Jackie está decidida a triunfar como culturista y se dirige a Las Vegas para participar en una competición. En su camino, pasa por un pequeño pueblo de Nuevo México donde conoce a Lou, la solitaria gerente del gimnasio local. El padre de Lou es traficante de armas y lleva las riendas de un sindicato del crimen. Jackie y Lou se enamoran. Pero su relación provoca violencia y ambas se ven inmersas en las maquinaciones de la familia de Lou.
Un marine americano debe proteger a cinco niños de un científico asesinado que trabajar en proyectos secretos del gobierno. Ahora, Shane, un Navy Seal acostumbrado a peligrosas misiones de rescate, debe enfrentarse a dos trabajos completamente incompatibles: luchar contra los malos mientras cuida de la casa y se hace cargo de las revoltosas criaturas; además de intentar vencer al enemigo, Shane debe enfrentarse a la rebelde adolescente Zoe, y sus hermanos Seth, Lulu, Peter y el bebé Tyler.
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
Hace muchos años atrás, Lingesan era un hombre con una apariencia física atlética, muy simpático que tenía el sueño de convertirse en el Mister India, sin embargo por cosas del destino su apariencia empieza a transformarse al punto de convertirse en un jorobado deforme, debido a su nueva apariencia repugnable muchas personas prefieren mantenerse alejado de él pensando que es alguien desagrable, en vista de ello Lingesan decide vengarse de todos aquellos que destruyeron su vida…
Léolo es un niño que vive en un humilde barrio de Montreal, atrapado en una sórdida existencia. Cada noche intenta evadirse por medio de los recuerdos, los sueños y su desbordante imaginación, pero la cruda realidad familiar interrumpe siempre sus fantasías: tiene un padre obsesionado por la salud intestinal de toda la familia, un hermano culturista que vive preso del miedo, dos hermanas que padecen trastornos mentales, un abuelo a quien nadie presta demasiada atención y una madre enorme que domina el microcosmos familiar.
Un fiscal y un cantante se enamoran de dos hermanas, pero la convivencia con su extravagante familia no será del todo agradable.
Dennis es un culturista de 38 años, 1'95 m de altura y 140 kg de peso. Nunca ha tenido novia y vive con su opresora madre en un suburbio de Copenhague. Cuando su tío se casa con una tailandesa, Dennis decide probar suerte y viajar al país asiático en busca del amor. Tras el cortometraje de 2007, "Dennis", el director Mads Matthiesen lleva a este personaje al largometraje.
Kerttu is assigned to a gym due to back problems, where it turns out she is a genetic super-talent. Suddenly, she finds herself aiming for an incredible goal: a fitness championship. She is aided by a former genetic prodigy, journeyman bodybuilder Vili, who has lost his purpose in life. The mismatched duo have a lot to learn from each other. Before Kerttu can get into shape for the competition and Vili back on the road to life, both must grow as people and overcome steep prejudices.
Comedy about a woman who hosts a radio talk-show who turns thirty and worries about not having a husband. With the help of her gay brother, she places an personal advert in the local paper and meets a charming dentist. Unfortunately, she finds out he is married, and her brother also falls for him.
Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various body-builders flexing their biceps and triceps. Other images seen here are not macho in the literal sense, but are indirectly related to testosterone or cojones on some level: we see military aircraft making bombing raids, and footage of car crashes.
Before he became an action hero star, and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was possibly the greatest bodybuilder of all time, and he spent time in Britain to build this body. This documentary shows all the people in Britain who helped him get his muscles, which propelled him to stardom winning Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe.
An introduction to Joe Weider's Bodybuilding Training System, and a summary of the contents of the next nine volumes in the series.
Bodybuilding is the pure narcissism. While the runner struggles against time and the weightlifter struggles with the weights, the bodybuilder only has his mirror. Exercise programs, diets and hours and hours in a training room are only the outside of an extreme discipline and eternal struggle for the ideal body. An ideal body that, to most people, seems absurd, but nonetheless has a fascinating power. Not least because most people in the western world even know about the hunt for the perfect body.
This session covers the function and conditioning of the quadriceps and the muscles of the shoulders and hips.
Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?
This session covers mass-training to increase muscle size and strength: mass versus quality, strength versus power, and compensatory acceleration.
A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.
This session covers workout clothing, straps, wraps, and belts; warm-up and stretching; basic sports-medicine; healing; how to recognize and respond to minor injuries; plus common types of injury and how to prevent them.
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel