Hypnos- The Key to Gains and Happiness. Seriously.
Part and parcel of modern life is chronic exhaustion, and it's so interwoven into Western life that if you meet a person who seems overly well-rested, you simply assume they're lazy and unambitious. "I'll sleep when I'm dead" is likely something we've all said in an attempt to be wry, when in fact all we
Roger Estep- The Bodybuilding Powerlifter Everyone Knows By Sight, But Not By Name
"Train hard… party hard… makes the body hard." If there has ever been a single better quote from a lifter about his methodology, I have no idea what it could be- this ranks right up there with Carl Panzram's last words for utterances of badassery. Roger Estep has existed perennially as the low key, full homo
John McWilliams- First Guy to Boast 20″ Muscular Arms, and How to Put Over an Inch onto your Arms in Six Weeks
If there is any person in your gym more unjustly maligned than the dude with the biggest arms in the gym, I am a Chinese jet pilot. For the last decade and a half, the arm specialists have labored in darkened corners, stretching their sleeves daily while 150lb "serious" lifters talk crap behind their
Hugh Cassidy- How to Eat Your Way Through Sticking Points
Plateaus- exactly like the Babadook, only scary and real.Plateaus are the ever-present bane of every lifter's existence. Over time, a lot of us just develop the ability to change our focus- we switch from powerlifting to bodybuilding, to variations on the Olympic lifts, to strongman, to Crossfit, or whatever strikes our fancy. The
6 Suggestions, but This Ain’t no Listicle
Figure 1: Satan Warming-Up in Watercolor, by William BlakeThis has been said before, but I’ll say it again. For the people in the back and the ones panhandling out front: If we had half the paper for training articles we’d have twice the elite lifters. Hypocritical to the max, right, seeing as I’m
Commercial Weight Gainers are Garbage- Behold the Majesty of Golden Age Weight Gain Shakes
In the aftermath of my run of articles about Brobdingnagian badasses from the era of surf rock (if listening to that dogcrap was the key to a 500lb bench I'd stop doing the goddamned lift altogether) I've received a steady stream of inquiries for more details on their diets, programs, and gainer shakes in particular.
Baddest Mofos Ever- Chuck Chuck “Wrath Of The Natty Axe Giant” Sipes
[This is a complete rewrite of my ancient Chuck Sipes article- the guy was such a goddamned beast he deserves afittingly brutal treatment, and given my penchant for writing about the lifters of the 1950s and 1960s of late, it seemed fitting to just blow away the old article and erect a massive monument to
Baddest Mofos Ever- Armand “Screw Cooking Food, I’ll Eat It Raw And Bloody” Tanny
One year after the end of the Great War, something amazing happened in Rochester, New York- the Tanny brothers' badass mom spurted forth the younger brother of the guy who went on to build the first serious chain of bodybuilding gyms across the country
Anybody Can Get Lean: Bulk First, Then Worry About Your Abs- The Story Of Bruce Randall
Bruce Randall went from nothing to fat badass to shredded ladies man in three years, natty af. Begin the naysaying, skinny-fat internet nobodies! Having been positively besieged with questions over the years asking how lean a person should be before bulking, I thought it was high time to introduce a new generation to the modern
Just Settle Down And Bodybuild, Bro, Or My Answer To Just About Every Question I’m Asked
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but no matter what time that clock says, Jeff Dunham is never funny. Jeff Dunham's effect on a comedy show is very much like an ebola outbreak's effect on Central Africa tourism- you only head toward it if your goal is to stamp out the