I was recently at MHP’s web site (they’re a supplement company), and was browsing their “Fitness Gallery”, which contains some short bio’s of fitness pro’s that use and endorse MHP products. I actually like their TRAC creatine myself. Anyway, to get back to the point, I looked at IFBB pro Mike Morris’s page (I never even heard of him), and found that his off-season AND pre-contest diet consists of, are you ready, FIVE GALLONS OF WATER A DAY! Bull-fucking shit! I have never heard of anyone drinking five fucking gallons of water a day. What the hell! I can’t believe it. Also, some of his best lifts – I don’t know, I don’t wanna knock the guy he may really be super-strong – but shrugs with 1000 lbs. for 3 reps. A thousand fucking pounds. C’mon now.
I think it’s things like this that sour everyone toward bodybuilding in general and supplement use. Supplements will absolutely never make anyone shrug 1000 lbs., probably not even half that for 90% of lifters, yet here’s this juiced-to-the-gills freak talking about how TRAC is his favorite supplement because he can “feel this stuff pump me up during my workouts.” Unreal, I’ll tell ya.
Any supplement company that uses a pro bodybuilder to sell a product loses my respect immediately. It tells me they’re trying to pull something over on me. I’m not a dumb teenager. At least not anymore.
i agree totally man. it’s just like all the bullshit supplement ads in the magazines that show these guys throwing up four and five plates on the incline and it’s like yah fucken right man. it’s like they think we’re a bunch of damn suckers and just because we pop a couple of their fat burners we’re gonna bang out five hundred pounds on the incline. it’s retarted.
Just a sidenote on the shrugs…I’ve seen natural “athletes” “shrug” 600-700 pounds. Looks more like a bouncy full body squat, and I’m not sure if it’s them or the bar that is moving, but they seemed to be “shrugging”.
Artistic rendering is a lot different than showing someone REAL who didn’t actually use the supplement to get that way. In the Tribex add they use a real guy, but it’s not a ridiculous physique, and they don’t give unreasonable time frames about how that guy got that physique.
To me, that’s apples and oranges compared to those Hydroxycut ads.
Just an interesting thing that I have noticed: I read bodybuilding rags for a long time before finding, by the grace of god, t-mag. In all those years I never saw one article with references listed. Every article in t-mag has references. They are fact based, scientifically sound articles, while the other shit is just some editors opinion or some roid-freaks shitty routines.
On the subject of the big guys in Biotest ads, they are not saying “look at this awesome physique. If you take myostat you could look like this in 4 weeks even if you don’t train!” There is a world of difference between Biotest and the rest of the supp world.
