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#285: The True Cost of Contest Prep
Alberto, Jeff, Brad, and Brian discuss all the costs (financial, time, health, etc.) to consider when planning a contest prep. What are the financial costs associated with prepping for and competing …
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
#284: How To Build Your Back
Eric, Brad, and Alberto discuss programming and exercise technique strategies to make your back training more effective. Why does training your back require a bit more strategy than other muscle grou…
Published on 5 months ago
#283: Is Your Obsession With Clean Eating Holding You Back?
Alberto, Steve, and Brian discuss what orthorexic behaviors can look like in bodybuilders and how these behaviors can lead to suboptimal progress and a reduced quality of life. What is the coaches’ e…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
#282: The Importance Of Mind Muscle Connection
Eric, Jeff, and Brian discuss the intersection between effort, mind muscle connection, and biomechanics to give you more flexibility in your technique, exercise selection, and programming. How import…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
#281: You Need Better Progress Pics
Brian, Alberto, and Brad discuss the importance of progress pictures, how to take them, how often to take them, and explain the difference between social media friendly progress pictures and progress…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
#280: Q&A Session 28
Brian and Jeff answer audience-supplied questions about recovery, refeeds, periodization, food focus, exercise selection, posing, and more. Is it okay to train through some soreness or should you wai…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
#279: Post Competition Assessments
Eric, Alberto, and Jeff discuss how they review an athlete’s season with the athlete to help them process their emotions, see their achievements, develop a perspective that is going to help them, and…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
#278: The Art Of Fatigue Management
Brad, Jeff, and Brian discuss the unavoidable side effect of generating fatigue, the current fear of doing too much that is causing some athletes to miss out on productive stretches of training, and …
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
#277: Stretching For Hypertrophy & Performance
The big question…Is long-duration static stretching redundant if someone is already resistance training or does it provide complementary effects? Nick, Eric, and Brad discuss this and many other stre…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
#276: How To Travel & Keep Your Gains
Jeff, Alberto, and Brian share how they eat and train when traveling, both during prep and in the offseason. The coaches also go over the importance of becoming a resilient bodybuilder. How has Jeff …
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago