There are a number of Olympia After Parties again this year, and here are two of them. The first is Dexter Jackson’s After Party, and the second is Shawn Ray’s After Party. Many tend to go to these partys on Saturday night after the Official Olympia Victory Gala, which starts at 11pm at the Orleans [...]
Isaac Hinds has put out a very good preview on how may come home or do well with a pro card this weekend at the NPC USAs. With so many competitors, and us guessing has to who will be competing, it makes the task even more eventful. Here is Isaac’s review on some of the [...]
Retired IFBB Hall of Fame Bodybuilder Shawn Ray has joined GENr8, Inc., the exclusive marketers of Vitargo® S2. Shawn will be a Chief Consultant and Strategist to GENr8 in the areas of marketing and promotions related to bodybuilding and its athletes, both professional and amateur, creating opportunities for charity events, as well as muscle camps, [...]
Last Tuesday, it was reported that Eridania Rodriquez was missing. She went to work in a building near the World Trade Center, where she cleaned offices, and never came out. No one knew what happened, until they found blood leaking from a ventilation shaft this past weekend.
She was found bound and gagged, hand tied behind [...]
July 4th, Independence Day here in the USA, is also when Muscle Beach Venice will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. One person that they will be inducting into the Muscle Beach Hall of Fame is Relna Brewer McRae, who helped her brother Paul, start and build 75 years ago what became known as Muscle Beach.
NBC [...]
Roland Kickinger is in a new movie called Raven, also starring Rudolf Martin, Meadow Williams, Steven Bauer, Courtney Gains and Dee Wallace. A special screening of the movie will be shown at the Academy of Television Arts & Science in North Hollywood in a few weeks. Here is the cover poster of the movie.
RAVEN, a [...]
The 2009 NPC Atlantic States, promoted by Steve Weinburger, is on June 6th, at the Tribecca Center in New York, New York. Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler and Dexter Jackson are slated to guest pose at this contest. The contest features NPC bodybuilding, figure, fitness and bikini competitors. Here is the flyer and more information.
Farmington, CT May 22nd, 2009 — To further celebrate their 30th anniversary, Ultimate Nutrition announced today a partnership with the 2009 Joe Weider’s Olympia Weekend. The Olympia Weekend, currently known as “The 2009 Olympia Weekend,” will now be known as “Ultimate Nutrition presents Joe Weider’s 2009 Olympia Weekend brought to you by Bodybuilding.com.”
The 2009 Joe [...]
VPX filed an appeal of the injunction issued by a district court in California precluding VPX from using its registered trademark “Muscle Power” and the trade dress on its packaging. Jack Owoc, CEO and founder of VPX, explained that VPX was highly disappointed by the ruling:
“We are very disconcerted by the court’’s ruling and think [...]
On Wednesday, May 6th in Sacramento, CA, a Federal Court issued an order requiring Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VPX) to immediately remove Muscle Power from the marketplace after concluding that the product infringes on CytoSport’s trademark rights of Muscle Milk®.
This preliminary injunction was prompted after CytoSport filed a lawsuit against VPX, stating that Muscle Power’s packaging, [...]
The following statement was issued today by Iovate regarding the Hydroxycut recall.
As you know, Iovate is strongly committed to product safety. In keeping with that mission, Iovate welcomes balanced regulation for the dietary supplement industry, and we feel that these regulations are in the best interest of our customers and our industry.
Millions of consumers purchase [...]
Dietary Supplements Linked to One Death; Pose Risk of Liver Injury
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to immediately stop using Hydroxycut products by Iovate Health Sciences Inc., of Oakville, Ontario and distributed by Iovate Health Sciences USA Inc. of Blasdell, N.Y. Some Hydroxycut products are associated with a number of serious liver [...]
While the NPC and IFBB Europa Show of Champions is being held in Orlando on April 18th, in the West coast, in Bellevue, Washington (near Seattle), the largest local NPC competition in the USA, the 2009 NPC Emerald Cup will be held on the same weekend. Close to 250 NPC competitors will line up the [...]
We have updated the pics that a few of us (Isaac Hinds, Ron Avidan, Mark Mason) have taken over the last few weeks from various contests that we post on bodybuilding.com and other places. In the pictures section, here is a list of many of the pictures that you might of missed seeing.
To check them [...]
Bodybuilding.com, the Internet’s most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest retailer of nutritional supplements, held its 8th Annual Bodybuilding.com Fitness Expo April 3rd at the Knitting Factory Concert House in celebration of fitness and health, and in true BFE fashion it was bigger than ever! Free admission, free supplements, and the promise of a night [...]
