Summary: -------------------------------------<br> ♦ Magic Tricks and Photo Shoots ♦<br> -------------------------------------<br> Scott shares personal stories from his bodybuilding past to illustrate techniques the fitness and supplement industries use to create the illusion that their products work.<br> <br> ♦♦ The Story Behind the Story ♦♦<br> <br> • To prep for one photo shoot in Muscle Mag, Scott enhanced his vascularity by taking a sauna and chewing niacin a few minutes beforehand.<br> - Warm air and niacin improve superficial vascularity; makes vessels disappear beneath the skin.<br> - Niacin can make the skin red and itchy.<br> <br> • Techniques like this are used in before and after photos to promote supplements.<br> <br> • Supplement companies began paying Scott to transform models with 12-week programs to get them photoshoot ready with training and diet. They would then credit the bodybuilders’ appearances to the supplements.<br> <br> • Scott never took any of the supplements that his photos were used to promote.<br> <br> • White backgrounds are used in photo shoots to accentuate the model’s ripped appearance.<br> <br> • Scott and Andy would have Cycle Diet cheat days shortly before photo shoots and showed up super-lean.<br> <br> • The Cycle Diet kept Scott and Andy photoshoot ready year-round.<br> http://thecycle.diet/<br> <br> • Thinking a supplement will create a great physique instead of diet and hard work is like thinking you can be a rock star without learning how to play guitar.<br> <br> • If [a supplement] sounds too good to be true, it probably is.<br> <br> **Special Offer - Get a FREE week of workouts from my most popular workout program, The Hardgainer Solution:<br> http://hardgainersolution.com/free/<br>
