Lou's Books
The New Rules of Lifting for Women
In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to...
The New Rules of Lifting
Ten unique programs for fat loss, muscle gain, and strength improvement for beginners and elite lifters. Want to get more out of your workout and spend less...
The Book of Muscle
The World's Most AUTHORITATIVE Guide to Building Your Body You probably know a lot about building muscle. You know which curl is the best for your biceps,...
The Testosterone Advantage Plan
Wide shoulders, narrow waist, thick chest, muscular arms and legs: today's male ideal physique is the same as that of ancient Greece. Aerobics and the Food...
The Home Workout Bible
Get bigger biceps, broad shoulders, a bigger bench press, powerful legs, cut abs . . . without ever leaving your home! The body you want, in the space...
Built For Show
No-nonsense workouts to build a lean, strong, eye-catching physique. Every young, single guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to...
Huge In A Hurry
Men's Health Huge in a Hurry will add inches to your muscles and increase your strength, with noticeable results quickly, no matter how long you've been...
The term "alpha male" is one of those designations we hang on people without much thought of its origins or its true implications.
It's kind of like describing someone as a "Type A personality" or saying a particular behavior is "passive-aggressive." What we really mean, in the...
(read more)
If vampires really existed, they'd replace the entire human race in 30 months, according to a paper written by physicists at the University of Central Florida and analyzed at the Collision Detection blog here. (Here's the PDF of the study; hat tip to Rachel Sklar.)
Here's the...
(read more)
Newsweek's cover story has two fun facts I didn't know about human evolution.
The first is kind of a head-scratcher:
Head lice live in the hair on the head. But body lice, a larger variety, are misnamed: they live in clothing. Head lice, as a species, go back...
(read more)
Is it my imagination, or was this a big week for news from the animal kingdom
First up is the iguana who needs sexual healing:
Mozart, an iguana with an erection that has lasted for over a week, will have his penis amputated in the next couple of...
(read more)
I've made no secret of my occasional obsession over Neanderthals, particularly the question of whether modern humans and their big-shouldered cousins ever succumbed to the love that dare not reveal its DNA.
So I thought I'd share this, in case you missed it:
A skull found in...
(read more)
Continuing with my Neanderthal obsession (see here and especially here), a new study reopens the debate over whether Brutus and Olive Oyl got their freak on.
Here's how the New York Times describes it:
In research being published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy...
(read more)
I've written a lot about human metabolism over the years, particularly the biological forces and personal choices that make it speed up or slow down. That led me to studies from Eric Poehlman, which I may not have cited directly but usually at least considered before...
(read more)
< prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | next >
Displaying 1-7 of 79 entries.
The Rundown
Lou Schuler is an award-winning fitness journalist and author. He began this weblog on menshealth.com in September 2003. If, for any reason, you need to know more about this middle-aged, bald-headed man, click here.
Lou's Latest Articles Online
Testosterone: The 10-Year Anniversary
All Content © 2003-2010 Lou Schuler
Contact: asklou@louschuler.com
Website by Ennui Design