I can officially say that the first book of Volume III, covering the early 1980s, titled “The Comebacks” will be shipping starting December 16th, 2015. The only place to buy it is on this site, through the publisher Primal Synergy Inc. You can pre-order them as of right now. The first 200 orders will receive […]
I’m excited to announce that I partnered up with my friend, Tamas Acs for a regular podcast titled The World Of Muscle where we discuss anything and everything that has to do with Muscle. Check it out on iTunes or on its own website: http://www.theworldofmuscle.com/
When I first accepted the request for an article on some history of the bodybuilding dietary in mid 2002 I had absolutely no idea it would proliferate into a decade long, multi-volume project covering the entirety of the awkward, often controversial sport and all the cultural peripherals surrounding it. Although the books have been successful […]
With over 40 years of interaction within the bodybuilding and exercise industry, I had for some time come to believe that there really wasn’t anything all that new and exciting in the realm of resistance strength training. Many gizmos, most of little use, had come and gone over the decades. The tried and true muscle […]
Looking back well over a hundred years at the emergence and growth of the fitness industry it is amazing to see the breadth of equipment that has evolved into the crazy market we see today. There have actually been some very effective tools going right back to the dawning of the basic gymnastic apparatus, to […]
Q: Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors – Volume Two – has been described as the most extensively researched text on bodybuilding history ever published. As with Volume One, it leaves no stone unturned in providing detailed back-stories on some of the most intriguing and, in many cases, controversial bodybuilding events to have occurred over the past […]
Review by David Gentle. www.musclessmokeandmirrors.com Printed in USA. ISBN 978-1-4670-3 84 l-6(sc) If you had bought and read Volume 1 of the above title by Randy Roach, then you would have no requirement from me to recommend the second volume of an intended trilogy. The premier volume with its encyclopaedic, highly researched, yet remaining highly readable account of the […]
SHR # 1169 : Paying Homage To Joe Weider: Coe knew Joe Weider since the 50’s and was close to him in the late 60’s right up to the end of his life. Roach has interviewed hundreds of people about Weider for his book Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors. These two men have a very different […]
The Second Interview with Randy roach by PowerQuest’s host Dominik Feischl. English only: http://musclesmokeandmirrors.com/media/PQ-podcast361-Edited-English-Only.mp3 Full Interview: http://download.power-quest.cc/PQ-podcast361.mp3
Dominik Feischl from Austria’s Power Quest is the interviewer. The introduction is in German before it turns to English. http://download.power-quest.cc/PQ-podcast338.mp3
