I found this posted on another message board.
'Everyone,
I’m the ‘Cover Guy’ from Boca Raton who was featured on the show last night, and I just wanted to address some things, because the people on this forum seem knowledgeable about the issue at hand.
First, my motivation for doing the show was to positively portray steroid use as opposed to abuse. I am appalled at what is going on within Congress and within this country where normal users are demonized as criminal. I was highly impressed with the HBO Real Sports Segment featuring John Romano, and wanted to convey a similar viewpoint.
After seeing the show, I am fairly pleased with how I was represented, but disapppointed in certain regards. You have to understand that they had 40 hrs of footage that they had to make into 12 or 13 minutes of actual footage. Let me say that again – 40 hrs of raw footage into 12 or 13 min of actual footage. A daunting job to say the least.
So much of what was cut was me ranting against John McCain and his ilk. Me talking about the difference between use and abuse. Me mentioning post-cycle protocol like HCG and Clomid, Me explaining that someone shouldn’t even think about using anabolics unless they’ve trained naturally for years, Me explaining about how I feel it is my decision to make, not the governments if I want to enhance my body, Me showing them blood-work that showed that my liver, kidneys and cholesterol were all in check, etc, etc, but I think they weren’t looking for such detailed information like that – they just wanted drama and that gay dude in Orlando surely provided that for them. (What a ****in’ joke he was, by the way)
Some other things to clear up – they portrayed it like I was attempting to gain the cover of Muscle & Fitness, which was not the case. I realize that at 6’2" 225 lbs with high lats, I would need to go to at least 240/250 shredded for a cover as prestigious as M & F. My goal was the fitness magazine all throughout the process. Darrem Charles trains at my gym, so I know that I’m not in his league in the least.
Also, towards the end of the piece, they portrayed it like I had ‘lost’ everything - cue melancholy music - which was simply not the case. Sure, I’ve lost some strength, but I’ve maintained about 90% of my gains due to HCG, Clomid and Nolvadex (which I used both during the cycle and post-cycle). Yesterday, I weighed in at 224 lbs, which is exactly what I weighed in during the show when they filmed me weighing myself. After coming off of test, I continued on GH for a few months, and now have just relied on NO-Xplode, Ntrix and Cell Masss to retain a good portion of my gains. Along with eating 6 to 8x a day. I’ll probably try to hold around 225 naturally, and then do another cycle to see if I can get to 240 or 250.
When I moved to Boca, I was 200 lbs, and got to 230 using anabolics. Without touching a weight, I would be 175 or 180 lbs. I was taking a test blend (cyp, prop, enanthate), anavar, halitest, gh (mixed with insulin), and winstrol towards the end preceeding the shoot. I also did lasix before the shoot as well.
Another pet peeve is that I explained the purpose behind each of the components in my cycle and specifically what each one would do. None of that made it into the segment however. Cliff, who counsels an IFBB pro, also went into much more specifics that never made the show. He even diagrammed exactly what certain substances would be doing for the cameras - it was like a science class, lol, but alas none of that saw the light of day. When he was speaking, they would keep telling him ‘dumb it down’ a bit, because people watching MTV wouldn’t understand his explanations.
With regard to people saying that I only train with cables, and the like, that simply isn’t the case either. They only showed a small percentage of the training stuff that they shot. Again, 40 hrs into 12 mins. The reason that I use the Hammer Strength for bench is a nagging rotator cuff that flares up when I do free-weigh bench, but I mainly use free weights and compound movements. I’m not the strongest guy in the world, but not the weakest either. I leg press 8 plates on each side, stack the pec deck ( as you all saw ), stack the leg extension, use the 60 lb dumb-bells for curls, do single-arm dumb-bell rows with 110 lb dumb-bells. I’m sure some of you will write in and say that you do a lot more, and I’m sure some of you do, but I’m not chopped liver either.
In my opinion, the show would have been much better off if it had the ultimate fighter guy and myself, and nixed the gay psycho guy. I think it would have been better served if they would have had say Wadler the ant-steroid fascist face off against the doctor featured on the HBO Real Sports segment. I cannot recall his name, but I’m sure most of ou know who I am referring to. But again, I think this would have bored most of their viewers who would have rather watched the ‘excitement’ of someone ‘ODing’ on tylenol. What a ****in’ clown that guy was. It almost felt like to me he took the Tylenol to spice up the True Life episode. ‘I know if I fake a suicide, it’ll look cool for TV.’ Did anyone else feel this way?
I feel for the parents who lost their son, but to me they are so off-base. It would be akin to me going to Tennessee drinking moon-shine, committing suicide, and then having my parents go in front of Congress and demanding the BAN of ALL alcohol. Utterly ridiculous. Steroid withdrawal?!? Steroid withdrawal?!? They had to be joking. I hope I don’t come off as too harsh, because they lost a son and everything, but give me a ****in’ break.
I’m not really around on message boards too much, but I wanted to post here, and clear things up just a bit. I feel that it is incumbent upon all of us to fight for our right to choose what we do with our bodies, not have the decision foisted upon us. Anyways, to everyone, stay healthy, stay strong!
-Peter from Boca’