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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: hipolito mejia on June 25, 2014, 04:44:52 AM
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We all know the internet , and low price supps at Walmart the lack of info/honesty on steroids among other things are taking the best of magazine industry. But Flex magazine despite being like 75 % adds. And having the best training articles pics etc. Has taken an extreme measure .....
After charging subscriber a full year for 12 issues, it turns out that people will only get 6 issues instead of 12.
As of this month, Flex mag is becoming a ONE IN EVERY TWO MONTHS publication !!!
This months issue features Shawn Rhoden on cover is the July/August issue.
The end of the bible of bob publications as we know it ??
A low blow, a fraud ?
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A dying medium. It's harder to hold up a mag while fapping than to hold up an iPad. Disintermediated by technology.
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i remember fondly their tyranosauras pecs articles
featuring Nasser in cut off denim shorts and lumber jack shirts
not gay at all
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the H.U.G.E. training system might be lost forever :-[
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i remember fondly their tyranosauras pecs articles
featuring Nasser in cut off denim shorts and lumber jack shirts
not gay at all
You would have to be such a queer to think that's gay.
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Can't believe how it isn't dead already.
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You would have to be such a queer to think that's gay.
I had a couple of wanks while reading it
but I don't think that makes me gay
I just like denim shorts
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I've never felt like a dumber cnut the day I bought and read through a flex magazine. Not one single bit of information and interest in the entire magazine. Literally useless to a man of intelligence and no erectile response to bodybuilders pretending to be lumberjacks. I doubt the homosexuals purchase it, either.
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I had a couple of wanks while reading it
but I don't think that makes me gay
I just like denim shorts
Who doesn't?
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Men's Health magazine sells more magazines than all the bodybuilding magazines combined. No one is interested in drug bodybuilding anymore. Most people realize when they see a juiced bodybuilder how they got there even when they deny it because they want the credit.
What's really huge now with insecure young men that use to flock to bodybuilding is jui jitsu schools. I think working out is as big as it ever was but there is a shift from steroid cosmetics to performance based fitness.
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It's the Internet mainly. Too many message boards and other forms of instant information.
I used to read Superman comics. Stopped really caring at 18 but kept collecting 3 more years. Used to have one issue a week from about 1991, and even for those extra 4 weeks in a year made a separate comic for those times.
Stopped about 2001. About 2003-4 they dropped an issue. A few years later dropped another. It's down to 2 a month.
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I have a lot of great memories with flex magazine I remember going to the gym and reading flex every month this old dude at the gym had a huge collection of old flex magazines I would go over to his house and borrow them.
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How does that song go???
"Video killed the radio star....."
With the advent of the internet, it was only a matter of time before "print" would see its demise.
It's a lot like reading a newspaper. News that you read on printed paper is no longer new since they happen to have printed it the day before. By the time you pick up the hard copy, it will already have been covered ad nauseum via the internet.
Likewise, when it comes to industry gossip, events schedules or guest appearances by pros, the internet is already your one-stop-shop for all of your Bodybuilding industry needs. Not to mention that today everyone knows about Photoshop and its wonders. 15 years ago, people could have gotten away with morphing a picture and people would swallow that pill without any issue whatsoever. Today, we can spot bullshit a mile away.
Training?? Training is training is training. There are only so many ways you can work out a muscle. Try inventing new angles to work out your biceps and I will show you someone who used the same techniques back in the 1960's.
Now, if a magazine were daring enough, I'd say even crazy enough, to publish actual steroid cycles (dosages, frequency of administration, routes, medication names, post-cycling with anti-estrogen meds etc.) and couple those articles with pictures of various bodybuilders with different body types (they don't have to be pros) that used those cycles and attained certain results, THEN you would have a serious multi-million dollar industry by way of magazine sales.
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Now, if a magazine were daring enough, I'd say even crazy enough, to publish actual steroid cycles (dosages, frequency of administration, routes, medication names, post-cycling with anti-estrogen meds etc.) and couple those articles with pictures of various bodybuilders with different body types (they don't have to be pros) that used those cycles and attained certain results, THEN you would have a serious multi-million dollar industry by way of magazine sales.
