Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....

[wes]

You nut !!  LOL 

[wes]

NEXT UP,MY NEW TRAINING PARTNER THE NAZI SKINHEAD.

Seriously..........I couldn`t make this shit up !!

[On_Swole]

GEEZUS that`s a tough one.....the trophy is in my cluttered barn but I think it was 1994 because I did the Southern States in 95 and 96 then went back to Mass. in 97,flew back down and did it again in 99, so I`d say 94.

I met and became friends with Tim Gardner at that show.

I`m thinking,Shawn Ray posed that year also.

I only saw Shawn guest pose once and that was in Orlando so if Dekes contest was in Orlando,Shawn was the guest poser.

Sorry for the confusion but I did about 8-9 shows in Fla, over 4 years living down there,and 7-8 of them were in a 3 year period.

It`s a bit confusing as I did so many freakin` contests........it`s tough getting old!   LOL  

It would've been '95 then, because that was the first year it was held and the only year Shawn Ray posed there. Tim actually competed in it again the following year, when I did it also.

[wes]

It would've been '95 then, because that was the first year it was held and the only year Shawn Ray posed there. Tim actually competed in it again the following year, when I did it also.

Thanks for clearing that up bud,I was totally confused.

[wes]

One day while attending an AA meeting,I was outside talking to a friend over a cup of coffee,all of a sudden the guy says to me......"Here comes your grief stricken friend" !

I turned around and it was Mark .........there goes my day!  

He was always so down this guy actually referred to him as being "grief stricken"..............perfect fit !!

Mark starts raving to me about a guy he met at the gym who was a real animal as far as training goes and that he thinks the kid would be an ideal training partner for me.

I tried to explain to him that I wasn`t in the market for a training partner but we walked up a few blocks to the gym to see this guy anyway.

I was curious to see what he was all excited about.

Once we get to the gym,he introduces me to a tall husky kid of about 22 years of age with a Nazi/Hitler style haircut.

The guy seemed OK at first sight..........we start talking and he says......... "I hear you like to train hard"?

I told him I simply put effort into my training as I didn`t see joining a gym to just be there hanging around doing nothing.

After some small talk the guy sort of outright challenges me...............I told him I had nothing to prove but if he wanted to train with me to meet me tomorrow morning at the gym.

Then the kid tells me to watch as he sits down and knocks out 20 decent reps with the whole stack on seated cable rows.

I was impressed but just said goodbye and left.

OK so I meet the kid in the morning and to make a long story short we hooked up and began training together. After a time I got to know him pretty good in spite of the fact that he said very little about himself.

That was cool though s I`m not a chatty Cathy type of person while in the gym anyway.

His name was Scott and he was about 5 feet 11 or so at around 215 pounds............we trained our asses off and the kid worked out hard................I finally found a decent partner.

I taught him a lot of stuff................... ..everything he knew,but NOT everything I knew !!  LOL  

As I said earlier I got to know Scott pretty good but he had some weird habits or traits if you will.

First off he listened to the most horrible music I ever heard......not heavy metal but fucking noise interlaced with racial slurs.

I`m a big guitar freak and he raved about the guitarists in these bands and I`m here to tell you this shit was nothing but loud fast trashy sounding noise!

After I got to know Scott a bit better he asked me how I knew all the Black guys in the gym.

Well he mustn`t have been paying attention because I knew EVERYBODY in the gym not just the Black guys.

I worked at the gym by training clients and in the early AM I opened the gym up to start off the day as I had a key and lived a few blocks away........other times I would work the desk as a fill in and on weekends if needed, and besides that I knew most of the guys from training in the the only 3 gyms in town over a period of a lot of years.

Some of the guys just happened to be Black but everyone that trained there got along great and we all pushed each other to train balls out.

It was clearly evident that Scott didn`t like Black people .......................h ated Jews also.

Decent kid but filled with hate.

I put his personal feelings about things aside as I believe that we are all free to have our own beliefs, and besides,I was only there to train.......my mission was to train as hard as I could everyday.

As long as Scott trained hard,I couldn`t care less about his thoughts,......our relationship ended when the workout for each day ended.

I guess I missed a few things that were going on around me as I trained because while working the desk one day a buddy of mine who was white says to me............"Hey Tim,you`e a great guy,but your training partner is a total fucking asshole" !!

I was taken aback a bit and asked him why he felt this way.

He told me that Scott looked at people like he was a billy bad ass type and barely said a word to anyone,even when someone said hello to him he ignored that person.

All this time Scot seemed OK to me and we did some gruelling training sessions.....constantly pushing each other to train harder.

Then one day a Black guy that I had known from the gyms over 15 years or so says to me............"Hey Wes,you know we go way back and we`re tight but if your training partner ever calls me a N I G G E R,I`m gonna kick his fucking ass !!

WOW,I didn`t need this bullshit,I just wanted to train !

Nothing really seemed to come of all this after a while but nobody liked Scott except me and he never said more than a word to anyone..........pretty weird dude !!

Everyday after we trained I would ask Scott how it felt to be trained into the ground by an old  dude......he would just stare straight ahead and say "Fuck you old man"!  LOL  

I liked Scott,but nobody else did.

He didn`t give a fuck but I felt like people were starting to judge me by the company I kept.

Oh well,I didn`t give a fuck either because I treated people well as long as they treated me well.

So we kept training hard and doing our thing in the gym.

It was around this time that I fell into a trap that was caused by my ego.

Scott was starting to talk about training heavier...........this was going to be pretty hard to do in my opinion because we trained as heavy as possible for the amount of reps we were shooting for on any and every particular set already.

Well,I got real stupid real quick as we started falling into the trap of thinking that by going heavier,we would grow bigger.

I knew that this wasn`t truly the case, but Scott adding weight to the bar made me feel that I had to also just to keep him from out training me.

I never allowed anyone to train harder than me but I knew that more wasn`t always better........the winner was our physiques no matter who won the battle of being the hardest trainer.

EGO CAN BE A MONSTER

We stared benching 325 even though we couldn`t truly bench that weight.

Scott would throw 325 or so on the bench while I held the bar for him as he lowered it and assisted him when he pressed it.

Then we did sets of 3 reps with 150 pounds on DB Rows...........real sloppy form of course.

Same thing on leg presses...........11-12 plates a side with an inch or two of range of motion.

I KNEW way better than this so after about 2 weeks of this nonsense I put an end to it and got my head out of my ass.

I couldn`t believe that I actually allowed myself to do such a stupid thing anyway as I had trained for years and was competing, but still allowed myself to train like the guys we laugh at daily in the gyms today.

EGO

Anyway things remained the same and nobody liked Scott and vice versa.

I got my ass up out of there eventually and moved up here to Northern N.Y.

Said goodbye to Scott and all the guys in the gym and off I went.

I often wondered how Scott was doing as we didn`t keep in touch,then one day,strangely enough he logged into my short lived bodybuilding forum.

Sent me a PM and told me he had become a born again Christian and that his new girlfriend was Black.

WTF  

EDIT: Of course there`s more to this story but I could have written a book,just wanted to try to convey the gist of the stuff to you guys.

 

[Primemuscle]

I liked your second cousin story, Wes. You were considerate enough to offer the guy solid advice about training intensity. Too bad he ignored it. His lack of self confidence probably played a role in his training too hard, with him thinking if you could do it, he should too. It is not unusual for folks lacking in self confidence to overcompensate.

By preference, my rest period between sets is brief, usually between 30 and 60 seconds, with 60 reserved for heavy leg work. This doesn't fly when you have a training partner. Particularly one whose strength isn't a match. On the plus side, a good training partner can really help one push themselves to do more. That last impossible rep on the bench press becomes possible when your spot yells encouragement at you. Also knowing you won't have to dump the plates or choke to death is comforting.

