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(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2012/robert-kennedy-2.jpg)
Where did this guy come from and why has he written hundreds of bodybuilding books? Does he even lift??
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He was a business man first who saw an opportunity to make money. I've seen photos of him where he was in shape and lifted weights. He is more a Weider type. Not a huge bodybuilder but a business man. Anyway he died in 2012 as I am sure everyone knows - bing / google is your friend!
His second wife is a certified cougar. Raw no pulling out - would hit!
(https://pics.wikifeet.com/Tosca-Reno-Feet-3630503.jpg)
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He had contact with lots of bodybuilders from the early middle years of the hobby - onward, and that work as a writer and archivist makes him a expert. His level of expertise is the same as Weider, Hoffman, and many other writers of the era, etc....
The pictures are hard to find, but he had a decent physique at one time too.
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Apparently his son was in a pretty major accident, and later passed away. Sad stuff.
Getbig's own Fortress worked for Bob Kennedy back in the day - he wrote many articles for Bob's flagship magazine MUSCLEMAG, during bodybuilding's coveted Ironage.
Bob himself felt that the Ironage was the best era in bodybuilding - with bodybuilders taking too much "Vitamin S" in more recent times.
Also, little known fact about Bob - he never wrote any articles on a computer or laptop, or any other electronic device. He would write all of his articles in longhand, on office paper, and one of his employees of his bodybuilding publishing empire would transcribe the handwritten articles to electronic text, for publication.
RIP Bodybuilding Media Mogul and Ironage Bodybuilding Publishing Icon Robert Kennedy [1938-2012]
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The Physiques of The Muscle Publishers -
Kennedy -
(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2012/remembering-robert-kennedy-1938-2012_b.jpg).
Arthur Jones -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oNjEaXCB7yR8BC6ZW83gL8FdlIPCFG0_FXQF-06QdD2sm4QR7qZoXTzX40A7gZhAkJxHcPc13pnggRmrzig3Ml7bqh6qIEh0brsjw6mtula3DtY).
Hoffman -
(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2006/drobson158d.jpg).
Peary Rader -
(https://superstrengthtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Rader-DB-1-2.jpg).
John Balik -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/UAzTyRBtmHbumgOMnlJFZgFo06sWxt8Bv39tgpM5kRkX-ZL8K3Y0zKdj-R_WUzE8DPjp89Vpzm3A1P4EEapXygBO5p6Nej-qqSzStTYIKbO14K0).
Weider -
(https://www.joeweider.com/2018/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Joe.jpg).
Doesn't include guys like Park, Lurie, etc.... that were pros first.
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The Physiques of The Muscle Publishers -
Kennedy -
(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2012/remembering-robert-kennedy-1938-2012_b.jpg).
Arthur Jones -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oNjEaXCB7yR8BC6ZW83gL8FdlIPCFG0_FXQF-06QdD2sm4QR7qZoXTzX40A7gZhAkJxHcPc13pnggRmrzig3Ml7bqh6qIEh0brsjw6mtula3DtY).
Hoffman -
(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2006/drobson158d.jpg).
Peary Rader -
(https://superstrengthtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Rader-DB-1-2.jpg).
John Balik -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/UAzTyRBtmHbumgOMnlJFZgFo06sWxt8Bv39tgpM5kRkX-ZL8K3Y0zKdj-R_WUzE8DPjp89Vpzm3A1P4EEapXygBO5p6Nej-qqSzStTYIKbO14K0).
Weider -
(https://www.joeweider.com/2018/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Joe.jpg).
Doesn't include guys like Park, Lurie, etc.... that were pros first.
Amazing that Arthur Jones convinced anybody that he knew anything about bodybuilding and lifting. The man was a puny runt.
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Ironage bodybuilding publishing empire media mogul Dan Lurie!
Dan Lurie was the AAU Most Muscular Man in America from 1942 through to 1944.
I like what Lurie mentions in this video how even though Joe Weider had more financial success than he did, that Lurie wouldn't trade his family for any of that wealth. Lurie mentions in the video how he had five children, 15 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren!
Meanwhile, Joe Weider had a nephew. :-\
There's no way that I would trade a brood of kids and descendants that size for a quarter of a billion dollars or whatever bodybuilding media mogul Joe Weider was worth by the time he died in 2013.
