(This post originally appeared on my friend Jon Goodman’s site ThePTDC.com here.)
I bought my first training book, Robert Kennedy’s “Hardcore Bodybuilding: The Blood, Sweat and Tears of Pumping Iron” during my freshman year of high school in 1983.
Toiling in the basement of the rural Illinois farmhouse of my youth, that book laid the foundation for a lifelong passion (and ultimately an amazing career).
It also became the first of many, many books I would read and collect over the years dedicated to all things muscle!