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Title: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 11:30:36 AM
Speak...
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 11:38:10 AM
i have the first musclemag (1974), the first flex (1983), the last muscle builder/power and first muscle and fitness when they switched. many strength and health, health and strength, muscular development, ironman, etc. dating back to the 40's and 50's.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 11:38:47 AM
i have the first musclemag (1974), the first flex (1983), the last muscle builder/power and first muscle and fitness when they switched. many strength and health, health and strength, muscular development, ironman, etc. dating back to the 40's and 50's.

How old are you bro?
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 11:39:59 AM
How old are you bro?

41, been training since i was 10, and competing since the 80's
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 11:41:01 AM
41, been training since i was 10, and competing since the 80's

gj mate care to post some images?
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 23, 2007, 11:42:07 AM
Great Idea!! ;D


My freind cleans carpets and an old lady who was widowed was throwing out a big box of magazines from the 40s and 50s.   He got them to me. ;D


Ive got alot of bob hoffman "Strength & Health"...when weider was a punk.

Young skinny bill pearl is in them....reg park too. n  The box was full of old ironmans from the 50s......mint shape.

Back then "Peary rader" would send you a reciept of what ever equipment you had purchased....(as this old guy did)...it is typed on an old 30s typewriter i think.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 11:53:16 AM
gj mate care to post some images?

i'll see if i can post some pics here. 1st pic is 1990. i was 24. second pic was 2005. i was 40. 3rd was 2005 as well.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 23, 2007, 12:02:10 PM
That first pic is what an ideal bodybuilder should be.

second is some freaky veins.

third you flattened out, missed your peak.

You look great for a lifetime drug free athlete!!!!Many props!! 8)
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 12:02:14 PM
HOLY SHIT!!! YOU ARE DIESEL MAN  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 12:04:51 PM
That first pic is what an ideal bodybuilder should be.

second is some freaky veins.

third you flattened out, missed your peak.

You look great for a lifetime drug free athlete!!!!Many props!! 8)

yeah, that woulda been cool to look like that drugfree!! lol.  good call on the flattening out- i lost over 20 lbs the 2 days before the show.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: triple_pickle on May 23, 2007, 12:05:25 PM
the first pic is awesome
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 23, 2007, 12:08:51 PM
yeah, that woulda been cool to look like that drugfree!! lol.  good call on the flattening out- i lost over 20 lbs the 2 days before the show.




How many calories were you averaging going into the show???
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: timfogarty on May 23, 2007, 12:20:58 PM
I own almost every Strength and Health, Ironman, Your Physique, Muscle Power, Muscle Builder, etc.   close to 3000 in total.  The oldest is the July 1934 Strength and Health. 

I haven't bought a current US magazine off the newstand since the late 1990s.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 23, 2007, 12:26:55 PM
I own almost every Strength and Health, Ironman, Your Physique, Muscle Power, Muscle Builder, etc.   close to 3000 in total.  The oldest is the July 1934 Strength and Health. 

I haven't bought a current US magazine off the newstand since the late 1990s.



Gawd damn, thats amazing.  But i have you beat.

Ive got a pic of "Sig Klien" , Sliding out of his mommas hoosie......circa 1842. :o
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Camel Jockey on May 23, 2007, 12:32:45 PM


Gawd damn, thats amazing.  But i have you beat.

Ive got a pic of "Sig Klien" , Sliding out of his mommas hoosie......circa 1842. :o

I've got a stone tablet and inscribed onto it is a picture of hercules deadlifting a log. This is from 2000 BC.  ::)
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 12:35:34 PM
i have set of eugene sandow split grip dumbells from the 1890's. also the training manuals included with eugene demonstrating exercises and the box they were shipped from europe in back when they were new. true story.
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Post by: Max_Rep on May 23, 2007, 12:39:33 PM
I started training in 1970 so I have some Ironman, Muscular Development and Strength and Health that I bought. The very first magazine I bought was Strength and Health with Boyer Coe from 1970. I had a neighbor back then who had trained a little and gave me a box of the above publications dating back to 1965. Ironman was 35 cents an issue. 
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Post by: Max_Rep on May 23, 2007, 12:40:32 PM
hazbin... all your photo's look great. 
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: the_doc on May 23, 2007, 02:43:18 PM
i have the first musclemag (1974), the first flex (1983), the last muscle builder/power and first muscle and fitness when they switched. many strength and health, health and strength, muscular development, ironman, etc. dating back to the 40's and 50's.

