Many people struggle with motivation when it comes to exercise, while others find that pain gets in the way. For people with these issues, an unexpected solution is beginning to come to light: cannabis.

The medical benefits of cannabis are becoming better-known every day. Experts now realize that many of these benefits can relate to fitness. So, what is the relationship between cannabis and working out? In this article, we’ll look at seven key ways in which cannabis can help your workout.

1.   Cannabis Manages Pain

A recurring injury or other pain-related issues can be disastrous for your exercise routine. Even slight pain can affect your performance and diminish your enthusiasm for staying active.

Due to its anti-inflammatory properties as well as its ability to calm the central nervous system, cannabis is highly effective in treating many different types of pain. Sufferers of arthritis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, bone fractures and many other issues can find relief from cannabis.

When using cannabis for pain management, you need to think carefully about strain selection. While all cannabis will have a positive impact, some strains have better anti-inflammatory properties than others.

If you find a strain that works for you, you’ll want to make sure you have a steady supply. So, maybe the best way to ensure this is by growing it yourself.

If you do want to start growing, you can buy cannabis seeds online at High Supplies.

2.   Cannabis Boosts Your Focus

A lot of people workout swiftly for the first 10 or 15 minutes of every session, but lose interest after that. This is a real problem because not many effective workouts can be done in under 15 minutes.

Luckily, it’s also something cannabis can help with.

Focus is regulated by the dopamine levels in your system. Using cannabis triggers dopamine release, which can improve focus in the right conditions.

If you find the right strain and dosage of cannabis, you can realize huge benefits in terms of your focus. Experts even recommend cannabis for the treatment of people with ADHD.

3.   Cannabis Adds to Your Creativity

If you work out regularly, you might find yourself stuck in a rut now and again. Doing the same thing over and over again for months will never keep you engaged.

If you need to inspire yourself to take your exercise routine in different directions, cannabis could be the answer. While researchers aren’t exactly clear on how the mechanism works, they do know that your creativity is closely related to your brain’s dopamine levels. As consuming cannabis releases dopamine, it can fuel creativity in many users.

Therefore, a few tokes could help you to keep your workouts fresh and interesting.

4.   Cannabis Helps You Sleep

Insomnia is an increasingly common condition nowadays. As this study explains, blue light exposure can have a major impact on our sleep, which means that our ever-increasing screen times could be the problem.

Unfortunately, if you can’t sleep, you won’t be able to exercise properly. Poor sleep will drain your energy levels and make you lose focus.

This is where cannabis comes in. Since it calms our central nervous system, cannabis is a very effective sleep aid. Traditional indica strains, such as Critical Kush, are especially useful for this purpose.

5.   Cannabis Helps You Eat

The “munchies” are perhaps the most famous of cannabis’ effects. Anyone who regularly lights up will tell you of the intense food cravings that follow. These cravings are related to the activation of the endocannabinoid system, as this system has a large role to play in appetite regulation.

For some fitness enthusiasts, this can be more of a negative. However, if you struggle with appetite loss, this might be just what you need.

6.   Cannabis Keeps You in Tune With Your Body

You don’t have to be injured for your body not to be in top condition. Our bodies are complex machines, and even slight irregularities in their functioning can throw off a workout routine.

Unfortunately, it’s often difficult to know exactly what’s wrong with your body at a given time. Many things can interrupt the flow of an exercise regime, including fatigue, joint dysfunction, or musculoskeletal issues. Without seeing a professional, there’s not necessarily any way of knowing what’s preventing you from working out to your full potential.

However, cannabis can help you to pay closer attention to your body and its needs. Cannabis causes users to look within themselves; this is the reason why it sometimes causes paranoia.

However, when this introspection is properly managed, it can allow users to discover great insights about both their body and mind.

7.   Smoking Cannabis and Working Out Makes Things More Interesting

For many people, working out can get boring after a while. No matter how many times you add new routines or switch up your running routes, exercising can sometimes begin to seem like a chore.

However, one thing cannabis is great for is making mundane activities interesting. Smoking or vaping before a workout (if you pick the right strain and dose properly) will invigorate you and get you excited about being active again.

Using Cannabis to Get the Most Out of Your Workout

Many people still associate cannabis use with the “lazy stoner” stereotype. However, the growing population of enthusiasts who are finding success while smoking cannabis and working out is just another reason why this is misguided.

Whether it’s to manage pain, improve your general health, or just put a different edge on your mindset, cannabis use can be very effective in all kinds of physical training.

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The big news out of Miami is the suspension of Dolphin Offensive Tackle Richie Incognito for ‘Conduct Detrimental to the Team’ in connection with his bullying, harassment and intimidation of fellow teammate and lineman Jonathan Martin.

For those unfamiliar with the situation, Jonathan Martin is a highly educated Stanford graduate whose parents are both Harvard graduates and who happens to be black. By contrast, Incognito is a hot-tempered bully who was kicked off his college team — the Nebraska Cornhuskers — for multiple violations including attacking a teammate, and is widely considered the dirtiest player in the NFL.

The alleged misconduct involves Incognito using mafia-like tactics to extort $15,000 from Martin and his fellow lineman to pay for a trip to Las Vegas for Incognito and a few other players. From reports surrounding the now-official NFL investigation, Incognito is coming off no different than the elementary school bully to whom no one wants to stand up and who, through intimidation makes followers out of those who would otherwise fear becoming his target.

Incognito is no stranger to trouble and controversy. In 2004, the Lincoln Journal Star reported that, “Incognito has struggled to control his temper both on and off the field since arriving at Nebraska in 2001.” Rumors of insubordination and temper tantrums surrounded his years at Nebraska, culminating in an incident in which he viciously attacked and beat up his teammate Grant Mulkey.

One report from an eyewitness (as reported on RedOut.com) described the event as follows:

[Nebraska Wideout] Grant Mulkey was talking with fellow teammates about his impending first start. Being excited about his first start he was a little on the emotional side. Incognito walked in and heard and saw Mulkey in a emotional state and started giving him a bad time. As a comeback, Mulkey told Incognito that he’d be playing instead of sitting in the stands watching game. Upon hearing this, Incognito went nuts. He jumped on Mulkey and started to beat the crap out of him. After teammates separated them, Incognito went after Mulkey again. The second attack happened after Incognito approached Mulkey as if to apologize to him. With the two of them being friends, Mulkey had his guard down. The second incident was not so easy. It took ten players to get Incognito off of Mulkey. Upon hearing the about the incident Callahan walk in and immediately Incognito verbally assaulted Callahan and threatened to kick his ass.