Family is everything to me. Fatherhood made everything else in my life seem insignificant. There is nothing I would place higher than family and fatherhood.
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Bob was a clever, creative, charismatic, unique, and knowing man.
He had forgotten more about the culture of bodybuilding than the next thousand “kill it” commandos will ever know.
Bob was my friend.
RIP
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Bob was a clever, creative, charismatic, unique, and knowing man.
He had forgotten more about the culture of bodybuilding than the next thousand “kill it” commandos will ever know.
Bob was my friend.
RIP
Always a little weird when a guy who doesn't really work out is so "knowledgeable" about bodybuilding. Lonnie Teper also comes to mind
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That was the best picture of Arthur Jones I've have seen. The majority of his life he seemed to weight under 150lbs. Kennedy was a smart guy regarding training. Sometimes the best coaches can't be the champ but they know how to get there through their empirical life experience.
A question was asked of Kennedy about intensity training. I don't want to put words in his mouth but he said in effect one set to failure will get you the majority of benefit from that one set. Having said that he said multiple sets are better. He said each addition set was better than one set but in diminishing returns. I get what he was trying to convey. One set to failure might get you 80% returns. A second set another 5%. a third another 4% and so on. I don't think he was talking in concrete terms but in theory.
Sometimes the best training advice isn't the guy that was a natural muscular 200lbs guy in high school that with training in college was 220lbs then started using steroids and became a monster. Sometimes the best advice comes from a guy that was 145lbs as a high school senior then became a decent physique at 180lbs naturally and continued to have a good physique for many decades training naturally. Show me a 65 year old guy with a great natural body and I will listen to what he has to say about training over the guy with temporary drug muscles.
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Always a little weird when a guy who doesn't really work out is so "knowledgeable" about bodybuilding. Lonnie Teper also comes to mind
Lonnie Teper is a knowledgeable guy, but to be fair to Robert Kennedy - there are photos of him where he was in shape. To my knowledge, there are no such photos of Lonnie Teper ever being in shape.
Peter McGough and Wayne DeMilia had both been talked about in terms of two guys who were not in shape, but photos emerged of both of these Ironage bodybuilding experts having previously been in shape.
I can't speak for Lonnie Teper - I have never personally seen photos of Lonnie in shape, but perhaps one of Getbig's Ironage members has, and is able to share.
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Any pics of Peter mcgough in shape matt??
It's hard for me to even imagine lol.
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That was the best picture of Arthur Jones I've have seen. The majority of his life he seemed to weight under 150lbs. Kennedy was a smart guy regarding training. Sometimes the best coaches can't be the champ but they know how to get there through their empirical life experience.
A question was asked of Kennedy about intensity training. I don't want to put words in his mouth but he said in effect one set to failure will get you the majority of benefit from that one set. Having said that he said multiple sets are better. He said each addition set was better than one set but in diminishing returns. I get what he was trying to convey. One set to failure might get you 80% returns. A second set another 5%. a third another 4% and so on. I don't think he was talking in concrete terms but in theory.
Sometimes the best training advice isn't the guy that was a natural muscular 200lbs guy in high school that with training in college was 220lbs then started using steroids and became a monster. Sometimes the best advice comes from a guy that was 145lbs as a high school senior then became a decent physique at 180lbs naturally and continued to have a good physique for many decades training naturally. Show me a 65 year old guy with a great natural body and I will listen to what he has to say about training over the guy with temporary drug muscles.
Nicely said. I've often thought Boyer Coe would be the man to ask about ab training. He didn't have much ab development but I guarantee he tried everything.
Musclemag was always a good read - bit more 'gossipy' than Flex or Ironman. I enjoyed it until it sold it's soul to Muscletech.
If I remember rightly, Robert Kennedy was a guy who heavily pushed the 'beach body' look' over the monster bodybuilder.
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He had knowledge. He was interesting.
Something that today’s bodybuilding ‘experts’ lack. Today’s experts sit around and talk about different drugs all day. The only people that they impress are delusional morons.
