Joint-Friendly Fitness by Bill DeSimone

  At the Resistance Exercise Conference this March, I'll present a Table Talk on " Exercise Designs/Healthy Shoulders." Video link to come. I'm also a "Writer's Table Sponsor" (the writer being me), where I'll have links to the upcoming Joint-Friendly Fitness: Chest & Shoulders kindle and reissue of Moment Arm Exercise .  I'll also have some classic muscle magazines to show and sell. This comes from the 150 or so items (1920s-1971) at Dr. Wonder's Comics and Collectibles in Cranbury NJ (contact info below) that I'm helping catalog and sell. I'll at least bring: Iron Man Dec 1970-Jan 1971, cover: Arnold, with two articles by Arthur Jones : Size Incompatible With Muscles? and Distance-Resistance-Speed . Iron Man May 1971, two articles by Jones: Second Look at the Final Breakthru , and And Then the Bomb. Multiple Nautilus ads: Franchises (half page text), Pullover (2 pages text), Arm (full page, photo and text), Leg and Lower...

                                                                                                         from Elanna Schwab's Facebook post Introduction by  Bill DeSimone I was a huge fan of Mike Mentzer from 1976-1983 or so-at least, the version presented in the muscle magazines then. My impression of him had a great influence on my training, my instruction, and other parts of life (although I now regard his story as a cautionary tale). I still get a burst of motivation when I look at those articles and pictures, even though I've gone from thinking his writing was particularly enlightened to realizing it's my nostalgia for the time. Roger Schwab, as a long-time weight tra...