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Title: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 08:09:18 AM
Have you all noticed that a lot of these type of bodybuilders do not do so well on stage? Do they over think bodybuilding or what? Prime example was Justin Harris, remember him? Top amateur from back in the day..

Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: doison on November 15, 2013, 08:12:06 AM
They wasted time thinking about bodybuilding when they should have spent that time injecting more drugs.  Thinking is catabolic
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 08:18:01 AM
I think obsessing/thinking too much on the subject of bodybuilding is detrimental to goals...Can it burn them out, hurt their diet? Justin had trouble coming in condition...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: dan18 on November 15, 2013, 08:18:14 AM
Have you all noticed that a lot of these type of bodybuilders do not do so well on stage? Do they over think bodybuilding or what? Prime example was Justin Harris, remember him? Top amateur from back in the day..


TO UP THE DOSAGE OR NOT TO UP THE DOSAGE THAT IS THE QUESTION
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 08:36:03 AM
Evan Centopani, seems like a genuinely great guy, interacts with member of MD all the time...Does he over think this shit? He did not do so well in last competition..

Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: MAXX on November 15, 2013, 09:02:43 AM
wasn't willing alt. couldn't afford to do all the drugs. brains only take you so far. bodybuilding is a drug game.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 09:17:20 AM
wasn't willing alt. couldn't afford to do all the drugs. brains only take you so far. bodybuilding is a drug game.

They have the mass, but they just do not come in shredded...Kai is one of the most gifted in genetics, coming in 2nd is no joke...Still he does not come in shredded enough to win...I lack knowledge of drugs, but what drugs are they missing to come in shredded? Kai probably uses everything at his disposal...I do not think it is about drugs...They just make it too complicated and get burned out....
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Rambone on November 15, 2013, 09:24:52 AM


Tom Platz compares his life to Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He was as philosophical as they come.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 15, 2013, 09:34:00 AM
Evan Centopani, seems like a genuinely great guy, interacts with member of MD all the time...Does he over think this shit? He did not do so well in last competition..



3rd on the AC 2012 and winning the NY pro, the Flex pro and the Tampa pro isn't that 'bad'...
Had a short talk with him on the MD forums. He's a smart, humble, honest and hardworking guy.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 10:00:44 AM
3rd on the AC 2012 and winning the NY pro, the Flex pro and the Tampa pro isn't that 'bad'...
Had a short talk with him on the MD forums. He's a smart, humble, honest and hardworking guy.

Yeah right on point, but could he do better if he did not over think, or am i over thinking myself? lol
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 15, 2013, 10:15:36 AM
Yeah right on point, but could he do better if he did not over think, or am i over thinking myself? lol

He's pretty analytical, tries to learn from his mistakes, but he's also pretty dedicated, not playing around or attention whoring, a responsible guy. Seriously, I find it hard to say something bad about him (no homo that is, lol).
Can he do better with less thinking? Prob not, his attitude seems what works for him, call it 'being yourself'  ;)
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 10:22:32 AM
He's pretty analytical, tries to learn from his mistakes, but he's also pretty dedicated, not playing around or attention whoring, a responsible guy. Seriously, I find it hard to say something bad about him (no homo that is, lol).
Can he do better with less thinking? Prob not, his attitude seems what works for him, call it 'being yourself'  ;)

Yeah he does seem to do pretty well in comps, with not the best genetics for chest...I could not look like him with all the drugs in the world at my disposal...I can get big, look huge in clothes, but would not even win a local show, no matter how hard i tried...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: oldtimer1 on November 15, 2013, 10:49:59 AM
A lot of bro philosophy there. He can't take his wife to the movies, vacations or restaurants because he is a bodybuilder? 
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 15, 2013, 10:55:05 AM
A lot of bro philosophy there. He can't take his wife to the movies, vacations or restaurants because he is a bodybuilder? 

Sure he can, but not during a prep. Someone isn't in the best mood with <5% bf.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 15, 2013, 11:00:34 AM
Yeah he does seem to do pretty well in comps, with not the best genetics for chest...I could not look like him with all the drugs in the world at my disposal...I can get big, look huge in clothes, but would not even win a local show, no matter how hard i tried...

