Let's get comfy being uncomfortable! Join our coaches as they chat about the art and skill of being in uncomfortable situations and growing from them. Whether it's protecting your sobriety, staying on plan or protecting your peace and mental health, it takes practice to respond effectively and gain from the experience. Do you shy away from a challenge and stare it in the face and get pumped?

Join our prep hosts to talk about things you should NOT be doing going into 2025, if you want to get on stage and have a successful season. With the holidays lingering near, it can be a tough time to stay on track, however, our prep team breaks down some of the top things you SHOULD NOT be doing right now, as an athlete, unless you want to ruin your chances of being a successful competitor in 2025.

In this episode, Stephen, Danika and Christina discuss the recent concerns gaining traction in the media and social media and how they think that focus will effect the general population and specifically, those looking for lifestyle change to lead to better health. Are we letting our attention get tied up where it's most effective? Where would they like to see the focus placed?

Join our prep team to chat about the future of natural bodybuilding and more specifically, the influx of natural NPC shows that are set to make way their way to the calendar in 2025. Paul, Evan and Lexie discuss the future of the natural shows that the NPC will be pushing out in 2025 while also recapping this past weekend's Ben Wieder Natural and Atlantic Coast Natural.

In this episode, Stephen, Tyler and Danika discuss body shaming and how it impacts our relationship to fitness, ourselves and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. They dive into personal stories of their journey into fitness, how to understand body image and how to break free from feelings of shame and negative judgement.

In this episode, our prep team hits on a few topics starting with the main differences between coaching athletes who are younger vs athletes who are older. Our coaches hone in on some factors that differ between clients of different age groups and how they cater their coaching approach to fit each athlete best. Our coaches also touch on some other topics such as pulling sodium in peak week, their favorite parts of coaching, and things that should be eliminated come peak week.

In this episode, Paul and Adam discuss the research that Adam has been working on, developing a method of getting a deep dive into what motivates someone to stay on track with a program. Learn more about how Adam is using science to ensure optimally personalized programming!

In this episode, Lexie, Evan and Paul answer some questions from you guys! The heavy hitter topic/question that our hosts do a deep dive into is POST show and what to do if you gain TOO much body fat post show. This can be a serious issue for some competitors and our hosts breakdown the severity of what "can be" if things get too out of line, post show, with a competitors' eating habits.

In this episode, Stephen is joined by Danika and Ben to chat about Ben's contest prep and some mindset topics behind competing. They talk about embracing your physique in each season, transitioning into competing and how to develop a postive mindset, especially with food, before, during and after contest prep.

In this fun podcast episode with the prep team, our hosts do a deep dive into some fun (and some rather un-censored) questions from YOU guys. Tune into this episode to hear what our hosts have to say about some rather juicy topics relating to contest prep. This fun and informative episode covers a wide variety of prep related topics, that are relevant to all current and aspiring competitors.