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Chapter 1

What is a body transformation?

“TC, it looks like you will let anybody write for your magazine. That new

guy, Christian Thibaudeau doesn’t even look like he trains, why should I

trust him?”

- Dan W.

11/16/2002

INTRODUCTION

We live in a superficial world; most people will do anything to give the

impression or illusion of being something that they aren’t in hope of gaining

respect, adulation, admiration or other such things. And as a society we do

encourage that type of behavior because we seem to only look at the part of

the iceberg that we can see, ignoring the submerged portion which might

really be more important. If it looks the part then it’s good enough. “That

guy has a BMW, a fancy house and all the new techno gadgets money can

buy… he must be rich!” , never mind that the guy has two mortgages and a

slew of credit companies harassing him to get their monthly dues. The guy

looks like he’s rich but in reality he’s probably poorer than the average bum

because of all the money he owes! This is what I call the “modified Honda

Civic syndrome”: when I walk around town I see all those young bucks

adding flashy body parts, tinted windows, demonic logos and shiny mags to

their car, yet they rarely invest in their engine. Sure the car looks like a

street-ready NASCAR racer, but it still only has 115HP! Bottom line is that

as a society we reward looks first and foremost. And this is no different

when it comes to your physique and appearance.

Not so long ago when men went out they might spend a few minutes

combing their hair and made an effort to select the shirt that wasn’t as dirty

as the others and that was it. Now we have men going to the hairdresser right

before hitting the supermarket, selecting the right fuchsia tank top to fit

perfectly with their brand new shirt… unbuttoning said shirt just enough to

let that tank peak just right, giving that “neglected” look (that’s right, men

now spend 30-45 minutes adjusting their clothing in such a way that they

look neglected). Basically looking good is now just as important for men as

it is for women. Face it; most men want two things when going out:

1. To impress and seduce women

2. To intimidate other men

And in many circumstances focusing on clothing will work. Just buy the

coolest treads, get a jazzy haircut (or go for the shaved look… all real men

are shaved you know!) and voila, you are an instant sex symbol. However

what happens when your amour of illusion (your clothes) aren’t there to

improve your image? When the clothes fly off? Do you look good nekkid ?

You bring a smashing girl to your place; she was seduced by how great you

looked when you met her. You get ready to start to know each other when all

of a sudden your armor falls off and, as Homer Simpson would say “ Look at

that flubber fly ”. You built yourself pretty high up and now you’re sure to hit

the ground pretty hard when you fall of your pedestal sire!

And what about summertime? Your

mighty armor will be of little use at the

beach, unless you want to be that weirdo

wearing a three-piece Armani suit while

playing beach volleyball!

Both of us (Anthony and I) are first and

foremost performance guys. We both

come from an athletic background

(football and Olympic lifting for me, rugby for Anthony) and as such we

can’t help ourselves thinking that a body should not only look good, it

should be able to perform too. We don’t want that flashy Civic with 115HP,

we want the new Dodge Charger that can rip the asphalt off the ground!

However we do understand that those who start to hit the weights do so only

to look good. They don’t care if they can run a 4.3 forty or be the king of the

scrum. We can’t blame them; it’s the way society works nowadays. With

that in mind we decided to come up with a book detailing how you can build

the Greek God body you want. While we love to talk about improving

performance, in this book we will focus on the methods and strategies that

will help you gain muscle, lose fat and sculpt the physique that will make

you stand out when showing some skin . We will provide complete training,

nutrition, supplementation and even performance-enhancing substances

plans to help you get the results you want as fast as possible.

This book will be adequate for both the natural trainee and the enhanced

one. Each of Christian’s chapters will deal will the natural ways (training

and nutrition) of improving your physique and will provide complete plans

to reach your goals. Anthony’s chapters will be tagged after each of

Christian’s chapters and will provide “advanced” ways of making the

training and nutrition plans outlined more effective.

WHAT IS A BODY TRANSFORMATION?

In the world of strength training there are several specific goals, reasons why

people slave and sweat day-in and day-out lifting heavy things for the heck

of it (are we crazy?). Many of these goals are pretty much well defined and

understood by most as they’ve been around for a long time: gaining strength,

building muscle size, losing fat, improving performance, getting “in-shape”

(whatever that means) and, for most … making friends while pretending to

be training! To that list of objective we now must add body transformation, a

catchy term that is actually simple to understand. But before we get into that,

here’s a table describing the different types of goals that peoples who train

with weights may have.

Goal

Description

Comments

Strength gains

Consists of training to improve the capacities of the

muscles to lift heavier weights.

Can either be general, as in strengthening every muscle group for

its own sake; or specific to a greater objective? For example

improving squat/bench press/deadlift strength for a powerlifting

competition; the snatch and clean & jerk for an Olympic lifting

competition; or specific events if competing in strongmen

competitions.

Most of the time this type of training is accompanied by super-

human eating in hope or gaining more bulk and strength.

Once again, this could be either in its general form: gaining as

much size as possible for its own sake; or specific to a greater

objective like the “off-season” phase of a bodybuilding

preparation, a bulking period for an underweight football player,

etc.

Muscle building

Consists of training with the objective of adding as

much muscle mass as possible to your body.

While in an ideal world this “bulking” thing would occur without

any fat gain, in reality most all-out muscle building phase leads to

some fat gain. In most individuals a 1:1 ratio is acceptable

however many misguided individuals end up gaining more fat

than muscle in hope of getting huge.

Losing fat

Consists of using a combo of weight training and

cardio to shed excess body fat.

This is another very common goal, especially nearing the summer

months and after the holidays. The objective is to lose a ton of fat

in a short period of time. Most people make cardio training and

crash dieting the cornerstone of this objective and as a result tend

to lose an equal amount of muscle as they do fat. They basically

become smaller versions of themselves.

This is the broadest objective as it often requires the development

of several physical capacities concurrently: strength, power, speed,

agility, general endurance, specific endurance, etc. As a result

several different training means and methods are used (weight

lifting, plyometrics, ballistic training, GPP, agility work, etc.)

Improving performance

Consists of using various training means to improve

the physical capacities needed to perform in your sport

of choice.

Getting in general shape

Consists of training to improve well-being and health.

Normally revolves around the “big three”: cardio, resistance

training and flexibility work. However most of the time, training is

not actually arduous or very serious, nor does it really need to be.

Body transformation

Consist of using cardio, strength training, nutrition and

supplementation to transform the overall look of your

body by changing the repartition of fat and muscle.

This is basically a combo of a fat loss and muscle building

protocol. We do not want to simply lose fat: we want to lose fat

while increase muscle mass, thus drastically changing the muscle

to fat ratio. In simple words we’re talking about training to look

good

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