Tom Shatel, a reporter with the Omaha World Herald, described Incognito’s situation regarding the Mulkey incident as a “a repeat offender repeating while on suspension,” indicating that Incognito had been involved in multiple incidents within a brief period of time during the 2003-2004 season and describing him as a “good young man with anger issues.” NFL reporter Jeff Darlington described Incognito’s suspension at Nebraska as being the result of fighting not just with a teammate, but with “teammates, opponents and random students.”

If you think Incognito learned his lesson after being suspended indefinitely from Nebraska and transferring to Oregon, you’d be mistaken. After being drafted in the third round by the St. Louis Rams in 2005 (and sitting out his rookie season with an injury), Incgonito quickly gained a reputation as a nasty player: From 2006 through 2009, Incognito drew seven penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct — more than anyone else in the NFL during that span.

The NFL itself, on its own website refers to Incognito as the ‘NFL’s Dirtiest Player’. In the story written by NFL reporter Jeff Darlington, he describes Incognito as having thrived in the NFL despite “a decade of anger management issues and substance abuse.” The same article references an incident in which Incognito was accused of punching a bouncer in the face at a South Beach nightclub. ESPN reporter Adam Schefter reported the incident as follows:

According to the police report, Incognito and a group of friends were trying to get a closer look at an on-stage performer, at which point the security guard asked the group to back up. A member of Incognito’s group then pushed the security guard, which started a fight. Incognito told police he tried to break up the incident. Incognito refused medical treatment for minor facial injuries, according to the report. League sources said Incognito punched and knocked out the security guard (emphasis added), though the police report makes no mention of this.

His substance abuse includes not only a decade of marijuana use but admittedly “[d]rinking. Doing Drugs. Everything a professional athlete should not be doing.” In the same piece, Incognito admits to using the psychotropic anti-depressant drug Paxil to keep his mood swings in check since becoming a Miami Dolphin.

Despite his ongoing efforts to conquer his demons, it appears as though Incognito’s latest incident with Jonathan Martin may be the final straw. After being kicked out of St. Louis and Buffalo, it appears that Incognito has worn out his welcome in Miami. And though, the NFL is known for giving talented players second and third chances, this may be Strike Three for Richie Incognito.

Some non-football fans might read of Incognito’s history of trouble and ponder, ‘How can yet another poor excuse for a human be given so many chances and become a multi-millionaire solely because of his ability to block a 300 lb lineman?’ But that would be overlooking the manner in which high school, college, and NFL coaches and teams routinely make excuses for and bail their players out of trouble in the name of the almighty victory and dollar. Anyone in need of a reference for can simply read the shocking and under-reported story of former NFL Tight End Jerramy Stevens.

For now, Incognito’s actions in the Jonathan Martin incident are under investigation, but if the rumors of racist voicemail messages left for Martin are accurate (and released to the public), it’s safe to say that Incognito has played his last NFL game. Former NFL Vice-President of Player Personnel for the Patriots and former-KC Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli seems inclined to agree in an interview with ESPN’s Dan Patrick on NBC’s Football Night in America:

Pioli: If [Incognito] is a leader in your locker room, that is a problem, because he has a long history of issues going back to Nebraska, when he was kicked out of school. But, what this shows me is that there is some void of leadership somewhere within the Miami Dolphins locker room, because if there are issues like this, generally the head coach or the general manager is going to know something about this. They’re going to be able to fix the problem before it manifests itself into this disaster they have right now.

Patrick: Would you want Richie Incognito in your locker room?

Pioli: I didn’t want him coming out [of college], and I don’t want him now.

Which might show that the old adage about how to deal with bullies is accurate: If you stand up to a bully, he’ll just go away.

It started with an early morning phone call: “Can you believe it? Ryan Braun just got popped again for steroids.” There was a distinct tinge of disappointment at the other end of the line. A mixture of shock and awe. How could he be so STUPID? How could a superstar like Braun who previously got busted (and then technically exonerated) use steroids AGAIN in light of him being a target with a giant bullseye on his back and subject to frequent drug tests?

Duh! Ryan Braun used steroids to help him put up MVP numbers. Those numbers got him a $105M contract extension. His 65-game suspension will cost him about $3M. Let’s do the math together:

105
– 3
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102

For those who majored in chemistry and not economics, that’s a net gain of $102M. That’s $102,000,000 for those of us who need to see all the zeroes to feel sufficiently inadequate. Even with the 65-game suspension, something tells me that Ryan Braun won’t be losing any sleep over his decision to continue using steroids. In terms of ‘movin’ on up’, a premeditated decision to use anabolic steroids paid off for him BIG-TIME.

It’s no different for any other athlete. Despite a history of steroid use that includes a positive (anonymous) test for steroids in 2003, Alex Rodriguez signed a 10-year contract with the New York Yankees in 2007 worth a guaranteed $275 Million Dollars. In 2009, he admitted to using steroids, begged for our forgiveness and asked us to “judge him from this day forward.” With that admission, his Hall of Fame hopes were all but extinguished. But the public is not the Baseball Hall of Fame. We judge our athletes FIRST on their PERFORMANCE. Character, on the other hand, is somewhere further down the list.

With $275M guaranteed, Alex could have made the decision to go au naturale and watch his numbers plummet, but that’s not what MLB and the Yankees (and their fans) want to see. You see, Alex Rodriguez simply wanted to please his fans and his employer. After 3 MVP awards and a career of steroid-padded stats, A-Rod wasn’t going to take any chances: He wanted to earn his keep, lest he overtake Carl Pavano as #1 on the Yankees list of all-time salary busts.

You see, there is little reason for an aspiring athlete to NOT take steroids. Without steroids, most athletes will never achieve the $105M contract extension or the $275M free agent contract. It’s a calculated risk with a huge payoff and very little downside, but it doesn’t start in the big leagues. No, it starts far earlier.

Let’s take the talent-heavy baseball nation of Dominican Republic as an example. In a poverty-stricken country (Venezuela works just as well), baseball is just about the only way out for most kids. Hence, they play baseball 365 days a year for hours on end. Without a major league contract, a young Dominican entering the workplace can aspire to one day earn close to the nation’s average income of about $5,500 per year. But with the average MLB signing bonus for a Dominican player approaching $200,000 (and up to $4.5M for DR prospect and current Oakland A minor leaguer Michael Ynoa), why on Earth would a Dominican teenager NOT resort to steroids to better his chances to attain a life for himself? A few cycles of steroids can easily be the difference between doubles and home runs — the difference between a life on the streets and a MLB signing bonus– the difference between working for THIRTY YEARS in the DR and playing a half-season of minor league baseball in the US!