Some people are overbearing. When one of these types comes into my life, I will put up with them because I feel sorry for them. But, I still resent it. Caller ID comes in handy when you are trying to avoid someone. There is this fellow, 'K' who I mentored at work 40 years ago. He was a very nice person. He treated me like his lifelong best friend. I wasn't very reciprocal. He stopped calling me a few yeas ago. I feel bad about that.

[wes]

Good post Prime,I agree on all counts.

My cousin to this day is a complete mess mentally,but refuses to seek help so the ball remains in his court.

[wes]

All the WWF wrestlers were in town at the Civic Center and a lot of them showed up at Big Daddys Gym for a workout while in town.

I remember the night they came to train at our gym.

I only knew a few of these guys names but I saw Black Jack Mulligan,and Virgil the Black guy who hung out with Ted Dibiasi I think his name was.

Some of these guys looked big,but next to Jeff King and the other assorted animals at Big Daddys,they paled by comparison.

All except for one guy..............that guy was Ted Arcidi  !!!

That night I saw Ted do skull crushers for reps with three 45 pound plates on each side of an Olympic curling bar,but as if that wasn`t enough,after he was done,he asked some young skinny kid if he would run down the block to Subway and get him a couple of subs and a chocolate shake.

The kid took the money which just happened to be a crisp $100.00 dollar bill.

When the kid came back with his food,Ted told him to keep the change!!  

I was pissed that I didn`t volunteer to go to the store for him! LOL  

[funk51]

All the WWF wrestlers were in town at the Civic Center and a lot of them showed up at Big Daddys Gym for a workout while in town.

I remember the night they came to train at our gym.

I only knew a few of these guys names but I saw Black Jack Mulligan,and Virgil the Black guy who hung out with Ted Dibiasi I think his name was.

Some of these guys looked big,but next to Jeff King and the other assorted animals at Big Daddys,they paled by comparison.

All except for one guy..............that guy was Ted Arcidi  !!!

That night I saw Ted do skull crushers for reps with three 45 pound plates on each side of an Olympic curling bar,but as if that wasn`t enough,after he was done,he asked some young skinny kid if he would run down the block to Subway and get him a couple of subs and a chocolate shake.

The kid took the money which just happened to be a crisp $100.00 dollar bill.

When the kid came back with his food,Ted told him to keep the change!!  

I was pissed that I didn`t volunteer to go to the store for him! LOL  

  i wonder what the record is for that lift.

[oldgolds]

I'm not impressed with Arcidi doing close grips with 290. I used to do 5 reps with 275 using the olympic bar and I was 200 lbs. and completely drug free.

[Sir Bigness]

Dennis James I met 2X.. Came across like asshole!! Lots of fans waiting to meet and greet and he stood back talking to people that make him money!! Good to know!! Seemed like he couldn't be bothered!! I may be wrong but that's my first and 2nd impression!!

[Campeon Del Mundo]

  I have attended every Olympia since 1999 and the only assholes I have met in bodybuilding
have been online..

[Rambone]

  I have attended every Olympia since 1999 and the only assholes I have met in bodybuilding
have been online..

Schmoe alert!

[Disgusted]

Good post Prime,I agree on all counts.

My cousin to this day is a complete mess mentally,but refuses to seek help so the ball remains in his court.

I swear I thought the end of your cousin story was gonna be, so one day when we got to my house I killed him and buried him in my yard. 

[Primemuscle]

Good post Prime,I agree on all counts.

My cousin to this day is a complete mess mentally,but refuses to seek help so the ball remains in his court.

What's the saying? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

[Matt]

One of the nicest guys in bodybuilding:

- Jim Magnone

One of the guys in bodybuilding I was disgusted with:

- Woogs, for copying the user name of Wiggs.  Until I realized that it was me who shortened his name, in an attempt to copy it.

