Dante Trudel

Man the main stream media is brutal. I did that HBO Sports interview a few years back and I could tell that was going to be a hit piece. This interview for a major network started out well enough with a softball question and then it quickly went south! Mayday! Mayday! Swipe left

Man Spirit has really expanded their Fitness influencer line this year!!!

There I said it!!!! Don”t kill the messenger!

Thats an easy one. First person that comes to mind....This guy is probably the most underrated poster on Instagram. He puts out great info! I am pretty set in my ways and beliefs and even so I end up agreeing with about 98% of what he posts. We have so many similar views on things. Stretch under load, training in lengthened positions, even protein intake, he just puts out really really good info. Yea @dr_soko definitely deserves a follow from anyone who reads me. He and I talk in PMs a lot and we share pubmed studies. He’s a good dude in my book.

JP knows my frustration with a great deal of what I see out there….

More bodybuilders dying of late and you read the comments and see the repeated “its the vaccine” excuse. Here is some data for you newbie “junkie” bbers who repeatedly love to say that to anyone who will listen so you can inject the turkey baster on Tuesday and not worry about it. Billy Smith, Josef Grolmus, Matt Mendenhall, Matt Porter, Frank Hildebrand, Al Fortney, Brad Hollibaugh, Anthony D’arezzo, Mike Matarazzo, Curtis Leffler, Nasser El Sonbaty, Gregg Kovacs, Matt Duval, Danniel Seccarecci, Ed VanAmsterdam, Gregg Defferro, Vinny Comerford, Hans Hopstaken, Luke Wood, Art Atwood, Derek Anthony, Andreas Munzer, Steve Stone, Dallas Mccarver, Rich Piana, George Peterson, Andy Haman, Scott Klein, Robert Benavente, Trevor Smith, Charles Durr, Alex Azarian, Don Ross, Don Youngblood, Stoili Stoilov, Ed Kawak, Shawn Rhoden, Phil Hernon, David Dearth, Darryl Stafford, Pit Trenz, Shawn Robinson, Joe Deangelis, Sean Jones, Mike Horn, Gustavo Badell and many many others that people do not know about who were amateurs and such. Heart, Kidneys, Clots. Thats just off the top of my head. 46 names. Thats not even close to a full list. Just what i could remember. There are also many still living that have had severe heart damage, bypasses or are surviving with greatly impaired kidneys. All of those names are pre-covid and I included two names that were after covid but who were known to be unvaxxed. In fact most bodybuilders are anti vax. So when you say “its the vax” when most bbers are unvaxxed and have been dying pre covid also,, you make yourself sound like an idiot. The vaccine is a whole other problem altogether but the data doesn’t lie. You newbies who don’t believe bbing was around previous to 5 years ago, are looking stupid. This has been going on for awhile. I believe there was 19-27 bbers and fitness people who died in 2017 alone if i remember correctly. This post is about people using the Vax as an excuse to continue with their own abuse...which is fine if thats how you want to die.. What isnt fine is when you influence others promoting abuse espousing that everything will be ok. Continued in post #2

All you PUBMED influencers who cannot think outside of the pubmed box and chronically approach bodybuilding as a math problem to be solved. Its not a math problem! It never was. This whole volume debate and “THIS IS HOW MANY SETS THAT NEED TO BE DONE FOR EACH BODYPART!” concept that you are so OBSESSED with. Preaching a finite answer even though there isnt one. Here I will give you a simple Q an A. I want every single person reading this to brag and write down the answer to this question as if a local gym member of yours came up to you and asked you “What can you deep leg press for 12 reps?” Go ahead. Write it down on a piece of paper. Don’t lie, write down what you would brag to them. Set that piece of paper aside. Now on your next leg day i want you to go in and warmup progressively on the leg press until you get to that weight you bragged about for 12 reps to the local gym member. And this is where we see who trains hard and who doesn’t train hard. Its real easy to show people how much of a puss they are training wise with this method. Do 30 reps deep leg press with that weight you wrote down that you could do for 12 reps. Anyone reading this that is hardcore can do it. I know they can. Ive seen hardcore battleship lifters do it. I have seen the majority of “candyass” lifters who think they train hard and tell everyone within a miles earshot that they train hard...not even get close to doing it. This is the method. Deep leg press, suck in air all the way down to the bottom of the rep so your back will not round. YOU CANNOT LOCK YOUR KNEES ONE TIME OR YOU HAVE FAILED! YOU CANNOT PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR LEGS AT ANY TIME OR YOU HAVE FAILED! You CAN take as many 5 deep breaths at the top (with knees unlocked and no hands on your knees/legs) as many times as you want until you get to 30 reps. You can wear knee wraps. (Continued in post 2 below)

