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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
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Take a nap.
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romanticizing the fact that u were a gullible delusionite is retarded
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
Drunk post reported
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
I miss the WBF. Back then, it was cool because you didn't have to wait a month to hopefully catch a bodybuilding show at 3 am (i.e. American Muscle on ESPN).
The 1991 show was the first to pay six figures for a professional bodybuilding contest.
For a while, the only magazines I bought were MuscleMag International and WBF Bodybuilding Lifestyles. After the WBF went kaput, I ended up reading Muscular Development (MD). I liked that one too, even when the identity crisis started in the mid 90s: Muscular Development-Fitness-Health, All-Natural Muscular Development, etc. It seems that's happening again with MD some 20 years later.
The magazines all had supplement companies behind them.
Flex & Muscle & Fitness - Weider Nutrition
Muscular Development - Twinlab
MuscleMag International - Muscletech
Muscle Media (2000) - EAS
IronMan - Muscle Link
WBF Bodybuilding Lifestyles - ICOPRO
As for Muscletech, speak for yourself. Maybe it had YOU believing you'd be as big and ripped as the pros (especially since most of the pros were big and ripped before MuscleTech existed. And its initial poster boy weighed 240 as a teen before he even started bodybuilding). I tried Muscletech's original three supplements (Acetabolan, Creatine 6000-ES, and Hydroxycut). Back then, they cost a fortune. But, of course, as newer supplements arrived, the old ones became cheap.
I still have some of the tapes I got with some supplement purchases. The Mass Fuel tape came with the Twinlab Lee Haney's Mass Fuel kit I bought on clearance. It's hard to believe that tape is nearly 30 years old. Then there's "Up Close and Personal with the Mega Mass Champions". Guess how I ended up with that tape.
I got my first gym membership for Christmas in 1991 at Bally Total Fitness (back when it had the blue and white logo and was also known as the Scandinavian club). I kept that membership for 20 years, until Bally went belly up.
Even before then, my high school science project in 1990 was gaining weight. The test subject was MYSELF. I gained 21 lbs in 3 months (142 to 163). Though technically, my interest in bodybuilding officially started in 1989 with the cement weight set I got from my old middle school, the 1990s were my "golden years", of sorts.
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
Even though there were a lot of lies and false hope being promoted, those old mags were inspirational. It was like being little, and believing in Santa at Christmas.
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
Ditto, the late '80's / '90's guys had so much more personality and still appreciated what bodybuilding is all about. I attended seminars (and posing) from Vince Taylor, Kevin Levrone, Bob Paris, Mike Quinn, Victor Richards and Rich Gaspari. The knowledge these guys had about nutrition was amazing. When you saw them off season you believed them when they said they only took the drugs pre-show as they looked healthy. Saw Lee Haney guest pose too and he was incredible.
The annual Grand Prix's were superb. I attended rom 1988 until 1997 and they were fantastic. Some great battles too ....
Sadly professional/competitive bodybuilding has died. Its just all drugs and about size now. Ben and Joe will be turning in their graves. Arnold was in discussions with Serge Nubret about returning IFBB bodybuilding to its true form in 2009 but sadly Serge died after pushing himself too hard in preparation for guest posing at The Arnold Classic. It will never return now.....
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I started training in 1994, in an obscur little club in north of France. The club was in a old house, so basically the upper body room was in was used to be the living room, the squat rack and leg press in the dining room etc etc. Most of machine were hand made. The wall were still covered with the genuine tapestry, with page from Flex, Fbi just snatched from the magazine and put on the wall with a thumbtack. People at the club were dressed with otomix and gorilla wear. Sometime somebody got a vhs copied from another vhs about bodybuilding, quality was shitty but believe me the waiting file to get the vhs was long. I spent wonderful time in this place. Every month i harassed the bookseller for the last flex/muscle fitness, who were read from cover to cover several time. So yes i miss the 90s. No instagram, no slin, no clone 300lbs bodybuilder, no empty people at gym, everybody was different, good or bad, but everybody was somebody.
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I miss the WBF. Back then, it was cool because you didn't have to wait a month to hopefully catch a bodybuilding show at 3 am (i.e. American Muscle on ESPN).
The 1991 show was the first to pay six figures for a professional bodybuilding contest.
Incorrect. The 1990 Mr Olympia in Chicago had a first place prize of $100,00.
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
I agree, it was a much funner time to be into bodybuilding. Social media has destroyed the world. It's taken the fun out of a lot of things and created a world of zombies. My favorite thing about the 90's was just hanging out in the gym for like 4 hours with my buddies. I worked out at balleys. We knew all the local competitors and all the trainers. I never competed, but wish I had at least once. It's probably still a cool community, but people seem so much more isolated now.
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The amount of bread I wasted on fucking supplements. What a joke.
But mostly in the eighties.
I remember meeting my still-a-friend friend in grade 10 and visiting his house for the first time.
On the kitchen counter he had a goofy little plastic can of Weider’s Muscle Builder protein. I was freaking out.
“Holy shit! I gotta get some of that! Where’d you get it, man?!”
I genuinely thought I’d become huge if I consumed one or two of them.
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Even though there were a lot of lies and false hope being promoted, those old mags were inspirational. It was like being little, and believing in Santa at Christmas.
I dont understand the Santa correlation. :-[
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Even though there were a lot of lies and false hope being promoted, those old mags were inspirational. It was like being little, and believing in Santa at Christmas.
Santa is real you fuckin asshole >:( ;D
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The amount of bread I wasted on fucking supplements. What a joke.
But mostly in the eighties.
I remember meeting my still-a-friend friend in grade 10 and visiting his house for the first time.
On the kitchen counter he had a goofy little plastic can of Weider’s Muscle Builder protein. I was freaking out.
“Holy shit! I gotta get some of that! Where’d you get it, man?!”
I genuinely thought I’d become huge if I consumed one or two of them.
I bought the 25-lb bag of Joe Weider's Mega Mass 2000. It looked like a large dog food bag. Inside was a training video (VHS) featuring Achim Albrecht, if I recall correctly. Joe's Mega Mass 2000 got me up to about 225 lbs. but it didn't make me look like Achim.
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romanticizing the fact that u were a gullible delusionite is retarded
You gotta admit it was better then...there was more idealism...less vitriol toward the sport and the bodybuilders
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I miss the WBF. Back then, it was cool because you didn't have to wait a month to hopefully catch a bodybuilding show at 3 am (i.e. American Muscle on ESPN).
The 1991 show was the first to pay six figures for a professional bodybuilding contest.
For a while, the only magazines I bought were MuscleMag International and WBF Bodybuilding Lifestyles. After the WBF went kaput, I ended up reading Muscular Development (MD). I liked that one too, even when the identity crisis started in the mid 90s: Muscular Development-Fitness-Health, All-Natural Muscular Development, etc. It seems that's happening again with MD some 20 years later.
The magazines all had supplement companies behind them.
Flex & Muscle & Fitness - Weider Nutrition
Muscular Development - Twinlab
MuscleMag International - Muscletech
Muscle Media (2000) - EAS
IronMan - Muscle Link
WBF Bodybuilding Lifestyles - ICOPRO
As for Muscletech, speak for yourself. Maybe it had YOU believing you'd be as big and ripped as the pros (especially since most of the pros were big and ripped before MuscleTech existed. And its initial poster boy weighed 240 as a teen before he even started bodybuilding). I tried Muscletech's original three supplements (Acetabolan, Creatine 6000-ES, and Hydroxycut). Back then, they cost a fortune. But, of course, as newer supplements arrived, the old ones became cheap.
I still have some of the tapes I got with some supplement purchases. The Mass Fuel tape came with the Twinlab Lee Haney's Mass Fuel kit I bought on clearance. It's hard to believe that tape is nearly 30 years old. Then there's "Up Close and Personal with the Mega Mass Champions". Guess how I ended up with that tape.
I got my first gym membership for Christmas in 1991 at Bally Total Fitness (back when it had the blue and white logo and was also known as the Scandinavian club). I kept that membership for 20 years, until Bally went belly up.
Even before then, my high school science project in 1990 was gaining weight. The test subject was MYSELF. I gained 21 lbs in 3 months (142 to 163). Though technically, my interest in bodybuilding officially started in 1989 with the cement weight set I got from my old middle school, the 1990s were my "golden years", of sorts.
Good post...I used Hydroycut and it definitely worked for me...I went from 248 to 218 lbs.....Even cell-tech worked for me..i got stronger and it helped me become hard...I used to love the old Muscle-Link shakes...I forget what they were called...the vanilla was amazing and the orange crème as well...
