Muscular Development Magazine - So small this month - 178 pages

[dyslexic]

Only retards buy BB mags.

Lol...


I peruse them when I'm bored in stores.


Other than that, what better place to find out about BBing than GB???


Youtube.....yeah


How about a Bodybuilding ...oops, I mean 'Men's Fitness' show?

[ritch]

Did MD ever offer "lifetime subscriber" price? MM2K had that back in the day. Imagine buying into that to see the mags become what they have? Fuck...

[Joe Pietaro]

Hate to tell you this Joe but the magazine would still be in the same position even if Dave and John were around.  Simply put, printed publications are going the way of the dinosaur.  People nowadays read books on tablets because its more convenient and you can read a lot more.  

All print publications from Playboy to Hustler to Ebony Magazine is in severe decline.  It won't disappear entirely but there's going to be a lot of nip and tuck in some areas.  

I totally agree with you about the decline of the print industry as a whole. But their entire product has become a shell of its former self. The online portion  - especially their forum - went from being a shit-slinging and juice talking fest to what it is now, which is a complete joke run by inexperienced people censoring and filtering out anything that would be worthy of reading.

Yes, I am a publisher of a bodybuilding print magazine, but realize that the online part of the business is the main aspect. My magazine is also available online, but I am really referring to the website itself - articles, videos, photos, forum, podcasts, etc. The magazine is merely a conduit to the site, but it does represent what you are doing overall.

The Dave and John (and Robbie) days included crazy videos, interesting ones, service-oriented and legitimate 'No Bull' content. MD Radio was kicking ass, too. It was the entire theme and flavor that those people gave off and the crew that they had working with them.

What you're getting now are fan boys and girls running it like a fan would and not professional journalists. Leave that shit for newsletters and blogs, not multi-million dollar companies.

[andreisdaman]

Bingo. They should have stayed as a team, but as soon as anyone gets kinda popular, they all wanna do their own thing. Bad mistake, look where it led them.
Had they stayed together, they would not be hurting as much, not to say I'd buy the mag anyway, just no information in there, we all know the stuff is ghost written, so what's the point?

Used to get motivated by pics, but they're all photoshoped so much now, meh...

sounds like you're talking about the Beatles

[funk51]

 Never seen Muscular Development mag so small in my life.. frickin delusional
This rag has about 178 pages and I have past issues generally around 335 - 400 pages.


No athlete sponsorships and Blechy has the balls to say this:

it's going to shrink down to nothing.... it was so much better , when i was young, cue eric burdon and the animals...cut out the ads and your lucky if you have 30 pages of actual content.

[Joe Pietaro]

it's going to shrink down to nothing.... it was so much better , when i was young, cue eric burdon and the animals...cut out the ads and your lucky if you have 30 pages of actual content.

MD was a Bob Hoffman/York Barbell publication back then, along with Strength & Health.

[Joe Pietaro]

sounds like you're talking about the Beatles

So does that make Adina the Yoko Ono character?

[booty]

I totally agree with you about the decline of the print industry as a whole. But their entire product has become a shell of its former self. The online portion  - especially their forum - went from being a shit-slinging and juice talking fest to what it is now, which is a complete joke run by inexperienced people censoring and filtering out anything that would be worthy of reading.

Yes, I am a publisher of a bodybuilding print magazine, but realize that the online part of the business is the main aspect. My magazine is also available online, but I am really referring to the website itself - articles, videos, photos, forum, podcasts, etc. The magazine is merely a conduit to the site, but it does represent what you are doing overall.

The Dave and John (and Robbie) days included crazy videos, interesting ones, service-oriented and legitimate 'No Bull' content. MD Radio was kicking ass, too. It was the entire theme and flavor that those people gave off and the crew that they had working with them.

What you're getting now are fan boys and girls running it like a fan would and not professional journalists. Leave that shit for newsletters and blogs, not multi-million dollar companies.

Well said.

[Joe Pietaro]

Well said.

Thank you.

[Joe Pietaro]

He put a woman on the cover... and had to rationalize why he did it. I don't remember what he said, but it was lame.

Target the babies....

Here is Blechy's forum post/editor's letter from the current mini-issue:


NEXT MD COVER SIZZLES

I put sizzling hot Dianna Dahlgren on the cover this month because I wanted to get your attention! I think it worked! This month’s issue is packed with tons of information on getting ripped and building muscle. Getting ripped is the theme of this month’s issue of MD.

Ron Harris gives you the complete nutrition and fat loss plan to get sliced in “Get Ripped in 8 Weeks.” Nick Trumminello gives us the lowdown on why it’s best to focus on strength training and watch your diet instead of doing lots of cardio in “The Science Behind Strength Training for Fat Loss.”

Nothing says “ripped” quite like a shredded midsection. It’s one thing to lose body fat, but when you have a six-pack, you are telling the world you mean business. “Your Ultimate Ab program: 30 Days to Razor Abs” is your master plan to build and carve a midsection that will show the world what you’ve got.

Several of our science departments report on cutting-edge research about shedding body fat while maintaining muscle. Daniel Gwartney, M.D. examines “The Fat Incinerating Powers of Brown Fat” in his Fat Attack column. In Muscle Growth Update Michael J. Rudolph, Ph. D., MD’s Senior Science Editor, looks at “Controlling AMPK and mTOR for Maximal Muscle and Fat Loss.” And “Does Fasted Cardio Maximize Fat Loss?” is the topic of this month’s M.A.X. Muscle Plan by Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D., CSCS, FNSCA. Dr. Gwartney gives readers “The Ultimate Get Ripped Anabolic Stack” in his Testosterone column. In Supplement Performance, Victor Prisk, M.D. talks about “Fat-Loss Supplements: What Works and What Doesn’t.”

Being big, strong and ripped is something that we truly believe in at MD. The magazine contains more cutting-edge science content on training, nutrition, fat loss, performance-enhancing drugs, bodybuilding science and muscle growth to complement the hardcore feature articles than ever before! We continue to deliver the best bodybuilding magazine in the industry with the best writers and industry experts, and are grateful for your continued support.

In last month’s issue of MD, Dan Solomon presented his findings after polling various industry experts and legends to see who they felt had the best arms of all time. The winner was Lee Priest, and in “How I Built the Best Arms of All Time” Ron Harris tells us how Lee built those massive Priest guns that exuded raw power, and were the epitome of freakish. Lee was outrageous and more so outspoken to a fault, which eventually tanked his pro bodybuilding career. But that shouldn’t negate what he accomplished as a bodybuilder.

A few weeks after Lee Priest won the arm race, MD’s panel of industry legends and experts reconvened to answer the question, “Who Has the Best Legs of All Time?” Eight-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney had this to say “As far as I’m concerned, there were only two bodybuilders that possessed the greatest legs of all time. Tom Platz and Paul DeMayo. The rest is eeny, meeny, miny, moe.” The results of Dan Solomon’s special report is in this month.

In the 80’s, when he was in his competitive prime, Tom Platz was the most popular bodybuilder in the world. He was hailed as the uncrowned Mr. Olympia and the People’s Champion. In this month’s MD, Tom Platz is voted to have the best legs of all time, of any bodybuilder who ever stepped on a stage. In “Tom Platz: the Pride and the Passion,” an exclusive interview with Peter McGough the most inspirational bodybuilder ever talks about his unique time and place in the sport.

The rest of the book is packed to the binder as usual – making MD your one-stop, most authoritative source for optimizing muscular development with the latest cutting-edge research on training, nutrition, fat loss, performance-enhancing drugs, muscle growth and bodybuilding science – and exclusive information from the industry experts, insiders and bodybuilding legends who make it all happen. See you next month!