Bill Pearl has remarked that most people today believe fitness began with Arnold and Jane Fonda sometime in the 1970s. In 1977 the film Pumping Iron filled movie houses across the country, for the first time dispelling long standing myths about bodybuilding, establishing its stars as real athletes engaged in intense training. That film spawned […]
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 […]
Aajonus Vonderplanitz was an enigmatic figure who changed the nutritional landscape forever. He pioneered the popularity of his Primal Diet that espoused eating only raw meats, eggs, honey, milk and the like. Many were shocked at his assertions that eating raw chicken was not only safe but
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
Our High Intensity Training Interview this month features a man who knows more about the history of the iron game than anyone I have ever met–author, trainer, trainer of trainers, and overcomer of obstacles, Mr. Randy Roach.
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
Another interview from last summer: http://pamkilleen.com/app/download/4781553004/Andy+Oudman+Pam+Killeen+Randy+Roach.mp3
Here’s an older interview before Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors Volume II came out: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/undergroundwellness/2011/08/10/muscle-smoke-mirrors-with-randy-roach.mp3
