| Posted on a Bodybuilding Message Board: | | | | my mind, I was willing to take all kinds of supplements |
| Hi everyone I'm 15 and was wondering what I can take | | | | and do whatever training program I could to look like |
| for my muscle to grow? I have heard of muscle | | | | those guys in the magazine ads. They were my |
| boosters or something like that so I was just | | | | HEROS and inspiration. |
| wondering if there was anything like that that I could | | | | Thankfully I didn't go down that path. |
| take in order for my muscle to get huge. | | | | Just last week, my friend (Yes I really have spoken on |
| I might be thinking of steroids. | | | | the phone with him several times) Tom Venuto sent |
| Answer: | | | | out a issue asking people to take a look at the natural |
| Stop! What the HECK are you thinking? Why are we | | | | bodybuilders all over the Internet for inspiration. |
| always looking for the short cut to the biggest gains | | | | Tom Venuto wrote: |
| while still being able to watch T.V.? I guess the word | | | | "There ARE heroes and role models to look up to |
| "hard work" isn't something you really need to do if you | | | | today, and you will find them in the drug-free |
| know some handy-dandy SECRETS to building | | | | bodybuilding movement." |
| muscle. | | | | He's RIGHT. In fact I know an older gentleman, Scott |
| Clarence Darrow, a famous trial lawyer, once said: | | | | Hults, who's a big fan of natural bodybuilding and has |
| "As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, | | | | done wonders in this sport to educate himself and |
| and if no man (or woman) objected and no man (or | | | | others around him that taking shortcuts isn't the way to |
| woman) rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." | | | | go and that hard work can pay-off at any age. If I can |
| Listen closely! The term 'lifestyle' means ON-GOING | | | | be in as good of shape as Scott when I'm older, I'd be |
| and NEVER ending. A shortcut has no place in | | | | lucky. |
| bodybuilding and certainly no place in getting into the | | | | Think about it. |
| best shape of your life. | | | | Toss this idea around, if you want to get better at |
| So what? | | | | something, you should do everything in your power to |
| I can already hear the voices now like waves crashing | | | | make the exercises HARDER, not easier. |
| against a rocky wall "why should I care?" Or the other | | | | Clearly you can see by now shortcuts simply don't |
| one "what's in it for me?" | | | | come without a price. If you are one of those people |
| A Blueprint for your Success: | | | | who wants to make working out and building muscle |
| * The more you know, the more educated you | | | | or losing fat easy as cutting thru a banana cream pie, |
| become from a cast of reliable sources and PASS | | | | you'll never reach the goals you've set. |
| that information on to your friends... | | | | Richie Smith, a personal trainer with more horsepower |
| * The better off this industry will become... | | | | in the gym then a Bugatti Veron, said "When you are |
| * The FASTER you can AVOID mistakes... | | | | child, your parents tell you to keep your hands off the |
| * The FASTER you can make better LONG TERM | | | | stove--they tell you not to put your hand into the flame, |
| progress! | | | | because if you do, you'll get burned. If you're serious |
| FACT: According to the National Institute on Drug | | | | about bodybuilding, you have to un-learn what you |
| Abuse for Teens(NIDA): | | | | were taught as a child. When I train people, basically I'm |
| "As part of a 2002 NIDA-funded study, teens were | | | | telling them to put their hand right into the fire and keep |
| asked if they ever tried steroids--even once. Only | | | | it there. I have them train into and beyond the pain |
| 2.5% of 8th graders ever tried steroids; only 3.5% of | | | | zone. That's what makes you grow." |
| 10th graders; and 4% of 12th graders." | | | | Are you beginning to see how building muscle and |
| Add to this an article I read in the May 2004 issue of | | | | changing your body is work but it's fun? Building your |
| Flex magazine by Tom Prince. He profiled his career in | | | | body isn't like FedEx ... it simply, positively DOESN'T |
| a very thought provoking article called "When the | | | | happen overnight. But one could also say ... it's human |
| Posing Stops." | | | | nature to avoid hard work. |
| Tom Prince went on to explain his steroid use, his mad | | | | Tom Venuto wrote in his natural bodybuilding blog, |
| as a hatter like rush to the top, and eventually the pain | | | | "Most people are on a constant search for the path of |
| he endures and his eventual kidney failure to reach a | | | | least resistance. A drug, a supplement, a 'breakthrough |
| peak. The descriptions of his crumbling shoulder socket | | | | technique' a new machine, a shortcut in exercise |
| and the pain he must be in made me as sick as a dog. | | | | form--anything and everything they think will help them |
| At the time of the article, Tom Prince was 34 years | | | | reach their goals with less effort and in less time. This |
| old! He said: | | | | is typical human nature. Unfortunately, this is also faulty |
| "I will probably die younger than normal, 65 or | | | | thinking and you will NEVER become a champion with |
| something like that, but 65 is better than 35." | | | | this type of attitude. |
| STOP and ask yourself this key question: | | | | You can clearly see what I'm saying is certainly true... |
| Are the youth of today any different then me 16 | | | | If I could give you a training strategy that is |
| years ago when I was looking at bodybuilding | | | | GUARANTEED to increase your muscle and burn |
| magazines and wanting to be ripped and muscular? In | | | | more fat, would you be interested? |