One thing I'm certain that diet does heighten is your sensitivity to mediocrity. I've seen everyone resent the shit out of slack-asses near a successful showing. And you see it coming out here in Alex...it's odd because it doesn't really bother you until you've been so close to perfecting your routine. Alex is a machine right now, I'm sure of it. I'm sure he wakes up every day at the same time, eats the same shit at the same time every day, just follows a routine to a T. Your body is actually one big visual representation of that when completely dialed in. Think about running over every nook and cranny with a fine toothed comb just over and over again to get all the kinks out. To avoid temptation, drama, minimize unpredictable scenarios, etc, you have to have a very concrete routine that is rarely veered from. One little mess up can send you spiraling off course when you're this close. That's why we need to respect Alex trying to share with us these last final weeks...do you realize right now how good this thread is right now, and how good the next one will be if Alex is able to stay cool through all this juvenile prodding? I swear Daddywaddy you should be ashamed of yourself. Here we have someone with world-class conditioning giving us a glimpse into the mindset necessary to achieve it (and that's really the only SECRET, if there is one), so this, IMO, is one of the most valuable threads on this board to date. Alex, anything else you can give us just ups the stock here. I'm serious, I wanna hear as much as you think you can give us without falling off the edge, but if I thought you were really close to it, I'd tell you now to stop, but I don't think you're gonna budge. You're just that dug in from everything I can tell.
This right here is why McFarland is a pretty damn sharp dude, a smart man. He knows whats going on in my head.
He is reading my mind.
Bro, this is my life. I wake up at 4:00am everyday, including weekends. I do the same thing at the same time. I eat the same thing at the same time. I have so much going on, so much to remember, but Im sharp as hell. My senses are sharper. Im like a swiss watch, I dont forget things. But if I do, all hell breaks loose. Im thrown off course, pissed as hell and have to drop everything to make sure Im back on track, even if it is somehing so minor. I should not care, but I notice every detail. Especially in the gym. People that used to look lean to me, look kinda fat. People look like their just bullshitting around. Where are the real gym rats? isnt anyone in shape around here? Someone who shows up everyday for 2 hours is not a gym rat. He is a lonely person. Anyways, I dont wast time. Im always in a hurry, I do my sets fast. I always have, but now I want to get on to the next exercise, i dont want to half ass it, but I want to get it done, now, I want to eat, i have to go tanning, I need to go by the store and get more food. So much is going on, Its great, but I dont like distractions. I should not give a crap about a daddywaddy or a "its all drugs" Dearth. But for some fuckin reason I do. I think, Im a nice guy, im doing all the right things. Oh well, McFarland and others here always steer me back on course
Guys like Wes, guys like coach, so many others. See at the gym, I gravitate to bodybulders, mainly those that compete. I dont have much in common with the non hackers. So, here on GETBIG, which is supposed to be a bodybuilders forum, I gravitate to the real guys that have competed and appreciate those that do.
The Dearths of this world have no clue. "its all drugs buddy" you know why he thinks that? Because either he, or his buddy is downing bottles of winny, poping the halos, jammin the insulin, mega doses and all they look like is.... watery, bloated, fat, chubby guys that no one pays attention to. They are like, " I do all this crap and I look like nothing" so if this guy Alex , Is hard and grainy, hes doing twice the crap of me.. "That bastard!" they fuckin hate me, Im the enemy. I make them look stupid. It must be all drugs. Drugs make you grainy, drugs give you shredded glutes and hams, drugs dial you in, drugs drugs drugs.
Check this shit out. I was in the locker room, no one was in there, I was done, changing my shirt, there is a great mirror and light in there so I was hitting some poses. Some guy walks in, throws his bag and shit on the counter, loudly, looks at me. I look at him...He has one of those skullets, you know, bald in the middle and long on the side. His clavicals are 1 inch wide, and is about 5'10' and weighs about 160. Mostly fat. he says to me."WHAT KINDA PROTEIN ARE YOU TAKING?" "I CANT GET ANYWERE WITH THIS GYM". What should I take, he says? Im thinking, "so fucking what, twerp" ive got shit to do. Im not your trainer. Ive got a national show breathing down my throat etc. I still take the time and say" oh just the stuff fom cosco" which is true by the way.
But the way he said it, was like he was mad at me, because he looked like crap. He hated how I look. Lots of weird shit going on, i might be way to sensetive to it, but Like McFarland said, you are much less sensetive to mediocracy when your in shape like this.
Sorry to sound like a bragging bastard but this shit is true, I admit. I try to be a nice guy, i can only take so much, but I hat to say it. Win or lose, Im hardcore..