[jdooly]

One day while attending an AA meeting,I was outside talking to a friend over a cup of coffee,all of a sudden the guy says to me......"Here comes your grief stricken friend" !

I turned around and it was Mark .........there goes my day!  

He was always so down this guy actually referred to him as being "grief stricken"..............perfect fit !!

Mark starts raving to me about a guy he met at the gym who was a real animal as far as training goes and that he thinks the kid would be an ideal training partner for me.

I tried to explain to him that I wasn`t in the market for a training partner but we walked up a few blocks to the gym to see this guy anyway.

I was curious to see what he was all excited about.

Once we get to the gym,he introduces me to a tall husky kid of about 22 years of age with a Nazi/Hitler style haircut.

The guy seemed OK at first sight..........we start talking and he says......... "I hear you like to train hard"?

I told him I simply put effort into my training as I didn`t see joining a gym to just be there hanging around doing nothing.

After some small talk the guy sort of outright challenges me...............I told him I had nothing to prove but if he wanted to train with me to meet me tomorrow morning at the gym.

Then the kid tells me to watch as he sits down and knocks out 20 decent reps with the whole stack on seated cable rows.

I was impressed but just said goodbye and left.

OK so I meet the kid in the morning and to make a long story short we hooked up and began training together. After a time I got to know him pretty good in spite of the fact that he said very little about himself.

That was cool though s I`m not a chatty Cathy type of person while in the gym anyway.

His name was Scott and he was about 5 feet 11 or so at around 215 pounds............we trained our asses off and the kid worked out hard................I finally found a decent partner.

I taught him a lot of stuff................... ..everything he knew,but NOT everything I knew !!  LOL  

As I said earlier I got to know Scott pretty good but he had some weird habits or traits if you will.

First off he listened to the most horrible music I ever heard......not heavy metal but fucking noise interlaced with racial slurs.

I`m a big guitar freak and he raved about the guitarists in these bands and I`m here to tell you this shit was nothing but loud fast trashy sounding noise!

After I got to know Scott a bit better he asked me how I knew all the Black guys in the gym.

Well he mustn`t have been paying attention because I knew EVERYBODY in the gym not just the Black guys.

I worked at the gym by training clients and in the early AM I opened the gym up to start off the day as I had a key and lived a few blocks away........other times I would work the desk as a fill in and on weekends if needed, and besides that I knew most of the guys from training in the the only 3 gyms in town over a period of a lot of years.

Some of the guys just happened to be Black but everyone that trained there got along great and we all pushed each other to train balls out.

It was clearly evident that Scott didn`t like Black people .......................h ated Jews also.

Decent kid but filled with hate.

I put his personal feelings about things aside as I believe that we are all free to have our own beliefs, and besides,I was only there to train.......my mission was to train as hard as I could everyday.

As long as Scott trained hard,I couldn`t care less about his thoughts,......our relationship ended when the workout for each day ended.

I guess I missed a few things that were going on around me as I trained because while working the desk one day a buddy of mine who was white says to me............"Hey Tim,you`e a great guy,but your training partner is a total fucking asshole" !!

I was taken aback a bit and asked him why he felt this way.

He told me that Scott looked at people like he was a billy bad ass type and barely said a word to anyone,even when someone said hello to him he ignored that person.

All this time Scot seemed OK to me and we did some gruelling training sessions.....constantly pushing each other to train harder.

Then one day a Black guy that I had known from the gyms over 15 years or so says to me............"Hey Wes,you know we go way back and we`re tight but if your training partner ever calls me a N I G G E R,I`m gonna kick his fucking ass !!

WOW,I didn`t need this bullshit,I just wanted to train !

Nothing really seemed to come of all this after a while but nobody liked Scott except me and he never said more than a word to anyone..........pretty weird dude !!

Everyday after we trained I would ask Scott how it felt to be trained into the ground by an old  dude......he would just stare straight ahead and say "Fuck you old man"!  LOL  

I liked Scott,but nobody else did.

