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Title: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: JAGO on December 11, 2017, 07:28:16 PM
They are saying Flex sponsored athletes are going to be without money very soon ( contracts could be finished as early as Friday.)

J
Title: Re: FLEX Contracts to be cancelled
Post by: Wiggs on December 11, 2017, 07:29:57 PM
Yep, heard it in Palumbo's show.

Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Desolate on December 11, 2017, 07:33:03 PM
The sport is dead.

Has been for some time.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Dan-O on December 11, 2017, 07:35:42 PM
Have any of you read this book?  I haven't.  But its basic premise is that employees in an organization will continue to be promoted until they rise to their level of incompetence, and that's where they finally come to rest.

Pro bodybuilding has risen to its level of incompetence.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MvjqeBrDL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: SF1900 on December 11, 2017, 07:48:05 PM
The sport is dead.

Has been for some time.

No money left. No one cares about Flex magazine. People are getttinf their information other ways. I mean, who really buys a flex magazine anymore.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: WalterWhite on December 11, 2017, 09:06:07 PM
I do a lot of business consulting and I'm amazed at competitors that don't have any social media game. It's all about social media now with no sponsor money.

Love him or him or hate him he's making money and crushing Breon in this department. He's 22 and get's it.

All the clothes he wears including dress clothes are from sponsors.


https://www.instagram.com/cbum_/?hl=en
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: BSN on December 11, 2017, 10:38:48 PM
too much information about products, nutrition, health or fit girls.. on all bb magazines. And yes, who really buys a bb magazine anymore ?
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Blockhead on December 11, 2017, 10:46:01 PM
This is an example of why nobody gets paid for any work done in the bodybuilding industry.
This is a true account...

2 years ago. A buddy of mine was doing some promotion for GAT. So he made this Facebook post that
basically said...
"Looking for 2 girls to work the GAT booth next weekend at Jr Nationals. Pay is $100 cash per day. Clothing provided. Please send me basic Bio, Pics and stats."

A couple days later I seen him at the gym and casually asked him if he found a couple girls to work the GAT both since I knew a girl who was interested.

He said....

"Dude. I had like 100 girls DM me. It was crazy. I got a couple chicks. They're locked in but I'm not going to pay them."

I asked Why. More out of curiosity. His reply...

"They don't want to get paid! Almost all the girls who DM'd me said they would do it for FREE if I picked them. So Fuck it! I'm not paying them then."

So desperate to APPEAR successful than be successful. These girls all undermining eachother so they can stand behind a booth and pass out free samples and appear "sponsored".

If that happens at a weekend show/expo the size of Jr Nationals you can bet your assess that's the norm everywhere else.
If I'm lying I'm dying...

- Block!
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 11, 2017, 10:49:34 PM
I do a lot of business consulting and I'm amazed at competitors that don't have any social media game. It's all about social media now with no sponsor money.

Love him or him or hate him he's making money and crushing Breon in this department. He's 22 and get's it.

All the clothes he wears including dress clothes are from sponsors.


https://www.instagram.com/cbum_/?hl=en

I’ve said this before. I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. Most of us are addicted to our phone (me included)use your phone to work for you. Social media is a must. Most of the agent/athlete acquisitions I have is from social media. From the months from January-March we’ll bring in almost $200k because of NFL combine prep. We do no other marketing
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: seCrawler on December 11, 2017, 10:51:00 PM
bodybuilders are lazy and fell asleep at the wheel while guys like this passed them by.  it would be have interesting if shawn ray was in his prime today though. he understood marketing when cell phones look like garage door openers.

  (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UKExtPtg_lo/hqdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Tha Grim Lifter on December 12, 2017, 04:10:20 AM
You want to appeal to kids these days you have to be on Instagram and pump it constantly.

I have one employee who checks all my Insta direct stories all the time when he's standing next to me anyway when I take the pic LOL just because there's a new pic in my story he has to check
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: IRON CROSS on December 12, 2017, 04:21:28 AM
No money left. No one cares about Flex magazine. People are getttinf their information other ways. I mean, who really buys a flex magazine anymore.

Sadly ( ;D) Flex never reported anything about Mr.Canada '70 & Mr.Australia '75 contests  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Mitch on December 12, 2017, 04:21:58 AM
I'd blame the narrow guy for that debacle. >:(
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Darren Avey on December 12, 2017, 04:42:18 AM
The sport is dead.

Has been for some time.

What sport?
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Royalty on December 12, 2017, 05:48:53 AM
What sport?