I just miss the excitement of looking forward to that next issue of Flex and Ironman.....also all the contests and the shit-talking in the magazines between guys like Kamali and Shawn
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Remember the 90's? Bodybuilding was so awesome back then. The personalities were larger than life and I couldn't wait to get the next issue of FLEX and IRONMAN magazines. Muscletech actually had us believing that if we used their products we'd get as big and ripped as the pros.....The bodybuilders would talk big smack about each other and actually trained together......miss uncle Joe and Ben as well :)
I have to admit I also miss going down to the supplement store and buying those fake sups we all saw in he mags....such an innocent and simple time back then..... ;)
Miss the old contests as well....especially the grand prix contests that used to run for a few weeks at the end of the year....
MEMORIES................ ............
So much truth in this post.
Bodybuilding started going downhill with Ronnie. Dorian too. They are when it became all about size.
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Even though there were a lot of lies and false hope being promoted, those old mags were inspirational. It was like being little, and believing in Santa at Christmas.
Excellent analogy....good point
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Ditto, the late '80's / '90's guys had so much more personality and still appreciated what bodybuilding is all about. I attended seminars (and posing) from Vince Taylor, Kevin Levrone, Bob Paris, Mike Quinn, Victor Richards and Rich Gaspari. The knowledge these guys had about nutrition was amazing. When you saw them off season you believed them when they said they only took the drugs pre-show as they looked healthy. Saw Lee Haney guest pose too and he was incredible.
The annual Grand Prix's were superb. I attended rom 1988 until 1997 and they were fantastic. Some great battles too ....
Sadly professional/competitive bodybuilding has died. Its just all drugs and about size now. Ben and Joe will be turning in their graves. Arnold was in discussions with Serge Nubret about returning IFBB bodybuilding to its true form in 2009 but sadly Serge died after pushing himself too hard in preparation for guest posing at The Arnold Classic. It will never return now.....
Yes I agree with you....I used to run to the newsstand to get the mags to find out the winners of the Grand Prix contests...I used to get excited when it was time for the Ironman contest because I knew that was the start of bodybuilding season....
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I started training in 1994, in an obscur little club in north of France. The club was in a old house, so basically the upper body room was in was used to be the living room, the squat rack and leg press in the dining room etc etc. Most of machine were hand made. The wall were still covered with the genuine tapestry, with page from Flex, Fbi just snatched from the magazine and put on the wall with a thumbtack. People at the club were dressed with otomix and gorilla wear. Sometime somebody got a vhs copied from another vhs about bodybuilding, quality was shitty but believe me the waiting file to get the vhs was long. I spent wonderful time in this place. Every month i harassed the bookseller for the last flex/muscle fitness, who were read from cover to cover several time. So yes i miss the 90s. No instagram, no slin, no clone 300lbs bodybuilder, no empty people at gym, everybody was different, good or bad, but everybody was somebody.
and no cellphones...LOL..now EVERYBODY in the gym looks at their cellphones between sets
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You gotta admit it was better then...
this reality is on a one way trip to hell....
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I agree, it was a much funner time to be into bodybuilding. Social media has destroyed the world. It's taken the fun out of a lot of things and created a world of zombies. My favorite thing about the 90's was just hanging out in the gym for like 4 hours with my buddies. I worked out at balleys. We knew all the local competitors and all the trainers. I never competed, but wish I had at least once. It's probably still a cool community, but people seem so much more isolated now.
yes definitely....hanging out at the gym and talking about which BB'ers had the best arms, legs, chest, etc was great.....and then we'd all be so psyched and we'd try to get a teardrop thigh in one workout :D :D...as if that was really possible
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The amount of bread I wasted on fucking supplements. What a joke.
But mostly in the eighties.
I remember meeting my still-a-friend friend in grade 10 and visiting his house for the first time.
On the kitchen counter he had a goofy little plastic can of Weider’s Muscle Builder protein. I was freaking out.
“Holy shit! I gotta get some of that! Where’d you get it, man?!”
I genuinely thought I’d become huge if I consumed one or two of them.