He didn`t give a fuck but I felt like people were starting to judge me by the company I kept.

Oh well,I didn`t give a fuck either because I treated people well as long as they treated me well.

So we kept training hard and doing our thing in the gym.

It was around this time that I fell into a trap that was caused by my ego.

Scott was starting to talk about training heavier...........this was going to be pretty hard to do in my opinion because we trained as heavy as possible for the amount of reps we were shooting for on any and every particular set already.

Well,I got real stupid real quick as we started falling into the trap of thinking that by going heavier,we would grow bigger.

I knew that this wasn`t truly the case, but Scott adding weight to the bar made me feel that I had to also just to keep him from out training me.

I never allowed anyone to train harder than me but I knew that more wasn`t always better........the winner was our physiques no matter who won the battle of being the hardest trainer.

EGO CAN BE A MONSTER

We stared benching 325 even though we couldn`t truly bench that weight.

Scott would throw 325 or so on the bench while I held the bar for him as he lowered it and assisted him when he pressed it.

Then we did sets of 3 reps with 150 pounds on DB Rows...........real sloppy form of course.

Same thing on leg presses...........11-12 plates a side with an inch or two of range of motion.

I KNEW way better than this so after about 2 weeks of this nonsense I put an end to it and got my head out of my ass.

I couldn`t believe that I actually allowed myself to do such a stupid thing anyway as I had trained for years and was competing, but still allowed myself to train like the guys we laugh at daily in the gyms today.

EGO

Anyway things remained the same and nobody liked Scott and vice versa.

I got my ass up out of there eventually and moved up here to Northern N.Y.

Said goodbye to Scott and all the guys in the gym and off I went.

I often wondered how Scott was doing as we didn`t keep in touch,then one day,strangely enough he logged into my short lived bodybuilding forum.

Sent me a PM and told me he had become a born again Christian and that his new girlfriend was Black.

WTF  

EDIT: Of course there`s more to this story but I could have written a book,just wanted to try to convey the gist of the stuff to you guys.

 

  Turned out to be a happy ending really because Scott realized hate is stupid.   I enjoyed this story. 

[The Italian Lifter]

One day while attending an AA meeting,I was outside talking to a friend over a cup of coffee,all of a sudden the guy says to me......"Here comes your grief stricken friend" !

I turned around and it was Mark .........there goes my day!  

He was always so down this guy actually referred to him as being "grief stricken"..............perfect fit !!

Mark starts raving to me about a guy he met at the gym who was a real animal as far as training goes and that he thinks the kid would be an ideal training partner for me.

I tried to explain to him that I wasn`t in the market for a training partner but we walked up a few blocks to the gym to see this guy anyway.

I was curious to see what he was all excited about.

Once we get to the gym,he introduces me to a tall husky kid of about 22 years of age with a Nazi/Hitler style haircut.

The guy seemed OK at first sight..........we start talking and he says......... "I hear you like to train hard"?

I told him I simply put effort into my training as I didn`t see joining a gym to just be there hanging around doing nothing.

After some small talk the guy sort of outright challenges me...............I told him I had nothing to prove but if he wanted to train with me to meet me tomorrow morning at the gym.

Then the kid tells me to watch as he sits down and knocks out 20 decent reps with the whole stack on seated cable rows.

I was impressed but just said goodbye and left.

OK so I meet the kid in the morning and to make a long story short we hooked up and began training together. After a time I got to know him pretty good in spite of the fact that he said very little about himself.

That was cool though s I`m not a chatty Cathy type of person while in the gym anyway.

His name was Scott and he was about 5 feet 11 or so at around 215 pounds............we trained our asses off and the kid worked out hard................I finally found a decent partner.

I taught him a lot of stuff................... ..everything he knew,but NOT everything I knew !!  LOL  

As I said earlier I got to know Scott pretty good but he had some weird habits or traits if you will.

