Bodybuilding icon Tom Platz holds the distinction of being ... “One day I was walking to Gold’s Gym, and Mike’s in the gutter, laying there like a drunken guy,” recalled the Quadfather.

In Platz’s words, “When I went into bodybuilding, life became bigger for me.It added to my life. It didn’t take away.” The gym, far from being a chamber of suffering, was a sanctuary where ...