Muscle: A Writer's Trip Through a Sport with No Boundaries

Jon Hotten

Jun 2011 · Random House

About this ebook

Bodybuilding is the wildest, wierdest sport in the world, but it's more than just a sport. It's a whole way of life for the supermen who scale its Olympian heights. Muscle is a journey through a land of giants, men for whom life is given meaning by the pursuit of the perfect pec and who worship at the shrine of Schwartzenegger.

Jon Hotten has a 40-inch chest and 12-inch arms. Undaunted, he fights his unpromising genetics to hitch up with the bodybuilding circus, hanging out with the stars and legends, the casualties, gym rats and iron junkies. As his forbidding subjects open up, he discovers a story of unregulated excess, chemical mayhem and hard-won glory, a story for anyone who's ever looked in the mirror and wanted more...

Ratings and reviews

I've got the physical book and just had to buy the ebook such is my love for this book. Written from the perspective of an outsider it doesn't romanticise steroid use but paints their side effects for everyone to see. Gains an insight into professional bodybuilding that few have had before.

Don't buy it here. I paid 2 pounds for the proper book from eBay. Ebooks can be such a rip off!!

I like arnold Schwarzenegger very much

About the author

John Hotten is the author of Unlicensed: Random Notes from Boxing's Underbelly and The Years of the Locust: A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. A former editor of Kerrang!, he has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, Esquire and Punch.