What sport? Are you kidding? I will tell you what sport...

The sport of stuffing a sock inside a thong and wearing on stage while holding one hand up to your ear, asking the crowd for applause as you walk back and forth to each side of the stage and jumping off the stage in order to give a thumbs-up sign to the men that are staring at your sock.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: The_Punisher on December 12, 2017, 06:06:53 AM
I was at a Barnes & Nobles the other day and peaked over the stand and saw a Flex mag and I picked it up and was surprised to see how thin the magazine has gotten.....it used to be a 300+ pages, it felt half that now...I guess those Ads pulled out and left Flex dry on the stand
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Ronnie Rep on December 12, 2017, 06:09:07 AM
What sport? Are you kidding? I will tell you what sport...

The sport of stuffing a sock inside a thong and wearing on stage while holding one hand up to your ear, asking the crowd for applause as you walk back and forth to each side of the stage and jumping off the stage in order to give a thumbs-up sign to the men that are staring at your sock.
Who needs a sock :) :)
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Skylge on December 12, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
Fake "athletes" and fake magazine. Like all other BB mags there are just recycling the same old trash year after year
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: ITALIAN_FAN on December 12, 2017, 08:36:45 AM
If Flex does not want to pay its athletes Joe Pietaro of Muscle Sport Mag may step in and offer them big money. He has a HUGE following on line and I hear his magazine's sales are booming. Another option for top athletes may be to switch to NSL where they can get big cheques and fair judging. Finally they could collab with Jason Jenova to promote his supplement line. There is plenty of opportunities in the health and fitness industry....
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Pet shop boys on December 12, 2017, 09:16:33 AM
What sport? Are you kidding? I will tell you what sport...

The sport of stuffing a sock inside a thong and wearing on stage while holding one hand up to your ear, asking the crowd for applause as you walk back and forth to each side of the stage and jumping off the stage in order to give a thumbs-up sign to the men that are staring at your sock.

Dude You make it sound like a charade



WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHH  IT's LE VRO NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Pet shop boys on December 12, 2017, 09:17:38 AM
I do a lot of business consulting and I'm amazed at competitors that don't have any social media game. It's all about social media now with no sponsor money.

Love him or him or hate him he's making money and crushing Breon in this department. He's 22 and get's it.

All the clothes he wears including dress clothes are from sponsors.


https://www.instagram.com/cbum_/?hl=en

Impressive I thought he was 30 ... taking the industry by storm

his arms look good when relaxed


WoooSHHHHHH BE YE KE
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Pet shop boys on December 12, 2017, 09:19:51 AM
I was at a Barnes & Nobles the other day and peaked over the stand and saw a Flex mag and I picked it up and was surprised to see how thin the magazine has gotten.....it used to be a 300+ pages, it felt half that now...I guess those Ads pulled out and left Flex dry on the stand


I had the same feeling (holding back tears ) actually .......

its half the size and yet most is still adds


I bought the Ferrigno Nov issue


WoooHHHHHHHHHHH
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: MAXX on December 12, 2017, 09:35:07 AM
yeah who buys shitty mags when you get Everything in video on Youtube these days
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: stuntmovie on December 12, 2017, 09:38:00 AM
The magazines are definitely dead or dieing but the "sport" is growing bigger and faster than ever.

Just look at the NPC & the IFBB Pro League in which the membership is booming in numbers throughout the world ... not just within the USA.

NPC events alone used to attract approximately 30 competitors  but now get 500 to 700 contenders paying big bucks to take home a "plastic" trophy with hopes of paying bigger bucks to be an IFBB pro.

And that's just one of many other sanctioning body events.

Where is the demise of bodybuilding?

It's more alive than its ever been!

The funeral is solely for the magazines!
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Joe Pietaro on December 12, 2017, 09:41:34 AM
If Flex does not want to pay its athletes Joe Pietaro of Muscle Sport Mag may step in and offer them big money. He has a HUGE following on line and I hear his magazine's sales are booming. Another option for top athletes may be to switch to NSL where they can get big cheques and fair judging. Finally they could collab with Jason Jenova to promote his supplement line. There is plenty of opportunities in the health and fitness industry....

Us guineas think alike...

 ;)
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: deadz on December 12, 2017, 09:44:36 AM
 :o











 ::)
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Trev on December 12, 2017, 09:47:04 AM
The sport is dead.

Has been for some time.

Yep great in my day and before but we trusted it with the next generation and they fucked it up. Lazy bastards
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: JAGO on December 12, 2017, 03:13:29 PM
Are you saying you ( your training facility ) pulls in $200,000 K in those 90 days?

J
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Fortress on December 13, 2017, 08:56:46 AM
Saw the writing on the wall and jumped shit about a decade ago.

Fuck the muscle and “fitness” industry.

Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Da Freak on December 13, 2017, 09:19:55 AM
does this mean our next Mr. O is not going to be a Weider schlong sucker?
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: biff on December 13, 2017, 09:25:00 AM
print media in general is dead. really, any non up to the second 'reporting' is dead. even the former juggernaut ESPN is dying (for more than one reason), but when you can go online and get any info you want right now why bother with newspapers, magazines, or sportscenter?
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Yanin on December 13, 2017, 09:34:34 AM
I do a lot of business consulting and I'm amazed at competitors that don't have any social media game. It's all about social media now with no sponsor money.

Love him or him or hate him he's making money and crushing Breon in this department. He's 22 and get's it.

All the clothes he wears including dress clothes are from sponsors.


https://www.instagram.com/cbum_/?hl=en

Breon is a below par black on terms of personality
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: dj181 on December 13, 2017, 09:51:28 AM
LULZ @ bodybuilding as a sport

Title: Re: FLEX Contracts to be cancelled
Post by: Joe Pietaro on December 13, 2017, 10:11:19 AM
Yep, heard it in Palumbo's show.



Which show was it? I want to check it out. TX
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Rascal full on December 13, 2017, 10:47:37 AM
If Flex does not want to pay its athletes Joe Pietaro of Muscle Sport Mag may step in and offer them big money. He has a HUGE following on line and I hear his magazine's sales are booming. Another option for top athletes may be to switch to NSL where they can get big cheques and fair judging. Finally they could collab with Jason Jenova to promote his supplement line. There is plenty of opportunities in the health and fitness industry....

Excuse me, but why would ANYONE buy a supplement from Jason Genova? I am not knocking him but if you are serious please explain your thinking.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: oldtimer1 on December 13, 2017, 11:07:02 AM
Bodybuilding survived through the magazines for decades.  The magazine's sales are dead. There also was competing federations looking for stars. Now essentially there is one major pro show and it's the only game in town. The IFBB or what ever they call it now and the magazines don't need to pay bodybuilders. The bodybuilders need them. If supplement companies stop paying bodybuilders I wonder how they will survive?
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Matt on December 13, 2017, 11:37:11 AM
If Flex does not want to pay its athletes Joe Pietaro of Muscle Sport Mag may step in and offer them big money. He has a HUGE following on line and I hear his magazine's sales are booming. Another option for top athletes may be to switch to NSL where they can get big cheques and fair judging. Finally they could collab with Jason Jenova to promote his supplement line. There is plenty of opportunities in the health and fitness industry....

I can hear the sound of the Brink's trucks pulling up to Joe's muscle empire from my small home in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Joe Pietaro on December 13, 2017, 05:08:44 PM
I can hear the sound of the Brink's trucks pulling up to Joe's muscle empire from my small home in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: WalterWhite on December 13, 2017, 05:20:47 PM


Joe if your going to post that song post the original.


Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: chess315 on December 13, 2017, 06:31:16 PM
Flex was probably the worst of all the magazines they need to make a magazine you only buy once that tells you the whole truth
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Joe Pietaro on December 14, 2017, 10:23:32 AM
Joe if your going to post that song post the original.




Yes, sir! This song brings back memories from when I was a kid and CB radios were the big thing. My dad had one and I always asked for one that I could set up in the house. No dice. And the "Keep on Truckin'" slogan all over T-shirtds and bumper stickers. Yeah, I'm an old fuck.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Dan-O on December 14, 2017, 10:29:47 AM
Trivia factoid:  The music for "Convoy" was written by a guy named Chip Davis, better known as Mannheim Steamroller.
Title: Re: FLEX Magazine contracts to be cancelled for 2018
Post by: Spike on December 14, 2017, 06:42:24 PM
I do a lot of business consulting and I'm amazed at competitors that don't have any social media game. It's all about social media now with no sponsor money.

Love him or him or hate him he's making money and crushing Breon in this department. He's 22 and get's it.

All the clothes he wears including dress clothes are from sponsors.


https://www.instagram.com/cbum_/?hl=en

Pls don’t promote here


Post a pic not a fckn link


‘Sponser’ Is aka mike honcho talk