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As I age things have to change it seems.

Jeff Storch — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:58:40 +0000

I have noticed that that many of the IFBB pros Tend to train really lose. Branch Warren who is one of my favorites uses Ballistic, short range motions on many exercises. BAM, BAM, BAM! On noticed this with Dave on RTB trilogy….the “Dave Pulcinella row downs” So I actually started experimenting with this and what is crazy to me is I feel it less in my joints on many exercises (NOT ANYTHIONG ON LEGS!) and I can handle more weight. Seems like a win win! As I am getting older…something I am coming to grips with slowly now, I am having to find new ways to train. My old BLOOD & GUTS days seem to be over now to a large degree. I am still very strong on many exercises but it used to be I would just grab the F’n weight and push of pull or whatever had to be done….just “PUUUUUSSSH!” Now I find myself evaluating the whole time what my physical status is every 1/2 second so I don’t get hurt! What a bunch of bullshit! But 30 years has taken a toll on me to be sure. I hurt all the time. Something always hurts. I used to joke about if I did not have an injury somewhere I was not training hard enough. 3 tendon ruptures later and countless pull and strains (I just tweaked my groin about 2 hours ago!) It does not seem as funny anymore. The really stupid part is, after everything I have been through and those who know me know it is a lot, I cannot stop. I can’t. In a way I would like to but something inside me will not let me stop. I feel unfinished and I am not sure as to why. I will not after 25+ years at this sport let the last show I do be the one I got busted preparing for, I refuse. I will come back and it will be with a vengeance. I am going to push myself, my business and my focus on being successful in all areas of my life be it bodybuilding, my PT, or comp prep business, my relationship with my son and Rita and my family. Everything. Now I just need some 30 hour days!

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The fate of female bodybuilding….

Jeff Storch — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:33:34 +0000

I have attended several bodybuilding competitions already this year and I am afraid to say I am fearful of the future of women’s bodybuilding. At one competition there was only 1 female bodybuilder. At another competition while it was better there was only six female bodybuilders total. There should have been at many per weight class. This certainly wasn’t any shortage of bikini or figure competitors. Each of these classes had around 20 competitors per high-class. I understand the female bodybuilding isn’t for everyone but I do feel that the powers that be and the NPC are directing the sport to phase out female bodybuilding. With the addition of women’s physique to me this seems even more apparent. I think it is sad that women bodybuilding gives so little recognition without their pioneering efforts there would have been no bikini, no figure, and no fitness. In a sense is the powers that be fault that women’s bodybuilding is in the state that it is. I know several professional women bodybuilders who told me that they have no desire to look like the current Ms. Olympia and these are not petite women in any sense of the word. So when the look that is being presented as the best in the world is not sought after by the athletes who are participating in the sport how anyone can expect the average person to find something that they would be interested in pursuing. While I respect what the current Ms. Olympia has accomplished with her physique I can also see why it is not something that would be most people’s cup of tea. I hope something is done before it is too late for this aspect of her sport. Will I find women bodybuilders sexy and attractive which is obvious as I’m in a relationship of 10 years with a champion female bodybuilder even for me this has its limits. It would certainly be a shame if things are allowed to continue on their current course.

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Funny stuff from my book!

Jeff Storch — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:57:37 +0000

After the competition Tony and I ate like true gluttons. We each ate over a pound of cookie cake, six breadsticks, three quarters of a large pizza, half a pound of twice baked potatoes, three candy bars, a humongous slab of Oreo cake, and that was when I realized I had not had milk over six months! So I poured a 20 ounce glass of moo juice. Tony is there telling me how freaking good it is going to be with his eyes all big and an even bigger smile on his face. I took the glass and pour the milk down with a resounding AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Just as I was about to remark on how good it was it hit me! I had gone too far! The milk had tipped the scales! I was overcapacity and something had to give. I remarked “oh no, I should not have done that!” Tony was laughing I assume from the panicked look on my face. Why? he said. I said because Man it was too much! I am going to fucking blow! Now he is really losing it! He has bent over, holding his gut waving me off and yelling stop, stop, stop! You’re going to make me puke too! Then he laughed even more. I ran in the bathroom slamed the door and proceeded to regurgitate about 5 pounds of undigested food! As I was brushing my teeth I was hit with the realization that my stomach was completely empty. I felt like a partying Roman. I announced this upon going into the kitchen and my wife exclaimed “Jeff that is gluttony!” I said are you kidding me I have a six-month credit from starving! God will give me a pass on this I’m sure! This got Tony laughing again and holding his gut. Unfortunately for Tony he is not a puker and was unable to expel any of the food he consumed and was miserably full the entire night. I ate a normal amount of food went to sleep content and satisfied probably the happiest I had ever been in my whole life.

