Comments for The Art of Bodybuilding http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com Just a few thoughts from Jim Morris Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:49:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on I BELIEVE by Jim Morris http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2012/01/26/i-believe/#comment-3632 Jim Morris Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:49:18 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=113#comment-3632 Thanks for taking the time to drop me such a wonderful note. It is always inspiring to hear from long time vegans. It validates my beliefs and hopes for a better world. Thank you also for taking care of the unfortunates who find themselves in the horrible predicament known as a "pet". I now have my eighth and last dog. It has been a 180 degree education over a period of some 50 years and at the suffering of several dogs that I have arrived at this point. Thanks for taking the time to drop me such a wonderful note. It is always inspiring to hear from long time vegans. It validates my beliefs and hopes for a better world.
Thank you also for taking care of the unfortunates who find themselves in the horrible predicament known as a “pet”. I now have my eighth and last dog. It has been a 180 degree education over a period of some 50 years and at the suffering of several dogs that I have arrived at this point.

]]> Comment on I BELIEVE by Dr. Barry Taylor http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2012/01/26/i-believe/#comment-3627 Dr. Barry Taylor Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:36:57 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=113#comment-3627 You're an inspiration, Jim, both physically and spiritually. As a 52 year old amateur bodybuilder and 30 year vegan, I look up to you in many ways. Your success highlights the health benefits of a nonviolent diet. Your insightful blog highlights the serene wisdom in making this lifestyle choice. If a long time vegan veterinarian can ever be of any help to you, please ask. Thank you. doc Taylor You’re an inspiration, Jim, both physically and spiritually. As a 52 year old amateur bodybuilder and 30 year vegan, I look up to you in many ways. Your success highlights the health benefits of a nonviolent diet. Your insightful blog highlights the serene wisdom in making this lifestyle choice. If a long time vegan veterinarian can ever be of any help to you, please ask. Thank you.
doc Taylor

]]> Comment on BELIEFS by Jim Morris http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/11/12/beliefs/#comment-3502 Jim Morris Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:07:06 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=110#comment-3502 My primary reason for being vegan is my health. As for being a personal trainer develop a philosophy based on your personal beliefs and practice. Put another way teach what you live. My primary reason for being vegan is my health. As for being a personal trainer develop a philosophy based on your personal beliefs and practice. Put another way teach what you live.

]]> Comment on BELIEFS by David Meyer http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/11/12/beliefs/#comment-3369 David Meyer Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:20:42 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=110#comment-3369 I am really impressed with how strong and healthy you look at 75. I just got certified to be a personal trainer and want to emphasize the benefits of moving people towards a more vegan based diet. I am teaching a class on Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease with a Plant-based diet and I have a slide about you. Can you let me know the number one reason you are a vegan so I can share that with my students? Is there any advice you could give me to become a successful personal trainer? I want to primarily focus on body weight exercises which is a different route, but I gravitate towards those type of exercises for a variety of reasons. My uncle passed away from a heart attack at 37 so I am very aware of the dangers of following a diet of too many processed foods and too many animal products. I am really impressed with how strong and healthy you look at 75. I just got certified to be a personal trainer and want to emphasize the benefits of moving people towards a more vegan based diet.

I am teaching a class on Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease with a Plant-based diet and I have a slide about you. Can you let me know the number one reason you are a vegan so I can share that with my students?

Is there any advice you could give me to become a successful personal trainer? I want to primarily focus on body weight exercises which is a different route, but I gravitate towards those type of exercises for a variety of reasons. My uncle passed away from a heart attack at 37 so I am very aware of the dangers of following a diet of too many processed foods and too many animal products.

