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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Wiggs on March 02, 2018, 02:58:45 PM
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It will be merging with Muscle and Fitness. Flex will have a section within the magazine. The end.
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A section in M&F......
Wow. Print is dead.
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the end of an era..MF's last issue had 136 pages. so that's 100 pages ads 10 actual fitness content rest is misc garbage.. where will they fit the 10 pages of flex like material. pic'd is first issue
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for real???
:'( :'( :'(
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Remember, "bodybuilding is stronger than ever!" "Growing faster than ever!"
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the end of an era..MF's last issue had 136 pages. so that's 100 pages ads 10 actual fitness content rest is misc garbage.. where will they fit the 10 pages of flex like material. pic'd is first issue
I still have this issue. :'(
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the end of an era..MF's last issue had 136 pages. so that's 100 pages ads 10 actual fitness content rest is misc garbage.. where will they fit the 10 pages of flex like material. pic'd is first issue
Had that one and every other one, till I stopped buying and subscribing. Sold my whole collection over the years for .25 a copy. If I had the space I would have kept them.
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another one bites the dust.. :'( :'( :'( :'( :o :o >:( >:( >:(
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Had that one and every other one, till I stopped buying and subscribing. Sold my whole collection over the years for .25 a copy. If I had the space I would have kept them.
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Sad, but was an inevitability.
Had a subscription in the late eighties. Loved it and MuscleMag.
Print is dead and bodybuilding is dead = FLEX is dead.
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pip :'(
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Sad, but was an inevitability.
Had a subscription in the late eighties. Loved it and MuscleMag.
Print is dead and bodybuilding is dead = FLEX is dead.
This.
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how many editors & staff will get booted ???
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Sad, but was an inevitability.
Had a subscription in the late eighties. Loved it and MuscleMag.
Print is dead and bodybuilding is dead = FLEX is dead.
Musclemag was my favorite with the steroid section by Greg Zulac maybe?had subscriptions to musclemag,flex,md and Ironman in the early 90s.used to love it cause I would get one every couple days end of the month,that was so much fun reading thru those.
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Will M&F now take the torch and have Arnold on the cover every other month?
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Do you have a wife and kids? How much do you value your entire collection at? Including the books, weights, and other paraphernalia that you have?
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Funk do you have kids ? I would like to take all your shit when you die .
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Damn, that's horrible news! Now where do I get all that precious information about how to get huge? And what supplements to buy, so I will look like the "champions"? ;D ;D ;D
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Sad, but was an inevitability.
Had a subscription in the late eighties. Loved it and MuscleMag.
Print is dead and bodybuilding is dead = FLEX is dead.
bodybuilding is not dead, print is dead though, because people don't buy magazines that much anymore. bodybuilding is alive and well. Most people get their info through the internet, so why buy mags?
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Is it safe to say that Joe can't get a hard-on anymore?
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bodybuilding is not dead, print is dead though, because people don't buy magazines that much anymore. bodybuilding is alive and well. Most people get their info through the internet, so why buy mags?
Bodybuilding is dead.
Bodybuilding.
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Blame feminism!
They don't want men to look like that!
No market for those mags anymore.
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R.I. P.
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Clever! ;D
I haven't flipped through FLEX since the 1990's. Why did I stop? I grew up... I quickly concluded the articles were repetitive... how many ways can you say the same thing? Many photo spreads felt like soft core porn... if I want porn I'll get the real thing and it will be hard core. The internet made the magazines superfluous... you can get all current and past contest coverage with a click of your mouse for free. Why wait and pay for a monthly magazine? Bulk... who wants to store or tote around years of magazines? Since my first FLEX in about 1994 I've moved about 10 times (not an uncommon number for grad students chasing fellowships or young academics).
Someone above said it: print is dead (or dying). As in nature, only the strong survive. This kind of magazine has a window: guys in teens and twenties. A man still reading FLEX in his 30s, 40s, or 50s needs to move on.
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bound to happen. Dinosaurs not moving with the times..
I bet mag sales hasn't been even 5% of what they where in the 90's.
I mean who gives a shit when you get video format on your mobile device in a second. And a mag has 5 weeks old news that you've already seen on the web.
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Hey, BAY, I gotta asume that you don't believe that bodybuilding and boduybuilding competitions are 'dieing" nor anywhere near the graveyard.
A death of a bodybuilding magazine does in no way imply the pending death of the NPC nor the IFBB.
I personally cannot think of any other 'participation event' that comes anywhere close to the present membership growth of both the NPC/IFBB organikzations.
If you know otherwise .... please advise.
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Hey, BAY, I gotta asume that you don't believe that bodybuilding and boduybuilding competitions are 'dieing" nor anywhere near the graveyard.
A death of a bodybuilding magazine does in no way imply the pending death of the NPC nor the IFBB.
I personally cannot think of any other 'participation event' that comes anywhere close to the present membership growth of both the NPC/IFBB organikzations.
If you know otherwise .... please advise.
It is not that I think it is dying. It is a niche sport and always will be. Every now and then someone will make a post and say something along the lines of “the industry needs to do X in order to make bodybuilding more mainstream.” This kind of rhetoric is idiotic because this sport is never going to be mainstream. While huge swaths of the population are appropriately interested in fitness and wellness, bodybuilding (pumping up and sculpting your physique to look in a mirror or flex for the sake of vanity, sex, money, etc.) is not healthy and should not be widely adopted. Particularly when doing so involves supplements and extremes that ultimately take the body to a place no one wants to go. Does anyone want to trade places with Ronnie Coleman right now? Or Dallas McCarver?
There will always be a new generation of meatheads and fans, but it is never going to be huge nor expanding to any great degree in part because huge muscles don’t really lead you anywhere in particular. Many young guys look at Arnold and think they will become the next champion, movie star, governor multimillionaire, but how many of them has bodybuilding produced in the last 50 years vs. how many have crashed and burned (kidney, colon, dead, etc.)? All of print publishing is certainly contracting, but no, I do not think bodybuilding is dying. Quite the contrary: the internet has made the idea of bodybuilding much more accessible than it has ever been but it remains a niche sport. And there is nothing wrong with that.
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Crazy fap material collection.
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i had a subscription from the early 90's to 2006
i canceled it when the bodies got worse and realized everything i wanted was on the internet
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And when you think that Weider's replaced Muscle Builder magazine with Muscle and Fitness in 1980.. :-[ I think the Flex magazine was better than M&F in recent years.
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It is not that I think it is dying. It is a niche sport and always will be. Every now and then someone will make a post and say something along the lines of “the industry needs to do X in order to make bodybuilding more mainstream.” This kind of rhetoric is idiotic because this sport is never going to be mainstream. While huge swaths of the population are appropriately interested in fitness and wellness, bodybuilding (pumping up and sculpting your physique to look in a mirror or flex for the sake of vanity, sex, money, etc.) is not healthy and should not be widely adopted. Particularly when doing so involves supplements and extremes that ultimately take the body to a place no one wants to go. Does anyone want to trade places with Ronnie Coleman right now? Or Dallas McCarver?
There will always be a new generation of meatheads and fans, but it is never going to be huge nor expanding to any great degree in part because huge muscles don’t really lead you anywhere in particular. Many young guys look at Arnold and think they will become the next champion, movie star, governor multimillionaire, but how many of them has bodybuilding produced in the last 50 years vs. how many have crashed and burned (kidney, colon, dead, etc.)? All of print publishing is certainly contracting, but no, I do not think bodybuilding is dying. Quite the contrary: the internet has made the idea of bodybuilding much more accessible than it has ever been but it remains a niche sport. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Exactly but Bodybuilding isn't a sport where it has an exciting ending, last round knock out etc. You can look at the photos afterwoods and it's the same. Very few people would want to look like the top guys and even fewer would have the drive let alone the mindset to take crazy amounts of drugs to do what you need to.
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bound to happen. Dinosaurs not moving with the times..
I bet mag sales hasn't been even 5% of what they where in the 90's.
I mean who gives a shit when you get video format on your mobile device in a second. And a mag has 5 weeks old news that you've already seen on the web.
This.
Who the fuck still buys magazines?
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I used to love that magazine.
Once I figured out that everything that was written in it was a fucking lie I stopped buying them.
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This.
Who the fuck still buys magazines?
I don't now, but I do miss the days of waiting for my favourite magazines.
I used to read mostly videogame magazines though. Wish I still had them.
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Im surprised they've kept printing as long as they have, why not just merge and call the whole mag flex, muscle and fitness, or scrap both. Cant remember the last time i bought a mag of any sort
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I bought one anytime I had a flight, less so for the articles than the advertisements. I find the marketing fascinating--anabolic vapor, primal rage, dark matter, etc. Where do they come up with this? ;D
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Musclemag International was the best. They discovered Trish Stratus before she went to WWE.
The immediacy, reach and low cost of Internet content (usually free) is basically impossible to compete with.
Print is continuing to die. Hard to imagine a day when there will be no printed materials at all. Hope that day never comes.
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Bodybuilding is dead.
Bodybuilding.
bodybuilding is very much alive and well, idk what you're talking about. Maybe we are not currently in a ''golden age'', like the 70s or the 90s, but make no mistake about it bodybuilding is alive and well, and it's not going to die anytime soon
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bodybuilding is very much alive and well, idk what you're talking about. Maybe we are not currently in a ''golden age'', like the 70s or the 90s, but make no mistake about it bodybuilding is alive and well, and it's not going to die anytime soon
D.E.A.D.
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Yes, 35 years of FLEX Magazine, and the last issue will be April 2018. I was fortunate to have quite a few of my pictures over the years in FLEX Magazine, thanks to Allan Donnelly and Chris Hobrecker (former editor in chief, and creative director). I still have the magazine in boxes. Sadly, the last of the hardcore magazines are going away (Ironman, Flex, and others). Looking back at the magazine section on Getbig, the new generation just doesn't want to pay $9 for a magazine anymore when they are only looking for certain items, as well as the supplement companies to put ads into them.
This is what they sent...
Dear Flex Magazine Subscriber;
Thank you for being a subscriber to Flex Magazine. We hope you have enjoyed each issue. Effective with the May issue, Flex will no longer be published. You last issue will be the April issue. However, the good news is that Flex is merging with Muscle & Fitness magazine. Starting with the May 2018 issue – and for the remainder of your subscription – you will receive Muscle & Fitness that incorporates Flex content.
Expect the new Muscle & Fitness to include all the tips and workout programs Flex readers and avid bodybuilders crave, as well as the latest training and nutrition trends, expert interviews, gear, and tech needed to train smarter, build muscle, and sculpt your best physique ever.
If you are also a current subscriber to Muscle & Fitness, your subscription will be automatically extended for your remaining copies of Flex.
Look for your first issue in your mailbox in April.
Thank you.
Flex Magazine
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lol I have a lot of flex magazines
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Only time I ever had a subscription to any bodybuilding magazine was to flex while I was in prison for the first two years. There's a company that does discount subscriptions to magazines (their catalog probably has at least a hundred if not 200 magazines to select from),& I believe I paid $6/year for it.
* I take that back, I did also have a subscription to PlanetMuscle, but I got that for free through Jeff Everson. Not sure if that mag is even around, but it was THE best bbing mag ever produced. Even got about 50mags a month to "give Way" when I had my GNC, but I ended up putting "Code-8" UPC code-stickers on them and selling them for $2.95 each lol. ( occasionally I will give them out for free for regular customers or people who made somewhat larger purchases of maybe $50 or more.
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Only time I ever had a subscription to any bodybuilding magazine was to flex while I was in prison for the first two years. There's a company that does discount subscriptions to magazines (their catalog probably has at least a hundred if not 200 magazines to select from),& I believe I paid $6/year for it.
* I take that back, I did also have a subscription to PlanetMuscle, but I got that for free through Jeff Everson. Not sure if that mag is even around, but it was THE best bbing mag ever produced. Even got about 50mags a month to "give Way" when I had my GNC, but I ended up putting "Code-8" UPC code-stickers on them and selling them for $2.95 each lol. ( occasionally I will give them out for free for regular customers or people who made somewhat larger purchases of maybe $50 or more.
In prison and looking at pictures of men in thongs, fuck me I bet you were a real bottom bitch....
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In prison and looking at pictures of men in thongs, fuck me I bet you were a real bottom bitch....
Brutal
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Didn't Peter McGough go back to FLEX recently, after having previously moved to Muscular Development? His articles were of extremely good quality.
Personally, I stopped reading the bodybuilding magazines regularly after the second or third article that I read about how to train my "lower" biceps. ;D [despite not anatomically existing, that didn't prevent both FLEX and MuscleMag from writing full articles on them - with the latter having the article written by the magazine's publisher himself, Robert Kennedy. The article's title was something like "Train Your Lowers"].
FLEX Magazine also featured my favourite Ronnie Coleman quote:
Ronnie Coleman: "The harder you train, it seems, the slower your progress. You obey all the rules using good form, hard and heavy, proper pyramiding, and a regimen so precise that the Greenwich prime meridian bends to your schedule...but your chest remains the same."
https://www.flexonline.com/training/12-week-plan-freaky-chest-development
Erm...in the future, perhaps Peter McGough might not be the best choice to ghost-write Ronnie's articles. Peter is just...a little better at writing than Ronnie is. ;D
PS - The Greenwich Prime Meridian is likely the last thing I would expect Ronnie Coleman to be speaking about. ;D
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Ronnie Coleman: "De harder you train, it seems, de slower your progress. You obey all de rules using: good form, hard and heavy, proper going up wid de weight, and nuttin happened yeah buddy."
fixed
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fixed
;D ;D ;D
I see no mention of The Greenwich Prime Meridian in your corrected version of Ronnie's quote? ???
Oh wait...right. :D
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The End of an Era!
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used to be, if you were a 98 pound weakling, you bought some muscle magazines and started lifting with an old plastic weight set filled with concrete. Now, you just buy a TapouT or Affliction type shirt and warn everybody you "train UFC, Bro!"
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lol I have a lot of flex magazines
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omg
we need to buy the last issue and get it framed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It doesn't come as a surprise, but it's still a sad thought. I used to collect Muscle and Fitness as well as Flex magazines. I have editions dating back to the late 70's for M&F and early 80's for Flex. Nothing like a good old magazine when we used to wait 1 whole month until the new edition would hit the stands. The good old days ;D
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You are a legit psychopath
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cry me a river (I got a lot of flex mags, huge collection)
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It was just reported today. Don't be an asshole.
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You are a legit psychopath
This coming from a guy who believes in a man in the sky controls your destiny ::)
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This coming from a guy who believes in a man in the sky controls your destiny ::)
so you are an atheist?
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bodybuilding is not dead, print is dead though, because people don't buy magazines that much anymore. bodybuilding is alive and well. Most people get their info through the internet, so why buy mags?
Bodybuilding is not dead but as a "respectable/serious activity " it's on life support..... the slow but sure death of print magazines has affected bodybuilding more than anything else out there ....
All you have left is social media where a nobody with abs and lumber sexual looks can have more followers than your average IFBB pro .
WooSHHHHHHHHHHH
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It was just reported today. Don't be an asshole.
Have you not seen the Wiggs thread from a few days ago? It's three pages already, which is the same amount of pages in a Flex not put there by an advertisement. ???
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Bodybuilding is not dead but as a "respectable/serious activity " it's on life support..... the slow but sure death of print magazines has affected bodybuilding more than anything else out there ....
All you have left is social media where a nobody with abs and lumber sexual looks can have more followers than your average IFBB pro .
WooSHHHHHHHHHHH
Another nail in the open men's bodybuilding's coffin
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M&F is basically a clone of AMI's other publication Men's Fitness. In the 80s, M&F was a legit bodybuilding magazine but has morphed totally into a fitness one with a celebrity or cardboard cutout male fitness model motif. So expect either M&F or MF to go by the way of FLEX sooner than later.
The problem with magazines like FLEX and MD is that they needed to find a niche or angle once the Internet took away much of their appeal. They never adapted; kept going with the same old shit & expected people to still plunk down money for it.
My only surprise is that it would have made more sense to merge the two fitness titles & keep FLEX running, albeit at a smaller and less frequent publishing cycle.
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so you are an atheist?
no he worships kevin levrone
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no he worships kevin levrone
LOL!
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bodybuilding is very much alive and well, idk what you're talking about. Maybe we are not currently in a ''golden age'', like the 70s or the 90s, but make no mistake about it bodybuilding is alive and well, and it's not going to die anytime soon
Women's pro bodybuilding is dead, and men's pro bodybuilding....one glance at the prize money learns it's near death....
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It's sad what the Weider brothers left behind.
What good came of it if this is all going to die?
They should've got real drug testing in place for men and women, amateurs and pros.
They needed to get this more mainstream. Maybe that was the Olympics, maybe not.
Set it up for the long-term before you die.
It is sad to see it fall apart as it has.
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It's sad what the Weider brothers left behind.
What good came of it if this is all going to die?
They should've got real drug testing in place for men and women, amateurs and pros.
They needed to get this more mainstream. Maybe that was the Olympics, maybe not.
Set it up for the long-term before you die.
It is sad to see it fall apart as it has.
they made tons of money and that was their main motivation
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I still have a very large collection of Flex Magazine's and others... here are some of them
http://www.getbig.com/magazine/flex/flex.htm
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People say things like boxings dead, bodybuildings dead. But only until a new mega star comes along.
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I just got the notice today. That's rather sad. I knew things were getting rough when the issue you get with a subscription has fewer pages than the one on the newsstand.
My wife got me a subscription 12 years ago, which I've maintained since then. The issues in my garage from the mid/late 2000s are nearly three times as thick as the ones today.
MuscleMag....GONE
IronMan.....GONE
Flex....GONE.
MD is on the chopping block. They're already putting the physique guys on the covers, instead of the bodybuilders. It's shades of what they did over 20 years ago during the "Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health/All-Natural Muscular Development" days.
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I just got the notice today. That's rather sad. I knew things were getting rough when the issue you get with a subscription has fewer pages than the one on the newsstand.
My wife got me a subscription 12 years ago, which I've maintained since then. The issues in my garage from the mid/late 2000s are nearly three times as thick as the ones today.
MuscleMag....GONE
IronMan.....GONE
Flex....GONE.
MD is on the chopping block. They're already putting the physique guys on the covers, instead of the bodybuilders. It's shades of what they did over 20 years ago during the "Muscular-Development-Fitness-Health/All-Natural Muscular Development" days.
The problem with what FLEX was doing and what MD is still (barely) doing is that they are using the print magazine as their point man, or so to speak. My company has a print magazine with hardcore material (steroids, adult side of FBB, columns by Lee Priest, Bostin Loyd, Jonny Bravo, etc.), but it is only a small fraction of what I'm trying to do. Basically it's a very small print run for old fucks like myself and a way to give back to the readers/viewers by publishing their photos in print.
I have a digital version (free to read) and have been focusing on video programming and road trips with videos. The magazine points people to the website and social media pages. This other guys did it reverse; an archaic business model in this day and age.
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The problem with what FLEX was doing and what MD is still (barely) doing is that they are using the print magazine as their point man, or so to speak. My company has a print magazine with hardcore material (steroids, adult side of FBB, columns by Lee Priest, Bostin Loyd, Jonny Bravo, etc.), but it is only a small fraction of what I'm trying to do. Basically it's a very small print run for old fucks like myself and a way to give back to the readers/viewers by publishing their photos in print.
I have a digital version (free to read) and have been focusing on video programming and road trips with videos. The magazine points people to the website and social media pages. This other guys did it reverse; an archaic business model in this day and age.
Who...?
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Bodybuilding is not dead but as a "respectable/serious activity " it's on life support..... the slow but sure death of print magazines has affected bodybuilding more than anything else out there ....
All you have left is social media where a nobody with abs and lumber sexual looks can have more followers than your average IFBB pro .
WooSHHHHHHHHHHH
this is not true, stop panicking
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I picked up one today, for purely nostalgic/memorabilia reasons. It has been many years since I actually bought a magazine.
Back in the day, magazines used to be the only way to know what was going on in our little world.
Roelly is on the cover. Fitting, considering his recent impressive win in Australia.
I have to say, the relative (to 10 years ago) thinness and lack of content was foreboding.
I haven't read any articles yet, so i will reserve judgement on quality.
MD is now the winner of the magazine wars. They will probably fold soon too.
Ironically MD was even thinner than Flex.
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The internet didn't kill bb mags. The readers realizing what the postman and checkout cashier were thinking of you buying it did...haha.
Last mag I had a sub to was MM2K and dropped that when Bill started putting his brother on every cover...
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
ALL MAGS LIKE THAT ARE FOR CLOSET FAGS..... Be honest how many articles about big arm training can one person read there all the same shit written in a different format..
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Joe muff hahahah
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How muff hahahah
Did you place you're order pal ;D
psssssssst back page you can get xray glasses and used posing trunks :-X
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Did you place you're order pal ;D
psssssssst back page you can get xray glasses and used posing trunks :-X
Yeah but who’s used trunks?cant be random used trunks here.
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Yeah but who’s used trunks?cant be random used trunks here.
Only the best for you my friend can I interest you in a fine vintage 1959 steve reeves or a 1948 reg park.. ;D
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Old mags are good for those who care about the history of the iron game, Powerlifting, weightlifting, bodybuilding, the equipment, contests, etc.
Fags must like them too I'm sure,but real trainers and those who care about more than "pumping/posing and abs" can find some great info in them.
People who dont care for the BB pics and or history wont like them (like Dan)...
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Old mags are good for those who care about the history of the iron game, Powerlifting, weightlifting, bodybuilding, the equipment, contests, etc.
Fags must like them too I'm sure,but real trainers and those who care about more than "pumping/posing and abs" can find some great info in them.
People who dont care for the BB pics and or history wont like them (like Dan)...
You sound like a broad so just stop it already, I will say yes the older ones are kinda cool because it was simple 1 2 3 training not like today its full of complete bullshit...big bloated idiots talking about training tips holding a bottle of whey protein
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Don't forgot about the 50 years of storage and maintaining their pristine condition.
If you spent 2 dollars on bitcoins 8 years ago you'd be rich today. :/
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Just think if the new owner takes a straight razor and scrapes off the many decades worth of billions of old dry sperm the original owner left between those pages the total weight of those magazines would drop by half
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
People back then had heart and trained hard. It was for the few...
Now everything goofball walking around claims to work out.
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vintage mags on ebay are alive and well.the pic'd mags just sold for $55.88 and 6 bucks shipping...original price for all three less than 2 dollars :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Don't forget to add that the youngest issue there is well over 40 years of age
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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ALL MAGS LIKE THAT ARE FOR CLOSET FAGS..... Be honest how many articles about big arm training can one person read there all the same shit written in a different format..
Don't be silly, closet fags have access to those pics online for free, and better quality ....the collectible/nostalgia aspect is what keeps this mags at a rather valuable price .
WoSH TA NA KA
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Don't forgot about the 50 years of storage and maintaining their pristine condition.
If you spent 2 dollars on bitcoins 8 years ago you'd be rich today. :/
Beat me to it .
WooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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you don't get articles like this anymore in today's mags. everything is so generic... no more profiles on people because frankly today's bbing stars are rather boring and dull...no personalities at all. no arnolds, chet yortons,bruce randalls,reeves, parks, babe stansbury, grimeks..even ferrigno
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Mags are dead but the DAVE PALUMBO EXPERIENCE app is live and thriving providing you with "the next wave of education and the truth in bodybuilding" for only $29.99 a month.
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What u selling funk? I’m always interested in stuff like that
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What u selling funk? I’m always interested in stuff like that
not mine although i have 2 out of the three pic'd.... i'm still hanging onto my mags and books. below when mags were mags... and guys new how to do a side chest pose. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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not mine although i have 2 out of the three pic'd.... i'm still hanging onto my mags and books. below when mags were mags... and guys new how to do a side chest pose. ;D ;D ;D ;D
gotcha! Someone has got to make magazines great again! 🤣🤣🤣
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Still have over 2,000 Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazines, 60+ various publications, and will keep them for a while in storage...
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Old mags are good for those who care about the history of the iron game, Powerlifting, weightlifting, bodybuilding, the equipment, contests, etc.
Fags must like them too I'm sure,but real trainers and those who care about more than "pumping/posing and abs" can find some great info in them.
People who dont care for the BB pics and or history wont like them (like Dan)...
The only used bookstores I have ever seen carrying a large variety of old, used and back issues bodybuilding and fitness mags were all in the "village" of any city.
No idea why
Noticed that one day years ago walking up yonge street, once I got between bloor and wellesly it was tons of old muscle mags and fitness mags for sale at any vintage bookstores(ad the magazine racks were always by the front window
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The internet didn't kill bb mags. The readers realizing what the postman and checkout cashier were thinking of you buying it did...haha.
Last mag I had a sub to was MM2K and dropped that when Bill started putting his brother on every cover...
that didn't kill the magazine and i didn't think it was embarrassing at all, it was embarrassing to buy playboy or penthouse because they know exactly why you are buying it
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The only way to sell magazines in the bodybuilding industry is to capitalize on the most fucked up parts of it, ie: the adult industry aspect of it & straight up steroid talk.
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The only way to sell magazines in the bodybuilding industry is to capitalize on the most fucked up parts of it, ie: the adult industry aspect of it & straight up steroid talk.
You may have a point. Flex Mag used to have articles on steroids, and Muscular Development used go to the natural route.
Flex also used to have fitness/female bodybuilder swimsuit/lingerie pictorials. Also, Muscular Development in the early 2000s used to have layouts and pictorials of women who wore nothing but small pieces of electrical tape.
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You may have a point. Flex Mag used to have articles on steroids, and Muscular Development used go to the natural route.
Flex also used to have fitness/female bodybuilder swimsuit/lingerie pictorials. Also, Muscular Development in the early 2000s used to have layouts and pictorials of women who wore nothing but small pieces of electrical tape.
I worked for both FLEX and MD in the past & have seen the decline of both from the inside (and an even steeper decline more recently). Sure, print magazines are dying & being from that industry, I made sure to also have a digital version of my magazine and those are free to read. More views = more numbers for potential advertisers. But if the content blows, no one will look even if it is free.
That's why I chose to go the 'rogue' route, if you will. No federation fellatio, the edgier the better and to also have a section to post reader's photos.
All the mistakes that I saw those other publications made are the ones I avoid.
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what will happen to Bobservation?......will we see the Great Chicherillo back to Getbig.com?.......
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You may have a point. Flex Mag used to have articles on steroids, and Muscular Development used go to the natural route.
Flex also used to have fitness/female bodybuilder swimsuit/lingerie pictorials. Also, Muscular Development in the early 2000s used to have layouts and pictorials of women who wore nothing but small pieces of electrical tape.
I swear by these Lingerie Pictorials back then, they were the fucking best in the business and Flex was leading the way.....
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what will happen to Bobservation?......will we see the Great Chicherillo back to Getbig.com?.......
chicks running out of industry dicks places to suck dry for shekels.
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I worked as bb writer for a few years. Late 90:s to early 00:s. Things were diffrent then it was not all internet yet. I still think you can make a buck with this type of writing but it needs to be more specified than now. Like being totally open with steroid use. I think that was flex downfall.
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Suprised it lasted this long with the internet and the fact the magazine turned to shit years ago, read it for a few years from 99 to 2002 before getting the internet in back then you’d have sometimes 4 or 5 articles of top pros training, yes we later realised they were mostly ghostwritten shite but being young and naive it seemed awesome, all the columns has half decent content.
several years ago bought one just to see what it was like and it was complete and utter fucking garbage, the cover had that stinking twat Brandon curry doing triceps extensions pulling a vile disgusting annoyingly punchable face like he was pullling a deadlift 10kg over his max, this was also the main article in the magazine, the other was that wonky eyed cu nt Peter putman the only interesting part was the one photo of his lass. Didn’t even read it and threw it in the bin, being a bit of a hoarder if it had been even semi interesting I’d have kept it like I did all my older issues.
They deserve to cease publication based on that one issue alone
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I worked as bb writer for a few years. Late 90:s to early 00:s. Things were diffrent then it was not all internet yet. I still think you can make a buck with this type of writing but it needs to be more specified than now. Like being totally open with steroid use. I think that was flex downfall.
Steroid talk is definitely the material that people want to read about and the MDs of the world - who strictly cover the IFBB pros, etc. - won't get much out of them, if anything, about that. One of the main reasons why I chose to cover the side of the industry that can talk about it. Lee Priest, Bostin Loyd and Rich Piana are/were columnists in my publication.
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Clever! ;D
I haven't flipped fapped to through FLEX since the 1990's. Why did I stop? I grew up... I quickly concluded the articles were repetitive... how many ways can you say the same thing? Many photo spreads felt like soft core porn... if I want porn I'll get the real thing and it will be hard core. The internet made the magazines superfluous... you can get all current and past contest coverage with a click of your mouse for free. Why wait and pay for a monthly magazine? Bulk... who wants to store or tote around years of magazines? Since my first FLEX in about 1994 I've moved about 10 times (not an uncommon number for grad students chasing fellowships or young academics).
Someone above said it: print is dead (or dying). As in nature, only the strong survive. This kind of magazine has a window: guys in teens and twenties. A man still reading FLEX in his 30s, 40s, or 50s needs to move on.
Fixed for accuracy
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musclemag from late 1990s to about 2003 i was a huge fan :)
stacey lynn made that magazine for me
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The original incarnation of Muscle Media 2000 was the only magazine worth reading at the time. Straight-up juice talk and no federation fellatio. Then they went full homo.