Dear old-school lifter,
Thanks for the kind words. I did come on board many years ago but admittedly, didn't care too much for the very harsh criticism just because I had a personal confrontation with Dorian Yates. I didn't realize peoples' heroes were infallible. I first came on to offer an honest inside to the sport since I am so lucky to be "behind the ropes" for a few things. Training with Craig for 15 years has really given me a unique insight into bodybuilding, its players, its despots, its gurus, its money-men and its idols. I thought people might want to know some stuff and I offered to answer questions as honestly as I legally could. I knew you needed thick skin for this board but it just seemed a bit too unwarranted solely for a difference of opinion or someone not believing "the dosages."
I wanted to come back on just because I miss the stories of real bodybuilding, reading opinions, especially those which differ from my own and engaging in discussions and seeing pictures. I just found the mean spirited racism not really relevant to a board supposedly designed to talk about bodybuilding related issues. Sure, bodybuilding, like all aspects of life, has its corruptions and abuses, but we are all drawn to it for at least other good reasons. Bodybuilding, while I am sure having shortened my life span and caused much of the daily pain I feel as soon as I crawl out of bed, is worth it to me. I achieved things, meaningless to most, but things no one thought I could do but me, and that mattered. And in the end, we all want to be judged well by others but if we do the things we oursleves admire, then the rest of the world can take their criticisms of us and shove it up their self-defeeating, pessimistic, non-achieving and non-aspiring asses.
Of anything I've done in my life, the photos I have of me in shape mean more to me than any Ph.D., law degree or anything else. Anyone can sit down for 3 years and earn a law degree. Most people, if they really wanted to, could earn enough money to buy a Ferrari. But, like most people on this board, it's the things you can't be which we admire most and chasing those things and achieving some of them, to me, has made all the difference.
Harley