If that's what you want, great – just don't delude yourself that you need to do that to add size, and please, don't try to convince me, either.
Don't get fat in the off-season and then try to convince yourself that you gained muscle, or tell yourself that "It's unhealthy to be that lean all the time" bodybuilding bullshiznit.īulking-up will not improve your physique it will make you bulky. That's an important point that bears repeating: If you compete, then you're a physique competitor if you're a physique competitor, then look the part. With apologies to the contest prep gurus out there who charge by the month, it shouldn't take a quarter of the year to get ready for a show-unless you're too damn fat to begin with. Trust me, six weeks is plenty of time for an athlete that isn't fat to get into contest or photo-shoot shape. Six weeks is much less than the standard pre-contest recommendations of 12-16 weeks that you read about on the web or in muscle magazines (catalogs). Without fail, I always get a look of bewilderment and skepticism, peppered with a touch of mild amusement. When I consult with physique competitors, I usually recommend a six-week contest preparation. You can't judge a book by its cover, but I know an out-of-shape fat bastard when I see one.Įnough with the name calling and finger-pointing this article entails my personal regimen that I used to go from 191 lbs and 8% body fat to 183 lbs and 4.6% body fat in less than six weeks. The strength coaching and fitness industry is overrun with armchair coaches who can't get their clients, much less themselves, in even fairly decent shape. In my mind, to do otherwise is both disrespectful to the client and a huge knock on the trainer's credibility.
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But announcing that you’re jumping the shark doesn’t negate the fact that that’s exactly what you’re doing, especially when it happens in a game as putrid as Tony Hawk: Shred.People part with their hard-earned dollars in exchange for me to tell them how to exercise, eat, and sleep, and it's an honor to have my knowledge held in such high esteem.Ĭoming from a military background, I'm a firm believer in the creed, "a good leader leads from the front." In the strength and conditioning context, that means a good trainer's physique should always reflect the benefits of what he or she teaches. And to be fair, the shark its weirdly frightening the first time you see it, mostly because it’s so unexpected. I think the scene is supposed to be a self-aware acknowledgement, a wink and a nudge to let fans know that there’s still a few spins left in Tony Hawk’s tired tread. The event occurs near the bottom of the Santorini run, when you soar over a small inlet just above the outstretched jaws of what appears to be a leaping Megalodon. That’s more or less the case with Tony Hawk: Shred, where the once-proud franchise unknowingly commented on its own inevitable demise. But it can be downright tragic when the jumper doesn’t get the joke.
Jumping the shark is one of the oldest memes on record and has an appropriately sacred place in the modern pop culture lexicon. The Santorini Shark – Tony Hawk: Shred (Multiplatform) It just had to spew sharks and look cool doing it, biology be damned. Disney’s shark boss didn’t have to swim through a fully rendered 3D aquarium with anatomically accurate animations. The shark boss isn’t all that difficult thanks to a small alcove that served as a strategic choke point, but it does hearken back to a less inhibited era of design, when a shark could be made of more sharks instead of intestines.
The battle takes place in a sunken ship, where a massive shark head periodically appears and spits a school of smaller sharks onto the screen. Though Flounder and Ariel’s escape from a shark makes for a memorable introduction in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the second boss in the Sega Genesis spinoff was a far more fearsome creature. The Shark Boss – Ariel: T he Little Mermaid (Sega Genesis) It speaks to our collective love of the unknown, and it’s always fun when our curiosity gets rewarded with such gargantuan vigor. The Megalodon was discovered after months of collective Internet sleuthing as fans grasped at the tiniest clues in hopes of unraveling a greater mystery. As is so often the case, the story is ultimately more impressive than the fish itself.