Publisher’s Letter

Ben Weider created and nurtured competitive bodybuilding on a worldwide stage. Before he entered the picture, the sport had no one...

During the so-called golden age of lifting—the 1940s and ’50s – there were just a handful of commercial gyms across the...

IRON MAN ’s purpose is to be a facilitator. We are enablers by design. “We know training” is our mantra—training meaning...

Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California, was the birthplace of the worldwide fitness revolution. Just a few names of those who made...

This past weekend my son Justin graduated from high school. I heard many parents, faculty and graduates describe the event as...

Lonnie Teper’s NPC Junior California Bodybuilding and Figure Championships is grassroots bodybuilding at its best. It’s the kind of contest where...

“We Know Training.” That’s our mantra, our focus, our mission statement. This issue is a perfect example of how we use...

Early this week I was listening to National Public Radio as I drove to work, and there was a feature about...

My friend Bob Gajda, a Mr. America and Mr. Universe in the mid-’60s, started out as a three-letter athlete in high...

I started producing bodybuilding events in the late ’60s as a volunteer with the AAU, which was then the dominant sanctioning...

The legacy of Reg Park is worldwide, and it’s a living legacy, manifest in the bodies and lives he changed by...

No pain, no gain. That’s the bodybuilding mantra because the key factor in making a workout productive is intensity, and intensity...

The dictionary definition of selfish goes something like this: lacking in consideration for others; putting yourself at the center. Then there...

Arthur Jones was a man of extremes: charismatic, brash, brilliant, driven, relentless, bigoted— and above all fearless. I first met him...

Last month in this space I discussed Dynamic Longevity™, and I want to expand on some of those thoughts—as well as...