Archive for July 27th, 2010

NPC USA Bodybuilding, Figure & Bikini Championships
(IFBB Pro Qualifier)

July 30 & 31, 2010 Las Vegas, Nevada

Pro Cards a Plenty!
Men (7 wt groups) 4 men will turn professional.
Women (4 wt groups) 2 women bodybuilders will turn professional.
Figure (6 height groups) Class winners will turn professional.
Bikini (6 height groups) Class winners will turn professional.

General Information
Event Location: Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall on the Campus of UNLV
4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154
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Afghans Pay The Price For Flexing Their Muscles
By Hamid Shalizi

KABUL (Reuters Life!) – Arif Sakhi preened and posed his well-oiled muscles to win the “Mr Afghanistan” crown earlier this year, but behind that perfectly sculpted physique his vital organs were breaking down under the strain of steroid abuse.

Sakhi’s death last month at the age of 26 has shaken Afghanistan’s body building community and shown it is not beyond the reach of the shady billion-dollar business in legal and illegal supplements.

“Unfortunately using illegal supplements has been seen among our young body builders, but we have no resources to stop it,” said Ustaad Bawar Hotak, the head of Afghanistan’s Bodybuilding Federation.
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MusclePharm Supplement Company Bleeding Money
by Anthony Roberts

Perhaps one of the most ambitious nutritional supplement companies to hit the market in the past few years is MusclePharm. Right out of the gates they signed Paul Dillett, Louis Simmons, and a bunch of MMA fighters to endorse the product line. Getting Paul was a huge coup because he is the president of a decent-sized bodybuilding federation (the World Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation, or WBFF), as was getting Louie Simmons, who is a legend in the powerlifting scene. They also signed some NFL players, and have Dr. Eric Serrano on the team. Paul and Louie are still huge in their respective fields, and the NFL and MMA guys in their stable are certainly up-and-comers (Xyience tried going the MMA-Sponsorship route a few years ago, and it didn’t seem to work – while EAS did the NFL-player thing and it worked extremely well).
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Controversial supplement to come off shelves
Product FDA called ‘unapproved drug’ is popular in autism cases
By Trine Tsouderos, Tribune reporter

OSR#1, marketed as a dietary supplement, is popular with parents of children with autism. After the Food and Drug Administration called it an unapproved new drug, the company that makes the supplement told several pharmacists it will no longer be available after July 29. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / January 7, 2010)

Pharmacies are halting sales of OSR#1, a compound marketed as a dietary supplement to parents of children with autism, six weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called the product an unapproved new drug.

Several pharmacists told the Tribune they received an e-mail last week from Boyd Haley, president of the company that makes the product, informing them that OSR#1 would not be available after Thursday.
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HBO Real Sports Takes Easy Route with Female Bodybuilding Feature
by Isaac Hinds

Bryant Gumbel introduces his HBO Real Sports feature on women’s bodybuilding with, “we move onto the wild, weird and relatively unknown world of women’s bodybuilding. If you’re like most Americans what little exposure to bodybuilding you’ve had, has probably been limited to to brief glimpses of scantily clad competitors posing in a magazine.” You can already assume which direction the feature will go.

Gumbel draws attention to nothing but the negative things associated with women’s bodybuilding. If there was anything positive in the piece, I missed it. Focusing on the negative aspects is the easy route and been done a number of times.
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