Oh, I hope you have the time because I have a lot of shit on my brain. I gotta clear my head of everything that has gone on this weekend with the Mr. Olympia, my predictions, my bad attitude and the people that I have offended that can kiss my ass, etc.. Oh yeah …..
What do you want from me? I was wrong about Phil. He took 5th place so my prediction of him winning this show was way off. I am not embarrassed about being off with my prediction as much as I am, for the first time, a little embarrassed about my big, fat mouth. I forgot arrogant – My big, fat, arrogant mouth. Now, as most of you know or are finding out, Phil got sick Thursday night and was barfing his guts out. I have not talked to Phil or anyone that was with him (Hany, Dylan, etc..) but from what I am hearing he was pretty damned sick. Does that matter with his placing? Um, not at all. Is it incredibly unfortunate because MAYBE he could have been tighter? Of course. Am I gonna cry about his situation for the next year about how he should have and could have won if he weren’t sick? I am not like that. He took 5th and I was wrong – game over….. Well, almost. Unfortunately, there is more. *sigh*
In my position as owner of IM and being a prep guy that is known to be a little cocky and arrogant at times, I had what I consider a revelation or epiphany of some sort this past weekend. With all of the hype of the Olympia and the expo and all of my friends in Vegas except me (why in the hell wasn’t I there??? I still don’t know), I was just sitting here doing battle on other message boards and after battling or cheerleading or riding Phil’s nuts – whatever you want to call it, it occurred to me that I really just need to shut my fucking mouth sometimes. I know, hard to believe? Can I actually do it? ha It will be quite a task but … I do think that some restraint is in order.
See, I have kind of been hyped up about Phil because I saw Phil pretty much once a week for the entire time he prepped for this show. I spoke with him frequently and knew a bit about his prep and what he was doing with his training. No secrets but the basics. So, when I give my opinion on the boards about the condition Phil is in, I get frustrated when my opinion is blown off by someone that lives in the middle of Kansas and saw a couple pics of another competitor, 5 months ago and SWEARS that his guy is going to destroy Phil, blah, blah, blah. In seeing Phil so much and knowing him for a while now, ok, I wanted to see him do well and I really thought this year was the year he was going to win it all. I understand COMPLETELY that people have their favorites and they are very loyal and stand by them no matter what. When they place low they say that their guy got screwed or it was politics, etc.. Problem with favorites is that people find it hard to judge them without bias. We will always put our favorites higher than their actual placing because …. well… they’re our favorite.
So, I have ventured out to this other board to stick up for Phil because there are a lot of haters out there and I get involved in a pissing match. They seem to find me. It is like I am a turd (metaphorically speaking, of course) just sitting there minding my own business and then one by one these damned flies start landing on me, taking their turn. I swear when I go to another board it is like someone calls ahead and says “Yeah, that Skip fucker is on his way over so you guys should all pile on and fuck with him because he isn’t at home at IM.” If I remember correctly I was called several names including a “ball-sack licker”. I don’t know, if you don’t agree with me or even if you think I am arrogant… a “ball-sack licker??” I mean, how fucking old are we here? I don’t expect anyone to bow down to me no matter what board I am on but .. come on, now … a ball-sack licker. So, I just couldn’t argue my point anymore. Once I get called a ball-sack licker I just have to stop arguing with you and re-evaluate my life for a bit.
What got me in trouble in this pissing match is that I forgot that I was at another board and I also tend to forget that when you step into or onto other boards you almost have “territorial issues”. It is almost as if you have the regulars and the vets and different clicks and my arrogance doesn’t go over too well when I am giving my opinion without being asked for it. See, in my blog and on my site (IM), people want my opinion and that is why they come to IM or they read my blog entries. Obviously it isn’t the only reason but it is still a reason. When I call it like I see it on a show or someone’s condition it is easy for me to simply say what it is on my mind and not give it too much thought. On these other boards I have to remember that if Phil is my favorite there are going to be others that don’t like him but might be Kai fans. I decided that I would be better off just keeping my mouth shut in the future about who is going to win and how Phil will do, etc.. I figured out that Phil doesn’t need a cheerleader and that his physique can speak for itself just fine.
As for the Olympia itself I don’t know what to say. I absolutely love that they seem to finally be rewarding condition on a pretty consistent basis, at least this year. I figured Rockell would be in there with Hyundiasushi or whatever that Japanese guy’s name is. Here are my notes for what it’s worth:
Jay – crazy. Nothing can be said, really. A well deserved win. He shut a LOT of people up this weekend. Branch – love him. love the work ethic and he certainly has the hardcore crowd on his side, conditioning was off the fucking hook and size to spare. I just couldn’t believe that he was second place. He beat the Mr O from last year? However, the judging is the judging and it is done. I just want to go on record as saying that I just love the guy but was shocked that he got second place. Dexter – I just don’t know how he took third to Branch. He was in incredible condition, as usual. Kai – His physique is damned good. I can’t get over his off stage antics and I won’t anytime soon. I am the type of person that I don’t like it when people do things that would or could shed light on bodybuilding in a negative way. Everyone that likes Kai feels like it is a “feel good story” for some reason due to him being an orphan or something and finally “making it”. He made it with fruit for money. I am sorry – yes, we all have shit that we have done that we wish we could take back. That was just classless and it is typical of a bodybuilder who feels that getting a regular job like the rest of us is below him. For those that think he is a great guy, I respect your opinion so please respect mine when I say that I think he is classless. Phil – enough said. Victor – I thought sixth place was a gift. Again, just my thoughts because his conditioning was terrible. I think it was put very well when someone said that they were just impressed he showed up, at all, given the death in the family. My hat is off to him. Rockel – 7th place is pretty damned good. I had him in sixth but …. I suck. Tony Freeman – I like his look but he still needed to be harder. He wants to beat Victor and may have if he were harder. Yamikusushi or whatever his name is – looked great and condition was incredible. Mo – I had Ruhl in the 10 spot but I am not going to spit on the judges for this one. Wolf – I was a little harsh on the board saying he needs a new prep guy but .. he does. Either that or Chad better get him taken care of because he hasn’t the last two years. He has a ton of yet untapped potential and until he gets into the condition that he needs to be in, no one will know how high he can place.
I think I am cutting it shorter than I had anticipated because I am tired as hell. In summary, I am going to be posting at IM more due to not being on other boards (other than RxMuscle because of my thread in the prep forum). You can still tune into my blogs for my fat, arrogant mouth providing my opinions on a regular basis. That will not ever change. What will change is that you won’t find me being such a big mouth on other boards.
Skip

