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    News and Articles on Charles Atlas



    Nothing could be finer, for baseball's opening day is here  Apr 2, 2008
    I mean Babe Ruth was no Charles Atlas. Neither was Kirby Puckett. (Forest City Summit, IO)

    This little piggy went professional  Mar 23, 2008
    " He's still no Charles Atlas, but Riddell is down from 104 kilograms to 97kg. For the first time, he can play 80 minutes. Pure footballing skills and instincts have always compensated for a six-pack being the most likely contents of his fridge rather than the shape of his stomach, but the question has been: How good would he be if he were fit? We're about to find out. "I used to eat a lot of junk, but not as much as people are led to believe," he says. "Having a beer was having more of an... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)

    Tension and timeSecaucus artist captures New Jersey's contradictions  Feb 16, 2008
    Thus far, he has painted such figures as Charles Atlas, Charlie Chaplin, and Charles Lindbergh, among others. Shark attack series. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)

    Set designer puts his mark on fashion  Feb 4, 2008
    Then came a neoclassical villa plucked from Bernardo Bertolucci's movie "The Conformist." And last season, it was a giant video installation with models trooping down the runway in sync to a film by the artist Charles Atlas that showed them doing so in lingerie. Lusciously stylized and usually a tad surreal, the sets for Marc Jacobs's shows are among the stars of New York Fashion Week. (International Herald Tribune)

    HomeGymEssentials.com Offers Free Classic Bodybuilding eBooks via Download  Jan 18, 2008
    Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 18, 2008 -- Before Ronnie Coleman, before Lee Haney, before Arnold, and even before Charles Atlas, there was a breed of ironmen who systematically perfected their bodies through methods that for the time, meant no less than a fitness revolution -- methods that were unknown during the era, but that have become the foundation for modern fitness training and exercise ... The most famous of them, Eugen Sandow, a bodybuilder of the early 1900's, was a mentor to Charles... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Florida Magazine  Jan 14, 2008
    If Charles Atlas were to walk into a gym or a health club today, he might take one look around and wonder where he was. Gone are the free weights and medicine balls, relegated to a dusty corner. (Orlando Sentinel)

    EarthWeb Hardware  Aug 16, 2007
    By Vince Freeman - Published August 3, 2007 Intel's been kicking sand in its face for months, but AMD is dreaming of Charles Atlas. It's no secret that Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad processors and Nvidia's GeForce 8 Series graphics cards have pummeled the Athlon 64 X2 and ATI Radeon 2000 lines, but last week AMD demonstrated its next-generation Phenom running many MHz faster than folks expected, and the graphics division vows that the Radeon 3000 series won't be the letdown the 2000 was. (IntranetJournal)

    LT: All about staying motivated  Jul 31, 2007
    If knowledge is power, then Tomlinson is the Chargers' Charles Atlas when it comes to knowing one's self. He has gone to great lengths and expense to reach this point, hiring personal trainers, chefs and physical therapists. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)

    Cruising toward obesity  Jun 14, 2007
    Everyone was ordering mass quantities of food including Skip, a cruise veteran and self-professed 1950s Charles Atlas course dropout. One meal he personally devoured a crab legs entre then a salmon entre, finishing with a healthy slice of New York cheese cake. (Montana Standard, MT)

    This and That  Apr 20, 2007
    I may look a lot more like Fred Flinstone than Charles Atlas, but even I was still running at age 24. By N8. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    On the Fence: Survival guide for the brave new world ... your local gym  Apr 12, 2007
    I doubt I'll ever be Charles Atlas, but I do like being in shape. I mention this because I recently got back into the gym. (Leesville Daily Leader, LA)

    What 'getting in shape' really means  Mar 20, 2007
    Once, defining fitness might have seemed easy: Point to a comic book ad of Charles Atlas posing in his swim trunks, a photo of Jesse Owens in full stride or Joe Louis in full swing. Big, muscular guys and great, graceful athletes personified fitness. (Newsday -- Long Island)

    Bodybuilding needs an Average Joe category  Mar 18, 2007
    All bodybuilding celebrates is the Charles Atlas monolith who walks around slowly with the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey playing constantly in his mind. Is that the only form that defines the masculine. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)

    Explainer: Do Boxers Drink Raw Eggs?click to play audio  Jan 2, 2007
    The popular bodybuilding contests he sponsored made a name for fitness icon Charles Atlas, who would himself become associated with egg drinking. (In later years, McFadden attempted to start his own religion, cosmotarianism, where those with the healthiest bodies go to heaven, and he developed an early version of the vacuum penis pump. (Slate)

    Fact or Fiction  Oct 5, 2006
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    Tone back muscles with lighter labor  Aug 29, 2006
    So, instead of playing Charles Atlas by doing back extensions while clutching a weight plate the size of Will Farrell behind your skull, you could have gotten away with much mellower work. In fact, you may have been hurting yourself. (Orlando Sentinel -- News)

    Keeping Score  Aug 3, 2006
    We'll know it's true if this starts happening: Person goes in for a massage looking like a 98-pound weakling, comes out looking like Charles Atlas. How preposterous is this. (USA Today -- Sports)

    Amazing Spartan Diet & Training Program Reveals How To Blowtorch-off Fat & Build Muscle Fast!  May 21, 2006
    "This is the best & most complete course Ive bought since the Charles Atlas course in 1955.". Rod Houldershaw. (Newsmax)




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