just going to ramble . . .
After looking at the prejudging pictures of the USA last night I would have to say not really . You will think with all the GH protocols , insulin regimens . high doses , pep tides , training advances , seo , gurus that there would be some amazing huge conditioned guys out there . I think it is sad with all the guys that take gear in this country that there aren't 5 guys in each class that even look good or even have the reason to be doing what it takes to compete at that level . I was only really impressed with the Light Heavy and he isn't even in great condition . I find that amazing .
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So my question to you guys . Is how to do we take all this vast knowledge of training , diet , drugs , and recovery and help some of the younger utilize it and producing better physiques ...There are some great minds here ....and I would like to help . How do you think we can do this and sort though all this info to help guys achieve bodies people look up to again . Seeing to USA made me sad and honestly it has been pretty weak over all for 10 to 15 yrs at the national level ....I would like to see it get better again and even help .....Any ideas fellas ? Or why guys look as they do despite all the better conditions ?
Cyberspace is indulgent, but attention spans are shorter so I honestly don’t have a legitimate answer to your question,
just some random thoughts . . .
Much time is wasted as a result of this technology (cyberspace). It is supposed to enable you to gather more information,
and it does, but information of a certain kind, thin information which does not nourish or lead to wisdom. You end up
knowing less: you have no time to find out the things you are looking for because you're lowering your face into this
blinding, rushing torrent of instant reports and e-chatter.
Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has ‘cursed’ us.
Reversing the process is as difficult as un-ringing a bell. You can't unlearn what you already know. There are, in fact,
only two ways to beat the Curse of Knowledge reliably. The first is not to learn anything. The second is to take your
ideas and transform them.
So I really don’t think it is possible to go back. Renata Adler wrote, in her novel
Speedboat, about giving a piece of sugar
to a raccoon, which in its odd fastidiousness would wash the sugar in a brook till there was nothing left.
Bodybuilding is just a jolly popularity contest, or as New York Times reporter David Carr put it about having his own blog,
it's like "a large yellow Labrador: friendly, fun, not all that bright, but constantly demanding your attention."
But the stupidity is ours. We misunderstand ourselves; we are very vain and very stupid. We build a great bonfire to
warm ourselves and then complain that the flames are too hot and fierce, that we are blinded by the smoke.
I have said this before, here, . . . As we get older, with the benefit of experience (and having seen so much time slip by),
we begin to notice that most things (bodybuilding for instance) have little lasting impact on our lives. Those people
whose opinions we cared about so much before are no longer present in our lives. Rejections that were painful
in the moment have actually worked out for the best. We realize how little attention people pay to the superficial
details about us, and we choose not to obsess so much over them.
Speaking for myself . . . I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there.
You try to take advantage of the time you have. That's what they tell you to do. But when you're old, you look back
and you see all you did, with all that time, is waste it. All you have is a story of things you never started or couldn't finish.
Things you fought with all your heart to build that didn't last or fought with all your heart to get rid of and they're all
still around.
In my lifetime, it has occurred to me now, there are at least two things that haven’t changed: first, what worries me;
second, what makes me laugh.
I had recently read something in
Scientific American about the Roman city of Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius,
uncovered by archaeologists; how exposure to light and air was destroying what centuries of darkness had preserved.
And radiation treatment? A textbook example of a situation where the cure was worse than the disease. On balance,
most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your heart, to share what was
on your mind, to tell the people you loved that you loved them, to ask those you had harmed to forgive you and to
confront those who had hurt you with the truth about the damage they had done. When it came to things that needed
to be said, speech was always preferable to silence, but it was of no use at all in the presence of the unspeakable.
I would have written something shorter but I just didn’t have the time.
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If you are taking gear much beyond hrt and a couple of blasts a yr and you arent a pro ....you may want to look at why you are doing what you are doing....this is supposted be fun ...and positive guys not an obcession based in insecurity
:headbang:
Ditto.