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Publisher's Note
Roger Riedinger

  This marks the beginning of our tenth year publishing the No Nonsense Newsletter. Our goal is to continue to give you real-world proven nutrition, supplement, and training programs. We’ll try to make your preparation for the sport of bodybuilding and fitness easy and straight-forward. We do this by letting real bodybuilders and fitness athletes at all levels from novice to national competitors tell you in their own words the exact training, cardio, nutrition, and supplement schedules they followed to achieve their best condition.

  During the first nine years of publication, two hundred successful Beverly athletes have shared the secrets they’ve used to build muscle and lose fat within these pages. It is very important to read and reread each article. With this information you will join the bodybuilding experts — with one difference — you’ll know how to practically apply the time-tested principles of bodybuilding nutrition to achieve the results you desire. It’s easy. Just follow the programs exactly as set forth in the No Nonsense Newsletter.

  There’s a new look and feel to this issue, largely due to Editor, Steve Colescott. Steve brings another dimension to the NNN. He has the theoretical and research knowledge combined with the real world, experience of a bodybuilder who is routinely in the trenches fighting for every pound of lean muscle tissue.

  Along with the athlete profiles that have been the mainstay of previous issues of the No Nonsense Newsletter, we are incorporating three new departments. In &Bodybuilding World" we’ll share important happenings among the Team Beverly community. "Get Started Right" is specifically targeted to the intermediate trainer (and if we are not full-time bodybuilders without a day job, we probably fall into this category). Finally, some of the best Team Beverly bodybuilders will share their most productive training secrets in “Advanced Bodybuilding Training Techniques."

  Don’t just look at the pictures. Read the No Nonsense Newsletter cover to cover each issue and join the top 3% in the bodybuilding field.

Editorial
Steve Colescott
  "What ya lookin’ at?"
I cautiously glanced up from my magazine, wondering where this conversation was going. The person asking the question was John Kleban, my mentor and the owner of the World Gym that I managed. His knowledge of bodybuilding was extensive. His method of delivering those lessons left a lot to be desired. Let’s just say his teaching style was a blend of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi and Vince Gironda. He had all the kindness and subtlety of a boot to the face.

  Not being able to think of a workable exit strategy, I took the bait and answered. I fessed up that I was reading an arm training article in Muscle & Fitness, but I’m sure he already guessed as much before asking.

  "Let me guess..." He listed the four exercises highlighted in the article and the general set and rep scheme, without even glancing over my shoulder. His point was that, in the popular bodybuilding mags, nothing was new and rehash was the rule.

  I guess that’s why, when I later went on to become a writer for those same magazines, my first rule was to always try to write something new and original.

  For that reason, I wanted to do something different in this issue’s coverage of the Northern Kentucky contest. Of all the literally hundreds of bodybuilding contests I’ve been to, the contestants, organizers and audience at the Northern Kentucky are the warmest, most supportive group I’ve encountered.

  I decided rather than an observer’s cold listing of what occurred at the contest, I would send out a group e-mail to as many of the competitors as possible and let them share their very human experiences.

  The response was overwhelming and, as I read through them, I felt myself getting choked up a number of times. This show was more than just an athletic event. While it was different for each person, the experience was universally strong and, in almost every case, strongly positive.

  That passion for bodybuilding is why I’m involved with Roger, Sandy and the entire team at Beverly. Consider this issue your invitation to join the extended Beverly family as well.