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Day 6: By now I have gone COMPLETELY yellow, pissing coca cola and crapping just fat that floats! Incredible stomach pains and cramps. I have to go to see my G.P.

G.P. said he believed it to be gall stones and not to worry as he would arrange an ultra sound within the next couple of days. My blood pressure too was far to high and and my heart rate was DOUBLE that of normal. My weight at the time was 14st. I was alarmed after telling the G.P. that a week ago I was nearer 17 1/2 stone! He said that gall stones can do this. Stupid me! I did not tell the him about the gear!

Day 7: Went to A & E could not wait the pain just to bad doubled up all the time no sleep. A & E do ultra sound found nothing, weight down to 13 1/2 stone. I had half a stone in a day I now looked like an aids victim. They decided to keep me in for observation after I decided to tell them what I had taken. (brave boy or just smart)

Day 8: Now bile salts coming through my skin and my skin tears like tissue paper when I scratch my self because the salts are itchy as hell and fucking with my mind all I want to do is rip my skin off. They have to sedate me and put me on a drip coz I had eaten nothing in 4 days as soon as I eat it it comes back up.

Day 9: whilst having a liver biopsy I vomit about 2 pints of blood over the nurses and the room. The pain was so bad that the gave me tri base morphine to stop me screaming. My blood was now orange due to the bile. My parents were called and told to come to Eastbourne general asap as I might not make it through the night.

This was due to my elevated heart rate which now had become 2 1/2 times normal even under sedation and they feared that my heart would explode. I was told that the anadrol had settled in my liver and eaten through the bile ducts and the cholesterol tubes that run through the bile ducts. This caused the fat and bile to mix which was like contact glue, roadblocking my liver and forcing various nasty fluids and such to back flush in to my stomach and this was what I painted the room with. Part of my liver had collapsed and disintegrated.

Day 10: I still living only due to a through the night plasma exchange, all new blood, modern tech and being pretty fit. Otherwise I would be DEAD.

I was in ICU for 2 months whilst they watched my road to recovery. My lowest weight on day 10 was only 9st 3lb. For the next 2 months I was put on a special diet blanched veg and chicken no fat salt or sugar, only water and semi skimmed milk and still on 2 drips with glucose and saline. The worst thing was during this time my legs were so weak that I had to have a cafeta fitted, I thought that the embarrassment was nothing compared to the pain. I was heavily sedated during ICU due to the itching and stomach pain.

After being in hospital FOR NEARLY 3 MONTHS I was released. I weighed on 11st and was still yellow. For 1 year I was on strict diet and no drinking or gear or I would be dead. I had once a month blood tests. It took 15 months for all of the yellow to go and for me to eat good again, I can now drink in moderation and 25 months after going to hospital I felt good at 16st and did my first mild course 1 sust weekly and 1 deca every 9 days and I have made good gains with no ill effects, so I now only listen to educated people whom I consider are more interested in seeing me gain and stay healthy than getting themselves rich.

My advise is to firstly build good foundations i.e. muscle density before using gear. But they are very willing to put their lives at risk to get bigger, all I try to do is advise them on my experiences and tell them to educate them selves and know their on bodies. But what can you do?

“I have spoken to this guy in depth about his trauma. All I can say is WOW! You were lucky mate and I am glad that you are now ok. To the readers, if you have any story like this - get it to me asap. OK we are pro-gear, but what we are NOT is pro gear of this sort. Let us know as quick as you can. You may, like this guy, save a few lives”.

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Mick Hart.

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“My parents were called and told to come to Eastbourne general asap as I might not make it through the night. A priest even read my last rights to me - THREE times!”

So it all began when I became like most of us do at times, despondent about, “What no gains?” After training for 5 years or more, I had reached that plateau of no more gains at the age of 22. I decided to seek some advice from a very large friend of mine called Jim who now works for BT and also knows my mate from Portsmouth, (small world) which is where I was hatched and raised.

He put me on deca and sust and his word was true after 7 weeks I had gained size and power which made me happy and Paul hadn’t steered me wrong, which I was worried about as he was a friend, but still was his interest in my health or his pocket? I took his advice on training and diet and it worked. A year later again I sought his advice and again I grew, only on a larger course, and no side affects at all; this I believed was due to him keeping me away from testate and tesdan 100 as I needed chest NOT breast.

Jumping 7 years now after working in the States and learning about gear and educating myself from books, articles and also seminars, I returned to good old Blighty. I set up base in Brighton and soon found a hard-core gym - great I thought. Straight in to running the security of clubs things were going very well. UntiI I felt the need to get bigger - as if I was not big enough already! 6′ 2″ at 17st 8lb with 12% body fat. Yep, I looked good!

