Optimal Physique Development

A long-form, open discussion on how we like to handle peak week's for a variety of classes and criteria.

Another instalment of you guys favourite! In this episode, Austin & Joe get caught up on how the competitive season is going, and some fun stuff planned for the rest of this year.

The comeback nobody was waiting for. A little rusty, probably not as funny as it used to be, but we had a blast anyway.

We are honoured this week to be joined by a true veteran of the hypertrophy realm, most well known for his pioneering of myoreps, Borge Fagerli.

In this episode, we dig through the state of current hypertrophy research and how its presented on social media, what occurs in the real world, and how to autoregulate your own programming based on results.

To purchase Borge's new myoreps ebook, follow this link, and use code OPD20 for 20% discount:

https://www.borgefagerli.com/myo-reps-in-english

There has been a great deal of social media discussion on training frequency recently, unfortunately leading to an abundance of confusion as to whether certain higher frequency models will build more muscle than the same volume at a lower frequency, or whether frequency doesn't matter at all. Luckily, Dr Soko joins us today to clear up any and all confusion, to leave you guys with exactly what you need to know to make sure you're not leaving any stone unturned on your hypertrophy programming.

Austin & Joe look back over their careers in this episode at what they've both seen not only grow their client base, but also what has attracted the right clients, and has brought them to most happiness and fulfilment in the process.

In the final instalment of our deep dive into training volume, Dr Soko joins us to give you guys exactly what you need to know to ensure you know exactly what training volumes are best to drive your progress, how to adjust that volume accordingly over time, and how to interpret the research data in context.

Tonnes of topics covered in this one, including liver enzyme escalation in bodybuilders, useless nootropics for bodybuilders to use, increasing dopamine without next day negatives, balancing glutamate & GABA, the list goes on!

This episode, we help you guys to cut through the noise of the current social media craze in the bodybuilding world, training volume.

We cover what some of the new research says, our interpretation of that data, what in the trenches anecdotal evidence tells us, and how to use the whole body of evidence to make a decision on where to set your own volumes on a per body part bases.

Also, some cool side quests regarding effective reps and how to track volume with various RIR and rest pause sets also.

For part 2, Dr. Chester Soko will be joining us to give us his expert opinion on all of the above too!

We kick this one off with a surprisingly scary yet funny story from Joe's travels to Milan, and then some extensive Q&A featuring modafinil recovery and nootropic protocols.