DICK FRIED and DICK DEAN, While Fried trains regularly, Dean does no froining of all other than the calisthentics given him in the Marine Corp. Part of the difference in build of course may be inherent but fow will deny that judicious weight training will firm up and redistribute loose flesh. This is AMG photo XG28P. Pages 48 and 49 of XG13 contain a number of other dual shots of Fried and Dean.

Left: DICK KRENTEL 15 5'10 147 lbs neck 15 chest normal 41.5" waist 29.5 Shoulders 46, hips 35, thighs 21.25", calf 13.5. Right: TED BENLEN 15 5'11" 160 lbs neck 15, bicep 14.25", chest norm 42, waist 27.75" thigh 21 calves 14.25, hips 35. Ted expects to be an electrical engineer when he leaves school. Both boys train regularly together, 3 times a week. They are making extremely rapid progress. Their parents are delighted with their bodybuilding interest, realizing that a boy who trains actively has little time for mischief. Ted's father who is a police officer also trains regularly. This is AMG's photo XJTO AY. 8x10 print $1.50. Catalogs to be available later. These models on special loan to AMG from Apollo International who featured them in the film "Teenagers"

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR SMALL ARMS. It is an interesting and pleasant fact that the most pleasant muscle to see on a man, good arms, are also the easiest to build. Nothing is as disenchanting as to see a man with spindley arms, and in very few cases need his arms remain obnormally thin. Not everyone can have massive 17 inch arms, but almost everyone can have at least enough size that he need not feel embarrassed. If you have access to barbells and dumbells, rapid progress can be made with even light weights in just a few minutes of exercising each day can make an extraordinary change. The most rewarding excercises to perform with barbells are curls (for the biceps) and military presses and bench presses (for the triceps). Concentration curls with dumbells can build biceps very rapidly. The imporant factor is to use weights light enough that the exercises can be performed correctly, slowly and with definite precision.

Even without barbells excellent gains can be made in the arms. Chinning oneself (perhaps on a bor supported in a doorway) is one of the best ways of building up the biceps. The chinning should be done slowly and with deliberation. Push-ups will help the triceps a little, but even more valuable are handstand push-ups (against a wall if you're new at it).. Obviously all hard work which makes use of the arms helps somewhat, but much hard work builds only the back--many hard laborers have rather slender arms. In fact, too hard work can actually cause the arms to get lean. Most muscle boys are notoriously lazy and many bosses know better than to hire fellows with big builds because they know the boys will tend to "conserve" their muscles. Actually just "thinking" big muscles can help a great deal, but of course it is necessary to cause them to handle some load resistance, but a surprisingly limited amount of "work" will cause the arm muscles to hypertrophy (enlarge). The first inch or two arm growth is the easiest to achieve, so if your arms are substandard now, start to bring them up. 10

THROW AWAY YOUR PILLS AND LET NATURE TAKE CARE OF YOU. While nature obviously doesn't favor one form of life above another (cockroaches are just as precious to it as human life), it is concerned with the complete health and welfare of each individual life. Doctors admit that most of the work they do in "curing" our illnesses is just to pave the way for nature itself to do the work. Unfortunately, drug stores are loaded with pills and medicines which for from helping nature, will often interfere with it.

In most instances the boy can and will take good care of itself without the help and/or interference of pills which often do more to throw off normal functioning than they do to increase the efficiency of healing processes. We are not suggesting that pills should never be taken--indeed there are indisputable cases where pills can save a life, or can make up for a natural deficiency. Everyone has saved himself from a miserable headache by simply ingesting a little aspirin. But perhaps the greatest tragedy in the use of even simple pills like aspirin, indigestion pills etc, is that they encourage us to ignore the purpose of pain (which is to let us know something is mal-functioning). Most of the body's ills will be handled by the body itself if we eat sensibly, get adequate rest and avoid undue strain. Taking a pill so that we can avoid the natural, sensible care of our body can prove quite detrimental, and over prolonged periods can even be fatal. On the other hand there are limited instances when, say, an aspirin will make us oblivious to pain and make it possible for us to get the rest which will help to cure our ailment. But by contrast if we feel a cold coming on but stuff ourselves full of various drugs and go off for a hectic weekend which will further lower our natural defenses, we may be courting disaster. Since many of the "ailments" we suffer from are psycho-somatic in origin, it is little wonder that taking a pill endorsed by our favorite TV personality may bring "instant and immediate relief", but when something is really wrong, we would do well to take it easy and give nature a chance to do the job without interference. 11