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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Neymar Barca on October 05, 2014, 12:03:40 PM
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Ok - he is an 70 year old guy following bodybuilding,but what relevance does he have in the sport? Did he ever competed to be a judge,or just a writer? Today, with social media and internet, even the begginers in the sport who doesnt even compete can be a writer for the sport... but this guy slowly started to be ridiculous. I mean I respect opinions from guys who competed in the Olympia like Dennis James (who comments shows) but how can be respected a word from a man who never competed?
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to be fair.. any opinion could be taken seriously.
For instance anonymous posting like on getbig. Just have to remember to take everything with a pinch of salt or how you say...
A bodybuilder is not necessarily a great judge. Bodybuilders, generally, are not famous for anything other than their receptors and genetic shapes.
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he is an expert in the way of the thong.
Thread end.
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the moriati of schmoes?
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He's 300+ pounds year round.
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he is still bulking:
(http://www.getbig.com/pics/ironman/2006/expo/expo026.jpg)
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he is still bulking:
(http://www.getbig.com/pics/ironman/2006/expo/expo026.jpg)
400+ and 99" waist.
Mr. O. right durr.
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he's a british schmoe who became editor of FLex and helped make Dorian 6x mr O
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Peter was and is still one of the more respected figures in the sport of bodybuilding, who ran Flex Magazine for a while out here in Woodland Hills, and know a ton about bodybuilder, bodybuilders and the history. Correct, he was there before and when the Shadow (Dorian Yates) started, and a few people know this, he was reading Getbig when people were raving about Phil Heath, and gave Phil is first contract with the magazine. Kudos the Peter!
I seriously find it funny when people, to this today, say how can someone write about people, bodybuilders, the sport when they never competed. I call it experience in being at various contests, talking to many bodybuilders, learning to write and listening. Like basketball, football, soccer - you don't need to get the ball in the goal to know if the guy is good, has a great physique and can do well.
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McDough is a pretty respected guy in the industry, and has accomplished a lot for not being an "athlete" (read: douche bag).
I think his time as a writer has passed. Blechman has Peter pen a bunch of online articles, but it's a waste of time. In 2014, Peter needs to be doing video.
People don't want to read anymore because they don't have to.
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Who's the person behind the gimmick handle 'neymar barca'?
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Peter is one of the good guys. You don't have any guarantees of tenure working for muscle magazines.
Peter also has a good sense of humour.
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Top schmoe.
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Top schmoe.
Expert schmoe
Highest ranking schmoefficer
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Peter was and is still one of the more respected figures in the sport of bodybuilding, who ran Flex Magazine for a while out here in Woodland Hills, and know a ton about bodybuilder, bodybuilders and the history. Correct, he was there before and when the Shadow (Dorian Yates) started, and a few people know this, he was reading Getbig when people were raving about Phil Heath, and gave Phil is first contract with the magazine. Kudos the Peter!
I seriously find it funny when people, to this today, say how can someone write about people, bodybuilders, the sport when they never competed. I call it experience in being at various contests, talking to many bodybuilders, learning to write and listening. Like basketball, football, soccer - you don't need to get the ball in the goal to know if the guy is good, has a great physique and can do well.
JAY "gave" phil a first contract,he saw phil in the nationals,called chris aceto and said "i saw one guy he will be mr olympia" then called peter mcgough to tell him about phil and that he should get a contract,peter said to jay to send him pictures and this is how phil got his first contract...
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Peter has been involved in bodybuilding since the 60s,seen them all from Sergio in the universe in the 70s up to the current crop.In the early 80s he was featured in a british mag called bodybuilding monthly because he did a charity lift for his son who died in 1979,the pics from this mag were on ironage because i scanned them,and he had a pretty good physique.He did some articles for that mag but in 85 started up his own mag called muscle and co and used to put on seminars at a leisure centre in a small town outside nottingham called Arnold,all the top guys in the 80s were there,but in one article the name "Arnold" was mentioned and he was contacted by THE Arnold about using his name.Peter pointed out it was the name of the town and not the man Arnold.Couple of years later he started a paper called pumping press and Joe W became aware of his writing,pretty soon after he was offered the job at Flex.He`s one of the good guys in the sport.