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Maybe but then they would lose a lot of advertising sales so it's counteractive
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I have a lot of great memories with flex magazine I remember going to the gym and reading flex every month this old dude at the gym had a huge collection of old flex magazines I would go over to his house and borrow them.
Were the pages glued together?
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We all know the internet , and low price supps at Walmart the lack of info/honesty on steroids among other things are taking the best of magazine industry. But Flex magazine despite being like 75 % adds. And having the best training article pics etc. Has taken an extreme measure .....
After charging subscriber a full year for 12 issues, it turns out that people will only get 6 issues instead of 12.
As of this month, Flex mag is becoming a ONE IN EVERY TWO MONTHS publication !!!
This months issue features Shawn Rhoden on cover is the July/August issue.
The end of the bible of bob publications as we know it ??
A low blow, a fraud ?
Coming from a fat greasy fuck who embezzled 30k from Dave Palumbo business , you have no room to talk. Pay him back you piece of shit
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Maybe but then they would lose a lot of advertising sales so it's counteractive
Here in the states they *might*. I say might, because supplement companies can always advertise products that serve to enhance the use of steroids. In other words, they can market non-steroid medications that enhance the bio-availability of testosterone once in your system. Likewise, they can advertise products that *naturally* help to reduce estrogen levels in your body after you come off a cycle, follow me??
Plus, they can still advertise protein powders, Nitric Oxide products, Creatine products, Glucosamine and all the other additives that are actually helpful in bodybuilding.
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How does that song go???
"Video killed the radio star....."
With the advent of the internet, it was only a matter of time before "print" would see its demise.
It's a lot like reading a newspaper. News that you read on printed paper is no longer new since they happen to have printed it the day before. By the time you pick up the hard copy, it will already have been covered ad nauseum via the internet.
Likewise, when it comes to industry gossip, events schedules or guest appearances by pros, the internet is already your one-stop-shop for all of your Bodybuilding industry needs. Not to mention that today everyone knows about Photoshop and its wonders. 15 years ago, people could have gotten away with morphing a picture and people would swallow that pill without any issue whatsoever. Today, we can spot bullshit a mile away.
Training?? Training is training is training. There are only so many ways you can work out a muscle. Try inventing new angles to work out your biceps and I will show you someone who used the same techniques back in the 1960's.
Now, if a magazine were daring enough, I'd say even crazy enough, to publish actual steroid cycles (dosages, frequency of administration, routes, medication names, post-cycling with anti-estrogen meds etc.) and couple those articles with pictures of various bodybuilders with different body types (they don't have to be pros) that used those cycles and attained certain results, THEN you would have a serious multi-million dollar industry by way of magazine sales.
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Testicular Maldevelopment is as close to what you described in that last paragraph, but it's just a matter of time before they go under too. But I'd venture to say that most guys who lift aren't gonna bother with steroids, so even that idea would only go so far.
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But Flex magazine despite being like 75 % adds. And having the best training article pics etc. Has taken an extreme measure .....
LMAO.
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They may be dying but they are still spending money signing Bodybuilders to contracts. How much are they paying Phil, Jay, Kai?
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They may be dying but they are still spending money signing Bodybuilders to contracts. How much are they paying Phil, Jay, Kai?
about 10 dollars a year each
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It's not just the digital space that's destroying flex, it's also the fact that it covers a niche market and and 100% of the content is pure crap.
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I stopped buying muscle magazines years ago. However, I subscribed to MD recently for their electronic edition. They give you a year for about what it costs for a single magazine in Australia.
The deal for Flex online is similar. Look at the enclosed photo to see the deal. $10.67 for 12 months. I guess that means 6 editions? Still an ok deal.
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Flex and M&F in the US are cutting back to 10 editions / year not 6.
All mags are way down across all spaces, but still some buck the trend. M&F UK subs have been on the up for a while now.
I'm sure everyone agrees the original MM2K was by far the best mag ever.
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How does that song go???
"Video killed the radio star....."
With the advent of the internet, it was only a matter of time before "print" would see its demise.
It's a lot like reading a newspaper. News that you read on printed paper is no longer new since they happen to have printed it the day before. By the time you pick up the hard copy, it will already have been covered ad nauseum via the internet.
