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68 TRAIN, EAT, GROW 104The TEG men explore Double-X Overload training for pro-style gaining.

94 ANTIAGING AND MATURE MUSCLESteve Holman quizzes rresearcher Jerry Brainum on middle-aged muscle building—supplements, training, diet. It’s all here.

116 A BODYBUILDER IS BORN 35Ron Harris explains why going through the motions isn’t enough to grow.

126 FRANK ZANEKen O’Neill explores the Zane Integrated Method and how it helped the former Mr. Olympia achieve peak condition at age 65—training program included.

150 BRANCHING OUT FOR MORE MUSCLEJerry Brainum looks at why BCAAs have had a resurgence in bodybuilding.

172 HEAVY DUTYJohn Little shares Mike Mentzer’s views on forced reps and heavy training.

188 POWER AGINGDavid Young reveals Pete Siegel’s proven mental steps to crush “old” barriers.

206 BENCHLESS CHEST CHISELINGFrom the Bodybuilding.com archives: Former Mr. America Richard Baldwin discusses building perfect pecs without the bench press.

218 FAST MASS, PART 2Our European research correspondent, Michael Gündill, concludes his look at explosive training and how you can do it safely for more mass.

238 ARNOLD CLASSICMass rules in Columbus, as the biggest bodies in the sport go biceps to biceps. Lots of giant full-page pics here, gang, perfect for your gym wall.

268 HARDBODYNancy Georges still has a passion for fitness—after all these years.

282 ONLY THE STRONG SHALL SURVIVECalling all baby boomers. Here’s coach Bill Starr’s take on ageless strength training and muscle gaining for the over-40 set.

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28 TRAIN TO GAINStretching truths and shoulder width. Plus, Joe Horrigan on concentration curls.

48 SMART TRAININGCoach Charles Poliquin’s training tactics for tremendous tri’s and bi’s.

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224 ANTIAGING RESEARCHJerry Brainum looks at what’s under our control when it comes to aging.

228 MUSCLE “IN” SITESEric Broser clicks on Milos Sarcev’s site as well as FeminineBodybuilding.com. There’s Broser-style training info here too.

232 NEWS & VIEWSLonnie Teper’s on-location report from the big Arnold Fitness Weekend.

258 PUMP & CIRCUMSTANCERuth Silverman’s camera was clicking in Columbus too. See her hot pics of gor-geous chicks and dapper dudes—with muscle, of course.

292 MIND/BODY CONNECTIONDave Draper, Gallery of Ironmen, Rising Stars, BodySpace Physique and a new column from Dr. Bob Goldman’s American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

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Early this week I was listening to National Public Radio as I drove to work, and there was a feature about a report on the state of happiness in the USA. The statistics weren’t very positive. A psychologist commented on why the numbers were so dismal and what to do about it. My mind wandered back 30-plus years to the original Gold’s on Pacific in Venice, a workout with Arnold and the breakfast that followed.

The conversation in the gym was about living in the moment and the fact that the only rep that mattered was the rep you were doing. Arnold is renowned for his ability to be totally focused on one thing at a time and his ability to switch from one to the other without “overhang.” Dur-ing the set, the outside world disappeared for Arnold and reappeared after the set. He could be “in character” in one instant and joking the next.

One of Arnold’s major attributes is the unmitigated joy he takes in everything he does. As he’s said to me many times in various ways, “Ev-erywhere I go I have a good time.” That’s his mantra. Back to our con-versation: Besides exhorting me to concentrate on the present and lock out the past and the future, he referred to several people in the gym and commented on why they seemed to just be going through the motions. To paraphrase him: no emotion, no focus, no hope.

As for living in the moment, we all know now that Arnold was able to live his master plan (and continues to), but how did he do that? His advice to me was to plan for the future but not try to live there! He ex-ecuted his own plan in the present to ensure that the future turned out the way he wanted. Let me explain.

Arnold created a team to make sure that his goals would be met. In the NPR piece the psychologist mentioned the percentage of negative thoughts each of us has in the course of a day and that our environment affects the balance and content of our thought and, ultimately, how we feel—our happiness. Why were (and are) Franco and Arnold friends? Ar-nold recognized that Franco had strengths both physical and emotional that made both of them better in the gym and in life. Arnold was very clear: Negative people and situations are destructive.

While Arnold was and is empathic—he would give you the help you need, as he did to me in the gym—but if you started whining about how it’s too hard or voiced other negative thoughts, he would quickly lose interest in helping you. The psychologist on NPR echoed what Arnold said to me long ago: The most important thing you can do to ensure joy and happiness is to surround yourself with joyful people. We are what we think about all day long, and those thoughts are heavily influenced by the people around us. Long before the term “toxic personalities” was coined, Arnold understood that there was no room in his life for people who didn’t share his vision of joyfulness. IM

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