Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors – Volume I

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• Who were the true originators of bodybuilding?
• From where did the sport arise, and how did it struggle and fight for its own identity?
• See the bizarre beginnings of the International Federation of Body Builders!
• Did the disruptive antics of the sport’s early framers set bodybuilding on a doomed course?
• What exactly is Physical Culture?
• Who were the sport’s early nutritional pioneers?
• What primitive cultures shared commonality with the early Physical Culturist’s diet templates?
• What dietary diversity in bodybuilding maintained itself throughout the 20th century?
• What outside forces beginning in the 1950s altered the direction of the bodybuilder’s diet?
• Did science ever really enter bodybuilding or simply invade Physical Culture?
• When did supplements arrive and how did they change bodybuilding nutrition?
• Vince Gironda and Rheo Blair: legend, myth, or hype?
• When did steroids actually first enter on the scene?
• What were the only 2 true ages for the Iron Game and what “Classic Era” separated them?
• Did the closing of the 1960s signal the beginning of the end of professional bodybuilding?