Likewise, when it comes to industry gossip, events schedules or guest appearances by pros, the internet is already your one-stop-shop for all of your Bodybuilding industry needs. Not to mention that today everyone knows about Photoshop and its wonders. 15 years ago, people could have gotten away with morphing a picture and people would swallow that pill without any issue whatsoever. Today, we can spot bullshit a mile away.
Training?? Training is training is training. There are only so many ways you can work out a muscle. Try inventing new angles to work out your biceps and I will show you someone who used the same techniques back in the 1960's.
Now, if a magazine were daring enough, I'd say even crazy enough, to publish actual steroid cycles (dosages, frequency of administration, routes, medication names, post-cycling with anti-estrogen meds etc.) and couple those articles with pictures of various bodybuilders with different body types (they don't have to be pros) that used those cycles and attained certain results, THEN you would have a serious multi-million dollar industry by way of magazine sales.
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Flex magazine used to do that back in the mid 90s. They even followed some guy on his "steroid withdrawal". Interviews with Mike Christian on his first time doing steroids and what he took.
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We all know the internet , and low price supps at Walmart the lack of info/honesty on steroids among other things are taking the best of magazine industry. But Flex magazine despite being like 75 % adds. And having the best training article pics etc. Has taken an extreme measure .....
After charging subscriber a full year for 12 issues, it turns out that people will only get 6 issues instead of 12.
As of this month, Flex mag is becoming a ONE IN EVERY TWO MONTHS publication !!!
This months issue features Shawn Rhoden on cover is the July/August issue.
The end of the bible of bob publications as we know it ??
A low blow, a fraud ?
I wish you were dying instead of Flex.
I mean.....dying faster than you already are.
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Coming from a fat greasy fuck who embezzled 30k from Dave Palumbo business , you have no room to talk. Pay him back you piece of shit
Awesome vince laying the smack down.
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Coming from a fat greasy fuck who embezzled 30k from Dave Palumbo business , you have no room to talk. Pay him back you piece of shit
Shit just got real! :o
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Coming from a fat greasy fuck who embezzled 30k from Dave Palumbo business , you have no room to talk. Pay him back you piece of shit
Vince! Use the voodoo man!
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the old bait and switch ay. mags sucked since the 70's.
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Coming from a fat greasy fuck who embezzled 30k from Dave Palumbo business , you have no room to talk. Pay him back you piece of shit
Get your fact straight mister.....You don't have a clue what you're talking about .... I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
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Get your fact straight mister.....You don't have a clue what you're talking about .... I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
He does? Why? Everybody loves him around here!
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Get your fact straight mister.....You don't have a clue what you're talking about .... I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
Save the time, Jabba.
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I stopped buying muscle magazines years ago. However, I subscribed to MD recently for their electronic edition. They give you a year for about what it costs for a single magazine in Australia.
The deal for Flex online is similar. Look at the enclosed photo to see the deal. $10.67 for 12 months. I guess that means 6 editions? Still an ok deal.
Cheaper from zinio.
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I'm a well respected figure in the industry.
How hard are we supposed to laugh here? You just hang around the "industry" because you've been outschmoeing everyone in a realm where mental disorders and sexual perversions are the norm. I'd tell you that you're a piss receptacle but you would like it probably.
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Get your fact straight mister.....You don't have a clue what you're talking about .... I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
How does a person get well respected in the industry, pay top dollar for private posing sessions, promise bodybuilders higher placings in competition if they submit to your fantasies.
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I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
Classic Getbigger .
WooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Muscletech ads were the beginning of the end for all BBing mags, especially Musclemag which I used to love.
They all suck now. 60-70% of the mags are all ads.
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Muscletech ads were the beginning of the end for all BBing mags, especially Musclemag which I used to love.
They all suck now. 60-70% of the mags are all ads.
I have a couple of 1995 flex magazines and they are flooded with urologist advertisement. Never understood why at the time as a teenager.
Plus almost all of the pro's covered there are either dead or have severe health problems today.
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I have a couple of 1995 flex magazines and they are flooded with urologist advertisement. Never understood why at the time as a teenager.
