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Muscle music

Men's Fitness, April, 2003 by Mike Carlson, Allan Donnelly, Ben Kallen, Bobby Lee, Dennis Nishi, Jim Shiebler, Mark Thorpe, Tom Weede

BACK WHEN OLIVE OYL was the poster child for rock-star chic, mixing muscle and music was about as cool as Tiny Tim and his ukelele. But 30 years and the GOP juggernaut have changed everything. Today, the anemic look has been overtaken by men with meat on their bones--and we don't mean MeatLoaf. AS CONCERTS BECOME rambunctious, wall-to-wall entertainment spectacles, the physical demands on performers require more than a steady diet of Johnny Walker Black and Pamela Anderson ...

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Lee ... Rock. With exercise and nutrition figuring prominently in the regimens of many rock and rap stars, the once gangly, ectomorphic performer has evolved into a proto-athlete. Muscle, that once forbidden domain of the painfully self-conscious, is now a must-have. And nowhere is this better illustrated than in the physiques of LL Cool J, D'Angelo, Lenny Kravitz and Mark McGrath. SO THE NEXT TIME you think about skipping a meal so you can play your guitar until your fingers bleed, think twice--music sounds better made with muscle.

Muscle music

Men's Fitness, April, 2003 by Mike Carlson, Allan Donnelly, Ben Kallen, Bobby Lee, Dennis Nishi, Jim Shiebler, Mark Thorpe, Tom Weede

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