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Milk Junkie
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Muscle by Samuel Fussell
Anyone ever read this book before? I read over the weekend. It's a really good read for anyone interested. Its basically about sam fussell's lifting and bodybuilding career. I recommend it.
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Its a good mix of exaggerated fiction and truth. Fun read.
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Proud Father
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It's featured in this months WBB book review.
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"Soli Deo Gloria"
"Test all things; hold fast what is good.": 1 Thessalonians 5:21
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Romans 7:14-25
"Judo is not about strength. Yet in the learning curve, all Judokas get strong. Only with time do you learn where to apply that strength."
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Little Asian
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i've been meaning to pick this up guess i'll go check it out now
"Plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great when it is still small."
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
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its a good read to examine ourselves and our addiction.
...watch me reap of what I sow....
and BOOM goes the dynomite!
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Originally Posted by Maki Riddington
WTF!?!?! We have a book review!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?...watch me reap of what I sow....
and BOOM goes the dynomite!
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Pot-bellied bean pole
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Uh, us muscle hedz no reed......WTF!?!?! We have a book review!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?
Really, though, I've read it and rather enjoyed it.
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*** Yes we do. Is that a bad thing? Originally Posted by Orange357
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"Soli Deo Gloria"
"Test all things; hold fast what is good.": 1 Thessalonians 5:21
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Romans 7:14-25
"Judo is not about strength. Yet in the learning curve, all Judokas get strong. Only with time do you learn where to apply that strength."
The Art of Judo
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I read that book years ago when it first came out. Not a bad read. I do think he purposely made the bodybuilding lifestyle he described seem worse than it really is. Rather than look at it from an empathetic perspective he really demonized it. A bit hypotcritical to me.
Still, interesting to read.
Oh, and by the way, he was a pussy for only being as strong as he was with the drugs he admitted to taking.
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Pot-bellied bean pole
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Dude was also a mad high volume trainer even before the gear, if you take his word for it.
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Originally Posted by Maki Riddington
By no means...Ive been in and out lurking and I completely missed it......watch me reap of what I sow....
and BOOM goes the dynomite!
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Yeah, his lifts didn't seem too impressive for supposedly being on enough drugs that he had acne covering every inch of his body. Originally Posted by chris mason
"As far as drugs were concerned, all my bodybuilding heroes were on everything but roller skates."
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Even though he was trashing bodybuilding as a lifestyle, it still inspired me to commit myself more to getting big. His story gave me the idea that I could do it; I didn't care what he thought about doing it after the fact.
He helped me realize that you might have to give up most other things in life for a while to grow massive, and made me more willing to get obsessed with gaining muscle. I've never turned back or regretted it since, When I read that book I weighed 140. Now I weigh 205, and still have a way to go sizewise.
When he said you can tell bodybuilders everywhere by the fact they have traps you can see, even though he implied that there was something pathetic about that, it made me wanna do thousands of shoulder shrugs!My bodybuilding goal: Get as GIGANTIC
as I can, and then find a way to grow
some more.
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However Mr. Mason you have to remember that he was in with the "bad" side of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding like most sports has a good side and a bad side. If that is all he knew (bad training partners, drugs, and obsession with all things bodybuilding) then when he "came to his senses" the natural feeling would be one of extreme revulsion to the point of demonising it. Right from the start he was in with a bad crowd and it got only worse from there. Maybe if he had a source like this board, or a partner like you, Mr. Chase, Mr. Yates, or Mr. Belial, he would still be bodybuilding today. Originally Posted by chris mason
As for being a "pussy" maybe that is related to his high volume training or poor quality drugs. Then again some people are just not built to become very strong genetically drugs or no drugs.
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