
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Mildred Burke: Sex, Muscles and Diamonds
Mildred Burke, also known as Mildred Bliss in the wrestling ring, was a professional female wrestler from 1935 to 1955. Mildred is featured in a new book, The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend, authored by Jeff Leen.
Mildred Burke held the Woman’s...
August 31st, 2009 | News, Retro, Wrestling | Read More
Denise Masino & Tatiana Butler Interview
Quite a nice clip of female bodybuilders Denise Masino and Tatiana Butler along with Bill Dobbins on an NBC TV show. They talk about life as a female bodybuilder, men’s reactions to them and Bill Dobbin’s Modern Amazon Book
It’s an older clip, and personally I think the ladies really...
February 26th, 2009 | News | Read More
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: 7 Cent Holdup
A snafu over a 7 cent per issue cost with retail giant Walmart may keep the super popular Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue off the shelves this year. Walmart is a place many deny shopping at, but we all sneak there to get our bargains.
Bar Refaeli, better known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend,...
February 13th, 2009 | News | Read More
Muscular Development Fires Palumbo and Romano
There is much buzz all over the bodybuilding message board communities over the firing of Muscular Development’s senior editor John Romano and website editor Dave Palumbo. The firing came with mass thread deletions of Palumbo related diet advice and rumours are flying with facts seeming tight....
February 3rd, 2009 | News | Read More
The #1 Bodybuilding Book
Well, okay, I have no empirical evidence of this being the #1 bodybuilding book – but it is my personal favorite. Written by Sam Fussell “Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder” is a light hearted and good natured story about the great lengths a bodybuilder will go to for the...
January 27th, 2009 | News | Read More
Chemical Pink Author Interview
Chemical Pink: A Novel of Obsession, is set in the competitive world of female bodybuilding. Written by Katie Arnoldi, the controversial novel about the world of women’s bodybuilding came out in 2001.
The book is set around a fictional character ‘Aurora Johnson’. Katie talks about the research...
October 17th, 2008 | News | Read More
Fit Girls Volume 1 Released
via amaz0ns.com
This fine art book is the first of a two-volume collection of photographs taken between 2003 and 2008 that document and capture the artistic beauty of physically gifted women who possess sculpted, muscular, and conditioned physiques. It’s much more than just a book of photographs...
May 27th, 2008 | Galleries | Read More
“The New Rules of Lifting for Women”
The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess (Hardcover), Published December, 2007, by Lou Schuler (Author), Cassandra Forsythe (Author), Alwyn Cosgrove (Collaborator)
From one Amazon review: “It’s a mix of straight sets and superset total-body workouts with emphasis...
May 8th, 2008 | Training | Read More
Book Recomendation: The New Rules of Lifting for Women
If you believe what most women’s magazines tell you, muscles can be “shaped,” “toned,” and “sculpted” with nothing more than a little dumbbell that weighs less than a can of peas. But muscles aren’t modeling clay, and the only way to transform them is...
April 3rd, 2008 | Lori Says | Read More
Women of Steel: Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition
Femalemuscle book recommendation
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“A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that’s not what a woman is supposed to look like.” So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially...
March 24th, 2008 | Lori Says | Read More






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