I had done a few heavy courses in the States and decided that this would be my last course - famous last words. So after seeking out the gym’s ‘Mr. Supplier”, he told me of such a steroid that I would need as it would be the only thing on this course that would satisfy me. Orals I said with surprise and my friend Paul had never really touched the subject so I thought that they were no good.

After Mr Supplier had fed me with stories of 35-40lb gains and mild loss on completion I jumped at the Anadrol which came as Oxy something or other. I was instructed that 2 shots of sustanon a week with 2ml of deca every 6 days would be ALL I would need would be 3 of these ‘magic pills’ a day for the first 2 weeks, losing 1 a week until the last week at 1 a day. So for 6 weeks he said there would be minor side affects, but his answer to that was to, “……..just drink 5 litres of water a day and you’ll be OK!” What a wanker! So, £350 later I was ready.

Day 1: No worries.

Day 2: A little sick around food and felt shaky, but otherwise, no real alarm bells as yet.

Day 3: Mornings from hell! Sick, sick and more sick! I rang him up and asked what was happening? “Just have more pasta and water and you should be fine”

Day 4: My girlfriend noticed a yellowing of my eyes and looking bit gaunt. No alarm bells yet!!

Day 5: Stopped taking them - PERIOD! The stomach pains were just too much. Just 12 pills gone, what was wrong with me I asked myself? (Find out in Part 2 coming soon)

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Mick Hart.

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The pituitary is the most important gland in the body, a small pea shaped gland situated in a very inaccessible part of the body on the underside of the brain. Taking its orders from the hypothalamus and responsible amongst other things for changes in weight / appetite, water balance and moods. Super sensitive, it is affected by minerals, vitamin deficiencies, drugs, stress and EMOTIONS.

This gland produces a wide variety of hormones all of which are extremely important to the delicate balance of the bodies chemistry. Amongst these vital hormones is the SOMATOTROPHIC hormone, the 8th and 5th, which is an agent which mobilises the bodies defense mechanism against infection.

The thing to remember is that it is the 5th doing its work in fighting the invading virus, that makes you actually feel ill. The important fact I want you to assimilate is that the emotions of despair, dismal, miserable dark eruptions that also produce the 5th stress, with the accompanying feelings of illness similar to those induced by infection. In plain words, being miserable or despondent will make you feel ill, giving you aches, pains, headaches and stomach upsets.

Anyone who insists on having continual negative emotions. and you really DO HAVE A CHOICE, will be subjecting their body to diseases of which the list is long, including high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerated colitis and even a form of asthma… (usually the most chronic) can be associated with 5TH diseases.

The point we wish to repeat, over and over again, is your own OUTLOOK ON LIFE and the EMOTIONS you produce will drastically effect your health and well being. The antidote to stress diseases is of course to have or develop good emotions which have greater potential for good health than any medicine or drug yet discovered by man, (cortisone, penicillin and other antibiotics are of course indispensable. With all the good will in the world, even good emotions can not cure some illnesses).

The other great antidote to tension and stress diseases is RELAXATION. It is no coincidence that all of the bodybuilding stars who remain consistently at the top have one thing in common. When not training they have a RELAXED and PLACID NATURE! They do not waste or drain their energy reserves with useless worrying or get into emotional problems. Real strong men have learned through experience or been blessed by nature with superb CONTROL of their emotions. Muscle stars of real quality, when away from the gym, completely relax, facing life with a positive attitude, with dedication to training in the gym and mastery of their emotions when away from the weights.

Everyone, even YOU, can in time learn to control and improve your own emotions with enormous benefits to your health and general well being. Rewards include more energy to do the things you enjoy - and cutting down your chances of developing one of the multitude of diseases relating to stress.

Mental training like physical training must be sensible, suitable and practiced in gradual stages until it becomes second nature. What you have to do to give your body the best chance for good health, is to achieve a good balance of optimal hormones. Feeling cheerful, happy, contented, optimistic, hopeful, friendly and sympathetic is the best way!

Good emotions will counteract the effects of stress diseases. Remember YOU HAVE A CHOICE. Next time you find yourself becoming emotionally worried, fearful or simply fed up, CONSCIOUSLY CHANGE your thoughts to those of courage. cheerfulness and determination. Positive thinking and good emotions can change your whole outlook, health and help you to obtain the targets you may require in life, be it Mr OLYMPIA, the WORLD’S STRONGEST MAN or simply contentment.

Train Hard, Learn and Be strong,
Mick Hart.

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For most, mind over muscle conjures up visions of fire walkers, voodoo and yogi buried alive for days in trance like states. Hypnosis, for example, produces some striking phenomena, with actual changes of the muscular system.