And people who say "all drugs" don't know where they're talking about. Some Getbiggers take huge dosages as well, but do they also win shows on a serious level? Nope  ;)
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 11:20:12 AM
And people who say "all drugs" don't know where they're talking about. Some Getbiggers take huge dosages as well, but do they also win shows on a serious level? Nope  ;)

Yeah people have delusions of grandeur...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: beakdoctor on November 15, 2013, 12:10:13 PM


Tom Platz compares his life to Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He was as philosophical as they come.

I think it was a sign of those times...lot of guys back then were philosophical. Platz, Zane, Mentzer with his objectivism, even Arnold was fairly "spiritual" (for lack of a better word) about training.

Mentzer probably associated himself with a specific philosophy moreso than anyone else. He was a bit dogmatic about it.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: anabolichalo on November 15, 2013, 01:40:41 PM
muscularity and intelligence are inversely proportional


Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: WOOO on November 15, 2013, 02:33:26 PM
They wasted time thinking about bodybuilding when they should have spent that time injecting more drugs.  Thinking is catabolic

 :) :D ;D
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Parker on November 15, 2013, 02:54:39 PM
Damn that Kai for being so philosophical, he might have won the O by now.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: anabolichalo on November 15, 2013, 04:17:23 PM
Damn that Kai for being so philosophical, he might have won the O by now.
thats just a gimmick


the real kai smokes weed everyday
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Vince B on November 15, 2013, 04:26:43 PM
Just because a guy is analytical doesn't make him a philosopher.
Mike Mentzer was philosophical. He put everything into a bigger picture. Zabo asked what it was all about. That is a philosophical question. The philosophy of bodybuilding hasn't been written yet.

What you? Is a philosophical question!
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Marty Champions on November 15, 2013, 04:38:41 PM
Just because a guy is analytical doesn't make him a philosopher.
Mike Mentzer was philosophical. He put everything into a bigger picture. Zabo asked what it was all about. That is a philosophical question. The philosophy of bodybuilding hasn't been written yet.

What you? Is a philosophical question!

its a love for bodybuilding dumbass they all had it

there are few philosiphies in bodybuilding. most of them i have created. some created by mike, and arnold, mine are more well known however
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Vince B on November 15, 2013, 05:12:43 PM
its a love for bodybuilding dumbass they all had it

there are few philosiphies in bodybuilding. most of them i have created. some created by mike, and arnold, mine are more well known however

Yeah, JF is our resident self-styled philosopher. The love of bodybuilding has nothing to do with the philosophy of it. Hope this helps.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Bevo on November 15, 2013, 05:17:18 PM
thats just a gimmick


the real kai smokes weedpoles everyday

Fixed
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Parker on November 15, 2013, 05:21:27 PM
thats just a gimmick


the real kai smokes weed everyday
I think if it wasn't for his "philosophical insight" Kai wouldn't be the Kai of today.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 15, 2013, 05:44:48 PM
I think if it wasn't for his "philosophical insight" Kai wouldn't be the Kai of today.

Great point, hard to disagree with that...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Vince B on November 15, 2013, 05:57:17 PM
Mike Mentzer the philosopher:

"PART THREE: ACTUALIZE YOUR MUSCULAR POTENTIAL IN ONE YEAR!

By Mike Mentzer


In part-two of this series, Mike Mentzer identified the erroneous principles that guide the training of most bodybuilders; thereby, explaining why they are agonizingly confused with regard to how to best guide their training; and, thus, fail to ever actualize their physique potential. In this last article of the series, Mentzer cites more compelling logic, but, also, the evidence required to prove that bodybuilding progress should be nothing short of spectacular, until one actualizes his potential - in one year, or less!

*** *** ***
Last month, in part-two of this three-part series, I denounced the exercise science establishment for failing to properly define, or identify, the nature of the training stress responsible for inducing growth stimulation. Lacking knowledge of the nature of the exercise stimulus, one cannot know anything else of value about exercise. (Remember, too, that exact definitions are an absolute, objective prerequisite for using logic.) Later in that article, I explained that many exercise scientists today deny the existence of the one fundamental that makes all science possible - namely, the universality of principles.

