Introduction -- Strength. What's power, in a body? -- Muscle as potential -- A heavy lift -- The making of a hero, then and now -- Form. The ideal body -- Who's afraid of a lady Hercules? -- Shoulders, squared -- Action. Your muscles are talking -- Jumpology -- The movement is the message -- Flexibility. Muscles, fast and slow -- I comes from unity -- Rememberances of exercises past -- Endurance. What we carry -- Running to remember -- True grit -- Going the distance -- Kissing the ground in equilibrium -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.