Ben has been kind enough to offer his training advice through our forum to any of our Tampa Bodybuilding members!

I'll give him a chance to introduce himself here :-) 

Alright guys, my shows are done and over with. I'm in a bulk for a year and a half now. If you choose to seek advice, I'm assuming you are willing to work hard and can take fair criticism, if not, I might not be the one you'd want to seek it from. If you dare to handle an open and honest answer to your questions, feel free to fire any questions and I will try to get to them as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

I am well versed in all aspects of training and fairly experienced in athletics, powerlifting, and bodybuilding. I used to be a training director at Bally's and was IFPA certified in Personal Training as well as Nutrition. I have given a lot of time and work back to the bodybuilding community, this is just one more avenue that I am willing to participate in and hopefully help you all in your endeavors.

Career notes and tidbits for those of you who don't know me:

Height: 5'9

Weight: 210 up to hopefully 270ish depending on season... (Normal walking weight is around 240-250....but that is changing)

Best raw bench recorded with pause: 430

Best raw deadlift recorded: 710

Best raw squat recorded: 565

2005 - USF StrongestBull (Powerlifting) Heavyweight 1st Place

2005 - 3rd Place Light Heavies NPC Level 3 - Tampa Classic

2006 - USF StrongestBull (Powerlifting) Heavyweight 1st Place 

2007 - APA 242 RAW Full Meet World Record Holder

2008 - 3rd Place Heavyweights NPC Level 5 - Palm Beach

2008 - 3rd Place Heavyweights NPC Level 5 - Panama City

Videos can be found on www.myspace.com/Benny5

Alright that should be enough for now. Joe has asked me to come on here and throw some positive words and advice to those seeking it on his forum. And that's what I shall do. Ask any Q and I'll do my best to answer it for you. Welcome to this journey in life, to succeed, you're going to have to reach for Freak Status, in this journey I, the original Genetic Freak, will do my best to help you, so take advantage.

Love,

Benny

The Genetic Freak

Essential is a dynamic term meaning absolutely necessary. I personally do not consider waximaize a NECESSITY but more like a LUXURY when it comes to carbs. A simple mix of a lil glucose, fructose, and dextrose is efficient enough for growth when it comes to post workout carbs. This being found in most postworkout shakes. However, as I said, a LUXURY in bodybuilding is a good thing to have in your arsenal if you can.

Benefits of waximaize.... Dense carb, drives nutrients into the glycogen storage/muscles, cleaner and will be used more efficiently than other sugars (opposite would be a fast acting glucose or fructose which can be useful but not as useful as it's life is short lived)

Proper protocol for waximaize is to have it with you, and drink it ALONE (No protein with it!) as soon as your workout is done. Then when your drive home is complete, hit up your Whey proteins. (Adding more carbs with this shake as well if you choose....) This ensures absolute absorption and refueling the glycogen stores, and also lets the protein (introduced 20-30mins after the waxi) to sweep in behind and do it's job as recuperative and rebuilding.

Hope that helps you a bit. My personal preference in pre and postworkout protocol is this.... AT LEAST FOR BULKING ANYWAYS... (when dieting I rely heavily on BCAA's and a hungry belly so to speak before workouts)...

If feasible with budgeting.....

Micellar Protein or a WeightGainer 30mins to an Hr before the workout

BCAA's, Extend, or Accelerade (even Gatorade) during... granted I lean on the weightgainer/micellar still being digested and my workouts not lasting too long so this step might not be as necessary

Workout ends, and guzzle a Waximaize, or again a quick gatorade/simple sugar just to rush nutrients into the glycogen stores (muscles)

As soon as I get home (usually 30 min after working out as there's always people to talk to, posing, or simply driving home) I hit up a whey protein (weight gainer at this time)

45min to An hr after that I hit a solid meal REAL FOODS of complex carbs and clean protein

So yeah that's my nutrition protocol for my workouts.

ANYMORE Q's? Bueller? Bueller? People keep bringin the Q's and hopefully I'll keep bringing the answers!

Never drink the waximaize alone!!  why transport only one nutrient(you only mentioned glycogen), when you can shuttle even more important nutrients along with it.  A little more in depth about waximaize.......it has a very high molecular weight, therefore bypasses the stomach and is directly absorbed in the small intestine, now waximaize is a complex carbohydrate, so you are actually absorbing a complex carb right into your blood(normal carbs have to be broken down into monosaccarides to be absorbed and converted to glucose and then glycogen.......ok, so the importance is to mix some creatine and BCAA's along with it to shuttle these even faster to the muscles.....yes creatine monohydrate can be used here, but never creatine mono without waximaize...(otherwise you would have to use ethyl ester or krealkalyn), this is because the super fast absorption of the waximaize will pull the creatine monohydrate into the bloodstream before it can convert to creatinine(a waste product of creatine when it reacts with the hydrochloric acid in the stomach)  and correct, you cant use whey protein with it because this will change the molecular weight of the waxmiaze thus affecting the absorption rate(making it slower)

so there you go

BIGJ

this comes down to a budget/product preference for the user. obviously the science is there, thus the product is there. if it were me, a product like volugro would make it an easy decision for me, and i'd also be pressed to also pickup a regular bottle of krealkalyn as well.... to use in the morning and prebed. if feasible budget wise, i'd go with both. if again on a budget, the products like volugro, combine 2 into one and usually save on the budget and on shelf space and also less things to remember to take. so yeah, get the volugro, when you're done with your shows! ;)

Hey,

New here (was referred by Guinto)

You have some monster numbers bro. What is your training like? 

currently it is all about the HvH...

http://www.tampabodybuilding.net/orca/topic/Benny5-s-training-Q-A.htm#topic/Benny-s-HvH-Program-.htm

Hey guys. My name is Dixon. I want to start a workout plan on high intensity training, that I found in a book by ellington darden. The main issue for me is nutrition guide for my current size. I'm a first timer so please try explaining it in simple terms. Thanx Guys