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FYI: Your favourite 80's muscle hero movies are now musicals:






The videos are made by the people who produced the Off-Broadway musical "Silence Of The Lambs".

The Craft Center - Muscle and Brains!

"In the late 1980's, I was the only bodybuilder training regularly at "Dr. Squat" - Dr. Fred Hatfiels's exercise research laboratory - The Craft Center in Reseda, CA. I lived right next to the Craft Center and as the "resident bodybuilder" I had all these great minds to pick at a cutting edge exercise research laboratory."
- Andreas Cahling


Andreas Cahling "hooked up" by Professor G. Laich, MD.


Andreas Cahling monitored by Dr. Laich and Dr. Hatfield.
Fred Hatfield could squat with more than 1000 lbs (460 kg)!


Andreas Cahling squatting with "Dr. Squat" - Dr. Fred Hatfield.
Fred could squat with more than 1000 lbs (460 kg).


Andreas Cahling, Harvey Kurland (MSc) and Dr. Squat.
DR. SQUAT COULD SQUAT MORE THAN 1000 lbs (460 kg)!



via andreascahling.blogspot.com/

In 1986, IFBB Champion Vince Taylor not only lived in West-Berlin (probably as a GI), he also appeared as a whiskey-sipping nude model in a German detective series.



woman: "May I introduce to you Joe Kessler - my model."
detective: "THAT'S your model?! As far as I can see YOU'RE NOT PAINTING HIM!"
woman: "We're having a preliminary talk..."

Here's a fun fact from Vince's biography:
"The 1983 Mr. Berlin Vince Taylor started off in the light-heavyweight class, but a few weird things happened. He crashed his car - twice - on the way to the venue. He was too late to enter as a light-heavy, but they let him compete as a 170lbs. heavyweight and he ended up winning the whole thing."

I had no idea Brigitte Nielsen did gym porn.

80's Muscle! gives you the Gynecological Glutes Machine.

Millions of those fitness tools have been sold back in the 80's because guys actually believed they'd come with a lady who's willing to do it doggy style.

I'm sure that's just creatine.

"YAY! Our testosterone balance is all f*??ed up!!!"


Big in Japan.





The way he's holding that carrot stick looks kinda threatening.

Bodybuilder/wrestler Chris Walker would be the male equivalent to Miss Nicole Bass. In the describtion of this Pro wrestling compilation dvd it says:
"In his earlier matches, he wore a leopard-print skin-tight wrestling singlet that highlighted every muscle in his body. [We here at 80's Muscle!-blog believe the pictures show more of a snake-print though.] He later switched to form-fitting trunks. He had long, curly, blonde hair"
So far so rad. Still "long, curly, blonde hair" might be kind of an understatement; mullet par excelence seems to be the more adequate term here.

The Untouchables... So these guys belong to the Indian Pariah caste?
The 80's saw the rising of the typical bulky sweat pants that are supposed to make your thighs look muscular and bull-legged.
Bodybuilder Mike Christian understood the sign of the times and started his company PLATINUM EVERYWEAR BY MIKE CHRISTIAN. *shudder* So all you hipsters lookin for some o so weird-in-a-rad-way 80's style Mike Christian parachute pants: Try on ebay as they don't make them anymore. If you're lucky you might find yourself an original "Party Surprise" (second from left).

The hair.
The shades.
The singlet.
Thank you, Miss Bass, for sporting 80's perfection, where ever you may be now.

In this photo very 80's bodybuilder Tom Platz is either
- working out so hard his muscles are producing electricity. How green.
- being attacked by Ming the Merciless.