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Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« on: December 19, 2009, 08:16:14 PM »
All of us at one time or another, (if we have the courage to admit it,) have wasted valuable dollars on worthless supplements. The supplements available today, are of course, light-years ahead of the supplements of yesteryear.

Indeed... Todays generation has it quite easy, not having to choke down protein powders that taste like a mix between gasoline, and baking soda, or swallow pills big enough to suffocate a Mule.

As I take a trip down memory lane, I will recall some of the more embarrassing items that were prevalent in the time that I started BBing.

The first entry into the Hall of Shame: "Joe Weider's MEGA MASS 4000!"

Yes... I remember the likes of Lou Ferrigno, Dennis Neuman, Achim Albrecht, and others pimping this crap... I saved up all the money that I made one year mowing lawns, to buy a box, (which I think was around $50.00 or so), only to wonder how I was going to keep choking it down, day after day... I think that the only thing it gave me was Mega amounts of intestinal damage!

More to Come! Feel free to add to this Hall of Supplement shame!
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2009, 08:21:23 PM »


Entry Number 2.: "ICO PRO"

As im sure many others who started BBing in the early 90s like myself can attest to...some of the most impressinable physiques to a young lad, were the ones in the WWF/WCW. I distinctly remember Lex Luger, Bret Heart, and Razor Ramon, in commercials working out, and afterwards shouting the Mantra, "You Gotta Want it!"

I never did get to try ICO PRO, but to this day I think they had the coolest catch phrase. R.I.P. the WBF...  :'(

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2009, 08:28:01 PM »
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2009, 08:39:54 PM »

Entry # 3 in the Hall of shame...

"Hot Stuff/Super Hot Stuff"

This was one of the funniest supplements as it was probably the first "All in one" powder to hit the market. Meaning that they throw about 23432423 ingredients into it in doses too low to actually do anything. When faced with this allegation, Steve Brisbois would simply retort, "Thats not true, we put in high doses of all ingredients!" Of course he never would list the actual amounts of any of the ingredients...only hiding it all in a "Proprietary Blend."

He also had a meltdown a few years back... Which can be read about here:

http://www.imagedonkey.com/out.php?i=19059_hotsuff.jpg
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2009, 08:47:43 PM »
awesome thread!

the original Cell-Tech was a shit tonne of over priced sugar and some creatine monohydrate

how 5 lbs of sugar managed to taste so aweful still confounds me  :(
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2009, 08:54:22 PM »
glutamine. waste of money for bodybuilding purposes
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2009, 08:56:37 PM »
Quote from: nolotil on December 19, 2009, 08:54:22 PM
glutamine. waste of money for bodybuilding purposes

funny it's been around all of these years and still sells like crazy to bodybuilders.
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2009, 09:07:44 PM »
 ;D haha i had mega mass 2000 back in the day
did nothin but give me the squirts! >:(
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2009, 09:20:09 PM »
Quote from: nolotil on December 19, 2009, 08:54:22 PM
glutamine. waste of money for bodybuilding purposes

I bought my first and only bottle of glutamine maybe five years ago because I read somewhere it helped with muscle soreness.  Worthless fucking supplement.
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2009, 09:23:55 PM »
I found hoodia to be quite worthless.  Doesn't supress the apetite at all. 
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2009, 09:29:50 PM »
Quote from: Topskin69 on December 19, 2009, 08:39:54 PM
Entry # 3 in the Hall of shame...

"Hot Stuff/Super Hot Stuff"

This was one of the funniest supplements as it was probably the first "All in one" powder to hit the market. Meaning that they throw about 23432423 ingredients into it in doses too low to actually do anything. When faced with this allegation, Steve Brisbois would simply retort, "Thats not true, we put in high doses of all ingredients!" Of course he never would list the actual amounts of any of the ingredients...only hiding it all in a "Proprietary Blend."

He also had a meltdown a few years back... Which can be read about here:

http://www.imagedonkey.com/out.php?i=19059_hotsuff.jpg

I always "heard" that the original Hotstuff actually worked, and rumor had it that it actually worked initially because they were supposedly putting stuff in that "first batch" that was not legal.  :-X
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2009, 09:36:11 PM »
Quote from: nolotil on December 19, 2009, 08:54:22 PM
glutamine. waste of money for bodybuilding purposes

I am probably in the minority but I feel like I recover faster/better while taking 10+ grams of Glutamine a day. I also like HMB for dieting, but again, not everyone agrees with me.

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2009, 09:40:58 PM »
Quote from: Topskin69 on December 19, 2009, 09:36:11 PM
I am probably in the minority but I feel like I recover faster/better while taking 10+ grams of Glutamine a day. I also like HMB for dieting, but again, not everyone agrees with me.



There's a reason it's still considered a staple supplement and sold at every store in the health or sports nutrition store. A lot of people like it
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2009, 09:41:36 PM »
Entry # 4: "Anabolic Mega Packs"

While not the worst supplement ever, (amino acids will allways be a decent supplement), they were incredibly overpriced, and Uncle Joe promised us all "Steroid Like Gains," from taking them.... Sadly something tells me that Gary Strydom didnt quite lose his hair to an over dose of L-Tyrosine...  :-[
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2009, 10:11:55 PM »

I was convinced this protein really will block my myostatin and that I will be HUUUUGE in no time....

My god it tasted like Ass!

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2009, 10:15:04 PM »
Haha

Actual myostatin inhibitors are supposed to be in clinical trials in the near future!
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2009, 10:16:53 PM »
Just put them under your tongue and let them melt - its like your juicing!

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2009, 10:17:42 PM »

A few drops of this and it will enter the muscle faster than regular creatine, I swear!

It tasted AWESOME though...

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2009, 10:22:44 PM »
I remember liquid creatine!  Wasn't it marketed towards runners?
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2009, 10:23:00 PM »
Took it before football games in High School  ;D

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2009, 10:24:27 PM »
Quote from: Hulkotron on December 19, 2009, 10:22:44 PM
I remember liquid creatine!  Wasn't it marketed towards runners?

They had different lines, the ATP line was marketed towards bodybuilders.


The Xtra line was marketed towards runners, dunno what the difference is:

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2009, 10:30:26 PM »
Hahaha the Hot Stuff 3 page adverts were the predecessors of MuscleTech ads and used to read like a cross between an Amway brochure and Convert to Christianity pamphlet.

And though it's not a supplement, those 3 page B&W ads featuring Tom Platz's revolutionary training systems in the mid 90s were funny / lame to read.
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2009, 10:34:05 PM »

Ultimate Orange was Great!! Another invention of the late Dan Ducahine....

Lol... I was boderline addicted to Ephedrine till it became illegal...

I think a non-ephedra version is still floating around on shelves...

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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2009, 10:36:12 PM »
Quote from: kiwiol on December 19, 2009, 10:30:26 PM
Hahaha the Hot Stuff 3 page adverts were the predecessors of MuscleTech ads and used to read like a cross between an Amway brochure and Convert to Christianity pamphlet.

And though it's not a ss.upplement, those 3 page B&W ads featuring Tom Platz's revolutionary training systems in the mid 90s were funny / lame to read.

Yes... he would drone endlessly about how great the supplement was, and how it was on par with steroids, but could never actully explain how you could effectivly dose 32432423 different ingredients....

It was the original NaNo Vapor...LOL
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Re: Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"
« Reply #24 on: December 19, 2009, 10:37:48 PM »
You are right Ultimate orange was banned for a while, then re-released without ephedra.  The new ads for it in the magazine featured and older sleazebag about to have sex with a newly turned 18 year old and the caption read "Legal at last"  borderline fucked up! lol
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