The Top Ten Lies Told by Pros

[Special Ed]

TOP TEN LIST

Lie#1: Multi-million dollar endorsement deals.
Reality: $50,000 a year before taxes and loans from girlfriends plus additional $20,000 in gay-for-pay work.

Lie #2. "Near-Misses" for major movie roles.
Reality: "Hollywood Agent" won't even return your calls.

Lie#3: Huge retirement accounts and early retirement.
Reality: Penniless and looking to make a "comeback".

Lie #4. Owning MTV-Crib-like homes.
Reality: Renting IKEA-furnished apartments "near the beach".

Lie#5: Spanking new Hummers and Mercedes.
Reality: Leased or loaned vehicles pimped out with $30,000 in stereo, speaker, and rim upgrades.

Lie#6: Hugely profitable "side businesses".
Reality: Selling drugs to friends, family, and gymrats.

Lie#7. Active social lives filled with charitable donations and volunteer work.
Reality: Every minute not spent in the gym is spent "reading what those getbig losers are saying about me"

Lie#8: Writing magazine articles revealing training, diet, and supplement "secrets"
Reality: Approving ghost-written articles, laughing, and finding new injection spots.

Lie#9: Claiming drugs are only 2-3% of the picture.
Reality: Drugs are 97-98% of the picture.

Lie#10: Claiming to be "friends" with writers, promoters, supplement company owners, judges, and fellow competitors.
Reality: Everyone in the industry is a "taker" or "user" looking only to fatten either their wallet or ego at your expense.

Special "WeedOutTheEyelinerQueen" Ed

[Mr. Intenseone]

Lie #11 - "I'll win the Olympia"
Reality- "17th..oh crap!"

Guess who?

[bigbalddaddy]

Ed,

Amendment to #9...

Lie:  I'm natural right now since it's the offseason
Reality:  "Only" 1g/wk test, 6-10 i.u. hgh/day, 6-10 i.u/day slin and 1 t3 tab/day

A certain pro in Las Vegas told me that one and I almost pulled an ab muscle I was laughing so hard and he was serious!

[TheAnimal]

lol awesome post

[thisiskeith12]

TOP TEN LIST
Lie#9: Claiming drugs are only 2-3% of the picture.
Reality: Drugs are 97-98% of the picture.

Lie#10: Claiming to be "friends" with writers, promoters, supplement company owners, judges, and fellow competitors.
Reality: Everyone in the industry is a "taker" or "user" looking only to fatten either their wallet or ego at your expense.

Special "PooperScooper" Ed

I would say drugs are more like 70% of the picture

[dzulboy]

Ed,

Amendment to #9...

Lie:  I'm natural right now since it's the offseason
Reality:  "Only" 1g/wk test, 6-10 i.u. hgh/day, 6-10 i.u/day slin and 1 t3 tab/day

A certain pro in Las Vegas told me that one and I almost pulled an ab muscle I was laughing so hard and he was serious!

a la tom prince

[TheAnimal]

I would say drugs are more like 70% of the picture

Its called hyperbole

[G o a t b o y]

I would say drugs are more like 70% of the picture

I have irrefutable scientific evidence that drugs are exactly 83.972054334% of the picture!

[weedoutheweak]

Awesome use of free time Ed! Yeah, you rock!  Sign your name in another funny way, that's always hysterical. 

[G o a t b o y]

Sign your name in another funny way, that's always hysterical. 

I think so too.

Goat "monster originality" boy

[thisiskeith12]

I have irrefutable scientific evidence that drugs are exactly 83.972054334% of the picture!

My calculations along with the University of Florida Biochemist majors produced results of 83.972052222%

You were a couple of trillioninths off.

[dzulboy]

My calculations along with the University of Florida Biochemist majors produced results of 83.972052222%

You were a couple of trillioninths off.

you guys are all wrong  hormones are 98% of the picture   and drugs are 97% of the picture 

and muscletech 89785784325786243756829% sucks

[bigbalddaddy]

Awesome use of free time Ed! Yeah, you rock!  Sign your name in another funny way, that's always hysterical. 

Bro, i'm with you...everytime he posts, it makes my day with his signatures!!!

[G o a t b o y]

you guys are all wrong  hormones are 98% of the picture   and drugs are 97% of the picture 

So, between "hormones" and "drugs", we appear to have accounted for 195% of the picture, correct?  It naturally follows, then, that everything else (eating, training, etc,) must equal negative 95%.   

