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FREESTYLING  NPC USA champ Brandon Curry's back workout is the next wave of training.
Maybe it was inevitable. After all, we have freestyle rap and dance, freestyle Skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX and every other X Game, even freestyle basketball
(dribbling is sport) and football (check the latest Nike advert). Freestyling is about improvising and innovation, and it may seem antithetical to bodybuilding, where training is literally a routine. However, with the rapid rise of Kai Greene in the pros and Brandon Curry to the pros, a new breed of anatomy anarchists has emerged at centre stage. One week before he won the 2008 NPC USA Championships, we watched Curry freestyle a back workout to see how some in bodybuilding's next generation are rethinking the very concept of what's routine...
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THE DOWN AND DIRTY DOZEN GUSTAVO BADELL COMES CLEAN ON THE 12 TRAINING RULES THAT HELPED TRANSFORM HIM INTO A PERENNIAL OLYMPIA CONTENDER.
AMONG THE CURRENT BUMPER CROP OF GREAT bodybuilders on the IFBB scene, arguably none has Gustavo Badell's unique balance of preterhuman muscle and rock-hard conditioning. That's probably because his training philosophy is transgenerational, combining the best from the past with discoveries of the present. Here, the 2005 Ironman and 2006 San Francisco Pro winner provides a dozen rules (plus a bonus set for beginners) that he feels were essential to building his physique. Wisdom suggests we pay heed...
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PERFECT STORM There was a time, before most of you reading this were even born, when bodybuilding wasn't the culturally entrenched and ubiquitous activity we enjoy today. You didn't have a choice of gyms to join in your town, and after travelling miles to the nearest shop that happened to sell Joe Weider's MUSCLE BUILDER magazine, you often found yourself the subject of sideways glances at the till.
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