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Kennedy was an art teacher who lived his passion for bodybuilding. He started Musclemag on a wing and a prayer, inviting Gino and his family to join him. They made a hell of a team. Both trained hard regularly with weights and did cardio. He was into the lean beach body look. Both trained with most of the champs including the likes of Sergio, Arnold, and Franco. Boh trained with top trainers like Vince Gironda. He wasn't a huge fan of the drug culture but always seemed to appreciate the size of the all drugs guys, wrestlers and other athletes who regularly visited Musclemag. He sure loved staring at the asses and boobs of the fitness models!
Robert had a heart of gold. A man of his word. Invited many of his staff to his home for gatherings. Things were going great for him until the internet came along. From there Bob's luck in life turned sour. A car accident resulted in terrible injuries to his young son. He was a vegetable with round the clock care after that. Many of the staff remember him running around as a young kid at Kennedy's parties. So sad. Following the accident, Kennedy's wife killed herself. As time passed Musclemag became Muscletech mag as the dominant advertiser controlled the magazine. Musclemag began shilling for Muscletech. The combination of the three took a toll on him. I miss Rob, and Gino. I miss those days.
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Amazing that Arthur Jones convinced anybody that he knew anything about bodybuilding and lifting. The man was a puny runt.
I know. Mike Mentzer and Dorian Yates were suckers.
And Freddie Roach and Cus D'Amato couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
(https://www.fightsports.tv/wp-content/uploads/11363648_g.jpg)
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I know. Mike Mentzer and Dorian Yates were suckers.
And Freddie Roach and Cus D'Amato couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
(https://www.fightsports.tv/wp-content/uploads/11363648_g.jpg)
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Freddie Roach used to be a decent fighter...
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Any pics of Peter mcgough in shape matt??
It's hard for me to even imagine lol.
It took me FOREVER to find these Ironage photos, LOL. I recalled the first photo, of Peter doing barbell biceps curls, being posted on the boards at some point in the past 5-10+ years [not sure when exactly], and that is the Ironage photo of Peter that I was looking for. I had never seen the second Ironage photo though.
pellius' post about Freddie Roach was the latest post in this thread when I started searching for these photos, and I found them under 10 minutes ago - so it looks like I may have spent over 40 minutes searching for them. ;D
So, without further adieu [LOL], here are two Ironage photos of bodybuilding journalist, Peter McGough - it is pretty clear from the first photo that Peter was in very good shape at some point in his life, and for some portion of his life...as of today, he is battling cancer, which would make adherence to a bodybuilding "regime" not only unproductive, but potentially dangerous. Perhaps light cardio or something similar, would be good for Peter. I suspect his doctor is advising him in this capacity.
On that note, Ronnie Coleman should probably be on the same program.
Ironage Peter McGough - in shape:
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Freddie Roach used to be a decent fighter...
What about Cus?
Andy Reid, head coach for the Super Bowl victors, never played a day of pro ball.
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It took me FOREVER to find these Ironage photos, LOL. I recalled the first photo, of Peter doing barbell biceps curls, being posted on the boards at some point in the past 5-10+ years [not sure when exactly], and that is the Ironage photo of Peter that I was looking for. I had never seen the second Ironage photo though.
So, without further adieu [LOL], here are two Ironage photos of bodybuilding journalist, Peter McGough:
I’ve seen the 1st pic. But I also never saw the 2nd pic until just now.
You won’t find any such pics of Teper. The only pics you’ll find is Teper making goofy faces in the gym. Apparently he thinks that he is funny.
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I’ve seen the 1st pic. But I also never saw the 2nd pic until just now.
You won’t find any such pics of Teper. The only pics you’ll find is Teper making goofy faces in the gym. Apparently he thinks that he is funny.
Just FYI, I edited my post that you quoted, from what you quoted, to this:
So, without further adieu [LOL], here are two Ironage photos of bodybuilding journalist, Peter McGough - it is pretty clear from the first photo that Peter was in very good shape at some point in his life, and for some portion of his life...as of today, he is battling cancer, which would make adherence to a bodybuilding "regime" not only unproductive, but potentially dangerous. Perhaps light cardio or something similar, would be good for Peter. I suspect his doctor is advising him in this capacity.
On that note, Ronnie Coleman should probably be on the same program.