]]> Comment on About by Joe http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/about/#comment-666 Joe Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:23:56 +0000 http://thorsoft.com/TheArtOfBodybuilding/?page_id=21#comment-666 Hi Jim You look great and are truly an inspirational. Two of my friends you have trained in the past was really enjoying work out with you. Especially the Knowledge and wisdom they learned from you. They highly recommend you as a personal trainer. Keep up the great work. Joe Hi Jim
You look great and are truly an inspirational. Two of my friends you have trained in the past was really enjoying work out with you. Especially the Knowledge and wisdom they learned from you. They highly recommend you as a personal trainer. Keep up the great work.
Joe

]]> Comment on LISTEN TO YOUR BODY by Frank http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/07/18/listen-to-your-body/#comment-609 Frank Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:38:13 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=59#comment-609 Jim, I'm very sorry for the slow response. I've been traveling for business. I have been following a diet of healthy foods and normal size portions. I have cut the amount of meat that I consume and only eat high quality low fat cuts. I eat Salmon 2-4 times weekly. I have increased nut consumption but only 2 oz. at a serving. I have cut dairy but not completely out of my diet, still using milk for my coffee, some low fat skim milk swiss cheese and 2-3 egg yolks per week. I do eat egg whites. I have completely cut soda and diet soda from my diet as well and limited my fruit juice consumption. I am not a large consumer of alcohol and have very, very little contact with it. Maybe 1 glass of wine or 1 beer per week. I drink a huge amount of water and iced tea without any sugar or fake sweetner. Concerning exercise, I've increased walking, jogging, biking and just being more physical. I keep a set of dumbells around and do some presses, curls and incorporate some pushups. I know I must and want to increase my workouts. I would like to lose another 100 lbs. and get into the 185-190 area. Concerning "fat pictures", yes I am embarressed to admit that I have more then I want to remember. I look forward to hearing from you and will check the blog more frequently. Thank you and regards, Frank Jim, I’m very sorry for the slow response. I’ve been traveling for business. I have been following a diet of healthy foods and normal size portions. I have cut the amount of meat that I consume and only eat high quality low fat cuts. I eat Salmon 2-4 times weekly. I have increased nut consumption but only 2 oz. at a serving. I have cut dairy but not completely out of my diet, still using milk for my coffee, some low fat skim milk swiss cheese and 2-3 egg yolks per week. I do eat egg whites. I have completely cut soda and diet soda from my diet as well and limited my fruit juice consumption. I am not a large consumer of alcohol and have very, very little contact with it. Maybe 1 glass of wine or 1 beer per week. I drink a huge amount of water and iced tea without any sugar or fake sweetner.
Concerning exercise, I’ve increased walking, jogging, biking and just being more physical. I keep a set of dumbells around and do some presses, curls and incorporate some pushups. I know I must and want to increase my workouts. I would like to lose another 100 lbs. and get into the 185-190 area. Concerning “fat pictures”, yes I am embarressed to admit that I have more then I want to remember. I look forward to hearing from you and will check the blog more frequently. Thank you and regards, Frank

