Remember "Muscular Development-Fitness-Health/All-Natural Muscular Development"?

[MCWAY]

I was going through my old MD magazines and found some of these in my stash.

Steve Blechman vowed never to feature any more steroid-using bodybuilders in his magazine again.

John Romano claimed ANMD was getting hate mail because most of the bodybuilders featured were black, "All-Black MD, African Development" was a line supposedly used against the publication.

This was done largely as a reaction to the death of Andreas Munzer.

Many of the covers though had fitness girls, no bodybuilders, natural or not-so-natural.

Anyone else have some of these oldies in their garage?

[njflex]

YEAH every issue was yohnnie shamberger,chris faildo,skip lacour,earl Snyder ..

[IronMeister]

[funk51]

I was going through my old and MD magazines and found some of these in my stash.

Steve Blechman vowed never to feature any more steroid-using bodybuilders in his magazine again.

John Romano claimed ANMD was getting hate mail because most of the bodybuilders featured were black, "All-Black MD, African Development" was a line supposedly used against the publication.

This was done largely as a reaction to the death of Andreas Munzer.

Many of the covers though had fitness girls, no bodybuilders, natural or not-so-natural.

Anyone else have some of these oldies in their garage?

  SUCKED with a capital "s".

[MCWAY]

YEAH every issue was yohnnie shamberger,chris faildo,skip lacour,earl Snyder ..

That's because those guys were among the top finishers at the '96 Team Universe. It did feature Robert Washington, who beat Skip LaCour for the heavyweight title.

[njflex]

That's because those guys were among the top finishers at the '96 Team Universe. It did feature Robert Washington, who beat Skip LaCour for the heavyweight title.

YEAH,,ROBERT WASHINGTON DUDE WAS HUGE AND NATURAL LOL...

[Slik]

Yah. The young boy that grew up to fuk grape fruits was also featured in md quite a bit.

[MCWAY]

Yah. The young big that grew up to fuk grape fruits was also featured in md quite a bit.

Assuming you're referring to Kai Greene, I have the issue with him, when he was still in the WNBF.

[MCWAY]

Assuming you're referring to Kai Greene, I have the issue with him, when he was still in the WNBF.

Found it. It's the March 1997 issue, with former internet pin-up girl Cindy Margolis on the cover.

According to the article(p.73), Greene started training at 12. By 17, he weighed 260, could bench 500, and squatted 800.

And apparently his love for citrus started young, as he reportedly ate 30 a day for breakfast.

[Slik]

Found it. It's the March 1997 issue, with former internet pin-up girl Cindy Margolis on the cover.

According to the article(p.73), Greene started training at 12. By 17, he weighed 260, could bench 500, and squatted 800.

And apparently his love for citrus started young, as he reportedly ate 30 a day for breakfast.

i still have a huge collection but fir some reason years ago as I was going through a de cluttering period burned all the md's for that era. Dammit if I didn't give all my mds away from the 80s. That's wen I loved that mag. Not slick n professional like muscle n fitness back then but a real thin Mage w shitty pix but I loved it. Anyway yeah. That's who I meant. I remember that mag. His keyloid show up real good there.  I remember him saying they were from being knifed or wutever. There was a shot of him from the back also doing pulldownd I believe.

[MCWAY]

i still have a huge collection but fir some reason years ago as I was going through a de cluttering period burned all the md's for that era. Dammit if I didn't give all my mds away from the 80s. That's wen I loved that mag. Not slick n professional like muscle n fitness back then but a real thin Mage w shitty pix but I loved it. Anyway yeah. That's who I meant. I remember that mag. His keyloid show up real good there.  I remember him saying they were from being knifed or wutever. There was a shot of him from the back also doing pulldownd I believe.

I started reading MD back in '93. It was one of my favorites. I went through a 2-3 year span when I didn't touch a Weider mag.

But MD went downhill once Don Ross died. Then after Andreas Munzer croaked, MD went into ID crisis mode, morphing into MDFH and later ANMD.

It really got ridiculous when Blechman left Twinlab and bought MD from his father and brothers. Then all he, Romano, and everyone could discuss was steroids.....and whether their "fitness models" preferred to spit or swallow.

[Ron]

My collections of MD's

http://www.getbig.com/magazine/musdev/musdev.htm

[SuperTed]

According to the article(p.73), Greene started training at 12. By 17, he weighed 260, could bench 500, and squatted 800.

LOL!

If Kai was doing that as teenage natural then he ought to be benching hummers and squatting trucks by now.

 

[MCWAY]

My collections of MD's

http://www.getbig.com/magazine/musdev/musdev.htm

You started in '96, right around the ID crisis mode for MD.

MD (post-Twinlab) went a year straight with NO bodybuilders on the cover. And it looks to be about two years where, if bodybuilders are on the cover, they're in black-and-white; whereas the silicone sirens are in colors. Some have huge color covers of the women, with small B&W insets of the bodybuilders

[MCWAY]

LOL!

If Kai was doing that as teenage natural then he ought to be benching hummers and squatting trucks by now.

 

Greene looked like a twig, during his WNBF days, compared to how he looks now.

Where did he get those lats? His back was almost nonexistent in the mid-90s.

[njflex]

Greene looked like a twig, during his WNBF days, compared to how he looks now.

Where did he get those lats? His back was almost nonexistent in the mid-90s.

THE GUY WENT ALL OUT TURNING PRO ,,and morphed himself into mass monster..

[240 is Back]

And apparently his love for citrus started young, as he reportedly ate 30 a day for breakfast.

Cue Phil Heath gimmick account to remind that a decade ago, Kai screwed a fruit, therefore if he looks better on Olympia day, they still have to give the title to Phil.

[MCWAY]

THE GUY WENT ALL OUT TURNING PRO ,,and morphed himself into mass monster..

I assume you mean turning pro in the IFBB, as he was already a pro in the WNBF. At the time of that ANMD article, Greene won the WNBF Pro Mr. Universe.

He won the Team Universe in 1999, before it was a pro qualifier. But he didn't get grandfathered into the IFBB when the rule change was made in 2003, which allowed Greg Rando and Skip LaCour (who won the TU in 2001 and 2002 respectively) to turn pro. Rando did; LaCour didn't.

[MCWAY]

LOL!

If Kai was doing that as teenage natural then he ought to be benching hummers and squatting trucks by now.

 

I assume those were maxes. Greene reps with 500 on the bench press now. Heck, he probably inclines 500.

[njflex]

I assume you mean turning pro in the IFBB, as he was already a pro in the WNBF. At the time of that ANMD article, Greene won the WNBF Pro Mr. Universe.

He won the Team Universe in 1999, before it was a pro qualifier. But he didn't get grandfathered into the IFBB when the rule change was made in 2003, which allowed Greg Rando and Skip LaCour (who won the TU in 2001 and 2002 respectively) to turn pro. Rando did; LaCour didn't.

YES IFBB...

[MCWAY]

YES IFBB...

Even when Greene won TU again in 2004, he was nowhere near his current size.

[njflex]

Even when Greene won TU again in 2004, he was nowhere near his current size.

true,,,dude gained at least 30/40 lbs stage weight over the 10 yrs 04/14 ,,that's sick...

[MCWAY]

true,,,dude gained at least 30/40 lbs stage weight over the 10 yrs 04/14 ,,that's sick...

Then how much weight do you suspect he added from his WNBF days to now?

And some people here complain about reaching their natural limit.

[DroppingPlates]

Expo-whores

[njflex]

Then how much weight do you suspect he added from his WNBF days to now?

And some people here complain about reaching their natural limit.

DON'T KNOW MAN,,WHAT WAS HIS WEIGHT THEN?