what really happened in 1996 in bodybuilding history..

[the shadow]

check this flex mag issue...
http://getbig.com/magazine/flex/flex9703.htm

[Cap]

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[JasonH]

Yes, because Flex is the bible of modern bodybuilding and we must believe everything it says. 

[youandme]

Ninjas were plotting

[Jr. Yates]

Old Flex mags were awesome.

[Adam Empire]

Is that Maz on the cover?  Best ever?

[Cap]

Old Flex mags were awesome.

IMO, Flex has gone downhill since 2001.  I'm not sure if anyone will understand this but since the 2001 "O" the pics of conetests look crappy and not as "classy" or pronounced.  You compare a pic of Jay and Ronnie from then and now and it seems like photography has taken a giant leap backwards.

[tommywishbone]

Is that Maz on the cover?  Best ever?

Sort of. That cover featured a composite bodybuilder. Flex put together their best bodyparts from pros and made this cover photo. I think it was Maz's arms, Kevin's delt, Fux's pecs, etc... something like that. I don't really remember because I was drunk & stoned most of 1996.

[Stavios]

haha, that was horrible

I remember they took Vince Taylor's chest 

[logical?]

Sort of. That cover featured a composite bodybuilder. Flex put together their best bodyparts from pros and made this cover photo. I think it was Maz's arms, Kevin's delt, Fux's pecs, etc... something like that. I don't really remember because I was drunk & stoned most of 1996.

Kovacs' mid-section? 

[Anal Iceman Lubeth]

hahaha!!!

"An Aesthetic Dorian Yates: A fifth straight Olympia crown should bury once and for all any misconception that the title reflects only mass. Quality, detail and symmetry distanced Mr. Olympia from the rest of the pack in Chicago. Now, he pulls back the curtain on the training wrinkles that allowed him to add another Sandow to his mantle. "

[the shadow]

Old Flex mags were awesome.

100% agreed..these days other than the olympia special the magazine sucks..alot of nobodies are getting more footage in flex mags rather than the real pros...

[Old_Rooster]

any of you guys ever read a good book?  or do you just read the dribble known as bodybuilding magazines, those things rot your brain.

[Playboy]

100% agreed..these days other than the olympia special the magazine sucks..alot of nobodies are getting more footage in flex mags rather than the real pros...

They were. I still to this day like the Arnold Shwarzennegger Encyclopedia of modern day bodybuilding. What a great book.

PB

[smaul]

Ninjas were plotting

I love your avatar!!! 

[nycbull]

I don't really remember because I was drunk & stoned most of 1996.

Thats a shame because you missed one of the best decades that saw the rise of grunge wear, whiny "rock" music, slackers, baggy jeans, wiggers, rap, windows 3.1, Janine Garafola, "Jeremy" , NSync, 98 degrees, and that "genius" rocker that decided to do a huge amount of heroin with his daughter in the next room.

The 90's..... worst decade ever.

[Jr. Yates]

100% agreed..these days other than the olympia special the magazine sucks..alot of nobodies are getting more footage in flex mags rather than the real pros...

yup which is ok, i do want the little guys to get their name out there too, i just seemed to enjoy the old ones so much more....it wasn't filled with quotes like " Tom prince knows in order to blast biceps he has to blast his vegeatable intake"