300 Spartan Workout - Still Garbage

In my original 300 Spartan Workout article I wrote about how the actors in the 300 movie were not changed into Spartan Warriors from couch potatoes as originally 'reported' by the trashy rag magazine Men's Health in a period of somewhere between 8 to 12 weeks of work out.

In the article I refute that the casting director would have hired fat slobs when he had such a large talent pool of stuntmen available in North America.

Regardless of any magical 300 Spartan Workout there is also no way possible to gain large amounts of muscle and drop large amounts of fat in that time, this I know from 22 years spent training in the gym.

Yet the fact that I am 320lbs and relatively lean seems to suggest to some that they still know better than I might, today I am going to pick on Dean in regards to this.

Dean sent me this rather enlightened email on the 300 Spartan Workout;

 Wow?! First off do your research before you make yourself look like a dumbass.
The 300 work out was designed to give actors and stuntmen a lean, chisseled look, in a short period of time. The actual 300 work out is NOT just the final test, it is also the workout that led up to it. The 300 reps were not done all at once durring the workout. I'll help you out here bro, go to www.webmd.com and look up "300 work out". Read this article so you'll understand.
Next time do the propper research before you go bitchin

Now reading Dean's email he obviously has issues with anger management and potty mouth, we can also assume by his use of the words "bro" and "proper" that he is either from New Zealand or from the lower socio-economic areas of Australia. I am guessing the second as one outstanding negative feature in many Australians is the innate desire to see successful people made wrong or "brought down" - it is called Tall Poppy Syndrome in Australia.

Anyway... 

And my response to Deans little 300 Spartan Workout outburst;

Who's the dumbass?

http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=35

"The second misconception surrounds the idea of the Spartan workout, aka “300”, how frequently it was done or who actually finished it. “300” is a one-time test, an invitation-only challenge undertaken by those deemed ready for it. By the end of our four-month project 17 people had done the workout (Logan and I were two of them). This constitutes about 50% of the cast and stunt crew. We supervised every test, evaluated each rep for quality and only counted those that achieved our standards for form and range of motion. Like many workouts “300” is not hard once you’ve done it but the apprehension built up ahead of it – something we encouraged – was enough to make some guys fear it to the degree that performance was compromised. This workout was a crucible that some passed through and others still have hanging over them."

The above quote is from Mark Twight, head trainer and designer of the "300 Spartan Workout", now I think the actual designer of the 300 Spartan Workout would probably know what he is talking about a little more than our learned friend Dean.

I also get others who do "drive by" abusive emails which seems rather weird, some of these people seem to get off on being rude to strangers - what sort of person goes scouring the web to find someone to write an abusive email to?

Anyway, Dean, I think you will find that you are completely wrong on the 300 Spartan Workout thing, though you never replied back, it would be nice to receive an apology... but I won't be holdin my breath bro. 

Here's the original the 300 Workout article