Kalatu_Pharma
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I listened to this the other night on my walk (cardio).
And I thank you Taylor for your ability to keep going back to the pertinent questions that people want to hear about...Matt has a way of going off topic quickly to try to get a laugh, and about 3 times during this interview I saw you go back and ask the right question everyone wanted to hear the answer to.
I dont think an interview has ever been done that showed my own personal reasons of why i think "competitive" onstage bodybuilding is absolutely one of the most stupidest things to do...and that might piss people off but it is what it is.
I came up thru the 90's....it was all about training hardcore, eating to gain with me...this thing was looked at as an athletic endeavor.....and then Momo Bennazizza died when he took diuretics in 92 and tried to limit his water intake by only eating apples. It was freaking shocking to me...Die? From competing? Then another top competitor in the 90's from Indiana (I dont want to name him because he sometimes still competes in masters shows)....went into kidney failure and had to have a kidney transplant....and on and on this has gone on for decades now.
Here is Seth Feroce screaming it out....the guy goes into kidney failure twice before the age of 30 years old. On deaths door for what? Definitely not money. He had to go back to work doing construction etc.
The big picture is this. Unless you are top 3 in the world in this sport or somehow parlay social media into a windfall (rare)...there is no money to be made in this sport in a grand way. And risking kidney failure (among all the other stuff you have to worry about) to get that last film off.....which is going to set you up for serious kidney problems when you are older from the damage you brought around in your 20-30's....is ludicrous in my opinion.
If you read thru the lines you can see the story here...which is this
Jason HUH on phone: "Seth you dont have to even compete, all you have to do is get going social media wise and develop a shtick...mine is the savage shtick....you can be the all american roughneck shtick.....tell people you are picking your spot for you to compete again and then go about making money social media wise...yet never compete."
and I dont blame them one bit for it...not one bit. The more people I see dropping dead, or serious damaging their internal organs from taking risks to be "awesome" onstage...the more i get of the opinion that competitive onstage bodybuilding is freaking stupid. The risk to benefit ratio is paltry.
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Great post Dante. And I actually think that Joe W. was handing out much bigger contracts that most of the guys getting today. Correct me if I'm wrong... I heard Flex Wheeler talking a few years ago and he said he had a year or two there in the 90's and early 2000's when Joe was paying him 200k. Is this happening today? And to put your body through what it takes for a lousy 4 a week. I mean your life?? Not that 200k isn't a good paycheck, but your vital organs and possibly your life. Eating apples for your hydration
I consider my self a hardcore trainer and I love it. Guys like Dusty, Branch etc that train harder then probably any pro nfl,nba,mlb, etc... But unless your at the elite level as you said 1-5 in the world, you have to work construction to make the ends meet... Something is really wrong in the sport. Pay these guys!!!