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• Muscle: Confessions Of An Unlikely Bodybuilder By Samuel Wilson Fussell

  Posted on Apr 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM

  Okay, long-time listener, first time caller. Thank you, Ben, for running this site. It's great. And it's finally time for me to chime in about Sam's book. Sensationalistic, my ass. When Sam wrote that book, the absurd consensus was that if you looked 'healthy,'you were healthy. In other word... read more »

• Muscle: Confessions Of An Unlikely Bodybuilder By Samuel Wilson Fussell

  Posted on Apr 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM

  As far as Sam moving to the mountains to 'hide,' uh, I have another theory: I think Sam probably had enough of people pretending to be something they are not for a living. It's evident in the book that the more he saw of Los Angeles, the more he wanted to walk away from the fraudulent lives there.... read more »

• Muscle: Confessions Of An Unlikely Bodybuilder By Samuel Wilson Fussell

  Posted on Feb 16, 2012 at 5:16 PM

  @Anton, Oddly enough, a similar read, though in a different field, is a book called A Mouthful of Rocks by Christian Jennings. It's about an Englishman who leaves everything behind to join the French Foreign Legion. The Legion, like the lifters, has their own specific subculture, their own slan... read more »

• Muscle: Confessions Of An Unlikely Bodybuilder By Samuel Wilson Fussell

  Posted on Mar 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM

  Dearest Kelly, You may not remember me (you and Big Sam were too busy doing your hardcore lifting routines and shouting and slapping and spitting at each other to encourage maximum muscular growth), but I was the older guy (I was in my mid-40's then) in the background doing deadlifts five days a we... read more »