No one can deny that sports are dangerous. An injury sustained in training can cripple us for the rest of our lives. That’s the reason sports people put so much import in warming up before workouts. It's also the reason it’s important not to push yourself. You may have dreams of doing it like your… Continue reading The Ghost Of Sport Injuries Past
Photo courtesy of Flickr The way we look at physical fitness today is way too different from the way people used to consider it during the stone age or bronze age. Today, joining a fitness program is more of a status symbol than having an urge to get a strong and healthy body so that… Continue reading Guest Post: A Comprehensive Look At The History of Physical Fitness
Bodybuilders and athletes alike are hearing more and more about the "new" tissue drugs and anabolic steroids, but down to earth facts and information has been hard to come by. Just what are these steroids ? Are they harmful ? Do they really work the miracles some claim ? These are but a few of… Continue reading Jackson Bowling, Steroids Good or Bad? (Muscular Developement, September 1968)
While Eugen Sandow has long been been held in esteem in the lore of bodybuilding, fans of weightlifting have seldom seen the Prussian as a figure of great importance for their sport. This is unsurprising given that over the past half-century, Sandow's image has become so integral to bodybuilding that the sport's top contest, the Mr.… Continue reading Sandow, Hercules and the Birth of Modern Weightlifting
Controversial to the nth degree, Arthur Jones was a man known for his pull no punches approach. Wonderfully innovative, the founder of the Nautilus exercise phenomena had a strict sense of right and wrong when dealing with his small circle of clients. This was demonstrated, most spectacularly, when Jones was approached by Dick Butkus, then… Continue reading Arthur Jones, Dick Butkus and the Long Con
In the first of a three part series, we look at the brief life of the World Bodybuilding Federation, an organisation financed by wrestling mogul Vince McMahon that tried to take on Joe Weider's formidable stronghold on the sport. While the WBF ultimately failed, its influence on the sport cannot be underestimated.  Part One: Kicking Ass and Taking… Continue reading The Curious Case of the World Bodybuilding Federation
