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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #125 on: January 19, 2024, 12:25:18 AM »
Got to be in his late 40s / 50s here

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #126 on: January 19, 2024, 06:31:03 AM »
Been in Venice all this week and haven't sighted him which is unusual, he's usually around looking to hustle food or money off anyone who doesn't know his history. He's a prick but I wish him no harm.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #127 on: January 20, 2024, 09:21:43 AM »
Been in Venice all this week and haven't sighted him which is unusual, he's usually around looking to hustle food or money off anyone who doesn't know his history. He's a prick but I wish him no harm.

Did you look out back by the dumpsters?
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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #128 on: January 21, 2024, 12:04:33 AM »
Did you look out back by the dumpsters?
:D Is that where Robby eats or sleeps?

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #129 on: January 23, 2024, 12:36:34 AM »
Been in Venice all this week and haven't sighted him which is unusual, he's usually around looking to hustle food or money off anyone who doesn't know his history. He's a prick but I wish him no harm.

Doesn't he train at 4am ?

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #130 on: January 23, 2024, 04:24:56 AM »
One bb I know had a gf working the assembly line a long time ago, where they assembled Norditropin vials. You could buy with or without labels, with labels was like $100 more. With the ones without labels you could tell by the color of the metal cap which strength it was, 15, 30 or 45iu. I remember thinking that if they were all fake the counterfeiters would never have made the 15 and 30 vials. But you could never be sure if the stories were true.
Once way back a 1% motorcycke club got busted for stealing millions of dollars worth of Norditropin from a warehouse in Denmark. They had gotten greedy, had been in the warehouse once already the day before.

Today many say you are way more likely to get a hold of counterfeit pharma GH compared to fake Chinese underground GH. Much of the Chinese is good nowadays they say. Only concern is that the Chinese causes more effects as well as more side effects, some speculate this is caused by "dimers" in the products, a type of protein left in the product from manufacturing. They are also sometimes way overdosed actually.

You guys in the US don't know how good you have it, you can get quality Chinese for $100 for 100iu (fella above said back in the day 100 units could cost $1500). Here in my country
the price is 3x the US black market price. Almost everyone could afford it nowadays.
Why aren't you on it? Huh? :D Even if not on steroids, GH could be a nice restorative and "feel good," "anti-aging" compound.

I haven't been around roids for a long time now, but are the Paki sustanons and testovirons still around?

I'm surprised they never got big into spreading humatrope (it was that or some other brand that's made out there) on the black market like they did the testosterones.

An easy business is moving out there, opening a legit pharmacy company then pushing out the hgh and test to Europe.

Easier than pushing heroin and even if you get caught, you're not going to see over 5-10 years lol.

I remember that guy, I think it was the alpha pharma owner, got caught and it was a big story in the media in UK. They said the business was in the 10s of millions (maybe 100s, I don't remember). He was was moving like James Bond villain but the sentence was relatively light. Might have been around 10 years.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #131 on: January 24, 2024, 12:02:42 AM »
Doesn't he train at 4am ?
Great time to train as you have the whole weight room to yourself.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #132 on: January 25, 2024, 12:52:44 PM »
Great time to train as you have the whole weight room to yourself.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #133 on: January 25, 2024, 03:22:49 PM »
Looking back it's funny now in a way.  Mid 70's you had these unbelievable unique and amazing physiques no homo.  Zane, Robby, Lou, Boyer the list goes on and on and on.  They were all unbelievable. But they were all deep in Arnold's shadow.  Wonder what things would have been like if Arnold didn't show up.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #134 on: January 25, 2024, 03:55:35 PM »
One thing that Robby said in his book about Mentzer/Arnold is that Weider would allow his top stars to advertise their training programs and pamphlets in his magazines.  Because it generated fan mail and they were in the photos promoting Weider products (see below for how that panned out).  "Arnold's" training obviously was "built" all around the Weider Principles.  (duh!)  Likewise the other BBers training programs being sold were variations of the volume method.  Then Mike came along and started advertising his HIT program.  Which obviously went against everything that Joe was preaching as the gospel with the Weider Principles.  Joe and Ben were like "uh...nope" and that was the end of that for Mike and their magazines.