First off he listened to the most horrible music I ever heard......not heavy metal but fucking noise interlaced with racial slurs.

I`m a big guitar freak and he raved about the guitarists in these bands and I`m here to tell you this shit was nothing but loud fast trashy sounding noise!

After I got to know Scott a bit better he asked me how I knew all the Black guys in the gym.

Well he mustn`t have been paying attention because I knew EVERYBODY in the gym not just the Black guys.

I worked at the gym by training clients and in the early AM I opened the gym up to start off the day as I had a key and lived a few blocks away........other times I would work the desk as a fill in and on weekends if needed, and besides that I knew most of the guys from training in the the only 3 gyms in town over a period of a lot of years.

Some of the guys just happened to be Black but everyone that trained there got along great and we all pushed each other to train balls out.

It was clearly evident that Scott didn`t like Black people .......................h ated Jews also.

Decent kid but filled with hate.

I put his personal feelings about things aside as I believe that we are all free to have our own beliefs, and besides,I was only there to train.......my mission was to train as hard as I could everyday.

As long as Scott trained hard,I couldn`t care less about his thoughts,......our relationship ended when the workout for each day ended.

I guess I missed a few things that were going on around me as I trained because while working the desk one day a buddy of mine who was white says to me............"Hey Tim,you`e a great guy,but your training partner is a total fucking asshole" !!

I was taken aback a bit and asked him why he felt this way.

He told me that Scott looked at people like he was a billy bad ass type and barely said a word to anyone,even when someone said hello to him he ignored that person.

All this time Scot seemed OK to me and we did some gruelling training sessions.....constantly pushing each other to train harder.

Then one day a Black guy that I had known from the gyms over 15 years or so says to me............"Hey Wes,you know we go way back and we`re tight but if your training partner ever calls me a N I G G E R,I`m gonna kick his fucking ass !!

WOW,I didn`t need this bullshit,I just wanted to train !

Nothing really seemed to come of all this after a while but nobody liked Scott except me and he never said more than a word to anyone..........pretty weird dude !!

Everyday after we trained I would ask Scott how it felt to be trained into the ground by an old  dude......he would just stare straight ahead and say "Fuck you old man"!  LOL  

I liked Scott,but nobody else did.

He didn`t give a fuck but I felt like people were starting to judge me by the company I kept.

Oh well,I didn`t give a fuck either because I treated people well as long as they treated me well.

So we kept training hard and doing our thing in the gym.

It was around this time that I fell into a trap that was caused by my ego.

Scott was starting to talk about training heavier...........this was going to be pretty hard to do in my opinion because we trained as heavy as possible for the amount of reps we were shooting for on any and every particular set already.

Well,I got real stupid real quick as we started falling into the trap of thinking that by going heavier,we would grow bigger.

I knew that this wasn`t truly the case, but Scott adding weight to the bar made me feel that I had to also just to keep him from out training me.

I never allowed anyone to train harder than me but I knew that more wasn`t always better........the winner was our physiques no matter who won the battle of being the hardest trainer.

EGO CAN BE A MONSTER

We stared benching 325 even though we couldn`t truly bench that weight.

Scott would throw 325 or so on the bench while I held the bar for him as he lowered it and assisted him when he pressed it.

Then we did sets of 3 reps with 150 pounds on DB Rows...........real sloppy form of course.

Same thing on leg presses...........11-12 plates a side with an inch or two of range of motion.

I KNEW way better than this so after about 2 weeks of this nonsense I put an end to it and got my head out of my ass.

I couldn`t believe that I actually allowed myself to do such a stupid thing anyway as I had trained for years and was competing, but still allowed myself to train like the guys we laugh at daily in the gyms today.

EGO

Anyway things remained the same and nobody liked Scott and vice versa.

I got my ass up out of there eventually and moved up here to Northern N.Y.

Said goodbye to Scott and all the guys in the gym and off I went.

