Posted: 23 April 2018 at 7:22am | IP Logged | 9
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Oh, that Charles Atlas ad! I wanted that course so bad. Bigger Arms? Check! Powerful Chest? Check! Homoerotic Overtone? CHECK!!!!
My Mom found the envelope before I mailed it, shook her head, and said, "No..." (with that ellipse)
Several years later, we participated in a Church/ Community Yard Sale and our Pastor, a rail-thin man with a reluctant beard, had the whole entire series, twenty some-odd "lessons", for only five bucks! Of course I bought them -- I still have them... somewhere.
Poorly written (carbon copied from an old-school typewriter), the exercises in "dynamic tension" are little more than flexing before a mirror, basically an excuse for pictures of musclemen. Frankly, for that kind of eroticism, I had the comics themselves. I'm glad I didn't spend more than five bucks.
Now, years later, as someone who does work to maintain his physique, I realize I could never have been a superhero -- to get in shape like that, that kind of training is brutal on the body. Poor Batman...
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