From skinny scholar to muscle-bound showman. “Easily the best
memoir ever written about weight training, steroids and all”
(Men’s Journal). When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson
Fussell arrived in New York City fresh from the University of
Oxford, the ethereal young graduate seemed like the last person on
Earth who would be interested in bodybuilding. But he was
intimidated by the dangers of the city—and decided to do
something about it. At twenty-six, Fussell walked into the YMCA
gym. Four solid years of intensive training, protein powders, and
steroid injections later, he had gained eighty pounds of pure
muscle and was competing for bodybuilding titles. And yet, with
forearms like bowling pins and calves like watermelons, Fussell
felt weaker than ever before. His punishing regimen of workouts,
drugs, and diet had reduced him to near-infant-like helplessness
and immobility, leaving him hungry, nauseated, and prone 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 true story of one man’s obsession with
the pursuit of perfection. With insight, wit, and refreshing
candor, Fussell ushers readers into the wild world of juicers and
gym rats who sacrifice their lives, minds, bodies, and souls to
their dreams of glory in Southern California’s so-called iron
mecca.
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