]]> Comment on VEGAN BODYBUILDING by Jim Morris http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/08/02/vegan-bodybuilding/#comment-263 Jim Morris Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:45:33 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=82#comment-263 Your classmates’ beliefs are unfortunate as they will limit their possibilities in life. Prior to Roger Bannister it was believed that a human was physically incapable of running a sub 4 minute mile. Prominent scientists had shown without a doubt that the human legs could not move that fast for that long a period of time. Once Bannister shattered that belief all the top runners of the time broke the limit. As long as they had believed it could not be done they had been unable to do so. I have written many times that my initial weight gain was a fortunate convergence of circumstances. By sheer coincidence Bannister's record and belief shattering event occurred in May 1954 one month before I was introduced to bodybuilding in June of 1954. So I did not realize or believe I was not supposed to be able to gain 35 lbs in three months. The amount of muscle a person should hold is determined by the skeletal structure. You know, Endomorph, Ectomorph, Mesomorph. As you can see from my career I am a Mesomorph http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/body-types-ectomorph-mesomorph-endomorph.html I have been as high as 240 with very little fat. I started training on the day I turned 19. I was 5’9” 150 lbs. So I most likely was in the growth period of my teens anyway. At 150lbs I was well below what my skeletal structure would eventually be comfortable with. This is what it shot up to and is now (185). Living at home, with mom cooking and no responsibilities or relationship, my situation was perfect. That bodybuilding became my life’s work should give some idea how passionate, obsessed and determined I was during those first three months and the years that followed. I also grew 2 inches in height during my 19th year. All without any drugs of any kind. . In 1956 Russia invaded Hungary and The Hungarian Olympic lifting coach escaped to New York and resettled in Queens. The first thing he did was to contact his American counterparts on the Olympic Committee. Rudy Sablo, Chairman of The AAU Weight lifting Committee sent him to the Y. He formed a team and I competed on the team in the 181lb class until I went into the Air Force in 1961. During those 5 years lifting was my passion and Coach and I became great friends. He was a great coach and a wonderful person. He told me about the Russians and their use of steroids and how he felt about them. He was very knowledgeable about them and very positive. My relationship and trust of Coach predisposed me towards steroids. So when after my discharge in 1966 I was able to get some I took them for the first time with never a thought of possible problems and it remains so today. I used steroids during the entirety of my competitive career from 1966 to 1996. I have never used HGH or any thing like it. I also ate meat during my competitive years. I became a vegetarian in 1985 but continued to eat fish. In 2000 I stopped eating fish. I take a testosterone injection once a week (200mg) along with 1cc of vitamin B-12. Nothing else. Like most mesomorphs I am an easy gainer and if I were taking steroids now I would be above my normal weight of 185. I attribute my current condition more to lack of fat than any unusual amount of size. And that is totally because of my eating habits and regular exercise. Your classmates’ beliefs are unfortunate as they will limit their possibilities in life.
Prior to Roger Bannister it was believed that a human was physically incapable of running a sub 4 minute mile. Prominent scientists had shown without a doubt that the human legs could not move that fast for that long a period of time. Once Bannister shattered that belief all the top runners of the time broke the limit. As long as they had believed it could not be done they had been unable to do so.
I have written many times that my initial weight gain was a fortunate convergence of circumstances. By sheer coincidence Bannister’s record and belief shattering event occurred in May 1954 one month before I was introduced to bodybuilding in June of 1954. So I did not realize or believe I was not supposed to be able to gain 35 lbs in three months.
The amount of muscle a person should hold is determined by the skeletal structure. You know, Endomorph, Ectomorph, Mesomorph. As you can see from my career I am a Mesomorph http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/body-types-ectomorph-mesomorph-endomorph.html I have been as high as 240 with very little fat. I started training on the day I turned 19. I was 5’9” 150 lbs. So I most likely was in the growth period of my teens anyway. At 150lbs I was well below what my skeletal structure would eventually be comfortable with. This is what it shot up to and is now (185). Living at home, with mom cooking and no responsibilities or relationship, my situation was perfect. That bodybuilding became my life’s work should give some idea how passionate, obsessed and determined I was during those first three months and the years that followed. I also grew 2 inches in height during my 19th year. All without any drugs of any kind. . In 1956 Russia invaded Hungary and The Hungarian Olympic lifting coach escaped to New York and resettled in Queens. The first thing he did was to contact his American counterparts on the Olympic Committee. Rudy Sablo, Chairman of The AAU Weight lifting Committee sent him to the Y. He formed a team and I competed on the team in the 181lb class until I went into the Air Force in 1961. During those 5 years lifting was my passion and Coach and I became great friends. He was a great coach and a wonderful person. He told me about the Russians and their use of steroids and how he felt about them. He was very knowledgeable about them and very positive. My relationship and trust of Coach predisposed me towards steroids. So when after my discharge in 1966 I was able to get some I took them for the first time with never a thought of possible problems and it remains so today.
I used steroids during the entirety of my competitive career from 1966 to 1996. I have never used HGH or any thing like it. I also ate meat during my competitive years. I became a vegetarian in 1985 but continued to eat fish. In 2000 I stopped eating fish. I take a testosterone injection once a week (200mg) along with 1cc of vitamin B-12. Nothing else. Like most mesomorphs I am an easy gainer and if I were taking steroids now I would be above my normal weight of 185. I attribute my current condition more to lack of fat than any unusual amount of size. And that is totally because of my eating habits and regular exercise.

]]> Comment on VEGAN BODYBUILDING by Jason Dean http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/08/02/vegan-bodybuilding/#comment-232 Jason Dean Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:12:34 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=82#comment-232 Mr. Morris, First let me say you look amazing. Congrats on your amazing work of art that is your body. What a testament to your spirit and discipline in lifestyle. I am a chiropractic student and have a fascination with nutrition, with a focus on raw and vegan lifestyle. My wife is a chiropractor and raw nutritionist as well. I posted your information to my school Facebook site and to one of my classmates sites showing what you can do with proper nutrition. Of course my classmates have come back to me saying that they are positive that even though you may be vegan now you most definitely used in the past or are currently using HGH or some other type of growth hormone or performance enhancing supplement. Most notably they don't believe it's possible that you gained 35 pounds as fast as you claim that you did. I am writing to find out if you did/or currently do take anything to look the way you did or do. I am hoping it's all from nutrition of course. I am attempting to spread the info of great nutrition and that it is possible to look the way you do without animal products or steroids or other synthetic or growth hormones. I look forward to hearing from and you wish you much luck in the future. You look great for 75 and I too believe that people in that age bracket should be able to look similar to you or at least in great shape. Thank you for the inspiration. Sincerely, Jason Dean Mr. Morris,

First let me say you look amazing. Congrats on your amazing work of art that is your body. What a testament to your spirit and discipline in lifestyle.

I am a chiropractic student and have a fascination with nutrition, with a focus on raw and vegan lifestyle. My wife is a chiropractor and raw nutritionist as well. I posted your information to my school Facebook site and to one of my classmates sites showing what you can do with proper nutrition. Of course my classmates have come back to me saying that they are positive that even though you may be vegan now you most definitely used in the past or are currently using HGH or some other type of growth hormone or performance enhancing supplement. Most notably they don’t believe it’s possible that you gained 35 pounds as fast as you claim that you did.

I am writing to find out if you did/or currently do take anything to look the way you did or do. I am hoping it’s all from nutrition of course. I am attempting to spread the info of great nutrition and that it is possible to look the way you do without animal products or steroids or other synthetic or growth hormones.

I look forward to hearing from and you wish you much luck in the future. You look great for 75 and I too believe that people in that age bracket should be able to look similar to you or at least in great shape.

Thank you for the inspiration.

Sincerely,
Jason Dean

]]> Comment on LISTEN TO YOUR BODY by Jim Morris http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/07/18/listen-to-your-body/#comment-229 Jim Morris Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:28:25 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=59#comment-229 WOW! That’s fantastic! Congratulations. I am very interested to know what of my principles you were able to use and how you were able to make them work in your life. You did not mention any exercise or physical activity. Was there any? Do you plan to lose any more? How much? It would make for an incredible before and after example of one of my successes. Do you have any pictures of before you started the loss? WOW!
That’s fantastic! Congratulations. I am very interested to know what of my principles you were able to use and how you were able to make them work in your life.
You did not mention any exercise or physical activity. Was there any? Do you plan to lose any more? How much? It would make for an incredible before and after example of one of my successes. Do you have any pictures of before you started the loss?

]]> Comment on VEGAN BODYBUILDING by Jim Morris http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/2011/08/02/vegan-bodybuilding/#comment-195 Jim Morris Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:29:05 +0000 http://www.theartofbodybuilding.com/?p=82#comment-195 Do you want to compete? Do you want to compete?

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