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08-20-2016, 09:51 AM #1
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Ripped: My Life as a Competitive Bodybuilder
Ripped: My Life as a Competitive Bodybuilder
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By William Giraldi
August 9, 2016
In the deadening heat of an afternoon in 1990, fifteen years old and recently shucked by my first girlfriend for a football star, I wandered over to my uncle Tony's house and found him weightlifting in the pro-grade gym he'd installed in one half of his cobwebbed basement, AC/DC yawping from a set of speakers. The song? "Problem Child." Tony lived across the street from my grandparents, where my father, siblings, and I ate dinner each weeknight, and so I'd known about his gym—he'd built and welded most of it himself—but never had a reason to care about it. Earnestly unjockish, I'd long considered myself the artistic sort. My hero was the reptilian rock god Axl Rose. Filthy and skinny, he looked hepatitic and I thought I should too.
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08-21-2016, 08:37 AM #2
Nice read. I'm curious about the full book this is excerpted from. Only one review on Amazon.
over the years I've read some great and some much less than great accounts of "lives in bodybuilding"
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08-21-2016, 03:23 PM #3
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http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2016/...ir-heros-body/
the link above is to a 45 min interview with the author where he talks about the book and reads from it.
He's a bit verbose for me.
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08-21-2016, 04:46 PM #4
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I really enjoyed Samuel Fussell's autobiography.
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08-21-2016, 08:22 PM #5
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08-22-2016, 01:29 AM #6
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I've listened to Giraldi being interviewed after reading the article above. Giraldi only did bodybuilding between the ages of 16 and 19. From reading Fussells book he seems to have a lot more insight into bodybuilding and he is very funny. Giraldi is much more serious and philosophical, from what I am picking up he is mainly interested in examining machismo.
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08-23-2016, 12:18 PM #7
I've wondered in the past just what Sam Fussel ended up doing in life.
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10-23-2019, 06:08 AM #8
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This will tell you.
https://www.drmichaeljoyner.com/sam-...hor-of-muscle/
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