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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: karasan on June 22, 2022, 01:01:05 AM
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Getbig is full of schmoe geezers, which makes me feel a bit fresh.
I am planning to move abroad and I may need to part ways with my Muscle and Fitness, Flex and MuscleMag collection.
I can keep them at cellar but I don't want to find those ruined with humid and some other surprise.
So do you think are there other old timers willing to pay reasonable cash for those beloved crap?
And it you want me to scan pages from specific issues, let me know.
I am using a mobile app named CS scanner, it is blazingly fast to scan and upload.
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eBay them... I have around 4000 issues in tubs going back to Sandow's magazine (literally).
Ive been unloading them there on occasion.
I do have one issue of IronMan (2nd issue) that went for 3K on ebay recently. (Someone else's auction).
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Donate them to a museum where they can be appreciated by millions.
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eBay them... I have around 4000 issues in tubs going back to Sandow's magazine (literally).
Ive been unloading them there on occasion.
I do have one issue of IronMan (2nd issue) that went for 3K on ebay recently. (Someone else's auction).
You should pay some kid to archive them.
I had reasonably manageable amount (160 total) which took me couple of hours to scan and put in chronological order.
Yours are museum level, if put some time and effort they could really bring good money.
How much a good conditioned 90's magazine bring on ebay? (Flex, MF or MMag)
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Donate them to a museum where they can be appreciated by millions.
If I were as autistic as Matt or an unemployed old pervert as Prime I would be the serial scanner of getbig and flood Random Bbing subject with magazine scans.
But I still plan to contribute more, since I put some effort to sort my magazines in order.
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You should pay some kid to archive them.
I had reasonably manageable amount (160 total) which took me couple of hours to scan and put in chronological order.
Yours are museum level, if put some time and effort they could really bring good money.
How much a good conditioned 90's magazine bring on ebay? (Flex, MF or MMag)
Mag prices on ebay are all over the place, really depends on the people, what they are looking for, etc.
I put up, say 20 old Health and Strength for 20.00, then people bid up a bit. Im just looking to move them in bunches to get rid of 'em at this point.
Some of the re-sellers buy them (Dragons Muscle Mags, and others).
Ive bought peoples collections decades ago for very cheap money, so even a buck an issue to move t hem is worth it for me..
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I got my own collection
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For newer magazines, my advice is to pull the Arnold issues, movie star issues, swimsuit issues, and any with single fitness girls on them, and then sell the rest in bulk lots, eg - 4 Flex magazines from 1996, etc..... People still pay ok for single issues like the ones listed above, but it's hard to get rid of other mags from the 90's - .
Shipping kills a lot of the profits, and it usually takes a long time to sell anything but bulk lots. There are guys that make $10 - 15 an issue, but they might have it up on Ebay for a year or two before it sells.
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As far as digital scans and archived Mags, Jan and Terry Todd (RIP) have all of that, at their museum in Austin TX.
Stark Center
https://starkcenter.org/research-2/iron-game-history/
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For newer magazines, my advice is to pull the Arnold issues, movie star issues, swimsuit issues, and any with single fitness girls on them, and then sell the rest in bulk lots, eg - 4 Flex magazines from 1996, etc..... People still pay ok for single issues like the ones listed above, but it's hard to get rid of other mags from the 90's - .
Shipping kills a lot of the profits, and it usually takes a long time to sell anything but bulk lots. There are guys that make $10 - 15 an issue, but they might have it up on Ebay for a year or two before it sells.
Great advice, thanks,
Or I may try to bundle special issues with ordinary ones,
Make the buyer pay a bit more for otherwise hard to sell ones.
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Great advice, thanks,
Or I may try to bundle special issues with ordinary ones,
Make the buyer pay a bit more for otherwise hard to sell ones.
Yeah, I do similar. Put together a decent bundle for folks, they feel they are getting something out of it.
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I’d like article scans from the 1982-1985 muscle and fitness.
How can we make that happen?
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I preferred Muscle Media before it went mainstream and PUMP. Anyone remember PUMP? Had some good steroid articles etc.
* For those younger ones we relied on books and magazines for juice information. Internet was as big.
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I preferred Muscle Media before it went mainstream and PUMP. Anyone remember PUMP? Had some good steroid articles etc.
