Some Ready Made (yet Do-it-Yourself) Size and Strength Programs In the 5 th grade, way back in 1983, I was obsessed with “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. If you were a kid in the ‘80s, you may very well have experienced this obsession yourself. According to Wikipedia, between the years ‘79 and ‘98, the books sold 250 million+ copies, so apparently it was, in the words of Ron Burgundy, sort of a big deal. In fact, until I started reading muscle magazines voraciously starting around ’86, I’m pretty sure that the extent of my reading was comprised of Choose Your Own Adventure books, Conan the Barbarian novels, and various-assorted comic books. (My favorite comic book series at one point was “Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters,” so take that TMNT.) Choose Your Own Adventure books, if you’re not familiar, were exactly what they sound like: books where you, the reader, decided what happened to the m...
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