"From what you've read about him."
This is the problem bro. Watch some of his vids, read some articles. Dude is smart. Don't base your opinion off of what getbig bodybuilding analysts think lol.
Its mainly articles I've read on T-Nation bro. He reminds me a bit like Poliquin, a knowledagble guy but you need to sift through plenty of horseshit in order to find any of his decent stuff.
"I'd drive to Westside Barbell and do a leg workout over there; squats for example," remembers John. "We'd do 8 sets of squats... you know, dynamic work and so forth. Then I would get in my car and drive as fast as I could to World Gym and literally run in the door, load up the leg press, and try to get my legs as pumped as I could."
John couldn't support what he was doing with any science; he only knew that it was making him bigger and stronger. As the months and years went on, he began experimenting with things like explosive accommodating resistance, i.e., band and chain work, but still the pump remained at the forefront of his training.
Not a big fan of articles that turn training into some highly complex science or ones that make outlandish claims. Most of the time its done to help sell some BS supplement and this isnt an exception.
Puzzled, John pulls out the skin fold calipers and checks his subscap site, which is traditionally for him his fattest area. He likes to make sure it reads no more than 14 or 15 millimeters because that lets him know he's cruising at about 8 or 9 percent body fat. About three weeks earlier it was 14, but this time it reads 10, which is equivalent to about 5 or 6 percent body fat, and his weight hadn't changed a lick.
"It was so amazing and I thought, 'You know what?' This is pretty easy. I hadn't wanted to compete this year because of the stress of dealing with everything involved with a contest. Competing can be a miserable experience and it's tough on everybody. You're completely fatigued and sometimes you're just miserable. But now I'm thinking, 'Wow, I could compete and I can still have a functional family. I can still live life. I can still be happy. We can still go out to eat. This is really cool. All I have to do is follow the Plazma™ protocol and go to the gym and train my ass off, which I love to do. That's it. And to think, I'd pretty much gotten in shape by accident."
Meadows may have some good articles and videos but its hard to take someone seriously if its clear that they have an agenda. In Meadows' case, pimping Bio-Test products.