Recall the quote from Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, professor of exercise science at Penn State, denying universal principles: "Each of you is unique in every way"; who then unconscionably contradicts himself later by advocating all bodybuilders perform 15-20 sets per bodypart, virtually every day, with up to 60 sets a workout. And how might he have arrived at such numbers? He claims in his book "Science and Practice of Strength," that such were arrived at "from studies which show greater hypertrophy from high volume training," and - here's the clincher - "from observations of professional bodybuilders."

A number of years ago, a book was published which maintained that many famous scientific studies at the highest levels of academia - even Galileo and John Hopkins University were accused - are bogus; all in the name of "publish or perish." Do you think exercise science would be the one academic arena exempt from the publishing of fraudulent studies? I seriously doubt it.

Not only did I contend that studies "proving the superiority of high volume training" were never done - but, later, that the contention of Zatziorsky's regarding volume training coming "from observations of professional bodybuilders" meant that he mindlessly lifted, or stole, the notion from Weider and some of his top IFBB professionals. Of course, neither Mr. Weider nor the exercise science establishment informs us that any results obtained from 60 sets per workout training is possible only with the attendant use of nightmarish quantities of steroids, growth hormone and a panoply of other drugs, many of which I have neither the time nor interest to learn how to spell or pronounce. Make no mistake, dear reader, these drugs are extremely potent recovery ability enhancers that allow a few to get away with what otherwise would constitute chronic, gross overtraining.

In part-one of this series, I made the point that Weider (and the exercise scientists) regard their operative principle 'more is better' as self-evident; which is not true. Nothing is self-evident except the material provided by sensory experience, e.g., the "redness" of tomato, as it is immediately evident to man's sensory-perceptual apparatus, requiring no proof. It is this type of epistemological ( intellectual ) savagery - failing to precisely define your concepts and mistaking the self-evident for abstract knowledge - that has left exercise science stalled indeterminately at an intellectual dead end, until recently.

I concluded part-two, contending that the two dominant training ideologies are both fallacious: Weider's and the scientists', with their "more is better" premise; and Jones' -despite his cognizance of the fact of a limited recovery ability - with his notion "less is better." With a truly scientific approach the guiding, operative principle should be "precise is best."

Medical and Exercise Science
One of the major philosophic themes of my articles over the past few years has been, in effect, because there is only one reality - which is an objective absolute guided by one set of never-changing principles - there can be only one valid theory of anything. The following is a discussion of one aspect of this issue from my most recent book, Heavy Duty II: Mind and Body.

"Recently, I was discussing the 'one valid theory of bodybuilding exercise' controversy with one of my favorite clients. My client is the esteemed Gregory Kay, MD, a highly trained Western, theoretical medical scientist. An experienced cardiac surgeon, who performs close to 300 open-heart surgeries a year, the good doctor has close to a 100 percent success rate in the surgical suite. Dr. Kay made the point, in effect, that his success, not to mention the overall success rate of modern medical science is proof positive that 'there is - and can be - only one valid theory of medicine.' And I happily rejoined, ". . .indirectly it proves the same for exercise theory.

"To stress the point one more step: If you were to find yourself in the jungle tomorrow, and you happened upon a voodoo witch doctor, he would have close to a zero percent success rate with his patients. Then, suppose you were to introduce him to this miracle: Western, theoretical, medical science, i.e., logical diagnostic procedure, antibiotics, analgesics, sterile technique and surgery, etc. All of a sudden the witch doctor's success rate skyrockets off the charts. He can't figure it out; he thinks you're in league with God and the Devil.

"To say that there cannot be one valid theory, or, that all theories have merit, is tantamount to stating that the intellectual method of the voodoo witch doctor is as likely to correct a brain aneurysm as would that of a highly-skilled neuro-surgeon. (The phenomenon just described is close to the intellectual state of bodybuilding today.)

"Obviously, there is a life-and-death difference between the application of false ideas and the application of true ideas. Knowledge (truly valid ideas), remember, is man's means of achieving all of his goals, including that final goal, or end, which makes all the others possible - the maintenance of his life."

