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all the other flat benchers around
when Mike was at his peak. Plus, I
have never had an incline proponent
successfully explain to me how a
proper incline stimulates the lower
pectorals. Sure, a proper incline
press works the upper pecs with
a degree of precision a flat bench
cannot match; however unless the
incliner arches back during the
press (thereby turning the incline
into more of a flat bench) how
do the lower pecs get stimulated?
If the incline bencher uses
proper incline technique and
keeps his torso glued to the
45-degree bench, how can the
lower pecs receive anything
other then the most minor of
muscular stimulation? I like
incline pressing, particularly
steep incline pressing, steeper
than 45-degrees and less than
90-degrees. I use this as my
primary SHOULDER exercise.
Don’t waste your breath
on your buddy – he wouldn’t
be convinced if Jesus told him
flat benches ruled.
Victor Steele,
Why are you so nasty towards
the women-only national
chain training facilities? I belong
to the largest lady-only chain gym
in the world and I really like the
low pressure, non-macho atmosphere.
When I used to belong
to a mixed-gender gym, I always
felt intimidated and out of place.
At the all-women gym I feel comfortable
and welcome and there
is zero pressure. It’s almost like a
support group. We all encourage
one another and feel good about
the fitness experience. I for one
will NEVER go back to the classical
man gym with super macho
types huffing and puffing and
screaming obscenities.
Dawn, Dallas
Can you get real
results at a womenonly
training facility?
In order to change the body dramatically
we need to use intense training
combined with strict nutrition.
If you aren’t doing these consistently,
don’t expect to see real results!
Have you made one single iota of
progress? I seriously doubt it. My
problem with the female-only national
chain gyms is that while they
may make you feel good about fitness,
insofar as real results they
are worthless. Honestly you might
as well take up golf or bowling or
badminton or ballroom dancing
– the results would be just as good.
The problem with “real” fitness is
that in order to morph the human
body, i.e. add muscle or lose body
fat, we have to stress the body via
resistance training and cardio and
subject it to a disciplined approach
towards nutrition. All those feelgood,
low-stress, fun-and-easy
workouts that you are taking at
Girl World aren’t doing Jack Squat
when it comes to providing you real
results. It’s a physiological impossibility
to engage in a low-intensity
sub-maximal weight workout,
followed by 20 minutes of “moderate”
cardio, go home and eat
“lite” and “fat-free” and eat “soy”
and eat “low protein/high carb”
and eat like a bird and obtain any
real results. Do you really think
you are going to lose 50 pounds of
fat that you desperately need
to lose by being “moderate”
and “sensible?” In order to
change the body dramatically
we need to use intense training
combined with strict nutrition.
The other thing that
bugs me about these “no pain/
no pain” gyms is they lure the
ladies in with the promise
of big gains for no pain and
they then keep you as a client
by saying, essentially, “Well,
you might not be getting the
sensational results we promised
– but now you are part of
our community and hey, we
love you – and as long as we
can feel good about ourselves,
as long as we can have a positive
body image then isn’t
that enough and isn’t that what’s
really important?” No it’s not;
the name of the game is results.
These corporate outfits lure ladies
in with the promise of incredible
results (with little or no effort) and
then when the client sees tangible
gains are not going to occur, the
hucksters change their tune and
say “We should be okay with ourselves
and you should keep up your
membership in order to stay a part
of our fitness community.” This
is BS of the highest order. Sorry,
but the all-lady softball fitness
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facility is just another way to make
money without delivering on lofty
promises.
Greetings Vic,
What’s your take on Pro-Carb for
mass building? I have to be honest
with you; I am a fairly
high level bodybuilder and
though I love ALL the Parrillo
supplements, the one that
most seems to work for me
best is Pro-Carb . Coming
off a competition, in those
first six weeks afterwards, I
will go through a canister of
Pro-Carb each week. Last
year I added 11 pounds of
solid muscle in the six weeks
AFTER my show. I just went
back to fairly normal eating
and supplemented with
nothing but (a lot of) Pro-
Carb . All the gym rats felt
that I looked 20% better six
weeks after my show (the
NPA regionals.) I weighed
165 at the show with 4%
body fat, but everyone (myself
included) felt that four weeks
later at 177 I looked twice as good.
I Body-stated out at 8% weighing
177. The whole thing is forcing me
to reconsider my approach: is it
better to be 165 at 4% or 180 at
8% looking TWICE as massive?
I stand 5-5 and they tell me that
when I am big I look like Parrillo’s
old buddy Eddie “Major Guns”
Robinson. The main reason I added
the quality size was my massive
intake of Pro-Carb – have any of
your other guys gotten these types
of outstanding results off this magnificent
product?
Randy C., Bakersfield
Oh indeed they have! The eternal
dilemma for the competitive bodybuilder
is this: small and shredded
or massive but not quite as ripped?
The late Anthony D’Arezzo once
told me that out of all the nutritional
supplements he’d ever used,
When it comes to building mass,
Pro-Carb rules!
Pro-Carb has 0g fat, only 1g sugar, and 33g
of quality carbs derived from maltodextrin.
when it came to mass building,
Pro-Carb was at the top of his
list. Now it should be stated that
both he and you were elite level
guys and like you, Tony got his
biggest boost of adding Pro-Carb
coming off a low-carb, high protein,
ketogenic, pre-competition,
carb-deprived state. Being “carb
starved” after a competition and
suddenly adding back lots of
slow-release, maltodextrin carbs,
the kind contained in Pro-Carb ,
causes a muscular explosion we
call an “anabolic burst.” Be cautious
about “spillover” that occurs
when the body suddenly becomes
able to shuttle carbs into fat storage.
The trick is to slam carbs until
spillover occurs and then stop. If
you keep eating massive amounts
of carbs after the body “re-learns”
how to process carbs, the excess
carbs are converted into body fat
and everything is ruined. The moment
you start to see your
cuts flatten out you need
to back off the Pro-Carb .
Still, you have discovered
what the Parrillo elite have
known for twenty years:
when it comes to building
mass, Pro-Carb rules!
Vic Steele,
Any ideas as to how to
bring up lagging hamstrings?
Mine are soft and
indistinguishable. I have
leg-curled until I am blue
in the face and nothing
back there seems to change
much. I have 28 inch
thighs; so it’s not like I’m
some pencil neck. As one of
my training partners said,
“From the front, your legs
look like Tom Platz – from behind
they look like Pee-Wee Herman.”
Any ideas would be appreciated –
come to think of it I don’t know any
hamstring exercises other than leg
curls – I bet you have some East
German or Russian secret exercise
for thigh biceps. All the best.
Bo, Mississippi
I’d bet you a dollars to donuts that
your problem is NOT a lack of
ham development. Rather, because
your diet is off, the hamstrings
are obscured by a layer of fat. Everyone
has ripped abs and shredded
hamstrings. Everyone has a
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