Fitness Training – YT Younger.com

From Publishers Weekly

Fussell, who took up bodybuilding after attending Oxford, tells his story and examines the diets, drugs and dedication that drive the bodybuilding world. Enjoyable reading. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

YA– Teenage boys who a generation ago would have answered Charles Atlas ads will be attracted to this book about Fussell’s own immersion program in bodybuilding. He is an Oxford honors graduate in English language and literature and writes engagingly about what drew him into the subculture of gym life. He includes the reaction of his bewildered parents and describes the assortment of gym habitues who befriended him. This is no George Plimpton inside glimpse–the author lived the bodybuilding life full-time for four years, and he shares with his readers that life of mind-numbing exercises, fistfuls of vitamins, and steroid injections. This is destined to be a cult book that will survive (more…)