From yesterday’s post: “Weâ??ll see what happens, Iâ??m working with my long-time custom nutritional ingredient specialist to get a boost in coming weeks.”
I don’t know what that means, it could just be a diet modification, but it could also be some fancy new product
[quote]catalyst wrote:
Game Time wrote:
Rek wrote:
I really hope this doesn’t turn into a commercial and he says “ha! i did it and my secret was product X!!! I kept it secret in case it failed”
I think it will. If you noticed in one of his video he said he might need a little something extra, an edge. He said he would still be natural but will let us know what it is. Give it a few more weeks, and he will be marketing a product. He would be stupid not to!
Agree. He is giving out a tremendous amount of value for free right now. If he does turn this into a marketing pitch, I don’t think it’s out of line at all.
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It’s gonna be Anaconda!
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
165StateChamp wrote:
anonym wrote:
Cprimero wrote:
His arms seemed to have frigging balooned in the dinner vid ( admittedly could be the camera angle)
Levrone is a beast, but that video was pretty pointless.
However, you know you’re the man when you can film shit like that and have people sit through the whole damn thing.
Pointless, but really funny. I learned that he has good taste in music.
Also now I know, if a dinner date is going badly, I can say, “Look what I found! Mustard!”
Btw, who’s singing the cover of “I do it for you”?
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I actually was talking about “Cats in the Cradle”. I have no idea about the other song.
He’s getting serious now, bringing it back to the old days with some poses!
lmao, has anyone been readin the comments? Theres a guy whos pretending the be Chris, the guy who spots in the videos
"Yo Brah, thanks for the props. This is Kris, thats right, with a â??Kâ?? for straight Killa. Mah boys call me Special K. I dont have a website yet, but Iâ??ve been rolling with Levrone for a minute and Iâ??ll answer any questions ya got untill i get my blog going. I got mad respect for Korea to bra, rich culture. My neighbors from Vietnam.
Outtie!
Speciak K"
"Donâ??t even trip, brah. Fools making jokes like they Martin Lawrence or sumthin. I can be imitated but neva duplicated. There is only ONE Special K. But this aint about me. The is Levroneâ??s set. We here to watch his transformation and be part of history with him. Respect Kevin Levrone aight.
Special K out!"
In regards to the eating 3000 calories a day thing at getting so huge. Here is something Kevin said back in the day, maybe he forgot what he ate back then.
KEVIN LEVRONE
1994 AND 1996 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CLASSIC WINNER
"You get as big as possible from becoming as strong as possible. Size doesn’t beget strength; it’s vice versa. When I started lifting, I went into the gym with that ‘How much can I bench, curl, squat and deadlift?’ attitude. That’s when I discovered how fast my strength could increase, and it made me crazy-intense to get even stronger. It was so motivating that I forgot all about building muscles, but that’s what enabled my huge spurt of muscle mass to sneak up on me. Before I knew it, I was a mass monster, and it all came from the following principles.
You have to lift free weights, and each time, it has to be more than you’re ever been able to lift.
Always do the basics: bench presses, squats, deadlifts, bent rows, standing military presses, barbell curls and close-grip benches.
Make sure it’s so heavy that it makes you sweat, grunt and scream. That means you’re forced beyond your limit.
Never do more than eight reps–and that’s to failure. For your heaviest sets, you should struggle for three or four.
Don’t count sets; just keep 'em going, increasing the weight each time. If your intensity is fired to its max, you’ll be surprised at how you get stronger with each set.
People don’t want to train until they get sore anymore.
They train till it hurts, then stop. To get strong, train until it stops hurting.
Wham…bam…pow…
that’s awesome.
What is your basis for thinking that a single word of this, let alone all of them, came from Kevin Levrone?
Because it appeared in Flex as supposedly being his contribution to the article?
That would not be a basis for assuming Levrone had ever even heard one word of it, let alone said or written it.
[quote]BenceJones wrote:
In regards to the eating 3000 calories a day thing at getting so huge. Here is something Kevin said back in the day, maybe he forgot what he ate back then.
KEVIN LEVRONE
1994 AND 1996 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CLASSIC WINNER
"You get as big as possible from becoming as strong as possible. Size doesn’t beget strength; it’s vice versa. When I started lifting, I went into the gym with that ‘How much can I bench, curl, squat and deadlift?’ attitude. That’s when I discovered how fast my strength could increase, and it made me crazy-intense to get even stronger. It was so motivating that I forgot all about building muscles, but that’s what enabled my huge spurt of muscle mass to sneak up on me. Before I knew it, I was a mass monster, and it all came from the following principles.
You have to lift free weights, and each time, it has to be more than you’re ever been able to lift.
Always do the basics: bench presses, squats, deadlifts, bent rows, standing military presses, barbell curls and close-grip benches.
Make sure it’s so heavy that it makes you sweat, grunt and scream. That means you’re forced beyond your limit.
Never do more than eight reps–and that’s to failure. For your heaviest sets, you should struggle for three or four.
Don’t count sets; just keep 'em going, increasing the weight each time. If your intensity is fired to its max, you’ll be surprised at how you get stronger with each set.
People don’t want to train until they get sore anymore.
They train till it hurts, then stop. To get strong, train until it stops hurting.
Levrone’s starting to look good again. His arms are still 19", that’s intense.
Haha shot down by Bill Roberts.
While this may or may not have been written by Levrone, I still have a hard time believing that he didn’t eat more than 3000 calories in his prime. The intense workouts? The huge amounts of lean mass he had? I don’t care how good his feed efficiency is. Maybe he is in such a league of his own that he never really did count calories. I’ll post it up to his blog and see if I get a reply.
Not to get too off topic but I have a friend who was in prison for 9 years. I was asking him about lifting in prison and if people would trade foods or somehow get extra protein in. He told me that didn’t really go on.
He just described that your body got so used to a strict schedule of sleeping, laying around in your cell, and lifting, that your body would grow large on the calories they provided. In other words the prisoners would become very feed efficient. Still not sure if I can totally buy into this either.
I would believe that he quite likely never sought to eat more than 3000 calories per day.
And as he was known for leaning up as he prepared for contests, it makes sense that his contest prep was not super high calorie.
That’s interesting about the prison testimony.
Fortunately I’ve never had to spend more than a few hours in jail (it sucked – man does time pass amazingly slowly there) so cannot speak to that, but with reference to the couple of unusual-for-me 5-lb-in-a-week unexpected gains I had as a natural trainer, for sure I was not eating any high amount of calories.
Not that I remember what I ate each week from years ago, but at the time I tried to puzzle out what had happened, and I remember being sure at the time that I clearly hadn’t eaten any unusual amount. Just, within reasonable approximation, the usual amount that ordinarily would have maintained weight given the same training.
This is NOT to say that others should rely on this for their ordinary principle of how to gain, but only to say that it is possible for a body to do this.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
What is your basis for thinking that a single word of this, let alone all of them, came from Kevin Levrone?
Because it appeared in Flex as supposedly being his contribution to the article?
That would not be a basis for assuming Levrone had ever even heard one word of it, let alone said or written it.
BenceJones wrote:
In regards to the eating 3000 calories a day thing at getting so huge. Here is something Kevin said back in the day, maybe he forgot what he ate back then.
KEVIN LEVRONE
1994 AND 1996 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CLASSIC WINNER
"You get as big as possible from becoming as strong as possible. Size doesn’t beget strength; it’s vice versa. When I started lifting, I went into the gym with that ‘How much can I bench, curl, squat and deadlift?’ attitude. That’s when I discovered how fast my strength could increase, and it made me crazy-intense to get even stronger. It was so motivating that I forgot all about building muscles, but that’s what enabled my huge spurt of muscle mass to sneak up on me. Before I knew it, I was a mass monster, and it all came from the following principles.
You have to lift free weights, and each time, it has to be more than you’re ever been able to lift.
Always do the basics: bench presses, squats, deadlifts, bent rows, standing military presses, barbell curls and close-grip benches.
Make sure it’s so heavy that it makes you sweat, grunt and scream. That means you’re forced beyond your limit.
Never do more than eight reps–and that’s to failure. For your heaviest sets, you should struggle for three or four.
Don’t count sets; just keep 'em going, increasing the weight each time. If your intensity is fired to its max, you’ll be surprised at how you get stronger with each set.
People don’t want to train until they get sore anymore.
They train till it hurts, then stop. To get strong, train until it stops hurting.
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I don’t know why you would think he would not say this.
Levrone was never one of my favorites, but damn!
I’m not sure what it is, maybe it’s his being so down to earth and real in these videos or something.
Anyways, I’m now routing for him and hope he does pull off an amazing comback.
Hes Pictures really Skew how much his body has changed, you can tell change has occur but you can’t judge to accurately because of his change in lighting 
damn, he posted this
“The only thing Iâ??m starting to take this week that wouldnâ??t be considered food is a blend of things mixed together by my nutritionist and long-time friend from back in the day. I hear what youâ??re asking but Iâ??m not going to tell you the exact ingredients yet. One, I still have to see if it works. Two, if it works I may want to sell it, and the ingredients will be listed at that time, and not before.”
he’s probably gonna sell out and use this to push his new supplement line.
[quote]Anonymas wrote:
damn, he posted this
“The only thing Iâ??m starting to take this week that wouldnâ??t be considered food is a blend of things mixed together by my nutritionist and long-time friend from back in the day. I hear what youâ??re asking but Iâ??m not going to tell you the exact ingredients yet. One, I still have to see if it works. Two, if it works I may want to sell it, and the ingredients will be listed at that time, and not before.”
he’s probably gonna sell out and use this to push his new supplement line.[/quote]
So what if he does?
He has to earn himself a living, after all. I think we all realize that supps got nothing to do with it, so why complain?
[quote]Anonymas wrote:
he’s probably gonna sell out and use this to push his new supplement line.[/quote]
I think most people guessed he wasn’t doing this (both the transformation AND the time spent interacting with the fans) just to “see if he could”.
I’m sure most people figured he had an angle going into this. And I honestly can’t fault the man for trying to make a buck.
The only way I think this will turn out lame is if he posts a review of the supp and gives it way too much credit for his transformation.
[quote]anonym wrote:
Anonymas wrote:
he’s probably gonna sell out and use this to push his new supplement line.
I think most people guessed he wasn’t doing this (both the transformation AND the time spent interacting with the fans) just to “see if he could”.
I’m sure most people figured he had an angle going into this. And I honestly can’t fault the man for trying to make a buck.
The only way I think this will turn out lame is if he posts a review of the supp and gives it way too much credit for his transformation.[/quote]
Agreed. To my knowledge, this man doesn’t owe anyone criticizing his possible attempt to make some money anything. I am glad he is getting this much attention from this.
So he’ll be offering free exercise advice, an environment for exercise people to interact, and information about his training philosophies while probably trying to sell supplements on the side, gee that doesn’t sound like something familiar at all does it…
[quote]GluteusGigantis wrote:
So he’ll be offering free exercise advice, an environment for exercise people to interact, and information about his training philosophies while probably trying to sell supplements on the side, gee that doesn’t sound like something familiar at all does it…[/quote]
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