JIM ARRINGTON WAS born premature, and suffered from a variety of health conditions throughout his childhood. As a teenager in the late 1940s, that began to change when he decided that he wanted to become strong like his favourite superheroes, and started going to the...
WHEN IT COMES to training volume, completing as many sets as possible often feels like achieving a lifting badge of honour. But is piling on more volume in a single session really the smartest route to muscle and strength gains, or could it be overkill? A new...
LIKE MANY IN the new-age era of bodybuilding, Jeff Seid grew up being inspired by those he saw on online. For Seid, Australian bodybuilder and pioneer of the aesthetics movement Aziz Shavershian – better known as Zyzz – was that source of inspiration.“I used to watch...
When I was about about 14, I saw this muscle magazine at the service station and I couldn’t believe it—even their forearms were big! I mailed away for Moulding a Mighty Chest, a 25-cent book by George Jowett, a Canadian strongman. My dad had a couple of steel balls...
