It's Just Bodybuilding 392 Has Bodybuilding Devalued the Pro Card?

It's Just Bodybuilding 392 Has Bodybuilding Devalued the Pro Card?

In this episode of It's Just Bodybuilding, Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, Scott McNally and Special Guest Turner Riddle tackle a controversial question: Is bodybuilding losing its prestige? We discuss the explosion of NPC and IFBB Pro cards, whether becoming a pro bodybuilder means the same thing it once did, and how these changes may be affecting the future of competitive bodybuilding. Along the way, we break down the Italy Pro, today's competitive landscape, and what it takes to stand out in a sport that has never been bigger. 00:00 Introduction & Recording at Turner Riddle's house 01:12 Turners Home Gym, Land & Lifestyle 04:28 Italy Pro Preview & Predictions 05:40 Jordan Hutchinson, Bonac & Today's Competitive Landscape 09:00 Has NPC/IFBB Bodybuilding Devalued the Pro Card? 18:00 Sponsors, Guest Posing & The Business of Bodybuilding 20:32 Old-School vs Modern Physiques 22:08 More Shows, More Pros: Good or Bad for the Sport? 30:02 The Loss of Amateur Gatekeeping 36:16 The Lost Mystique of Professional Bodybuilding 40:34 What Does Success in Bodybuilding Really Mean? 42:12 The Economics of Running Bodybuilding Shows 47:29 The Future of Competitive Bodybuilding 50:00 Pro Cards, Prestige & Industry Culture 54:50 Competing for Passion vs Recognition 1:00:08 Why the Masters Division Continues to Grow 1:01:24 Ego, Validation & Athlete Expectations 1:02:22 Realistic Expectations in Bodybuilding 1:03:50 Coach Hopping vs Staying Consistent 1:05:50 Joe vs Nick: Predictions & Debate 1:10:30 Upcoming Shows & Athlete Storylines 1:13:14 Home Gyms, Outdoor Training & Final Thoughts 1:14:10 Wrap-Up 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

Progressive Overload Is More Than Adding Weight : Kuba Cielen

IFBB Pro Kuba Cielen joins Scott McNally to break down what progressive overload really means for muscle growth. Most lifters think it's just adding weight to the bar, but Kuba explains the deeper principles that continue driving progress long after the beginner stage. If you're serious about bodybuilding, hypertrophy, and maximizing every set, this episode will change the way you think about training. 0:00 Welcome back Kuba ! 2:30 Learn The Movement First 7:30 Training With Control vs Training Slow 9:45 Does Training Frequency Matter? 12:00 The 6 Principles of Progressive Overload 30:00 Real World Training Example 33:50 Using Pauses To Remove Momentum 39:10 Eliminating The Elastic Response 41:00 Powerlifting Strength vs Bodybuilding Strength 44:25 Why Good Technique Hurts More 46:45 Why You Should Film Your Sets 54:00 Is It OK To Be Obsessed With Bodybuilding? 57:45 Mental Cues For Better Performance Support the show on Patreon, get a shirt or shop with our sponsors : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Blood Sweat & Gear 351 Old School Carb Cycling Still Works + Halotestin v Superdrol Precontest?

Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally answer listener questions on contest prep, fat loss, thyroid use, GH shortages, first cycles, carb cycling, and the old-school strategies that still work today. Plus, a discussion on GH availability, Halotestin and Superdrol before contests, overreaching during prep, and whether some classic bodybuilding methods deserve a comeback. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 The Prep Tool We Would Never Use Today 0:55 Where Should High Carb Days Go? 4:00 High vs Low Clenbuterol & T3 Dosing 7:30 Why Old School Carb Cycles Still Work 14:00 Staying On T4/T3 Year-Round 16:00 Primo In A First Cycle Or More Testosterone? 19:00 Would You Ever Slow Fat Loss During Prep? 22:50 Road Cycling vs Leg Growth 27:45 True Nutrition | Code THINK 30:35 Pushing Into Overreaching During Prep 31:30 Greg Doucette Calling People Out 32:30 Why Bodybuilders Use Halotestin & Superdrol Before Shows 36:45 Testing Oral Compounds Before Peak Week 39:00 What's Happening To GH On The Underground Market? 43:20 GH vs GH Secretagogues 44:40 Skip's Word Of The Day 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

It's Just Bodybuilding 391 Derek Lunsford Can't Escape The Phil Heath Effect

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally discuss Hadi Choopan's response to Derek Lunsford, the Phil Heath era, judging, posing, contest prep, training, peptide "experts" and an Overrated or Underrated showdown on some of bodybuilding's best topics. 0:00 Intro 2:20 Featured On Nick's Strength & Power 3:45 Hadi Choopan Responds To Derek Lunsford 5:30 Is Derek Wrong To Say He's The Best? 6:40 The Phil Heath Effect 15:45 Quinton Beastwood's Road To The Olympia 21:45 Finish Strong at IFBB Oklahoma Pro 30:30 Old School Posing vs Modern Posing 33:50 Dorian Yates Blood & Guts Reaction Comments 36:25 How Dusty Learned To Pose 38:00 Posing Transitions That Win Shows 42:15 How To Become An NPC Judge 44:30 Would We Want To Judge? 49:00 Experienced Competitors In Novice Classes 51:50 Best Training Split For Shift Workers 54:30 Can You Overtrain While Using PEDs? 1:01:00 Everyone Is Suddenly A Peptide Expert 1:11:00 OVERRATED, UNDER RATED or...ACCURATELY RATED!? 1:11:10 Judges Feedback - Overrated Or Underrated? 1:16:00 Cheat Meals During Contest Prep 1:19:10 Step Counting For Fat Loss 1:25:45 Pre-Workout Supplements 1:30:10 Turning Pro 1:34:00 Are Pro Cards Still Meaningful? 1:39:00 Chris Aceto Text Message From 2009 1:48:50 New York Knicks Fandom Through The Years 2:01:45 Ron Discovers Shoresy 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

Drugs n Stuff 316 New Information On China's Steroid Supply Disruption + PED QA

The underground steroid market is changing fast. We break down new developments in China API production, Operation Pangea, law enforcement focus on online sales, and what it could mean for PED users moving forward. Plus, we answer your listener questions on estrogen management, Anavar use, TRT+, growth hormone dosing, Masteron, AFIB, stubborn fat loss, and much more. Hosted by Dave Crosland and Scott McNally 0:00 Welcome Back to Drugs n Stuff 0:45 Testosterone Production Industry Update 3:00 China API Production Changes Explained 8:45 Operation Pangea Disrupting the Steroid Market 11:25 Law Enforcement Targets Online Steroid Sales 14:45 Is the U.S. Still Investigating? 17:20 Support Our Sponsor - True Nutrition 18:00 How Important Is Keeping Estrogen In Range? 23:10 Can You Use PEDs If You Have AFIB? 25:15 Can You Build Muscle With Resistance Bands? 28:15 Are People Overusing Lab Work? 31:45 Anavar Only On Training Days? 34:20 First Steroid Cycle vs TRT Plus 36:15 Getting Rid Of Lower Abdominal Fat 39:00 The Worst Cycle We’ve Ever Heard 43:30 YK-11 Real World Listener Feedback 45:00 2 IU vs 10 IU Growth Hormone 48:45 Using Gear After Massive Fat Loss 51:30 High Masteron Cycles And Aging Skin 53:45 Can Steroids Cause Carpal Tunnel? 55:15 Cialis For Pumps And Contest Prep 57:00 Crack On! 57:30 Dave’s Story Of Being A Fugitive UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products