arnold classic

[max von]

Just wondering if anyone is planning on going to the arnold classic in march

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[AXResources]

I am hoping to go. It all depends on how busy I am..

[Founder]

We will have a booth set up. If you're there, stop by!

[max von]

im trying to get my wife to get the days off

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[italionstallionl]

i would love to go, but i am in college. my home is in cincinnati, and i go to indiana university which is about 2 and a half hours away. there is a possibility i could go home after class fri, drive up to columbus then go back to school sun. hopefully it works out

[wedgylx]

I'd love to go but all my "vacation savings" are going towards Montreal.


Sorry but I'm picking booze and women over bodybuilding haha

[AXResources]

We will have a booth set up. If you're there, stop by!

If I am there, I will definitely stop by.. Do you know your booth # yet??

[max von]

I will definatly stop by if i make it there really cool to meet alot of the reps guys there

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[italionstallionl]

i have never been to a bb contest/show before, other than the contest part, what goes on there?

[LIL' DADDY]

It is off the hook,

Alot of nice people, hot chicks to look at and the ability to score upcoming and new supps at a great discount. I still have stuff from last year that I have not been able to use because I got so much stuff.

[max von]

Thats awsome ive got to get my wife to take the days off is it really pricey if you dont go to the show just the supp area

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[italionstallionl]

Arnold Fitness EXPO tickets are available at the door of the Greater Columbus Convention Center before the start of each days events.

An EXPO ticket gets you into the Fitness EXPO to see all the stage events for that day, the martial arts preliminary rounds, the cheerleading and gymnastics competitions and the lifting portion of the 5K Pump and Run.

Of course, you also get to see all the booths and bodies.

Arnold Fitness EXPO - $10 per day
(Children 10 years and under free if accompanied by an adult – No strollers permitted)
(March 4-6/ Convention Center)
-- All martial arts competitions
-- All gymnastics competitions
-- All cheerleading/dance team competitions
-- Prejudging / Ms. International
-- Prejudging / Figure Championship
-- Prejudging / Fitness International
-- Arnold Strongest Man Contest
-- World Powerlifting Organization Championship
-- Arnold Classic Armwrestling Challenge
-- World Record Bench Press Challenge
-- Bench press segment of Pump and Run 5K
-- 600 exhibition spaces
-- Stage entertainment

[max von]

italion

cool thanks for all the info i think i got my wife talked into it and we are going to go well have to see if we can get a group together and meet with people going

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[max von]

guys i got the wife talked into going to the arnold have everything all set up liked to see whos going and if anyone from the boared is going would be nice to set up a place to meet some of the people on here let me know

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[max von]

guys i am definatly going to arnold room set and everything ready come on lets see whose going to be there and maybe we can hook up and i would love to meet some of you guys there let me know asap so we can set some thing up

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[Simonsteel]

I am certainly going to the Arnold, I am pulling in the invitation only armwrestling comp.

[dinoiii]

Would love to meet some of you guys - unfortunately I am on call at the hospital.

Just make certain there is some X Factor for me max.

Nah...just kidding - but hey do give a report on the events upon your return for those of us envious at home entitled to work on patients instead. Certainly all patients should've scheduled the weekend off too, ya know? Such is life...

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Dinoiii

i will pick you up a couple of bottles :lol:

i give you the best report that i can Dinoiii. hey whay dont you do like my doctor and call all your patients and tell then that what they have is viral and give it 5-10 and then call you back by then you should be back from the arnold :lol:

Dinoiii it would be good to meet you

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[dinoiii]

If I were in Western NY currently it would be more ideal a trip, from Baltimore and current workloads with new patients not so much.


Unfortunately, I work in a hospital max - not an outpatient setting...I can therefore not simply tell the ER not to admit someone. :?

[italionstallionl]

max-what are you doing with max?

simon, thats cool you are competing good luck. what weight class? left handed or right? i just saw some arm wrestling stuff on tv a few days ago, those guys are nuts

[max von]

max-what are you doing with max?

simon, thats cool you are competing good luck. what weight class? left handed or right? i just saw some arm wrestling stuff on tv a few days ago, those guys are nuts

he is going to the trainer outside of madison WI where they will work with him on a couple new things. we have another set of trials in May he will be fine but they will fine tone everything for me

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[Simonsteel]

[quote=simon, thats cool you are competing good luck. what weight class? left handed or right? i just saw some arm wrestling stuff on tv a few days ago, those guys are nuts[/quote]

154/70KG, thank you, the Arnold is only right handed. The event you probably saw was the Unified Nationals on ESPN, and most likely was the one with Ron Bath, in the 220's/100KG class, I was at that event and in some of the in between shots in the show you saw you can see me pulling. They started out by editing the tape down to half hour shows by weight class with the big boys, so it will most likely lose steam before they get to us little guys. We did a show last year from Vegas for Fox Sports and we are doing another for Fox in April from Vegas, it is going to be a huge event, with pullers from all over the globe.

[italionstallionl]

sounds awesome, good luck, ill be "pulling" for you

[max von]

i will be at the arnold ill try to come over and watch when your pulling

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[Simonsteel]

Thanks guys, it will be a tough event and I need all the help I can get.

Simon

[max von]

Simon

email me what time you start at to make sure im there thanks

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[italionstallionl]

i went to the arnold today and it was great. the only disappointing thing is i waited in line forever to get free muscletech stuff, but when i finally got to the front they ran out. i mean i was the next person in line, the guy in front of me got stuff, but i got shafted. what a bummer.

da-nice booth. chris-did you go? didnt see you there, but i talked to the tall guy and the girl at your booth (sorry, i cant remember their names) they were both really nice, and hooked me up with a free t shirt. thanks a lot :lol:

i would say overall the products werent much cheaper-if they were cheaper at all-than da, so the guys that didnt go, dont feel left out. the only deals i say i got was the dermasize for 20, lean dessert protein for 15, and some carnosine for 5 bucks. i might have missed some stuff, but i tried to search. there were, however, numerous samples of protein bars and protein cookies. protein cookies seem to be the thing this year, everybody has them. i also got to try like 8 of the 23 flavors of musclemilk, and a bunch of other protein.

the strong man contest was cool, i got to see marius pudgenowski, bill kazmeyer, sven carlson, and a bunch of other guys.

i talked to ergo people for a little while, there new products look good, 1-NO and AMP. i got a sample of AMP, we'll see how that is :?:

there were a lot of little companies i never heard of trying to sell there "awesome" protein or fat burner or what ever they had, but i wasnt too impressed by any of it

shannon sharpe was there signing autographs at the eas booth which was pretty cool

i would say all in all it was a lot of fun and i got sooooo many samples of stuff it will be fun to try it all out. not to mention the fact i was stuffed after eating 40 different protein bars, cookies, and shakes

p.s. some company is selling frozen 7" pizzas that have 0 fat, 20 grams of protein and 210-220 calories per personal pizza. i didnt try it, but it looked pretty good.

max, i wish i would have been home sooner than this morning, i could have met up with you, i hope you enjoyed your time as much as i did. maybe next year

[Sandman]

Hey guys. New to the site. Just wanted to say thanks for the Arnold Classic information. I was hoping to make the drive from Indy today but some items came up. Anyone know if you have to pay tax if you buy items there?
Hope everyone that went had a great time!

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Italion

you are so right the arnold was a blast and ig you went by Moleculars booth you saw me as i was selling books like crazy 3 days wa a blast wer stayed over sunday night to finish break down and just got home.

You are right there was so many new companies there its so hard to keep track of what legit and what is not. I did meet chris form da met Steve from sns Rodney from Nutrobolics Warren from legal gear and a bunch of lifters was pretty cool.

One of the highlight was i was staying at the convention center hotel and on my way back sat night i ran into jay cutler in the lobby i got a photo with him and briefly talked to him he was a very cool guy no ego or anything like that . I was a blast

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[italionstallionl]

jay did seem cool, but i didnt talk to him much, just introduced myself and got an autograph at the muscletech booth.

i unfortunately didnt see chris, steve, warren, or rodney. i did see eric from legal gear, and thats about it. was there a sns booth and nutrabolics booth set up?

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Itallion

no they were in and out of Chris booth I got Rodney new magazine signed
by and a photo with Kings wife barbara the cover girl

my wife took the photo very sweet

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[italionstallionl]

cool, king's wife is very good looking, nice job max :D

[italionstallionl]

cool, king's wife is very good looking, nice job max :D

jenny lynn is also gorgeous, she looks better in person :shock:

[max von]

cool, king's wife is very good looking, nice job max :D

jenny lynn is also gorgeous, she looks better in person :shock:

i dont know if i know here where was she at

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[italionstallionl]

she is a muscle tech girl

[max von]

oh i see dont know her

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[italionstallionl]

http://www.jennylynnfitness.com/index2.html

[wedgylx]

http://www.jennylynnfitness.com/index2.html

very hot!

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Italion

i will check that out and let you know sure its good

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[italionstallionl]

max- did you see the coffee booth? they were selling coffee that had some supps in it, but it was 20 bucks a lb :shock:

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Italion

yea that java something i tried that it was really bad very stong my wife who is a coffe lover could hardly choke it down and she has tried some nasty coffee i dont want to slam an idea but dont get it hot coffee is not what i would want for a thermo to dring id like a nice cold drink

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[dinoiii]

Any big supplement surprises you saw max? i.e. - outside of Amped and 1-NO perhaps? I guess I am asking if Ergo is the only new co. that had new supps to offer - that would be unusual.



Reports sound good though. Wish I could've gone.

[italionstallionl]

those two are really all i saw. like i said before everyone is coming out with protein cookies. tri o plex came out with a new flavored bar-very berry. the pudding-not very new. metrx has amped-i dont know how new that is. the pizza, the coffee, some kind of juice that is suppose to help joints. thats about it

[max von]

Any big supplement surprises you saw max? i.e. - outside of Amped and 1-NO perhaps? I guess I am asking if Ergo is the only new co. that had new supps to offer - that would be unusual.



Reports sound good though. Wish I could've gone.

I would have to agree with Italion nothing that really took the show by storm The new Gaspari product was really popular they were right next to us and were very busy. But protien seemed to be the new thing different ways to sell it. The cookies were big seller as was stalions pudding. Other than that same things pretty much that is out there. i did try NO-xplode and did not like the taste of that at all did give good buzz tho. I would also have to say drinks caffine ones were really popular to seemed like every one had one of them. Overall pretty cool tho

to be honest i really didnt spend much time at the ergo booth it was at the other end

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