Groups of isolated muscles can be easily put into a state of paralysis by suggestion and as easily released. Strangely enough, the paralysis always takes the form or idea as suggested to the patient and rarely the actual anatomical distribution of the nerve supply.

Under the heightened suggestible state of hypnosis, intense rigidity or contractions can be produced, for example the stage trick wherein the subject is stretched between two chairs supported only by the head and ankles and yet in this unbending state he can support one or more people standing on his mid section.

In the normal waken state, the individual would refuse to attempt the stunt, believing himself too weak, but under hypnosis with all inhibitions removed he is able to exert his full muscular power.

This inherent power is far greater than most imagine, one example given that our jaw muscles alone have a capability of 6OOlbs pressure, allowing many seemingly amazing feats to be ‘performed’ by trapeze artists who hang from their teeth/jaws etc.

A useful contrast to the cataleptic states is the abjity under suggestion to produce a condition known as CEREA FLEXIBILITAS, where by the muscles become so super relaxed, that they can almost be molded into waxen like shapes.

Changes in sensation can be produced varying front increased sensitivity to actual anesthesia, with the practical application making it possible (in good subjects) to have painless operations from tooth extraction to major surgery. Less spectacular but of equal if not more importance, is the effect of our normal everyday EMOTIONS!

The emotions and the body are absolutely inseparable. The fuel for most of our actions, i.e. ‘the stimulus are feelings or emotions’. You had to become emotionally involved and mentally motivated to make even an attempt at bodybuilding or weight training or indeed any form of self improvement. The subconscious mind is affected more by feelings than rational thought.

Before you ever attempt to lift a weight or commence an exercise program, you have to engage your imagination with firm thoughts of becoming better developed healthier and stronger. The image has to be there first before any thing can be achieved. When you begin training, you were using POSITIVE THOUGHTS and good emotions and what I wish to pursue in this article is the amazing importance of mind over muscle and the power of good.

You must learn not only how to emotionally call upon your body to act, but also how to call upon it with positive emotions. Face it, if almost everything you do is done in reaction to anger, revenge or jealousy, you are probably spending more time hurting than helping yourself. On the other hand, if your actions are the result of curiosity, trust, faith and enthusiasm, they are more likely affecting your life in a positive manner.

“All successful people, be they successful in the gym, in their personal lives or in business, have a set of positive emotions which trigger their actions.”, so says MIKE DAYTON former natural bodybuilder, famed for his ability to break free from regulation handcuffs and other amazing feats of strength.

As regular weight trainers we have become aware that even moderate exercise stimulates the pituitary gland producing higher levels of the body’s own morphine like endorphins. Thus healthy exercise allows us to handle more stress. As body-builders we regularly study the latest dietary findings, the importance of vitamins, minerals and supplements from amino acids to regrettably in some cases drugs, and yet very little attention is paid to the most positive of all health (and therefore strength factors) i.e.. HEALTHY EMOTIONS.

Ill health, caused by poor emotions is usually bracketed under the label as psychosomatic. No longer labelling people as ‘hypochondriacs’ or neurotics. Modern medics recognise a wider and wider growing list of illnesses as psychosomatic (literally translated as the mind making the body sick).

All the muscles in the body are influenced by the emotions. An obvious well known emotional effect is blushing. Equally common is emotional or tension headaches produced by the contraction of the blood vessels inside and outside the scalp. Nearly all headaches are produced by emotional tension. Migraines, admittedly a more complicated type of headache and often one associated with certain food allergies, can also be produced by stress and poor emotions.

Your epidermus (skin) soon shows signs of poor emotions, especially tension, with constant squeezing down of blood vessels in the second skin layer, producing symptoms such as NEUIODERMATITIS. Other results of emotions on skeletal muscles include fibrositis (I’ve got that right this minute just typing) rheumatism and similar named complaints. The emotions that cause such muscular aches and pains, are those of despair, or irritation.. ie. the emotions produced by a person having to do something he or she would prefer not to or a situation from which he (or she) would like to escape. (most usually WORK).

The pain is caused by the involuntary tightening of muscles, usually those of the lower back, shoulders and neck. EMOTIONALLY tight muscles can also produce chest and stomach pains even more worrying to the owner, mimicking more serious problems You will never produce good muscular development or great strength unless your glands, via emotional stability, are working in happy balance. (coming soon Part 2)

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Mick Hart.

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Body temperature muscles are more flexible when they are warm. Flexibility can be increased by up to 20% simply by warming up.  Inactivity flexibility of an inactive person is considerably less than that of an active person.  Age the greatest flexibility can be obtained between the ages of 7 - 12. After 25, flexibility will begin to gradually decrease.