Ironage Peter McGough - in shape:
I just felt it was fair to point out that McGough is battling cancer right now, and can't be expected to be following bodybuilding at any high level - or even at a serious level as a natural lifter. Bodybuilding isn't "going to war" or "battling", but to beat cancer is quite a battle, and I wish McGough the best in his endeavour to do so.
McGough was the first one to release the news that Johnnie O. Jackson's doctor found a tumor on his lung. This was around Spring of 2017, if my memory serves me. I don't know how Jackson has been doing since receiving that diagnosis, but I hope that he too has beaten cancer.
Awful disease.
Also, Royalty - you are right about finding no such photos of Lonnie Teper in shape online.
None, to my knowledge, have surfaced.
This leads me to believe that Teper only follows the bodybuilding world because he is a bender. Most likely, he is attracted to men, and follows bodybuilding for that reason - just as a sexual turn-on, and not for any other reason.
I could be wrong - but why else would someone who appears to have never worked out a day in his life [and possibly HAS NEVER worked out a day in his life] like bodybuilding so much? My guess is that that is because Lonnie Teper is a bender, but I could be wrong on that, and anyone else is welcome to chime in and let me know if I'm wrong there.
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What about Cus?
Andy Reid, head coach for the Super Bowl victors, never played a day of pro ball.
they know how to manage people and motivate them, as long as the people they work with have the skill and desire then they are a winning combination.
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Kennedy had everything except genetics
There are guys at our gym who take boatloads of gear, eat like a champion train like maniacs yet look like shit..
Other people breeze through training, eat what they like and take next to nothing and blow them out the water..
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(https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2012/robert-kennedy-2.jpg)
Where did this guy come from and why has he written hundreds of bodybuilding books? Does he even lift??
He was a rich businessman
Just like our own Ron Avidan, he was before his time.
A genius, a guru, a swami.
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they know how to manage people and motivate them, as long as the people they work with have the skill and desire then they are a winning combination.
My friend told me that Wayne Gretzky was a bad hockey coach because his eye and mind for the game were so sharp, that he couldn't teach his ability to other pro hockey players. I don't know if that is true, but I do recall hearing elsewhere that he was not great as a hockey coach.
Funny about the bodybuilding world - it seems like the "formula" for success is to start coaching some good clients who are already on the way up, and then, once they turn pro, you get "credit" for having coached someone who turned pro, even though that person was likely going to turn pro anyway.
I know that George Farah was coaching Jeff Long when he turned pro around a decade ago, and he started working with him when he was already competing in pro qualifiers. Next thing you know, Jeff Long [or another top amateur] turns pro, and then Farah gets a reputation as being a Pro Maker. In fact, wasn't Hany Rambod's nickname "The Pro Maker"?
So basically, you "coach" a handful of guys who are already coming up, and you offer them a good deal initially, and then by the time they turn pro, you get credit for having helped a handful of guys getting their pro cards, when that was just inevitable anyway.
Then other amateurs and bodybuilding enthusiasts see you as being a guru of sorts, and then more come to you, and you build up a clientele by rinsing/repeating the above formula of working with guys on the verge of acquiring pro status anyway, and it becomes sort of self-fulfilling, eventually with a big enough lineup of guys that you helped to advertise for you.
Am I missing something here?
Also, what is the education required to be a "diet guru"? Do either Hany Rambod or George Farah have a specific education in nutrition or "bodybuilding science"?
Remember that Tom Platz posted online that he was a "Professor of Bodybuilding Sciences". ;D
I love bodybuilding...but what an odd industry at times. :-\ :-X ;D
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Freddie Roach used to be a decent fighter...
I was about to say - Roach had a pretty good boxing record:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Roach_(boxing)#Professional_boxing_record
Still though - it makes me wonder how many parallel industries there are to bodybuilding, that operate in the same fashion, lol. What I mean by that is that we just saw how inept UFC judging is...and in boxing, we have these "coaches" who were never anywhere close to the level of the boxers they are instructing, lol.
Are all these sports industries basically the same? Where you have a top heavy financial structure where the athletes on the bottom make next to nothing, and have to resort to either selling steroids or selling workout programs and diets in order to survive in their physical endeavour of choice?
