Tom Platz was one of the most hardworking and famous bodybuilders of the Golden Era. His quads were the limelight stealer of the bodybuilding world. Everyone knew him because of his massive physique and amazing leg muscles. He was also a huge fan of Mike Mentzer and took advice from him from time to time. This advice was mostly on diet and Platz has previously said how his peak week diet was the reason for his massive structure on the stage.

The video saw the Quadzilla narrating his special diet regime just during the peak week that made him look like the Hulk on stage.

Tom Platz’s workout secret during peak Week

The man who blindly abided by what Arnold Schwarzenegger did had once talked about his diet during the peak week and the secret to his huge physique on stage. He described that during the 70s and 80s which was the prime time of his competition days, he did well on white rice and a little bit of fruit in the morning. Along with that, he would have two pieces of granola bread before the contest and it was paired with something that you would not expect.

Platz said, “I would put maple syrup and frozen bananas and cinnamon then that with a cup of coffee, it was like man I was ready for the gym.” According to him the high fat preserved or sustained the carbohydrate. However, he also said, “But I didn’t have the fat. I was working off real like less than 9 grams of fat a day but that diet worked extremely well in 81 but again I think I should have switched back later years in the 80s.”

Maybe he got this dietary advice from someone or he realised that doing this was increasing his muscles through trial and error. However, Mike Menser was a huge help during his prime time because he helped plants understand the importance of carbs.

Tom Platz takes help from Mike Mentzer for carb transformation

Platz had confessed previously that like everybody else he used to blindly believe everything that Arnold did for his exercise would also work for Godzilla. He stated, “The low carbs, 0 carbs in the seventies is what Arnold did. Whatever Arnold did we did, okay?”

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However, every person has a different physique and needs different dietary processes to have a healthy physique. He recalled that he did reasonably well on zero carbs and low carbs but it was not working out for his physique. This is when Mentzer had conversations with him which made the bodybuilding champion start taking higher carbs instead of lower amounts. He stated, “I decided through many conversations with him I am gonna go on high carbs at the 81′ Olympia. I’m gonna go 300 grams a day, that was huge, coming from 25 a day. And all of a sudden I’m in the gym and I’m like bigger than ever and I’m in better shape than ever.”

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Platz realized that more amount of cards was helping him gain a massive physique and helping him on his competition days. He found out what best worked for him only after going through trial and error and he also promoted the same for everyone else rather than blindly trusting what other influences were doing.