Atomic Dog Well, screw you, Tim and Charles! by TC Oh, I remember the old days when I used to have some friends. Guys I could call up for no damn reason. Guys who I'd play catch with. Guys who'd give me a place to crash after my woman threw me out for trying to nail her pedicurist. It's true. I even shared some common interests with these friends. I know, I know, it's hard ...

Question of Strength The real Master Blaster reveals   the science behind building muscle by Charles Poliquin Q: Given the fact that it doesn't train the stabilizers, should I ever slide my handsome ass into a pec-deck machine? A: I've seen your ass, and it definitely isn't "handsome." Regardless, as a source of variety, and if you're an athlete who's generally uninterested ...

Atomic Dog Death, be not proud by TC By now, most of you know that Dan Duchaine died last week. For those of you who are new to this whole bodybuilding thing, Dan was famous — or in famous — for being "The Steroid Guru." For a time, he was the be-all and end-all when it came to anabolic steroids. Now, he's gone, the victim of "natural causes." Pardon me, but wh...

Eulogy, Times Three Testosterone bids farewell to Dan Duchaine My Friend the Guru Dan Duchaine, 1952-2000 by Rob Schuh As many of you may have already heard, my good friend Dan Duchaine passed away on January 12, 2000. He was just 48 years old. Most of the people in the bodybuilding community only knew Dan as "The Guru" or "The Steroid Guru." Very few knew him as Dan the human being and the ...

Atomic Dog When great minds meet by TC Moderator: Ladies and gentleman, thank you for coming this evening. We have a wonderful show for you tonight, and we've assembled some of bodybuilding's greatest minds together to discuss a variety of fascinating and controversial subjects. Indeed, we're quite proud of the panel that we've put together. I'd like to now introduce our di...

Bad Protein A Testosterone consumer report by TC In 1949, the US government released clouds of bacteria over San Francisco to literally see what would happen. No one, other than the government, knew about it. Luckily, only one person died, but 11 others were admitted to hospitals. In 1952, the government released clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide into an elementary school population to see ...

Atomic Dog The editorial equivalent of Bart Simpson by TC A female writer — a bodybuilder — just sent me an article. The subject? Clitoral piercing. Really. For Testosterone. She writes in excruciating — and even somewhat titillating — detail about going out to a parlor and having some guy pierce her clit. Talk about boys in the ...

Poetry in Motion The Testosterone exercise of the month by John Paul Catanzaro Think of bodybuilding as a language, and think of the exercises we do in the gym as words in that language. Trouble is, most of us have "vocabularies" smaller than that of Koko the gorilla, who was featured on a very popular AOL chat. (Koko was asked if he liked to talk to people, to ...