Worst contest prep advice?

[ChrisTuttle]

That was the sauna torture you went through. Right?

Well first zero carbs > diuretics > lower sodium (not cutting it) > stop drinking > Sauna off the last 5 lbs. I will NEVER DO THAT AGAIN

[Nmowery]

Well first zero carbs > diuretics > lower sodium (not cutting it) > stop drinking > Sauna off the last 5 lbs. I will NEVER DO THAT AGAIN

I did something similar for my last PL meet - minus the diuretics - and never again! Yea I made weight, for the sole purpose of taking a crack at a state record, but the cut wrecked me and I didn’t even come close to the total I was shooting for.

[npcdusty]

Oh please do, the snippets were great already!!!

I am going to do a video on that whole prep! Quite a good story! Much I did not tell.

[Rex]

Sometimes I think these comps have no idea how powerful these drugs are. They think it is like just taking another few advil or something

Yes. Absolutely. Especially the newbies.
It´s mindblowing how much water a little pill can push out of your body within a couple hours. You can be feeling totally normal at 8:00am and fighting for your life in the hospital by 1:00pm.

[Rex]

Well first zero carbs > diuretics > lower sodium (not cutting it) > stop drinking > Sauna off the last 5 lbs. I will NEVER DO THAT AGAIN

Sounds like fun...

[JohnJewett]

Everyone will completely agree but sometimes people strive to get into certain weight classes as well because they know who they will look best next to as well.

This is very true

[JohnJewett]

This is going to be good but where do I begin. When I first started competing there really wasn't any coaches so it was just reading on the net and trial and error. However, you did end up getting guys giving other guys advice backstage. I heard seen: Carbing up on a loaf of bread and muscle milk, pumping up legs back stage doing body weight squats, cutting out water on wed before the show with sauna on Friday and no sodium, ect. I could go on about many other things as well. The best is when you hear coaches laying out a whole 12 week prep diet. HAHAH

Hahaha yeah those are all good. I remember at my national qualifier there was a guy barbell squating for his pump up. For one, why the hell do we even have squat rack back here?! lol. Then leg pumping is a no no.

The guy was squatting like 225

[MRmichael.hooker]

This isn't really 'contest advice' but I had hired an extremely well known/popular contest prep coach, a 'guru' if you well. I won't mention his name because it's not important to slander, but I guarantee every bodybuilder in here has heard of his name or met him. I had been into serious bodybuilding training about 2 years and decided I wanted to test the waters and do a show. First issue was I was told I'd need to hire him for a full 20 weeks because I was too fat (I had a pretty decent 6 pack, around 10-12% bf). I was new to the sport and didn't really know any better. Then about 10 weeks into the prep, I started getting zero responses. Emails, phone calls, nothing at all. I was just on my own and I had already paid of course for the prep services. Good times

[ChrisTuttle]

I did something similar for my last PL meet - minus the diuretics - and never again! Yea I made weight, for the sole purpose of taking a crack at a state record, but the cut wrecked me and I didn’t even come close to the total I was shooting for.

OH man! I could not even imagine being able to perform after cutting that type of weight. When I did it I could hardly walk down stairs I was so weak.

[ChrisTuttle]

Hahaha yeah those are all good. I remember at my national qualifier there was a guy barbell squating for his pump up. For one, why the hell do we even have squat rack back here?! lol. Then leg pumping is a no no.

The guy was squatting like 225

HAHHAHAH no way! Why in anyone's right mind would that seem like a good idea?!

[ChrisTuttle]

This isn't really 'contest advice' but I had hired an extremely well known/popular contest prep coach, a 'guru' if you well. I won't mention his name because it's not important to slander, but I guarantee every bodybuilder in here has heard of his name or met him. I had been into serious bodybuilding training about 2 years and decided I wanted to test the waters and do a show. First issue was I was told I'd need to hire him for a full 20 weeks because I was too fat (I had a pretty decent 6 pack, around 10-12% bf). I was new to the sport and didn't really know any better. Then about 10 weeks into the prep, I started getting zero responses. Emails, phone calls, nothing at all. I was just on my own and I had already paid of course for the prep services. Good times

With you not even telling me who it is I think I already know. That kind of crap doesn't just happen once and people talk. Scumbag!

[ChrisTuttle]

Sounds like fun...

I would never ever ever do it again! I was young, stupid, and driven! I lost the stupid part and got old. Now just left with me being driven. Not good enough HAHAH

[ChrisTuttle]

Oh please do, the snippets were great already!!!

I am going to go in crazy detail! A lot of untold things!

[Nmowery]

OH man! I could not even imagine being able to perform after cutting that type of weight. When I did it I could hardly walk down stairs I was so weak.

Yea it totally sucked. I’ve done a couple meets previously where I used a similar approach, but hadn’t cut quite as much, and they were push/pull meets. Last time was a full meet, and I was done for by the time I was done squatting. No more of that nonsense for this guy...

[Rex]

This isn't really 'contest advice' but I had hired an extremely well known/popular contest prep coach, a 'guru' if you well. I won't mention his name because it's not important to slander, but I guarantee every bodybuilder in here has heard of his name or met him. I had been into serious bodybuilding training about 2 years and decided I wanted to test the waters and do a show. First issue was I was told I'd need to hire him for a full 20 weeks because I was too fat (I had a pretty decent 6 pack, around 10-12% bf). I was new to the sport and didn't really know any better. Then about 10 weeks into the prep, I started getting zero responses. Emails, phone calls, nothing at all. I was just on my own and I had already paid of course for the prep services. Good times

The very same thing happened to me, too. With 2 gurus actually. Both very well known... I paid the one guy 3 months in advance and never heard from him again after 4 weeks. The other guy I paid 6 months in advance and never got any response after 6 weeks...

[Rex]

With you not even telling me who it is I think I already know. That kind of crap doesn't just happen once and people talk. Scumbag!

Damn... now I´m really curious if we are actually talking about the same person.

[Rex]

I am going to go in crazy detail! A lot of untold things!

This is going to be good, I´m sure :)

[ChrisTuttle]

Yea it totally sucked. I’ve done a couple meets previously where I used a similar approach, but hadn’t cut quite as much, and they were push/pull meets. Last time was a full meet, and I was done for by the time I was done squatting. No more of that nonsense for this guy...

You must have felt very weak and injury prone, no?

[ChrisTuttle]

The very same thing happened to me, too. With 2 gurus actually. Both very well known... I paid the one guy 3 months in advance and never heard from him again after 4 weeks. The other guy I paid 6 months in advance and never got any response after 6 weeks...

You have no idea how much that bothers me. I hate scumbags and shady mother fuckers who do shit like that. No integrity at all.

[ChrisTuttle]

This is going to be good, I´m sure :)

Yeah man! I am setting it up with my video guy. It is going to be good!