Well fellow T-Men I was up bright and early this morning and reading my Arnold Encyclopedia…uh…ok I was looking at the pics…before my morning sprints at the beach…on my way home from training I run into SHAWN RAY at the McDonalds of Coffee. There was only three customers in the place and I saw him right when I walked in and just said “Hey…I was just getting fired up this morning looking at your insane back in Arnold’s book?” Shook his hand and He said. “Right on man.” and I kept going. It just came out. i ordered my coffee and let him read his paper while I pretended to read the paper also on the other side of the place…I couldn’t stop starring and SO MANY QUESTIONS…I had to practically restrain myself, I did not want to be THAT GUY…but I wanted to just go right up to him and say “so do you ever get on T_MAG forum? how do you prefer your HGH? How about TTokkyo? Who’s your doctor? How is your skin so fucking perfect?” And the list goes on. What do you think he would have done had I walked over to him and said that shit?
It’s funny, but the few pros I’ve talked to, all at last year’s Arnold Classic or on the plane, didn’t need much more than a “Howdy” before they started spilling their guts about the BBing, steroids, etc. Maybe I just ran into some friendly ones or maybe because I’m on the “inside” of the industry they thought they could open up to me… not sure. Or maybe they were being nice because they were fishing for contracts. (We’ve had at least one pro I know of offer his services after his contract was up with another company.)
Anyway, the handful I’ve met were very open and easy to talk to. I think the trick to talking to anyone “famous” is not to be a gushing fan. Hell, I dislike pro bodybuilding and could care less about the participants these days, but I think this is what caused them to be so open with me.
When I met Arnold himself, we just talked about the magazine business while I tried not to wet my pants.
Yes Chris, but remember they do guard there “secrets winning forumalas.” I doubt they offer exactly what they do to anyone. (Other than Gurus telling them what to do & close friends/wives etc.)
I have found some to be fairly honest and others like good old Gunter who told me he is off “at least 7 months of the year” to be full of sh*t.