Joint-Friendly Fitness by Bill DeSimone

 I've been exercising myself for literally over 50 years, starting with the President's Council on Physical Fitness chart and an old Universal in high school, through the 70s muscle magazines and Mentzer/Darden/Nautilus, through NSCA and ACE certifications and a very occasional physique competition and ruptured biceps and triceps and rotator cuff surgery and so on. Not that I've been a spectacular success physique-wise, and certainly not influencer-wise, but I've managed to earn a living at personal training and stayed in varying degrees of shape.  Probably more important and relevant to you the reader, is my experience at working around and/or avoiding injuries of the exercise-induced kind. In a completely unscientific and anecdotal research study, I conclude that a high percentage of my readers are also recreational trainees, who had a lot of the same influences I did prior to the biomechanics stuff, with varying issues with their joints. Way back when Moment Arm Exer...

Recently, the proprietor of Dr. Wonder's Comics and Collectibles-eh, Dr. Wonder that is- let me know that they had just taken in a box of 150 muscle magazines ranging from 1936 through 1971.  Which came at an interesting time, because I had just sent binders full of '70s muscle magazines to John Little in Canada and John Hansen in Florida. Each of those guys has much bigger audiences than I have for that material. I've had 50 years to extract whatever value that stuff had, so rather than keep it to myself for another 50 years, I convinced myself it was time to let it go and find a new home and audience. Then Dr. Wonder called. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Now I don't have the same nostalgic attachment to these new old magazines as I had with the ones I actually bought and saved since the '70s. Those reminded me of the place in life I was in when I bought them.  These I can look at with some detachment. I'm amused by the corny/campy/kitsch...