Tweakle said:
So we've established the Pros have nothing to offer any of us regular people because they're genetically on a different plane.
So I take it that means no more lectures about how IFBB pro Mr So-And-So does 5mg dbol a day and is 300lbs ripped, and those of us who use more AAS than he claims to use are idiots, lazy and drug abusers.
Because if he isn't the same species as the rest of us, with 4 x the AR's of a regular guy, with no SHBG or myostatin in his system obviously doesn't need to use much in the way of gear, or train hard. Or eat much to grow on.
Well, yes and no.
You have to seperate the two types of "superior" genetics. The pros are pretty much inclined to be genetically dispositioned to respond to :
Training Stimilus - Vince Taylor, Flex Wheeler, Lee Priest, Bob Paris, Labrada, Toney Freeman
or
Chemical Stimilus - Tom Prince comes to mind and I better not name anymore or BRR may get one of those letters again like he did from T. A. that time I outed his ass on some things.
Now some people possess both of these qualities in abundance, Levrone as an example. Which is why he could take 8 months off and come back, add 30lbs of muscle and place in the Top 5 of the O. However, these individuals are rare. You are generally either one type or the other, or worse.... neither.
While not everyone can be a pro, that doesn't mean you can't pick up a few tricks from them. The most common mistake I see people making is mimicing what the pros do and not understanding why they do. You see in the gym and on DVDs pros doing very short rep ranges. I see 180lb tweenagers in the gym doing 5 inch range of movement reps all the time. Why? Because pros do it. Well pros do it because the larger a muscle gets, the more reduced the range is. My arm at 20 inches has a shorter range of movement than someone with 17 inches.
As I stated before, the key to MAXIMIZING your physique whether you can be a pro BBer or just a buffed up beach hero, is finding out what works for you. That is what the pros did. Whether "what works" means training wise or chemical wise, is individually dependent. Your arms may respond to a 5x5 training style, your legs might need volume training with high reps, you may need drop set style training on every set for shoulders, Your chest may only respond to low reps, You may need to train arms twice a week, you may need to train chest once every 9 days, etc... it is important to break your body up into sections and individual groups and figure out what it takes. 99% of the people simply don't do this.
Pros are not experts. Usually pros are having someone else tell them what to take. If they were experts, why would Charles Glass be in demand by them?
There is one pro - from Atlanta - that when he was trying to get his pro card at the Nationals back in 2001 he decided to use clen for the first time. Someone told him that Albuteral (sp? asthma inhaler) was the same thing and did the same thing to the body, which was help shed fat and lean up. So the Nationals came and went and he placed terrible. He said that using clen/albuteral made no difference at all to him. Come to find out, this dude was spraying it directly on his stomach thinking it was suppose to be applied that way. He was shocked when we told him he was suppose to inhale it. His answer "But I ain't got no asthma."
Pros are not experts by any means. They are simply people who have taken time or luckily stumbled upon their magic combo that only they respond to. Once you find this method for you, you will then truly see what limitations Mother Nature placed upon you. You can reach your potential. But most people never even come close to discovering it.