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DON LEMMON ASKS: What's your craziest experience in the sport or maybe witnessed happen but didn't participate in? CHRIS ACETO RESPONDED: The craziest? Was when A pro bodybuilder cramped up on stage and soon after another guy cramped at the USA. This was around 1993. I knew it was all down hill from there. I mean, I had, at some time, been advising a few pro bodybuilders and I always was and have been extremely conservative in all facets of the sport. When someone almost dies, it's an indication something mighty strange is going on...something I never wanted and don't want to be a part of.

DON LEMMON ASKS: Anything embarrassing ever happen to YOU when trying to look cool? What? CHRIS ACETO RESPONDED: Without trying to sound too cocky or arrogant , I 've never put forth an effort to look cool or hip. I've always just been myself and been pretty much happy at that with no real need to feel I have to 'look' or 'act' a certain way. For the most part, it's kept me out of trouble and stress free. I think a lot of that may have come from my surroundings. I was raised in Maine, sort of a quite life, where most folks just didn't try to look cool. I guess there may have been less peer pressure in a more rural state or, at least, there might have been less peer pressure then, than now. I do remember the one time a drank alcohol in high school. That was clearly a move trying to look cool. I was at a party and drank 2 beers and was sick by the second one. The gross type of sick....

DON LEMMON ASKS: What's the grossest thing you ever ate? Was it because some one said q"Hey, taste this!;" and did you get even? or did you want to try it? CHRIS ACETO RESPONDED: I once ate a pigeion in the Saudi Desert. It was so bad tasting I expelled it out of my mouth straigh across the cicrle I was sitting in. A gallon of ketchup would not have tempered the (lack of) flavor.

DON LEMMON ASKS: What's the hardest and yet easiest part of dealing with the sport? CHRIS ACETO RESPONDED: The hardest for the individual is knowing how to self evaluate. I think all bodybuilders need some guidance. Even an honest friend to critique their physique. It's also hard to encourage people to continue to compete because, to some degree, you are facilitating drug use. While that is the individual's own choice, I can't keep a clear concious and say I don't feel I'm part of the problem when someone, with great genetics, asks if they have "what it takes " to be a pro bodybuilder, and I enthusiastically affirm O"Yes! go ahead and go for it! The easy part. There really is no easy part to successful bodybuilding. It takes lots of time, lots of effort, lots of dedication and lots of perserverence.