A Self-Described Steroid User Loses Job because of Bigger, Stronger, Faster Film

[Carlos_E]

A Self-Described Steroid User Loses Job as Fitness Model

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Published: June 9, 2008


With the camera rolling, Christian Boeving, a fitness model who is paid to endorse bodybuilding products, freely admitted he had used steroids since he was 16.

That was two years ago, when a friend from the gym he uses, Christopher Bell, was filming “Bigger, Stronger, Faster,” a documentary on steroids that was released on May 30.

Mr. Boeving said he had nearly forgotten about the interview until he heard from the film’s representatives just before it was shown in January at the Sundance Film Festival. “They said, ‘Look, we’re just letting you know you mentioned the word steroids in it,’ ” Mr. Boeving said. “But I didn’t think I would get into that much trouble, because I thought it was pretty apparent that the top people in the industry use steroids to look like we do.”

A company whose products he endorsed, Iovate Health Sciences, apparently did not think so, and promptly severed Mr. Boeving’s contract. Iovate Health Sciences did not return calls for comment last week.

Mr. Boeving had represented over-the-counter dietary supplements in Iovate’s MuscleTech division, including Hydroxycut, which is meant to burn fat, and Nitro-Tech, which is meant to build muscle. But the type of performance-enhancing steroids Mr. Boeving referred to in the movie are legal only with a doctor’s prescription; he said in an interview that he had a prescription for testosterone .

While he may not been breaking the law, Mr. Boeving was apparently breaking a taboo in the bodybuilding world, one that Mr. Bell’s documentary was aiming to expose. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been looking at muscle magazines,” Mr. Bell said in an interview. “I would see these guys that are huge, and they’d say, take this pill and you’ll look like this. We know that’s not the case.”

Mr. Boeving said he had worked with Iovate for nearly nine years and was in the midst of renegotiating his contract when “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Mr. Boeving said that after the premiere, he was suspended without pay; he flew to the Iovate headquarters in Ontario to plead his case, but, he said, MuscleTech has not renewed his contract.

Mr. Boeving said he was not allowed to say how much the contract was worth, but said the company’s contracts for athletes typically ranged from $36,000 to $300,000 a year. “I was able to live off my contract, put it that way,” he said.

Though the loss of income is tough, Mr. Boeving said, he does not regret his on-screen candor.

“Even in the film, I said, ‘look, I do take the products I said I take — I do take Hydroxycut, I do take Nitro-Tech, but I take other things as well,’ ” he said. “They felt like people were going to walk away feeling like steroids, not MuscleTech products, made my physique what it is, and they have built this industry on telling people, ‘This is what I did to build my physique,’ ” Mr. Boeving said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/bu...l?ref=business

[StoneGRMI]

So you're telling me Jay Cutler takes more than Muscle Tech products?

[HolyBlade]

****ing lame
next thing you know they fire cutler cuz he does steriods too


LAME !!

[thecivilizedanimal]

i'd like to say this is a good start , maybe help change the industry, but it isnt .

it will be the same shit as always. just brush it under the drug,


the illusion is what sells those products though.

the average joe see's this guy and equates all this crap to him looking like that, well i take this for this that for that and i'll look like colemand or wolf in no time...


cmon give me a fvcking break, have any of these idiots looked at a normal well developed natural body builder ? these guys promoting these products clearly are not normal. they are massive freaks that look like out of controll genetic experiments gone wrong ( and i love it ! no homo )


i really want to get my hands on this movie....

[dedic8ed1]

What a dick,how could he not think that the company of the products that he endorses would drop him after a statement like that?He should've kept his mouth shut and he still would have a career,That's pretty much every bb's dream,living the sweet life training,endorsing products not having to do some bullshit job.

[DSM4Life]

[SMCengineer]

Has anybody been able to download this movie yet?

[DSM4Life]

Has anybody been able to download this movie yet?

haven't found a real one yet. Ill let you know when i do.

[TJM7275]

I went to High School with a guy named Chris Bell. He was all into making movies and went to film school. I wonder if its the same guy. DSM let me know when you get that flick bro...

[DSM4Life]

Will do.

[pumpd4lif]

Has anybody been able to download this movie yet?

mini n o v a

[SMCengineer]

mini n o v a

It's not there either. Unless i just couldn't find it.

[DSM4Life]

Trust me i searched them all. Only fakes out right now.

[Amorphic]

Trust me i searched them all. Only fakes out right now.

let me know if you find it as well.

[bigt10]

Trust me i searched them all. Only fakes out right now.

DSM is right i downloaded them all, all fakes.

[FallenWyvern]

haven't found a real one yet. Ill let you know when i do.

Make a thread, everyone will thank you.

I can't wait.

[GT2]

A year or so ago I ordered my ON 100% whey from this local supplement store and they threw in this muscletech DVD series called "secrets of the pros" and christian boeving hosts the show...he asks the stupidest questions and pisses charles glass off in this one-on-one interview they have, fvcking hilarious.

[jerseyboy]

Well on a side note... I haven't been on the board in awhile bit Carlos you're looking great bro. The thighs are huge.

[Carlos_E]

Well on a side note... I haven't been on the board in awhile bit Carlos you're looking great bro. The thighs are huge.

Thanks man.

[Carlos_E]

Jay Cutler admits steroid use in a deleted scene from the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE6uegoRiFk

[SMCengineer]

^^great video

[firmechicano831]

yup, nice video Carlos.

[DSM4Life]

"I do what i have to do to win and thats why i am the best"

nice

[Amorphic]

Jay Cutler admits steroid use in a deleted scene from the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE6uegoRiFk

in the words of kramer: the cat mrrrawwwww is out of the bag

[SMCengineer]

^^was it ever in the bag?

[Amorphic]

^^was it ever in the bag?

lol. according to muscletech, yes.

[NATE0406]

that sucks but really what do you expect. of coarse they knew he was using, but when you come out and just say it then what do you think they are going to do,,, act like they never knew anything about it.

[WEBB]

to us here it is no surprise that he uses or did, but to some people that dont know what a gym is let alone a steroid it is not as obvious and when they hear it they get all worried and that is who is causing the problem...while to us its obvious i think we are the minority...

[Chitown Raider]

lol. according to muscletech, yes.

[T3/T4 GSR]

Jay Cutler admits steroid use in a deleted scene from the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE6uegoRiFk

Jay Cutler admits steroid use by walking out of his door in the morning.

[Synj]

As much as that sucks, can't wait to see this movie.

[Chitown Raider]

As much as that sucks, can't wait to see this movie.

Same here. I found it playing in two theater's. I think I'll wait till I can find the full version online.