Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIKE COLTER HASN'T always had to look swole. The 46-year-old actor describes one of his earlier notable roles, Lemond Bishop in ...

SWOLE: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle by Michael Andor Brodeur (Beacon Press, 256 pp., $28.95) Michael Andor Brodeur takes the gym too seriously, and not seriously at all at the same time ...

Having good genes might be a shortcut to a nice physique – but they're not everything. Here's what you need to know.

Brodeur, a classical music critic for the Washington Post, debuts with a winsome and insightful blend of cultural history and memoir that tracks the idealized beefcake body from ancient Greece to ...

MIKE COLTER HASN'T always had to look swole. The 46-year-old actor describes one of his earlier notable roles, Lemond Bishop in CBS's The Good Wife, as having one real physical requirement: looking ...