*** *** ***
If you were to undergo surgery, you would obviously very much want the anesthesiologist to apply the precise amount of chemical compound required to induce a state of anesthesia. If, instead, as you were being wheeled into the surgical suite, you overheard the anesthesiologist say, "Pump him up," something like is said in bodybuilding, "pump the patient up! Give him more, more anesthesia is better than less," you wouldn't feel very confident about the situation. In fact, even a semi-rational individual would jump up and run out the door. Or, if you heard the doctor say something slightly different, "Let's give this patient less anesthesia than we gave that one yesterday; we killed the poor man" you wouldn't feel much better. In this particular case, where life-and-death clearly is the issue, it's quite easy to grasp why scientific precision is so very important. However, that same principle from medical theory carries over and has direct practical application to bodybuilding/exercise science theory. (Keep in mind that exercise science derives from medical science; and that the ideal in both situations is to correct, or improve, human physiology with as high a degree of precision as is required.)

In bodybuilding, the idea is to impose a training stress onto the body that will serve to induce the biochemical changes which result in muscular hypertrophy. Applying any more of the training stress (high-intensity) than is required by nature will result in the equivalent of over-dosing on a medicine; or, as we say typically in bodybuilding - overtraining.

A person exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays at the equator in summer would not have the slightest concern whether the intensity of the sunlight stress is high enough to disturb the physiology sufficiently to induce an adaptive response, i.e., the buildup of a suntan. His only concern, his overriding consideration, would be to properly regulate the volume (or duration) and frequency of exposure time so as not to overdose on the stress/stimulus; and, thereby, incur a sunburn or, in extreme cases, death. A person seeking to develop a suntan at the equator, or wherever the intensity of the sunlight is high has no concern that he will develop a suntan; but only if he doesn't overexpose. (Note that bodybuilding science is largely based on the medical discipline of stress physiology. Also, that the end result of the healing of a sunburn is not a suntan, just as the end result of the healing of overtraining is not greater strength or added muscle.)

Bodybuilders utilizing the blind, nontheoretical volume approach to training do fret continuously over the prospect of ever developing their muscles because they know next to nothing about the nature of the specific stress/stimulus required to induce a buildup of muscle tissue beyond normal levels. Their obsession is with the volume, or amount, of training. Unlike the suntanner, however, who is rationally concerned with the proper regulation of the imposition of the sunlight stress, the bodybuilder has an irrational obsession with (over)imposing the training stress; and, unwittingly, allows his workouts to degenerate into an endurance contest.

An Air Bubble in the Sea of Causality?
Since I had my earlier clients performing considerably less than what Jones advocated - 7 to 9 sets three days a week versus 12-20 sets three days a week - I initially found it near impossible to believe that their less-than-satisfactory, long-range progress was due to overtraining. I, also, realized that it couldn't be the effect of undertraining. So, what was the cause?

At about the time I was considering this question, I signed up a wildly enthusiastic training client, one who had studied Heavy Duty, high-intensity training theory rather seriously; and thought he had found the "answer," after years of practically no progress with volume training. Interestingly, after two months on the seven to nine sets of three days a week training, it became starkly evident that the program was not working. His strength had only increased negligibly at best; and he had even started decompensating - losing strength - slightly by the end of eight weeks. And, of course, there was no visible increase in muscle mass.

Since I had informed this young man of some of the results my other clients were obtaining with the same routine, and we were both conversant with the theory, it was decided to reduce his program to only five sets once every 72 hours, or third day. And after a few weeks, it was once again apparent that something was wrong, as he made absolutely no progress.

This threw me into a bit of a quandary. This was the first time that I had ever trained someone who was so thoroughly nonresponsive to high-intensity; at least as I was practically applying it; and, to the best of my knowledge, I was the only trainer in the world who had any of his clients performing so little exercise. Could it be that I was wrong about the universal validity of these training principles? Or, was this a species of metaphysical churlishness, an air bubble in the sea of causality? I knew better, of course, because the laws of nature are universal and immutable. Just because I had a firm grasp of the theory, however, didn't mean I possessed certain ancillary knowledge that might be crucial. There had to be something about this individual's physiology which could be cited for his lack of progress with the given routine. There had to be something that would explain why on so brief and infrequent a program, this individual was still overtraining.

