I worked really late last night – almost 7am this morning, actually. So, I slept a little longer than usual and didn’t get up until about 1pm. In typical Skip fashion I come downstairs and grab my coffee and my phone and head back up the stairs to my bathroom hoping to get there before I shit my pants from the smell of the coffee. If you are old you understand what I am saying.
I get to my special room and I set down my coffee and phone on the table because …. well … I have a table in my bathroom to hold my coffee, phone, Kindle, book or whatever else I may need to set on a table. Don’t hate, I’m just planful like that.
The first thing I do after turning on my phone is check my email and I saw that Jeb Roberts from MuscleMag had emailed me twice. Because I have been anxiously waiting to hear if he thought my articles sucked or not, I wake myself up very quickly by reaching down into the toilet to get my hands wet and splashing water on my face. Ok, I didn’t really do that and I have no idea where that came from. Anyway …..
The point is that he says that he is interested in my writing for MuscleMag.com and liked both articles that he had seen – one being contest prep related and the other was my typical rant-style writing which, as most of you know, I prefer to do over the other boring stuff. Well, boring to me, anyway. I get bored if I am not offending or berating someone. It sounds like the rants may be monthly with a contest prep article interspersed here and there.
Honestly? I am so excited I could shit myself. I am still laughing at the thought of getting paid for writing. Of course, I am not laughing so hard that I can’t cash the checks but you get my point. There is something very flattering to me about someone thinking enough of my writing to think I deserve to get paid for it.
Of course, the big test is if the MuscleMag.com audience likes my stuff or not. If they don’t I will obviously belittle and berate them, as well, and get paid for THAT article, too. It’s a win win for me.
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If you are going to sell steroids and GH to your “friends” you should know a few things:
1. Don’t get caught because it is a felony and can and likely will end you up in jail these days.
2. Ripping off your “friends” by charging them 2 and 3 times the cost will likely only make them mad when they find out and make them that much more likely to roll on you or tell others in the gym and you just don’t want too many people knowing you are committing felonies.
3. Do NOT sell to your cop “friends”. I wouldn’t even talk about it with them as they likely won’t approve of what you are doing. It is highly recommended that you hide this part of your life (along with a lot of other parts of your life) from those particular friends.
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Yeah, you might be mad because I haven’t blogged in while but … you miss me…. you love me. Don’t lie. So, I’m back for a little lovin’. Gonna pass out some love or … not so much, depending on whether you are on the receiving end or not. Hey, we can’t all be liked. Trust me, I know this all too well.
I have been on a bit of a hiatus from writing simply because I am pissed. I am pissed that as much as I love to write and as incredibly entertaining as I can CLEARLY be, I can’t get a writing gig to save my ass. No, other people are getting them and not just getting them but getting paid and paid well. If I told you how much you would be shocked… just like I was. I have people around me that write for Muscle and Fitness, MuscleMag, FLEX magazine and even websites like T-nation. Truth is, writing for websites is certainly the way to go because every month the magazines get more and more outdated. You think I could get one of these gigs? NOPE. The phone hasn’t exactly been ringing off the hook.
Now, I understand that I don’t usually write “factual” type articles that explain how fats work or how to load carbs and … you know … boring shit like that. I like to write about the incredibly fucked up sport that I love so much and the incredibly fucked up people in it. Is that SOOO bad? Ok, I swear a lot, too. Big fucking deal. Everyone swears. And those that don’t, should. Watch, I will prove it: If said to you: “Wow, that girl was hot” you wouldn’t give it much thought, I don’t think. However, if I said to you “that bitch is so fucking hot” wouldn’t that make you look around and try to find out who I am talking about? My point is made yet again.
I am pretty sure I could curb my swearing if I needed to (translated for you slow fuckers: if I am PAID to). I don’t HAVE to swear, I just enjoy it. I would just keep a thesaurus minimized and while typing my little story I could reference other words to replace the swear words. Piece of fucking cake. Oops, I meant to say “No problem”. See? Not as entertaining or eye-catching but … doable…. for the right price.
And even though I would stick to the same things that I like to write about – fucked up people in the sport and how they act, I could write story after story about that because there never seems to be a shortage of people that act stupid around me. I see it at the gym when nutritionists/prep guys fight over clients and pretend they are connected to the political side of the sport, swaying clients to work with them because if they don’t, they won’t place as high. Or, I could write about the ridiculous amount of start up nutritionists and “prep guys” that make up a cute little business name and then pretend to have a business until it comes tax time and then …. what business? I was just pretending!! And then they take their monthly payments and treat themselves to an expensive steakhouse dinner and maybe buy a bag for their wife that costs more than their monthly house payment. The list goes on and on and the material would have me paid for a while, I am sure. I didn’t even mention the friends that pretend to be entrepreneurs and big business owners (is there a trend among people in this sport to pretend to own businesses? Yes, yes there is) and yet haven’t ever succeeded in any of these ventures. Fake people in this sport?? REALLY?? Liars?? People with no self-respect?? A never-ending sea of lying pieces of shit. Am I jaded?? NAAAHHHH….. 27 years of this sport and you see it for what it is – a sea of shit it can sometimes seem to be. I have been chastised for the things I say, sometimes, and for calling a drunk asshole a drunk asshole. I am not always the guy with the most tact BUT …. I don’t LIE. I don’t pretend to be someone I am not. If I have ever called you out or told someone something about you that you didn’t like, you are just mad because it is TRUE. Don’t hate ME, hate yourSELF. Who are you fooling? I am only pointing out the obvious.
Still, there are shining moments when you meet someone that hasn’t been covered in the shit, yet. There are definitely good people in this sport. They just don’t get noticed as much as the turds. It’s kind of like if you were to come up on this beautiful blue swimming pool on a 100 degree day and all you notice is the giant turd floating in the middle. Kinda ruins the whole thing, right? EXACTLY. One lousy turd gets all of the attention. Thing is, talking or writing about these people is nowhere near as entertaining. Am I always this negative? Certainly not. In fact, anyone that knows me well knows that I am very blessed and happy with my life, business (you know, a REAL one), family, etc.. It’s just that I’m getting old and you know how those old people get: They get BITCHY. I’m turning into a bitchy old man. And all I want do is write about it so that I have a place to vent. A place to get my therapy.
So, if you know someone that needs a writer for a website or a magazine, you just be sure to tell them, matter of factly, that …. you don’t know of anyone. 
The Skipper
I say “guinea pig” but I don’t want to give you the wrong idea. I absolutely believe that what I am going to try with some clients has the potential to not only work but also it will give me a chance to really look at dieting from a completely different angle and either dispel a myth or two or … back up a concept of dieting and solidify it as legit. As most of you know, I love taking things that should or shouldn’t work and seeing for myself if it works or not. Most people read it in a book or hear it from someone else and I am just not wired like that.
I won’t give away exactly what I am going to do, in detail, here in my blog but I will give you an idea of what I am after so that you can see if you are interested in being a part of this or not. I gave away 11 hours of footage for the DVD for free but this won’t be given away for free. It will, however, be pretty inexpensive for anyone that might want to take part. I think it is going to work well so …. if I am right, each person will not only get in shape and get tight as hell but …. learn a little something in the process that is not exactly a method for dieting that is along the beaten path. If I am just flat out wrong, I will change your plan in as little as the first month and get you lean, anyway, with my usual methods.
Essentially, I am going to get between 5 and 10 guys (not sure exactly how many just yet) to work with me for 3 months. I need those guys to want to get lean and/or ripped up as opposed to wanting to get huge and add a lot of muscle. Obviously, I am going to keep your muscle as we diet you down but I am just saying that I need guys that need or want to lose body fat vs. someone that wants to get huge for this experiment. I will work with you as a full time client just as I would anyone else that is working with me EXCEPT that I won’t be answering questions and teaching. I will simply be working with you to get results and that will be our primary focus. It is essentially an ECON plan, in that the teaching won’t be there like it would be if you were a regular, top-dollar client. Still, the results should be the same, in the end.
The cost of this 3 month run with me would be only $200. I realize that this is only a fraction of what I normally charge but the reason is because I can’t charge full fees when I am not exactly sure what the results will be. I am confident that the method will work or I wouldn’t be putting this out there but …. to what degree and how WELL it works is the part that I have to figure out and to figure it out, I need a small group of people to compare results with at the end of the 3 months.
I would want to start this in 1 week so basically I will fill the spots and get everyone set up to start this on Monday, March 7th. If you are interested, contact me asap because I am going to fill these spots as fast as I can.
Thanks!
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Just wanted to give a quick glimpse into one of my client’s off season progress. I won’t mention when he will compete but I will just say that he competed last May at 224 and in these pics he is 300.4 about halfway through the day. That puts him at a true weight in the a.m. of 292. He should hit 300 for a true weight in about 1.5 months – MAYBE 2 months. The next time you see me post anything about him or hear about him it will be after he gets off stage.
This is gonna be fun.
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I know, I know, another update only to tell you that it isn’t launched yet. I am pretty clear that there is some frustration with the DVD not being launched yet but this is another good example of why it hasn’t launched yet: We have added even more information to the damned thing. After I finished my show this last Saturday I thought it might be nice to actually include some prep information in the DVD, after all. I had no plans to include any prep information and have posted many times about not having anything prep related in this DVD. The premise of the DVD is that it is about being in the sport a long time and how to train and compete into your late 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.. However, I thought the timing was good and it would be appreciated by a lot of people if I detailed the final week of my prep for this last show.
I am detailing my final week on a daily basis that breaks down how I train the last week, what my diet was like, how I loaded, why I loaded the way I did, supplementation and much, much more. In just the prep chapter alone I had something like over 4gb of footage that will likely not be edited down much, if at all. That is A LOT of information and that is only the one chapter.
I also feel that it is important to continue to note that this DVD is being released FOR FREE for anyone that wants to view it. I have been hearing that a lot of people don’t even know this for some reason. I have posted and blogged about it quite a bit but figured I better keep announcing it so that everyone knows that all of this information is being provided for free. Right now we have what is the equivalent of more the 4 DVDs worth of footage and information that will be released, again, FOR FREE.
The DVD is being edited and re-edited as I type this and we are working hard to get this EXACTLY the way we want it before it is released. It is a huge project so please continue to be patient and know that when it does come out, it will be a quality production that will provide a TON of information. Again, all FOR FREE.
Please stay tuned for updates and I will work to keep you all informed as to the progress and of the release date.
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