Moe Mossawi, April 06

A few months ago there was a rather innocuous poll attached to the graphicmuscle.com forums asking simply: "Who has bodybuilding's best biceps?" Nothing special about that question really, it's probably been asked by thousands of bodybuilding fans a thousand times before.

The top two vote-getters probably won't startle you much either. Leading the way in the poll were 8-time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman, and the "Blonde Myth" Lee Priest. But what if I told you the number three vote getter in that poll was Moe El Moussawi? What would your reaction be then?

"Who?"

Not that you'd be alone. The truth is Moe is not a name that gets several feet of print and photo space in the major bodybuilding publications every month. Moe is a fairly well known bodybuilder in Europe and in his home country of New Zealand. His public profile in America drops off fairly rapidly when you move away from the cyber-savvy bodybuilding fan. Besides having some of the best developed arms in the game, Moe is also well known for having a balanced physique with good lines and well-proportioned muscles that have good transitions and nice flow. After the 2006 IronMan competition (where he finished 14th) Internet fan-zine Muscletime pronounced Moe their "most overlooked" competitor at that show.

Moe competed in America in the NPC for 10 years from 1991 to 2001, finishing as high as 6th in the Heavyweight class of the 2001 NPC USA competition, before moving to New Zealand where he won the 2004 Mediterranean Championships earning his IFBB Pro card. After returning to America Moe established a supplement company, ProFight Supplements (www.goprofight.com), which built upon his knowledge of the supplement industry gained through ownership of Moe's Muscles Xtreme Nutrition in New Zealand.

When I talked to Moe he was back in New Zealand on business because, as he put it, "Without the company there is no bodybuilder." Moe is one of those athletes who train for the pure love of the sport. His arm training routine was not built upon the idea of winning the next big paycheck, but on building the best set of arms he can. Moe's bodybuilding dream is to one day stand on the Olympia stage, a dream that has led him to take the rest of the year off and focus on the 2007 IronMan. You won't be seeing Moe on a Pro Division Inc. stage either, his NPC and IFBB experience have made him loyal to the organization in which he turned pro. Moe does hope that competition is a rising tide that lifts all boats, helping all bodybuilders profit from the pursuit. For now Moe is content to focus on his business and improve his physique. As he says: "Improvements don't happen in a couple of months, they take time. So I will take off and work to improve so I can do well at the IronMan, and then hopefully the Arnold."

When you talk to Moe about training arms the first thing that comes across is how developed his training philosophy is after over 15 years of competing. There's not any hesitation at all in Moe's voice when he tells you that he looks to keep his arms under continuous tension, that he focuses on both positive and negative contractions, or that he uses each workout to attain a different developmental goal. It's pretty evident that this is a man who loves to train, and whose training is not a hodge-podge of ill-conceived patchwork exercises, but a well-developed plan that works toward a specific goal: The complete and total development of an outstanding set of arms.