Chris Aceto's Son Farid 1 Day Out of Teen / Collegiate Nationals

slesh · Jul 21, 2024

That is just fucking insane for a natty 18 year old. God bless.

danieltx · Jul 21, 2024

Farid took 2nd place out of six in bodybuilding and 2nd place out of three in classic physique. Pictures are at https://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2024/npc_teen_collegiate__masters_national_championships

danieltx · Jul 22, 2024

Chris Aceto gave some insight into Farid's weekend on Heavy Muscle Radio tonight. Him and Farid had gone for sushi in Miami (time unspecified) and Farid asked about competing. Chris said sure. He asked what he thought he'd weigh on stage given he was 236lbs. at the time. Chris said 185lbs. and Farid was shocked because he thought he was lean and could compete around 217lbs. He started his diet that night and went on stage at 181.5lbs. He's thinking of doing a new NPC Natural show that's happening for the first time in November in Washington DC. NPC is trying to branch out into drug tested and natural shows.

I've cued it to start where Aceto discusses Farid.

powerlifter1983 · Jul 22, 2024

I wish I knew this at 16. Regardless of how hard you train, how much gear you take or how dedicated you are you will always be a 10 yr old beat up base model chevy with 250k miles on it racing a new Lambo or Ferrari when you compete with anyone with superior genetics. Take that work ethic anywhere else and I can assure you will get wealthy very fast

-Spartan- · Jul 22, 2024

powerlifter1983 said:
I wish I knew this at 16. Regardless of how hard you train, how much gear you take or how dedicated you are you will always be a 10 yr old beat up base model chevy with 250k miles on it racing a new Lambo or Ferrari when you compete with anyone with superior genetics. Take that work ethic anywhere else and I can assure you will get wealthy very fast

I'm 35 and just now figured this out lol

nothuman · Jul 22, 2024

alfresco said:
I can’t wait for the obvious question . . .

I feel like Chris Aceto is the type of guy who would do everything in his power to stop his son from juicing too young. He was never a drug coach from what I heard.

bbxtreme · Jul 22, 2024

danieltx said:
Chris Aceto gave some insight into Farid's weekend on Heavy Muscle Radio tonight. Him and Farid had gone for sushi in Miami (time unspecified) and Farid asked about competing. Chris said sure. He asked what he thought he'd weigh on stage given he was 236lbs. at the time. Chris said 185lbs. and Farid was shocked because he thought he was lean and could compete around 217lbs. He started his diet that night and went on stage at 181.5lbs. He's thinking of doing a new NPC Natural show that's happening for the first time in November in Washington DC. NPC is trying to branch out into drug tested and natural shows.

I've cued it to start where Aceto discusses Farid.

There’s a big push into natural shows. We have one here in GA now. The promoter wasn’t happy about it and essentially said he wasn’t given a choice in promoting it if he wanted to keep his pro/am show later in the year.

I don’t see them being a huge success given how big the Natural Olympia (INBA/PNBA) is in the other federations.

I know a lot of top level “natural” guys and they won’t even consider switching or doing NPC. But who knows…

TomJ · Jul 22, 2024

nothuman said:
I feel like Chris Aceto is the type of guy who would do everything in his power to stop his son from juicing too young. He was never a drug coach from what I heard.

Ive heard that he was a "what do you have? okay take a bit of that" and that being basically the long and short of his drug side of his coaching.

Cant remember what podcast or interviewer was saying that, maybe Jay?

TomJ · Jul 22, 2024

bbxtreme said:
There’s a big push into natural shows. We have one here in GA now. The promoter wasn’t happy about it and essentially said he wasn’t given a choice in promoting it if he wanted to keep his pro/am show later in the year.

I don’t see them being a huge success given how big the Natural Olympia (INBA/PNBA) is in the other federations.

I know a lot of top level “natural” guys and they won’t even consider switching or doing NPC. But who knows…

I dont see natural shows getting a ton of real traction.

There are already a ton of regular NPC shows with only 1-2 people in some classes and guys winning overalls with 5 week out physiques.
I just dont see there being enough people to fill out the shows if they are gonna be more restrictive than what we currently have.

That being said, i think if they can get a decent turn out i can see them being good overall for the sport, give the natural and young guys an avenue to compete without feeling "as" pressured to take shit to be competitive.

nothuman · Jul 22, 2024

TomJ said:
Ive heard that he was a "what do you have? okay take a bit of that" and that being basically the long and short of his drug side of his coaching.

Cant remember what podcast or interviewer was saying that, maybe Jay?

I remember Jay Cutler saying in the Doucette interview that the topic of drugs never came up with Aceto. I don’t think that’s Aceto’s strength. He’s really a diet guy.

TomJ · Jul 22, 2024

nothuman said:
I remember Jay Cutler saying in the Doucette interview that the topic of drugs never came up with Aceto. I don’t think that’s Aceto’s strength. He’s really a diet guy.

yeah im probably thinking of jay mentioning it on one of the interviews, podcasts, or videos.

I wonder if he big name guys over the years were having someone else handle protocol or if they just raw dogged it and took whatever.

bbxtreme · Jul 23, 2024

nothuman said:
I remember Jay Cutler saying in the Doucette interview that the topic of drugs never came up with Aceto. I don’t think that’s Aceto’s strength. He’s really a diet guy.

At that level most pro guys don’t want to listen to anyone on what gear to take and don’t. It’s half the reason coaches are dropping so many pro’s currently IMO.

On some level to truly coach someone you have to at least know what’s being used though as many things overlap. So if he does only do diet he likely sees or reviews what guys are claiming they’re doing. It’d be very tough to not know IMO.

slesh · Jul 23, 2024

powerlifter1983 said:
I wish I knew this at 16. Regardless of how hard you train, how much gear you take or how dedicated you are you will always be a 10 yr old beat up base model chevy with 250k miles on it racing a new Lambo or Ferrari when you compete with anyone with superior genetics. Take that work ethic anywhere else and I can assure you will get wealthy very fast

You really can’t help yourself…