A true gentlemen would not insult a lady, Keith especially since she hasn't said anything about you. Is your life so sad that you have to resort to this sort of rhetoric???
Absolutely. I have been lurking here for awhile and not posting, and I have seen what this guy has been doing/saying. He may, at one time, have done things that me and you will not have the opportunity to do, like meet with guys that live in the area or end up in movies. However what you DID does not equal out to what you are DOING.
Morbid obesity and living off your past accomplishments does not equal out to a damn thing. It is like going from being a billionaire to a bum, and staying a bum for years and years and never doing anything else. He may have been something in the past, but now it appears that one day soon he will need to be rescued from his house via the deconstruction of a bedroom wall, and then air lifted like shamoo to a hospital.
Plus, from that other thread you posted, he is being a scumbag with business transactions and screwing people. That is the big thing for me: Do your best, do everything you can to make money, but do not step on people along the way.
As for the obligatory "I once had a drink with Stallone" comments, so what. He is not some God or anything. If you were anywhere near him, he would probably say let's all go party and everyone around him would go, or he would ask someone he worked with to go with him. No big deal. If you were were really so tight, he would pay for your liposuction or help you out like a true friend.
As for the Adonis Principles:
They work, 100%, no doubt about it. Before they were 'The Adonis Principles', Mike Mentzer was espousing the same thing. Before that, others were saying the same thing. Hell, the government has been telling us this for years.
All the work has been done for you, yet people still hang on to this idea that they will need something no one else does. I still know people who tell me they are doing Cutler's diet or whatever. These people never make progress.
A calorie is a calorie for the MOST part. You can opt for a complex carb over sugar or whatever at different times for SOME insulin control, but it is not that big of a deal. Protein is only needed for the functions it serves. Once you have enough for growth, you CAN NOT USE ANYMORE!!.
Last time Goodrum and I saw each other, it was around 5 years ago. He saw me on both diets, the bodybuilding dogma stuff and the 'Adonis diet' that I used. I believe he would tell you I looked better eating less calories and eating things like a MilkyWay preworkout than I ever did previously.
I am not saying it is optimal to eat candy and ice cream all day, every day. I am saying that ENOUGH protein, ENOUGH carbs, Enough fats and a calorie reduction will work for weight loss. The same thing plus calories works for weight gain. It really is that simple.
You are stupid if you believe you can eat double over maintenance of anything and lose fat, or if you believe you need thousands of extra calories for muscle gain. Well, either stupid or you just picked up your first muscle mag.
Goodrum: You made a TON of improvements for your last show. Keep at it man, you can see your hard work actually meant something.
The problems guys run into is with their training. High volume, low volume, whatever you can progress with. If you never deload you will never progress farther.
