[quote]Mufasa wrote:
slimjim…
Almost two different mags at two different times…
The “original” “Muscle Media” isn’t the one that died…it “morphed” into the “Muscle Media/Body-for-Life Newletter”…THEN died…
Same name…MUCH different focus…
Not even the same Mag…
Mufasa[/quote]
The original is what got me back into buying muscle mags again. Once Body for Life became the main topic, I quickly lost interest.
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
Soldierslim:
Phillips and his people were DAMN good at recognizing those guys who would “train down”, eat like pigs, get pale, grow facial hair and take an AWFUL “before” pick in the hopes that the “after” would look like this amazing transformation.
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I would say that they should since they did the exact same thing in their “Evolution” style ads. Clark Bartram was in one of those ads and he had been ripped for years. They basically took the pictures as he ‘devolved’.
MM should’ve been renamed “Metosexual Magazine”. I liked it when it was the “Anabolic reference guide”
The fact that Kal Yee is gay now explains why I thought some of the pictures were a bit fruity.
I’m not sure what it was, but it always seemed like the pics were more artistic and loving rather than hardcore and inspirational.
I meant the pictures in the BFL era btw
Towards the end I felt it was more “hardcore” than was in the dark years around 1999-2001 or so. Towards the end they had lots of articles about periodization, powerlifting routines, olympic stuff, etc. In particular, Pavel had articles in every issue. I felt at end that although they had a lot about interval training, fat loss, etc. at least the stuff about lifting weights was dead-on quality stuff not just bunch of 3 sets of ten iso junk like most every other magazine.
[quote]2ms wrote:
Towards the end I felt it was more “hardcore” than was in the dark years around 1999-2001 or so. Towards the end they had lots of articles about periodization, powerlifting routines, olympic stuff, etc. In particular, Pavel had articles in every issue. I felt at end that although they had a lot about interval training, fat loss, etc. at least the stuff about lifting weights was dead-on quality stuff not just bunch of 3 sets of ten iso junk like most every other magazine.[/quote]
How did you stick around after '97 or so?