Clayton South - Why Are You Not Making Gains?

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In future perhaps you may want to spare us from all the ‘psychology’ of your bodybuilding, and stick to the interesting information. I nearly didn’t read the article because of the riff raff I had to seek through to get to the information.

I am a medical student, I am in my intern year, and in 3 years I hope to start my specialist training to become an Endocrinologist. This article on hormones and the endocrine system was pretty average to poor in accuracy. You need to do more research and work before writing on such a technical topic. You don’t after all want to be publishing information that may impinge someone’s health…

[Clayton South]

Thank you for your opinion on the article.

As may be seen from the title of the article and the content, it is not an exhaustive resource on human endocrinology. The purpose of the article is to get people thinking about the importance of hormonal manipulation, not to become experts at doing so. For that purpose to be achieved many sources must be consulted and years of learning must occur. Had, in fact, the article been exclusivley about hormonal manipulation and endocrinology it would have been titled something along the lines of "Manipulating your hormones: All you need to know to make awesome gains!"

Regarding the psychology that is in the article i will say this: Psychology is my major and it is the perspective from which i write. IF this is not your style, that is OK. Its up to you what you choose to read. I dont ask that you read what i write and you really dont need to if it suits your fancy to not. In any event I write for those who WANT to read and who are interested in developing their health and bodies to their own maximum. And, in case you did not notice this in reading the article, the psychology is relevant for the purposes of making gains, hence its inclusion in the work.

As you can see from the title it was not primarily about endocrinology was thus not given a name like the one suggested. Furthermore, I do not write for MSc students or Phd's. I write for bodybuilders who come from all walks of life, and my job in helping them is to not overwhelm them with univeristy level material, but to communicate the essentials in an understandable way. Those of us who are advanced will seek out University studies and other top-level resources. However, I want to welcome those who are new to the lifestyle by providing the basics needed to start things off correctly. That can't be done by overhwelming a beginner or intermediate with a University study. Doing that will only result in more confusion and thus will have defeated my stated purpose.

Thank you for your view.

- Clayton South

Clayton, good response. Don't you hate how people judge your articles based on their opinion. If they don't like what you write, then they shouldn't read it.

some people are too cool

[The Big Daddy]

Originally posted by Clayton South
Thank you for your opinion on the article.

As may be seen from the title of the article and the content, it is not an exhaustive resource on human endocrinology. The purpose of the article is to get people thinking about the importance of hormonal manipulation, not to become experts at doing so. For that purpose to be achieved many sources must be consulted and years of learning must occur. Had, in fact, the article been exclusivley about hormonal manipulation and endocrinology it would have been titled something along the lines of "Manipulating your hormones: All you need to know to make awesome gains!"

Regarding the psychology that is in the article i will say this: Psychology is my major and it is the perspective from which i write. IF this is not your style, that is OK. Its up to you what you choose to read. I dont ask that you read what i write and you really dont need to if it suits your fancy to not. In any event I write for those who WANT to read and who are interested in developing their health and bodies to their own maximum. And, in case you did not notice this in reading the article, the psychology is relevant for the purposes of making gains, hence its inclusion in the work.

As you can see from the title it was not primarily about endocrinology was thus not given a name like the one suggested. Furthermore, I do not write for MSc students or Phd's. I write for bodybuilders who come from all walks of life, and my job in helping them is to not overwhelm them with univeristy level material, but to communicate the essentials in an understandable way. Those of us who are advanced will seek out University studies and other top-level resources. However, I want to welcome those who are new to the lifestyle by providing the basics needed to start things off correctly. That can't be done by overhwelming a beginner or intermediate with a University study. Doing that will only result in more confusion and thus will have defeated my stated purpose.

Thank you for your view.

- Clayton South

Do you called yourself an advance? Advance in what? I agree with you in not overwhelming the beginner or intermediate bodybuilder but your article dont get to the point. To much BLA, BLA, BLA is confuse for those people. Let get to the point. Psychology dont build muscles.