I second the Costa Big Beyond Belief from way back in high school when my natural test levels were out of control and all I had was school and training. I didn’t even find the volume a problem due to that, due to those reasons. Well, that, and before that I was using Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Finding Modern Ways To Keep you In The Gym Long Enough To Be Paying Rent. So, despite the high volume, it was actually still drastically lower for me on BBB.
Also originally had okay results with POF routines, but that stops real quick. After I found Poliquin Principles, which I was very happy with, especially as finding Poliquin = finding Testosterone a few years back. Never used anything else since.
And finally, while I know BFL bashing is all the rage (I think Deanasumo was kidding MichaelV) However, I do own the book and video (From WAY back when MuscleMedia was good still, with Poliquin, TC, etc), and I do they find they serve somewhat of a purpose. They are useful for out of shape friends, etc, who ask you to help them learn to work out and eat right. You just modify it a little diet wise little more P+F at night as opposed to P+C, etc, and training wise just reverse the order of the sets, and have them start heavyier after their warmup at 6 reps, strip, move up to 8, strip, 10, strip, 12, etc, than add weight and move down. Just down the rack instead of up the rack kinda stuff.
Plus, the original BFL reccomended squats, deadlifts, bench, etc. It teaches them a small amount of movements at first so they don’t get confused and overwhelmed too quickly, etc. Overall I’ve seen it used really effectively with those mods for beginners if they stick with it.
Plus, before he became a RTD shake selling company shill, Porter Freeman was the fucking MAN. A straight up bartending at a strip club with girls 1/3 his age, no shit hillybilly P.I.M.P.
A friend and wrestling tag team partner were actually involved in a 4 on 4 tag match in Ohio one night, and when we got pictures from the show via the web later, he actually took it upon himself to take out one of our partners with photoshop and superimpose a Porter Freeman transformation picture in with us, while we were in our standard 4 man gimmick/mean face pose. I’ll find it one day on my comp. It’s fucking priceless!
Lesson of the day- T-Nation has been a Godsend over the past few years. And, if Porter Freeman is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
“Now who is HE, to tell ME, to go start an ant farm?!..”
