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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: columbusdude82 on December 03, 2007, 03:07:27 PM
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I usually buy MD because it makes for quasi-entertaining reading during my morning cardio, on days when Sports Center doesn't have any new stories...
In between all the ads and the nonsense articles from Valvolino, there are, on occasion, a few well-written paragraphs about training or nutrition.
Walking past the magazine rack at Target today, I picked up the new MD and browsed through it. You have to search real hard for the magazine content amid all the ads about supplements with 200 times the power of steroids, or supplements that magically turn chicken and pasta into steroids, or NO whatever...
The content itself is the same old, same old. Articles about the benefits of NO, arginine, or some other substance no pro really uses... reviews of supplements I'd never use... Training articles from the same pros, with the gayest nicknames ever... Flex Wheeler's analysis of contests from 3 months ago, saying how X should have been more conditioned from the back, or Y needed to be fuller...
I was filled with a sense of deja vu. How many times can you read the same recycled stuff over and over? I realized I can pick up any old edition of MD I have, and read the same stuff. So I returned the mag to the rack.
Why can't MD have NEW, REAL, and INTERESTING content like Blockhead and Special Ed are trying to bring us with their radio show?
If I'm going to have to buy a magazine with 500 pages of which 400 are ads written by pathological liars whose ultimate goal is to scam the readers and insult their intelligence, the least the magazine can do is bring us some REAL content in the remaining 100 pages.
I flipped through some of the other mags, but wasn't sufficiently impressive to buy any.
Oh, and before anyone says it... MELTDOWN!
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"Why can't MD have NEW, REAL, and INTERESTING content like Blockhead and Special Ed are trying to bring us with their radio show?"
hahaha good one ::)
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"Why can't MD have NEW, REAL, and INTERESTING content like Blockhead and Special Ed are trying to bring us with their radio show?"
hahaha good one ::)
Bluto, are you going to make an appearance on Big Nation or whatever its called??
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columbusdude82 , I agree with you about magazines saying the same things over and over again when in comes to the articles...
I stopped buying mags a long time ago because of this. I used to buy them habitually and they started to collect dust after I glanced through the pages ....but I stopped buying them as soon as I noticed the repeat articles
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I've never bought any of these magazines...
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same shit every month lately, Fankhouser, Centopani, valvolino, Desmond Miller and all the unproven "pros", MD hit it's peak a few years ago when they still had the huge titted, huge assed "fitness" babes in there.
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what the hell are you idiots talking about??
this month is the "special collectors edition"!!
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what the hell are you idiots talking about??
this month is the "special collectors edition"!!
hahahahhaa, seems like it says that on every cover lately. ::)
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I usually buy MD because it makes for quasi-entertaining reading during my morning cardio, on days when Sports Center doesn't have any new stories...
Mike & Mike in the Morning is pretty good. It's on ESPN2 from 6 til 9 or 10.
I tire of sportscenter. M&M is a good way to kill 2 hours whlie getting deeper into issues. Lots of NFL coverage, mostly, which you don't see on SC.
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Mike & Mike in the Morning is pretty good. It's on ESPN2 from 6 til 9 or 10.
I tire of sportscenter. M&M is a good way to kill 2 hours whlie getting deeper into issues. Lots of NFL coverage, mostly, which you don't see on SC.
as many people hate them NFL Network is great for football coverage.
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as many people hate them NFL Network is great for football coverage.
yeah, i had to get direct TV as I"m in rural area now and lack the cable infrastructure... and I tells ya... I hated it at first, but I love the NFL network now.
Also www.BabyFirstTv.com has some awesome stuff.
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Thanks for the feedback folks. :)
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Funny thing is, you could bump this thread up in six months and no one would notice it's not a new thread.
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Funny thing is, you could bump this thread up in six months and no one would notice it's not a new thread.
hahahahhaa, only it would be a whole new lineup of nobodies in the magazine.
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hahahahhaa, only it would be a whole new lineup of nobodies in the magazine.
Isn't it a requirement to be an ex-con to write for MD?
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Isn't it a requirement to be an ex-con to write for MD?
hahahahaha, how many do they have, Valvolino, Victor, Palumbo, Titus wrote for them at one time, God knows who else.
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hahahahaha, how many do they have, Valvolino, Victor, Palumbo, Titus wrote for them at one time, God knows who else.
hahaha, hey do you think it's funny that BB.com dropped the Undercover Pro column as soon as Craig went to prison?
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1881271-10409943?url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm)
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hahaha, hey do you think it's funny that BB.com dropped the Undercover Pro column as soon as Craig went to prison?
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1881271-10409943?url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm)
hahahaha, it was him no doubt about it.
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http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover1.htm (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1881271-10409943?url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover1.htm)
Q: What do you think of King Kamali?
A: I think he did a great job of getting his name in the sport. Controversy sells! He chose one of the biggest names in the IFBB (Craig Titus) and started a war of words.
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http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover1.htm (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1881271-10409943?url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover1.htm)
Q: What do you think of King Kamali?
A: I think he did a great job of getting his name in the sport. Controversy sells! He chose one of the biggest names in the IFBB (Craig Titus) and started a war of words.