I often wondered how Scott was doing as we didn`t keep in touch,then one day,strangely enough he logged into my short lived bodybuilding forum.

Sent me a PM and told me he had become a born again Christian and that his new girlfriend was Black.

WTF  

EDIT: Of course there`s more to this story but I could have written a book,just wanted to try to convey the gist of the stuff to you guys.

 

Your stories are great Tim. If you have time, please keep 'em coming. Thread ought to be a sticky.

[will938]

Loving all the old time memories Tim, keep em coming👍

[Powerlift66]

All the WWF wrestlers were in town at the Civic Center and a lot of them showed up at Big Daddys Gym for a workout while in town.

I remember the night they came to train at our gym.

I only knew a few of these guys names but I saw Black Jack Mulligan,and Virgil the Black guy who hung out with Ted Dibiasi I think his name was.

Some of these guys looked big,but next to Jeff King and the other assorted animals at Big Daddys,they paled by comparison.

All except for one guy..............that guy was Ted Arcidi  !!!

That night I saw Ted do skull crushers for reps with three 45 pound plates on each side of an Olympic curling bar,but as if that wasn`t enough,after he was done,he asked some young skinny kid if he would run down the block to Subway and get him a couple of subs and a chocolate shake.

The kid took the money which just happened to be a crisp $100.00 dollar bill.

When the kid came back with his food,Ted told him to keep the change!!  

I was pissed that I didn`t volunteer to go to the store for him! LOL  

I asked Ted about this over lunch recently, and he said "yeah, probably".
I believe it, the guy is more than generous.

His yearly Xmas party is coming up, he doesn't hold back on the expense (food, drink, catered, etc). Lobster tails galore.
Buys so much, then the homeless shelter gets the leftovers. Homeless folks never eat like this (stuffed shrimp, lobster tails, steak, etc).

Im sure they look FWD to the yearly party as much as I do.
Ted got an recent acting job (a series that he will be a regular in) that will be coming out on Paramount Network (The old Spike TV) "Defending Jacob".

Ted does real well for himself, great friend and person...

[kreator]

Yeah Tim, don‘t pull back now, keep me cumming, i enjoy them stories

[wes]

I swear I thought the end of your cousin story was gonna be, so one day when we got to my house I killed him and buried him in my yard. 

Trust me,I have felt like that a zillion times with the kid.

[wes]

I asked Ted about this over lunch recently, and he said "yeah, probably".
I believe it, the guy is more than generous.

His yearly Xmas party is coming up, he doesn't hold back on the expense (food, drink, catered, etc). Lobster tails galore.
Buys so much, then the homeless shelter gets the leftovers. Homeless folks never eat like this (stuffed shrimp, lobster tails, steak, etc).

Im sure they look FWD to the yearly party as much as I do.
Ted got an recent acting job (a series that he will be a regular in) that will be coming out on Paramount Network (The old Spike TV) "Defending Jacob".

Ted does real well for himself, great friend and person...

Yeah,I swear this story as all the others are,,are totally true.......I was pissed he didn`t ask me to go,I could have used the $100.00 !!  LOL 

I`ll type up a few more once I think of some of the more interesting things I`ve seen or done or people I`ve met in the sport.

Thanks guys.

[Powerlift66]

I'm not impressed with Arcidi doing close grips with 290. I used to do 5 reps with 275 using the olympic bar and I was 200 lbs. and completely drug free.

Ted was trying to break your record, but failed....

[wes]

OK,due to popular demand,I`m gonna switch from bodybuilding to talk about some stripper stories.

As many of you may or may not know,I worked in a strip joint off and on for over 13 years.

Some of these may be offensive,but they`ll be true.

Judge me as you will,been there before.

Coming soon and I was running out of bodybuilding stories as I missed  some great years........11 to be exact due to my former drinking and drug use.

2 weeks ago,I celebrated 18 years of being clean and sober.

Clean and sober was two things that I was not during my years working at the strip club !!