But we don’t need to look to the DR to find players juicing at young ages. We can start in our own back yards. With college tuition surpassing $200,000 for a 4-year private school, a college baseball scholarship is now worth about the same as a Dominican Republic MLB signing bonus! What’s going to stop a high school sophomore from running a few cycles of testosterone to gain an extra 5mph on his fastball or an extra 25 feet on his hitting distance? A lecture about the integrity of the game?

Let me try to control my laughter while I take in this capitalist irony: As parents, we’re going to preach to our children the need for a college education based on the fact that this education represents their best chance to earn a good living. We’re going to use every advantage we have in life — financial, social, and yes, chemical — to further our children’s chances to succeed, and then, when they have an opportunity to earn more in a month than we do in a lifetime, we’re going to preach to them about the integrity of the game?

Baseball has lost its integrity, and not because of the rampant use of steroids by every top player of the past twenty years. No, baseball lost its integrity by virtue of its laissez-faire attitude towards performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Players right out of high school and college are given multi-million dollar signing bonuses and guaranteed contracts without player scouts or management even asking about steroids. A Five-Tool (Hitting for Average, Fielding, Running, Throwing, Hitting for Power) player gets paid. A Six-Tool (plus steroids) player gets paid even more. It’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell all over again, except this is not the military excusing discrimination — it’s Major League Baseball excusing the use of PEDs.

Let’s face a cold, hard reality: We will only see a change in steroid use in baseball when the reasons NOT to use steroids outweigh the benefits of using them. When a first offense means not the loss of 3% of one’s income as in Ryan Braun’s case, but 97%. When a positive steroid test results in the VOIDING of a multi-million dollar contract or a LIFETIME suspension. When the financial risk of using anabolic steroids finally outweighs the financial reward.

Right now, Major League Baseball isn’t even close. The fans know it. The players know it. And Bud Selig knows it.

Well, it’s not exactly breaking news. It’s old news but I feel like the ball has been dropped and I decided to pick it up again.

I just want to start this article by saying that I have nothing to gain by writing this other than some piece of mind knowing I’ve helped out my fellow high intensity friends. I’m also too passive to say to the athletes at my box that their hard earned $ would be better spent at the nearest strip club helping some poor girl with tuition than purchasing Progenex. Actually, my response is so long winded I decided to just write it down. I’m not going to go into super investigative mode with this post but hopefully I can throw out enough to get you thinking.

The bodybuilding community has known since 2010 that Progenex is nothing more than hydrolyzed whey. Bodybuilding has a billion message boards and gossip spreads faster than chlamydia at a freshman dorm. Plus, there’s no trademarked monopoly on bodybuilding so just imagine how many message boards there are. There is no big HQ monster policing what people say with threats to pull affiliations for questioning their business practices.

A quick lesson before I start for those that need it. What exactly is whey protein?  It is the watery portion of milk that separates from the curds when making cheese. That’s why it smells like shit when you leave a shaker cup in your car. Best just throw it away. Supplementing with it is an efficient way to increase protein intake when the demands of weight training require it for muscle growth and repair.

CrossFitters buying Progenex are spending $60 for a measly 30 servings, or perhaps they are the lucky recipient of a code rendering them 10% off. I can buy a 5 lbs bag of Muscletech containing 72 servings for $32. I realize not everyone is on a budget like I am but, what the heck?

I’ve thought not very long and not very hard to come up with the answer… Because all the cool kids are doing it. If CrossFit HQ signs a contract with Progenex it must be the shiznit.

If  you like the taste of Progenex, are partial to the appearance of the flashy chrome bag, and don’t mind forking over a little extra, then why is it a big deal?

Let me break it down…

Scott Connelly

Dr. Scott Connelly used to have this freaking awesome recovery formula he used to market and sell for Progenex. It rocked. It was cutting edge technology. This was no ordinary whey! A company in New Zealand produced this formula by tracking RNA expression signatures showing which genes were involved with muscle growth, metabolism, and inflammatory response. The product was noticeably effective and it was pricey because it was costly to make. Let’s just say the product was LEGIT, tasted like shit, and was gaining in popularity with bodybuilders, pro athletes, crossfitters and recreational lifters. Connelly knew he landed on something big so the smarty pants patented it, meaning he was the only person in the US that could sell the stuff.

So what happened?

Connelly was shopping for investors for Progenex and stumbled upon this guy named Adam Zuckerman who’s a total DB and currently spending time in a federal prison for fraud. He had fraudulent dealings in all of his business practices. It is safe to assume he is a man of questionable motives and character. He also came with his own team of creepy buddies. If you’re interested do a search on this gem of a citizen and the ethical practices of Progenex. Anthony Roberts can give you more details.

Adam Zuckerman

It didn’t take long for Zuckerman and his team to take over Progenex. Connelly and his team were out and so was the formula. Not long after that the New Zealand Company severed ties with Connelly. The formula is not sold by anyone in the US currently that I know of. It is being sold in Australia by a company called Ascend. One thing is certain. The bad ass formula sure as heck isn’t sold by Progenex.

Progenex began selling commodity protein at the same inflated price because people kept buying it. Plus, with the new felony fraud kids running the biz, why wouldn’t they steal an opportunity to lower production costs and produce an inferior product that people are still buying with religious conviction? Well, not all of us. A few people noticed the change immediately.

The post Connelly protein blend at Progenex has actually been tested. It is very similar to, if not the same as, Thermax by Glanbia who just happens to be one of the world’s largest whey protein suppliers. Many supplement companies buy their ingredients and supplements from wholesale central suppliers. Very few companies actually have research and development teams. More money is spent on marketing and flare than on development.

Often times, research based supplement companies are dwarfed by the entrepreneur MBA’s with deep pockets and silver tongues. At least Progenex isn’t claiming to use the old recovery formula they just named their protein Recovery.  They’re promoting this thing called Promorphogen that’s trademarked but only as an additive of very little significance, a filler for fiber supplements, meal replacement drinks, and whey protein.

So what gives crossfitters? Put away your cash and make some informed purchases because I care about what you invest in. Be informed when purchasing supplements, especially if they’re expensive. Read the reviews from unbiased sources and consumers who are paying for the product and not paid to promote it. CrossFit is expensive and if you don’t like an affiliate or the trainers I’m going to assume you will find one that appreciates you as an athlete and your business right? Supplement companies should be viewed in the same light.

