Matt C. interviews Layne Norton.

[Kim Jong Bob]

hi matt

hi tito waz up....besides your dick in my mom......eh ?!

[Tito24]

im fine, i hope your training is going wel mate. your mom is a sweatheart.

[Go Kart Mozart]

You look like an extremely gay version of Hugh Grant. Like if Hugh Grant got aids and tried to fight it with bodybuilding but it just wasn't working and he just looked like a skinny gay dude with aids..

Good interview though...

[Alexander D]

Yes it is.  I've posted videos to confirm that.  At this exact moment it might not be as close as it usually is, but I've only had one chest workout in the past six weeks.  My best ever was 345 and Layne's best ever was somewhere in the range of 350-370, so our bench is close.  Layne is way stronger than me overall and I would never deny that.

Layne tore his pec as some on here know and has not been benching as heavy since then.  But to compare Layne at his best and me at my best, our bench max was within around 20 pounds of one another.  Also, I was around 180 at the time of my max bench and Layne was around 210-220, so it's safe to say it was pretty close.

Hey thanks Earl!!!  Layne is an interesting dude and has a lot to say.

post up the vid of you doing 345lbs at 180lbs... impressive!

[#1 Klaus fan]

Hmm...I'm not going to question your experience here, but that could definitely cause a person to lose anything he's built on his upper body, and in most cases it wouldn't do much for progressing with legs, either.  You may well be different, but in general terms...

The only way I could see that even coming close to working would be if the person had extremely unusual genes and was fully within his prime.

I exaggerated a little bit. A person should be prepared to squat every day to see great results in the leg department, but that of course is not entirely necessary. I wonder why pros train like they train. Muscle groups once per week, and there is no total rest designed into the program. I like the scheme where there is a couple of weeks of hard training (all muscle groups worked almost every day) and then 7 to 10 days of total rest. This in my mind is very effective. It seems lazy since you rest so much and often, but it seems to work.

[bic_staedtler]

This thread should be the only one that any newb bodybuilder should pay attention to if they want to see why it is that virtually all NPC athletes use drugs.

This is a guy who has (for better or worse) spent 10 years lifting weights, and this is the best he can muster thus far.  I ain't knockin' him, but look at the physique.  Is this something that would have motivated any young guys here to train and follow a bodybuilding lifestyle?...I don't think so. 

It's not hard to realize how difficult it is to put on size naturally.   Only the select genetic few can do it.  Layne is not one of them; this took TEN YEARS.  Again...I'm not knocking him, I'm putting this out there for those who want to know what they can expect. 

Is it no wonder people crank?

With this type of physique as it's benchmark, what kind of industry could be supported in terms of what the pros do right now?

At least it's an honest body of work, but if you were to try to attract people to bodybuild (say, if you were a Weider back in the day), this is not what would be profitable.  That's been proven time and time again.

That being said, he's doing the best with what he's got.  If this is the 'gold standard' for natural bodybuilding, then it's no wonder it's not popular. 

The 'true' genetic freaks out there do what they must to get a look that makes money: and who can blame them?

That is all.

[Matt C]

hi matt

You look like an extremely gay version of Hugh Grant. Like if Hugh Grant got aids and tried to fight it with bodybuilding but it just wasn't working and he just looked like a skinny gay dude with aids..

Good interview though...

    

post up the vid of you doing 345lbs at 180lbs... impressive!

You know, I hadn't really thought about it at the time, but 365 at that time would have been double body weight so looking back, that really wasn't too bad.

I would post links to videos but I will first send Ron a PM asking if he will unban my website URL.  I have been trying to give getbig.com shoutouts as much as possible in my videos and I will promise Ron I will not spam.  Hopefully he will let me post links to my site and if he does, I will post links to the videos.

[Alexander D]

 

[Matt C]

A DUB, I have lots of my bench videos on my site in my forum, it's just annoying to have to search them and TINYURL them to put them on here.  I'm hoping Ron unbans my website URL link.  But I've always been honest about my lifts and I'm sure my bench will be back to 320 or more fairly soon as my body weight goes up.

Layne at the 2010 IFPA Cape Cod Natural Pro: