3D Muscle Journey

What factors contribute to muscle-loss when dieting? How important is the timing of your carbohydrate intake? What exactly are leverages , and how does altering them affect your training? Picking-up at the end of last week s episode, Brad, Andrea, and Eric work together to answer the remaining questions. Topics range from: nutrient partitioning, to acceptable exercise [...]

Welcome to Q&A session 4! In today s episode, all five coaches work together to answer 10 subscriber asked questions. Topics range from: appropriate usage of drop-sets, to manipulating your body-fat set point, eliminating loose skin, maximum recoverable volume, adrenal fatigue , and more. To expand your knowledge base and acquire additional resources to aid you in [...]

Pumpkin pie, turkey, wine what could be better? The holiday season is a great time of year for many people, bringing with it: time off work, more time with those they care about, and mom s special yams. In today s episode, Jeff, Andrea, and Alberto discuss what this time of year is like for those who have [...]

When does the recovery diet end and the offseason begin? How does someone know when they are recovered ? As the 2017 competitive season draws to a close, these questions linger in the minds of many competitors. With the previously accepted guidelines (i.e. reverse dieting) being vastly different than what we now know to be more [...]

One of the greatest aspects of physique sports, is the ability to be able to participate in them well into the later decades of life. At the age where most traditional sports stop, one s performance in bodybuilding is still peaking. In today s episode, Andrea, Alberto, and Brad discuss how things have changed in their athletic [...]

Would you like to learn how to design nutrition protocols for yourself or your clients? Wondering where to start and how to make future adjustments? You re in luck. In today s episode, Eric, Andrea, and Jeff sit-down to discuss the methods they use for setting up nutrition protocols for their athletes. The coaches cover: what data [...]

Similar to how tracking body-weight is useful for assessing fat-loss, tracking your training is valuable for assessing muscle-growth and strength-gains. In today s episode, Eric, Andrea, and Brad sit down to discuss how to track your training. The group go over in great detail the systems they use personally and with their athletes to track training [...]

While the fitness industry is often lumped into one big category, in actuality it has many different facets. Some companies choose to build their brand using over-night miracle workers, while others seek to establish themselves through providing time-tested knowledge. In today s episode, Andrea, Eric and Alberto discuss the concepts behind creating a lasting brand in [...]

While having a relatively sedentary occupation has its benefits when it comes to bodybuilding and training performance, it also comes with its fair share of drawbacks. In today s episode, Andrea, Jeff and Alberto discuss the various pros and cons of being a bodybuilding desk-jockey . Each of the coaches go through what their training and dieting [...]

Off-season weight-gain. I can already see the cringe on many of your faces as I write this sentence. For a sport that draws people in who want to look better, the periods of weight-gain, higher body-fat percentage and resulting uncomfortable self-image are often found in the small print. In today s episode, Jeff, Brad and Andrea [...]

We ve all been here before We re in the gym training and look over to see the person next to us doing something we would consider to be abnormal or sub-optimal . This could be anything from half-squats, to eccentric bench-press training, to static-holds. However, before we judge too quickly, are there actually some situations where these approaches [...]

Welcome back to Q&A session #3! In today s episode, Eric, Andrea and Jeff answer 5 subscriber asked questions on the topics of: advice for serious but non-competitive lifters, reverse dieting to fix a slowed metabolism, the effects of Olympic lifting on muscular hypertrophy, coaching your spouse, and guidelines for minimal calorie and fat intake while [...]

For some this question will come as a total shock. For others, it will align with very similar thoughts and concerns they ve had themselves. In today s episode, Andrea, Brad and Alberto discuss the lifestyle as well as the division of bodybuilding. While it s quite clear that the bodybuilding lifestyle is growing, what is happening to [...]

One of the biggest misnomers in the fitness community today, is that IIFYM or If it fits your macros is synonymous with the term flexible dieting . While tracking macros can be a form of flexible dieting, this isn t always the case. In today s episode, Andrea, Eric and Alberto discuss the current state of nutrition within [...]

In this week s episode, Andrea, Brad and Jeff discuss the pros and cons to training at home. Both Brad and Jeff are high-level athletes who utilize the efficiency of having a home-gym, to balance their life demands with serving their athletic goals. Each coach describes in detail, the equipment, size, and location of their home-gym. [...]