HA! My brother bought "BIG"....the protein pills made by Joe Weider that promised you'd get big and muscular by consuming 18 pills per day..my brother was psyched and he started taking these pills (which were like horse pills) and he kept swallowing them and swallowing them until he couldn't take it any more and started to choke and then vomit....it was hilarious
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I agree, it was a much funner time to be into bodybuilding. Social media has destroyed the world. It's taken the fun out of a lot of things and created a world of zombies. My favorite thing about the 90's was just hanging out in the gym for like 4 hours with my buddies. I worked out at balleys. We knew all the local competitors and all the trainers. I never competed, but wish I had at least once. It's probably still a cool community, but people seem so much more isolated now.
I think we all had that dream that maybe...just maybe ...if we kept working and tried just a little harder that we could get big and ripped enough to be able to step on stage...how delusional we were :-\ :-\
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So much truth in this post.
Bodybuilding started going downhill with Ronnie. Dorian too. They are when it became all about size.
Good point
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Man, I miss the 70s BB.
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Man, I miss the 70s BB.
80's and 90's were the best
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So much truth in this post.
Bodybuilding started going downhill with Ronnie. Dorian too. They are when it became all about size.
It was judging more than anything, they were pushing for more freak size and the bbers were just following the criteria
Ronnie wasn’t “huge” by all means in 98 when he won, he was in line with Kevin, flex, and Nasser
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Looking forward to open each and every issue of This Mag, gave me butterflies in the 90's...
Man Oh Man, those were the times...and the Dan Duchaine articles and no BS approach to Bodybuilding was so unique... ;D
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So much truth in this post.
Bodybuilding started going downhill with Ronnie. Dorian too. They are when it became all about size.
It wasn't all about size Dorian was 242 first Olympia and 257 for his 5th , the only time he was really heavy was 266lbs in 1997. Lee Haney was 257lbs in 1989 , Haney was always the heaviest guy on-stage bar far , everyone was chasing Haney in terms of size , Dorian was the first guy who could match him size wise , even though he was lighter.
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Incorrect. The 1990 Mr Olympia in Chicago had a first place prize of $100,00.
I beg to differ. That would mean the prize money got REDUCED the following year. Lee Haney got $80,000 for winning the 1991 Olympia. Dorian Yates got $100,000 for winning the 1992 Olympia; as did Gary Strydom for winning the WBF title that same year.
They listed the prize money on ESPN during its chopped up footage of the 1991 O. And, I remember reading the contest results in Muscle and Fitness in early 1992.
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The amount of bread I wasted on fucking supplements. What a joke.
But mostly in the eighties.
I remember meeting my still-a-friend friend in grade 10 and visiting his house for the first time.
On the kitchen counter he had a goofy little plastic can of Weider’s Muscle Builder protein. I was freaking out.
“Holy shit! I gotta get some of that! Where’d you get it, man?!”
I genuinely thought I’d become huge if I consumed one or two of them.
Does that bring back memories? My best friend's stepfather had a can of Joe Weider's Dynamic Weight Gainer. He'd only used a little of it and didn't like it. He was about to throw it away. But, my friend asked him if he could give it to me.
I used it for a while. It had a weird vanilla taste to it. That was the first supplement I ever used. I believe that was back in 1988 or early 1989.
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Promos for the World Bodybuilding Federation in 1991. I thought these were awesome. FINALLY, I could see bodybuilding more often than ESPN's twilight coverage.
Here's the hype for the first championship at the Trump Taj Mahal. Who knew the man who hosted the WBF championship would be president 25 years later.
These promos aired every week on WWF Superstars and Wrestling Challenge for about two months, until June 15th.
Here are the results. I was psyched because I only had to wait a WEEK, not 4 months, to get the results.
Gary Strydom goes on Prime Time Wrestling, after his victory.
And (for a few months at least), WBF Bodystars. FINALLY!! Bodybuilding was on TV every week on USA network. WBF BodyStars America was the broadcast aired in the UK; a local UHF channel aired the show in the afternoon. So, I could watch it even when I didn't have cable.
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don't forget the contests and training shows on espn
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I miss the 1980's
for perspective Mike Mentzer lost his mind over the 1980
Olympia
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don't forget the contests and training shows on espn
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I liked those and they did a segment on muscle mania featuring Stan Mcquay in the early 2000
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I miss the 1980's
for perspective Mike Mentzer lost his mind over the 1980
Olympia
You're right...he was never the same after that.....I think he never competed again ..really weird how he and his brother died three days a0part.
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Nasser and Ronnie looked good before they both felt the need to gain 40+ pounds
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I miss the 1980's
for perspective Mike Mentzer lost his mind over the 1980
Olympia
agreed the 80's and late 70's were the dream era. the 90's were ultra competetive but its where bb started to lose its appeal. all the guys from the 90's are either dead or lls now. in the early 80s the dream was alive and well. some contests would have 30 competitors and most of them looked good. lean, proportioned, muscular. nobody wore a fucking thong. they were tan and not orange. the posing was good, artistic. the sport still had a healthy image.
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why were the pros so much more dialed in/cut in the late 1990s?
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I went to a few shows in the 80's/90's.
1988 Olympia
1989 ASC
1993 Olympia
1994 ASC
1995 ASC
Was a good time to be a bodybuilding fan.
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I liked those and they did a segment on muscle mania featuring Stan Mcquay in the early 2000
show was called American Muscle
it was on 1 time per month at 3am and i had to tape it all the time (my first schmoe moment) waking up to tape a bbing show haha
yes i remember him and also adi rae too
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Guess it's Nassor on the left... simply unreal.
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heres the guy who came second to labrada nowadays..
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why were the pros so much more dialed in/cut in the late 1990s?
Insulin was just starting to be used....then all the bodybuilders started to abuse it and that's when the pregnant bellies started.
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Looking forward to open each and every issue of This Mag, gave me butterflies in the 90's...
Man Oh Man, those were the times...and the Dan Duchaine articles and no BS approach to Bodybuilding was so unique... ;D
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Dan Duchaine's articles were great...I always felt like he was revealing secrets of bodybuilding.....I think he was the guy who invented the original supplement called something Orange...can't remember the name....but I heard it was amazing and you would burn fat like hell...but then it was banned and someone put out a weak substitute
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all the guys from the 90's are either dead
nasser.... who else?
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nasser.... who else?
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mataratzo
Muntzer
Kovacs
Youngblood
Kawak
Comerford
Hillebrand
Atwood
Luke Wood
Benaziza
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mataratzo
Muntzer
Kovacs
Youngblood
Kawak
Comerford
Hillebrand
Atwood
Luke Wood
Benaziza
Demayo
Schmidt
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mataratzo
Muntzer
Kovacs
Youngblood
Kawak
Comerford
Hillebrand
Atwood
Luke Wood
Benaziza
not all of them were 90's guys and none of them were elite, maybe momo though i never understood why
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Demayo
Schmidt
Matt with that Superman tattoo on his shoulder.
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not all of them were 90's guys and none of them were elite, maybe momo though i never understood why
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They are still dead
And more to come soon :-\
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I went to a few shows in the 80's/90's.
1988 Olympia
1989 ASC
1993 Olympia
1994 ASC
1995 ASC
Was a good time to be a bodybuilding fan.
you went too the 88 Olympia in L.A?..... 8) 8) 8)...what was the introduction like in person when they shut the lights down too Michael Gasparis “Destiny” and introduced them
One bye one with the spot lights...was bloody awesome watching it on VHS way back in the late 80s
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Matt with that Superman tattoo on his shoulder.
He died?
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Matt with that Superman tattoo on his shoulder.
what ever happened to other muscletech bro aaron clark? blond guy
didnt matt have a bad slip of life/wrong path?
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He died?
Yep...dead as a doornail
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what ever happened to other muscletech bro aaron clark? blond guy
didnt matt have a bad slip of life/wrong path?
Aaron Maddron?
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They are still dead
And more to come soon :-\
is that really a lot? i don't even know all those names, they definitely aren't names i think of from the 90's except matarrazzo
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Dan Duchaine's articles were great...I always felt like he was revealing secrets of bodybuilding.....I think he was the guy who invented the original supplement called something Orange...can't remember the name....but I heard it was amazing and you would burn fat like hell...but then it was banned and someone put out a weak substitute
I believe you're referring to Ultimate Orange. I tried it 22 years ago.
That stuff gave me a massive headache. The first time I used it, I took it 45 minutes before my workout as instructed. The bus ride from campus to the gym was 40 minutes.
Normally, I would take a nap on the way. But as I was falling asleep, my arm started feeling cold. Next, it started shaking on its own.
When I finally got to they gym, my head was killing me. It felt as if someone put a vice grip on my head while blowing a hair dryer in my face. Throw in the heart palpitations and it was a certified nightmare, even though it did help push the poundages as advertised.
Next day, same thing happened. After the third day, I said "TO HECK WITH THIS!!!"
Considering how much I spent on it, I certainly didn't want to throw it away. So, it took me nearly a month to use what should have taken a week or two to use. But, once I finished it off, that was IT!! And, I never touched the stuff again.
As for Duchaine revealing the secrets of bodybuilding, it's too bad he didn't use those secrets on himself. He was the ultimate reality check for those folks who think all they need is a syringe and a secret stack and it's instant Mr. Universe.
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Mass monsters, WBF style
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And one of my favorite 90s bodybuilders:
Of course, I can't leave out the champ!
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Mass monsters, WBF style
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And one of my favorite 90s bodybuilders:
Of course, I can't leave out the champ!
freaks
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not all of them were 90's guys and none of them were elite, maybe momo though i never understood why
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apart from Luke Wood and Atwood they all competed in the 90s, now you want to move the goalposts and say "elite"
go fuck yourself..
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Sadly professional/competitive bodybuilding has died. Its just all drugs and about size now. Ben and Joe will be turning in their graves. Arnold was in discussions with Serge Nubret about returning IFBB bodybuilding to its true form in 2009 but sadly Serge died after pushing himself too hard in preparation for guest posing at The Arnold Classic. It will never return now.....
:o When? What happened? Is there a thread on here about it?
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:o When? What happened? Is there a thread on here about it?
I think he was using ampetamines to get in shape, there was even rumours his family killed him FFS.
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One of the last pictures with Serge posted by Trev.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=109977.1925
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apart from Luke Wood and Atwood they all competed in the 90s, now you want to move the goalposts and say "elite"
go fuck yourself..
i never heard of some of those guys but if you want to name any obscure guy that competed to prove your point fine, but when people think of 90's bodybuilding i doubt most of them come to mind so it's silly to say the 90's guys are all dead
go fuck yourself while thinking about your crush ESF
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i never heard of some of those guys but if you want to name any obscure guy that competed to prove your point fine, but when people think of 90's bodybuilding i doubt most of them come to mind so it's silly to say the 90's guys are all dead
go fuck yourself while thinking about your crush ESF
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what I said was they are all either dead or LLS and that is true. I dont get why you are debating this?
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i don't even know what "LLS" is
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i don't even know what "LLS" is
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check out one of dj181s pics
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I believe you're referring to Ultimate Orange. I tried it 22 years ago.
That stuff gave me a massive headache. The first time I used it, I took it 45 minutes before my workout as instructed. The bus ride from campus to the gym was 40 minutes.
Normally, I would take a nap on the way. But as I was falling asleep, my arm started feeling cold. Next, it started shaking on its own.
When I finally got to they gym, my head was killing me. It felt as if someone put a vice grip on my head while blowing a hair dryer in my face. Throw in the heart palpitations and it was a certified nightmare, even though it did help push the poundages as advertised.
Next day, same thing happened. After the third day, I said "TO HECK WITH THIS!!!"
Considering how much I spent on it, I certainly didn't want to throw it away. So, it took me nearly a month to use what should have taken a week or two to use. But, once I finished it off, that was IT!! And, I never touched the stuff again.
As for Duchaine revealing the secrets of bodybuilding, it's too bad he didn't use those secrets on himself. He was the ultimate reality check for those folks who think all they need is a syringe and a secret stack and it's instant Mr. Universe.
Yes you're absolutely right ...it was Ultimate Orange, thanks.......and you're right about Duchaine...her looked terrible.....Good thing you stopped taking that Ultimate Orange.....sounds like you were headed for a heart attack in the gym....
Also do you remember Duchaine got into some serious trouble with a female bodybuilder who he was a guru to........something about her dying or almost dying due to whatever advise he was giving her in terms of supplements
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He died?
Overdose I think.
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Overdose I think.
He was friends with that blond dude who had that infamous pic of him with Ronnie. And that dude kills himself as well, IIRC.
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check out one of dj181s pics
haha haha. good one.i don't even know what "LLS" is
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Yes you're absolutely right ...it was Ultimate Orange, thanks.......and you're right about Duchaine...her looked terrible.....Good thing you stopped taking that Ultimate Orange.....sounds like you were headed for a heart attack in the gym....
