Few weeks on the trot!

Shoutout to Meg and Kuba for the 2Bros MK a few weeks ago, Zac won the novice class and China Green took home the figure overall sword!

Then an awesome weekend just gone wrapped up in Finland for the 2Bros Scandinavia show and 1Bro pro!

2 pro cards (mens physique and figure) and top 4 in figure pro show for China Green in…

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Hello my friend! My next intake of athletes will be late September after the UK Arnolds, but please get in touch at info@teamprocoach.com

Clare nailed this one!

Definitely key considerations;

– maintaining GI function on a plant based diet (fibre intake is something that needs to be gradually increased over time if going fully plant based)

– using a variety of plant based food sources to facilitate ‘complete’ amino acid spectrums

– using supplemental plant based proteins and EAA’s…

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Needs to be monitored, continue to review size of swelling, colour or heat changes to the area.

Be mindful as it’s not uncommon for bacterial infections to relocate in the region of the issue.

If you head to the docs you’ll most likely get prescribed some penicillin (if tolerable), and worth popping some higher dose bromelain to pull down…

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I’d personally favour the masteron here! But you’ll typically find as Hilly says, this family of compounds operate in a similar manner

Agreed with Hilly here!

Maintaining baseline testosterone and titrating the DHT derivative (in this case masteron) as you proceed through the prep as needed. The tren you can start low and slowly creep upwards much like the masteron, but due to the increased toll of the 19-nor I’d keep the tren at a lower input, 150-300mg/wk mark as needed…

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Can confirm!

Always a bit of a gamble when buying UG but could always get it checked via HLPC if wanting peace of mind.

Or a trip overseas for pharmacy purchase (*get it home at your own risk!).

Jordan and Max nailed it, agree with Max on the lipolytic side pre activity, works a treat prior to some non glycolytic expenditure! 🙂

Big weekend in Portugal at the Amateur Olympia rounded up. Very good from the team and objectively best packages / peaks executed so far this season (having more data to run off now). MK Classic next weekend, then 2BROS Finland, then Tampa Pro and Texas Pro. Busy few weeks ahead.

Bingo!

Use a variety of options in your toolbox and use them gradually.

Calories

NEAT

Direct conditioning / cardio

Lipolytics and thyroidal manipulation if enhanced

Those would be easiest variables to tweak first!

With your current composition I wouldn’t be too concerned about being aggressive, I’d manage training volume to ensure performance…

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Condition is a priority, we have adipose to lose and a short timeframe to do it.
Calories are low.
Output is high, 13k steps, 75m steady state daily.
But we have the androgen load to tolerate it and retain tissue, so it’s plausible.

Hey!
I’ll run the escalation model based on phase and objective.
If a sufficient calorie supply is present and protein accretion is high, androgens ideally are high, we can escalate volume as needed on weaker muscle groups.
If a deficit or low androgen phase, I would not.
Deloads are based on individual weekly feedback, but for some who follows… Read more

Peak set ups in motion for the Amateur Olympia in Portugal this weekend.

Danielle, Harvyn and Saleh all coming off the back of Spain this past weekend so dropping back into their pre loading diet set ups, no caps needed for MP and bikini so it’s really just a case of finding the desired look after a bit of food post show following the Ben…

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Legend!

I’ll start posting up some little updates for the season ahead with my athletes to spur conversation around topics that could be of interest to those following along. Interesting weekend in Alicante at the Ben Weider NPC Spain!

The team delivered on the following;

Mens Physique Open Class A – 4th

Mens Physique Open Class D – 2nd AND 3rd

Bikini…

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Awesome thank you for the detailed reply.[/quote]

My pleasure! Anything else just let me know!

Hi Jack

To anwer;

There is still a lot of people that believe the risk of starting at say 200mg/week over starting at a peak dose of 500mg/week carries the same risk. So why would you choose to do less and leave gains on the table?

