The following is a 4,000 word biography published over three issues of Health and Strength magazine (January, April, July) based in the UK. Health and Strength is the longest running Physical Culture magazine beginning its run back in 1898. It was an honour to be featured in their publication and my thanks to Roy Edwards […]
For over 45 years I have been in the unique position to have had the opportunity to read just about every book, course, or magazine on physical culture in the English language. Unfortunately, much of what has been written is either a rehash of one or more previous publications, carrying on the same blatant errors, […]
PowerQuest and Randy discuss Rheo Blair http://www.musclesmokeandmirrors.com/media/PQ-podcast448.mp3
Guests: Dr. John Read – Randy Roach – Blake Ricketts Dr. Read discusses antidepressant prevalence of use and their undesirable effects. His group published a study of over 1800 participants, the largest of its kind. His mission is to get physicians to reconsider antidepressant use as a first-line alternative when treating their patients as well […]
Michael Petrella, owner of STG Strength and Power sits down with author of Muscle Smoke and Mirrors Randy Roach. Discussion about old time bodybuilding, sports supplements and Randy’s unique approach to training.
Bill Pearl has remarked that most people today believe fitness began with Arnold and Jane Fonda sometime in the 1970s. In 1977 the film Pumping Iron filled movie houses across the country, for the first time dispelling long standing myths about bodybuilding, establishing its stars as real athletes engaged in intense training. That film spawned […]
Aajonus Vonderplanitz was an enigmatic figure who changed the nutritional landscape forever. He pioneered the popularity of his Primal Diet that espoused eating only raw meats, eggs, honey, milk and the like. Many were shocked at his assertions that eating raw chicken was not only safe but
Our High Intensity Training Interview this month features a man who knows more about the history of the iron game than anyone I have ever met–author, trainer, trainer of trainers, and overcomer of obstacles, Mr. Randy Roach.
Randy Roach has written a bodybuilding revelation; a well-documented odyssey through the good, bad, ugly, sex, cheating, conniving, contest rigging, back-stabbing, vote-rigging and characters at the core of modern bodybuilding. A remarkable work and bodybuilding masterpiece fit for the general marketplace.
Randy Roach sports his “Arnold” A-shirt in this January, 2012 photo. We begin with the eloquent words of Joe Roark to whom I express my profound gratitude for allowing me to include them here: “There are authors who can write contest reports, others who handle facts well, others who write good fiction (even though they think they are […]