[thisiskeith12]

you guys are all wrong  hormones are 98% of the picture   and drugs are 97% of the picture 

and muscletech 89785784325786243756829% sucks

I love the muscle tech ads that really do say GAKIC will increase your strength and gains by 11.7% or some % that I care not to remember

[G o a t b o y]

My calculations along with the University of Florida Biochemist majors produced results of 83.972052222%

You were a couple of trillioninths off.

Yeah, but the greater average temperature in Florida, which sits at a much lower latitude that Georgetown University where the original studies were done, would account for the slight difference in the result.

[thisiskeith12]

Yeah, but the greater average temperature in Florida, which sits at a much lower latitude that Georgetown University where the original studies were done, would account for the slight difference in the result.

D'oh!

[bigbalddaddy]

Yeah, but the greater average temperature in Florida, which sits at a much lower latitude that Georgetown University where the original studies were done, would account for the slight difference in the result.

Well you are correcty you know!  Because in Vegas, as the pro mentioned to me, taking 1g/wk of test would consitute being "natural" in the summer since it's so hot and heat naturally decreases sperm/test count according to him so beings that its 110 degrees at a corrected elevation of 2900ft, he's natural with a 1g/wk (it's only hrt)!

[HowieW]

TOP TEN LIST

Lie#1: Multi-million dollar endorsement deals.
Reality: $50,000 a year before taxes and loans from girlfriends plus additional $20,000 in gay-for-pay work.

Lie #2. "Near-Misses" for major movie roles.
Reality: "Hollywood Agent" won't even return your calls.

Lie#3: Huge retirement accounts and early retirement.
Reality: Penniless and looking to make a "comeback".

Lie #4. Owning MTV-Crib-like homes.
Reality: Renting IKEA-furnished apartments "near the beach".

Lie#5: Spanking new Hummers and Mercedes.
Reality: Leased or loaned vehicles pimped out with $30,000 in stereo, speaker, and rim upgrades.

Lie#6: Hugely profitable "side businesses".
Reality: Selling drugs to friends, family, and gymrats.

Lie#7. Active social lives filled with charitable donations and volunteer work.
Reality: Every minute not spent in the gym is spent "reading what those getbig losers are saying about me"

Lie#8: Writing magazine articles revealing training, diet, and supplement "secrets"
Reality: Approving ghost-written articles, laughing, and finding new injection spots.

Lie#9: Claiming drugs are only 2-3% of the picture.
Reality: Drugs are 97-98% of the picture.

Lie#10: Claiming to be "friends" with writers, promoters, supplement company owners, judges, and fellow competitors.
Reality: Everyone in the industry is a "taker" or "user" looking only to fatten either their wallet or ego at your expense.

Special "WeedOutTheEyelinerQueen" Ed

I had to quote this post as it is classic and kinda true in spirit. My buddy Bix met  the split bicep champ Dave Dupre from the Arnold era at the GOLDS in Venice years ago. He said all he ever got was partial payment from Joe W for some articel featuring his bicep training in the old musclebuilder and power. Bix said he headed off in an old , beat up Rambler with smoke comming out of the tail pipe and that Dave said he lived with his aunt.
I know a number of decent bodybuilders on all levels that were bums or lived with parents/off girlfriends, etc.
Today, many do have legit supplement contracts and do make some $$ off being pros.
Granted, the reality is  the sport by itself offers little real career stablity, but it is better today that years ago, in terms of income potential. Shoot if Titus could hustle a decent buck in recent years past, the sport does offer something for a lot of pros

[crc69]

I would say drugs are more like 70% of the picture

Drugs are 98-99%.
See Levrone, Flex, Arnold, Haney, etc... without drugs : there are totally normal.

[onlyme]

#15 The bank made a mistake

[theonlyone]

Lies # 11. try to say it to my face in flesh.
Reality you can be twice as less smaller but still beat the shit out of the likes kamali etc

[Tokyo Joe]

Lie #12: I'm 5'7

Reality: I'm 5'5 in boots

[mikediesel]

On the ESPN Olympia broadcast, Jim Quinn had stated that Billy Smith did skin fold measurements on Flex in Gold's Venice a week before the show. Quinn went on to say that Flex was the only bodybuilder ever to measure at 0.0. Could this be a lie??

[gracie bjj]

good thread,but athletes in general like the limelife,the difference is someone like shaq could actually play the role and play it well cause of his big money compared to some bodybuilder makin peanuts,even ronnie or jay look like welfare cases next to a guy like shaq or jeter