In this final episode of Austin's show prep, we hear how the day went, how it felt to win the overall and what Austin's post-show and off-season plans are now!

This week we are talking with Austin 4 days out from his show running over what strategies he has used throughout this most recent prep, as well as some peak week plans!

Marcus & Johnny detail their strategies in depth of how they took Marcus from a terrible spot health marker-wise, to winning his IFBB pro card.

Dr Scott Stevenson joins us this week to dive deep into biological inter-individuality and anabolic androgenic steroid use. We discuss some of the various mechanisms responsible for the variability in response to AAS in terms of hypertrophy, strength, side-effects and health markers across the board, some possible markers to track your own response and even some possible ways to maximise your individual use for you poor responders out there!

Austin and Joe return to answer all of you guys questions from the recent Q&A thread in the OPD group.

The Evil Genius joins Joe and Austin this week to answer you guys questions, discuss some personal PED ventures and general steroid chit-chat specifically with the goal of hypertrophy/fat loss in mind!

This week we put out an open Q&A on Austin's social media to cover for you guys. Thanks for all of the great questions, this was a really fun episode!

This week we were lucky enough to be joined by IPE Figure Pro Allison Fahrenbach to discuss women's issues specifically! We really got into a lot of topics here including individual prep strategies, rate of fat loss, psychology of dieting, reversing post-show and tonnes more!

Fat and fluid gains during a gaining phase... Joe & Austin dig into some questions like: How much fat and/or fluid gain is too much? What are the negative health concerns with fluid retention? What are the benefits/drawbacks, and where do we draw the line?

In this episode we dive into what aspects of your health markers and overall programming should be nailed down before embarking on a contest prep, as well as running over the recent UK seminar, and future seminar plans!