This led me to review some of what I knew about the role of genetics. I reasoned that, since genetically mediated traits such as height, sunlight stress tolerance and intelligence were expressed across a broad continuum, such would most likely be true of individual exercise stress tolerance. With regard to height, there are midgets at the left end of the continuum and giants at the other. In the area of individual sunlight stress tolerance, there are light-skinned people, such as Scandinavians at one end, who tolerate very little in the way of sunlight stress, and dark-skinned people who obviously tolerate more. And with intelligence, you have literal medical morons at one extreme and super geniuses at the other. I was very excited upon recognizing that a similar situation had to be true for individual exercise stress tolerance, with those at one extreme who tolerated a lot less exercise than those at the other.

As my client liked to tease and cut up a lot, I met him at the gym - armed with my new understanding - and referred to him as a midget, or moron, of recovery ability. Although even hard for me to accept at first, my conclusion about genetics led me to reduce this fellow's workouts again - this time to only three sets once every four to seven days. And it worked; he finally began growing stronger and larger on a regular basis, although his progress was never dramatic. He properly concluded that he didn't have the genetic predisposition to gain in strength and size at the greater rate exhibited by some of my other clients.

Where I had been very apprehensive earlier at the prospect of reducing training volume and frequency to so low a level with other clients, my success with our "recovery moron" emboldened me. It was at this time, about five years ago, that I finally reduced all my clients' training to three to five sets once every four to seven days, or less, depending upon their innate recovery ability, or individual exercise stress tolerance. (Interestingly, while thousands of people around are the world are individually establishing their own exercise prescriptions based on their own exercise stress tolerance, the orthodoxy and the exercise science community are still advocating everyone train everyday with up to 60 sets!)

What's Possible
With a properly conducted high-intensity training program, the individual will grow stronger every workout, without any serious breach in progress, until he has actualized his strength/muscular potential. I had a client several years ago who improved the functional ability of his quadriceps such that he was able to perform 10 reps with the whole stack, or 250 pounds, on the Nautilus Leg Extension after only being able to do seven reps with 170 pounds two months prior, a tremendous increase. (This type of response is not experienced by every one of my trainees; but it is far from atypical.)

The strongest client I ever had was able to perform 33 reps on the Nautilus Leg-Extension with the whole stack. And that was an incredibly well-developed, strong "genetic freak," the famed David Paul of the Barbarian Brothers. When David first started having me supervise his workouts, he performed 15 reps on the Leg-Extension and then went immediately, in superset fashion, to the Nautilus Leg Press where he performed 18 reps to complete failure with the full stack, 510 pounds. One week later David performed 25 reps on the Leg-Extension and immediately ran to the Leg Press where he did 38 reps. Impressive? You better believe it. But, keep reading.

One week after that, he did 33 reps on the Leg-Extension followed by a hard-to-believe 71 reps on the Leg Press! In both exercises, he again, employed the entire weight stacks. No, the above is not a misprint. David improved his Leg-Extension from 15 to 33 reps and his Leg Press from 18 to 71 reps as a result of only two leg workouts that lasted less than 15 minutes each. That represents an improvement of 388 percent in the functional ability of the quadriceps of an already highly advanced bodybuilder. In the one month I trained David, he gained seven pounds of muscle. These are phenomenal increases, especially when considered against the fact that for the previous five years, David's volume training, involving training sessions that lasted for at least two hours (sometimes twice a day ) six days a week, yielded zero strength and size increases.

Since David was capable of such a rate of improvement, imagine what a rank beginner - (with similar genetics) - might achieve on such a program. I've already provided you an indication, with the description of the first individual. If a beginner can improve as I described above, going from 170 for seven reps to 250 for 10 reps on the Leg-Extension in two months, he has only 23 reps to go with the same weight before achieving the functional capacity of a super genetic freak. How long would that take him? He'd probably never achieve it, as he, by all appearances, was only average - or slightly above - in genetics. My point is: Given the enormous improvement he made in only two months, it wouldn't even take year before he actualized his strength/muscle potential. (We'll never know exactly; because of enormous career pressures he had to cease training after two months.)

Bear in mind that a prerequisite for growing larger muscles is that one grow stronger. Since the individual I described would cease growing in strength in less than one year, his muscle growth would cease soon thereafter.

Conclusion
I am not suggesting that everyone who buys my books and/or tries a Heavy Duty, high-intensity training program will actualize his potential in so short a time. This is because, as I've learned through conversations with those who have read my books, that they don't always fully understand the theory's proper, practical application.