It’s been a while so for those that follow my blogs regularly, I apologize for the delay. I had a lot on my plate the last couple weeks and have been having a hard time with the direction of my training and goals right now which brings me to the topic of this blog entry and it is called “I am old and I fucking cannot stand it”. The decisions that I have been making in my training and diet the last 8 weeks or so have been, at best, stupid, so I thought I might try to help out anyone else that may be in my shoes.
Here is the issue: I am a competitor. I am going to compete until the day I die. Now, that might be on stage at some point or it might just be with myself in the gym to see what I can continue to accomplish. No matter, though, I will continue to be competitive until the day I die. My big mistake was that in setting my goals for the next couple years I was trying to take an approach of a 25 year old. I can beat 25 year olds and I have beaten many of them. I am stronger than most 25 year olds and I am bigger, as well. Bitch is, I don’t have the innards of a 25 year old. I admitted it. It pains me but I admitted it. I feel quite a bit like I did when I sold my last Ninja and bought a minivan. There is something “old” about selling a sport bike and then hopping into your minivan and driving off. That is how I felt this weekend when I realized that my approach to the next couple years wasn’t logical and I admit that I was embarrassed because if anyone should know better, it would be me.
See, I want to still get bigger and stronger and … you know, offseason, meathead stuff. I want to move weight that I haven’t moved before and I want to be bigger when I step on stage again either next year or the year after. Isn’t that what everyone that competes wants? I have a small problem or obstacle, though, and that is I am coming up on forty years old and even more important that coming up on forty years old is that I have been training for twenty six years. I don’t think age means anywhere near as much as the amount of time you have been training. Forty isn’t that old until you factor in the twenty six years of training. I have forty year old muscle that is ready to rock and roll. Bitch is, everything that holds the muscle to the bone feels like it is eighty years old.
Repetition, in and of itself, is degenerative. You can squat perfectly and do deads perfectly but if you do them for twenty six years your joints are going to wear down. Cartilage starts to disappear and things like tendonitis seem much more common. I have been blessed with a relatively low amount of injuries over the years. Yes, I have battled with lowerback issues until this last year but other than a bicep pull in 2002 I have been bothered with only very minor injuries. As I get older, though, I FEEL every rep so much more than I used to. Muscle feels the same but knees and elbows and shoulders and even ankles are giving me problems almost all the time. Just recently I did something to my foot/ankle that made me limp for over 4 weeks. Even taking time off from the gym didn’t help it. Eventually, it started to get better pretty much on it’s own. I still don’t know what the hell I did to it.
In typical fashion I am sure you are wondering where I am going with all of this. See, I started to go down this path the last couple months with the plan of gaining some weight, going back to basics with my diet and making a pretty solid run to “bulk” for lack of a better term. I was going to go against the advice that I give to everyone about staying healthy and keeping your weight in check and making solid but slower gains. I just wanted to get away from dieting for a while and get away from shaving, tanning, cardio, etc.. I think I was kind of burned out after overdieting for my last show in May. I experiment all the time, as most of you know, so I was justifying this by saying to myself that I haven’t given this a shot since before 2002 and maybe I should give it another go and see how much size I could put on. I am sitting here at 240 and none-too-pleased with my current condition and health.
First, my strength is up big time. I love it. I am a low carb guy but the last couple months I have been so damned full from carbs that in the gym I just feel like my skin will split from the pumps. I feel great in the gym but …. shitty the other 22 hours of the day. I am putting up weights that I haven’t put up in a year or so and probably would blow by old PRs very soon. What is the problem? My joints can’t take it. My shoulders feel as if I might blow a pec at any point or on any rep. My knees? Don’t make me laugh. To say they are terrible is a gross understatement. I actually had to stop a quad session last week after the second set of squats had my right knee in pain. I tried to work through it and it wouldn’t let me.
Second, my condition is horrendous for what Skip is known for (sorry for the third person reference). I actually am uncomfortable with anyone seeing me without my shirt where usually I could care less. I have nerve pain from shingles, as most of you know, so when I am home working I never have a shirt on because it hurts my back. I will see one of my kid’s parents coming to the door and I have to jump out of my seat and put on a shirt to answer the door. God forbid someone see me in this condition. I have a gut that is so full of farts that I look seven months pregnant. Hell, I have to take a shit before I train for fear that if I don’t, I will pull something in my back. Sad? Just a little.
Lastly, and the most important to me, is that my health is not good. I am not going to die tomorrow (I don’t think) but I feel like my heart could blow out of my chest at any minute. I feel like Ricky Lake after going up even one flight of stairs. I think I breath easier when squatting than I do coming up from the basement. I had to go to the Doctor a couple weeks ago and for only the second time in my life my blood pressure was high. It was 147 over 98. That’s right, Satan had a grin on his face as I felt I had one foot in the grave. I can’t fit my fat ass in any of my clothes and when a 3X shirt is not nice and loose and comfortable, it is time to rethink your strategy.
I am not too proud to admit that I fucked up. I had this twenty something mentality that I was going to go back to basics, eat my ass off, train my ass off and gain some much wanted size. My new plan? VERY simple. I am going back to Skip training. I am stripping the fat, getting back in the tanner (I actually look white now) and I plan to shave this fur …. thing ….. that I have going on. Oh, and I am going to fire up the elyptical and start sweating my fat ass off on a daily basis again. I just can’t take it anymore and I feel like shit. I am constantly in a bad mood and I am sure it is related. It would have been so much easier had I made this decision after my last show and just stayed lean but … live and learn, I guess. I probably won’t make big gains this offseason but the truth is, I just don’t fucking care. Well, I don’t care about the gains more than I care about my health and how I look and feel. I feel my best when I am lean and in shape. My health is best at that point, as well.
I am coming up on forty, I have four kids and I have a successful business and a great wife. I am bigger than 98% of the people out there and even without making big gains I can compete successsfully at the state and regional level at any point. Hell, maybe I will do what I did in 07 and just decide to do a show 5 weeks before and then win my class. What I do know is that tomorrow is going to start a phase of my training that will have me much happier and healthier than I feel today. I am done with the size game. I have tried that game for 26 years and still haven’t won. I am now playing the “be ripped and healthy all the time and make people stare at you” game.

