Muscularize

1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I need to lift weights & muscularize my chest—it's still so sunken in.

Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.

Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.