TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Early Life
10:43 - Becoming The Mighty Atom
14:49 - Unbelievable Feats of Strength
17:42 - Conclusion

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His son was on America's got talent or something and he pulled a car with his teeth at age 92 or something.

Like I said, as a short, sickly and weak man this man is my idol and got me to start working out.

Joseph Greenstein's last living grandson died last month. Jay Greenstein was our adopted Pops & we miss him very much. He looked exactly like his grandpa. He was so proud to be his grandson. His Carnie roots showed throughout his life. We had a celebration of Jay's life on Saturday & we had The Mighty Atom's biography out on the Memorial table.

One of his most legendary feats was taking on 23 nazis at once by himself in an NYC street brawl in front of the German-American Bund HQ. The Bund was basically thee American nazi group and they were trying to build an alliance between America and Germany in the 30's. Joseph Greenstein was Jewish, and did not take kindly to the sign they had hanging out front saying no dogs or Jews allowed. He got a ladder to take it down and a bunch of nazis poured out of the building to surround him. Despite being armed only with a baseball bat he walked away effectively unscathed while many of the nazis were sent to the hospital. Charges against him were dismissed due to the nazis having thrown the first punch lol. Those fools had no idea they were facing one of the strongest toughest men on earth!

Despite these stories all being old, you're for sure starting a revolution in bodybuilding and strength training. Thank you for presenting natural role models so that steroids aren't needed anymore to become just as strong as your idol 💙

I remember a martial arts phenom Richie Barathy meeting him at MAdison Square Garden and Joe was 80 some odd years old bending horse shoes. He tossed Richie a unbent shoe and said go ahead. Richie couldnt budge it. The old man laughed and took it easily bending it. Telling Richie .the founder of American Combat Karate....its inner strength you can do it but first empty your mind of fear of hurting your hands of pain.   Needless to say.  Richie was already a 6 th Dan Jiujitsu master and 6 th Dan Goju Ryu and Tae Kwon Do master. Richie went on to become the greatest breaker of 1" granite slabs in the world until his death from Lupus related geart disease in 1997. My older brother was one of Richies best students and told me...Richie was amazed an old little man could possess so much incredible Power

Im here because i read a book called the Mighty Atom a long time ago & was impressed with his feats of strength. Great story

I remember seeing the mighty atom a couple times at the booth Corners farmers market in Pennsylvania as a kid and saw him Bend horseshoes with his hands and nails with his teeth and more. I remember asking him if I can see the Horseshoe answering pendant the Horseshoe after he'd been it to see if it was rubber, but it was real. A very amazing man

Is it possible that I saw this man at The Great Allentown Fair in the 1960s and 70s when I was about 12+/- years old? I mean I heard my mother talk about him as someone who would come to The Fair every year. I stumbled onto this video and it  immediately brought back memories I hadn't thought about for so many years.
    I used to hear stories about this man every summer during The Fair and remember looking at him as my mother navigated through the crowd dragging us three kids around. We didn't stop, my mother on a mission to not lose any of us in the crowd. But I did see him trying to get someone to come forward to check out a piece of steel he apparently bent, but that was all I saw.
    I think I saw him in passing one more time at The Fair, but I was with friends who had others to meet up with so it was just a glance.
    It sure seems like the same man. I really regret not making the time to watch him. Such memories, I can't believe it...

I read his biography more than one time...the name of the book:  The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein...he is one of the old time strongmen I look up to...Thank you for doing this and bringing his story to a new generation...

There's so much more info about The Mighty Atom in this video that others have not covered yet. For one thing, I had no idea he once met the Great Gama. No wonder he got so strong when he received training advice from such a legend.

This is giving me chills, heroic tale!

We need more heros like THIS

The Mighty Atom used to come to Zerns Farmers Market in Gilbertsville, PA.  I remember seeing him bending horseshoes, biting nails and driving nails into boards with his hands.  He sold some sort of medicine out of the back of his truck.  He had a microphone hanging around his neck while he performed..  He would give the horseshoes to guys who were watching, they never could bend one, but he could.  I was a young child, I think it was the early 1970's. He died in 1977.

This needs to be a movie

Back, chest, shoulders, tris, bis, legs, abs, forearms, glutes, calves... neck... what am I forgetting? OH YEAH, HAIR! Gotta make them hair gains!

I've never be able to prove this but I believe that Joseph Greenstein was the inspiration for a 1940's DC superhero, The Mighty Atom. A member of the Justice Society of America, Al Pratt, was a college student  who despite his short stature was extremely strong and muscular, has no superpowers other than his above average strength and fighting ability wore a mask and fought crime as The Mighty Atom. Greenstein was a well known vaudeville preformer at the time and could have known to the comic creators.

11:54 this is a phenomenom known as hysterical strenght. Theoretical but based on the body releasing adrenaline in life or death situations. Essentially the real version of the 8 inner gates

Also I live in Houston and never heard of him until a couple weeks ago.

Every ordinary but ambitious man gets the divine knowledge once he comes to India and he makes History for sure. Surely the East is the place from where the Sun rises and so does a man so high. I'm an Indian but have had underestimated the power of our breathing exercises, but now I know that Mighty Atom got his health got cured so much by this pranayam exercise I'm also gonna start my Nicotine Quitting Journey with the aid of Pranayama and heal myself.