Skip

Boy, if I didn’t have any friends before some of my earlier blogs, I am REALLY going to lose them with this one. I have put this blog off for so long thinking that it wouldn’t be necessary but the truth is, I just can’t get around it. I owe it to myself and the people that are being lied to, to put this information out there for all to read and then decide what to do with it. If you still think I am a shady serpent and you most avoid me at all costs, so be it. However, at least you will be able to hear the other side and not just the lies that are being told about me and about the situation for the past year.

Here goes and I will work hard to keep this as short as possible and I plan to take this down after a short period of time so that all can read this that matter and then it comes down. I don’t want to clutter my blog with bullshit like this. The people that come to read my blog don’t deserve to have to sift through all of the shit:

Cameron Bodner worked for me under the TEAMSKIP name doing some prep work with female clients for what I believe to be about a year, give or take a few weeks. The name of their training was called TEAMSKIPdivas. This was a made up name (not a business name) for publicity so that we could promote the female side of TEAMSKIP. TEAMSKIP is a legitimate corporation in Colorado and is in good standing. It can be publicly referenced or checked at any time by pretty much anyone that wants to check on it. TEAMSKIPdivas is not a business of itself and was never owned by Cam despite both Cam and Tracy referring to that business name as theirs in online biographies and in talking with other people and clients. They simply did training under the name TEAMSKIPdivas.

I provided Cam a private forum at IntenseMuscle.com to train these clients and promote TEAMSKIP. I turned clients towards him that would approach me by saying that I had someone else that did the female training for me and to contact Cam at blah,blah, blah email address. I gave Cam TEAMSKIP t-shirts to give to his clients that were doing local shows so much that I would bet the total would have been over 80 shirts in total, for free. In fact, let’s get this straight right now: I never charged Cam a dime for anything. I didn’t charge him for the private forum, I didn’t charge him for the shirts, I didn’t have him pay any sort of commission fee and when he organized a 20 some client dinner after a show and it was me who paid for the dinner. His clients that were there will vouch for this. He paid for NOTHING, EVER. I offered him to train females for me for two reasons: 1. Because they were friends of ours and I felt it would help to get him more exposure because he didn’t have a website to work from and 2. Because I felt that with their (Tracy too) energy it would help to get TEAMSKIP even more exposure in an area that I was neglecting because I wasn’t training many females at the time. Now, it is important to note that I didn’t train females at the time out of choice, not because I didn’t know how to train women. I know that seems absurd and you might wonder why I would make that statement but you will find out later in this blog why I made that statement.

So, after things started out well, they started to go downhill quickly.

I started getting concerns from his clients that I thought were small issues at the time and didn’t really think much of it. It wasn’t until months down the road that things started to surface. See, when you work a regular job and then try to keep up with client work it sometimes takes a while to get a response to a client with a question but it shouldn’t take 4 days and this was happening on a regular basis and I started to hear this from clients. I also was hearing that clients were feeling that they were being over-charged and that the fees weren’t discussed clearly and would end up to be much more than they were quoted. About this same time Cam was starting to treat my business, TEAMSKIP, as if it were somehow his. I was getting argued with about things that were none of his business and I was constantly reminding him that it wasn’t his business or his decision, it was mine.

Fast forward to this time last year and the shit hits the fan. This is the part that all of Cam and Tracy’s friends and clients both past and present need to read very carefully. I am going to very clear on what happened and it is going to contradict what Cam has been saying for quite some time. You can read this and figure out who to believe now that you have both sides to the story. Honestly, I don’t give a shit who you believe – what I care about is that everyone has the other side of the God damned story. I have been played as a “serpent” and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. When you play with someone’s livelihood and business, you get shit-canned. I think it was just hard for a control freak to realize that he had been fired – plain and simple and he was PISSED about it. Here is what went down:

With all of the problems I was hearing about, I figured there were many more that I wasn’t hearing about. I went into the forum that I provided for Cam and started checking on how he was treating clients and what was going on. Remember, it was and is my fucking business (TEAMSKIP) and it was and is my fucking board (IntenseMuscle.com). Contrary to stupid rumors, I have not sold IntenseMuscle.com and I won’t be selling it at any point in the future. I am one of two owners of the board – period. I don’t know how that could have been misconstrued but it was by someone, somewhere, and apparently it just grew from there. I have free reign to go anywhere I want to on my site and I don’t have to ask permission from anyone – especially Cam – for whom I provided this forum to. The things I found were incredibly unnerving to me, the owner of the business that Cam was a representative of. Please note: I have the ENTIRE forum archived at IntenseMuscle.com. I can pull it out at anytime that someone wants to consider calling me a liar and show exactly what clients were saying and the lapse in time for responses to clients of 3 and 4 days at a time, etc.. So, before someone starts running their mouth about something that isn’t true, just know that I can back up what I am saying and will, if need be.

I found issue after issue but for the sake of keeping this blog to only about 10 pages I will use just one: A client was ready for a big show out of state and at about the 3 week out mark, the client was told that they owed another 800 bucks. The client is, of course, freaked out because they can’t afford that and it is only 3 weeks out from the show when it is sprung on them. The client argues that the fees were already discussed and that this is what is owed but “don’t stress over it now – We will get it figured out when you get back” was the response the client received. I am sure that left the client pretty calm and unstressed at that point before such a big show. Oh, this wasn’t the only one. There are many stories like this and some of their past clients might be reading this knowing that they, too, were scammed or bilked out of extra money. Jerryme was treated the same way with the same story and all of the threatening to “beat his ass” by any Scratchy Package client is laughable – especially when it comes from someone weighing about 100 pounds less than Jerryme. However, considering the source, I was not surprised.

One of the big issues that needed to be discussed was that clients were admitting that they were provided “supplements” from them that I had a HUGE fucking problem with because they were not a formal business and they were working under my name so had they gotten in legal trouble it would have been terrible for my business name and reputation. Was this true? I never got to talk to Cam about it. He wouldn’t talk to me about anything.

