Jeff, in your opinion, is Mike Lockett natural?
I've gotta admit that upon leaving that meeting, he had me convinced that he really is natural. We spoke at length on this. He's a good guy...when I talked to him he still seemed to be coming to terms with his newfound success in the sport...it was either the Monday or Tuesday after his Jr. Nationals win. MD had flown he and Brandon Rey (Don Long's protege) out for photo shoots. Brandon was a wealth of information as well. Poor Brandon was noticeably water-logged from his post-contest binging since the show and noted how Michael had basically been eating when and the same things he had been eating, but he hadn't lost one bit of conditioning.
People in this sport tell me things...they tell me the good stuff...for some reason people tend to tell me the things that need to be re-told...and this is essentially what I got from Michael:
He's only been training for a few years, before bodybuilding he boxed non-stop. And when I say a few, I mean like THREE. He had basically 2 defenses for people accusing him of lying about his drug usage. 1) He's been tested 2 or 3 times and that he passed every time, and he invited further tests. 2) He also said that he believes himself to truly be the possessor of an extremely rare genotype and that his purpose in life is to see how far he can go without juice. He even went so far as to include his suspicion that he might be prone to succumb to some extraordinary complication (cardiac or otherwise, for example) if he were to juice...as that might be God's way of punishing him for trying to push it too far based on the example he could lead as a natural. See this was a very important detail for me to get because every time I see a world-class physique star claiming to be natural, I have a really hard time believing that they wouldn't try something more to be even better than they are...especially if they could push the limits of physique development based on what they'd achieved as a natural...but if I were him, and I were natural, I would really wanna see what else I could do without anything else.
The other reason I believe him is because, even if he were juiced to the gills, there's still nothing to explain his year round conditioning or the unique quality to his muscularity...so him being natural looking like that really wouldn't be that much more of a mystery if you ask me than it already is. The extraordinary quality to his body is his superb DENSITY. There is so much tissue packed into each bodypart...that's how he has such extreme SEPARATION. This guy carries some incredibly dense muscle. He dropped his pants and I just had to reach out and touch his leg, it was outrageous. Like, WTF does that feel like? Look at the pictures of him backstage at the Jr. Nationals. Look at his arms there standing next to Jerryme hanging relaxed by his side. Just chords of muscle there with absolutely no fat, no where. Those pictures hint at his quirks but you really have to see him in person to really get a full appreciation of this guy's freak factor.
Oh, he also said he eats 3 chicken and rice meals every day. In between are candy bars, chips, just plain ol' good-tasting shit in general...all day long, to his heart's content. He just makes sure he gets those 3 solid bodybuilding meals a day to make sure he's not missing anything and to provide a backbone to his nutrition.
This guy is too straightforward to be bullshitting. There is NO ONE who has ever seen him look anything but as he does in these pictures and at the very least your WATER goes up and down when you go off and on stuff. The drug thing just doesn't add up and you can tell by looking at him that he's unique in some kind of way.
I just hope he doesn't turn sour on the bodybuilding community as a whole having every call him a liar every time his name is brought up if he really isn't lying. I really hope he can stay on top of it all.