Find out the most efficient way to be fit and a way that works for you. Splitting hairs on whey protein brands is senseless and insignificant for everyday lifting. The body will absorb what it needs, secrete the rest, or deposit excessive amounts as fat. End of story. If you’re truly concerned about the macros, micros, and artificial sweeteners then become a connoisseur and shop around. Some supplement companies actually do care and hold themselves to a higher ethical standard which isn’t hard to beat when compared to Progenex. Find and invest in them. Advocate in the name of science which is what crossfitters do.

As we prepare to watch the 2012 Olympic Track and Field events, all eyes are squarely on Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt to see if he can match or surpass his blindingly fast times from the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. But does anyone care to investigate whether the world’s greatest sprinter — Usain Bolt is on steroids?

Usain Bolt’s Record Breaking History

In those 2008 Games, Bolt shocked the world by smashing the world record in the 100m and 200m races, becoming the first sprinter to ever crack the 9.7s barrier by running a 9.69s (including the early celebration that began 5m prior to the finish line) in the 100m and a 19.30s in the 200m. The following year at the 2009 World Championships, Bolt lowered his time in the 100m to a seemingly impossible 9.58s and in the 200m to a mind-numbing 19.19s.

The Case in Favor of Usain Bolt’s Steroid Use

In the three years since smashing two of the most famous world records in 2009, we haven’t heard much from Usain Bolt. Rumors of injuries and relationships kept him largely out of the public eye until he re-appeared on the scene at the 2011 World Championships, where he ran a more modest 19.40s in the 200m before anchoring a world record-breaking 400m relay for the Jamaican Team.

Since 2009, Bolt hasn’t come close to touching any of his records and his performance at the 2012 Olympic Trials (in which he ran a mortal 9.86s in the 100m and 19.83s in the 200m) seemed to indicate that his best times are well behind him.

But that would ignore the entire process of steroid cycling.

As everyone who understands steroids knows, athletes utilize Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) pursuant to a cycle that seeks to slowly elevate testosterone and growth hormone levels (and corresponding to an increase in performance) to a peak that is concurrent with a competition.

How Usain Bolt and other Olympic Sprinters Can Beat Olympic Drug Testing

A typical PED cycle would begin 12 weeks out from competition with the target date being the day prior to or of the competition. Along with the use of undetectable steroids and daily growth hormone injections, the athlete would also have his blood drawn on a daily basis to monitor his testosterone and rhGH ratios in an effort to keep them within Olympic World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) testing limits. Close monitoring of these ratios allow an Olympic sprinter such as Bolt to both use PEDs up to the day of competition while still comfortably submitting to multiple drug tests.

This isn’t evidence particular to Usain Bolt, as it could just as easily describe the protocol that every Olympic sprinter is using to pass the drug tests. However, it is mentioned simply to point out how easily Olympic athletes are able to pass an Olympic-level drug test, even with the highest levels of scrutiny. The bottom line is that if an athlete is within the permissible testosterone and rhGH ratios, he is deemed clean. The reality is that any athlete who doesn’t maximize his testosterone and rhGH levels to the maximum permissible level has no chance of breaking a world record.

For example, let’s assume that a talented NCAA sprinter has a testosterone ratio (testosterone: epitestosterone) of 1:1 which is considered normal, or average. The current WADA guidelines permit a ratio of up to 4:1. Given the fact that the only way for an NCAA sprinter to make any money sprinting is to win international competitions and garner endorsements, what reason could that NCAA sprinter possibly have for NOT quadrupling his testosterone ratio up to the maximum of 4:1? Using a number of undetectable steroid compounds, that same athlete would presumably see a major improvement in his sprint times without ever ‘testing positive’.

And this is the folly of drug testing: It gives ‘dirty’ athletes all the ammunition they need to proclaim themselves ‘clean’ — replete with Olympic level testing results.

Passing an Olympic Drug Test Does Not Make Usain Bolt ‘Clean’

The worst argument that anyone can make for Usain Bolt being a clean athlete is that he has yet to fail a steroid or other drug test, despite being subjected to rigorous drug testing protocols.

The reality is that most Olympic athletes have their blood levels so closely monitored that only an egregious miscalculation in the timing of a steroid injection or use of a masking agent (i.e. diuretics) to dilute the levels of a steroid within the blood would result in a positive test. This is the only reason why we rarely see positive tests for Olympic level athletes.

International steroid expert Anthony Roberts told Muscleweek: “With regards to fooling the Olympic drug tests, many of the same loopholes that existed ten to twenty years ago still exist today. Until those loopholes are closed, there will always be a shadow of doubt falling on the Olympics.”

Roberts continued, “Testosterone, hGH and most of the other highly potent anabolics are virtually undetectable — when we see a positive test and a tearfully apologetic athlete, he or she probably represents less than 1% of those who are actually using banned substances.”

Olympic Drug Testing is a Joke

United States Olympic Gold Medalist Marion Jones proudly proclaimed that she passed more than 160 drug tests in her career. The fact remains that she won three gold medals at the 2000 Olympics while passing the supposedly stringent requirements of Olympic WADA testing.

And yet, despite breaking world records in the 100m and 200m sprints; despite being romantically involved with and coached by Olympic shot-putter CJ Hunter who tested positive for steroids four times leading up to the 2000 Olympics and was subsequently banned by the ITAF; despite being romantically involved with and coached by Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery who tested positive for steroids and was subsequently banned; despite training under track coach Trevor Graham who has been banned for life from track and field; and despite her affiliation with BALCO Labs and the insistence of BALCO president Victor Conte who admitted to injecting Marion Jones with steroids, the general public and sports ‘journalists’ were still gullible enough to believe that Marion Jones was in fact, a ‘clean athlete.’

As Marion Jones proved, testing ‘clean’ means absolutely nothing.

Usain Bolt’s Track ‘Coach’ is a Steroid Expert

Interestingly (and perhaps damningly) in making a case against Usain Bolt, a fact that is often ignored is that the man who worked with Victor Conte at Balco Labs and later testified against CJ Hunter, Tim Montgomery, Marion Jones, and yes — current 2012 U.S. Olympic sprinter Justin Gatlin– was a man by the name of Angel Heredia. Prior to working at BALCO, Angel Heredia was a national discus champion for Mexico. In the case against BALCO and Graham, he is referred to as ‘Source A’ and his testimony against BALCO athletes in verifying the documents that detailed the drug schedules for those athletes was crucial in obtaining convictions or confessions from those individuals.

But BALCO drug guru Angel Heredia never served a day in prison.

Even more suspiciously, sometime after 2008, Angel Heredia legally changed his name to Angel Hernandez.

Pop Quiz: Why would Angel Heredia change his name to Angel Hernandez?