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Is Peter homosexual?Serious question.
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Is Peter homosexual?Serious question.
Just send him a note and ask him out Army.
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Is Peter homosexual?Serious question.
Ask his wife.
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Just send him a note and ask him out Army.
Isn't a note a little old fashioned?Does Peter have an email
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(http://muscletime.com/index.php?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=41845&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=202)
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Ok - he is an 70 year old guy following bodybuilding,but what relevance does he have in the sport? Did he ever competed to be a judge,or just a writer? Today, with social media and internet, even the begginers in the sport who doesnt even compete can be a writer for the sport... but this guy slowly started to be ridiculous. I mean I respect opinions from guys who competed in the Olympia like Dennis James (who comments shows) but how can be respected a word from a man who never competed?
Wrong.
The best writters,reporters,commentators, analysts are not necessarily "athletes"
Take Peter Gammons, he hasn't play a single baseball game and his words is more respected than what any "all star player" has to say about the game.
WooOSSSHHHHHH BeyE KE
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Wrong.
The best writters,reporters,commentators, analysts are not necessarily "athletes"
Take Peter Gammons, he hasn't play a single baseball game and his words is more respected than what any "all star player" has to say about the game.
WooOSSSHHHHHH BeyE KE
There is some definite truth here.
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Just send him a note and ask him out Army.
;D ;D ;D
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.He did some articles for that mag but in 85 started up his own mag called muscle and co and used to put on seminars at a leisure centre in a small town outside nottingham called Arnold,all the top guys in the 80s were there,but in one article the name "Arnold" was mentioned and he was contacted by THE Arnold about using his name.Peter pointed out it was the name of the town and not the man Arnold.Couple of years later he started a paper called pumping press and Joe W became aware of his writing,pretty soon after he was offered the job at Flex.He`s one of the good guys in the sport.
Fuck I actually remember that. Was the nightclub in the town of Arnold not called Stallone's just to add to the confusion. "Arnold, the wild nights at Stallone's" I think there was an article in Muscle and Co. deliberately written to wind Arnold and Sly up. Good strategy to get noticed, I had no idea that Peter was the guy behind it.
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Fuck I actually remember that. Was the nightclub in the town of Arnold not called Stallone's just to add to the confusion. "Arnold, the wild nights at Stallone's" I think there was an article in Muscle and Co. deliberately written to wind Arnold and Sly up. Good strategy to get noticed, I had no idea that Peter was the guy behind it.
Spot on Big Al,Muscle and co was Peters mag and i think that headline was close to when Arnold got married,thats why he was a bit paranoid about that as a headline.
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Ok - he is an 70 year old guy following bodybuilding,but what relevance does he have in the sport? Did he ever competed to be a judge,or just a writer? Today, with social media and internet, even the begginers in the sport who doesnt even compete can be a writer for the sport... but this guy slowly started to be ridiculous. I mean I respect opinions from guys who competed in the Olympia like Dennis James (who comments shows) but how can be respected a word from a man who never competed?
Legendary bodybuilding writer for FLEX Magazine. McGough was spawned from the butthole of Dorian Yates.
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Peter was and is still one of the more respected figures in the sport of bodybuilding, who ran Flex Magazine for a while out here in Woodland Hills, and know a ton about bodybuilder, bodybuilders and the history. Correct, he was there before and when the Shadow (Dorian Yates) started, and a few people know this, he was reading Getbig when people were raving about Phil Heath, and gave Phil is first contract with the magazine. Kudos the Peter!
I seriously find it funny when people, to this today, say how can someone write about people, bodybuilders, the sport when they never competed. I call it experience in being at various contests, talking to many bodybuilders, learning to write and listening. Like basketball, football, soccer - you don't need to get the ball in the goal to know if the guy is good, has a great physique and can do well.
Peter is one the best bodybuilding journalist's around and has been for many years.
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during ronnies first few years as an obscure pro, peter singled him out as having something different - a 'pop' to his muscle and crispness that no other pro had.
definitely has an eye for the sport.
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Peter is one the best bodybuilding journalist's around and has been for many years.
This, plus a good guy.
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during ronnies first few years as an obscure pro, peter singled him out as having something different - a 'pop' to his muscle and crispness that no other pro had.
definitely has an eye for the sport.
I agree about Ronnie having a pop to his muscle no one else has.
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McGough had a bodybuilding newspaper in the UK after Muscle & Co and prior to joining Weider. I remember it as one of the best publications on the "sport" that I ever read. His journalistic standards back then were so far ahead of the more mainstream mags.
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McGough had a bodybuilding newspaper in the UK after Muscle & Co and prior to joining Weider. I remember it as one of the best publications on the "sport" that I ever read. His journalistic standards back then were so far ahead of the more mainstream mags.
His Olympia reports were always a great read.
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His Olympia reports were always a great read.
He started writing for Bodybuilding Monthly back when it rocked and even managed to make local EFBB qualifiers sound exciting and full of dramatic passion and intrigue. I vividly remember a story of him travelling with Linkie Wilson to some Nottingham qualifier from way back in the late 1980s.
No other bodybuilding writer I've read ever left the same impression apart from Rick Wayne. Sadly I thought he went off the boil at Weider and it's been a long time since I could bring myself to look at a bodybuilding magazine.
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He started writing for Bodybuilding Monthly back when it rocked and even managed to make local EFBB qualifiers sound exciting and full of dramatic passion and intrigue. I vividly remember a story of him travelling with Linkie Wilson to some Nottingham qualifier from way back in the late 1980s.
No other bodybuilding writer I've read ever left the same impression apart from Rick Wayne. Sadly I thought he went off the boil at Weider and it's been a long time since I could bring myself to look at a bodybuilding magazine.
I bet we have seen each other around the shows back in the 80s and 90s.
So much of the stuff you write strikes a cord.
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you know who wasn't a good read?
Julian Schmidt. why use a regular word when you can use a pretentious 12 syllable one that nobody knows the meaning of
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I bet we have seen each other around the shows back in the 80s and 90s.
So much of the stuff you write strikes a cord.
Were you watching for lanky spotty kids gazing lovestruck at the shoulder width of dudes like Ian Harrison?
If so, you might have spotted me for sure.
St Georges Hall, Harrogate Conference Centre, Camden Town Hall, that place where they used to hold the Stars, Wembley...
Do you recall a guy called Mick Hill from Yorkshire? Out of Phoenix and Paula's first gym.
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you know who wasn't a good read?
Julian Schmidt. why use a regular word when you can use a pretentious 12 syllable one that nobody knows the meaning of
He was fucking terrible. I think he was around the time / just after Rick Wayne and he tried way too hard. Took a thesaurus and regurgitated it.
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Ricky Wayne and Peter, the two best bodybuilding writers by far.
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He started writing for Bodybuilding Monthly back when it rocked and even managed to make local EFBB qualifiers sound exciting and full of dramatic passion and intrigue. I vividly remember a story of him travelling with Linkie Wilson to some Nottingham qualifier from way back in the late 1980s.
No other bodybuilding writer I've read ever left the same impression apart from Rick Wayne. Sadly I thought he went off the boil at Weider and it's been a long time since I could bring myself to look at a bodybuilding magazine.
The paper was called pumping Press,it was a great read.I trained with Linkie in the late 80s and worked for him all through the 90s,i think the story you might be talking about was a trip Peter took with Linkie , Jimmy Tobin and Trev mulvany(RIP) to a qualifier and Peter said a guy posed to music by the group BIg Country and Jimmy said "more like one syllable of the second word".
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Were you watching for lanky spotty kids gazing lovestruck at the shoulder width of dudes like Ian Harrison?
If so, you might have spotted me for sure.
St Georges Hall, Harrogate Conference Centre, Camden Town Hall, that place where they used to hold the Stars, Wembley...
Do you recall a guy called Mick Hill from Yorkshire? Out of Phoenix and Paula's first gym.
Not sure about Mick but I competed with a guy called Ian Hill from Pudsey, it was a great time in bodybuilding.
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Peter is one of the good guys. You don't have any guarantees of tenure working for muscle magazines.
Peter also has a good sense of humour.
He thinks you're a fag.
THE BEEF
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The paper was called pumping Press,it was a great read.I trained with Linkie in the late 80s and worked for him all through the 90s,i think the story you might be talking about was a trip Peter took with Linkie , Jimmy Tobin and Trev mulvany(RIP) to a qualifier and Peter said a guy posed to music by the group BIg Country and Jimmy said "more like one syllable of the second word".
Fucking hell, yes that was it. In Bodybuilding Monthly so long ago. I remember Trev's name.
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Not sure about Mick but I competed with a guy called Ian Hill from Pudsey, it was a great time in bodybuilding.
Ian Hill was the first competitive bodybuilder I ever saw naked (no homo). I wondered what had happened to his balls.
Great physique - saw him at Phoenix in Bradford and then maybe also at Altered Images in Pudsey a few years later. I used to love AI and chats with Ken the owner.
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(http://muscletime.com/index.php?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=41845&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=202)
Shades of Lonnie Teper
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Peter is the shit!!! If you are a bbing fan then you realize just how much knowledge this man has! Ive asked him a TON of questions about bbing and he answers each one in detail
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Peter is the shit!!! If you are a bbing fan then you realize just how much knowledge this man has! Ive asked him a TON of questions about bbing and he answers each one in detail
Has he ever lifted a weight?
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Ian Hill was the first competitive bodybuilder I ever saw naked (no homo). I wondered what had happened to his balls.
(https://mundabor.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/my-homo-detector-is-off-the-charts-spiderman-oftrap.jpg)
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Has he ever lifted a weight?
Squats his weighty gut off the shitter 3 times a day.
Big advocate of partial reps!
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Has he ever lifted a weight?
Has any Getbigger? :o
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One of the good guys/writers.
Another: MuscleMag's "Johnny Fitness" (a personal friend)
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One of the good guys/writers.
Another: MuscleMag's "Johnny Fitness" (a personal friend)
What is he up to these days?
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Ok - he is an 70 year old guy following bodybuilding,but what relevance does he have in the sport? Did he ever competed to be a judge,or just a writer? Today, with social media and internet, even the begginers in the sport who doesnt even compete can be a writer for the sport... but this guy slowly started to be ridiculous. I mean I respect opinions from guys who competed in the Olympia like Dennis James (who comments shows) but how can be respected a word from a man who never competed?
He is the father of bodybuilding journalism ...
I'm not sure if a kid telling his parents that he wants to be a journalist for bodybuilding is something to take serious ...
But that's what Pete is ,
WhoooSSHHJJJJ CHApo
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What is he up to these days?
Avoiding the industry and bodybuilders at all costs.
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Whatever you do, don't talk about Peter's weight.
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Ok - he is an 70 year old guy following bodybuilding,but what relevance does he have in the sport? Did he ever competed to be a judge,or just a writer? Today, with social media and internet, even the begginers in the sport who doesnt even compete can be a writer for the sport... but this guy slowly started to be ridiculous. I mean I respect opinions from guys who competed in the Olympia like Dennis James (who comments shows) but how can be respected a word from a man who never competed?
Ask ND haha