South Pacific Muscle

Ryzilla94, Mr Ryan Gallard joins us to talk about his struggles with mental health and how bodybuilding both contributed to that and gave him a focus to help himself on the road to mental wellbeing. Ryan is a special young man to be able to open up in the hopes it may help others. One of the episodes we are most proud of.

We are joined by Tom Shaw, IFBB pro and Mike's Training partner and NABBA Mr New Zealand Athletic Josh Pendreigh to talk about progressive overload. Nate and Tom share thier training splits and explain how it is implemented. Great episode for relatively inexperienced lifters to get a good understanding of how progressive overload work and how it can be used to imporve size and strength.

The big dog, Paris Theodosiou joins us to discuss the Nationals, gettting his conditioning right, cosplay and "that advert".

We are joined from managed isolation by Mike Debenham, IFBB pro and contest prep coach.

The boys are joined by Jordan Earl and Antony Morris to discuss weddings, favorite exercises, most overrated exercises and anything else that comes to mind.

We are joined by Shaun King during "peak week" for the Tournament of Champions. We discuss how Shaun manages his diet and training leading up to a show when he works as a baker from 2am until 12pm and only gets one break to eat.

One of my favorite episodes where we talk to Dave Neithe who is a Mental Skills Coach who has worked with the likes of Israel Adesanya, Lydia Ko and the Breakers. Nathan can't help but reminisce about strongman and hardcore gyms for a bit then we have a really interesting talk about mental skills, what they are, how to use them and how they help. Lots of really good info for optimising sports performance and general wellbeing.

We are joined by the winners of thier respective classes at the 2020 NABBA New Zealand national championships.

Lara discusses her journey from inactive mum to national bodybuilding champion and how she settled on NABBA as her federation of choice.

Rhiannon talks about her meteoric rise from relatively inactive kid to stepping on an international bodybuilding stage in the shape class in less than 2 years.

We are joined by Dan Mazzola to discuss competing in WBFF and how the shows differ from other federations. He gives us an insight into the different classes available with WBFF and how he trains to meet the requirements of the "Muscle Model" class.

We are priviledged to be joined by the largest IFBB pro on the planet, Jamie "the giant" Christian-Johal. We discuss his pro debut in Alicante, how he got to where he is today, and being judged in shows when you have a drastically different look than everyone else on stage.