Also do you remember Duchaine got into some serious trouble with a female bodybuilder who he was a guru to........something about her dying or almost dying due to whatever advise he was giving her in terms of supplements
I don't remember but it wouldn't surprise me one bit. This goof had a habit of recommending too much illegal mess in all the wrong doses. If it didn't do his physique any good, why would it help anyone else?
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More 90s bodybuilding, WBF's top 5 (1991).
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due to disposal cameras?
Pre digital camera
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due to disposal cameras?
Pre digital camera
No FB, no Instagram, no Twitter.. no daily selfie posts .. what a waste. ;D
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No FB, no Instagram, no Twitter.. no daily selfie posts .. what a waste. ;D
very true. i also think much has to do with it for me as disposal cameras
prior people used real film and developed it, in the 1990s disposal cameras were the rage and 99% photos turned out shit
in 2004 i remember seeing the 1st camera phone, i mindblown - take pics of chics on my phone ??? - at asu at the time :)
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Highlights (so to speak) from the 1992 WBF Championship.
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I miss the 1980's
for perspective Mike Mentzer lost his mind over the 1980
Olympia
Though this guy made his name in the mid-80s, I felt he was his best in the early 90s.
The "Flexing Dutchman" Berry DeMey
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freaks
I forgot one...THE EXECUTIONER Johnnie Morant
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Jesus now you guys fuck up the memories of the ninties with bodybuildings most embarrasing shit ever... The Wbf!!!
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Jesus now you guys fuck up the memories of the ninties with bodybuildings most embarrasing shit ever... The Wbf!!!
The topic was 90s bodybuilding and the WBF was part of it. It also changed the landscape of pro bodybuilding for the better.
Why do you think more guys started getting six-figure contracts, or why the Mr. Olympia prize money went up to $100,000 (despite what Wikipedia says, the Mr. Olympia winner didn't get six figures until 1992 when Dorian Yates won it)?
The first bodybuilding show on PPV came courtesy of the WBF.
Remember the bidding war for Lou Ferrigno? Vince McMahon signed him first. But, Lou bailed once the WBF started drug testing.
As stated earlier, the WBF offered fans the ability to see bodybuilding far more often than once a month on ESPN (American Muscle) at 2 or 3 in the morning.
And much of the stage production you're just NOW seeing over the past few years? The WBF had that over TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Unfortunately, the WBF also showed what happened when you REALLY start drug-testing these guys (as was the case in 1992).
Had Mauro Dipasquale put the IFBB guys under the same protocol, we would have seen dudes that would have made Mike Quinn look like Rich Gaspari.
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I don't remember but it wouldn't surprise me one bit. This goof had a habit of recommending too much illegal mess in all the wrong doses. If it didn't do his physique any good, why would it help anyone else?
Saw a clip on youtube recently that talked about ultimate orange. It said it contained fucking dianabol! That would explain the headaches and why it worked so good :)
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Saw a clip on youtube recently that talked about ultimate orange. It said it contained fucking dianabol! That would explain the headaches and why it worked so good :)
Loved that shit in the 90s. Used to drink it for breakfast, and then head to the gym. I'd be cracked out, before I even got to the gym. :D
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Saw a clip on youtube recently that talked about ultimate orange. It said it contained fucking dianabol! That would explain the headaches and why it worked so good :)
I thought that rumor was about that a protein drink mix called Hot Stuff
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One of the more underrated '80s pros. Local guy... trains people out of a gym not too far from me.
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The topic was 90s bodybuilding and the WBF was part of it. It also changed the landscape of pro bodybuilding for the better.
Why do you think more guys started getting six-figure contracts, or why the Mr. Olympia prize money went up to $100,000 (despite what Wikipedia says, the Mr. Olympia winner didn't get six figures until 1992 when Dorian Yates won it)?
The first bodybuilding show on PPV came courtesy of the WBF.
Remember the bidding war for Lou Ferrigno? Vince McMahon signed him first. But, Lou bailed once the WBF started drug testing.
As stated earlier, the WBF offered fans the ability to see bodybuilding far more often than once a month on ESPN (American Muscle) at 2 or 3 in the morning.
And much of the stage production you're just NOW seeing over the past few years? The WBF had that over TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Unfortunately, the WBF also showed what happened when you REALLY start drug-testing these guys (as was the case in 1992).
