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June 2012The Lee Way
BY GREG MERRITT // PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAVEL YTHJALL
Partly it was his background: a mixture of Hong Kong and San Francisco that bridged East and West, traditional and modern. Partly it was his intensity: the “Let’s get it on” glare that might playfully melt into a “You really wanna mess with me?” smirk. Partly it was his Jeet Kune Do, a mélange of fighting styles as elegant as it was lethal. But above all else, it was his body.
At 5'7" and a mere 135 pounds, Lee looked flayed. With the possible exception of a lumbering Hercules hurling Styrofoam boulders, he was the first bodybuilder most moviegoers had ever encountered. And the fact that he was so lithe, so charismatic, so badass cool did as much to popularise abs and lats in the ’70s as that other muscular icon—Arnold something—who came in his wake. To deliver a high-def physique as taut as a spring, Lee’s workouts combined classics with the cutting edge. Thirty-nine years after his death, we’ve done the same, updating his weight-training for the 21st century to help you get that legendary Lee look.
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Muscle Gene Regulation With CoQ10
BY DR. TIM ZIEGENFUSS // PHOTOS: MARC ROYCE, ROBERT REIFF
Many consumers erroneously pigeonhole CoQ10 into the category of heart health. The truth is, while CoQ10 is a great supplement for boosting cardiovascular function, a deeper look into the research behind this unique compound reveals an impressive array of benefits, one of which is turning heads in the bodybuilding community—muscle gene regulation.
First discovered in 1957 by Dr. Frederick L. Crane at the University of Wisconsin, CoQ10 is a naturally occurring, vitamin-like compound synthesised primarily in the liver from the amino acid tyrosine. In humans, there are two main types of CoQ10 that the body uses to produce cellular energy: ubiquinone (the oxidised form) and ubiquinol (the fully reduced or “active” form that is thought to be responsible for the vast majority of health benefits). As we age, our body slowly becomes CoQ10 (or more precisely, ubiquinol) deficient and many scientists believe this contributes to the development to a number of health maladies including heart disease, certain cancers, neurological disorders, myopenia (age-related muscle loss) and diabetes.
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Low Rider
BY ROB FITZGERALD // PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID YELLEN
If you’d asked UFC commentator Joe Rogan the night of May 23, 2009, he’d have told you Rashad Evans was nothing but an afterthought. Lyoto Machida beat Evans that night, taking his UFC light-heavyweight belt, and Rogan feverishly proclaimed the beginning of the “Machida Era” before the Brazilian’s hand was even raised. Implied in Rogan’s declaration was something far more cynical: the notion of Evans as a pretender—a grinder who, though he’d put up a hell of a fight, didn’t belong among the sport’s elite and wouldn’t ever get there again. If only Rogan knew the whole story.
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