Regarding Robby, he was advertising his training program and such and being featured in the Weider ads promoting one of Joe's products.  A young fan wrote to Robby and said that he (Robby) was his favorite BBer and he wanted to know if the product Robby was advertising was really working because he had limited money and had to cut corners if he could afford it.  Robby wrote back and told him that in truth, he didn't even use the product.  When Joe found out about it, he banned Robby from competing in the IFBB for TWO lifetimes.  He only relented and brought Robby back because they were grooming Lou to win the first Master's O and they needed a "name" for Lou to beat to lend him some credibility.  Which of course did not happen and they were furious that Robby won instead.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #135 on: January 26, 2024, 12:37:11 AM »
One thing that Robby said in his book about Mentzer/Arnold is that Weider would allow his top stars to advertise their training programs and pamphlets in his magazines.  Because it generated fan mail and they were in the photos promoting Weider products (see below for how that panned out).  "Arnold's" training obviously was "built" all around the Weider Principles.  (duh!)  Likewise the other BBers training programs being sold were variations of the volume method.  Then Mike came along and started advertising his HIT program.  Which obviously went against everything that Joe was preaching as the gospel with the Weider Principles.  Joe and Ben were like "uh...nope" and that was the end of that for Mike and their magazines.

Regarding Robby, he was advertising his training program and such and being featured in the Weider ads promoting one of Joe's products.  A young fan wrote to Robby and said that he (Robby) was his favorite BBer and he wanted to know if the product Robby was advertising was really working because he had limited money and had to cut corners if he could afford it.  Robby wrote back and told him that in truth, he didn't even use the product.  When Joe found out about it, he banned Robby from competing in the IFBB for TWO lifetimes.  He only relented and brought Robby back because they were grooming Lou to win the first Master's O and they needed a "name" for Lou to beat to lend him some credibility.  Which of course did not happen and they were furious that Robby won instead.
Mike continued advertising his books and had articles in Weider magazines through the 80's and 90's along with other mags like Ironman and MM2K.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #136 on: January 26, 2024, 01:15:27 AM »
What happened to Robby's Generation Iron documentary that was advertised last year ?

Does anyone know?

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #137 on: January 26, 2024, 02:05:43 AM »
What happened to Robby's Generation Iron documentary that was advertised last year ?

Does anyone know?

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He stole the master copies out of Vlad's locker...

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #138 on: January 27, 2024, 03:35:39 AM »
One thing that Robby said in his book about Mentzer/Arnold is that Weider would allow his top stars to advertise their training programs and pamphlets in his magazines.  Because it generated fan mail and they were in the photos promoting Weider products (see below for how that panned out).  "Arnold's" training obviously was "built" all around the Weider Principles.  (duh!)  Likewise the other BBers training programs being sold were variations of the volume method.  Then Mike came along and started advertising his HIT program.  Which obviously went against everything that Joe was preaching as the gospel with the Weider Principles.  Joe and Ben were like "uh...nope" and that was the end of that for Mike and their magazines.

Regarding Robby, he was advertising his training program and such and being featured in the Weider ads promoting one of Joe's products.  A young fan wrote to Robby and said that he (Robby) was his favorite BBer and he wanted to know if the product Robby was advertising was really working because he had limited money and had to cut corners if he could afford it.  Robby wrote back and told him that in truth, he didn't even use the product.  When Joe found out about it, he banned Robby from competing in the IFBB for TWO lifetimes.  He only relented and brought Robby back because they were grooming Lou to win the first Master's O and they needed a "name" for Lou to beat to lend him some credibility.  Which of course did not happen and they were furious that Robby won instead.

I don't know which is more surprising - the fact that Robby can write, or that he actually sprang for postage  ;D
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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #139 on: January 27, 2024, 08:17:35 AM »
Mike continued advertising his books and had articles in Weider magazines through the 80's and 90's along with other mags like Ironman and MM2K.

Damn Robby lied again.  The 80's and 90's were before my time and I didn't read the magazines then so I wouldn't know.  But the story itself the way he told him was somewhat hysterical.  That he responded to the kid truthfully and in good intentions of saving him money that he didn't have in the first place, and the kid immediately wrote Joe Weider a letter along the lines of "you fucking liar!  Robby says..."

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #140 on: January 27, 2024, 08:19:40 AM »
I don't know which is more surprising - the fact that Robby can write, or that he actually sprang for postage  ;D

According to what he wrote (pun) he was one of the first to start replying back to people who wrote him directly and sending them a signed photograph for free (even if they didn't ask for it).  He claimed it helped keep him in everyone's mind and lead to a jump in his already high popularity in Europe which resulted in more speaking appearances and a high charge rate.

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Re: Robby's book : Muscle vs Hustle
« Reply #141 on: January 31, 2024, 01:57:44 PM »
He stole the master copies out of Vlad's locker...

Something mustve happened as I remember it being filmed when he was training 'Tim Taylor'. I was interested in it as they went back to the 'swamps' and visited where Robby grew up etc it did look interesting.