Welcome to the history of all things muscular and the home of The People’s Historian, Jamie Lewis.
- Cheeselovers, Rejoice! The Dukan Diet Allows Ice Cream & Cheese Every Day
- The Plague of Strength Ultimate Pump-Up Book List
- Want a Plague of Strength Podcast? Now You’ve Got One!
- Westside Connection: The Ultimate Guide to the Methods of the Original (and Superior) Westside Barbell
- Zen Monk or Berserker: Which is Better to Emulate in the Gym?
- On Belts, the Bent Press, and the Badassery of Old Timey Strongmen
Cold War Core
There’s no denying that in spite of the absurd diuretics modern bodybuilders use, their abdominal development is woefully lacking compared to the builders of the Cold War Era (1949-1989). Cold War Core identifies the reasons why their midsections blow modern athletes out of the water & provides you with a roadmap for getting a Cold…
365 Days of Brutality
Far too much emphasis is placed today on the utilization of cookie cutter routines designed by strangers to appeal to the lowest common denominator or lifter, while few texts today appeal to the beast within every real lifter. 365 Days of Brutality does just that- it enables lifters to harness their inner badass by emulating…
1980s Bench Beast
This program is intended to answer the question of why late 1970s & early 1980s bodybuilders were so strong at such light body weights, especially on the bench. They moved massive weight with form so strict it kinda seems impossible to imagine, & they did it while remaining lean, with tight waists & a ripped…
The Juicy Delts Protocol
We’ve all been focused on the wrong stuff- we’ve been trying to get too big, because we’re too fat and have the wrong proportions. Nonsense about manlets has everyone trying to push their bodyweight over 200lbs, even though we idolize people like Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme, both of whom kept their bodyweight…
Building Your Ideal Physique
Realize your physique dreams with the methods that built all of the pre-steroid Mr Americas and most of the Mr Universes- the York Barbell Mr America program. Updated for the modern trainee, this drops the circuit training and replaces it with jump sets but keeps the original intent and exerrcises, plus it explains how lifters…
The Training Montage- Month 2
Month 2 of my home gym-friendly body recomposition program! The Training Montage alternates days of of free weights and calisthenics so you can live a training montage of your own. It’s a circuit-based system, like the one used by every Mr America prior to 1960, and the type of system Bruce Lee trained with to…
