As you know, I am (was actually) a fan of T-Nation magazine. I have linked to their articles numerous times. And they do have some great stuff there. But they tend to sell stuff there. Site is owned by BioTest supplement company and you can constantly see authors saying that Surge (one of the products is necessary for successful muscle gains). Which is a lie. But hell, I was still reading them because I knew when I was sold something and where was solid advice. BUT their recent new program called “I,Bodybuilder” was just too much for me. BLATANT LYING! Huge marketing campaign promising incredible results that are not possible. They promise results that are better than those guys on steroids get…

Some guys like Nate Green and Chris Thibodeau who seemed to be trustworthy takes part in it. They have lost credibility from now on!!!

Here are two posts calling the BS out!

This one is written by Alan Aragon at Lyle McDonald’s blog:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/supplement-marketing-on-steroids-by-alan-aragon.html

And this one is by Jim Deen at JCDfitness.com (whom is a great guy and has already guest posted on this blog once):
http://jcdfitness.com/2009/08/t-muscles-t-nation-i-bodybuilder-review-fact-or-fiction/

And here is the BS program from T-Nation:
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/i_bodybuilder_radical_strategy_for_radical_hypertrophy

You can check out the I,Bodybuilder program and see a perfect example of shameless marketing and lies. They promise incredible results (27 pounds gained in 6 weeks), you just have to buy that program and buy 80 bucks for mysterious super-supplement called Anaconda!

I wasn’t gonna write about this at first, but I have to. Maybe some of my blog’s visitors already read it and fell for it so I have to call it out!

Don’t buy I,Bodybuilder and Anaconda, save your money for milk and nuts better ;)

Adrian

NOPE! More is not better. Not always. Yes lifting more weight is better but just if your exercise technique is good. Eating more is good, unless you overeat so much that you start gaining fat (that’s why I say Clean Bulk). Anyway, these two are not the main thing I’m going to talk about today. Main problem in today’s bodybuilding is OVERLOAD of information, overload of bullshit to be more exact.

From now on my goal is to keep things when building muscle as simple as possible. I just read a book about nutrition from one nutritional specialist (he is good, I trust him) but it was so hard to read because of those damn medical/biological/chemical terms. I don’t like to read that stuff, it’s so boring. The content is great and if you get it, you have a better knowledge of how your body works instantly and it gets easier to gain muscle (a bit).. I am sure that one can tell the same stuff in simple people’s language. Maybe using metaphors would help. So from now on I am on a mission not only to help 1000 Skinny Guys go Buff but also to create a simple, easy to understand, step-by-step guide/system on training and nutrition. I like to keep things simple and I think visitors of this blog love it too.

In today’s bodybuilding, magazines and some sites write a lot of BS information. And everyone falls or have once fallen for it. They promise something so spectacular, so fast, so great that we just see it and believe it because we want as big results as possible as fast as possible! And the advertisements give that to us….

Cutting through the Bullshit:

1. I really recommend you to watch the movie Bigger Stronger Faster. It shows how the magazines and supplements companies lie to people. For example: they take people who use steroids to promote some kind of supplement so that people start to think that the exact supplement allows you to achieve it. And if you see a bodybuilding champion promoting it then it looks good and a lot of people are convinced. Or, if you see an unknown guy who has a good transformation and now looks a lot better (shredded, ripped, etc.), like in this picture:

Time to bust another bodybuilding myth! Today, it’s about supplements. You see millions of ads of supplements in magazines and they all say that this one is the BEST! And you will grow immensely! Your muscles will explode! Or that this supplement is as Anabolic as anything except steroids can (read gives you most growth). And on and on and on!