Muscle Building Blog

Helene Neville (center) jogs with students from Burlington Technical Center on Friday. The Burlington High School graduate and cancer survivor ran across the country this summer to promote her book, Nurses in Shape, and encourage health and fitness.

Being a double amputee hasn't stopped him from pursuing various athletic endeavors, including sled hockey and bodybuilding.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was obsessed with muscle men when he was young. Ellen Wu Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up with men poster on his walls. From an assassinator to current Governor of California, Schwarzenegger had a dream when he was just a teen. Schwarzenegger claimed that the men poster on his wall were his inspiration to become as built and muscular as them.

74 Year Old Body Builder . He’s been pumping iron for 50 years. Now Tosaka’s competed in a competition at the age of 74. Tsutomu Tosaka, 74, won Japan’s “Masters Bodybuilding” championship for contestants over the age of 70 in September 2009. 74 Year Old Body Builder , Tsutomo Tosaka is certainly an inspiration!

Outkast’s “Ain’t No Thang” (1994) popularized “Ain’t no thang but a chicken wing” (or “Ain’t no thing but a chicken wing). The phrase means that something is “no big deal” or “no problem” or “no sweat.” “It ain’t no thing but a chicken wing” is cited in print from 1988. “Ain’t no thing but a chicken wing on a string” is cited from 2000. Duke Ellington’s classic “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (1931) was perhaps an inspiration for the “thing/chicken wing” rhyme.