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...
Build Muscle the Classic Way with an Old-School Favorite I’m going to stop writing that I’m going to stop writing about a subject, any subject. For one, I never know quite where my writing is going to take me. That’s correct. I don’t really feel as if I write. It’s more as if writing just happens through me. I sit down at my laptop in the morning, my heavy cream-laden coffee steaming next to me, with every intention of writing on a certain subject. Only to find that it morphs into something completely different, sometimes not even remotely in the same orbit as my initial idea(s). For another, quite practical reason, I never know what kind of questions my recently written articles are going to generate, often prompting another essay on a subject I thought I was finished with. I mention the above because at the end of my recent Old-School Muscle-Building Once More , I wrote that I was going t...