You're a beast!!!
congrats on your physique.
I have an ironmanand flex from 1988. (bought them in India at a second hand book store on holiday).
the Doc
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hifrommike on May 23, 2007, 02:45:33 PM
I have a STRENGTH & HEALTH from 1938.  Latest is the issue of FLEX (June) I just got. 
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Nuge on May 23, 2007, 02:50:24 PM
I own almost every Strength and Health, Ironman, Your Physique, Muscle Power, Muscle Builder, etc.   close to 3000 in total.  The oldest is the July 1934 Strength and Health. 

I haven't bought a current US magazine off the newstand since the late 1990s.

Haha yeah right... wait... you're THAT Tim Fogarty.

Carry on.  :-X
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Hunter86 on May 23, 2007, 02:53:43 PM
I have a march issue of Gay 4 Pay with Derek Anthony on the cover
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 03:05:44 PM
I have a march issue of Gay 4 Pay with Derek Anthony on the cover

Did you pay for it... the mag I mean>?
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Matt C on May 23, 2007, 03:06:23 PM
I have a pretty big collection - a used bookstore in Thunder Bay sells them for $1 each and I usually buy tons when they get new stock in.  My oldest issues are Musclemags from the seventies.  I have several hundred magazines.

I used to buy quite a few of the new magazines and have a subscription to Musclemag.  I haven't picked up many lately but only because I haven't gotten around to it.  I usually buy every MD too.  I like all the magazines for one reason or another although I haven't bought too many issues of Ironman, but that is not because I don't like Ironman but because they aren't carried at the stores I frequent more commonly.
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Post by: wes on May 23, 2007, 03:15:37 PM
I have a S&H from the thirties,lots of old Iron Man mags-1950`s,60`,70`s,and 80`s...some old MD`s from the 60`s through the 80`s and a bunch of MuscleMags from the 70`s and 80`s.

I even have some old Reg Park Journals that I bought off E-Bay, as well as some of the English mag,Health & Strength.

Lots more of the now defunct Muscle Digest,as well as Charlton publications,Muscle World,Bodybuilder,and Muscle Up.

Got lots of more recent ones also but stopped buying them a few years ago unless there is something in them that really interests me.

hazbin,you looke awesome dude...............keep pumping!
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Joe Roark on May 23, 2007, 03:23:40 PM
Oldest would be 1900 issues of Health & Strength. Friends have told me they suspect I have the largest H&S collection in America, about 800 issues, which is by no means a complete collection.

As of a few years ago my mag count was approx. 6,000. Stopped counting.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 23, 2007, 03:35:49 PM
Oldest would be 1900 issues of Health & Strength. Friends have told me they suspect I have the largest H&S collection in America, about 800 issues, which is by no means a complete collection.

As of a few years ago my mag count was approx. 6,000. Stopped counting.



Well, You are bb's historian......we're depending on ya!! ;D





The first mag i bought was Muscle builder......1978.    frank zane head shot on it.....still have it.  I was 13yrs old, bought it at the local drugstore.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 03:37:29 PM
Oldest would be 1900 issues of Health & Strength. Friends have told me they suspect I have the largest H&S collection in America, about 800 issues, which is by no means a complete collection.

As of a few years ago my mag count was approx. 6,000. Stopped counting.

ok you've got to be shitting me.... 1900 issue of Health and Strength?
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Joe Roark on May 23, 2007, 04:36:31 PM
ok you've got to be shitting me.... 1900 issue of Health and Strength?

Yup. H&S began in 1898 (although it incorrectly  pre-dated itself later as being six years older). It is an odd feeling to read about Vansart in the present tense in the old mags, and Hackenschmidt, and Sandow, and Saxon. Mentions of where each was performing etc. And to trace the early career of Thomas Inch and others who were just beginning in the physical culture field.

Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Stark on May 23, 2007, 04:40:43 PM
Yup. H&S began in 1898 (although it incorrectly  pre-dated itself later as being six years older). It is an odd feeling to read about Vansart in the present tense in the old mags, and Hackenschmidt, and Sandow, and Saxon. Mentions of where each was performing etc. And to trace the early career of Thomas Inch and others who were just beginning in the physical culture field.



That must be worse quit some money :D
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Deadpool on May 23, 2007, 04:42:31 PM
I finally have the Oct 1996 flex with the McNeil interview.  That's all I need
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 06:36:03 PM
ok you've got to be shitting me.... 1900 issue of Health and Strength?

i think Joe means he has 800 issues, dating back to 1900. not 1900 issues. Joe, correct me if i'm wrong.

rik
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Joe Roark on May 23, 2007, 06:55:55 PM
i think Joe means he has 800 issues, dating back to 1900. not 1900 issues. Joe, correct me if i'm wrong.

rik

Yes, 800 issues of H&S, earliest issue from 1900 :)
Some issues are so fragile (pulp paper) that I literally tear off pieces by simply turning the pages. World War II air strikes against London destroyed many back issues, and readers of H&S were encouraged to recycle the paper by returning issues to the H&S office. Therefore many issues are very rare.
Some of the bound volumes I have of H&S are in great condition though.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 23, 2007, 07:11:32 PM
anyone missing back issues for their collection, let me know. i have a couple thousand back issues. most are 80's and 90's flex, musclemag and m & f. i'll send them free, you pay shipping.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Pollux on May 24, 2007, 12:19:40 PM
My oldest [and most treasured] bodybuilding magazines I have are Man's World May 1967, and Health and Strength dated March 2nd and March 16th 1967. As for my latest? I'm waiting on Flex and Muscle & Fitness "Arnold Special" celebrating his 60th birthday!  8)


(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/mwrpj/mwrpj6705.jpg)

(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/hs/hs9605.jpg)

(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/hs/hs9606.jpg)

Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 26, 2007, 03:50:58 PM



How many calories were you averaging going into the show???

i never really count calories, but i took a diuretic and it drained my intramuscular water as well as surface. i dropped about 24 lbs. the last 2 days.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Pollux on May 26, 2007, 04:37:06 PM
anyone missing back issues for their collection, let me know. i have a couple thousand back issues. most are 80's and 90's flex, musclemag and m & f. i'll send them free, you pay shipping.

Don't care to make extra cash by going the eBay route?  ???
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: War-Horse on May 26, 2007, 04:49:34 PM
i never really count calories, but i took a diuretic and it drained my intramuscular water as well as surface. i dropped about 24 lbs. the last 2 days.


Man i get so jealous of you guys that dont count calories when dieting down......

If i go over 3,000 cals a day, i bloat up.

The only time i think to take drugs is when dieting.......get on some clen or thyroid and eat like a normal person.....

Im not saying your all drugs tho....you attained a very high level of shape.

If youd have went in to the show like that second pic....it'd be all over for the other guys. 8)
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: Earl1972 on May 26, 2007, 04:52:38 PM
i'll see if i can post some pics here. 1st pic is 1990. i was 24. second pic was 2005. i was 40. 3rd was 2005 as well.

great phsique :o

E
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: G o a t b o y on May 26, 2007, 04:55:22 PM
Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?


None.  Bodybuilding magazines are for fags.


Hope this helps.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 27, 2007, 03:38:36 AM
Don't care to make extra cash by going the eBay route?  ???

i'd rather see the mags go to a true bb fan. i'm set up financially and the mags are very important to me. i'm keeping one copy of each for myself but don't have the space for all the doubles.
Title: Re: Whats your oldest and latest bodybuilding magazine you have?
Post by: hazbin on May 27, 2007, 03:44:14 AM

Man i get so jealous of you guys that dont count calories when dieting down......

If i go over 3,000 cals a day, i bloat up.

The only time i think to take drugs is when dieting.......get on some clen or thyroid and eat like a normal person.....

Im not saying your all drugs tho....you attained a very high level of shape.

If youd have went in to the show like that second pic....it'd be all over for the other guys. 8)

my problem is that my metabolism races when i get lean and it's hard to get enough calories.  second pic was over 240 lbs. less than a week out. contest was 214ish. i'd love to show up on stage looking right, but i always try for that extra edge and mess it up.