It looks like bodybuilding isn't the only part of the physical culture that has the same inept judging, top-heavy financial incentives, cast of odd and interesting characters, and "experts" who seem to know less than heaps of fans on the message boards do, lol.
It's kind of funny, thinking of the similarities between bodybuilding and the UFC, as well as other areas of physical culture.
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My friend told me that Wayne Gretzky was a bad hockey coach because his eye and mind for the game were so sharp, that he couldn't teach his ability to other pro hockey players. I don't know if that is true, but I do recall hearing elsewhere that he was not great as a hockey coach.
Funny about the bodybuilding world - it seems like the "formula" for success is to start coaching some good clients who are already on the way up, and then, once they turn pro, you get "credit" for having coached someone who turned pro, even though that person was likely going to turn pro anyway.
I know that George Farah was coaching Jeff Long when he turned pro around a decade ago, and he started working with him when he was already competing in pro qualifiers. Next thing you know, Jeff Long [or another top amateur] turns pro, and then Farah gets a reputation as being a Pro Maker. In fact, wasn't Hany Rambod's nickname "The Pro Maker"?
So basically, you "coach" a handful of guys who are already coming up, and you offer them a good deal initially, and then by the time they turn pro, you get credit for having helped a handful of guys getting their pro cards, when that was just inevitable anyway.
Then other amateurs and bodybuilding enthusiasts see you as being a guru of sorts, and then more come to you, and you build up a clientele by rinsing/repeating the above formula of working with guys on the verge of acquiring pro status anyway, and it becomes sort of self-fulfilling, eventually with a big enough lineup of guys that you helped to advertise for you.
Am I missing something here?
Also, what is the education required to be a "diet guru"? Do either Hany Rambod or George Farah have a specific education in nutrition or "bodybuilding science"?
Remember that Tom Platz posted online that he was a "Professor of Bodybuilding Sciences". ;D
I love bodybuilding...but what an odd industry at times. :-\ :-X ;D
all the great golfers have coaches who cant play anywhere near as good as them..
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You often need one coach (or several) to get to the next level (be it mentally or physically), just like Jay Cutler says here.
You might have all the talent and the genetics in the world, but you need those special people to finetune it and hone you into that perfect diamond from that mass of coal you are.
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The best baseball coaches are the utility guys, the guys who spend their playing career on the bench analyzing the game w/ their own coaching staff at that time in their playing careers..
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all the great golfers have coaches who cant play anywhere near as good as them..
Interesting...
I wonder if such a phenomenon may be more common in team sports, or sports where you can observe game play, and learn from it, as opposed to something like bodybuilding, where practice on oneself [self-observation through training and eating over the years] is a frequent component of self-improvement for many competitors, and thus, presumably, a common trait among coaches, who were also competitors.
Or, potentially, one need not be a "practitioner" of bodybuilding to be effective at teaching/coaching it.
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Amazing that Arthur Jones convinced anybody that he knew anything about bodybuilding and lifting. The man was a puny runt.
arthur jones wasn't always a puny little runt.
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The best baseball coaches are the utility guys, the guys who spend their playing career on the bench analyzing the game w/ their own coaching staff at that time in their playing careers..
true and it also helps if they have experience as a catcher.
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arthur jones wasn't always a puny little runt.
You picked the wrong photos to back that claim. Seems like a small man in those photos. A very small man
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Joe Weider had a daughter, Lydia Ross, by his first wife Vicky Uzar.
Lydia had three children, Joe's grandkids.
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(https://fitnessvolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Arthur-Jones-750x422.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Arthur_Jones_Portrait.jpg)
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true and it also helps if they have experience as a catcher.
Yup, calling games, etc... With the Redsox losing their Manager (Cora) to that Astro's cheating scandal, one rumor was Jason Varitek becoming the MGR.
Seems like just a rumor though, talk of promoting Roenicke to manager though it seems.
Roenicke, 63, managed the Milwaukee Brewers for five years and has 21 years of major-league coaching experience. He also has coordinated the Red Sox’s spring-training camp the last two years.
