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A entertaining and harrowing firsthand consideration of the eccentric world of hardcore bodybuilding. When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson Fussell arrived in NEW YORK fresh from the University of Oxford, the ethereal young graduate seemed like the last person on Earth who would be thinking about bodybuilding. But he was intimidated by the hazards of the location and decided to do something about it. At 26, Fussell walked into the YMCA fitness center. Four solid many years of intensive training, protein powders, and steroid shots later, he had gained 80 pounds of 100 % pure muscle and was competing for bodybuilding game titles. Yet, with forearms like bowling pins and calves like watermelons, Fussell believed weaker than previously. His punishing routine of exercises, drugs, and diet acquired reduced him to close to infantlike helplessness and immobility. He was famished, nauseated, and susceptible to outbursts of 'roid rage. But he had come to succeed, and there was no backing down now. Alternately funny and fascinating, Muscle is the real story of one man's obsession with the pursuit of perfection. With understanding, wit, and relaxing candor, Fussell ushers listeners into the outrageous world of juicers and fitness center rats who sacrifice their lives, intellects, physiques, and souls to their dreams of glory in Southern California's so-called flat iron mecca.
