Bigger Stronger Faster movie

The science of getting laid, Thibaudeau and Tate, immigrant supplement manufacturers, and the cure for skinny

Over 100 full-length articles, a years' worth of blog posts, and a bunch of little snippets for major newsstand magazines, and I'm still having a blast talking, learning, and sharing training, lifestyle, and nutrition info. (I hope you're still having fun reading it.)

I was feeling a bit nostalgic earlier and went back through some older interviews when I noticed two things:

1. I talk with some cool people for my job.

2. You may have missed a lot of my older articles.

And that's just unacceptable.

So I went through, hand-picked a few snippets I thought you'd enjoy, and hooked you up with a link.

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The Cure for Skinny

"...but I think people should realize that eating a ton of calories without getting the proper vitamins, minerals, and fiber is kind of shooting yourself in the foot. Your body won't be able to assimilate all that much if you're not focused on the quality of the food.

So before anyone increases the calories, I think they should look at exactly where all those calories are coming from.

Let's say a client of mine is eating 3,000 calories a day, and we want him to get up to 3,600. I'm going to have him go back and examine every single meal before we do anything else. I'll have him look at the little details, like if he could be getting omega-3 eggs instead of normal ones, or if he could eat organic vegetables instead of the ones with all the pesticides. And I think once you make all those changes, then you can increase the actual calories."

The American Dream, On Steroids

"I had a friend who tried to sell me supplements out of the back of his car at Gold's. I came to find out he made them in his garage. He was just buying stuff, mixing it up, packaging it, and selling it.

We had an office in Santa Monica for three years while we made the film, and every day I'd drive by these immigrant day workers. When I brought the idea of hiring them to make supplements to my producers, they looked at me like I was insane. But they went along with it, and I think it was an eye-opening part of the movie."

An Interview with Dave Tate

"The biggest mistake I've made in my life is not fitting my family into everything. Everyone's kind of like that, though. Passion is a very, very tricky thing because it's one of the most important qualities for success. But it's a double-edged sword. Take it too far and you'll cut your throat.

I truly believe I'm here to live, learn, and pass on. Whatever happens, the weight room is my place to do that. It's my outlet to be able to share. That's what I'm passionate about, that's what I love doing, that's what I really feel I'm here for.

It doesn't matter what income level I'm at. I'mcool because I'm doing what I love to do. To me, that's successful. And that's a lesson I need to try to teach to my kids.

But, you know, if you spend all your time in the weight room, or wherever your passion lies, to where it's alienating everybody around you, you're cutting your own throat. And now you're not happy. Everything else suffers. That's why you'll have multimillionaires who're unhappy. They found their passion, but they haven't found the balance.

It's like walking on a cliff. Sometimes you know you've got to get as close to the edge as you can, and that you may slip. But you have to know when to take a step back and reevaluate what's important to you.

If you have a guy that works from 9 to 5 to be able to keep bread on the table, but he doesn't want to work overtime or do anything extra because he wants time with his family, I respect the shit out of that. That's why you can never look down on somebody who does what they do unless you know where their passion lies."

Thibaudeau Talks Training

"Starting off with heavy weight is dumb.

Unless it's activation work like doing heavy partial reps from a dead-stop to activate the nervous system, starting off heavy is stupid.

People will argue and say things like, "Well, you're not fatigued on that first set so you'll be able to lift more weight." It doesn't work like that. The nervous system isn't primed to get the most out of the exercise. Motor coordination, recruitment of the fast-twitch muscle fibers, inhibition of the antagonist muscle and many other things won't be optimal. These are all things that need to be achieved before lifting heavy weight.

If you just start heavy right off the bat your performance will be much lower because you're not primed. Even worse, you'll grind up a lot of CNS potential by trying to push up big weights before your CNS is fully activated. In other words, you'll deplete your capacity for activating/stimulating high-threshold motor units."

The Science of Getting Laid

"All right. We've determined there are eight specific things that most women are attracted to in a guy. What we guys have to do is come up with ways of implying each of those eight attributes.

The first three relate to things you are: health, social intuition, and humor. Health is being in shape, being fit, and having an active lifestyle. When you're around women, don't ever talk about being sick or being tired or an injury that you had or anything like that. There's an instinctive female emotional response to ill health: mothering. It's definitely not a sexual type of feeling.

The second one is social intuition and is hugely important. Women don't want to be with a guy who is socially awkward. Social intuition means recognizing all of the unwritten rules of social interactions and being able to navigate through them. It's not etiquette; it's not what hand to hold the knife and fork in, or any shit like that. But women are highly sensitive to social dynamics and how a man carries himself.

The third is humor. Humor predates language. It's innate to who we are and has a huge effect on women.

Those are the three things that can be about you. Moving on..."

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What kinds of blog posts and articles would you like to see? I'm getting all organized and need to flesh out some goals and content for next year and would love your thoughts.

Posted Dec 14, 2009 by Nate Green.
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