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Kennedy was an art teacher who lived his passion for bodybuilding. He started Musclemag on a wing and a prayer, inviting Gino and his family to join him. They made a hell of a team. Both trained hard regularly with weights and did cardio. He was into the lean beach body look. Both trained with most of the champs including the likes of Sergio, Arnold, and Franco. Boh trained with top trainers like Vince Gironda. He wasn't a huge fan of the drug culture but always seemed to appreciate the size of the all drugs guys, wrestlers and other athletes who regularly visited Musclemag. He sure loved staring at the asses and boobs of the fitness models!
Robert had a heart of gold. A man of his word. Invited many of his staff to his home for gatherings. Things were going great for him until the internet came along. From there Bob's luck in life turned sour. A car accident resulted in terrible injuries to his young son. He was a vegetable with round the clock care after that. Many of the staff remember him running around as a young kid at Kennedy's parties. So sad. Following the accident, Kennedy's wife killed herself. As time passed Musclemag became Muscletech mag as the dominant advertiser controlled the magazine. Musclemag began shilling for Muscletech. The combination of the three took a toll on him. I miss Rob, and Gino. I miss those days.
Well said, Graham.
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Joe Weider had a daughter, Lydia Ross, by his first wife Vicky Uzar.
Lydia had three children, Joe's grandkids.
jw's daughter
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I loved Kennedy's magazine and his books. When I was in high school I ordered Savage Sets:The Ultimate Pre Exhaust Pump Out. When the package arrived I opened it up and my mom was standing close by and glanced at it and thought it said Savage Sex. She was like "Humble, what are you reading?" I had to show her the book and show her it was bodybuilding. After seeing it was full of oily men in thongs she was probably wishing it was regular porn.
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I loved Kennedy's magazine and his books. When I was in high school I ordered Savage Sets:The Ultimate Pre Exhaust Pump Out. When the package arrived I opened it up and my mom was standing close by and glanced at it and thought it said Savage Sex. She was like "Humble, what are you reading?" I had to show her the book and show her it was bodybuilding. After seeing it was full of oily men in thongs she was probably wishing it was regular porn.
Wait, is Narcissist your familyname?
That's so epic!
Pleased to meet you, Humble!
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Bob was a clever, creative, charismatic, unique, and knowing man.
He had forgotten more about the culture of bodybuilding than the next thousand “kill it” commandos will ever know.
Bob was my friend.
RIP
Can we assume he was a conservative like you and not some PC Phaggot?
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I loved Kennedy's magazine and his books. When I was in high school I ordered Savage Sets:The Ultimate Pre Exhaust Pump Out. When the package arrived I opened it up and my mom was standing close by and glanced at it and thought it said Savage Sex. She was like "Humble, what are you reading?" I had to show her the book and show her it was bodybuilding. After seeing it was full of oily men in thongs she was probably wishing it was regular porn.
LOL!!!!
I'm reminded of a similar story of my own:
In the sixth grade, my mom found a binder I had filled with pages from magazines with pictures of top actresses and models at the time cut out. I was embarrassed that she found it, and she then said that she was relieved. When I asked why, she said it was because at my age at the time [12] there would have been no way for her to know my sexual orientation [this was in 1994 - before the era of 3-year-old children girls knowing they are "non-CIS homosexual males"], and the binder was evidence that I wasn't a bender.
LOL...to be honest, I would also be relieved, in her shoes. Not that I have a problem with benders, but the easiest and most natural way to have children would be to be straight, so...for that reason, I would want them to be straight. Again, I take no issue with benders, but I do want my own biological grandchildren eventually.
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Can we assume he was a conservative like you and not some PC Phaggot?
I’d suggest he was a libertarian, but NOT a Liberal/lefty, no.
Certainly the convos myself, him and Gino (Johnny Fitness) had were anything but PC.
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MMI in the late 1990s/early 2000s was awesome
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Michael Jordan is known as one of the worst, if not the worst judge of talent in the NBA.
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Thank you Robert Kennedy for your Musclemag whores. Many nuts busted. Thank you!
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Thank you Robert Kennedy for your Musclemag whores. Many nuts busted. Thank you!
Gironda was writing for Musclemag !.
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Thank you Robert Kennedy for your Musclemag whores. Many nuts busted. Thank you!
This is true, Musclemag had the best fitness poon spreads in the industry. The greatest thing was that he didn't try to pertend they were athletes either like most of the rest.
