When I was younger, I always enjoyed writing fiction. The following post—perhaps the first in a series—combines my love of storytelling and power training articles. The characters—Puddin' and myself—are real people (okay, you knew that I was real, but you might not have been so sure about Puddin') and the following is—more or less—a true story. Train the Rear A Size/Strength Program for Massive Lats, Traps, Lower Back and Hamstrings (A.K.A: The Puddin’ Power Chronicles, Volume One ) Just for the hell of it, my workout partner Puddin’ and I decided to go to the local bodybuilding show. Puddin’ wanted to check out all the girls—the “hoes” in his vocabulary—whose boyfriends would be on stage posing. “Easier for the pickins,” is what he said. I wanted to see if there would be any physiques that had been built with some serious power training instead of all the light, high-rep pumping crap that’s so popular among bodybuilders. Puddin...
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