If late-night television commercials are to be believed, America’s soft-bodied sofa dwellers dream primarily of three things: owning a knife that can cut through a penny; obtaining cash for gold; and ...

On the patio of his parents’ house in Lake Mary sits Alon Seifan’s $700 coat hanger. Draped with towels and a tank top, it taunts him with its bars and weights and benches exuding the unfulfilled ...

If doing an addition or building a new house using traditional wood-stud walls seems a little too wimpy in this bold new millennium, there’s a muscular new option from a surprising source.

Jerry Lee Wilson thought he had figured out the perfect way to motivate employees: He brought a shotgun to work. It was the late 1970s, and Wilson was overseeing a factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, that ...

Jerry Wilson, who made millions of dollars starting the Soloflex exercise machine business, sent out a press release Monday morning saying he intended to run for Oregon governor as a Republican. But ...

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2004--The makers of the Soloflex Muscle Machine, the world's first home weightlifting system, made statements today to distance themselves publicly from ...

To his fans, former Soloflex model Scott Madsen is an Adonis whose muscular frame remains popular viewing on and Web sites such as But in the eyes of the law, he's an embezzler. U.S. District Judge ...