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THE 4 D'S MEDIOCRITY TO MUSCLE!

Jeff, many thanks for the story on Steve Gelbond and his amazing transformation in the April 2005 Planet Muscle, (Mediocrity to Muscle). What were Steve’s secrets, his carb sources and the nutritional tips that benefited most? He is truly an inspiration.

We asked the fat loss guru and he responded, “Thanks, I'm writing a follow up story as success is the mental processes that occur in everyone attempting great transformation: These are the Four D’s -- Desire, Decision,Determination, and Discipline, specifically, in that order. Success requires extreme mental application to maximize training intensity and goals. Years ago, everyone trained body parts too frequently. All you need to really know is keep the intensity high, allow lots of time for rest, before you hit that muscle again; about 7 – 10 days. This is what you need to recover from brutal, gut-busting workouts that you must do. For me, to get totally shredded without losing muscle, I had to be on a very high protein (over 500-grams per day), medium carb (about 350-grams), and low fat (about 50-grams). I used primarily natural grain based carbs such as brown rice and oats. I think whole wheat is awesome, if you’re not allergic and it is the best natural source of glutamine in the world! I eat a ton of whole wheat products (bread, tortillas, and cereal).

The issue of steroids? I have consistently observed guys who used to cycle, then stopped for years, and who developed premature low testosterone levels, usually in their 30’s. If that is the case you will need hormone replacement therapy, no ifs, ands, or buts. You may need GH and possibly thyroid. You can get all these legally, from a physician or with some risk, you can snub our arcane laws about them and save yourself a bunch of money and get them elsewhere, after having your levels checked. Don’t believe the bullshit ads about boosting your hormone levels naturally. If you are going to take drugs to help your body then I believe you should take the ones that we know the most about and have standardized their pharmacological dosing. Don’t feel bad about taking hormones, barring predisposed cancer or heart conditions (excluding chronic, high dosage use of oral androgen steroids), hormone replacement therapy may improve your vigor, health, and well-being and it might make you live longer, indirectly as a result of the immediate benefits. Most of us wouldn’t even have made it to be this old if it had not been for medical intervention at some point in our lives (usually antibiotics).

Regardless of how feel about it, you cannot make great progress in bodybuilding without physiologically normal levels of testosterone, growth hormone, and thyroid. Finally, you better have your life stable and low stress or you can forget about making good bodybuilding gains. I have added more muscle and I will get the story up and send in some pictures that will be just as impressive as my first before and after ones that appeared in the article. This time around it’s about putting on mass! For gaining, you don’t need nearly as much protein as when cutting. I eat lots of carbs and fats, which are protein sparing naturally. I eat about 250 grams of protein per day when my calories are high and I have made great gains. I am meticulous about timing of the protein and the quality … you know take in a bunch of protein rich in branched chain aminos, glutamine, and arginine before you train (don’t worry, you will still be absorbing it when you finish your training). Get up in the middle of the night and take in something with both micellar casein and whey and then just eat a lot of good foods in the day without trying to force feed your body with overloads of protein.

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