Pumping Iron, was released on January 18th, 1977, but the film’s influence can still be felt 40 years later. Most movies come out, and they either hit or they don’t, and then they age, and they either ...

Iron is clearly important for running performance, yet many serious runners do not monitor their iron levels. Iron is used for production of hemoglobin in your red blood cells, myoglobin in your ...

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” ignited a fitness revolution and propelled Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood stardom and ultimately to ...

George Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his home in New Hampshire. He was 78 years old. Butler’s ...

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was “The Terminator,” before he served as California's governor, and way before he had a secret love child, Arnold was a bodybuilder. America first met Schwarzenegger in ...

'Pumping Iron' introduced the world to Mr. Universe himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Curl up and arm yourself with some little-known secrets about this benchmark of a movie. It’s important to note that ...

As the temperature drops but before the snow falls, more and more people are hitting the gym instead of the trail. Weightlifting has multiple potential benefits - it may increase metabolism, reduce ...

Bodybuilding is a form of competitive modeling in which contestants are judged on the symmetry, proportion, size, and clarity of their muscles. The world’s greatest bodybuilder—Mr. Olympia—is ...