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Albert Pujols was featured on the May 2007 cover of Muscle & Fitness Magazine, which came out on April 2, 2007.....You can learn just how intense Albert's off-season weight training routine has become.....It mimics the volume of a bodybuilder's program.....His training has translated to greater health, fewer injuries and more success on the field.....It's the first time in the 68-year history of Muscle & Fitness Magazine that a baseball player has made the cover, so it is sure to become a prized collector's item for any Albert Pujols fan.....Be sure to go out and pick it up at a newsstand near you on April 2!
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Pujols Appeared On May 2007 Muscle & Fitness

Hard-Training Cardinals' Slugger
Albert Pujols To Be Featured On
Cover Of MUSCLE & FITNESS

Baseball’s best hitter is paving his path
to Cooperstown in the weight room

WOODLAND HILLS, CA, MARCH 21, 2007 – St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols will be featured on the May cover Muscle & Fitness Magazine, due out on newsstands April 2. The cover, which features a sleeveless Pujols in the Busch Stadium weight room, is accompanied by a 10-page feature story on the how the first baseman’s workout program has helped his baseball career.

Pujols, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs in at around 245 pounds, hit 49 home runs last season, running his career total to 250 in six seasons, despite missing nearly 20 games due to injury. He also helped the Cardinals to win the World Series in 2006.
 
“Albert is the poster boy for the evolution of weight training in pro sports,” says M&F senior editor Eric Velazquez. “His off-season workout program is really much more intense than we had anticipated. It accounts for how strong he is coming into each season, and how he’s able to keep it up for 150-plus games.”
 
Pujols demonstrated this early-season strength last year by clubbing a Major League-record 14 home runs in the month of April.
 
Muscle & Fitness Editor in Chief Peter McGough says, “We are delighted to have such a sporting luminary as Albert on the cover. With his commitment to the weight room he fully deserves to be the first baseball player to appear on a Muscle & Fitness cover in our 68-year history.”

The 10-page feature explains how Pujols got past some initial reservations on weight training – “I was worried it might mess up my swing,” he says – to become one of the strongest and most productive players in the game today.

Albert Pujols on cover of Muscle & Fitness, May 2007 issue

“I train really hard,” Pujols says in the article. “There aren’t too many baseball players out there who can say they train as hard as me.”
 
The feature, which includes a detailed account of his off-season training routine, is followed by the 2007 MLB Strength Team, as picked by the editors at Muscle & Fitness.

Check out the May 2007 issue of Muscle & Fitness on newsstands April 2, or visit muscleandfitness.com.

 

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