Managing The Champions Mentality, attitude to competition, enjoying the process, fallacy of the mindset “I can suffer now because when I achieve X... THEN I will be happy”
In this episode we share our experiences and observations of longer term dieting to get stupid peeled... and what it's really like to walk around lean for extended periods of time!
Today's discussion centres around sustainable PED-use in lifestyle bodybuilders. The Health, Wealth and Sex Podcast on YouTube and Spotify - follow @health.wealth.and.sex.podcastChannel the links in our bio, and don't forget to like, share and SUBSCRIBE! For Online Coaching enquiries you can DM us directly or watch our coaching webinar and book a free consultation at www.bodyconsultants.uk
How Thom's first show of the year went, reflections and learnings going into the next one!
Pitfalls, mythbusting and common mistakes we have made and see others make in pursuit of their physique goals! NOT to be missed!Like, subscribe, SHARE and please don't forget to RING THE BELL!
Inevitably this episode starts with the fundamentals and evolves in to SO MUCH MORE. Another great conversation and hugely informative deep dive into performing and thriving at the highest level!
This week Matt joins us on the podcast to talk mindset, motivation and business mastery while managing to look and feel GREAT!
Episode Five: Female PED-use and TRT, use of non-steroidal performance enhancing drugs to promote fat loss, performance, muscle gain, health and recovery then moving into use of TRT on a needs basis and in physique competitors where exposure to anabolics may be considered! We discuss compounds suitable for females and appropriate dosing… and above all the importance of using blood test data to identify opportunities.
Episode 5 Timestamps:
1:00 Get bloodwork
2:25 People can still be reluctant to get bloodwork
5:15 Supplements can cause reflux
7:00 Thyroid
12:40 Telmisartan
13:02 Metformin
13:40 Injectable L-Carnitine
14:27 Berberine
15:46 Growth Hormone
17:00 Clenbuterol + Yohimbine
22:25 Testosterone
24:00 AAS: Anavar, Primo, Masteron
27:28 Importance of testosterone as a base
29:45 Dangers of Nandrolone
31:45 Models that can be run for an extended period of time
32:44 Bikini
34:00 L-Theanine and NAC
35:00 Matcha Green tea
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Talking all things bodybuilding, finding out about Eleonoré's first impressions of the UK scene and a deep dive into baked goods!
Health, Wealth and Sex
Episode 4
0:20 Welcome Dr. Eleonore Vatin!
0:60 Eleonore’s journey
4:40 Eleonore’s dramatic changes when she ate in a surplus
6:35 Competitive history
9:00 UK bodybuilding scene
11:00 Thom’s experience of training in Romania
13:00 Romanian KFC is 🔥
14:45 Thom’s set up
15:04 Ultra Flex
16:40 Lidl for the win
18:30 How Eleonore manages recovery
21:00 How Eleonore manages food through the day
24:10 What’s good about UK food
26:00 Baked good are Thom’s Achilles heel
28:00 Thom no longer preps on terrible food
30:40 Alex is OCD
31:00 Eleonore’s diet
31:40 Flexible dieting
35:00 Bodybuilding dieting lore
39:00 Tribalism around ea
In Episode 3 we talk about the different challenges faced by lifestyle clients vs. full-time bodybuilders, breaking down expectations and exploring the tangible and important aspects of the bodybuilding lifestyle to focus on no matter where you are at in your physique development journey!
Health, Wealth + Sex
Episode 3:
1:15 Alex talks about what led him to competing.
2:30 When is the ‘right time’ to compete or live life like a professional bodybuilder?
3:36 You don’t need to step on stage to be a bodybuilder.
4:50 The importance of empathy with lifestyle clients.
6:00 Understanding the situation that the client is in.
7:00 It’s all stress.
10:00 Finding a tolerable training program for lifestyle clients.
14:00 Ensuring quality habitual behaviours are established before manipulating variables.
15:00 Building foundations.
15:20 Stimulate not annihilate.
17:25 Training hard enough to create a stimulus.
21:00 The need to be with pain during a set.
24:45 Pro bodybuilders have unique recovery abilities.
26:40 Where a logbook is/isn’t useful.
27:40 Quality training doesn’t always look impressive.
29:20 Stimulus to fatigue ratio.
33:10 Find ways to remove psychological stress from your day.
35:30 Keeping things simple and consistent.
37:50 Recommended resources.
Discussing how to eat for performance across all metrics. Timestamps below:
Episode 2:
0:25 Alex is hungry!
1:00 Semiglutide discussion.
1:38 ‘Base Camping’ during dieting phases.
1:55 Thom’s season.
2:38 ‘Dig and Fill’ approach.
3:20 Knowing when to back off.
4:06 Tracking steps in contest prep.
5:10 The need for decent time lines.
6:40 Unrealistic time frames.
9:50 Eating to thrive.
12:00 Thom’s Child Therapy
13:40 Eat good quality whole foods you enjoy.
16:56 Pay attention to biofeedback when considering what foods to include in your diet.
19:55 The importance of quality fats in a diet.
20:55 The types of fats to lean into.
22:00 Alex didn’t feel good when anyone macro was too high/too low.
24:00 Thriving across a spectrum of eating styles.
24:50 Don’t marry yourself to a template.
26:50 Hard to make rats obese off a whole foods diet.
28:20 NLP and reward pathways.
29:20 ‘Big boys with big goals don’t eat Dominos’
30:00 Don’t set up a diet so that you have a carrot dangling at the end of the week.
31:24 Auroregulating a whole foods diet.
33:00 Don’t equate suffering with progress.
36:20 Generally people don’t know how to exit a fat loss phase correctly.
Setting Goals to Thrive in 2024: Personal goals, planning your priorities and approaching this year with a champion mindset!