Answer: Usain Bolt hired the new incarnation of Angel Heredia to become his track ‘coach’ in 2009. Unfortunately for Mr. Heredia,  can be a terrible thing for a man with a past like Angel.

Here is a video of Usain Bolt’s track coach Angel Heredia (Hernandez) obtaining steroids in Mexico and injecting growth hormone on camera for a German documentary:

And a small piece of the interview transcript from German publication Der Spiegel’s 2008 interview with Angel Hernandez:

SPIEGEL: Mr. Heredia, will you watch the 100 meter final in Beijing?

Heredia: Of course. But the winner will not be clean. Not even any of the contestants will be clean. (emphasis added)

SPIEGEL: Of eight runners …

Heredia: … eight will be doped.

SPIEGEL: There is no way to prove that.

Heredia: There is no doubt about it. The difference between 10.0 and 9.7 seconds is the drugs.

Bolt’s Coach is more of a Chemist than a Coach

According to the New York Times, Usain Bolt’s track coach Angel Hernandez has referred to himself as a chemist, scientist and nutritionist.

Pop Quiz #2: Why would the world’s top ‘natural’ sprinter need the services of a chemist affiliated with BALCO and multiple dirty sprinters?

Answer: A logical response would be that Usain Bolt isn’t any more ‘clean’ than Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Ben Johnson, Tim Montgomery, or even Jamaican-born U.S. sprinter Debbie Dunn — who bowed out of the 2012 Olympics just days prior to the opening ceremonies when she tested positive for a testosterone derivative.

Logic would seem to dictate that sprinters need sprint coaches, not chemists. But no, Usain Bolt needs a chemist.

Just as those aforementioned sprinters who have broken track records before have.

Because a great sprint coach could never help a track athlete as much as a great chemist can. Here’s more from Usain’s ‘coach’ explaining his precise skill set as it applies to ‘coaching’ in that 2008 interview:

SPIEGEL: So you became a therapist for the athletes in matters of drugs?

Heredia: More like a coach. Together we found out what was good for which body and what the decomposition times were. I designed schedules for cocktails and regimens that depended on the money the athletes offered me. Street drugs for little money, designer drugs for tens of thousands. Usually I sent the drugs by mail, but sometimes the athletes came to me.

Still not convinced? Consider this New York Times article from 2008 that documented how Angel Heredia (Hernandez) was on the payroll of no less than 12 Olympic level athletes, including Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Maurice Greene (detecting a pattern here, no?):

In recent interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Heredia described how and with whom he worked, sharing copies of records that appear to link him to many of the best sprinters of the last decade. Those records include e-mail exchanges of doping regimens, canceled checks, telephone recordings, shipping records, laboratory readings of blood and urine samples, and Justice Department documents.

Among his clients, Mr. Heredia identified 12 athletes who had won a combined 26 Olympic medals and 21 world championships. Four of the 12 athletes, including Ms. Jones, had been named and barred from competition for illicit drug use. Eight of the 12 — notably, the sprinter Maurice Greene — have never been previously linked to performance-enhancing drugs.

Mr. Greene, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a five-time world champion, has never failed a drug test.

Mr. Heredia showed The Times a copy of a bank transaction form showing a $10,000 wire transfer from a Maurice Greene to a relative of Mr. Heredia’s; two sets of blood-test lab reports with Mr. Greene’s name and age on them; and an e-mail message from a close friend and track-club teammate of Mr. Greene’s, attaching one of the lab reports and saying, “Angel, this is maurices results sorry it took so long.

Why would an athlete’s own ‘coach’, errr,  I mean ‘chemist’ be testing his own athlete’s blood?

Well,  if you believe the ‘coaches’, it’s to analyze the blood and determine if there are any deficits in any areas that may need to be addressed. But a chemist would just tell you that it’s to confirm that the testosterone and ghGH ratios are within the legal limits. Who would you believe?

Would you believe Usain Bolt’s coach? If so, then you might want to consider this, from the same Times Article:

Mr. Heredia, 33, a former Mexican national discus champion, is a secretive figure on the track circuit who describes himself as a chemist, scientist and nutritionist. The son of a chemist, Mr. Heredia received an undergraduate degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M in Kingsville, records show.

He said he used family connections to pharmacies and labs in Mexico to help his business. For years, Mr. Heredia said, he helped his clients flout the rules and easily avoided detection. Substances like human growth hormone and the blood booster erythropoietin, or EPO, are still virtually impossible to detect, and “it is still easy to use testosterone” with fast-acting creams, he said.

“You combine all these things — boom! — you get amazing results,” Mr. Heredia said.

Amazing, indeed. Earlier today, Usain Bolt just became the first Olympic athlete to repeat winning Gold in the 100m and 200m sprints. His times of 9.63s in the 100m and 19.32 in the 200m are his best times since the 2009 World Championships and after his 200m victory, he boldly declared that he is “the greatest athlete who ever lived.”

It probably doesn’t hurt that he just happens to have “the greatest chemist who ever lived” right there in his corner.

Rodney King was found dead in his swimming pool on Sunday morning, but the LAPD have launched an investigation into his death based on suspicions of foul play.

Why would anyone kill Rodney King?

The first motive for anyone’s murder is always money. Rodney King received $3.8 million dollars from the City of Los Angeles in his civil suit against the LAPD for use of excessive force.

Money is often a primary motive in a murder case and in the case of Rodney King, there’s 3,800,000 reasons to kill him. But who stands to benefit? Well, if you watched Rodney on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, you probably caught a glimpse or two of his daughters. As any lawyer can tell you, the #1 Battle over any inheritance is always going to be the children against the beneficiary who bumped them out of the will. In Rodney’s case, that person may just be his fiancée Cynthia Kelley.

While we haven’t seen Rodney King’s Last Will and Testament, we do know that if Rodney’s mental state (because of his alcoholism) was impaired, the person most likely to be influencing his decisions would be his live-in fiancée. And if he did recently draw up a new will leaving his estate to Cynthia Kelley and to the exclusion of his daughters, a reasonable person could assume that his fiancée greatly influenced that decision. Worse yet, what if she coerced a drunk Rodney King to sign a new will, completely excluding his daughters from his estate and leaving it all to herself? In that case, it would only be a matter of time before Rodney’s daughters learned the truth and tried to have the will re-drafted to include them.

‘Will Battles’ between grown children and parent love interests are the most common of all family murders for money.

But here is the real kicker: Cynthia Kelley has been with Rodney King for more than 10 years but he’s never married her. California doesn’t recognize common law marriage; so the only way that Cynthia could inherit ANY money from Rodney King’s estate would be to be included in Rodney’s Will or Trust.

