Julian Schmidt was unreadable and an abysmal journalist.
Rick Wayne made the protagonists in bodybuilding seem interesting, he left a huge void when he packed it in.
Peter Mcgough was a decent writer with an engaging style back in his UK days.
Bold part is mine, primarily for my thanks: I'm glad to know I wasn't the only person who saw that!
Schmidt was a pompous blowhard, conflating million-dollar words with good writing. That's a common mistake...among teenagers and the otherwise uneducated. I can't help but to be reminded of True Adam Adonis' phase here, shortly after the first Mr. Getbig
Adam tried really hard to demonstrate his intellectual superiority by taking some merry romps through the thesaurus, oftentimes back firing, in addition to writing in a very stilted, almost 18th century manner...Schmidt was like that but far, far worse, LOL. I remember one of his FLEX articles, a feature on that year's ASC. The first few pages were some noise about Robbie Robinson overlooking a water body in Colombus ... Garbage.
Mentzer, McGough, Wayne and our own often cranky Rob Fortney aka Fortress, were all kick-ass writers. In his later years, Mike started to succumb to some of that "big words, good writing" fallacy, but then, by that point, he was so wary of overtraining that he literally had some of his clients working out once every two weeks -- and less!