;D
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i mean, Evan is a cool and knowledgeable guy and all that, but how many times can he write about how he trains back or how he trains arms or why his legs aren't massive like Branch...
As for the other training articles that supposedly have different "authors," they are all written in the same style, eerily similar to Ron Harris...
So the mag is 500 pages: 400 pages of ads, 40 pages by Ron Harris, 30 pages of re-hashed contest reviews by Flex Wheeler, and that leaves 30 for the other content.
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i mean, Evan is a cool and knowledgeable guy and all that, but how many times can he write about how he trains back or how he trains arms or why his legs aren't massive like Branch...
As for the other training articles that supposedly have different "authors," they are all written in the same style, eerily similar to Ron Harris...
So the mag is 500 pages: 400 pages of ads, 40 pages by Ron Harris, 30 pages of re-hashed contest reviews by Flex Wheeler, and that leaves 30 for the other content.
they need to put all the big healthy heifers in thongs back in there again.
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As for the other training articles that supposedly have different "authors," they are all written in the same style, eerily similar to Ron Harris...
The only ex-con who doesn't work for MD. ;D
Flex Wheeler often talks about "going to war" and "doing battle" in his contest reports.
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they need to put all the big healthy heifers in thongs back in there again.
Alas, that was before my day...
Nowadays, they have this feature on "she-beasts" instead...
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Don't forget there "Breaking Training News" like bench presses build your chest or low carb diets help you lose weight.
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I almost forgot, there's another reason why I can't buy that rag.
I'm flipping through it, and somewhere in the middle is a two-page spread of Derek "JizzBreath" Anthony, in all his buk-caked, toupeed "glory" in an ad telling us that he built his "awesome physique" using some snake oil product.
I knew then that I couldn't live with myself if I bought that mag.
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I usually buy MD because it makes for quasi-entertaining reading during my morning cardio, on days when Sports Center doesn't have any new stories...
In between all the ads and the nonsense articles from Valvolino, there are, on occasion, a few well-written paragraphs about training or nutrition.
Walking past the magazine rack at Target today, I picked up the new MD and browsed through it. You have to search real hard for the magazine content amid all the ads about supplements with 200 times the power of steroids, or supplements that magically turn chicken and pasta into steroids, or NO whatever...
The content itself is the same old, same old. Articles about the benefits of NO, arginine, or some other substance no pro really uses... reviews of supplements I'd never use... Training articles from the same pros, with the gayest nicknames ever... Flex Wheeler's analysis of contests from 3 months ago, saying how X should have been more conditioned from the back, or Y needed to be fuller...
I was filled with a sense of deja vu. How many times can you read the same recycled stuff over and over? I realized I can pick up any old edition of MD I have, and read the same stuff. So I returned the mag to the rack.
Why can't MD have NEW, REAL, and INTERESTING content like Blockhead and Special Ed are trying to bring us with their radio show?
If I'm going to have to buy a magazine with 500 pages of which 400 are ads written by pathological liars whose ultimate goal is to scam the readers and insult their intelligence, the least the magazine can do is bring us some REAL content in the remaining 100 pages.
I flipped through some of the other mags, but wasn't sufficiently impressive to buy any.
Oh, and before anyone says it... MELTDOWN!
Flex has some of the worse commentary of any bodybuilding "writer". Great bodybuilder, terrible columnist.
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Flex has some of the worse commentary of any bodybuilding "writer". Great bodybuilder, terrible columnist.
Flex was a great bodybuilder,terrible in every other conceivable aspect of life.
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i like the pictures :)
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I usually buy MD because it makes for quasi-entertaining reading during my morning cardio, on days when Sports Center doesn't have any new stories...
In between all the ads and the nonsense articles from Valvolino, there are, on occasion, a few well-written paragraphs about training or nutrition.
Walking past the magazine rack at Target today, I picked up the new MD and browsed through it. You have to search real hard for the magazine content amid all the ads about supplements with 200 times the power of steroids, or supplements that magically turn chicken and pasta into steroids, or NO whatever...
The content itself is the same old, same old. Articles about the benefits of NO, arginine, or some other substance no pro really uses... reviews of supplements I'd never use... Training articles from the same pros, with the gayest nicknames ever... Flex Wheeler's analysis of contests from 3 months ago, saying how X should have been more conditioned from the back, or Y needed to be fuller...
I was filled with a sense of deja vu. How many times can you read the same recycled stuff over and over? I realized I can pick up any old edition of MD I have, and read the same stuff. So I returned the mag to the rack.
Why can't MD have NEW, REAL, and INTERESTING content like Blockhead and Special Ed are trying to bring us with their radio show?
If I'm going to have to buy a magazine with 500 pages of which 400 are ads written by pathological liars whose ultimate goal is to scam the readers and insult their intelligence, the least the magazine can do is bring us some REAL content in the remaining 100 pages.
I flipped through some of the other mags, but wasn't sufficiently impressive to buy any.
Oh, and before anyone says it... MELTDOWN!
Instead of coming on here and whining with these novellas, why not just...ummm....STOP BUYING MD ??? ::)
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hahaha, hey do you think it's funny that BB.com dropped the Undercover Pro column as soon as Craig went to prison?
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1881271-10409943?url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/undercover.htm)
Things that make you go hmmm.....