Do you think Cynthia was happy about not being in line to receive his money?

What if I told you that Cynthia Kelley was one of the jurors from the civil court jury that awarded King the $3.8M dollars? Wouldn’t that give her an even larger sense of entitlement to that money?

Most people are unaware that Cynthia Kelley — one of the twelve jury members who awarded $3.8 Million dollars to Rodney King in his civil suit –
Who killed Rodney King?

A short list of unofficial suspects would start with Rodney King’s fiancée Cynthia Kelley.

By Jason Stern

For some reason, MuscleWeek isn’t given a lot of props in the bodybuilding community — probably because we’re the only guys with big enough balls to tell the truth while everyone else is busy complimenting the Emperor on his invisible coat.

Oddly enough, most of our props have come from other sources. ESPN, Fox News, NBC, and LA Weekly are just a few of the respected sites and blogs that have correctly recognized MuscleWeek as THE VOICE of bodybuilding. So when we broke the OFFICIAL news that Venice Google’s Geeks were planning to give Venice Gold’s Grunters the boot as of June, 30 2014, a mad media scramble ensued in which the suits at Gold’s Gym International (GGI) switched gears to damage control (continuing to deny that such a move was imminent) and the dorks at Google Corporate realized that making enemy with 1,500 juiceheads across the street might be hazardous to their health.

The result?  A flurry of telephone calls between Google’s Real Estate VP and the CFO of GGI, in which they both agreed that the best move for both parties might just be for Google to let Gold’s sublet its current space at 360 Hampton Drive for an additional TEN YEARS.

Currently, the parties are still trying to iron out the fine print, but expect a deal to be hammered out by the end of the year — extending the life of Gold’s Venice until at least 2024.

The best part is that none of this could have happened without MuscleWeek’s investigative journalism and the interview with Gold’s icon and lifelong bodybuilding fan Ed Connors that set all of the above chain of events into motion.

MuscleWeek wishes to thank Ed Connors for his continued support and friendship along with LA Weekly’s Simone Wilson for staying in constant communication with us throughout our efforts to keep Gold’s in Venice. Most importantly, we would like to offer ourselves a congratulatory slap on the back.

Thanks MuscleWeek!

“Hey, Schmoe, did you hear? Vinny Galanti is competing again! Woo Hoo!” Okay, so that’s probably one thing you DIDN’T hear lately in your gym locker room, while trying to put on your underwear without revealing your post-shower shrunken johnson to the creepy ‘lingerers’ sitting around on the locker room benches eyeballing your junk.

Vinny Galanti is so old, he’s been competing since the days of ESPN’s American Muscle Magazine. And without a little help, he’d probably still be trying to win his IFBB Pro Card. But more on that later.

First off, let’s take an honest look at Vinny. The dude barely even resembles a weight lifter when he’s off the sauce. Serious bodybuilder?? Bah humbug. What serious bodybuilder takes an entire YEAR off going to the gym and spends it eating McDonalds and letting his body go to shit? And there wasn’t even an injury to excuse it! Does that sound like a guy who loves the iron and can’t imagine missing a day, let alone a week in the gym, or does that sound suspiciously like a bodybuilder who understands that there is little to no point in training if one is neither juicing or competiting?

Apparently, he’s six weeks out of a contest that no one cares about or will go see. And Vinny wants you to know that he’s competing. In fact, Vinny has been known to ask forum members to post up news about his ‘career’ at his own request because it will ‘seem more legitimate’ coming from someone else. C’mon Vinny, you’re almost 50 for Chrissakes!! How about growing out that vagina and posting your self-promoting crap under your own name like Steve Namat and the rest of the pathetic, over-compensating, attention whore midgets.

In any event, regardless of how awful his condition is or how little muscle he carries, Vinny will always be the recipient of gift bags from the NPC and IFBB for single-handedly helping to torpedo Wayne DeMilia’s PDI bodybuilding federation.

If you recall, throughout the late ’90′s and early 2000′s, Vinny was a perennial top 3-5 National contender — the prime example of ‘forever a bridesmaid’. A well-balanced physique but no stand-out bodyparts and a little thin on muscle compared to his competition. When DeMilia was recruiting for his federation, fellow Italian New York-area Bodybuilder Vinny Galanti was an obvious choice for the new federation.

Vinny, being a bodybuilder, committed verbally to Wayne and then formally signed with the PDI. Whether Vinny was savvy enough to know that the NPC/IFBB would come running at him with promises of a Pro Card or whether he was simply being a flaky bodybuilder is still unknown.

Whatever the case, after discussing the matter with Manion, Chickerdildo, and several others, Vinny went ahead and publicly committed to the PDI, posting on a public forum “Chick made the point of having my Procard with the IFBB seem great, but after nine years [of unsuccessfully trying]…I doubt I’ll get it .”

Wayne went ahead and announced Vinny would be competing in the Night of Champions and printed posters and other media advertising Vinnie as being a part of the organization.

What happened next is open for speculation, but here’s what I think: Either the IFBB used Vinny as a mole to obtain information from Wayne and set Wayne up by having Vinny merely PRETEND to be seriously interested in competing in the PDI or else, (and more likely), they went into panic mode when Vinny announced he was leaving. With a top NPC guy going to the PDI, what would stop other top NPC competitors who felt they deserved better from also jumping ship. We already know that Manion was having Chick act as a middleman. But Chick shouldn’t have had ANYTHING to do with the NPC and Vinny was not an IFBB Pro, so any conversations between Galanti and Chick surely focused on the possibility of Galanti obtaining his pro card by remaining with the NPC. If you have ever dealt with the NPC/IFBB and their cohorts, you know that they love to use intermediaries to communicate their message to permit plausible deniability that those conversations ever occurred or that they were aware of them.

What I and many others suspect is that Manion, through Chick, strongly hinted to Galanti that he would win his Pro Card if he stuck it out and stayed with the NPC. That wasn’t enough for Vinny. He needed more than a hint. He needed a GUARANTEE. And so, after very publicly leaving the NPC for the PDI, the IFBB and NPC suits scrambled. How could they use Vinny to torpedo the PDI? Easy enough. They waited for Wayne to spend his money and put together his Night of Champions materials and promote Vinny as the new face of the PDI.

And then they fired the TORPEDO.

A single call from Bob Cicherillo to Vinny Galanti sealed the deal. A PRO CARD. A GUARANTEE.

Chick did the dirty work. Vinny took the deal. And both of them were officially ‘made men’. Willing to compromise their morals and integrity for promises of future employment and riches.

What do you think? Did Galanti really have a ‘change of heart’ after committing to the PDI or was it a telephone conversation and a ‘change of mind’?