I have told you guys all my career how to put on muscle at the fastest rate possible training wise (IMO), I have told you guys all my career how to keep muscle mass on TRT (IMO), I have told you guys all my career how to do this endeavor as healthy as possible (IMO) , I have told all you guys how to use certain supplements to keep extremely healthy your whole bodybuilding career (IMO). I have researched and pushed supplements such as Citrus Bergamot, Astragalus and an array of other novel supplements onto the bodybuilding community for decades plus to keep healthy as much as possible. Some of you guys want to use drugs and then without a second thought, USE MORE DRUGS to counteract the side effects of the first drugs until the point you are a walking talking polypharmacy and you think nothing of it. That’s not how i go about things with anyone unless its an absolutely necessity. So i walk my walk. Lipids as always are virtually perfect. (My HDL since my 20’s has always ranged from 36-44, it is what it is). Last bloodwork was 40. Everything else perfect, liver, glucose etc etc etc. The other organ bodybuilders are always destroying besides their hearts/lipids is their kidneys. Again I walk my walk. I did both the calculation of GFR with creatinine (which can vary slightly up and down some) and then the calculation of GFR with Cystatin C which is the gold standard of kidney health stability. Again you can see beyond stellar, because i follow my own advice. So what does that equal out to? Coronary calcium scan to show coronary artery disease/plaque. My previous coronary calcium scores (Zero), I did a coronary calcium score last week at 58 (Zero). If you are 400 plus on a CCS you are pretty much guaranteed a cardiac event in upcoming years. 300 score moderate to severe Coronary artery disease, 100-300 worrisome and need to access risks and monitor, 0-10 you are in a good percentile.

Food for thought…..

If you know you know. Trust me on this, this (bottom two) will in a short amount of time be added to the very compound your sister, mother and everyone is out there using currently….and will be in a very short amount of time be the most WIDELY used compound by virtually everyone in bodybuilding, and fitness (both male and female)….

Friday: Full Back/and one exercise for biceps which is hit 2x a week (full workout for biceps is on Monday) Extreme Stretch for lats at the finish of this workout. I always look forward to this one because as soon as I start hanging i feel my vertebrae ‘decompress’ slightly (from the aforementioned heavy back workout) so that’s always welcome. Now stay with me here. How i did extreme stretches for lats and {shoulder width, more on that below} in my younger years is different than how I do them now. Do you see the pictures if you swipe right? I am cutting off my head so you guys dont lose focus and make fun of my haircuts at the time. The first pic in the white painter pants is I believe 17ish of age or so. See that crazy shoulder width? (NOT). I was extremely narrow across the shoulders. The second pic in the tan addidas shirt is myself when I was 19 or 20 years of age and I had already started lifting. Really not much to work with and at 6 foot 1, a strapping, robust 137-139lbs there with a little less than 13 inch arms and AGAIN narrow shoulders. I knew something needed to be done about this. My first 2.5 years of lifting were spent in libraries and researching any and all things that even remotely related to bodybuilding. I also developed some “theories” that I still believe in to this day. I absolutely believe certain pliable structures skeletal wise can be manipulated before a certain age in a person. You can see this in high school football players who are 180-220lb lineman with a slighter frame in high school who want to succeed in college and maybe the pro ranks. They bulk up to 270-330lb linemen in college and in pro football and that skeletal frame adapts from all that bodyweight and all those heavy weights used. Later on when they take their weight back down to normal standards what do you always see? Their frame NEVER goes back down to that slighter high school football player frame, Their frame is much larger due to all things involved. Continued in post #2 below

Friday: Full Back/and one exercise for biceps which is hit 2x a week (full workout for biceps is on Monday) Exercise #5 Varied exercises but currently its the Hammer Strength rack deads on shrug machine with straight bar. Warmups are progressive 1 X 12, 1 X 9, 1 X 6, 1 X 6, and then an all out set of 12-20 reps (yes 20 sometimes...and yea its hard as hell 14 to the 20th rep). Like i said i am currently doing these but i have done a bunch of different exercises over the years as the last exercise of the day. On back day i like to leave something really hard at the end and then walk out of the gym after (well after stretching but you get the drift) But currently I am doing these right now...Ive done the gamut tho over the years, It could be based on a floor smith deadlift for high reps, a smith rack pull on a step up platform for higher reps, T-bar rows, or a couple exercises it would take me a whole other post to describe here , But it is usually akin to these rack deads on the hammer shrug machine, or something on that similar vein of thought (thickness, traps, rhomboids etc).