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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...

  A.K.A. The Total Variety Regimen Old-School Advice for Breaking Through Progress Barriers (With a Little Help from Classic Bodybuilder and Writer Gene Mozee)        “Athletes in every sport suffer through periods of retrograde progress—plateaus, or slumps, during which they lose their edge and don’t play up to par.   Major league baseball players can’t get a hit, golfers can’t make a putt, basketball players can’t buy a basket, and quarterbacks can’t find a receiver with a pass.   Such is the nature of slumps.” [1]      So begins the legendary bodybuilding trainer and writer Gene Mozee in an article he penned for IronMan entitled “Plateau Busters: Punching Through the Progress Barrier” in the November, ’91 issue of that magazine.      I came across this article today while going through a box of magazines that I dragged out of my attic a week or so ago when researching my last essay on John Fa...

  Old-School Mass Building for New-Age Muscle Gains John Farbotnik as he appeared on Strength & Health  magazine      At times, when I need inspiration for an article or just for my personal training, I scour my attic and the boxes upon boxes (upon boxes) of all the old muscle magazines that I own.   I don’t think I’ve thrown out an issue of a single bodybuilding rag I ever purchased.   Anyway, this morning I stumbled upon an article by Gene Mozee, published in the April ’92 issue of IronMan magazine, that I had completely forgotten about, but, once my memory was properly jogged, I remembered using, and had pretty good results.   Perhaps I had forgotten about this article because it was so similar to other programs Mozee wrote, which I used more than this particular one.      The article in question is titled “No Frills Mass.”   It details the mass-building program that Mozee received from the old-school body...