Muscle Wars

Muscle Wars

Muscle Wars is an insiderâ€™s account of the sport, the business, and the stars of competitive bodybuilding. In the last twenty-five years bodybuilding has become Americaâ€™s fastest-growing sport with over 5 million hard-core fans. Now Rick
Wayne, himself a bodybuilding champion and longtime journalist for Joe Weiderâ€™s Flex and Muscle & Fitness, tells the inside story of the fights, feuds, and friendships that have shaped the sport.

Muscle Wars is crammed with fascinating stories, such as how Arnold Schwarzenegger psyched defending titlist Sergio Oliva into walking off the stage during their dramatic confrontation for the 1970 Mr. Olympia crown. Here are riveting sketches of the sportâ€™s dominating personalities from Larry Scott and the legendary Oliva to Franco Columbu, Frank Zane, and Schwarzenegger, and - backstage - Ben and Joe Weider.

Included is the real story behind the blistering controversy of the 1990 Mr. Olympia held in Sydney, Australia, and the contest held the following year in Columbus, Ohio, called by Wayne â€œThe Greatest Booing Contest of All Time.â€ Muscle Wars provides wickedly entertaining backstage gossip as well as inside accounts of the controversies that have marked and occasionally almost wrecked the International Federation of Bodybuilding.

Already hailed (and assailed) as the Rex Reed of bodybuilding,Wayne writes with bite and panache. Not since Pumping Iron has there been such a revealing look at the world of bodybuilding and the remarkable, temperamental characters who are its stars.
Country USA
Manufacturer BookBaby
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	BookBaby
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-10-03
Format	Kindle eBook

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