Muscle

A Writer's Trip Through a Sport with No Boundaries

Jon Hotten (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2005
Yellow Jersey Press (Verlag)
978-0-224-06967-0 (ISBN)

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Bodybuilding is the wildest, wierdest sport in the world, but it's more than just a sport. As his forbidding subjects open up, he discovers a story of unregulated excess, chemical mayhem and hard-won glory, a story for anyone who's ever looked in the mirror and wanted more...

Bodybuilding is the wildest, wierdest sport in the world, but it's more than just a sport. It's a whole way of life for the supermen who scale its Olympian heights. Muscle is a journey through a land of giants, men for whom life is given meaning by the pursuit of the perfect pec and who worship at the shrine of Schwartzenegger.

Jon Hotten has a 40-inch chest and 12-inch arms. Undaunted, he fights his unpromising genetics to hitch up with the bodybuilding circus, hanging out with the stars and legends, the casualties, gym rats and iron junkies. As his forbidding subjects open up, he discovers a story of unregulated excess, chemical mayhem and hard-won glory, a story for anyone who's ever looked in the mirror and wanted more...

John Hotten is the author of Unlicensed: Random Notes from Boxing's Underbelly and The Years of the Locust: A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. A former editor of Kerrang!, he has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, Esquire and Punch.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.8.2005
Zusatzinfo	16
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	203 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
ISBN-10	0-224-06967-5 / 0224069675
ISBN-13	978-0-224-06967-0 / 9780224069670
Zustand	Neuware