It also examines the demeaning imagery with which they often find themselves depicted in muscle magazines.
In 1998 he played David in Beefcake, a movie about 1950s muscle magazines and their connection with the homosexual community.
There, he met up with publisher Joe Weider, who began to feature the Englishman prominently in his muscle magazines.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, is taking a second job: editor of muscle magazines.
(The filmmaker's next project is "Beefcake," a quasi-documentary about the male muscle magazines of the 1950's.)
He spoke out against drugs in muscle magazines for years because he had the integrity and courage to stand up for what is right.
Thomas acknowledges having studied "muscle magazines" and appearances in them, as well as competing in bodybuilding competitions.
It was an odd mixture of comic books, muscle magazines, and porno.
They probably read Rolling Stone, too, not muscle magazines.
Fernandez was also a featured bodybuilder, appearing in several muscle magazines.