Musclemag and low key, Balik's Ironman of all magazines, had the best girly issues.
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This is true, Musclemag had the best fitness poon spreads in the industry. The greatest thing was that he didn't try to pertend they were athletes either like most of the rest.
Musclemag and low key, Balik's Ironman of all magazines, had the best girly issues.
agreed! MMI is how I became a schmoe :)
stacey lynn
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Kennedy was an art teacher who lived his passion for bodybuilding. He started Musclemag on a wing and a prayer, inviting Gino and his family to join him. They made a hell of a team. Both trained hard regularly with weights and did cardio. He was into the lean beach body look. Both trained with most of the champs including the likes of Sergio, Arnold, and Franco. Boh trained with top trainers like Vince Gironda. He wasn't a huge fan of the drug culture but always seemed to appreciate the size of the all drugs guys, wrestlers and other athletes who regularly visited Musclemag. He sure loved staring at the asses and boobs of the fitness models!
Robert had a heart of gold. A man of his word. Invited many of his staff to his home for gatherings. Things were going great for him until the internet came along. From there Bob's luck in life turned sour. A car accident resulted in terrible injuries to his young son. He was a vegetable with round the clock care after that. Many of the staff remember him running around as a young kid at Kennedy's parties. So sad. Following the accident, Kennedy's wife killed herself. As time passed Musclemag became Muscletech mag as the dominant advertiser controlled the magazine. Musclemag began shilling for Muscletech. The combination of the three took a toll on him. I miss Rob, and Gino. I miss those days.
I previously learned some interesting things about Robert Kennedy on his Wikipedia page:
"In 1974 he started his first magazine, MuscleMag International, with an initial print run of 110,000. He had no previous experience with magazine publishing and MuscleMag would not turn a profit for 15 years - forcing Kennedy to dodge creditors and even sell his home and his car to finance it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Career
Wow. :o
Also, this:
"Kennedy had two children, a son, Braden, and a daughter, Chelsea, with his first wife. In 1998, Kennedy and Braden who was then 11, were in a car crash. Kennedy was thrown from the car but Braden suffered severe brain damage and would require round-the-clock care (until his death in March 2011). After the accident Kennedy's wife committed suicide."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Personal_life
That's sad. :(
It just goes to show you can have all the money in the world, but may potentially still have to deal with issues like that. I don't know if Kennedy was in any way at fault for the accident, but I suspect it would be hard to live with that no matter what. This hits close to home for me because my son is turning 10 next month...and I can't imagine if I had to accept his life as I know it would be over in just over a year, and change in an irreversible way. Sad stuff.
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I previously learned some interesting things about Robert Kennedy on his Wikipedia page:
"In 1974 he started his first magazine, MuscleMag International, with an initial print run of 110,000. He had no previous experience with magazine publishing and MuscleMag would not turn a profit for 15 years - forcing Kennedy to dodge creditors and even sell his home and his car to finance it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Career
Wow. :o
Also, this:
"Kennedy had two children, a son, Braden, and a daughter, Chelsea, with his first wife. In 1998, Kennedy and Braden who was then 11, were in a car crash. Kennedy was thrown from the car but Braden suffered severe brain damage and would require round-the-clock care (until his death in March 2011). After the accident Kennedy's wife committed suicide."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Personal_life
That's sad. :(
It just goes to show you can have all the money in the world, but may potentially still have to deal with issues like that. I don't know if Kennedy was in any way at fault for the accident, but I suspect it would be hard to live with that no matter what. This hits close to home for me because my son is turning 10 next month...and I can't imagine if I had to accept his life as I know it would be over in just over a year, and change in an irreversible way. Sad stuff.
Very similar to Neil Peart's situation. Even up to the drawing of the last cancerous breath.
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;D lurie the true trainer of champions, it says so right on his sweat shirt, also the inventor of the participation trophy. ::) ::)
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He brought us Trish Stratus. That in itself is a life well lived. :)
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He was a great publisher, I loved his mag back in the nineties, he seemed a bit light in his shoes, who knows!
He said, what he most commonly witnessed with champions training is, they were not going to failure, stopping short of failure and doing multiple sets.