Plus almost all of the pro's covered there are either dead or have severe health problems today.
Creepy but true .
Those mags should be like $2.00 an issue if they want to survive a little longer
WoooSSHHHHHHHHH
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flex has been dying the last 15 years...fuck this joke...hipolita is getting a bit vince basile like here...legend in his mind
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Facts
Sergio oliva and Serge nubret (both dead) never made the cover of Flex magazine ...now Flex is dying (Karma?)
My fav Flex cover ever ...
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/fl/fl0711.jpg)
exact opposite Physique of Phil
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My fave bodybuilding cover of all time is the ironman 1989 with Bryan Buchanan upper body like "escultura " (forgot how to spell that in English) ..
Ironman mag went "natural' and then die long ago right ?
WoooSSHHHHHH
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this is the problem of flex...way to many arnold covers and maybe alittle bit pseudorascism...might be wrong since i don't read it anymore...last time i did dorian was on the cover
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recycling the same basic and crap articles once a year doesnt help. the personal trainers have that market sewn up
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Good I'm glad I dont have to read that shit anymore.
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Good I'm glad I dont have to read that shit anymore.
I felt so dirty and homo buying that fucking rag in the 90's. I am still scarred by the experience.
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Get your fact straight mister.....You don't have a clue what you're talking about .... I'm a well respected figure in the industry and take the time to humbly mingle and post, while Dave think of this site as a sewer ..
Really....so give us YOUR SIDE OF THE STORY REGARDING SPECIES NUTRITION
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Musclemag International of the mid 80's to early 90's was the best hardcore bodybuilding mag by far. Greg Zulak had some really great training articles, and the photos were superb.
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Fuck Flex Magazine
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gotta admit Flex had some pretty good writers guys.......
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Men's Health magazine sells more magazines than all the bodybuilding magazines combined. No one is interested in drug bodybuilding anymore. Most people realize when they see a juiced bodybuilder how they got there even when they deny it because they want the credit.
but they don't realize all the fitness models got their muscles the same way, just different doses.
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Sergio oliva and Serge nubret (both dead) never made the cover of Flex magazine
Both Oliva and Nubret were at their peaks way before Flex started publishing.
The first issue of Flex was April 1983. Flex was a Weider mag and therefore IFBB only. Nubret was persona non grata with the Weiders back in 1976, having entered NABBA and WBBG contests, and later forming WABBA. The last Weider mag cover he was on was June 1972
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mb/mb7206.jpg)
Oliva had a more complicated relationship. He was disqualified from the 1973 Mr International for entering Dan Lurie's Mr Galaxy a few months before. But being the second Mr Olympia, Weider couldn't completely ignore him. Oliva was on the cover of Muscle Builder in May of 1978. After Flex began, Oliva was in the 1984 and 1985 Olympia, but coming in 8th was not going to get you on the cover.
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mb/mb7805.jpg)
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Both Oliva and Nubret were at their peaks way before Flex started publishing.
. After Flex began, Oliva was in the 1984 and 1985 Olympia, but coming in 8th was not going to get you on the cover.
(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/mb/mb7805.jpg)
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1- Arnold was at his peak before Flex started publishing yet he's been on the cover more than twice....
2- Lou Ferrigno was in the 1992 and 1993 Mr.Olympia despite coming in 12th and 10th he was featured in the cover more than twice also.
WooSSHHHHHHHH Flex magazine on life support
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Didn't realize people still read these things
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I had a subscription to FLEX in the late-'80s.
Has everyone seen the "new" MMI issues? Bloody 'ell.
Not EVEN worthy of having Robert's name on the front.
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1- Arnold was at his peak before Flex started publishing yet he's been on the cover more than twice....
2- Lou Ferrigno was in the 1992 and 1993 Mr.Olympia despite coming in 12th and 10th he was featured in the cover more than twice also.
you missed the part about Nubret and Oliva being on Wieder's shit list
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Didn't realize people still read these things
A lot of old school guys overhere.
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you missed the part about Nubret and Oliva being on Wieder's shit list
LOL.
They weren't "Weider Boys" I get that.... but still.