You decide.

Vinny Galanti Defects from the NPC to the PDI

It has been a very tough decision to make for me, should I do this or not…should I try one more time at the Nationals or go for the Masters Nationals next year.

The PDI is an area of bodybuilding that has never been traveled, as of right now some don’t believe the NOC wont take place.

I have been competing on the NPC National level since 91, and through the years have won my weight class in 3 national contest, I have traveled the world guest posing and doing seminars, And even have a contract with UNIVERSAL NUTRITION for the past 9 years.

I owe all my success to the NPC, but at this time in my career…it’s time to move on, I feel I have reached my max. I don’t believe I can go any further…so i’l try something new.

I have talked to Shawn Ray, and Bob Chick, and they both make great reasons for staying with the NPC.
and AS OF THIS PAST WEEKEND…I was going to stay, but…after talking to my wife about the pro’s and con’s of switching or stay….Chick made the point of having my procard with the IFBB seem great, but after trying 9 times…I doubt I’ll get it.

I have nothing bad to say about anyone with the NPC, everyone has been great…and I hope to continue with the relationships that have formed from the years I was at the national level.

Shawn, Bob…thank you for the advice….

MuscleWeek: Tell us a little about yourself, Rob. Where did you grow up? What do you do for a living?

Rob Krieder: I grew up in southern Maryland. Very rural and country. My grandfather, who was a farmer, gave my parents a few acres to build a house on and that is where they still are living to this day. I get most of my genetics from my grandfather. Hard working man, with huge arms and forearms and a heart of gold.

I have been running a personal training business since 1998, RK BODIES (www.rkbodies.com). I managed health clubs and was a fitness director as well, but I got tired of making the clubs a lot of money, and I myself, only seeing a fraction of that. I’ve always done things my way, and always will.

MW: How did you fall into this cult known as the competitive bodybuilding world? Was sand kicked in your face, too like most of us?

Nope, no sand kicked in my face. I was the stocky kid in school. During lunch, we would always have arm wrestling challenges and me and another kid were the champs.

I picked up a Muscle and Fitness and Flex magazine at a 7-11 when I was about 14 and read those suckers from front to back. I had no idea what they were talking about, but I did my best to apply it all in the basement of my parents house using my fathers sand weights. I kept educating myself through magazines and Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Body Building. I grossly over trained for a couple of years trying to emulate the pro’s routines, not realizing they were all juiced up. It wasn’t until Dorian Yates came on to the scene and his high intensity/low volume approach became popular. The more rest I gave myself, the more I grew.

MW: Would you say you are now over the hump? On your way UP the hump one constantly worries about their nitrogen balance and thinks whey protein will help “build muscle”. Over the hump means if you miss a meal you know you’re not going to shrivel up and drop 60lbs and evaporate into nothing. It means you put your fanny pack away and don’t look down on men with hair on their legs. Which side of the hump are you on?

RK: I was obsessed at an early age, and I am glad I grew out of that quickly. I am educated, with a Bachelors in Exercise Physiology (Cum Laude), so I got over the hump a long time ago. I don’t look down upon anyone. Fanny packs, bad bad memories. How about tight skinz pants back in the day as well. Funny shit.

MW: Did you at one point have a true interest in winning a pro card?

RK: I still do. I hope to obtain that fucker in 2013 at Masters Nationals. I is just a personal goal, one I have had since I was a kid. I have experienced everything a pro body builder has already, except the pro card. I have been sponsored by Twinlab, MHP, MuscleTech and now Big Bitch Formula (www.bigbitchformula.com), I have traveled the country, working booths at show, tons of photo shoots, interviews, videos, magazines cover and features etc etc. I have done it all pretty much. Has it changed me or made me a better man? Not really, but it has made me realize body building isn’t a mean to an end. I will never make a career of body building. I just enjoy doing it. I wouldn’t have competed in over 30 contests in 20 years if I didn’t.

MW: What would have that really given you besides an annual bill to “renew” it?

RK: To pay for your pro card in the first place is the most absurd thing EVER. It may help my business slightly with the added title of IFBB pro body builder. That’s about it.

MW: Do you dabble in seedy ways to make money like majority higher level competitive bodybuilders do? You don’t have a pseudonym somewhere in cyberspace such as Zeus Maximus, do you?

RK: Too fucking funny. I have had so many people contact me for private posing, web cam shit etc. I have morals. I couldn’t live with myself if I did any of that crap. The only person I have a pseudonym for is my fiance. Gotta keep things new and exciting right ? lol

MW: It’s public knowledge now in the bodybuilding world over your distaste and mishap with hiring George Farah. You claim he was not invested in you and was very flaky like a typical bodybuilder despite your handsome payment to him. Tell us a little about that.

RK: We had a run in down in South Beach, Miami this past Nationals. I paid him for 16 weeks of contest prep. I heard from him the first 4 weeks and didn’t hear a peep until our paths crossed in Miami. I asked what happened ? He said what do you mean? I said, I haven’t heard from you in 12 weeks. He tried to turn it around on me, I haven’t heard from you. I said, George I paid you to be my coach, if you don’t hear from me, wouldn’t you feel obligated to at least check in with me ? He said, I lost your email. Someone broke into my garage/car and stole my lap top. I shook my head, knowing you don’t need your lap top to access your address book. I said, you have my number also. He said no I don’t. I showed my phone with his number on it. I said look, I am not hear to argue, can I get a refund, since I feel I paid for a service that I didn’t get ? He said, yeah sure, whatever to make it better. Have I seen any type of refund ?? NOPE. After my radio interview on RX MUSCLE, in which I told the same story, he probably got his panties all up in a bunch.

MW: What possessed you to hire George in the first place? Why George over somebody else such as a Chris Aceto or “Diamond” Dave Palumbo?

RK: I was going to go with Palumbo. The dude is pretty smart. However, a couple good friends of mine suggested Farah, so I did. I thought you get what you pay for ($1500) and Palumbo was much cheaper. Boy was I wrong. I may work with Palumbo for the 2013 Nationals, but to be honest, no one knows my body better than I do. I did consult with someone this past Nationals who was good, but if I had done things my way the final couple of days, I would have done much better.

MW: Is competitive bodybuilding in your future cards still?

RK: Indeed. I love this shit. I don’t give a flying fuck where the judges place me. I won’t kiss anyone’s ass either for a better placing. I do this to challenge myself. It is always a journey I enjoy. It is like therapy I suppose. Until I find another hobby/activity that challenges me in the same way, I will always be a body builder.

