Gains: You know you want them, but you don't know how to get them. You could, like many bodybuilders, spend hours in a squat cage in between chugging protein supplements. But if you're savvy and hip to the new "science" you may just want to toss all your whey powder for a couple of drops of what one Michigan mom is…

There's a fascinating post over at Collectors Weekly about the first "hunk," Eugen Sandow, and the history of objectifying muscular male bodies. In 1894, when Sandow became famous, it wasn't for actually lifting things, strongman style. It was for just posing and looking fine.

Climbers rejoice — a survey found that women deemed their sport the sexiest among a list of options. Golfers, however, are out of luck.

"I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I've accomplished," 63-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger says in the new issue of Newsweek. "But I feel shitty when I look at myself in the mirror." Finally! A poor-body-image-sufferer who isn't a woman.

Ernestine Shepherd is basically a walking, talking, muscular representation of the idea "it's never too late."

In Hamas-controlled Gaza, women aren't the only ones asked to cover up. But men have one place to escape the "virtue campaign:" the bodybuilding championship. Unfortunately, competitions (which involve glitter, lipstick and body paint) are closed to Palestinian ladies. [AP]

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