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Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 186: Mike Mentzer’s Massive Tri’s (rare photo)

Mike Mentzer at a window showing his triceps mass

This pic is proof: Mike Mentzer had full-size Nerf footballs surgically implanted on the backs of his arms… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 1976, bodybuilding zen, mike mentzer, Muscle Builder/Power, pre-ex, slow-twitch exhaustion, STX

Focus on Muscle Mass—Period

Arnold doing standing calf raises

I can remember reading in Muscle Builder/Power magazine back in the ‘70s about the Weider Staggered Sets Principle…

No, that’s not training drunk—it’s doing a set for another body part between sets of the one you’re working. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arnold, calves, density training, Muscle Builder/Power, muscle mass, staggered sets, vince gironda, Weider

Is that Muscle Guru Screwing You?

Muscle Builder Magazine cover with Arnold on it

When I started bodybuilding in high school with my best friend, Bill, we would devour the muscle magazines cover to cover, over and over. They were hard to find in our small town…

We’d often walk to every store that had a magazine rack, searching. It was a treasure hunt for the latest Muscle Builder/Power or Iron Man or Muscle Training Illustrated… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: anabolic steroids, arnold schwarzenegger, dianabol, drugs, hormones, iron man magazine, john balik, Muscle Builder magazine, Muscle Builder/Power, Muscle Training Illustrated, social media, testosterone, the oak

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