You know what?
People know me and I am a KISS advocate. anabolics, diet, and supplements and training all are very boring and hard for me to write about as it is
My diets were always 80's based, moderate protein, medium carbs low fat.
For the first few years I trained I ate like a spartan. Never any junk, no fast foods no sugars-NOTHING, NADA, but tuna rice baked pots egg whites chicken plain pasta and whole grain breads and egg yolks were considered bad in my mind. I went from a solid 200 to around a very 240 in about 5 years. When I started on mild cycles of anabolics I could never break 255. I wasn't mega dosing but then again I see what I can do now with 200 mgs of test a week and realize the missing link was food and undertraining. (separate thread one day)
I am getting off topic here but my point is -if it's THAT simple to present a ripped ready hard contest physique on stage as mentioned above in some of the posts why isn't everyone doing it-and why are these prep guys get paid so much to KISS it?
WELL even if you keep everything the same -guys that do this are still controlling water and electrolytes naturally and still come in off.
Skip makes some very good points in his post above, and it goes along with what dusty and phil are alluding to in the same way-knowing how your body reacts to certain foods and amounts. Massive G might be on rice and chicken up and until the show and then change to chicken and potato and start cutting water a bit and electrolytes and BOOM....smooth ass city.
I do agree those that make those drastic changes trying to carb load with things they have no control of how their body will react to it, as well as play with water, diuretics and slin etc are really looking to come in pfffffffffffffft. You can't carb load or Skipload the last week and then come in off and say-"This skiploading sucked it blew my condition!" NO. YOU blew your condition by being a dumbass and try last minute tactics and foods in which YOU had no idea what you'd look like at the end.
Where we most see this is on the pro level where the field is basically level and can come to conditioning-so so many of these guys may be on the verge of breaking into the top 3 or 5 or winning a smaller grand prix but they seem hell bent on doing some last minute changes that cost them all their hard work.
Being in Chad's inner circle back in 2003-2006 I got to see a lot of precomp pics of Ronnie-the most amazing ones were when he arrived and from the hotel room.
I have never ever seen a human that big or chiseled and striated before at 285. NEVER. Ever body part was dry and striated quadruple split biceps -his whole body looked like a grey's anatomy chart.
After the carb up and all the secret little compounds-Ronnie would look very soft at the night show, still enough to beat Jay but he could have really destroyed what we know as the best EVER condition displayed on stage.
If I were to hit a show again, I'd probably hire Skip, not because I don't know how to get lean and ripped and still be huge, but sometimes you need to put your trust in someone else and I have read tons of his posts and interviews and I would be very inclined to hire him to make me "Anatomy-G". I think I am pretty sharp and know everything about ME, but feel that I'd let someone take over the reigns. And let's pull no punches here-Skip knows his shit-bigtime.
Look at what Dusty did. He's one sharp cat also, he builds and diets people as well. He knows his shit. but he also has put his future into the sport with 2 of the top guys out there-Dante and Chris. That way there is no second guessing. Prep guys are expensive, make no mistake about it, but he got the results people dream about or only see in the genetic elite-20 solid plus pounds of lean competition weight, as well as being one of the hardest leanest guys up there and winning the Superheavy of a huge national show being his third contest at 29. I thought he should have won, but that has been beat to death so no need to discuss it.
Justin Harris who is another guy I hold in the highest regard and one of the smartest people I know admitted the last time he competed he sould have let some one else do his prep for the USA, he tried a few different things by his own admission and missed his peak.
So what's the lesson or message in this thread?
It's not which method is most effective, it's what method works for you and your prep guy should be with you the entire way of the journey and have you prepped for those final days WEEKS in advance -he and you knowing what that morsel of food is going to do to your condition. You shouldn't be there thinking what this 50 grams of potato is going to do to you or over spill you and if it does your guys comes in with the pills and water restriction to dry you out.
Post over-Skip get the fat free twinkies ready I am coming over.
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