MD magazine

[LurkerNoMore]

At the airport flying out to Paris and I look at the magazine rack.

What’s the point now?   118 pages and 70% ads.  $7.99

Used to be the size of a small phone book.

[LurkerNoMore]

I’m surprised the ads are still fooling people. Or getting by the FDA with the misleading labels.

[Gym Rat]

Its funny, Jared Wheat (Hi-Tech Pharma) trademarked the names after they expired (anavar, dianabol, winstrol) and labels his pro-hormones using those names.
Many dummies probably still fall for it...

[pamith]

Brutal if true

[robcguns]

They still sell magazines? I thought they were all gone. If musclemag was still around I would buy that mag but that’s about it.

Md used to be huge but was still mostly ads.

[LurkerNoMore]

It still is mostly ads.  Without ads, it would be 30 pages.

[deadz]

Haven’t purchased a mag in a couple of decades.

[Mothballs]

Same actual content. They just had an additional 200 pages of ads in their heyday. Does Valentino still have a page?

[MCWAY]

At the airport flying out to Paris and I look at the magazine rack.

What’s the point now?   118 pages and 70% ads.  $7.99

Used to be the size of a small phone book.

Unless you get a subscription, it's not worth the price.

Go back 10 years. One issue of MD then was as big as THREE issues are now.

Same actual content. They just had an additional 200 pages of ads in their heyday. Does Valentino still have a page?

Nope. He's been gone for quite a while now.

[MCWAY]

They still sell magazines? I thought they were all gone. If musclemag was still around I would buy that mag but that’s about it.

Md used to be huge but was still mostly ads.

MuscleMag basically died with Robert Kennedy in 2012. They tried a brief comeback in 2013, under an new publisher. But that didn't go far and MMI went down for good about 10 years ago.

[BB]

In the US, I think MD is the only big muscle magazine/competition bodybuilding magazine that still prints a newstand issue.

IronMan seem to have stopped, and only does PDFs.

Flex and MF seem to have stopped, they folded Flex into MF, but MF seems gone now too.

Planet Muscle is just an online thing - https://www.planetmuscle.com/ .

Muscle Sport Mag still publishes, but they're small, and more general fitness now - https://www.musclesportmag.com/subscribe/ .

Steve Blechman is 70 now, perhaps he just keeps MD around to stay busy.

[MCWAY]

In the US, I think MD is the only big muscle magazine/competition bodybuilding magazine that still prints a newstand issue.

IronMan seem to have stopped, and only does PDFs.

Flex and MF seem to have stopped, they folded Flex into MF, but MF seems gone now too.

Planet Muscle is just an online thing - https://www.planetmuscle.com/ .

Muscle Sport Mag still publishes, but they're small, and more general fitness now - https://www.musclesportmag.com/subscribe/ .

Steve Blechman is 70 now, perhaps he just keeps MD around to stay busy.

I thought IronMan released their magazines quarterly. I guess they stopped that, too. Plus, they only covered natural/drug-tested events (i.e. the INBA/PNBA shows, such as the Natural Mr. Olympia).

[robcguns]

MuscleMag basically died with Robert Kennedy in 2012. They tried a brief comeback in 2013, under an new publisher. But that didn't go far and MMI went down for good about 10 years ago.

That was my favorite mag. Just the way they did everything.the layout etc… also love Greg zulaks uncensored or something like that. I know that stopped a while before the mag stopped but I loved going and buying that magazine every month. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I bought one.

[MCWAY]

That was my favorite mag. Just the way they did everything.the layout etc… also love Greg zulaks uncensored or something like that. I know that stopped a while before the mag stopped but I loved going and buying that magazine every month. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I bought one.

MuscleMag was my favorite too, especially Greg Zulak's articles. He basically helped me with my training and nutrition regime and talked about how to build muscle in the real world without steroids. Zulak broke down realistic expectations for gaining mass. It was train for size first; then worry about definition and symmetry. His article in issue 154 about "Alternates" (training antagonistic body parts together) changed my entire approach to hitting the iron. And the diet portion helped me add more size and strength.

[Royalty]

MuscleMag was my favorite too, especially Greg Zulak's articles. He basically helped me with my training and nutrition regime and talked about how to build muscle in the real world without steroids. Zulak broke down realistic expectations for gaining mass. It was train for size first; then worry about definition and symmetry. His article in issue 154 about "Alternates" (training antagonistic body parts together) changed my entire approach to hitting the iron. And the diet portion helped me add more size and strength.

Fortress knew Kennedy and Zulak

[Fortress]

Fortress knew Kennedy and Zulak

Bob was my boss and my friend. Greg was an acquaintance who, while I was at MMI, was still a contributor, but not in-house (he was rarely physically there).

MuscleMag was dead the minute after Robert took his last breath.

The magazine was Kennedy and his lifelong friend “Gino” (aka “Johnny Fitness). Period. End of story.

RIP

[Flexacon]

They should have taken up Vince Gs offer to write for them.

[beakdoctor]

Magazines, in general, are dead. Unfortunately.

I hate to be the old guy Always bitching about how much better everything used to be but that what I am. Unfortunately.

I remember walking to the bookstore as a kid. I'd go specifically to pick up The Ring magazine  and Muscle and Fitness. If the new issues weren't in Id just take a few hours and read Boxing Illustrated andIronman or MMI. Then walk home. The quality of writing in all of those magazines was really good. As a kid I didn't realize it and most adults didn't associate boxing or bodybuilding with literacy. And the pictures/photography were great too.

The internet has turned everything into McDonalds. Cheap, fast, shitty, but satisfying in it's immediacy. Now every dickhead and bimbo in the gym bring a fucking camera crew with them. Take a billion videos of some piglet squating, over and over again and caption it "I hate leg day!" With a dozen emojis to follow and it gets more views than Mr. Universe coverage.

The Ring is online now and is a daily/weekly boxing news site. The writing is often terrible but there's no subscription fee either. I haven't seen a Muscle and Fitness magazine in years. Don't know if they have an online platform.