Detoxification benefits…High rep sets… Why your lats suck…Lean out lineup

IRON VIC SPEAKS By IRON VIC STEELE

Detoxification benefits…High rep sets…Why your lats suck…Lean out lineup

Mr. Vic,

I wanted to write and tell you how the Parrillo training and nutritional approach has changed my life. I am sure my story of fat-to-fit using Parrillo methods has been told a thousands times in a thousand ways by a thousand Parrillo users, but this is my life and I felt the need to share how I lost 60 pounds of fat in a year, added a bunch of muscle and revitalized my marriage and my life. I had become an embarrassment to myself and my petite wife – though she never said a word and stuck by me as I ate my way into a corner. My doctor shocked me back into reality when he put me on blood pressure meds (at age 38!) and told me I was headed for diabetes. Luckily I came across the Parrillo Performance Press and found out there was a Parrillo Certified Personal Trainer right in my neighborhood. The first few weeks were as difficult physically as anything I had ever done in my sheltered life – however one really overlooked aspect of the Parrillo approach is how good you feel when getting off all the chemicals in all the fake foods and sodas I had been drinking. You guys changed my life!

Bill, San Francisco

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The GH Weapon

The GH Weapon

By JOHN PARRILLO

In this column, I’m pulling out the ultimate weapon — growth hormone. This is the most important hormone if you body-build, acting as a powerful stimulus for muscle growth and fat loss. Many of the effects of exercise in increasing muscle mass and decreasing body fat are mediated by growth hormone.

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Tips and Tidbits March 2012

Training Tip of the month:

Twisting Stretch

Start: Sit on the floor with your legs extended and together. Rotate your body slightly to the right. Facing you, your partner straddles your body just at your thighs. He then places his left hand and left knee under your shoulder. He also loops his right hand under your right shoulder and grasps the inside of his right knee with his right hand.

Stretch: Straightening his right leg and bending his left leg, your partner then pulls up your torso, twisting your body to the right. This position is held for ten seconds. Repeat the stretch for the left side of your body.

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Why Our Fitness Efforts Fail

Why Our Fitness Efforts Fail

Easy training and undisciplined eating are fun, easy -and a complete waste of time

By Duke Nukem

People bitch all the time about how hard and difficult the Parrillo system is. Many people tell us, “If you people (Parrillo trainers) would just make the physical training a little less difficult, if you would allow the nutrition to be a little less demanding and a lot less strict – then you’d be able to get a lot more folks to follow your methods.” Point-in-fact: the demanding, difficult strictness of the Parrillo system is what elicits the results. Everyone else in the wider fitness world purposefully makes fitness easier and more user-friendly in order to make a sale. This is a classic “Devil’s Bargain.” Make any system of fitness purposefully easier in order to appeal to a wider segment of a potential audience and it loses its effectiveness, assuming (and that’s a big assumption) that it had any effectiveness to begin with. Unfortunately easy and physical improvement is an irresolvable contradiction. There is no such thing as an easy dramatic physical transformation. The reason people continually fail in their fitness renovation efforts is they continually buy into the idea that somewhere there exists an effortless way with which to obtain the dramatic changes they seek without the dramatic effort. This is the biggest lie in all of fitness.

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Episode 60: The great ‘how many meals?’ debate

A BODYBUILDER IS BORN: Generations

Episode 60: The great ‘how many meals?’ debate

As a writer for bodybuilding magazines for over twenty years now (don’t ask me where the time went), I’ve had the privilege of being able to speak to all the great champions and learn their personal opinions about training and nutrition. Not long ago, something 4-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler told me got me thinking. Jay feels the need to eat a minimum of four solid meals before he will work out, which has him hitting the gym anywhere from six PM to as late as 10 PM at times. If he can’t get that minimum number in, Jay won’t even train that day as he feels it would be a waste. The quality of the workout would suffer due to insufficient ‘gas in the tank.’ But Ronnie Coleman, 8-Time Mr. O, used to eat just one big breakfast of eggs and cheese and grits before blasting the iron. Arnold Classic Champion Branch Warren eats twice before training. All three of these men have incredible physiques and attacked the weights like ferocious beasts, so which one of them is ‘right’ about how many meals a bodybuilder requires prior to a workout? I think the answer to that depends on various factors.

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Dan Root – Up and Coming MMA Fighter Chris Toland used Parrillo products to pare down Dan from 205 to 169

By Marty Gallagher

The fastest growing sport on the planet is Mixed Martial Arts. MMA grew out of a need to see who were the best fighters and what were the best fighting systems. Up until the advent of the MMA format, anyone could claim anything and fight schools everywhere proclaimed loudly that their style of fighting would and could whip any other style of fighting. This all ended when Rorian Gracie and Art Davey devised the octagon and created an essentially no-holds-barred format and invited loud mouth fight style braggarts to show up or shut up. The Ultimate Fighting Championship was created and soon established what fight styles were most effective and which ones were completely bogus.

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Super Chocolate Brownies by John Parrillo

How to Pick a Trainer by John Parrillo

Diet Do’s and Diet Dont’s by John Parrillo

Push/pull stagnation buster…Machine training percentiles… medical professionals and protein…EFAs and flaky skin… Four plateau busting tricks of the trade

Seasonal Greetings!

I am an advanced trainee looking for something new and different in my weight training. I am sick of all my various routines and strategies, none of which fire me up. As you and I both know (as does anyone that’s been in this game for a long time) the ability to hit a workout with real fire in the gut makes a huge difference. I feel like a guy that has the same six movies and I am tired of looking at the same movies over and over. I have two or three ‘in-season’ routines and two or three ‘off-season’ routines and every one of them seems old and stale. Give me something new and different Maestro!

Baz, Toronto

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