My main point is that with a sound, valid theoretical approach to training, progress should be immediate, continuous and worthwhile all the way to the full actualization of one's potential. Also, that the actualization of one's potential, too, is a genetically determined trait; therefore, there will be those who reach their upper limits in a matter of a few months, some a year and others slightly longer."
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: anabolichalo on November 17, 2013, 01:38:42 AM
Fixed
i wanted to write something like that but then i was afraid kai would read this and do stupid things to himself
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: macos on November 17, 2013, 01:57:31 AM
Have you all noticed that a lot of these type of bodybuilders do not do so well on stage? Do they over think bodybuilding or what? Prime example was Justin Harris, remember him? Top amateur from back in the day..


prep for a contest. You will yourself get the answer to your question
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 17, 2013, 03:23:17 AM
prep for a contest. You will yourself get the answer to your question

Have you competed? Post some pics and get your blue stars...I myself do not have the genetics and the mental strength to prepare for a contest...Justin was  top amateur and have to give him props...Guess he decided to move on and do something else...Was a fan of his videos and hoped he would continue to do well..He just fucked up on one prep, wish he continued on with future competitions..
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Papper on November 17, 2013, 10:53:58 AM
Tom Platz in Total Rebuild proved to be deep and philosophical and into the mind/body relationship. As did his dark haired partner in the locker room whom he did ab poses infront of and in the same moment learned he too had been reading philosophy. You all remember this I am sure.

Arnold too is a real thinker and learned man.

Kai Greene is wannabe philosophical but more artsy really. He mostly uses big words just to seem special.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Nirvana on November 17, 2013, 05:07:33 PM
ain't nothing to it but to do it
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 17, 2013, 05:35:57 PM
ain't nothing to it but to do it

You hit the nail on the head, exactly what i wanted to explain...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: MAXX on November 20, 2013, 04:33:51 PM
too many distractions 

Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: the trainer on November 20, 2013, 04:41:14 PM
bodybuilding is so simple go to the gym lift heavy ass weights go home eat lots of food and inject your roids and give your body time to grow, that is all you have to do.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Vince B on November 20, 2013, 04:52:41 PM
bodybuilding is so simple go to the gym lift heavy ass weights go home eat lots of food and inject your roids and give your body time to grow, that is all you have to do.

The formula is simple but building huge muscles is not at all easy. If a muscleman isn't smart he has to have a smart trainer. Lifting heavy ass weights is the best way to get injured and that will end any hope of winning anything.
Steroids and other drugs are dangerous. Not everyone who uses them gets the results they expect. There is a lot to learn in this cult.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: hardgainerj on November 20, 2013, 06:51:16 PM
Just because a guy is analytical doesn't make him a philosopher.
Mike Mentzer was philosophical. He put everything into a bigger picture. Zabo asked what it was all about. That is a philosophical question. The philosophy of bodybuilding hasn't been written yet.

What you? Is a philosophical question!
mentzer was a meth addict with too much time on his hands
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 24, 2013, 03:00:11 PM
"Being a Bodybuilder #2: Blood Is Thicker Than Weights"

Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Mr Nobody on November 24, 2013, 03:34:15 PM
Serge Nubret porn star and philosopher.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 24, 2013, 03:36:26 PM
Serge Nubret porn star and philosopher.

Serious? :D
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Mr Nobody on November 24, 2013, 03:37:09 PM
Serious? :D
Yes as I understand.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Viking11 on November 24, 2013, 03:48:55 PM
Serge did some x- rated movies in France in the 70s. Not xxx porn. The IFBB just used that as excuse to ban him so he couldn't beat Franco and Zane. 
Mentzer didn't use amphetamines until 1980.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 24, 2013, 04:20:20 PM
I did not know Serge Nubret was banned, interesting...Ban Serge but not Kai? What times we live in..
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 24, 2013, 04:40:37 PM
I did not know Serge Nubret was banned, interesting...Ban Serge but not Kai? What times we live in..

