoboda. They settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he quickly found work in the local bathhouses. Mr. Swoboda subsequently worked in Omaha meatpacking factories but did not receive medical training, etc., despite insinuations of a formal education.