The one with Jay Cutler on the cover.
Oh... and a cover headline about Arnold... "Why I Joined Flex"... duh, for the money and green card, why else? Damn. Now let's be realistic. Is there ANY other sport or culture where an athelete has had the same longevity and monthly coverage as Arnold has in the bodybuilding world. Every month he is appearing in the magazines. Multiple magazines. Damn, you got to give it to him on that.
Page 30 - the story on Arnold. Which isn't anything new. Same old dish. But they do have some old photos of him in the background. One thing about him, there has NEVER been another bodybuilder who was as photogenic as Arnold was. Today's photo-articles of bodybuilders resemble some kind of teenage gay fantasy. What the fuck is up with Chris Lund? Someone need to slap his tired old ass over the head. Remember back when there was photo shoots of BBers in the desert, pool halls, ocean, etc... those days are long gone. For the worse.
Page 36 - Joes Page. Weider pushing his same old tired ass Weider Principles again. Like this motherfucker sat down and invented this shit up himself. Hell no, he just stuck his name on something people had already been doing for years. I am surprised we ain't heard of Joe Weider's Mentzer Heavy Duty Principle yet. In this article (accompanying the pic of him and Ronnie at the O) Joe says he is delighted to have put his name on such innovative training methods and while discussing training with Ronnie, Ronnie specifically said that he especially utilized the Peak Contraction Tranining Principle over the past year for preparing for the 03 O. Ok.. I can see this shit now. After the 02 Mr O, Ronnie sits down and scratches his head goes "ok, I need about 40 more pounds of solid muscle to go in the next Mr O. What can I do? Hmmm... ok, right here, I got it. I will utilize the Weider Peak Contraction Tranining Principle. Yeah, cause the Weider Forced Rep Training Principle and Weider Instictive Training Principle will only yield 10 pounds of muscle...." Get real. Ronnie just went in there and lifted some heavy ass weight. Stupid ass Joe.
Page 49 - Hard times. Dennis James arrest. Stupid ass Dennis.
Page 51 - Boc Chic. Stupid ass Bob.
Page 54 - Kris Dim and synthol tricep rumor. Stupid ass Kris. Claims that his triceps are "too hard and solid" to be synthol because that is soft and mushy. Hello? The original had silicia (sp?) in it which is KNOWN to cause necrosis and scar tissue build up in the area. KNOWN fact that all early synthol users had hardening of the areas they shot up. Flex (calves), Nasser (rear delts), Ernie Taylor (triceps too)... only in the past 4 years or so was the modified version of synthol created and designed to be temporary and disperse over time, allowing an athelete to get it out of his system in case he was being penalized.
Page 55 - Muscleheadz cartoon. A spoof on Lat Pulldowns. Called Lat Putdowns. Shows one dude telling another one on the lat machine "I've seen bigger lats on a water snake, baby seals have more detail in their backs than you, etc..."
Page 56 - Ken Jones and his Michael Jackson posing routine. I love people who talk shit about Ken Jones. While he is still twice the size and twice the physique of them.
Page 66 back training article by Richard Jones. Nothing special.
Page 88 - Tom Prince, another article glorifying this moron. Does anyone else think it is strange and embarrassing that this dude got more attention (magazine coverage) when his career was OVER than at any point of time when he was active and competing? yes, he is still ugly. I ain't gonna point that out. But... BUT!!! you should take a peek in the mag when you are at the store and answer something for me. WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT DAMN LEFT WRIST OF HIS? Look at it. It is swollen like a fat pregnant chicks ankles. I mean, his forearm runs right into his hand. And there is this horrendous wide purple streak/scar running around the wrist. You know how people talk about chubbies with cankles (calves and ankles all the same diameter?) Well this is how his wrist looks. And only one of them. WTF??? And then that bicep vein. I remember when he caught hell on the net for people saying he ruined that vein (you can see a horrible unnatural) bulge in it with Nubain use. those nasty ass faggot tattoos are also rumored to be done to hide nubain use scars. True or not, I don't know. But I can say, not only is his tattoo choice perfectly stupid, so is the placement of them. makes you wonder.... Whoever wrote this article obviously was trying to get a blow job out of Tom. No one else would have pedstal worshipped him so. Page 92 - Chic with Tom. Is Chic not a bottom boy or what? If I were going to latch onto another pro's ass with my lips and try to be marvelous by association, I would have chosen a better person. Someone like Ray or Cutler. Page 94 - god damn, that wrist... I can't stop looking at it. Page 96. Article is over. So is Prince's career. Hallejiuah.
