No guts, no glory. (notes).(inner strength)(Brief Article)(Editorial)

The vibrant man on our cover this month is 65-year-old Murray Moore, a prostate cancer survivor we've chosen to represent men of good health. You'll notice that Murray still has his shirt on. We've abandoned the convention maintained by virtually all men's health and muscle magazines that the cover hero must, at the very least, bare his washboard abs. We've also dispensed with the admiring busty blonde.

I know from personal experience that it's easy to define yourself as a man solely by the definition of your muscles. But as a man ages--and his beard turns gray, like Murray's--he understands that manhood is not vanity.

Nor is manhood begrudgingly feminine. As Joe Lewandowski writes ("Just Do It," p. 34), men today are awash in ideas about who they should be, without much anchor to who they truly are. Indeed, the very words "male bonding" are now the stuff of insipid sitcoms where men are portrayed as frightened dimwits, even as women ...