MD is twice the magazine FLEX is. MD has a personal interaction with the reader. Every pro has their own section in which they are allowed to voice their opinion no matter what the topic. They each give their own insight on training and also give a little personal note on what there up to. Per Bernal is an awesome photographer and keeps it real. Chris Lund makes the athletes wear cut-off jean shorts and workboots(gay)!!! Face it, Drugs are an essential part of bodybuilding these days and MD is the only magazine with enough balls to talk about them. Sections like Lee's and Romano's are my favorite to read. I guess if you just wanted to look at some gay ass pics and read some ghostwritten articles, read Flex. If you wanna actually learn from these magazines and get an unbiased view of the sport, choose MD-
...you'll come around soon enough to how crummy MD actually is. I mean, the latest issue has the SAME damn pic we've been seeing of Palumbo on the cover for what, 4 years now?...and you see this crap EVERY issue!...Per Bernal is awesome, but damn, pay the man to take some new friggin photos!!!
And MD gets off on saying it's the only mag that PAYS for it's photo shoots....it certainly MUST, since it rehashes the same damn pics for YEARS!...at least FLEX mixes up the old pics, MUCH less than MD.
The articles in MD are NOT written by the bodybuilders, not in the least. On many occasions, ONE BAD one in paritcular, I read a supposed Dex Jackson 'article' in MD which was, NO SHIT, an almost word for word copy of a Chris Aceto FLEX article....THREE MONTHS EARLIER!!...I'd love to post the scans of the pages, you'd all laugh your asses off at how
MD goes to FLEX when it needs to fill the pages!!! ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
MD, while fresh for the first 10 months or so (when you at least got the hot chicks) was a breath of fresh air. Now it's just boring. Reading Romano's pseudo intellectual articles ad naseum on the Balco affair and the surrounding Senate hearings were some of the most boring reads I've ever FORCED myself to read...right up to where I said FUCK THIS and stopped buying it.