Page 98 Arnold Classic Report. Fucking Jay robbed this show. No way was he in a condition to win. 3rd was a gift for him in that condition. But the bitch got first. Page 100 jay being crush in chest (crab) comparisions to Ruhl. crushed and hung out to dry. page 102 - Jay being assaulted by Dex and Chris on either side. If I were Jay, and these comparisions pic of me came out after stealing that show, I would hang my head in shame. Page 104 Jay and his sagging ass. I mean, seriously... why the dude got skin hanging off his ass? You can't see his glutes. But you can see what looks like saran wrap over a water balloon. Disgusting. he need Oil Of Olay for that wrinkled ass. Page 108 Kamali and his stupid little costume. Stupid ass Kamili. Page 115 Korvacs. Looking like a corpse animated and brought to life. What the fuck was he thinking? We all seen his pics by now. And puked.
Page 120 - Matt Duval supposingly "inventing" a new shoulder press movement. Now he know Joe gonna be pissed cause Joe supposingly invented it all. Even DNA. But Matt talking about shoulder pressing with a reverse grip for front delts. Article says he invented it last year. Damn. I was doing it 4 years ago. I knew I should have run down to the patent office and called it The Anal Press.
Page 132 Shawn Ray. Looking as only Shawn Ray can. Awesome.
Page 158 article Pipe Dreams on how to get big arms. Ok, we all read bullshit routines by the pros. But you know, some of these routines that Flex writes seem to have a good foundation of basics and principles to actually work. People get no results because newbies look at it and go "oh shit, it is 8 weeks long. Damn that is a long time." So they do it two workouts and don't see results (surprise) and then go right back to their familiar ineffective way of training. 8 weeks go by at the same rate they would go by had they tried the routine and their arms don't change and they think "bullshit routine". I honestly think that some of these routines (like this one and the shoulder one from a few months past) actually WILL work if the trainee applies himself with dedication, nutrition and patience. Unfortunately, most lack one or all three of those traits. But great article none the less.
Page 204 - interesting article on Sandow himself. Just an overview though, I wish it had been more in depth.
Page 223 - Vic on going to jail. Stupid ass Vic.
Page 234 - Best quote ever by Arnold "Know Yourself, Grow Yourself".... if only people followed that to heart.
Page 262 Ironman coverage report. Dexter kicking ass and not bothering to take names... he's that good. Lee Priest looks awesome. Bob Chiccy lose to Craig. Again. I guess he won't talk so much shit about Craig now.
Page 278 Jays new way of training.. (is bullshit). He claims he took a year off and started training a new way and it has produced amazing, ground breaking results. Unfortunately we saw those, ummm "results" at the Arnold Classic and no one was impressed with his lackluster physique. My advice, go back to the old way of training. This is word for work his daily schedule. (double bullshit)
8am stairmill cardio
9am eat
915 business matters, nap
1130 meal 2
1145 business matters, nap (yep... get used to seeing this nap)
1pm workout
3pm meal 3
330 business matters, nap
530 meal 4
800 meal 5
815 sleep (not a nap this time)
1130pm meal 6
1145 sleep
130am crosstrainer cardio, tanning
3am meal 7
315 sleep
Mullet boy obviously has no sex due to all his business matters and naps. And I bet he even slept through the entire Arnold contest, because he was dreaming if he thought he was better than dex and chris.
that's about it.. rest of the mag was the usual reports, updates, etc..
BUT!!!........ at least Curly Top wasn't in it again. 4 months in a row and counting. I bet sales are up now.