I needed to talk with Cam about this stuff and find out how to remedy the situation or what his side of the story was so I called him and asked if he could meet me the following weekend which was actually Labor Day weekend. I tried to downplay it on the phone and act like it was no big deal but control freak Cam had to press me for the details of why I wanted to sit down with him but I just kept saying it was no big deal and that we just needed to talk about some business stuff. This was on a Monday. I called him a couple times as the week went on because I wanted to be sure that he was going to meet me and not cancel due to it being Labor Day weekend and he kept saying that he would. We get to Friday and I am on IntenseMuscle.com and notice Cam in the forum I provided for him deleting threads. He is deleting entire threads at a time and I am watching thinking “what the fuck is this clown doing????” See, it is a rule that nothing is deleted on the IM site, ever. He was a mod and so was Tracy and they both knew this. If someone (mod) were getting rid of something, it was to be archived, never deleted. Yet, Cam is in this forum deleting client threads one by one. I got on my phone to call him and after a few attempts he was not answering his phone. At this point I am beginning to think that he knows what I am going to talk to him about and is just plain pissed about me questioning him (control freaks are like that) and has decided: “fuck it, I am deleting everything” and goes into the forum to get rid of everything all the while not answering his phone when I am calling him. So, I banned him and Tracy right there. Why? SO THAT IT WOULD STOP HIM FROM DELETING ANYMORE OF THE THREADS UNTIL I COULD TALK TO HIM AND FIND OUT WHAT THE FUCK HE WAS DOING. It was the only way for me to stop him from deleting information on my site. Some may not understand this so I want to be very clear here because Cam didn’t get it either: Anything and everything on that site is mine. It is property of IntenseMuscle.com as soon as you post it. Everything in the forum that I provided for Cam was mine and property of me – plain and simple. If you don’t understand that, I don’t know what else to say that will convince you of this but it is fact and if you don’t believe me, go talk to an attorney. They will tell you what I just said. I think when you pretend to own a business vs. actually owning one (or two in my case) you just don’t know what is legal and what isn’t. Example: Making money without being a legitimate business but using a business name is illegal. The IRS doesn’t like that kind of thing.

Now, after the “banning”, Cam decides that he won’t answer his phone that night and all the next day. He did finally call me and leave me a message saying he was pissed that I banned him and acting as if “who the fuck did I think I was”. That part was laughable. However, it was typical of Cam because he always treated my business as if it were his. Now the game that Cam is playing is “ignore Skip”. This is another control freak trait. So, you think he would meet me? Of course not. I had to fire him via email and I still have the email to prove this and I will post it in it’s entirety, if someone wants to call me out on that, too. Even after firing him, a couple weeks go by and I figure that maybe he is just stubborn and maybe I should give him the chance to still meet and get this figured out to at least salvage the friendship even if we can’t salvage it from a business standpoint. He still was playing control freak and not returning any of my calls or emails. Finally, I just had to drop it because he wasn’t going to say anything…. until I cornered him at the gym a few months later and we finally got to talk. The talk was nothing but frustrating and was filled with things like this: “You didn’t fire me because I didn’t work for you” and things like denying that I sent any emails or made any calls. It was pretty pathetic. No accountability at all but consider the source.

Another fast forward to the months following all of this and the lies that are being told to his clients and “friends” it comes to the point where I have to post this to set the record straight.

They (Cam and Tracy) did not leave IM on their own. I fired Cam so they pretend that they left on their own. I offered to reinstate them as mods if he could give me a good reason why he was deleting all of those threads and he refused to so they remained banned.

Another lie is that I was going through Cam’s forum “learning how to prep women”. This is easily the most arrogant thing to come out of his mouth and maybe the funniest. For the life of me I can’t figure out why he would say this or think that anyone would ever believe this. Skip needs to figure out how some low-ball, 3rd tier trainer that I hired to work for ME, knows so much more than I do. Obviously, I thought he was good at what he did at that point in time or I wouldn’t have asked him to train people under my business name.  At the same time, I should have seen the red flags like when he wouldn’t ever  get into a discussion on any board about nutrition or supplementation because he doesn’t have the knowledge to discuss and debate these topics. I challenge anyone to go to any board and search on Cam’s posts and find even 3 posts that he discussed anything nutrition or supplementation related, in depth, or more than a 6 word response. He probably has 20k posts on more than 7 boards so take my challenge and see what you come up with. There will be nothing. Of course, most of Cam’s clients won’t be surprised because they never had things explained to them, either. Just another complaint that was received on my end of things last year. I guess people figured that my reputation was important to me and thank God they contacted me to let me know. I have heard that they are still doing the same shit and just lost two long time clients this last month that went to Dillon Armbrust at Armbrust Pro. I am not surprised, at all, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I am blamed for them leaving, as well.

