I GOT THIS IN MY EMAIL THIS MORNING:
I have to admit, the best part of my day is reading what my clients have
to write in about. This next one comes in from my friend out in PA named
Joe Selvocki. This is a guy who has tried many things to improve and for a
short period of time was blinded by the blanket lies that the drug bloated
pig powerlifters put on him. I mean honestly, Joe is a good guy who knows
that when you pay money to learn how to train, you should. Instead, he and
many other guys paid a ton of money to learn how to train from these "well
known" elite powerlifters. We’ll get back to his scenario later but check out
this quick story Joe sent in about an 8 year old boy and his father.
"One Saturday, the owner of the gyms son came to the gym. I would say he
was at that time, like 8 or 9 years old. His father (a steroid junkie), was trying
to show him how to deadlift. He had him doing the wide stance. He was not
grasping it. He was having great difficulty lifting it. All the owner did was yell
and scream at him. You can see he was getting scared. Finally his father got
so mad he smacked him across the back. He almost went flying into the wall.
He told him to get out of here".
This is the worst kind of person; an abuser. You should know that prior to
becoming a liscenced teacher of Health & Physical Education that I was a one
on one counselor. I changed my fields because every time I heard another
child tell me about getting beat, I wanted to teach the abuser a lesson. I was
too empathetic and my life moved on. Moving on…
Also by the story we can read that the drug pig had no teaching ability nor the
concept of relevancy to teach anyone let alone a child. Every single individual
has their own way of learning and this MUST be understood by the teacher of
skills. Now, let’s get back to my friend Joe and the world famous one day
seminars that cost more than what I make in a week as a trainer.
People pay big bucks in order to learn how to train and why anyone would
pay drug pigs is beyond my capacity but I do have an idea why. The reason
is because powerlifting has become somewhat popular and it is a strange but
used measuring stick of what can be lifted. Powerlifting on the whole is a very
narrow perspective on training. For example; Joe would tell me that the “elite”
powerlifting dietes of the seminar would tell him to gain 50 pounds in his belly
to reduce the range of motion in the bench press. Read that again and no you
didn’t imagine it, it really was just that; horrible advice. I can actually go on and
on all day long with these examples of absolute sewer advice. I don’t want to
hurt too many feelings so I will stop now before the tears start to roll and the
piggies go into their roid rage.
Did you know? The powerlifting “elite” diete of them all is quoted as saying, “I
have been on juice for over 20 years and I have no problems”. Sad man, sad!
Eh, what the hell, one more story. So Joe sends me another video of these
“elite” lifters trying to run a 1/4 mile. This dude couldn’t even do half a lap around
a track before literally falling and having his friend run to him with oxygen. What
a sad state of affairs that boy is in. I mean seriously, if your house was burning
who would you want running in to save you? Me or this elite pork bellied pig? We
both know you want me because all around athleticism, toughness, strength, power,
mental toughness, and the WILL TO WIN is what I have.
What type of fitness professional gives advice to gain 50 pounds in the belly?
What type of “elite” lifter uses special apparel to help them lift what they can’t without?
Kind of makes no sense at all right? I’m telling you. I read this stuff every day man
and it’s funny yet sad to me. Sad because I am one of a few core individuals telling
the absolute truth about what it takes to get in real shape and I charge a fraction of
what these liars do. This stuff is also funny to me because I find myself at a loss for
words when I receive emails from people saying my program is too simple to work.
Wanna’ know why I get those emails? It’s because the loser, kid smacking, gear wearing,
and steroid guzzling punks of the world are spreading so much disease it makes honest
people look like liars, that’s why!
I bet they’ll be a lot of people unsubscribing from this email list today around the world
and for good reason; this email is about them. My very writing gets beneath their skin
and makes them mad because all they have done is add gasoline to a fire that is literally
destroying mankind one person at a time. This misinformation needs to stop and the
honest fitness needs to come out. Until my last breath, I will expose the liars, fakes,
cheaters, and people hurting other people when their paid to help.
Want to see a REAL example of training. Go visit my latest video which is now featured
ony my YouTube page. There you will see a natural, tough, and determined man who is
not afraid to fail, no afraid to put everything he has into a task, and knows he demands
the best out of everything he does. Leave your comments please and let’s put this fire
out that the lies have started.
P.S. I know I hurt feelings today and you know what, it’s about time someone did it. I
simply won’t stand for this nonsense any longer.
MY Email to him:
I have to disagree with you on stereotyping powerlifters as roid pigs and nonathletic. Yes, there are many who do fit that stereotype, but MOST powerlifters do it just for fun and do it naturally. As a matter of fact, most of the powerlifters I know are some of the most down to earth, gentlest guys you could ever meet. Stereotyping them the way you have in your email is no different than people stereotyping me because I am black.
The guys you are referencing are obviously guys who, in general, don’t live well-rounded and healthy lives and that has more to do with them as people than as powerlifters. I, myself, take a well rounded (in my opinion) approach and apply what makes sense from powerlifting, bodybuilding, strongman and athletic conditioning to be the best I can be. There are a lot of good things I have learned from you, especially as far as mental toughness and focus are concerned and I would be just as quick to defend YOU from bad generalizations as I am to defend powerlifters from yours.
It seems as if different “factions” of fitness get so focused and narrow-minded towards their preferred way of doing things that all they see is the bad of other disciplines, which is ironic, because when you go back to the old time strongmen/bodybuilders that all these disciplines spring from; you see that they looked at it all as a continuum and found a way to use them as a WHOLE as opposed to individual segments that had nothing to do with each other.
YOU GUYS, TELL ME - DOES IT APPEAR THAT I SAID ANYTHING THAT COULD BE TAKEN AS AN ATTACK OR OFFENSIVE IN MY RESPONSE? I’LL POST HIS RESPONSE AND THEN MY ANSWER.
