This is a great site that focuses on the bodybuilders/powerlifters/Olympic lifters of the past.
Lots of great articles and old pics you would have trouble finding anywhere else. it seems to be by Anthony Ditillo, a former write for Ironman magazine.
It’s amazing how much that might sound like ground-breaking and new in exercise science is actually not new at all.
I wanted to add this great passage by Bradley J. Steiner:
The argument that too much work on the basic, heavy exercises fails to produce a shapely body is utterly false. Heredity, diet, posture, etc. have the final say regarding how “shapely” you eventually look. Your choice of exercise movements, per se, has little to do with this matter of muscle shape. Remember, your muscles don’t know what exercise is being used when you train them. Doing heavy military presses works the shoulder girdle. Doing lateral raises also works this area, however, with the basic press you can strive for much greater poundage increments and a more complete and natural muscle involvement, and, as a result you will build much greater strength. The effect on the muscle’s appearance of shapeliness is little affected by the particular exercise you do. In fact, providing your inherent characteristics make you prone towards the “right”? appearance when flexed, and provided your diet is right, there is every reason to believe that the heavier and more basic exercises will produce superior shapeliness.
This point, again, must be carefully and clearly understood: the type of exercises you do with weights will have an effect on the development of a muscle’s size and usefulness, and a muscle’s power and strength. But, the effect upon its appearance of shapeliness is negligible. Diet and heredity mean everything here, and since diet is the only factor under your control, I suggest you begin to appreciate its importance.
So take a look at this inspiring website. Just tell me when you figure out why it’s called The Tight Tan Slacks of Dezso Ban!