Whatever became of muscular development, magazine, and why?

[tacobender]

Wasn’t the CEO of flaming fag?

[delon]

Whatever became of muscular development magazine

https://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=689442.0


and why?

[LurkerNoMore]

It went from like 2000 pages that were 1984 pages of ads at $7.99 to 60 pages that were 48 pages of ads for $12.99 last time I saw one in the airport years ago.

[mphgrove]

Wasn’t the CEO of flaming fag?

Fag scale

Bob Hoffman 0
Peary Raider 0
Dan Lurie 2
Robert Kennedy 2.5
Joe Weider 7
Muscular Development    Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, you can cash out

[Flexacon]

Aaron Singermans advertising dollars were keeping them afloat during the final few years. They wrapped things up when that dried up.

[Humble Narcissist]

Fag scale

Bob Hoffman 0
Peary Raider 0
Dan Lurie 2
Robert Kennedy 2.5
Joe Weider 7
Muscular Development    Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, you can cash out

I loved all the muscle mags back in the day.

[mphgrove]

I loved all the muscle mags back in the day.

A favorite was the original Paery Rader Iron Man. His wife Mabel Raeder, who partnered on the magazine, lived to 107 years of age.

https://www.facebook.com/klemensliftingphotos/posts/this-is-a-little-late-but-i-just-heard-mabel-rader-passed-away-december-21-2024-/1369344574993553/

Other favorites were MuscleMag (Kennedy) and Flex (Weiders I think)

Then there were other weird ones like Muscle Up and Muscle Digest and a few others I cannot recall. Oh Man’s World:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2F4O4AAeSwmANooDJL%2Fs-l1200.jpg&tbnid=C-e7U8Rwglb3kM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F365801789465&docid=h0C_0tjraRuIYM&w=900&h=1200&itg=1&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=d053e6ee546c74e4&shem=isst

[BB]

Fag scale

Bob Hoffman 0
Peary Raider 0
Dan Lurie 2
Robert Kennedy 2.5
Joe Weider 7
Muscular Development    Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, you can cash out

Now I've got a vision of Peary homoing out in some odd Nebraska way with this look on his face -
.

And I bet Hoffman might've gotten into a tranny or two if the odd mood struck him. He had this boastful way about his conquests that makes me think it.

"Hoffman's Protein From Sea allowed me to maintain a straining rock hard erection for this man in a dress......".

[Van_Bilderass]

Had a huge collection of mags from 1987 to maybe 2000 and then I just dumped them all. Loved reading them as a kid

Haven't really read books in a long time either but if would again I think I'd prefer paper. I have one e-book I promised myself to read but now considering ordering a hard copy if that would make it easier

[Lartinos]

The decline started once Palumbo left.

[dj181]

Musclemedia2000 was one of the best

[BB]

Steve's brother, checkout the bought follower count -

https://www.instagram.com/deanblechman/?hl=en&g=5 .

[Flexacon]

Steve's brother, checkout the bought follower count -

https://www.instagram.com/deanblechman/?hl=en&g=5 .

Wow. Bought likes and comments too.

[tacobender]

I used to live Joe Weider‘s muscle and fitness. I think I actually had a subscription to it and then muscular development came out. I really liked that mag because that was a hard-core magazine where they actually talked about gear shit like that but yes, definitely a shit ton of pages. I hated all the ads Majority of it was muscle tech but Steve Blechman definitely was a queer.

[AbrahamG]

If anyone here crosses paths with Giles Thomas on any social media platform, tell him I said hello and to remind him about how he got cuckolded by Cedric McMillan.  I'm sure he ate that cunt a time or two after it had been basted. 

[Flexacon]

If anyone here crosses paths with Giles Thomas on any social media platform, tell him I said hello and to remind him about how he got cuckolded by Cedric McMillan.  I'm sure he ate that cunt a time or two after it had been basted.

Haha. Rosie and Cedric were on guest pose trip to Japan or something where apparently some wild shit went down. Poor Giles

To his credit he found out she was doing or planning to do Only Fans whilst they were together and dumped her

[AbrahamG]

Haha. Rosie and Cedric were on guest pose trip to Japan or something where apparently some wild shit went down. Poor Giles

Too his credit he found out she was doing or planning to do Only Fans whilst they were together and dumped her

Yeah but that was after he most certainly sucked Cedric's dick by proxy. 

[mphgrove]

Now I've got a vision of Peary homoing out in some odd Nebraska way with this look on his face -
.

And I bet Hoffman might've gotten into a tranny or two if the odd mood struck him. He had this boastful way about his conquests that makes me think it.

"Hoffman's Protein From Sea allowed me to maintain a straining rock hard erection for this man in a dress......".

And Mabel too was wild in a Nebraska sort of way. It all came out at 103 or 104.

[tacobender]

All Jewish fags

[Humble Narcissist]

All Jewish fags

Hoffman would kill you for saying that.

[beakdoctor]

It became less gay over time and sales dipped dramatically. Then it went kaput. Sad.

*I have the last couple of issues. The very last issue had Andrea Shaw on the cover. But a few issues earlier had that big black dummy on the cover- not Andrew Jacked but the other massive African guy, iirc he started a war of words with Nick Walker that escalated to them settling their *beef* on the posing dais.  The black guy showed up aslightly leaner than a Big Mac with cheese and hasn't been seen since. Anyway, reading that issue on the plane was a rather shameful experience. I figured i would be able to proudly brandish the issue with Andrea Shaw and avoid the same embarrassment. Nope... piles of shame were heaped on me by the normies, silently judging my choice of periodicals, unfamiliar with the totally heterosexual world of bodybuilding. 

[joswift]

Blessing Awodibu

[Flexacon]

What's even more sad is that they could have a hugely successful online platform.

They were early with youtube and put out high quality content which racked up millions of views (youtube bucks were amazing back then too) and then lost access to the channel because of some internal politics.

They got back into youtube content creation again several years later, but it was just Ron Harris interviews and by then influencers had taken over the space.

I tried to help them with their setup and youtube short clips. Some of the shorts went on to rack up millions in views and none of those cun+s even said thank you

[Lartinos]

It became less gay over time and sales dipped dramatically. Then it went kaput. Sad.

*I have the last couple of issues. The very last issue had Andrea Shaw on the cover. But a few issues earlier had that big black dummy on the cover- not Andrew Jacked but the other massive African guy, iirc he started a war of words with Nick Walker that escalated to them settling their *beef* on the posing dais.  The black guy showed up aslightly leaner than a Big Mac with cheese and hasn't been seen since. Anyway, reading that issue on the plane was a rather shameful experience. I figured i would be able to proudly brandish the issue with Andrea Shaw and avoid the same embarrassment. Nope... piles of shame were heaped on me by the normies, silently judging my choice of periodicals, unfamiliar with the totally heterosexual world of bodybuilding.

Wasn’t until 20 years later (I was 17 in summer 98’) that I realized me buying a magazine named “Pump” magazine with a shirtless guy on the cover may have made me look gay, lol.

If they read it they’d see it was about steroids, but I highly doubt they took the time to do it.

[LurkerNoMore]

The old Musclemag International (before it became Musclemag 2000) was much better and way ahead of it's time.  MD basically tried to copy the format it was and failed.