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More book…again!

Jeff Storch — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:13:19 +0000

Another factor was that I had done several diets up to this point so my body knew what to do. I have discovered over the years the more diets a person does the better your body gets it losing fat. It is much like muscle memory I suppose. We could call it diet memory and I had several contests under my belt by this time. You know the losses came more slowly and were much more difficult for Tony, at one point I was discussing with John the fact that Tony was not losing. John asked me what Tony’s calorie intake was. I informed him that Tony was only eating 1000 calories a day. To this John replied bullshit!” Tony was so pissed off! He was actually more pissed off than I’ve ever seen him since! He told me 20 years later if John hadn’t had 100 pounds on him, he would’ve punched him in the face! Tony hung in there like a real trooper and indeed he did lean out nicely for his first competition. We decided a couple weeks out he would go ahead with his plans to step on stage he and he had been practicing posing and had it down well. Tony seemed to be a natural at posing and moved from pose to pose well in his routine. A couple days before the show we decided to tan at his mom’s house in the basement. After we had a couple of coats of the old Coppertone suntan one we went to the stairs to find Toney’s huge Siamese cat Tika on the stairs looking at us in a strange way. I do not think she knew who we were with the tan on and it seemed like she decided to defend her territory! Tika had all of her claws out and she intended to use all the weapons at her disposal on us! She began growling really low and hissing, her fur was all puffed up and her teeth were bared. Tony tried to get past her and almost got laid open by a claw swipe! Not a good thing before one steps on stage display one’s physique. Tony tells me to try to get past her; I exclaimed “fuck that man!” So he gets a shoe and begins swatting at this bitch cat! She would not back down even an inch! The more aggressive Tony got the more aggressive Tika got. It was a battle to be sure. I have to tell you I was at the bottom of the stairs laughing my ass off at this bizarre spectacle taking place! Tony finally gave Tika a good hard whack to the face and she finally gave up and ran up the stairs and we quickly exited the basement. Once out of the basement Tony looks at me, eyes all big and said “holy shit, can you believe that?”I told him “I’d never seen anything like it!” but that it didn’t surprise me because when it comes to doing a contest prep Mr. Murphy always seem to be present in forcing his will of whatever can go wrong will indeed do just that and go disastrously wrong! Anyone reading this that has done hard contest preps will know exactly what I’m talking about! So with the tanning debacle over, we went and posed some and let the tan set some before adding yet another orange/brown coat until we were dark enough to take the stage. I drove to the show and Tony did quite well for his first time out. I received yet another third-place trophy.

The next competition that we would prep for would be in the 1989 Mr. Cincinnati, this would be my last teenage competition. I had also planned on crossing over into the open men’s lightweight division. I think by 19 my estrogen had begun to drop because of that my physique was becoming much harder. I also put a little more lean mass on because I had not competed in over a year, the constant dieting I had been doing since my first competition was really holding back my development but I just could not stop competing because I loved it so much. I was obsessed with competition and this was hurting my development. Sitting here in prison I realize that this obsession has really come home to roost now and a price too high has now been anteed up, but back to the story.

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Mooooore Book!

Jeff Storch — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:38:04 +0000

Several months after we started dating again Michele introduced me to Tony who is still my best friend to this day. Tony was a freshman at the time and was showing a great interest in working out Michele had told me. Larry and I had not been training together very much at this point and I needed a training partner. Tony did not drive so I agreed to pick him up every day after work and drive him to the gym after I went home and got a shower. We became great friends very quickly and Tony was my best man when Michele and I got married several years later.

