anyone remember 'shadow pro' from t-nation?

whoremoan · Mar 3, 2022

anyone remember shadow pro from t-nation forum ?

apparently an ifbb pro and in top 10 olympia ?

anyone have any idea who it is ?

theres some solid info in there either way

im sure some smart people can pick some pieces in the forum to figure it out?

i get a huge vibe it could be jay cutler? said a few things on it that hes said in interviews etc

heres a link https://forums.t-nation.com/t/q-a-with-shadow-pro/201441

Flex500 · Mar 3, 2022

I do remember that. Not sure who it was though. If anybody doesn't feel like looking below is what they said prep would be like for an olympian:

I would say the most important compounds to utilize when preparing for a show are…

Tren-A 75-200mg ED (depends on tolerance, years of training, history of usage etc.
Mast-P 400-800mg/week
Test-P 600-2000/week
Test-C or E can be kept in all the way until about 2-3 weeks out depending on the athletes genetic disposition for water retention
GH (4-36iu/day) (depends on sensitivity, level of training, tolerance and most of all budget… I believe most people are taking as much as they can afford)

Orals:
Winstrol 50-100mg/day
Halotestin 20-60mg/day
Anavar up to 100mg/day
Primo up to 100mg/day
Anti-Estrogens

most popular choices)
Proviron 50-100mg/day
Nolvadex 20-60mg/day
Arimidex 1-4mg/day

FatBurners

most popular choices)
T3 25-100mcg/day
Clen 20-200mcg/day

fisther69 · Mar 3, 2022

It was usually the guy writing the article, or the actual persons name was mentioned in the article.

Dave tate, Ron Harris, and another guy all did that on Tnation

MR. BMJ · Mar 3, 2022

T-Nation was notorious for making this stuff up. They were caught many times. Since they have a group of writers, i don't want to lump everybody in, but those who wrote those types of articles, similar to the Brock Strasser stuff way back when, it was fake, or it was the person writing it.

goback2013 · Mar 3, 2022

MR. BMJ said:
T-Nation was notorious for making this stuff up. They were caught many times. Since they have a group of writers, i don't want to lump everybody in, but those who wrote those types of articles, similar to the Brock Strasser stuff way back when, it was fake, or it was the person writing it.

its the same style used by TC Louma and MM2K with the whole bodybuilder-x thing back in the day.

MR. BMJ · Mar 4, 2022

goback2013 said:
its the same style used by TC Louma and MM2K with the whole bodybuilder-x thing back in the day.

Yea, I had high hopes when Tnet started back in the late 90's, but they did the unthinkable by bashing Duchaine, and then TC and everybody started making up stuff themselves. Thought it was really tacky of them. Then they just got worse even though a good guy would come along from time to time and write a good article or something. Later years I can't say much about them, as I didn't really bother reading the site.

I do know they liked to plagiarize people from the forums back then too. It happened to Huckleberry Finnaplex at EF in the early 2000's. They found some of his posts and almost word for word copied them into an article. I can't remember who it was now at this point.

jeroendebleser · Mar 4, 2022

T-Nation... I was a fan in the beginning back when I knew basically nothing. Now that I do have knowledge I consider it a BS-paradise.

Not to mention they almost always respond in a rude and arrogant manner to their followers/fans on social media who dare to disagree with something they said. No class whatsoever. I'm not a fan any longer.

LK3 · Mar 4, 2022

pretty sure they were caught being full of shit in every way. like to a pretty astounding level.
they did some real sneaky advertising for sure! lol
rsoc

specter · Mar 4, 2022

He was exposed years ago it was a 212 guy cant remember his name, he retired years ago.

qbkilla · Mar 4, 2022

jeroendebleser said:
T-Nation... I was a fan in the beginning back when I knew basically nothing. Now that I do have knowledge I consider it a BS-paradise.

Not to mention they almost always respond in a rude and arrogant manner to their followers/fans on social media who dare to disagree with something they said. No class whatsoever. I'm not a fan any longer.

Never understood this on sites, forums, social media. When you disagree with something someone says, even subjective things that are a matter of opinion, they get so angry, sensitive, and defensive. Usually when I see this I don't even respond, not worth the effort.

whoremoan · Mar 5, 2022

specter said:
He was exposed years ago it was a 212 guy cant remember his name, he retired years ago.

were they well known? and in top 10 olympia ?
how did they get exposed?

FartJohnson · Mar 5, 2022

Ha I fondly remember the over-the-top marketing pitches for their latest supplement push. ANACONDA and Mag-10 I believe. My teenaged self ate the marketing up but never had the money to buy that stuff, thankfully

prodaf · Mar 5, 2022

I'm not sure it was really an Olympia athlete who wrote

jeroendebleser · Mar 5, 2022

qbkilla said:
Never understood this on sites, forums, social media. When you disagree with something someone says, even subjective things that are a matter of opinion, they get so angry, sensitive, and defensive. Usually when I see this I don't even respond, not worth the effort.

Agreed! I think it's because this sport attracts a lot of insecure people, they tend to get defensive ASAP.

whoremoan · Mar 5, 2022

jeroendebleser said:
Agreed! I think it's because this sport attracts a lot of insecure people, they tend to get defensive ASAP.

NO WE DONT

specter · Mar 5, 2022

whoremoan said:
were they well known? and in top 10 olympia ?
how did they get exposed?

Its been a long time so hard to remember, but i think he called himself out more or less, he was a top10 guy in the 212 yes, i think he was going to open and then just dissapeared out in thin air. He was american Italian i think.