MW: What frustrates you the most with the way competitive bodybuilding is governed by the Usual Suspects and power brokers?

RK: Politics man…just politics. During the run in with Farah, he said I had a guy in your weight class place in the top five. I said who? I wont name names, but he said he placed fifth. I knew who it was and threw my arms up in the air and said, well that explains it. That is the only way someone with a fat ass and zero conditioning could make it in the top five.

MW: It seems like Men’s Physique is growing and bodybuilding is dwindling. Just look at the numbers. Why do you think more guys are choosing the Men’s Physique route?

RK: It is more mainstream. It is not as hard core. Body building has gone in the wrong direction the past 15 years. Bigger is not better. It has gone so far to the extreme that I don’t believe it will come back. But its the fans doing. No one wants to see a dude they see on the street every day. They want freaks. It is a freak show, but now the Physique division is great for the women admirers as well as the homosexual population. One thing about the NPC, they are smart business men.

MW: Competitive bodybuilding seems to be a game of alchemy, sorcery and chemical wizardry more than ever. I know of guys still on the local scene barely cracking the Top 5 in a light heavy class that use year around and exceed dosages up to 2g a week and possibly up to 10 unites of serostim daily. Is this facilitated by the way bodybuilding is governed?

RK: Its gone way way overboard. I say, if you don’t have the genetics to be a body builder, pick another hobby. You aren’t gonna make it past the local scene. People who use so much gear just on the local scene, make zero sense to me. This chemistry shit isn’t healthy. People are fucking with their long term health and longevity. I have learned the hard way regarding all of that also. Been there and done that with crazy dosages. I was strong, but bloated me, gave me high blood pressure and nose bleeds etc. Felt horrible all of the time. That ain’t fun to me. For the past several years, I have only touched stuff around contest time. If I cannot grow in the off season from eating lots, training like a beast, resting lots etc, then I am not cut out to be a body builder. Again it goes back to genetics man.

MW: Delusions of Grandeur seems to be an ailment affecting many competitive bodybuilders. In your early years of all of this did you think streets of gold and a lifestyle of a baller was waiting for you eventually?

RK: More people are realizing now that unless you are a Heath or a Cutler there is less than no money or opportunity for you. Like I said above, I have done it all except receive my pro card. It has helped my business etc. I know there isn’t a career in it for me. I learned this years ago. It’s all about balance. Most body builders are extremist for some reason or another. Body building is used to cover up insecurities as well. When something is done at one extreme, the other end of that extreme is waiting right around the corner. Universal balance man.

MW: You seem to be a smooth cat and Playa.  How many Figure girl Industry chick ass have you white washed?  Be honest.

RK: Out of respect and love for my fiance, I will not divulge that information. Let’s just say, I sowed oats here and there, when I was young, dumb and full of………BOOM !

MW: Is dating a competitor chick really all that? The ones I dated were all fit for a straight jacket and Thorazine drip.

RK: Chicks who get into the sport are just as fucked up as a lot of body builders. Covering up insecurities x 100. As for the ones who get on the juice, why the fuck do you want to have facial hair, a raspy deep voice, a manly face, zits, and a huge clit ? Well maybe the huge clit ain’t so bad for em. Easier to get off BOOM !

MW: Where does Rob Kreider see himself in five years?

RK: In 5 years, I will be married with kids, partnered with my boy Bobby Haire with Big Bitch Formula, kicking the supplement industry in the ass, and also opening a gym with him as well.

MW: Who are some of the best people in the bodybuilding industry that you admire and can actually call a friend?

RK: Mat Duvall, Troy Moore, Fred Smalls, Vinnie Galanti, Derek Farnsworth, Lee Priest.

MW: Who shouldn’t be expecting a Christmas card from you this year or anytime soon?

RK: George Farah !

MW: Marry. Fuck. Kill. Ready? Ava Cowan. Jessica Paxton. Erin Stern.

RK: I am engaged man brother. I wouldn’t marry or kill any of them, soooooo…….

MW: How can people get ahold of you for nutritional prep and contest coaching? Is there anything you’d like to plug? Feel free.

RK: My personal/business website is www.rkbodies.com. My sponsor Big Bitch Formula is gonna come on strong in 2012. The BEST tasting whey…ever. NO BS. www.bigbitchformula.com

MW: Name Association. I drop a name and in one word tell us what comes to mind.

George Farah: Fucking douche bag!

Steve Blechman: Wise

Steve Weinberger: The Godfather

Aaron Singerman: I don’t know who he is.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Bodybuilding.

RK Bodies – Personal Training in Washington, DC, Bodybuilder, Model

MuscleWeek exposed the unlikelihood of this actually happening by pointing out that even the most famous and well-known fitness model, Monica Brant can’t command that much of a salary. In fact, most fitness models and are barely compensated at all for endorsing supplements and representing these companies at Expos and stores, with the models receiving a tiny stipend or free supplements in exchange for their services.

MuscleWeek called BULLSHIT on Anna’s story right from the start — beginning with the whole $75,000 contract story — and ending with our own analysis of Anna’s physique, which we concluded was the result of, ahem, supplemental testosterone. But what about the middle part of the story — that this phantom supplement company offered her $75,000 but only if she agreed to take a non-steroid product called Anavar.

For the uninitiated, Anavar was a trademarked name for an actual steroid (oxandrolone) made by Searle (now Pfizer) Pharmaceuticals during the 1980′s and 1990′s and sold via a prescription. Anavar — the steroid — is no longer produced legally. But interestingly, in 2003 a man named Jared Wheat registered the abandoned trademark and his company (coincidentally, based out of Georgia) Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals began selling a product called Anavar. Now, MuscleWeek cannot say whether that product contained the substance oxandrolone or Hi-Tech was simply misrepresenting a placebo as Anavar, but Jared Wheat, the CEO of Hi-Tech was sentenced to 50 months in prison for selling generic knockoffs of legitimate products using an off-shore manufacturing plant.

But just to leave no stone unturned, MuscleWeek contacted Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals — the only company of whom we are aware is selling a non-steroidal product called Anavar — and asked them if they knew of Anna Watson and whether they were the company who offered Anavar and the $75,000 contract to her. Here is their reply:

And so, the plot thickens. Here is a nervous and jittery Anna Watson responding to our article on Inside Edition yesterday:

Watch carefully as she seems to grow nervous admitting even to using whey protein — feeling the unnecessary need to explain that it’s found in milk. Between the proselytizing and the fumbling, our BS Detector is going off the charts.

There’s going to be a break in this story soon. Because, as we always say at MuscleWeek: Behind every woman with large muscles is a boyfriend holding an empty syringe.