This is a very good observation, Weider mags always preached going to failure and doing volume training, Kennedy's books always discussed recuperation and advised against copying champs' "magazine" routines.
He seemed like a great chap...
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rk on cover of his mag
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;D
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;D
Love that comic clip. Forgot about Peary Rader.
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I previously learned some interesting things about Robert Kennedy on his Wikipedia page:
"In 1974 he started his first magazine, MuscleMag International, with an initial print run of 110,000. He had no previous experience with magazine publishing and MuscleMag would not turn a profit for 15 years - forcing Kennedy to dodge creditors and even sell his home and his car to finance it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Career
Wow. :o
Also, this:
"Kennedy had two children, a son, Braden, and a daughter, Chelsea, with his first wife. In 1998, Kennedy and Braden who was then 11, were in a car crash. Kennedy was thrown from the car but Braden suffered severe brain damage and would require round-the-clock care (until his death in March 2011). After the accident Kennedy's wife committed suicide."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy_(publisher)#Personal_life
That's sad. :(
It just goes to show you can have all the money in the world, but may potentially still have to deal with issues like that. I don't know if Kennedy was in any way at fault for the accident, but I suspect it would be hard to live with that no matter what. This hits close to home for me because my son is turning 10 next month...and I can't imagine if I had to accept his life as I know it would be over in just over a year, and change in an irreversible way. Sad stuff.
That’s when you know you’re a true schmoe
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He was a business man first who saw an opportunity to make money. I've seen photos of him where he was in shape and lifted weights. He is more a Weider type. Not a huge bodybuilder but a business man. Anyway he died in 2012 as I am sure everyone knows - bing / google is your friend!
His second wife is a certified cougar. Raw no pulling out - would hit!
(https://pics.wikifeet.com/Tosca-Reno-Feet-3630503.jpg)
I heard rumours back in the day Kennedy was a homo and was schmoing Bruce Patterson. Didn't know he was married.
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;D lurie the true trainer of champions, it says so right on his sweat shirt, also the inventor of the participation trophy. ::) ::)
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=661340.0;attach=785914;image)
Is that Frank Stallone on the right?
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Is that Frank Stallone on the right?
Absolutely.
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I loved his mag as a little kid, basically learned english through it and Flex mag. Before these mags I was hopeless at english at school. :D
I remember buying the issue with Bob Paris and his boyfriend on the cover. I had no idea it was 2 homos, didn't see anything gay about it :D
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He was a great publisher, I loved his mag back in the nineties, he seemed a bit light in his shoes, who knows!
He said, what he most commonly witnessed with champions training is, they were not going to failure, stopping short of failure and doing multiple sets.
This is a very good observation, Weider mags always preached going to failure and doing volume training, Kennedy's books always discussed recuperation and advised against copying champs' "magazine" routines.
He seemed like a great chap...
Actually, the term "going to failure" was never used in the Weider mags before Mentzer. It was all about multiple sets and getting the pump. When they would use the terming "bombing" to bring up a weak body part it was always more sets and more frequency.
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He was a business man first who saw an opportunity to make money. I've seen photos of him where he was in shape and lifted weights. He is more a Weider type. Not a huge bodybuilder but a business man. Anyway he died in 2012 as I am sure everyone knows - bing / google is your friend!
His second wife is a certified cougar. Raw no pulling out - would hit!
(https://pics.wikifeet.com/Tosca-Reno-Feet-3630503.jpg)
She looks like Cory Everson.
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Absolutely.
He must've been much taller back then , he seems taller than Serge Nubret, Dan Lurie and almost as tall as Superstar Graham!
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=661340.0;attach=785914;image)
(https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sylvester-stallone-brother-frank-stallone.jpg?fit=3000%2C2563)
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/sylvester-stallone-y-frank-stallone-55326224.jpg)
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He must've been much taller back then , he seems taller than Serge Nubret, Dan Lurie and almost as tall as Superstar Graham!
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=661340.0;attach=785914;image)
(https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sylvester-stallone-brother-frank-stallone.jpg?fit=3000%2C2563)
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/sylvester-stallone-y-frank-stallone-55326224.jpg)
sylvester probably has his elevator shoes on again. sometimes he's as tall as arnold sometimes he's not.