* For those younger ones we relied on books and magazines for juice information. Internet was as big.
Internet wasn't around in my day, all we had were the Mags and books.
When Peak Training Journal came out, that was refreshing. Gray market supps and gear talk.
Yes, then of course early MM2K was great...
The some Hardcore newsletters hit (Duchaines and Dante's, etc)..
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l5YAAOSwVYRbzl5c/s-l640.jpg)
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And it you want me to scan pages from specific issues, let me know.
Ok, there was a Flex magazine with the 10 best arms ever.
If you have it please scan and post it, i would like to see it again.
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Ok, there was a Flex magazine with the 10 best arms ever.
If you have it please scan and post it, i would like to see it again.
İf you can recall the issue, definitely.
Let me share one of my most favourite lists, while it is very subjective, I enjoyed comments.
Musclemag was my favourite, it was the magazine that really honored the greats of the Grimek Era.
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8)
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That sums it up
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I got rid of a virtual ton of mags years ago.
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I got rid of a virtual ton of mags years ago.
But could you get rid of the schmoe within you?
I know I can't :'(
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But could you get rid of the schmoe within you?
I know I can't :'(
Oh Hell no. LOL ;D
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I think shipping just plain ruins the profitability (in my experience on this). The only plus of this project, if you the have neglected then for years, is nostalgia when you organize them. “Oh look, Jeff King.” “Damn, Matt Mendenhall looked good” “Oh, I had forgotten about the Vranicar brothers.” Etc. Etc.
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I think shipping just plain ruins the profitability (in my experience on this). The only plus of this project, if you the have neglected then for years, is nostalgia when you organize them. “Oh look, Jeff King.” “Damn, Matt Mendenhall looked good” “Oh, I had forgotten about the Vranicar brothers.” Etc. Etc.
Definitely, also makes me question vast amount of time I invested in those glossy pages.
I could definitely get another undergraduate degree >:(
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Internet wasn't around in my day, all we had were the Mags and books.
When Peak Training Journal came out, that was refreshing. Gray market supps and gear talk.
Yes, then of course early MM2K was great...
The some Hardcore newsletters hit (Duchaines and Dante's, etc)..
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l5YAAOSwVYRbzl5c/s-l640.jpg)
Is that Brad Hollibwahahahaha? Didn't he die?
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Is that Brad Hollibwahahahaha? Didn't he die?
The coroner found 5 gallons of cum in his tummy
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The coroner found 5 gallons of cum in his tummy
The only mystery is which hole it entered him by.
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The only mystery is which hole it entered him by.
;D
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Getbig is full of schmoe geezers, which makes me feel a bit fresh.
I am planning to move abroad and I may need to part ways with my Muscle and Fitness, Flex and MuscleMag collection.
I can keep them at cellar but I don't want to find those ruined with humid and some other surprise.
So do you think are there other old timers willing to pay reasonable cash for those beloved crap?
And it you want me to scan pages from specific issues, let me know.
I am using a mobile app named CS scanner, it is blazingly fast to scan and upload.
How much would like to sell for all the M&F and Muscelmag?
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How much would like to sell for all the M&F and Muscelmag?
My schmoedar is currently off the charts
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Definitely, also makes me question vast amount of time I invested in those glossy pages.
I could definitely get another undergraduate degree >:(
Yes, and think of the dollar amount paid at the newsstand (accompanied by occasional schmoedom embarrassment) or via private subscriptions and then try compounding the interest!
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How much would like to sell for all the M&F and Muscelmag?
Shipping cost would be a massive problem :'(
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Donate them to a museum where they can be appreciated by millions.
;D
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that fucking elbow
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that fucking elbow
He coulda` put somebody`s fucking eye out with that thing. LOL ;D
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that fucking elbow
Big fan of these lists. It even remember reading these exact ones. Awesome
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Would you know if you had these two? Thanks.
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Would you know if you had these two? Thanks.
Unfortunately I don't have those.
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Great late Will Smith (not the cock sucker)
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Remaining 2
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:D
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Oh Lenda, not before my workout...
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I think Joe Biden's gas price inflation has now made this economically unfeasible. Depending on where you live you might be able to get someone to pick them up or deliver them yourself to avoid shipping.
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MuscleMag really tried to balance healthy teenage horny youth with veteran schmoe subscribers.
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I think Joe Biden's gas price inflation has now made this economically unfeasible. Depending on where you live you might be able to get someone to pick them up or deliver them yourself to avoid shipping.
I am located in Europe, so while Biden is a mess, it is not much different globally.
Even if I can't sell, it motivated me to index them.
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I do have one issue of IronMan (2nd issue) that went for 3K on ebay recently. (Someone else's auction).
I have over 2500 magazines from the beginning into the 1980s. I've been slowly scanning them into PDFs. Plan on putting them into a searchable database at some point. Here is an example
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WbjVBSibkqfJzK7lkf8qCGCl3VC3elN/view?usp=sharing. (12 MB)
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Donate them to a museum where they can be appreciated by millions.
;D
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How many musclemags in all do you have?
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Would you know if you had these two? Thanks.
I have that 2002 Ironman.
I used to buy that MuscleMeals MRP that was advertised in Ironman. High protein, High fats and low carbs.
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I have over 2500 magazines from the beginning into the 1980s. I've been slowly scanning them into PDFs. Plan on putting them into a searchable database at some point. Here is an example
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WbjVBSibkqfJzK7lkf8qCGCl3VC3elN/view?usp=sharing. (12 MB)
Serious question: As a straight man, I looked at muscle mags as something I could aspire to. Do/did you, as a gay man, look upon these magazines in lust?
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Serious question: As a straight man
Had to stop reading at “as a straight man”
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Had to stop reading at “as a straight man”
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perhaps as one straight man to another you should also ask gym -rat as he has over four thousand muscle magazines
It was also a question directed to everyone. Are there things?
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Oh Lenda, not before my workout...
any Monica Brant pics ? :-*
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any Monica Brant pics ? :-*
(https://bbts1.azureedge.net/images/p/full/2020/10/e8a1a647-043f-48f6-9b45-2806ca426ab2.jpg).
Rare Musclemag swimsuit issue out take, circa 1997.
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Serious question: As a straight man, I looked at muscle mags as something I could aspire to. Do/did you, as a gay man, look upon these magazines in lust?
No. It was also as something I could aspire to.
Do straight men look at the women with lust? Back then it was women bodybuilding only. Then Figure. Now there is also Bikini. But in general, being in contest shape is not something most people would lust after.
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I have over 2500 magazines from the beginning into the 1980s. I've been slowly scanning them into PDFs. Plan on putting them into a searchable database at some point. Here is an example
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WbjVBSibkqfJzK7lkf8qCGCl3VC3elN/view?usp=sharing. (12 MB)
Tim, do you have anymore of these? Pretty please.
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Tim, do you have anymore of these? Pretty please.
I have hundreds scanned already, thousands still to go. Here is another.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwVYgWEL9n0RDf_NQK2DFiCF8uSbaA35/view?usp=sharing
Takes me about 20 minutes each for these early ones. As the years go by the mags get longer.
To see all of them, are you willing to sign an NDA and also contribute to the project in some way? Letting me borrow a mag that I do not have to scan is a great way to contribute.
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you probably know by now that Queen Shiz is a shit stirrer but nobody here is certain what pot or ladle gets utilised
I'm not a shit stirrer. On top of my mountain, I merely ask questions.
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No. It was also as something I could aspire to.
Do straight men look at the women with lust? Back then it was women bodybuilding only. Then Figure. Now there is also Bikini. But in general, being in contest shape is not something most people would lust after.
Yes
I was 18/19 and I worked in a sports shop. There was a female bodybuilding mag in the staff room. I flicked through it and then felt the need to take it to the bathroom and jerk off. Since that day I haven't once thought about female bodybuilding in a sexual way. It was just from seeing pics in mags that I got a stiffy.
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As a kid, the order sort went -
MM2k - nothing worth getting hot and bothered over.
Ironman was ok, especially when they were trying to hardcore themselves.
Musclemag was always A#1 for that type of stuff.
Flex - Very seldom.
Always found Muscle and Fitness rather ho-hum.
MD - This was another that I was indifferent to, even when they went sort of softcore with it, I found it hit or miss.
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Kids today have it easy with the internet obviating the need to actually buy a muscle mag. Back in the day you had to do the walk of shame with what looked to everyone, including the person ringing you up, like a gay porno mag.
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As a kid, the order sort went -
MM2k - nothing worth getting hot and bothered over.
Ironman was ok, especially when they were trying to hardcore themselves.
Musclemag was always A#1 for that type of stuff.
Flex - Very seldom.
Always found Muscle and Fitness rather ho-hum.
MD - This was another that I was indifferent to, even when they went sort of softcore with it, I found it hit or miss.
Did you get WBF - Bodybuilding Lifestyles Magazine?
(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/bl/bl0109.jpg) (https://i.redd.it/nrxquexq4t501.jpg)
Or Planet Muscle?
And what of the various incarnations of MD: Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health, All-Natural Muscular Development, Muscular Development from the early 2000s where they had nothing but silicone-stuffed sirens on the covers for a year and a half.
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Did you get WBF - Bodybuilding Lifestyles Magazine?
(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/bl/bl0109.jpg) (https://i.redd.it/nrxquexq4t501.jpg)
Or Planet Muscle?
And what of the various incarnations of MD: Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health, All-Natural Muscular Development, Muscular Development from the early 2000s where they had nothing but silicone-stuffed sirens on the covers for a year and a half.
The WBF stuff is before my time, I mostly knew it back then for crossing over into wrestling. Planet Muscle I bought a few times, but it didn't make it to our news stands often. I had a few issues of Pump which was good, it was like MM2K. Our news stands were mostly Weider, Men's Health, Ironman, and every once and a while MM2k or MD. They flipped more to MD when it when to the girl covers.
I remember one of those MuscleMag swimsuit covers got me so embarrassed once. I was buying it and the guy took it for a bit and looked it over. I figure he's just checking the price, then he goes "Nice, you jerky-jerky" as he hands me the mag. I was mortified.
The other embarrassing story was the time my mom picked one of these up for me as a gift while she was running errands -
(https://wonderclub.com/images/EFMO/EFMO200004.jpg).
That's not the issue, but that's the title. It may look look like an ordinary bodybuilding mag, but the one I had was mostly guys lifting in their underwear and thongs after a certain point. I didn't have the heart to tell her :).
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The WBF stuff is before my time, I mostly knew it back then for crossing over into wrestling. Planet Muscle I bought a few times, but it didn't make it to our news stands often. I had a few issues of Pump which was good, it was like MM2K. Our news stands were mostly Weider, Men's Health, Ironman, and every once and a while MM2k or MD. They flipped more to MD when it when to the girl covers.
I remember one of those MuscleMag swimsuit covers got me so embarrassed once. I was buying it and the guy took it for a bit and looked it over. I figure he's just checking the price, then he goes "Nice, you jerky-jerky" as he hands me the mag. I was mortified.
The other embarrassing story was the time my mom picked one of these up for me as a gift while she was running errands -
(https://wonderclub.com/images/EFMO/EFMO200004.jpg).
That's not the issue, but that's the title. It may look look like an ordinary bodybuilding mag, but the one I had was mostly guys lifting in their underwear and thongs after a certain point. I didn't have the heart to tell her :).
Since you have clips of M&F covers from the late 80s and early 90s, I thought you might have read some of the WBF's periodicals.
Yep, MuscleMag went too far with their "swimsuit" or "lingerie" issues every single month. Heck, there are some issues (that I bought before I got married) I have to keep packed up in boxes. The ones with girls pouring milkshakes on other girls' booties......UMMMM NO!! Wifey won't dig those. And, now I have my son to consider.
I can only remember twice when anyone had anything snarky to say about my buying a magazine. The first time was some guys were mimicking a woman talking a deep voice, as they were looking at another issue of MuscleMag that I just picked up to guy. But, the cover model was a fitness girl, Monica Brant, with Milos Sarcev. Apparently, to them, even fitness girls were too big for their taste.
The other was the unsolicited opinion of "That's Nasty!", with regards to a cover of IronMan I bough in 2009. The physique in question wasn't the ro-beast Ronnie Coleman or Markus Ruhl or some other mega-sized monster. It was the "classic" body of one Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime and in color).
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MM2000 are the only legit old school mags. The original one's with steroid profiles, Duchaine, TC Luoma, before Phillips sold out. Anybody got any decent copies of the original MM 2000?
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perhaps as one straight man to another you should also ask gym -rat as he has over four thousand muscle magazines
Like anything, gay people bought the Mags for obvious reasons.
Straight people who enjoy the history of the Iron-Game also collected.
I have antique barbells that can (and do) sell for 5K, I have medals that go back to the Sandow days, lots of Mags, etc.
Im more into 70's/80's Powerlifting, but old-school BB was OK. (70's / 80's).
I collected everything and anything Iron-Game related (within reason of course). Now that Im older and dont want to leave old-iron for my family to deal with, Im selling that stuff off as well.
I guess gays look at muscle-mags for a reason, and those who just like the iron-game have them for other reasons...
Its only gay if you want it to be...
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Did you get WBF - Bodybuilding Lifestyles Magazine?
(http://vintagemusclemags.com/magCovers/bl/bl0109.jpg) (https://i.redd.it/nrxquexq4t501.jpg)
Or Planet Muscle?
And what of the various incarnations of MD: Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health, All-Natural Muscular Development, Muscular Development from the early 2000s where they had nothing but silicone-stuffed sirens on the covers for a year and a half.
"Sex in the gym. Should you or shouldn't you?"
Fucking hilarious. I bet Vince specifically made sure that was on the cover. "That's good shit, pal."
The WBF stuff is before my time, I mostly knew it back then for crossing over into wrestling. Planet Muscle I bought a few times, but it didn't make it to our news stands often. I had a few issues of Pump which was good, it was like MM2K. Our news stands were mostly Weider, Men's Health, Ironman, and every once and a while MM2k or MD. They flipped more to MD when it when to the girl covers.
I remember one of those MuscleMag swimsuit covers got me so embarrassed once. I was buying it and the guy took it for a bit and looked it over. I figure he's just checking the price, then he goes "Nice, you jerky-jerky" as he hands me the mag. I was mortified.
The other embarrassing story was the time my mom picked one of these up for me as a gift while she was running errands -
(https://wonderclub.com/images/EFMO/EFMO200004.jpg).
That's not the issue, but that's the title. It may look look like an ordinary bodybuilding mag, but the one I had was mostly guys lifting in their underwear and thongs after a certain point. I didn't have the heart to tell her :).
Bodybuilding magazine purchase stories are the best especially when mom gets involved. "For men only" Brutal!
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For all the fellow schmoes out there, I had find the holy grail of bodybuilding books,
There are all the Robert Kennedy's books in archive.org
I took the pain to download individual pages, and it only takes minutes to unite pages into a pdf file in Adobe Acrobat Pro,
Is there a way to upload them for my fellow getbiggers?
Some books I downloaded
Beef It
Built The New Bodybuilding
Best of Joe Weider's
Competitive Bodybuilding
Hardcore Bodybuilding Fred Hatfield
Power: Science of Lifting Fred Hatfield
True Myths Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Fantastic Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pumping Iron 2 Women
BTW Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty can be directly download as pdf
Also MuscleMag's fantastic Arnold Issue can be downloaded as pdf
Other book's can be borrowed on hour basis free of charge, you can download pages on jpeg form.
I have also found the attached lady on the spot ;D
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For the mature fan….
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One of the less sensationalized bodybuilding magazine covers.
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One of the less sensationalized bodybuilding magazine covers.
(https://i.postimg.cc/CLNkqmst/RCO023-1468165400.jpg)
But they forgot to enhance the most important bulge of them all!
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Serious question: As a straight man, I looked at muscle mags as something I could aspire to. Do/did you, as a gay man, look upon these magazines in lust?
You’ve always been morbidly obese - how can you possibly expect anyone to believe that you “aspired” to look like those in the mags? Honest question - have you ever consistently trained? Do you honestly not see yourself as you truly look? It seems like you and Goodrum dramatically under rate your obesity and lack of muscle and the Hank dude dramatically over estimated his muscle mass.
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But they forgot to enhance the most important bulge of them all!
Ah, yes, the wallet. I bought 2 lbs of Platz supplements today and it took 3 inches off my wallet!
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Ah, yes, the wallet. I bought 2 lbs of Platz supplements today and it took 3 inches off my wallet!
No. Not the wallet. I’m talking about the coin purse!
Mrs. Nikito-Platz, MD PHD CPT says thank you.