CC,
What’s wrong with 70 pages?! 
People,
We forgot the claim that he also has a strength athlete whose thighs make Ronnie Coleman’s appear to be small.
300andabove,
You are bigger than me but I ain’t no twig or weakling. Now I am no IFBB pro nor am I putting up numbers that would put Dorian or Ronnie to shame. However, I am proud of what I have done. I hover around 230 to 240 and my strength is pretty good for someone my size; certainly better than 95% percent of the lifting population. Plus, when I go to a gym or follow my meal plan, I mean business.
No, attending shows does not make me an expert on training or dieting. But it does allow me to befriend people who train seriously and to take a peak at how some big guys are training and eating.
And you know what …
I have to meet a big guy train anything different than the following …
-2 to 5 way split.
-Each muscle trained once every 4 to 7 days.
-Small muscles trained with 2 to 3 exercises; big muscles trained with 3 to 5 exercises.
-Reps: some guys are pumpers (Flex Wheeler, Paul Dillet, Craig Titus) and others are what people call the “powerbodybuilders” (Dorian, Ronnie, Mike Francois).
-Sets: some guys are low volume, some are moderate, some are high (this is semantics at this point; nearly all guys ramp up or warm up to 1 to 2 all out sets).
-Exercise selection: 1 to 2 “big bangers”; 1 to 2 isolation exercises or “finishers”. People pick the exercises that suits them (ie: squat vs leg press; dumbbell bench vs barbell; pulldowns vs pullups, maybe more isolation than compound for some muscle groups and some pre-exhaust).
-Progression: just try to break records, that’s it!
I have never seen any successful guys, and I mean the biggest dudes around, train any different than these guidelines. I think if Poliquin’s and Waterbury’s ideas were so useful for bodybuilding, we would have taken them up long ago. But these simple methods work and always have worked, for the regular gym guy and for Haney, Arnold, Dorian, Ronnie, and so on.
I’m not knocking Poliquin. I have commended him several times. Its just that I think his stuff has no application to bodybuilding.
Pros don’t become pros just by juicing and having good genetics. That’s like saying someone becomes a doctor or lawyer from just being smart. These guys had to go through so many years of schooling and so much studying and so much emotional and behavioral discipline and so much application of what they learned in order to become a PRO. So how is this different if someone wants to become a PRO bodybuilder; someone who also had to study, apply what he studied, try and fail with some methods, be emotionally disciplined, and had to treat his trade as profession. That’s not just sitting around all day and jabbing needles and lifting like a sissy or when they always wanted to or how they wanted to.
Bill Gates is not where he is at because he was blessed with a high IQ and then just waited around for success to come to him!
You cannot just have raw materials to be a professional (IQ or physical traits). You have to know how to USE these raw materials PLUS you have to study and try hard as hell - I mean really push the limits of yourself. That is how you come out on top.