here is daddy waddys problem...
he is an egomaniac. his goal was to achieve a level of conditioning on par with the best of the best AND he wanted to do it as a natural. he had the right attitude and a good base to do so with... here is where he want wrong.
he tried to be an innovater to reinvent something that had already been invented, he tried to make his quest for conditioning like a spiritual quest for truth that only he would realize and he would reap the benefits of the this truth into some form of enlightment.
so he started doing outragous unconvential things like eating nothing, running marathons, lifting for hours and then binging and smoking pot and then not eating for days, and eating sea-salt and raw vegetables and kelp. blah blah blah.... a lot of horse shit basically. he thought he would achieve a superhuman level of conditioning AND because he did it so unconventially he would be hailed a truth bringer who crushed all the old standards of dieters past and thus be seen as a "guru" (literrally from the buddhist sense someone who helps others achieve enlightment).
the problem is..... IT BACKFIRED. and he looks like a midwest meth addict.
guess what daddy. the old standards of stand. yea as cliche as it is its still the old 6 meals a day, high protein, moderate carb, low low fat diet, don't overtrain, do your cardio, take your thermos, do it for a very very long time and make adjustments as neccessary.
daddy, the grail you seek has been found and brought out to into the open you just ignored it. just like adonis you tried to take the unconvential route to ultra-rippedness, thing is adonis got a lot closer ONLY becaus he followed more closely the principles above and didn't rely on some bullshit sea-salt to save his muscle. he still ate real calories.
good insight but i don't agree with you on the 6 meals, mod carb, low fat crap. that shit's been debunked time and again.
i believe adonis was on the right track with a 'calorie is a calorie' but he started getting a little stupid with his advice (beer only, etc) and failed to take personality, environment, etc etc into account. he let his vast ego get in the way of his focus and got caught up more with being a heretic for it's own sake. however, it can be said that there was one time that he saw his theory through to an actual presentation (getbig 1 contest) where he displayed a successful experiment on his own body
waddy has excellent genetics for building muscle (whether he acknowledges it or not) but i don't think he received too many gifts in the mental dept. apart from that, i don't know whether it's the drugs he uses or a psychiatric disorder but he is COMPLETELY inconsistant with everything he posts here, apart from his attention whoring (but that might be part of the psychiatric disorder). he goes from
allegedly 10000 calories a diets to close to 0 and expounds on the virtues of each, depending on which waddy turns up. his physique goes from suspiciously full, big and pretty cut to flat as a pancake, smaller and, yes, soft - i'm sorry natural bodies don't do that in the space of a month or 2, especially if they are training the whole time. he even came out with the ridiculous assertion (yes, he was advising everyone) that it was excess cardio + 10000 calories per day that built large cut up muscle (absolutley, look at all those massive beasts running marathons). even said running was more important than squats for building muscle in the legs.
there is no magical ingredient to getting ripped. you've just got to eat less calories than what you're metabolizing.
thing is, your metabolism can be influeneced by way too many variables to give an accurate prescription to every person eg. weight, sex, age, genetics, how much you eat (less you eat, the more your metabolism will slow down so as to prevent starvation - it doesn't know that burger king is just around the corner, it thinks a saber tooth tiger is around the corner) environment, activity levels, drugs, etc.
eating 6+ small high protein meals p.d was designed purely for 2 reasons
1. keep you satiated for longer (protein keeps you fuller longer than carbs)
2. stimulate the metabolism by the simple act of ingesting food ie digestion requires activity in your digestive system (from chewing to systems in the intestinal tract and gut). the only problem here is that the resulting carorie loss is so minor that it's hardly worth the effort (unless it works for you psychologically).
put it this way, the great serge nubret only ate 1 massive meal per day (apparently incuding 8lbs of horse meat amongst other foods in one sitting) yet he had easily the best midsection of any competitor in the the 70s.
mentzer only ate a max of 2wice per day and less than 100 grams of protein (for the whole day) when preparing for a contest and there weren't too many physiques more muscular and ripped than his at his peak.
natural trainees have even less reason to eat so many meals p.d with so much protein.