Had Mauro Dipasquale put the IFBB guys under the same protocol, we would have seen dudes that would have made Mike Quinn look like Rich Gaspari.
yeah I remember Joe Weider freaking out when Lou signed with the WBF..he supposedly jumped on a plane and went to see Lou personally and signed him away from McMahon
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I thought that rumor was about that a protein drink mix called Hot Stuff
I remember HOT STUFF...I read the label once and it had so much stuff in it I got scared and didn't buy it
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One of the more underrated '80s pros. Local guy... trains people out of a gym not too far from me.
Are you still in MI ? Ron was a Detroit Cop back in the day.
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I remember HOT STUFF...I read the label once and it had so much stuff in it I got scared and didn't buy it
I tried Hot Stuff when it first came out. I think the company started in either Orlando or Clearwater, FL. My hometown is St.
Petersburg. They were giving out samples to in the GNC at Tyrone Square Mall. The ads were in black and white on a single sheet of paper with local Florida bodybuilders touting the stuff. In just two years, Hot Stuff was the biggest selling supplement in the country.
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The company drew heat from the feds, because it referred to Hot Stuff as an “anabolic activator”. So the product was labeled as a “fitness potentiator” instead.
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yeah I remember Joe Weider freaking out when Lou signed with the WBF..he supposedly jumped on a plane and went to see Lou personally and signed him away from McMahon
He wouldn’t have gone anywheare if the drug testing hadn’t started. Bodystars was supposed to feature Ferrigno to promote the second championship.
McMahon promoted the WBF during the road to WrestleMania 8. When Big Louie bailed, McMahon used Lex Luger at ‘Mania and on BodyStars to take his place. Then, there was Family Feud week, WWF vs WBF.
Almost forgot the final crossover attempt before the WBF folded, the BodyStar Wars Tug-of-War (The WWF vs. WBF, Part 2)
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Much of the decade was before widespread internet..mainstream tv stopped covering already except a litlle American Muscle, Olympia and Arnold on ESPN(often at weird times)so not much to see in the 90's. But fun time.
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When I first came to GetBig in 2006 it was really a fun time to be on here......everybody trading info about bodybuilders....the feuds.....having chick and Sean and even the Australian guy with the superman tattoo posting....it was fun....couldn't wait to get on here.....I think Bodybuilding was a lot more mysterious then as well....we were all starved for any and all bodybuilding information........I remember Titus v.s Kamali.....miss the glory days....
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When I first came to GetBig in 2006 it was really a fun time to be on here......everybody trading info about bodybuilders....the feuds.....having chick and Sean and even the Australian guy with the superman tattoo posting....it was fun....couldn't wait to get on here.....I think Bodybuilding was a lot more mysterious then as well....we were all starved for any and all bodybuilding information........I remember Titus v.s Kamali.....miss the glory days....
and Coleman vs. Yates... ;D
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and Coleman vs. Yates... ;D
yeah...that thread was legendary
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Much of the decade was before widespread internet..mainstream tv stopped covering already except a litlle American Muscle, Olympia and Arnold on ESPN(often at weird times)so not much to see in the 90's. But fun time.
That's why I was so excited about the WBF at the time. Vince McMahon was pushing his BodyStars every chance he could.
He had them on Regis and Kathie Lee before and after the 1991 championship; Regis was also the MC at that show, after guest commentating at WrestleMania 7.
I posted earlier the appearances on Family Feud in 1992. But, I forgot about the Prime Time Wrestling appearance before and after the 1991 show.
Mike Christian:
Gary Strydom before the WBF championship:
After the championship.
WBF BodyStars Promo, starring Vince McMahon, Lex Luger, and Cameo Kneuer (2-time Ms. Fitness USA and younger sister of 6-time Ms. Olympia, Cory Everson). This show was on every week for about 3-6 months. After the WBF died, McMahon repackaged the show, reducing the name to just "BodyStars". He featured fitness from other mainstream arenas with one bodybuilding segment at the end.
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80's and 90's were the best
This Jeff competed in the 80's and never used GH or slin. He was smart and went back to school.
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WBF Champion Gary Strydom and the rest of the top 5 from 1991 (Christian, DeMey, J. Quinn, Robinson) at FIBO
Lou Ferrigno’s WBF replacement
YOU’VE GOTTA WANT IT!!