Gender females tend to be more flexible than males. Possible reasons for this are due to childbearing potential in women.  Joint structure genetic differences in bone structure and muscle length affect the range allowed at certain joints.  Room Temperature as said earlier muscles stretch better when they are warm.

Most resistance to stretching comes not from the muscle tissue, but from the connective tissue which includes ligaments and tendons crossing the joint. Ligaments are inelastic but flexible. Stretching is achieved by applying a force to a joint while at the end of range.

There are two types of technique when stretching. First of all the most common and safest form is passive stretching whereby the muscle stretched remains in a relaxed state throughout the entire stretch, e.g. static stretching. Secondly, active stretching whereby the muscle stretched contracts through a range of motion during the stretch, e.g. ballistic and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (or PNF to his mates).

Static Stretching
Achieved by the slow, gradual and controlled elongation of muscle/s through full range of movement. A constant but gentle force is maintained on the muscle by holding a stationary position once the point of stretch has been reached. Once this position has been achieved it should be held for a minimum of 10 seconds breathing deeply throughout.

Guidelines for static stretching include -
Move into and out of each stretch slowly.  DO NOT bounce into stretches.  Breath out deeply while moving into a stretch.  Relax when a stretch is felt in the muscle.  Hold for at least 10 seconds.

Dynamic (Range of Motion Stretching)
Involves a repetitive rhythmic action, where a range of movement at a joint is gradually increased. As it increases, a stretch on the muscles of the joint occurs at the end of range. With each movement, the stretch is moved into and out of at a slow and controlled pace.

The key to performing successful Range of Motion is maintaining a very slow and controlled pace with every movement. If the stretch occurs too fast it becomes ballistic. Performing dynamic stretches can prevent over-stretching of muscles, as it is not possible to apply a great amount of force during the stretch. Dynamic stretches offer a way of stretching muscles while continuing to move, alleviating the problem of a drop in heart rate.

Guidelines for Dynamic Stretches are -
Initial movements are small, ROM increases gradually until full ROM is reached.  Movements must be performed at a slow pace.  The movements should be repeated several times for the stretches to be effective.  The muscle being stretched should be relaxed & not contracted during the stretch part of the movement.

Ballistic Stretching
A high force, short duration form of stretching. Considered unsafe for the general public because even though it can produce improvements in flexibility its application is much more sports specific as it involves taking the muscle to the end of it range of motion and ‘bouncing’ to over -stretch it.

Because of this, it can cause damage to the muscle and can cause microtears in the muscle fibres. Such trauma can in fact decrease flexibility. Unless you are guided by a professional (with pretty comprehensive insurance) avoid this one at all costs. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF Stretching)

This one is a great one if performed properly. PNF was originally developed for the rehabilitation of injuries. The theories behind PNF stretching are based on the theory a muscle can relax more fully after it has performed a maximum isometric contraction. In this relaxed state it is less resistant to increases in length or stretching. As an isometric contraction is performed at this end of range point, it is believed it will increase the strength of a muscle at this point.

The results being greater muscular function through a greater range of motion. Almost any static stretch can be converted to a PNF stretch provided there is immovable resistance. One aspect which is commonly used is the Contract Relax sequence of the PNF process. PNF does result in remarkable improvements in flexibility immediately after stretching.

1. Take the joint to its end of range placing the muscle in a stretched position.
2. Have the muscle perform an isometric contraction against an immovable force for approximately 6 seconds.
3. Allow the muscle to relax.
4. Move the joint further into its and of range and hold for approximately 10 seconds or until the inverse stretch reflex is initiate.
5. Repeat steps 2 - 4 several times.

This technique should only be performed after the body has been thoroughly warmed up. The force of the contraction should be gradually increased and decreased. If a partner is assisting, their only role should be in supplying the immovable force during the isometric contraction and gently assisting with increasing the range after this contraction. At no time should the partner use force to increase the range during the stretch. They should always listen to the participant and follow all directions.

Quite rightly, some authorities on have questioned the benefits of stretching claiming that stretching prior to exercise compromises the mobility of the joint. I would be inclined to agree with this. Excessive stretching and over stretching can also lead to instability of joints. Leave the big stretch till after your workout. Stretch lightly at the beginning and during your workout - particularly if you are doing legs. The last thing you want are your knees buckling underneath you while you’ve got 200 kg’s on your shoulders!

Finally, think about doing yoga, Pilates or a stretch specific class (if your gym provides one). I can’t recommend these classes enough. You won’t look like a pussy doing them. I can guarantee that after about 3 sessions you’ll find yourself feeling much more supple and a lot less achy. You may find yourself with some unusual aches and pains at first but this (assuming you have a very good instructor) will probably be the result of your body re-aligning.

Train Hard, Learn and Be strong,
Mick Hart.

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