[quote]Lyle77 wrote:
but nether the less, I think that the muscle looks very well-balanced and proportioned.[/quote]
Nevertheless.
Full body workouts. Regularly using barbells, dumbbells, and kettlebells. One-arm and two-arm lifts of all sorts. Olympic lifts and their variations, as well as other big basic exercises (and yes, even some arm work). Low volume, high frequency, not training to muscular failure.
Sandow looked like Sandow because he was Sandow. It’s not the training that made him. And really, a lot of the fundamentals of today’s training isn’t too dissimilar to what lifters used to do back then: