Yeah, though Chad fucking named the steroid section "Chemical Warfare" Lol. I started the whole insulin debate between Chad and Milos that blew up. This was within days of the forum opening. Chad probably regretted answering me at all
LOL!!!!
HAHAHAHA.
A usual long, autistic post from me, but it actually has a point about your point, so bear with me.
Do you recall in 2005 when the IFBB sent out a memo stating that bodybuilders were to reduce size/weight by about 15%, and stricter judging at that year's Olympia would be placed on aesthetics, with specific emphasis on the midsection?
That memo ruined Ruhl's placing that year, because he was one of the few guys who actually tried to follow it. Poor guy. Meanwhile, guys who did nothing differently or even continued to get bigger, were judged advantageously. I can't recall why Dex skipped out that Mr. Olympia, but I don't think it was related to the memo.
Ronnie Coleman actually did follow the memo too - and slimmed down from the 296-lb he was at the 2004 Mr. Olympia contest, to 275-lb in 2005...and did present a package very much different than he showed at any other contest. It was interesting. He took a risk following that memo.
Really, the memo should have read something like:
"Dear Dues-Paying IFBB Pro Card Holder,
It has recently been brought to the attention of Joe Weider's Shabbos Goy Stooges The IFBB Professional League that IFBB professional bodybuilder overall stomach size has increased in length, width, and trimester stage since the Ironage.
As a result, all IFBB Mr. Olympia 2005 professional bodybuilding competitors are being asked to reduce overall body size by 15%, and specific emphasis will be placed on midsection size. Judges have been advised to shift their eyes slightly upward from their normal viewing angle in order to do a more thorough evaluation of stomach sizes on IFBB professional bodybuilders competing at this year's IFBB Mr. Olympia 2005, who will be reduced in points, if their stomachs are larger than one average weight median-aged Galápagos tortoise.
And since a lot of the IFBB brass are skinny little old manlets who get off bossing around men twice their size, please don't crush me if you see me at the expo during the competition weekend.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely Yours,
Some Schmoe in a suit and tie who has never worked out a day in his life, whose only interest in bodybuilding for half of us is to masturbate to large muscular men in thongs, and whose only interest for the other half is to boss around men that would break us in two in any other context in life."
IFBB Brass Member."I wonder if that memo is still anywhere online.
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But anyway, news of that memo made it to Chad's MuscleShmayorham board, and people were discussing how bodybuilders would be making changes in order to meet the new requirements.
Then some astute - probably autistic - poster said "I guess Ronnie could always lower the doses."
Someone almost immediately replied "HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THAT RONNIE WOULD LOSE MASS IF HE DID THAT?!"
I was thinking..."LMAO!!! Dumb shit...IF THE DOSES HE IS TAKING ARE NOT NEEDED TO SUSTAIN THE SIZE HE IS CARRYING, WHY THE F*CK WOULD HE BE TAKING THOSE DOSES?"
Haha.
MuscleGayHam member: "There's no proof Ronnie Coleman would lose muscle mass if he dropped from 18ius of GH daily to 6ius of GH daily."
Then on a lucky day, you'd see a reply from a MuscleGayHam member who was actually sane, and probably later fled the board to come here, before his reply was deleted for being hate speech: "So if Ronnie would be just as big on 6ius of GH daily rather than 18ius of GH daily, why wouldn't he just take 6ius daily, save all that money thanks to now only having to buy a third as much GH as before, and still compete at the same size?
Members posting ANY degree of sanity would be banned...not unlike being fired from universities these days for saying anything remotely sane.
And of course, as they say "Go Woke - Go Broke", and MuscleMayhem was, in its own way, woke. And it did indeed go broke.
Yeah, though Chad fucking named the steroid section "Chemical Warfare" Lol. I started the whole insulin debate between Chad and Milos that blew up. This was within days of the forum opening. Chad probably regretted answering me at all Too bad the posts are gone, would've been fun to look at it again after so long. Perhaps they are archived somewhere but I'm not technical enough to find them.
I was wondering the same thing myself, Van! And I actually messaged Chad about that on Facebook.
He told me that he has the ENTIRE website including ALL message board threads archived and backed up online.
Unlike Shawn Perine [RIP] whose IronAge website was closed down, followed by the young death of Shawn himself in 2017, Chad does have a full backup/archived copy of MuscleMayhem somewhere. IronAge, along with thousands - quite possibly MILLIONS - of other IronAge, GoldenAge, and SilverAge websites since the dawn of the internet, are probably lost in time right now, never to return again. It's pretty sad, to me.
But we still - for now - have The Wayback achine at
www.archive.org, which has snapshots of millions of old websites. I love it. It's damn cool to me to see a fossil of the internet's past, literally frozen in time, far before present day when things were, well...for me at least,b]welll...not literally the most insane year I've ever experienced such far![/b] LOL. God, what an insane year. Here is a snap of how Chad's board looked in June of 2004:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040626011622/http://musclemayhem.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi