i find it interesting that you respect / listen to GH15, an anonymous idiot on this message board, but have such a poor opinion of Basile. Of the two of them, Basile actually has verified who he is, what he accomplished in bbing back in the day, owns his own gym, created his own equipment, etc. GH15 is a gimmick board idiot who is most likely a closet homo like the rest that have been exposed over the past years.
i would call someone who actually takes GH15s advice seriously "delusional"
I want to make a serious comment on this post. When reading anything, whether about training, philosophy, self-help books, diet..., for all practical purposes the person is anonymous to you. When I first read a book by Arthur Jones' I had no idea who he was and when I did find out his name I found out he had no formal education in exercise science. But I did ask myself if a lot of things he said made sense. In my case, the answer was yes. That below a certain threshold of intensity exercise will do little or nothing to stimulate and adaptive response. After all, if you are doing things that are already easy why or what would your body adapt too?
Vince, whom I respect, believes that proper training and nutrition (60 grams of protein/max) is all that is required to stimulate, in his words, hypertrophy. Anybody who has been training seriously, experimenting with various protocols, realize that this is simply not the case. Vince has never done it on himself (he consider, falsely, that age is no barrier) or on anybody else. There is a reason why it is so difficult to build muscle mass beyond normal levels. Your body simply does not want it and given the slightest reason will get rid of it. It's the desire to conserve energy and muscle requires continuous metabolic support even at rest.
My experiences with advance bodybuilders is though their training regimes do in fact vary, not only among each other, but among themselves as well as they vary duration, frequency and intensity in their routines that after a certain point, say five years of serious training, they will not make any noticeable improvements in their physiques. Their look may vary depending on diet, looking thin and more defined or looking fat and bigger -- but no real quantitative and qualitative changes in muscle mass. It's when they turn to drugs that things start to make a real difference. gh15, whomever he is, rants on drug use makes sense to me. The only time I've ever seen anybody really make a difference in their body is when they take drugs. And when they reach a plateau they increase the dose and keep on gaining. And guys like Moody, Faldo, Rodriguez... simply lie.
That makes more sense to me than some secret hypertrophy training system and 60 grams of protein a day.
