Bro I actually thought I was having a discussion with someone who knows bodybuilding ( behind the scenes but what you just wrote is outrageous and amatuer hour) These gurus are not being thought out over macro nutrients, wake up, it's a chemical warfare out there, I had striated glutes my first local show, getting shredded is joke, it's getting shredded while being a mutant by being a walking pharmacy, combining chemicals in a synergistic way, don't be so naive
Exactly. It's not diet. If you compete, you know how to diet. You don't mind the pain too much...you just get used to it...even like it a bit somedays. Makes you feel in control of your body.
If you can't go thru the pain of dieting, you'll never win a level 1 show, let alone a national show. You have enjoy starving. If you don't, you'll need too many drugs, you'll burn out or get hurt, and drugs are great, but they never clean up a diet.
No one here is saying diet doesn't matter. Of course it does, but it's not the reason one pro wins and another loses. They can all suffer, and do it in their own way. Any successful amateur bodybuilder knows how to do this too.
Just like training. It's not the training that wins shows. Everyone can train in their own way and do well enough in the gym to build a good enough body. One training program isn't going to make someone win or lose. If you do your cardio and lift enough weights, you've done enough to win a show.
What separates a champion from not a champion...it all comes down to genetics, and drug timing/compounds.
Genetics: can your body handle all the stuff it needs to, for years on end, without falling apart, and actually respond better than the average person. Lots of guys can take boatloads of stuff and not get hurt, but still don't respond. Some guys take smaller doses, respond like crazy, but their livers and kidneys start failing. Other guys can respond with small doses and grow, then use more, and continue to respond like crazy, all while getting clean bills of health. It's like George Burns...smokes til he's 100, and defies logic. And of course, then you also have to have the genetic shape to be appealing on-stage. You could be a great responder, but if you look like hammered shit on stage because you don't flow, you're finished. You'll never pass level 2.
The magic is when you take a genetic freak who responds without geting hurt and is put together pleasingly, and then start him on a serious compound plan and watch him mutate. That's the magic of pro bb'ing.