Probably the best 2 bodybuilders of the "Weider era" and Flex was the Bible of bodybuilding ......
WWooooSSHHHHHHH
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i would even throw in Flexonline.com in that coffin with the Magazine as well
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Where do you guys get your diet and training info if you don't read Flex? You might be missing out on some serious gains.
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Where do you guys get your diet and training info if you don't read Flex? You might be missing out on some serious gains.
For Diet
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=3.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=3.0)
For Training
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=2.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=2.0)
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LOL.
They weren't "Weider Boys" I get that.... but still.
Probably the best 2 bodybuilders of the "Weider era" and Flex was the Bible of bodybuilding ......
WWooooSSHHHHHHH
They had been "Weider Boys", and then crossed him. Flex was an IFBB only mag.
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They had been "Weider Boys", and then crossed him. Flex was an IFBB only mag.
point taken Tim ...
They both used to say that they both refused to kiss Weider ass....
So there you have it .....
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For Diet
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=3.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=3.0)
For Training
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=2.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?board=2.0)
No pros writing columns here though. I wanna follow what they eat, so I can achieve pro size gains.
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We all know the internet , and low price supps at Walmart the lack of info/honesty on steroids among other things are taking the best of magazine industry. But Flex magazine despite being like 75 % adds. And having the best training articles pics etc. Has taken an extreme measure .....
After charging subscriber a full year for 12 issues, it turns out that people will only get 6 issues instead of 12.
As of this month, Flex mag is becoming a ONE IN EVERY TWO MONTHS publication !!!
This months issue features Shawn Rhoden on cover is the July/August issue.
The end of the bible of bob publications as we know it ??
A low blow, a fraud ?
I'm damn proud of my collection. I have almost every edition of Muscle and Fitness from 1981 to 2008 and almost every Flex magazine from 1983 to 2008. A bookstore in my area was going to throw them all out, so I dropped a $100.00 and would have paid several more if I had to and took it off her hands.
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There is this black and white picture of Arnold on a neon yellow and green cover from like 27 years ago. It's burned in my brain, a pivotal moment for me. I took it on a trip and was bitten by the bug.
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There is this black and white picture of Arnold on a neon yellow and green cover from like 27 years ago. It's burned in my brain, a pivotal moment for me. I took it on a trip and was bitten by the bug.
I was surprised at how many covers Arnold has been on!
https://www.google.com/search?q=arnold+photos&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=KUGuU9DREs7OkQWrkoHYDw&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQsAQ&biw=2560&bih=1432#q=arnold+photos+on+the+cover+of+magazines&safe=off&tbm=isch
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so what's the deal with creatine and glutamine? does that shit work or what?
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Bought a flex magazine a few years back for the fist time since 99 or 2000 or so to see what it was like. Was honestly the biggest pile of shit id ever read.
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Dude, I found it!
[img]http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLEX-MAGAZINE-JANUARY-1991-ARNOLD-SCHWARZENEGGER-jan-91-/131144131008?pt=Magazines&hash=item1e88cca1c0/img]
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Dude, I found it!
[img]http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLEX-MAGAZINE-JANUARY-1991-ARNOLD-SCHWARZENEGGER-jan-91-/131144131008?pt=Magazines&hash=item1e88cca1c0/img]
Here you go.
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I was surprised at how many covers Arnold has been on!
http://musclememory.com/mags.php
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Here you go.
Thats the one!!!! ;D
That one convinced me to waste years of my life for no good reason in dirty creepy gyms. :)
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In it's early years Muscle Media 2000 had some good drug info...then they decided to market HMB ("feels like I'm on Deca") and everything quickly went to shit.
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Were the pages glued together?
;D
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I am donating a car to them to keep it alive.
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I am donating a car to them to keep it alive.
Lol...
This month's issue says "July/August"... they should make it 400 pages with more adds to make you believe your'e actually buying 2 mags in one .
WoooSSSHHHHHHHH
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From sources, it is not bi-monthly. It looks like the magazine is now 10 issues a year, instead of 12, during the slow months when there are no bodybuilding contests.
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You should ignore the noobs
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Maybe a pull out poster "pride month special "can save the mag.