So it began that I would pick Tony up every day we trained and drove him to Speedy’s and home again. Tony was a very strong kid and a very quick study as well. I taught him what I had learned over the last seven years under John and Gary’s tutelage simply by doing the workouts with him. It was a great advantage for Tony because he avoided all the mistakes I had made. My first several years were all trial and error. More error than trial! This sped things up for him greatly and it showed in his physique very quickly. He put on lean mass and gained strength very quickly those first six months training with me. Years later Tony told me I was sometimes a dick in how I went about things with him. I was surprised he felt this way but in looking back he was right about that. I was hard on him sometimes and kind of a cocky dick at times as well. But to Toney’s credit he took it and persevered through it all!

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Moooore book:

Jeff Storch — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:45:46 +0000

The evening portion of a bodybuilding competition is really more for the families and for the show promoter to make their money. There is no judging in the evening except for the overall winners of each class. Also at night you do your posing routine to music and it is ninety seconds long while in the morning it is sixty seconds without music. On the subject of music I had picked the theme from Conan the Barbarian. This is comical to me in looking back now because I feel a person’s music should match their personality and their physique. Now perhaps I had a fiery competitive sprit inside but at a whopping one hundred thirty six pounds in no way shape or form did my music parallel my physique! The powerful classical piece just did not match the package I was going to bring to the stage. However ignorance is bliss so I was happy as a clam at the time about the song.

At around six thirty the teenagers were told to start pumping up. So the whole oil and pump up process began yet again. I walked over to the backstage curtain and peaked out into the auditorium. I was shocked at how many people were out there. Holy shit it was simply packed with spectators. The morning had maybe a hundred people or so but now it was standing room only, I was simply stunned and quite nervous again.
They told my class to line up. As the show is ran in numerical order and as the promoter had said I was indeed number one and I would indeed start the show that night. The master of ceremony had information cards on each competitor and would announce your name, where you lived, trained and anyone you wanted to thank for their support. I had thanked John and Gary for their support and with that the announcer said “now let’s give it for our first competitor of the evening, Jeff Storch!” I walked out looking confident but inside I was shaking in my boots. My music started and I began going through the poses I had practiced a hundred times at least. At first the crowd sat silent and then from the darkness a baritone voice boomed “Come on now people, this young dude has busted his ass for this; let’s give it up for him!” The crowd seemed to be woke up by this and began to holler and cheer for me. I felt a huge cheese smile spread across my face and I think that is the very moment I was bitten by the bodybuilding bug. I completed my routine and was followed by the twelve other competitors in my class. After the last guy in our class excited the stage the expeditor told us to stand by and listen for our numbers to see if we were one of the three guys getting a trophy. Ten of us would be going home empty handed. Being the youngest in the show I had resigned myself I was probably one of the ones going home with nothing. It was at this point I heard the master of ceremony say, “In third place in the thirteen through seventeen division, number one, Jeff Storch!”I just stood there completely stunned! The guys in my class were all saying “GO, GO, GO man, you are in third place, you get a trophy!” I walked out on stage in a daze. A pretty trophy girl showed me where to stand, put my trophy down in front of me, put a medal around my neck and even gave me a kiss on the cheek! This is totally freaking awesome I thought to myself! The bug had really sunk its teeth into me at that point. This was going to be a long, long road!

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More Book

Jeff Storch — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:36:19 +0000

The final week I was told I needed to apply some fake tan. Back then all we had was QT and Sudden Tan. Both products were made by the same company and both had an orange hue to it but the sudden tan was not as bad and was browner. The stuff made you stink to high heaven. Really strong fake tan smell compared to today’s stuff and when you put two bottles of it on you smell really bad. So I stank but I was dark, I for sure had a bit of an Umpa Lumpa look to me though. My step mom asked me if I had been washing my hands in between coats. I said no and asked why. Well I soon found out why. The palms of my hands were black as coal. I went to the store that night and when I went to get my change for the items I purchased upon seeing my palm she recoiled back. I laughed and told her it was a fake tan mishap, she laughed her ass off and told me she thought I had some weird skin disease! Then she gave me my change.