When it is said that I “stole” clients from Cam, that is also an exaggeration of epic proportions. I think this one was just plain desperation. He had nothing else to say after I fired him so this is likely the best that he could do. He must have thought it would make sense because of me checking up on clients in the forum that I provided him. What REALLY happened was that the people that were unhappy with the way that Cam treated them (6 or 7 clients were leaving at the same time after complaining about everything from them changing fees to how they were ignored), decided to up and leave and it was me who ran them down apologizing for Cam’s behavior and offered to train those clients for pennies on the dollar if they wanted to stay under the TEAM SKIP name vs going to train with someone else. Some stayed and some left. The ones that stayed I took on as clients. When you own your own business (a legitimate one), you do things like this to “make it right” with your clients that feel they were shit on under your business name.

Another thing to address is the Luis Santa video: Brandon did that video to give Luis some exposure after winning the Rocky in 08. When he did it he was going to put it on IntenseMuscle.com and I asked Luis if he also wanted it on my new site: teamskip.net as I was just getting it finished up and it would add content to my featured athlete section. I felt it would give Luis some added exposure and his video sitting next to a professional football player might not be too bad, either, for him. Add to this that my site is badass and kept current and sits at the top of google search engine and it is a good place for him to have his video seen by a lot of people. He was all for it and gave permission for this. Read that again if you missed the permission part. He raved about the video to friends and family. I thought it was great and I was happy that Luis liked it. So, to the Cam camp that wants to make it sound as if I used Luis to promote TEAM SKIP, that is yet another laugh. Sad reality is, with an NFL athlete on my roster I don’t really think that the rocky winner was going to need to be pimped out by me. With all due respect to Luis, he hadn’t won anything at that point other than the Rocky show. At the same time that this is being said about me, Cam finally spends a couple bucks and gets some t-shirts done and gets Luis into one and ever since, is pimping those pictures around and posting anything and everything that he can about his new buddy on FB while wearing one of their shirts. I don’t know, I didn’t ask for anyone to wear a t-shirt of mine that I didn’t train and I don’t pretend to prep people by handing out t-shirts. I was asked a couple times if I trained Luis for any of his shows and said absolutely not. I explained that he gets himself ready for his shows and works with no one. I know that the AF newspaper thanked Cam for his “invaluable knowledge” during Luis’ preps but …. seriously, what are good friends for, right? LOL Cam picks his friends well. Luis is a good guy but if he wasn’t a bodybuilder with potential Cam wouldn’t give a shit about him. He won’t admit that but others are reading this knowing full well how he is and shaking their heads. Check Cam’s friend list and tell me if 90% aren’t bodybuilders and figure competitors and tell me what percentage of those people he actually knows.

I am going to stop here for now. My stomach is turning. I still stand by what I said last year and what I told Tracy at the 09 Colorado: Had Cam just spoken with me when I found out about all of these competitors being upset about how they were being treated, it is likely that none of this would have gotten to where it has. I think Cam needed to not talk to me, though, so that he could put his own spin on it and pretend to still be the goody, church guy that is so Godly and I am just the bad serpent guy. Cam questioned me about the issue surrounding the Aurora police department asking around about him selling steroids and for the life of me I still can’t grasp that. As if I would go tell the police that he was doing something like that to get him into trouble. Cam should keep in mind that I am not the only person in Denver that cannot fucking stand him and I am not the only one that he speaks badly about. The list is long. Hell if Cam ever trained at Armbrust there are a hundred people there that would love to drop a plate on him and some are in his friend’s list. I guess he just doesn’t know who his friends are or doesn’t care. It is more important to have a nice long list of friends that he doesn’t know but that are known in the industry.

It worked out well, though, that we aren’t friends. Trials and tribulations suck but they do let you know who you can trust and who will screw you over in a heartbeat. I don’t have the time to list everything that happened so this is going to have to do. Again, you can make your own decision as to whether this is true or not. I just don’t fucking care anymore and just feel better that my side is out there. Do with it what you want but please understand that when you hear one side of something it will always sound oh-so-very convincing. Ask yourself how you would react and how you would feel if these things happened to you. Then, you might begin to understand why this has angered me for so long. Hopefully now we can all move forward now that everyone knows both sides of the story.

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