You aren’t leaving ‘gains’ on the table, you’re just minimising the duration of exposure at peak androgen load, i.e.…

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It’s situational dependent here, if we’re dealing with a more condensed timeline for an athlete, i.e. there is less time available to gradually titrate the androgen load upwards, then I’ll opt for a faster ester to reach peak blood plasma saturation quicker, and be able to make those adjustments in androgen load quickly, workout having to… Read more

Hey April, congrats on the overall win, fantastic package at the regional. Go smash those pro quals!

Hey Marco

I believe my team has reached out to you yesterday, but I’ll be sure to follow this up today myself! Thank you for getting in touch.

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Hi Calum,
I did this also ( a couple of times😂) but never got an answer[/quote]

Hi Dennis

Any coaching enquiries please contact info@teamprocoach.com or message 07939906621 and we’ll get back…

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Hey Marco

I believe my team has reached out to you yesterday, but I’ll be sure to follow this up today myself! Thank you for getting in touch.

Mirroring what Dan has mentioned above here!

Much like female sexual function being driven by E2 predominantly, although male fertility is largely driven via gonadotropin output (mainly FSH), estrogen plays an integral role in male sexual function and most specifically, sex drive!

The proviron stated above could be a tool to drive SHBG down…

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Hey Luca

I’d definitely agree a short aggressive recomp phase would be best served before spending a longer timeframe in a progressive surplus.

Firstly ensure you establish a sufficient deficit (whatever that kcal target will be relative to your metabolic make up at current).

Take protein to 1-1.5g/lb, fats can run at near trace (I’d usually…

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The nitro range will be a good investment in general, fairly affordable and accessible. The XPLoad range (plate loaded) tends to offer better profile optimisation (and loading capacity of course), but will be harder to source and more expensive!

I’ll chip in here alongside if I may fellas!

I might have missed the boat here but is David already enhanced?

If so, just wondering what the make up of the current stack is, as I’m presuming with low libido we have some form of skewing between T:E2.

Much like female sexual function being driven by E2 predominantly, although male fertility is…

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I want to gain strenght and need that kick of agression before workout. Does it work imediately?[/quote]

As Max has said above, halotestin is an advanced compound and by advanced, I mean it’s value within a stack would only be served in very specific cases.

Without knowing the entirety of your current stack (that’s to say I’m presuming…

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My pleasure dude!

Hey dude

When you choose to make volume escalations, obviously the dose is going to be based on response and recovery, but generally where do you like to make escalations first? For example: moving from weeks 1-8 laid out by you above of MEV to MEV+:

It all really depends on the needs analysis and the recovery capacity, more food / more drugs…

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Hi Luca

Jon is currently managing this period of his offseason himself due to personal circumstances, I am not currently in control of decision making.

This would not be something I’d advise unless long term restoration of the HPTA was the objective, and even then you’d be using gonadotropin therapy after ceasing androgen use.

You’d have to ask…

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Hi Dalton

If you already have a secondary back day (no axial / spinal loading involved), and lats are a priority, then that ham/back day I would personally go;

A1) Lat (shortened range emphasis first)

B1) Lat (lengthened range, something that drops off ideally in the short)

C1) Hinge Variant / Hip Ext (of choice, could be a hyper or 45 degree…

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Hi Thomas

Thanks for the great question.

I’m actually in Tampa in early August with some of my athletes and will definitely be in Mi40 for training that week, so will hopefully bump into you at some point!

My thought process to programming has changed a little in the recent past, last year I was programming specialisation blocks with set…

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Generally speaking I let client preference govern out tracking method, if the athlete is skilled at tracking independently then I will let them, as often this equates to less stress and better management of food focus (it can also have the opposite effect so choose wisely there!).

If tracking macros, I will also specify;

Fibre…

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Hey Charlotte

Thanks! I’ll get on this today and get back to you 🙂

Hey Luca

It’s a fairly extensive topic, but in general, be patient, take it slow with the rate of gain, stay in control of body composition, appetite and digestive function.

Utilise both calories, training stimulus (and if enhanced, androgen load) to your advantage in a progressive manner.

You can make some solid improvements in 4 months if you…

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Hey, yes I like the sound of the new split relative to the goals right now according to your needs analysis.

1 – legs (quad dom)

2 – arms / delts

3 – rest

4 – pull (no spinal loading)

5 – push (delt bias)

6 – rest

7 – hams / back

8 – push (chest bias)

9 – rest and/or repeat

Another way I’d run this would be;

1 – chest / arms

2 – hams / back

3 – rest

4 -…

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Hi Rob

For the last 3 weeks of the Muscle Contest Ireland prep I did not change his training (apart from 1 week out), as it would have been too close to stage with such a big variable being adjusted. He trains with very high volume, this expenditure was something that had to be maintained for the purpose of predictability. I simply controlled…

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This could be a long conversation with these topics but in short;

1. Can you detail what it consists of or what quantities you have based this thyroidal manipulation?

If you consider 25mcg/day T3 and 100mcg/day T4 is replacement dosing MOST of the time, once we creep above this then we enter hyperthyroid status and ramp metabolic rate up…

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Thanks Cal that does help,

2 more questions that arise if you don’t mind.

What dosage is a good range for HCG on cycle to achieve this?

How quickly can your sperm count reduce, I imagine this varies and is relative but say your sperm is up at 30m/ml, you run a 16 week cycle, do you think you’d of completely fried that number?

Thank… Read more

Hey buddy

So the hMG I would personally only use in physiological ranges (when aiming to drive FSH higher for spermatogenesis/conception).

The hCG however could certainly be used year round / whilst supra-physiological NOT for the purpose of fertility, but for the purpose of reducing the rate of testicular degradation/atrophy, this could then…

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Hey!

Thanks for the kind words, and yes Rob is a special athlete!

Not many with the mindset he has.

So just to paint the picture, Rob asked me to help him out at 30 days out from the Muscle Contest (tomorrow).

He was 231lbs, set to make a 212lb cap.

In these situations I’ll always opt to push hard early, as far away from stage as possible, drive…

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Hey buddy!

So it’s an unconventional post show set up to what I’d usually run, however… with the runway we have ahead of us, and the length of time ahead in this offseason phase, we have a short window here where we can capitalise.

Our total androgen load has dropped fairly substantially, so over systemic stress has lowered, but you’re…

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Proviron will be primarily used to manage / lower SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) which in turns has the capacity to increase free testosterone.

It can also be used as a component (DHT derived) to the stack as a whole to help manage E2, improving estrogen control.

Hey!Firstly, best wishes for your show, enjoy the final process and stay cool and collected!

Personally I would favour recovery over stimulus in that final week, for a Saturday show depending on fatigue status I’d have either Thursday AND Friday as total rest (just posing), or just Friday (doing final pump orientated session on Thursday so… Read more

Hi V

Sorry but there are a lot of questions/topics wrapped up in one here, if you’d like to have a sit down discussion in depth, pop over to my instagram and hit the link in my bio, you can schedule a consult there where we can have a proper discussion and map out the topics of interest one by one 🙂

great to meet you man!

Hi Vasilis

You’re correct in saying the more you escalate the mg/wk for masteron, the higher the tolerability to the testosterone, but just remember this will be acute, and as you continue the escalation, the tolerability will skew somewhat the higher the testosterone rises (alongside the risk/reward of course).

‘Maximum’ ceiling of exposure…

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Hey!

Firstly, best wishes for your show, enjoy the final process and stay cool and collected!

Personally I would favour recovery over stimulus in that final week, for a Saturday show depending on fatigue status I’d have either Thursday AND Friday as total rest (just posing), or just Friday (doing final pump orientated session on Thursday so…

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Hey Consita

Best if he emails me directly otherwise it’ll be added to a long waiting list – calum@teamprocoach.com 🙂

Hi Roy

Of course, so at this moment in time my day to day is very much focused on primarily my coaching, and managing my business and the coaches who work beside me within the team.

Competitively I will not compete again, as I’m simply not willing to (not have the resources to) dedicate the time to my personal endeavours over that of…

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