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RS Transaderm

Jeff Storch — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:01:31 +0000

My take on Needtobuildmuscle.com RS Transaderm.
I have just completed an 8 week cycle of RS Transaderm and I must say I really do think the stuff worked, I am always a little skeptical of transdermal delivery systems but this one I think is the legit deal. I do think that the product would work better on a slightly older person like me because for one my dermis is a bit thinner than a younger persons and also the first ingredient DHEA is more effective in a person 40 and up due to naturally declining levels of this hormone as we age. Another master hormone Pregnelone will also help out a person who is older as well with naturally declining testosterone levels. The Chrysin works well it seems in a transdermal formula as well. It was proven that Chrysin does not make it through the digestive track well taken orally but if this is bypassed it works quite well as an anti-estrogen. 7,8 Benzoflavone has been clinically proven to improve healthy male hormone profiles and sexual function. In our world of bodybuilding, that means it increases testosterone secretion by the testes. Reservatrol is a powerful anti-oxidant and effective in reducing LDL lipid concentrations in the blood.
Now for how it worked on me: Every morning after showering I would rub 5 pumps of the product on my chest. It would absorb so quickly it was almost strange. I have never had any lotion or muscle rub or anything absorb so quickly. I have been half assed at best with my training, diet and even my HRT. Yes I will add I am on HRT. I have been using 250mgs of a test blend every 9 days. I have not been using anti-Estrogens or Anti-aromatase drugs and I have been leaning out as well as when I did. My strength is great as is my libido. I am not sure where my lipid profile stands at this point as I have not had it tested since starting the product. I am currently weighing in at 230# at around 7% range. The way I am eating and training I should not be doing this well. The RS Transaderm really seems to be doing the trick for me. I will defiantly re order the product and I am going to start recommending the product to my clients especially the over 40 year old crowd.

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more book for you!

Jeff Storch — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:57:29 +0000

One day I decided to have a small treat, or should I say cheat really I had a medium sized apple and I was going to put a small amount of peanut butter on it. This was my first diet cheat and I did not know that peanut butter is the devil for people on a competition diet. It all began as planned, small dabs of peanut butter on the apple, growing larger and larger and then the apple was gone…but the peanut butter however was not. I dug in with a vengeance! Nothing to drink and I am just eating this stuff like the world depended on me doing it. I finally got control of myself, well actually the three-quarter pound of chunky peanut butter sitting in my gut like a stone did! Then I freaked out! I cheated! I will run it off. Now when you consider that the amount of peanut butter I had just engulfed encompassed two-thousand two-hundred thirty-seven calories this was not in the realm of possibilities. I would have had to three-quarter of a marathon! But off I went to burn off that peanut butter! Now it was about ninety plus degrees outside and I was sweating like a dog with this lump of goo in my belly rolling around. Yes you guessed it…I started heaving really, really bad on the side of the road. If you have never vomited up three-quarters of a pound of peanut butter I would defiantly advise against trying it. It does not come up easy or smooth! That shit took work to get out! But it was gone and my cheat was nullified. So I jogged on home relieved. Now before you go off thinking this was some sort of the beginning of an eating disorder it is the only time anything like that happened during a diet. Now I have puked a thousand times from training. To me that is normal if you are training the way you should. But I never binged and purged again like that. I only cheated two other times in 26 years of competing.

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Leading up to my first contest prep…

Jeff Storch — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:36:42 +0000

The spring of nineteen-eighty-five I was training one night when I heard some of the guys and John talking about an upcoming bodybuilding competition. I had the previous summer attended my first competition but only as a spectator. John had actually won the overall at this competition. I also learned there was a teenage division. It is also where I saw my first Pro bodybuilder in real life. His name was Mike Christian and he was absolutely massive. I was kicking around the idea that I may give this a shot and diet for a show but in my mind’s eye I was light years away from this even being a possibility. I remarked to John that I would like to attend this show as well to watch. At this time John informed me that he had been watching me and he thought I had enough development to compete in this competition! Now I was really taken back. I felt nowhere near ready to get onstage in a pair of underwear all oiled up! I told him I did not think I was ready. He said to me if a person waits until they are ready they will never be ready! I have actually used this line over and over throughout the years. It is a truth that most bodybuilders regardless of level mostly see all of their flaws and not their gifts and strengths. I told John I would think it over. I never discussed this with my parents for months. Perhaps it was my fierce independence flexing its muscles again or perhaps I was embarrassed to tell them I would stand onstage in a pair of underwear oiled up and devoid of body hair! I was working for my Grandfather and uncle at the time and often bought my own food well a lot of it anyway so I could cover up the diet change for awhile anyway. So after a week of kicking all this around I figured what the hell!? So it was off to the races to start my prep for my first competition and basically the next 25 years of my life. Unreal to me looking back.

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