[quote]mezcal wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
People don’t need ANY degree to understand ENOUGH about physiology to be a great contest prep coach or trainer.
I have an undergraduate degree in nutrition, registration as dietitian, and a masters degree in nutrition and exercise physiology. I’d know enough to get where I am and have been at physically or to train someone WITHOUT these degrees.
Yeah, it was cool to learn a ton and it trained me for my career positions in clinical and corporate dietetics and foodservice management and it adds to my knowledge for sports nutrition, but for bodybuilding and sports nutrition, one can accrue the needed knowledge from reading books and articles and going to the gym and experience.
Shelby, JM, CT, Stu, Skip, Scott Abel, Chris Aceto, Tom Venuto, Dan Duchaine, and so on - none had or have a medical degree, nor did they or do they need ANY advanced degree to do what they are doing or did. What someone learns in a clinical nutrition, biology, or anatomy course in school has almost nothing to do with real world application in bodybuilding and sports, and this is coming from someone whose majority of coursework dealt with these subjects. [/quote]
Ryan - as I said, I meant no slight at you and I didn’t mean to imply that I thought you professed to know everything. Of your peers, you can pick out those who you would want to be your doc and those who you wouldn’t, quite easily. I would, however, reserve judgment on your attendings. There ARE bad docs in this world, no doubt, but until you’ve accrued the experience the people you reference have, you still have things to learn from them. Remember, despite what you think of them, they have twenty years in the business, and the knowledge to go with it. I don’t mean this in any kind of aggressive way, just offering some friendly advice.
Brick - I never said I think that PX is the best source on this site to go to with bodybuilding in mind, nor did I say you need to have an advanced degree to provide such advice. In fact, I explicitly stated that I would defer things like contest prep to zraw, Stu, JM, and the others you’ve listed. I do take issue, however, with people pretending that because PX hasn’t dieted to contest lean that he doesn’t know anything about training. I was merely stating that due to his background he actually knows more about physiology than most around here, and he has successfully applied those principles to fit his goals.
PX being knowledgable about some topic does not somehow mean that Stu or zraw or others don’t have any experience with different things (or, gasp, the same issue!). The polarizing dogmatic arguments that go down on these forums are largely the reason that I choose not to post, because the answer is ALWAYS somewhere in the middle, despite the vociferous arguments of the belligerents on each side.
And to stay on topic, a friend of mine on Facebook constantly posts about his nutrition and training company using himself as a model. He claims to be a “natural” bodybuilder at 210 lbs, 5’6 tall, and 12% body fat at most. Constantly posts natural this natural that while pimping out his supplements/training methods…right bro, because people believe you have more LBM than Zane while being 3 inches shorter.[/quote]
Keep posting.
Much respect.