Gene Mozee’s Classic Secret for Building a Large, Magnificent Chest I’m not sure when I first decided that I wanted to look like a bodybuilder. Probably in the mid to late ‘80s, when I was 15 or 16 years old and just couldn’t stop reading all the bodybuilding magazines that hit the newsstand each month. But the seed had been planted earlier, I suppose. When I was 7, my dad took me to the drive-in movie theater to see Conan the Barbarian . I was enamored by the physical specimen that was Arnold. (I think it was also the first time I witnessed my parents argue. My mother was aghast that my father had taken me to a violent, nudity-filled movie.) And then there was Bruce Lee. I started taking Karate when I was 9, and soon I wanted to have the physique of the star of my favorite kung-fu flick, Enter the Dragon . But eventually, and before too long, it was Schwarzenegger's body that I aspired to attain rather than L...
Essays on Old-School Strength Training, Classic Bodybuilding, Traditional Martial Arts, and Budo Philosophy