Modern bodybuilding has become too expensive for many. The list of IFBB pros with a G4P-like background is much longer than just Kai. If the IFBB would screen all athletes, then how many of them will be left over?
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Nick II on November 24, 2013, 04:43:37 PM
"Being a Bodybuilder #2: Blood Is Thicker Than Weights"



Evans a good fella
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Hulkotron on November 24, 2013, 04:44:54 PM
To lift you must eat but to eat you must lift

These are the "circular" problems that the champions have solved.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 24, 2013, 05:01:11 PM
Modern bodybuilding has become too expensive for many. The list of IFBB pros with a G4P-like background is much longer than just Kai. If the IFBB would screen all athletes, then how many of them will be left over?

If female strippers can be bikini competitors, yeah..There would be no sport left to compete in...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 24, 2013, 05:14:18 PM
If female strippers can be bikini competitors, yeah..There would be no sport left to compete in...

How many well educated/classy women will do a bikini show? Prob not many, esp in Europe.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: tbombz on November 24, 2013, 07:11:12 PM
There's a big difference between philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.  One is good the other is not. One leads to faith the other to doubt.  One to success the other to failure.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: bebop396 on November 24, 2013, 09:00:53 PM
There's a big difference between philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.  One is good the other is not. One leads to faith the other to doubt.  One to success the other to failure.

Hit the nail on the head.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Meaningless on November 25, 2013, 06:11:24 AM
There's a big difference between philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.  One is good the other is not. One leads to faith the other to doubt.  One to success the other to failure.

Very well said tbombz.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 25, 2013, 06:25:20 AM
There's a big difference between philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.  One is good the other is not. One leads to faith the other to doubt.  One to success the other to failure.

That having said, I believe you should shave before posting a selfie.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Parker on November 25, 2013, 07:02:01 AM
Very well said tbombz.
remember, he knows by experience. Until you roll that boulder up a hill and it falls back down, do you understan what Sisyphus had to go thru.

And then some of us are just like Sisyphus and are still doing the same thing, with no gains.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 28, 2013, 07:42:47 AM
"Being a Bodybuilder #3: That Extra Push"

Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: MORTALCOIL on November 28, 2013, 07:46:59 AM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UarSegyzAx8/UHSNSSMMJBI/AAAAAAAAC-w/ILxdgUD9Vcg/s1600/École+d'Athène.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-70eAsCMf0mI/URatqZVnVZI/AAAAAAAAgKM/aw8cjW9koXE/s1600/diogene.jpg)

Diogenes was wider than Heath.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 28, 2013, 08:08:47 AM
BTW, they should hang this sign in every gym.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Mr Nobody on November 28, 2013, 09:41:26 AM
Steve Michalik beat the piss out of many idiots outside the gym on the streets outside the the gym.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 28, 2013, 09:46:57 AM
Steve Michalik beat the piss out of many idiots outside the gym on the streets outside the the gym.

He introduced "roid rage" to the world, but never received the Nobel Prize.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Mr Nobody on November 28, 2013, 09:49:14 AM
He introduced "roid rage" to the world, but never received the Nobel Prize.
He got ripped off the judging sucked.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 28, 2013, 10:04:48 AM
He got ripped off the judging sucked.

I believe there are more robbed BBers than stars on the Hollywood walk of fame... Robinson, Ray, Levrone, Wolf, Martinez... and the list goes on...
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: DroppingPlates on November 28, 2013, 10:11:05 AM
What dj181 isnt there?

He has only qualified himself for the men's oil rubbing department.
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: Papper on November 28, 2013, 12:35:08 PM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=506089.0;attach=543749;image)

Should definitely hang it up in every gym. Even at offices and other workplaces.


Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: dr.chimps on November 28, 2013, 12:37:22 PM
There's a big difference between philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.  One is good the other is not. One leads to faith the other to doubt.  One to success the other to failure.
Says the guy given to both philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.   ;D
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: dr.chimps on November 28, 2013, 12:55:01 PM
Diogenes "the dog:" Practitioner of such interrelated acts as masterbating in public, frequenting whorehouses, and adhering to the Galeniko diet. All long established and time-honored Getbig traditions.
But searched for the honest man, in daytime, with a lamp. Obviously not looking for Getbiggers.    ;D
Title: Re: Philosophical Bodybuilders
Post by: tbombz on November 28, 2013, 09:04:49 PM
Says the guy given to both philosophizing and over-thinking/micro-managing.   ;D
and that's the only reason why I was able to articulate the difference between them ;D