MUST READ FOR BODYBUILDERS

This is from Dante (doggcrapp) in a response on Promuscle.com. If you've thought about competing or even have the goal of putting on muscle read this, read it again, memorize it. It doesn't get more basic then this and it's the truth!!!

Because bodybuilders have obsessive compulsive personalities and can never think in the following terms:

a)Dieting down could never be as simple as keeping a semiblance of what made that muscle mass (protein wise) in the diet and thinking "green" (replacing carbohydrates at key times with with spinach, asparagus, broccoli) and filling up hunger pangs with leafage/salads......all the while increasing energy expenditure thru cardio and supplements

Nope, Joe Bodybuilder goes to hell in a hand basket and chucks everything that made him that actual muscle mass and starts dieting on a tuna fish and rice cake diet, disintegrates, loses gobs of precious muscle mass, falls off the wagon and cheats......and pretty much destroys what he made in the off season.

b) Training couldn't be as simple as the thought process of "ok what have the most massive bodybuilders of the last 20 years done to develop that muscle mass?" "What was a common theme?" If you remove the Ultra genetically elite from the equation who could grow off of lifting a garbage can and whose genetics are 10x more than the average bodybuilder (Dillett, Wheeler)......Hmmmm it seems the ultra massive were all extremely powerful (Yates, Coleman, Francois, Kovacs, Dennis James, Chris Cormier) and they accomplished that thru the years. We all know they didn't start out inclining 405lbs so they were all progressive in their training.....using heavier and heavier poundage (safely) over the years.....that's it "progression X time"

Nope not for Joe Bodybuilder-----there has got to be a secret. There must be some kind of hidden holy grail training that is going to transfer them into superstar status within 6 months.....they just got to find out what it is. So they jump from training routine to training routine (sometimes monthly) buying into the latest big words a bodybuilder author who has never made it over 172lbs can throw at them from his thesaurus. Supersets, Drop sets, Giant sets, psycho training, Wild Monkey Balls training, East Hungarian Ballistic pre World War II training....there has got to be a secret! Maybe if I train for 8 hours! Maybe if i start out with a regular weight and keep doing 85 drop sets until im lifting with the pink 2.5 lb dumbells before dropping them, that will be the key! Whats Flex magazine say this month, I'll switch from what I was doing from Flex magazine LAST month!

c) Gaining weight could never be as easy as finding a healthy productive diet that works for you (bodybuilders always fall into modes when eating....if you give them a couple rules to abide by, within a couple weeks they will be eating the same things usually Monday thou Friday (workdays) and a little bit differently on weekends. But mark it down bodybuilders are creatures of habit and will probably be eating the same things every single day. So to keep it simple to make them gain weight you just add where things need to be added. Two tablespoons of all natural peanut butter here, 1 tablespoon of olive oil there, one more scoop of waxy maize or protein powder there. It really doesn't take much to get a guy gaining again when he plateaus....just a little addition here and there is all it takes especially at key meals.

Nope Joe Bodybuilder wont have that. Whats his thoughts? "I am obsessive compulsive and im chucking my regular off season diet (which could be made golden with just a few tweaks) and I'll eat 8000-10,000 calories instead!!!!" So Joe bodybuilder instead of using deductive reasoning and using a little scotch tape to fix problems, takes a sledgehammer to it and tries to put it back together with superglue, dirt and spit. Eight months later Joe bodybuilder is obese, gained 5lbs of fat to every 1/2lb of muscle he put on and is miserable. In which he comes out on a message board and blames not only the diet (no he wont say "Im an idiot" he will blame the diet) but also say its because he isn't on the magical stack the pro's are on.....otherwise it would of worked.

i definitly train the right way and diet the right way but the growing one well i have to work on that one a may be a bit of a joe bodybuilder there
i am either dieting or eating there is no in between. this isnt something i recomend just my own habbit so its feast or famine for me

We all have been Joe Bodybuilder! It's recognizing it, and learning from it that makes us better.

I'm literally Joe Bodybuilder to some of my sales accounts! :P

joe you need to start posting over there bro, we would love to have your input!
we are truly lucky to have guys like dante, phil hernon, massive G, and Big A post over there.

the originator of the thread was a guy named dusty hanshaw, a national level bodybuilder and trainer out in Arizona, very smart and down to earth guy, so i gotta give him credit for starting the thought process with his thread, and dante was kind enough to take time out of his hectic schedule to post the awsome post that joe quoted above!
dusty wrote

Why so complicated?

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I just want to throw out a question for the other members here to comment on and ponder for themselves when thinking about their diet, training, supplements, and super supplements: Why are so many of you trying to make bodybuilding brain surgery? I read countless threads titled things such as "how does my cycle look?" or "What is the best supplement" and "Have you ever tried XYZ before and after training for the best results of your life?" This isn't rocket science, if it was I would suck at it. I honestly think that one of the best and most true threads I have ever read was Big A's titled "secret of the pros." I have worked with the best in the business and paid good money to learn all I could from them and at the end of the day bodybuilding comes down to consistency and time. Keep your training and other areas of bodybuilding simple and with as few variables as possible and I guarantee you will be on the way to the physique you have always wanted. Good luck bro's and sisters
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now you see why the first article i ever wrote on ripped academy was entitled "consistency", it is what truly makes great physiques and great bodybuilders, granted the ones with great God given genetics will be at the top of the pecking order but without consistency they would be nothing.