Stronger

"From the battlefields of Homer's Iliad where muscles first enter world literature, to the Victorian-era gymnasiums where women undertake a radical experiment in strength training, to the retirement home in Boston where a young doctor discovers that lifting weights at high intensity can produce the same relative gains for frail ninety-year-olds as for thirty-year-olds, author Michael Joseph Gross places the science and significance of our muscles in an astonishing new light."--Back cover.