Author Topic: What was your first BB mag? (Read 4177 times)

TestDummy · « **on:** February 13, 2015, 03:27:30 PM »

Or what got you into BB in the first place? Mine was a 1987 Muscle & Fitness mag with Arnold on the cover for the movie Predator. I was about 8, I still have that magazine at home.

_aj_ · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2015, 03:31:38 PM »

I can't remember, but just yesterday, I was 15 minutes early for a lunch and decided to go to the Barnes and Noble next to the restaurant and check out some muscle mags. As soon as I got in there, I started to feel creepy. Then I looked at the sad assortment of mags, all with jacked oiled black men lifting weights while yelling and wearing sunglasses and it was just too much, even for me. I couldn't even pick one up, the gay was too strong.

Instead I went pseudo-intellectual and looked at the pictures in the latest issue of The Economist.

ritch · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2015, 03:38:17 PM »

Grape Ape · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2015, 03:53:57 PM »

Saw an M&F in the late 80s with Gaspari on the cover as I was at a train station. Thought I could learn about lifting.

Probably how I ended up here.

BIG AL MCKECHNIE · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2015, 04:35:48 PM »

This one I think. The detail on these guys from 1979 was motivational, not like the freaky shit covers of today.

TestDummy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2015, 04:51:12 PM »

Quote from: _aj_ on February 13, 2015, 03:31:38 PM

I can't remember, but just yesterday, I was 15 minutes early for a lunch and decided to go to the Barnes and Noble next to the restaurant and check out some muscle mags. As soon as I got in there, I started to feel creepy. Then I looked at the sad assortment of mags, all with jacked oiled black men lifting weights while yelling and wearing sunglasses and it was just too much, even for me. I couldn't even pick one up, the gay was too strong.

Instead I went pseudo-intellectual and looked at the pictures in the latest issue of The Economist.

Yes, it's been probably six or seven years since I've bought a magazine, I do look at the covers as I walk by and laugh at the gayness and absolute bull shit like "get shredded for summer in six weeks" such crap

Cableguy · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2015, 08:02:55 PM »

The first mag I ever got was MD in 1977 with Dave Johns, Manny Perry, and Ron Teufel on the cover.

TestDummy · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2015, 08:06:44 PM »

Quote from: Cableguy on February 13, 2015, 08:02:55 PM

The first mag I ever got was MD in 1977 with Dave Johns, Manny Perry, and Ron Teufel on the cover.

there's just something cool about these old vintage mags, I've bought a couple with Arnold on the cover on ebay

BB · « **Reply #8 on:** February 13, 2015, 08:17:26 PM »

I can't remember the first one, but I can remember the first one I ever took seriously -

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It was in a stack of magazines my friend had, and I was interested in losing a bit of weight, so I started reading it. It struck me as the most honest as far as steroids, and real bodybuilding. I remember being taken by the writings of Poliquin and Duchaine specifically. Before that if I picked up a bodybuilding magazine in gym class, etc.... it was more just to read an article on a feat of strength, or the latest Arnold movie, or to stare at a fitness girl.

Still to this day, early Muscle Medias and IronMan (especially the little yellow ones) are my favorite bodybuilding magazines.

Pray_4_War · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2015, 09:23:16 PM »

I can't remember but I'm certain Arnold was on the cover.

Master Blaster · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2015, 09:42:52 PM »

It was a Flex magazine with a black and white arnold and a neon yellow background. I think one of the old timers here was able to find a scan of the cover, one of those guys who writes in purple font.

SF1900 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2015, 09:47:30 PM »

flex magazine and it was the issue with nasser and lee training together

Obvious Gimmick · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2015, 09:48:11 PM »

I saw this and was flipping amazed! Wanted those legs (maybe a little homo). Thanks for fucking up my life platz......asshole

funk51 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 14, 2015, 06:26:01 AM »

first 4 in that order....

Powerlift66 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 14, 2015, 06:33:00 AM »

I dont remember, it was 1978 though, I was 12... I know it was a Muscle Builder & Power or Muscle & Fitness (same Mag that changed names).
It was the only one the store across the street carried.

Later on (a bit older) I would walk to the Methuen Mall, and buy MuscleMag's, I remember getting this one...

musclecenter · « **Reply #15 on:** February 14, 2015, 06:41:03 AM »

Powerlift66 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2015, 06:48:03 AM »

Quote from: musclecenter on February 14, 2015, 06:41:03 AM

THIS

Great mag Musclecenter... I have that one and thousands more. Tons of Ironman from that era...

Trying to make room in my house so I'll be selling around 20 tubs of Mags, (Like 3000 issues) on ebay... (irongame66 - user name on ebay).

House has shit storage, a nd Im sick of looking at big fukkin plastic tubs full of shite...

_aj_ · « **Reply #17 on:** February 14, 2015, 07:41:36 AM »

Quote from: Powerlift66 on February 14, 2015, 06:33:00 AM

I dont remember, it was 1978 though, I was 12... I know it was a Muscle Builder & Power or Muscle & Fitness (same Mag that changed names).
It was the only one the store across the street carried.

Later on (a bit older) I would walk to the Methuen Mall, and buy MuscleMag's, I remember getting this one...

Holy shit, I used to hang at the Methuen Mall too! Buying musclemags at bookstores always felt skeevy.

falco · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2015, 10:43:13 AM »

1995 Flex:

affeman · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2015, 11:06:07 AM »

The first, the last and the only BB mag I ever bougth in my lifetime (at a german airport before a long flight):

I had just started working out and thought I could find some helpful tips in there regarding training and nutrition LMAO. When I figured that 2/3s of the pages were ads from some protein and creatine powders I was like wtf?

_bruce_ · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2015, 11:41:40 AM »

Quote from: SF1900 on February 13, 2015, 09:47:30 PM

flex magazine and it was the issue with nasser and lee training together

Both were probably like "Hope mom doesn't see me wearing these lustful shorts..."

Straw Man · « **Reply #21 on:** February 14, 2015, 02:55:02 PM »

robcguns · « **Reply #22 on:** February 15, 2015, 06:50:30 AM »

Musclemag 1990

Ron · « **Reply #23 on:** February 15, 2015, 02:13:58 PM »

Flex Magazine's around 1997 when I attended my first Olympia, which was in Long Beach, California.

Rudee · « **Reply #24 on:** February 15, 2015, 02:25:51 PM »

Was Musclemag. Had Scott Wilson on the cover. I think it was early 80's.