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Dave Crosland and Scott McNally are back to answer your bodybuilding and PED questions! This week, two listener questions have us breaking down advice from Dave Palumbo. Do we agree with his recommended off-season cycle? What about his thoughts on using trenbolone year-round? We explain where we disagree, where we think his recommendations come from, and why context is everything when it comes to PED use. Plus we discuss the new peptide KW-6356, why two training partners can have very different blood work, whether TRT changes the effects of recreational drugs, estrogen management, whether 10-week cycles are long enough to build muscle, and much more. As always, this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is intended for mature audiences. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Tren Replacement Therapy 0:25 Support our Advertisers to support the show 2:45 Calling Out Dave Palumbo 6:30 Critiquing Dave Palumbo's Off-Season Cycle 18:15 Dave Palumbo's Take on Year-Round Tren 32:45 KW6356 – A Refined Stimulant? 46:20 Why Two Training Partners Can Have Very Different Lab Results 51:30 Dave's Health Issues – Gear or Body Fat? 53:00 Does TRT Make Recreational Drugs Less Effective? 56:15 Estrogen Build-Up on TRT 1:00:10 Do 10-Week Cycles Actually Work? 1:06:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Poverty Prep: If you could only use testosterone plus ONE additional anabolic added just two weeks before the show, how would you get stage ready? Coaches Skip Hill, Scott McNally, and guest coach Nelson Jones break down exactly how they'd approach this challenge, discussing compound selection, timing, and contest strategy. Plus, they answer listener questions on GH quality, first cycles beyond TRT, bringing up stubborn arms, joint pain, ulcerative colitis, contest tanning, and much more. 0:00 Welcome Coach Nelson Jones 0:40 Coaching Martin Fitzwater Before He Turned Pro 3:30 Poverty Prep Challenge: Getting Stage Lean on a Budget 6:30 Which ONE Compound Would We Choose? 19:10 Spray Tans vs DIY Contest Tan 33:30 Your First Cycle Beyond TRT 40:30 Generic GH vs Pharma GH (And Do Color Tops Matter?) 47:40 Joint Pain While Using Testosterone & Masteron 51:40 How to Bring Up Weak Arms Without Overtraining 1:02:30 What's the Minimum Carbs Needed to Build Muscle? 1:11:45 Bodybuilding with Ulcerative Colitis 1:17:40 Skip's Word of the Day 1:20:00 Beard Talk & Closing Thoughts 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca 🔈🎧 Audio Podcast: THINK BIG BODYBUILDING (all platforms)

Nick Walker's latest physique update has everyone talking ahead of the Tampa Pro. We break down his rivalry with Jo Palacios, discuss Patrick Moore's confidence going into the show, and then hit the whiteboard for 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand before some topics on training, nutrition, coaching, PEDs, and much more. 00:00 Are You on Steroids? 00:30 Support the Show with Mutant 01:50 Is This the Best Nick Walker Ever? 03:30 Why Nick vs Jo Palacios Is So Interesting 05:30 Patrick Moore: "I'm Coming to Win" 06:30 Should We Stop Saying "Package"? 07:45 William Bonac Joins the Conversation 09:00 Nick Walker vs Joe Palacios 12:50 Whiteboard Time 14:30 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand 40:30 Honorable Mentions 41:30 Natty or Not (in real life) 43:00 Nutrition & PEDs After 40 46:00 Who Actually Should Use Tren? 48:20 The Worst Trend in Bodybuilding Coaching 52:30 What Bodybuilders Should (and Shouldn't) Spend Money On 1:14:30 Ron's Next Mutant On A Mission 1:15:45 It's Just Bodybuilding Reacts Preview 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

Why do steroids stop producing the same gains over time? In this episode of Drugs N Stuff, Scott McNally and Dave Crosland explain why simply running more drugs for longer eventually leads to diminishing returns—and how experienced bodybuilders structure long growth phases to keep making progress. Plus, we answer your questions on testosterone isocaproate, DHB, Dutasteride, Retatrutide, NAD+, P-21, sauna use, TRT injection frequency and much more. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why Steroids Eventually Stop Working 1:00 Support Our Sponsors 3:45 How to Plan a 12-Month Growth Phase 13:40 Start Low, Build Slowly & Extend Your Cycle 20:30 Testosterone Isocaproate Half-Life Explained 24:10 Can You Re-Sensitize Yourself to Stimulants? 29:40 Scott's Experience with P-21 31:40 Selank: Scott's Honest Experience 32:50 Low-Dose Testosterone + DHB for a Specific Look 37:00 Sauna Benefits While Using PEDs 41:00 Can Retatrutide Reduce Addiction? 45:00 NAD+ Benefits & Can You Overdo Mitochondria? 48:45 Why Some Lifters Are Leaving Daily TRT Injections 49:45 Does Dutasteride Protect Against Dianabol Hair Loss? 51:50 Why Hydrochlorothiazide Is NOT Potassium Sparing 54:30 LSD as a Treatment for Depression 56:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom 1:04:00 We Need to Buy Dave a Horn Check out all our affiliates at http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Every bodybuilding coach has experienced it—clients leaving out important details, changing the plan, or saying they're following instructions when they aren't. Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry, and Scott McNally explain why it happens, how experienced coaches recognize it, and why honesty leads to better progress. We also answer questions on Selank, contest-day anxiety, gallbladder issues, Trenbolone Acetate, TRT injection frequency, and share stories from the NPC Universe. 00:00 Why Clients Lie to Their Coach 01:00 The Real Reason Athletes Hide the Truth 11:00 Skip Hill's Peak Week Coaching Strategy 14:30 The Psychology Behind Great Coaching 21:00 What Clients Really Expect From a Coach 23:10 Selank, Alcohol & Contest Day Anxiety 29:40 Gallbladder Problems in Bodybuilding 33:40 How Long Should You Run Trenbolone Acetate? 36:15 Daily TRT Injections vs Twice Weekly 40:40 The Craziest NPC Universe Backstage Stories 44:45 Behind the Scenes with Blood Sweat & Gear ✅ Check out our affiliates at : http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Looking for a simple, effective PED approach without unnecessary complexity? Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally break down three of the easiest anabolic cycles to manage, why they chose them, and why Primobolan didn't make the cut for us. Plus, they answer listener questions on TRT backloading, training around knee pain, breaking through plateaus, cycling strategies, reverse dieting and more 00:00 The TRT Backloading Trick (Preview) 00:20 Support Our Sponsors 00:51 Skip Tries to Derail the Show 02:25 NPC Universe Recap 04:15 Why Blood Sweat & Gear Has No Drama 05:30 3 Easy-to-Manage Steroid Cycles 12:40 Why Primobolan Didn't Make the List 14:15 Leg Training Around Knee Pain 30:50 Breaking Through a Muscle Growth Plateau 40:00 TRT Backloading Explained 43:50 One Long Cycle vs Multiple 12-Week Cycles 55:00 Coaching Ethics: Where Do You Draw the Line? 1:03:30 Reverse Diet Gone Wrong: Too Much Fat Gain 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

FOR EDUCATION ONLY : From testosterone to trenbolone and everything in between, coaches Andrew Berry and Scott McNally rank the most well-known anabolic steroids from S Tier to F Tier based on their experience, discussing their characteristics, limitations, side effects, and role in bodybuilding. This educational conversation is intended to compare compounds—not to encourage their use—and is designed to help viewers better understand the differences between them. 0:00 Tren Ace - The main character compound 0:20 Support the show with the sponsors 1:00 Rate Every Steroid - How the rating system works 2:20 Testosterone 4:00 Masteron Prop and Mast E 9:40 Primobolan 11:55 Nandrolone - Deca 13:50 Nandrolone - NPP 16:25 Trenbolone - Tren Ace 19:50 Trenbolone - Tren E 24:20 Trenbolone - Tren Hex 25:49 Equipoise - Boldenone 31:25 DHB - Dihydroboldenone AKA 1- Test Cyp 33:30 Anavar - Oxandrolone 36:25 Winstrol - Stanozolol 37:50 Anadrol, Superdrol, Halotestin 38:50 Dianabol 41:10 Oral Turinabol 47:45 Listener Critique Check out our Advertisers and Affiliates at http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Peak week isn't about one trick—it's about getting every piece to work together. Scott Stevenson joins Scott McNally for an in-depth discussion on training, carb loading, water manipulation, and the physiology behind bringing your best physique to the stage. If you're a competitive bodybuilder or coach, this episode is packed with practical contest prep insights you can apply immediately. 0:00 Peak Week Training & Glycogen Depletion 1:20 Support Our Sponsors 2:20 How Should You Train During Peak Week? 6:00 Keep Training Similar During Peak Week 11:00 Creating Supercompensation Through Glycogen Depletion 20:00 How Long Does a Carb Load Last? 25:45 Improve Muscle Contractions Through Posing Practice and Visualization 27:45 How Depleted Should You Get Before Carb Loading? 29:10 Why You Should Practice Your Carb Load Before Show Day 33:20 Why Water, Sodium & Potassium Drive Carb Loading 36:00 What Really Causes You to Spill Over? 39:30 Fat Loading: Using Intramuscular Triglycerides 48:30 Nutrition After the Carb Load 54:00 Creating a Natural Diuretic Effect 1:00:00 Coaching & Consultations with Scott Stevenson 1:05:45 Can You Successfully Coach Yourself? 1:07:30 Why Most Bodybuilders Don't Need Diuretics Scott Stevenson's Published Paper On Peak Week : "Training Considerations for the Bodybuilding Peak Week" https://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/abstract/9900/training_considerations_for_the_bodybuilding_peak.230.aspx 📖 Get Dr. Scott Stevenson's Book — *Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach* Official website: 👉 https://drscottstevenson.com/byobbcoach.html Hardcover edition: 👉 https://www.instagram.com/fortitude_training/ 💪 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING ❤️ Join Our Patreon Help support the podcast and keep new episodes coming. Even $5/month makes a huge difference. 👉 https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG Bodybuilding Merchandise Official T-shirts, hoodies, and more. 👉 https://think-big.printify.me/products 🥇 Official Sponsor — TRUE NUTRITION Custom supplements trusted by serious bodybuilders. • Third-party tested • Fully customizable formulas • Save with code: **THINK** 👉 https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 For Our Canadian Viewers Save on top supplement brands with fast shipping across Canada. 👉 http://www.supplementsource.ca

In Episode 393 of It's Just Bodybuilding, Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, and Scott McNally sit down with new IFBB Pro and Mutant athlete Ranya Temizkan. They discuss her journey to the pro stage, training with her husband and coach, contest prep, the future of women's bodybuilding, and the mindset that's driven her rapid rise in the sport. 00:00 — Meet Ranya Temizkan | IFBB Women's Bodybuilding Rising Star 02:22 — Pro Debut Review & What's Next 03:08 — Training With Her Husband & Coach 06:48 — Chasing the Top of Women's Bodybuilding 08:18 — Off-Season Growth, Body Fat & Contest Prep 13:46 — Staying Confident During Prep 16:41 — From Competitive Dance to IFBB Pro 20:22 — Finding the Right Division: Figure, Wellness & Bodybuilding 21:30 — Moving to Las Vegas & Building a Career 24:03 — Training Secrets, Rear Delts & Favorite Gym Equipment 26:32 — Growing Into the Women's Bodybuilding Look 30:37 — Advice for Women Thinking About Bodybuilding 35:03 — Is Women's Bodybuilding Becoming More Extreme? 37:27 — Judging Standards, Division Creep & The Future of the Sport 39:51 — Social Media, Online Criticism & Building a Legacy 46:26 — Biggest Misconceptions About Female Bodybuilders 47:05 — The Sacrifices & Rewards of Bodybuilding 49:11 — What People Don't Understand About Contest Prep 50:42 — Is Bodybuilding More Mental Than Physical? 52:27 — Prep Habits, Daily Rituals & Staying Focused 53:17 — Rapid Fire: Music, Movies, Bodybuilding Legends & In-N-Out 57:49 — Final Thoughts 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

This week on Drugs N Stuff, Dave Crosland and Scott McNally break down the FDA's latest guidance and what it could mean for underground HGH entering the United States. We also discuss the testosterone shortage, poor lab testing, muscle memory research, fertility, cycle design, Equipoise, TRT protocols, and answer a wide range of your PED questions. Whether you're interested in performance enhancement, harm reduction, or simply staying informed, this episode is packed with practical information and real-world discussion. 0:00 What Customs is doing differently with HGH packages 1:45 Poor Testosterone Lab Results Explained 4:30 Testosterone Cypionate Shortage Update 5:15 US Customs Crackdown on Underground HGH 14:00 When Should You Pivot on a Cycle? 16:00 "My Junk Got Bigger Off Cycle?!" 20:00 Dihydroberberine vs Berberine Dosing 24:00 Low LH & FSH While Using HCG 26:20 Fertility Recovery After PED Use 29:30 Muscle Memory After Steroid Use 34:45 Is IGF-DES Worth Using? 36:45 TRT SubQ + Blast IM? 39:30 Test, Masteron, Equipoise & NPP Cycle Review 41:00 Is There More to Equipoise Than We Realize? 44:40 Prime Eddie Hall vs Prime Dave Crosland 😂 46:40 Moving From Training 2x to 3x Per Week 51:00 Long Testosterone Cycles: Ramp Up or Start High? 56:20 Dave's Fugitive Story part 6? 🤣 UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

On this episode of Blood Sweat & Gear, Scott McNally and Andrew Berry break down exactly what it took to coach a Classic Physique athlete to the Overall title and an IFBB Pro Card at Jr. Nationals. From a three-year transformation to making weight, water loading, carb loading, and peak week strategy, this is an inside look at high-level contest prep. Plus, they answer listener questions on diuretics, conditioning, dietary fat, Anadrol, tanning, and much more. 0:00 3 Year Transformation 0:30 How We Won the Jr. Nationals Overall 1:30 Incredible 3-Year Physique Transformation 3:50 Making Weight for Classic Physique 5:30 Peak Week Water Loading & Carb Loading 10:00 How Much Muscle Can You Gain in a Year? 11:45 How Would Scott Improve This Physique? 18:25 Getting Dry Without Diuretics 22:40 When Should You Use Hard Diuretics? 25:25 Natural Diuretics & OTC Water Pills 28:30 Staying Calm on Show Day 31:25 Self-Tan vs Professional Contest Tan 42:10 Predicting How Tough a Show Will Be 44:10 Can You Mix Contest Tanning Products? 45:30 Melanotan 2 & Tanning Beds for Prep 46:30 Does Bodybuilding Make You Look Older? 50:45 How Long Can You Run 15mg Anadrol? 52:30 Can Fruit Be Your Only Carb Source? 57:30 How Low Can You Push Dietary Fat? Check out our advertisers and affiliates at : http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com

In this episode of It's Just Bodybuilding, Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, Scott McNally and Special Guest Turner Riddle tackle a controversial question: Is bodybuilding losing its prestige? We discuss the explosion of NPC and IFBB Pro cards, whether becoming a pro bodybuilder means the same thing it once did, and how these changes may be affecting the future of competitive bodybuilding. Along the way, we break down the Italy Pro, today's competitive landscape, and what it takes to stand out in a sport that has never been bigger. 00:00 Introduction & Recording at Turner Riddle's house 01:12 Turners Home Gym, Land & Lifestyle 04:28 Italy Pro Preview & Predictions 05:40 Jordan Hutchinson, Bonac & Today's Competitive Landscape 09:00 Has NPC/IFBB Bodybuilding Devalued the Pro Card? 18:00 Sponsors, Guest Posing & The Business of Bodybuilding 20:32 Old-School vs Modern Physiques 22:08 More Shows, More Pros: Good or Bad for the Sport? 30:02 The Loss of Amateur Gatekeeping 36:16 The Lost Mystique of Professional Bodybuilding 40:34 What Does Success in Bodybuilding Really Mean? 42:12 The Economics of Running Bodybuilding Shows 47:29 The Future of Competitive Bodybuilding 50:00 Pro Cards, Prestige & Industry Culture 54:50 Competing for Passion vs Recognition 1:00:08 Why the Masters Division Continues to Grow 1:01:24 Ego, Validation & Athlete Expectations 1:02:22 Realistic Expectations in Bodybuilding 1:03:50 Coach Hopping vs Staying Consistent 1:05:50 Joe vs Nick: Predictions & Debate 1:10:30 Upcoming Shows & Athlete Storylines 1:13:14 Home Gyms, Outdoor Training & Final Thoughts 1:14:10 Wrap-Up 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

IFBB Pro Kuba Cielen joins Scott McNally to break down what progressive overload really means for muscle growth. Most lifters think it's just adding weight to the bar, but Kuba explains the deeper principles that continue driving progress long after the beginner stage. If you're serious about bodybuilding, hypertrophy, and maximizing every set, this episode will change the way you think about training. 0:00 Welcome back Kuba ! 2:30 Learn The Movement First 7:30 Training With Control vs Training Slow 9:45 Does Training Frequency Matter? 12:00 The 6 Principles of Progressive Overload 30:00 Real World Training Example 33:50 Using Pauses To Remove Momentum 39:10 Eliminating The Elastic Response 41:00 Powerlifting Strength vs Bodybuilding Strength 44:25 Why Good Technique Hurts More 46:45 Why You Should Film Your Sets 54:00 Is It OK To Be Obsessed With Bodybuilding? 57:45 Mental Cues For Better Performance Support the show on Patreon, get a shirt or shop with our sponsors : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally discuss Hadi Choopan's response to Derek Lunsford, the Phil Heath era, judging, posing, contest prep, training, peptide "experts" and an Overrated or Underrated showdown on some of bodybuilding's best topics. 0:00 Intro 2:20 Featured On Nick's Strength & Power 3:45 Hadi Choopan Responds To Derek Lunsford 5:30 Is Derek Wrong To Say He's The Best? 6:40 The Phil Heath Effect 15:45 Quinton Beastwood's Road To The Olympia 21:45 Finish Strong at IFBB Oklahoma Pro 30:30 Old School Posing vs Modern Posing 33:50 Dorian Yates Blood & Guts Reaction Comments 36:25 How Dusty Learned To Pose 38:00 Posing Transitions That Win Shows 42:15 How To Become An NPC Judge 44:30 Would We Want To Judge? 49:00 Experienced Competitors In Novice Classes 51:50 Best Training Split For Shift Workers 54:30 Can You Overtrain While Using PEDs? 1:01:00 Everyone Is Suddenly A Peptide Expert 1:11:00 OVERRATED, UNDER RATED or...ACCURATELY RATED!? 1:11:10 Judges Feedback - Overrated Or Underrated? 1:16:00 Cheat Meals During Contest Prep 1:19:10 Step Counting For Fat Loss 1:25:45 Pre-Workout Supplements 1:30:10 Turning Pro 1:34:00 Are Pro Cards Still Meaningful? 1:39:00 Chris Aceto Text Message From 2009 1:48:50 New York Knicks Fandom Through The Years 2:01:45 Ron Discovers Shoresy 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

The underground steroid market is changing fast. We break down new developments in China API production, Operation Pangea, law enforcement focus on online sales, and what it could mean for PED users moving forward. Plus, we answer your listener questions on estrogen management, Anavar use, TRT+, growth hormone dosing, Masteron, AFIB, stubborn fat loss, and much more. Hosted by Dave Crosland and Scott McNally 0:00 Welcome Back to Drugs n Stuff 0:45 Testosterone Production Industry Update 3:00 China API Production Changes Explained 8:45 Operation Pangea Disrupting the Steroid Market 11:25 Law Enforcement Targets Online Steroid Sales 14:45 Is the U.S. Still Investigating? 17:20 Support Our Sponsor - True Nutrition 18:00 How Important Is Keeping Estrogen In Range? 23:10 Can You Use PEDs If You Have AFIB? 25:15 Can You Build Muscle With Resistance Bands? 28:15 Are People Overusing Lab Work? 31:45 Anavar Only On Training Days? 34:20 First Steroid Cycle vs TRT Plus 36:15 Getting Rid Of Lower Abdominal Fat 39:00 The Worst Cycle We’ve Ever Heard 43:30 YK-11 Real World Listener Feedback 45:00 2 IU vs 10 IU Growth Hormone 48:45 Using Gear After Massive Fat Loss 51:30 High Masteron Cycles And Aging Skin 53:45 Can Steroids Cause Carpal Tunnel? 55:15 Cialis For Pumps And Contest Prep 57:00 Crack On! 57:30 Dave’s Story Of Being A Fugitive UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Short steroid cycles, contest prep decisions, max testosterone dosing, training, recovery and real-world bodybuilding coaching. Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally answer listener questions on cycle length, muscle growth, shift work, fat loss, training performance and the practical decisions that shape better physiques. 0:00 4-Week Cycle Results (Preview) 0:30 Support Our Sponsors 1:00 Shortest Effective Steroid Cycles 1:45 What Is A Normal Cycle Length? 3:55 Coming Off Testosterone Between Cycles 4:25 Are 10-Week Cycles Long Enough? 6:15 Do 6-Week Cycles Work? 7:30 Is There A Benefit To 4-Week Cycles? 9:45 The Mindset Shift Of Short Cycles 15:50 Using Long Esters In Short Cycles 18:50 Best Training Split For Shift Workers 23:00 Bodybuilding On A Swing Shift Schedule 31:00 Managing Sleep Around Work & Training 35:24 How Old Can You Still Build Muscle? 47:00 Contest Prep: Fullness vs Fat Loss 49:00 Maintaining Strength While Dieting 53:30 One Compound We Don't Recommend Like We Used To 56:45 Maximum Testosterone Before It Hurts Your Look 1:00:30 Best Ab Exercises For Bodybuilders 1:02:20 Does Skip Still Ride Motorcycles? 1:06:18 Why National-Level Bodybuilding Is So Competitive 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

2-Time Mr. Olympia Derek Lunsford joins It's Just Bodybuilding to discuss winning the Olympia, handling criticism, working with Chris Aceto, peaking stratagies, training intensity, and the mindset required to stay at the top of bodybuilding. Derek opens up about life after becoming Mr. Olympia, dealing with haters, his rivalry with Hadi Choopan, Samson Dauda and Andrew Jacked, and what it takes to keep improving after reaching the pinnacle of the sport. 0:00 Derek Lunsford Interview Preview 0:30 Welcome Mr. Olympia Derek Lunsford 1:20 Does Derek Lunsford Watch Bodybuilding Podcasts? 3:15 Why the Mr. Olympia Title Keeps Changing Hands 7:30 How Derek Lunsford Plans to Beat His Best Physique 10:00 How Winning the Mr. Olympia Changed His Life 12:25 The Responsibility of Being Mr. Olympia 16:00 What Derek Refuses to Do After Winning Olympia 19:00 How Chris Aceto Changed Derek's Mindset 25:00 Chris Aceto's Most Unexpected Coaching Habit 26:25 What Chris Aceto Would Change About Derek's 2019 Physique 28:30 Focusing on Process Instead of Results 32:40 The Biggest Contest Prep Peaking Mistake 36:45 How Much Weight Derek Loses Before Stepping On Stage 37:45 Arnold Classic vs Olympia Physique Differences 41:30 Derek Lunsford vs Hadi Choopan vs Samson Dauda vs Andrew Jacked 44:30 Is High Training Intensity Better for Growth? 48:00 Why Leg Day Creates Anxiety 52:00 The Champion's Mental Approach to Training 57:00 Lightbulb Moments That Changed Derek's Training 59:20 When Derek Realized He Could Win the Olympia 1:01:00 Outgrowing the 212 Division 1:09:30 How Derek Lunsford Handles Haters 1:17:45 The Legacy Derek Wants to Leave Behind 1:19:40 Derek's Favorite Movie 1:20:20 Derek's Road Trip Music Choices 1:21:00 Derek's Favorite Bodybuilder of All Time 1:22:40 Derek's Ultimate Leg Day Playlist 1:24:00 Chris Aceto's Early Thoughts on the 2026 Olympia 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

In this episode of Drugs N Stuff, we answer your steroid and PED questions covering TRT, Tren, Deca, NPP, gyno prevention, contest prep cycles, growth hormone, and more. We also discuss cycle design, nandrolone, androgen receptor sensitivity, and the practical decisions lifters face when planning their next phase. Plus, Dave shares another chapter of Dave the Fugitive and we answer a wide range of audience questions. 0:00 Support Our Sponsors 1:35 Growth Hormone Banned in China? What It Means 8:30 Are Steroids in Ampules Harder to Counterfeit? 19:30 How to Minimize Gynecomastia Risk 22:00 TRT vs Coming Off Cycle | Androgen Receptor Sensitivity 31:00 When to Add a Second Compound to Testosterone 34:20 Injectable YK-11 Feedback & Experiences 35:15 Low Dose Tren for a Summer Recomp 41:00 NPP vs Deca | Are They Equal Mg for Mg? 44:20 Managing a Bulk & Adding an Oral Compound 47:35 Can Nandrolone Improve Mood? 48:45 Favorite Classic Cars & Modern Cars 54:00 Low Dose Deca with Low Dose Tren 56:10 Standard Contest Prep Steroid Cycles 57:30 Steroid Advice for "Average Gym Bros" vs Competitors 1:02:30 Dave the Fugitive Part 4 UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Setting up your year of PEDs and how to get the most out of your cycles between TRT Labs and not irritating your doctor 😂😅. Skip's NFL drug testing experience, Water retention from Cyp vs Test E, Physique critique and more. Coaches Skip Hill and Scott McNally | Blood Sweat & Gear 349 0:00 TRT Bloodwork & Cycle Planning 1:00 PED Planning for Non-Competitive Lifters 5:30 Maximizing Cycles Between TRT Lab Work 17:30 Who Benefits Most from Testosterone Prescriptions? 18:45 Using Peptides Before TRT Blood Tests 21:20 Skip Hill's NFL Drug Testing Experience 23:10 PED Use and Professional Sports Drug Testing 29:15 Testosterone Enanthate vs Cypionate Water Retention 33:00 Best Ab Training Frequency and Technique 42:30 AI Thumbnails and Content Creation 49:35 Skip Hill Contest Prep Update 53:20 Junior Nationals Physique Critique 57:18 Classic Physique Weight Caps Discussion 1:05:00 Behind the Scenes Before Recording 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Today on Muscle Minds, Josh Bradshaw (Lead Author) and and Author Christopher Barakat (Author) of "Similar Strength and Hypertrophic Adaptations in Less Time? Myo-Reps vs. Traditional Straight-Sets in Resistance-Trained Men" joins Scott Stevenson & Scott McNally 0:00 100 lb strength gain in the study? (Teaser clip) 0:45 Explaining the study 6:45 Welcome Josh Bradshaw and Chris Barakat 8:00 Defining Myo Reps 20:00 What is the study about? 22:40 This study was done with advanced lifters 26:11 Volume/Load in the study 31:45 How effort was measured 40:00 Would more Myo Reps be better? 52:30 Strength Response to Myo Reps 59:45 Subjects learning to train harder during the study 1:03:00 Why the study is limited to 8 weeks 1:12:00 Would Different Muscle Muscle Groups Respond Differently ? 1:27:00 The psychology of failure Check out the study here : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42112925/ Follow the guys : https://www.instagram.com/joshtbrad/ https://www.instagram.com/christopher.barakat/ https://www.instagram.com/fortitude_training/ https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1/ Learn more about Myo-Reps in Børge Fagerli's book : https://borgefagerli.gumroad.com/l/myoreps 📕Get Scott Stevenson's Book https://drscottstevenson.com/byobbcoach.html Hardcover linked through Scott's IG https://www.instagram.com/fortitude_training/ 💪 Support THINK BIG Bodybuilding ❤️ Support the Channel on Patreon Help us keep the podcast and videos coming. Even $5/month makes a difference.👉 https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG Bodybuilding Apparel 🔥 Official THINK BIG T-Shirts & MerchTrain. Represent. Support the brand.👉 https://think-big.printify.me/products 🥇 Official Sponsor: TRUE NUTRITION ✅ Custom Supplements Trusted by Bodybuilders• 3rd-party tested• Fully customizable formulas• Used by serious lifters worldwide 💥 Save with code: THINK👉 https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian Viewers — Supplements Made Easy 💊 Huge Deals on Top Brand Supplements in CanadaFast shipping. Trusted retailer.👉 http://www.supplementsource.ca

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally discuss bodybuilding obsession, recovery, Retatrutide, contest prep mistakes, judging feedback, old-school supplements, Clenbuterol vs Ephedrine, digestive issues and much more. The guys share hard-earned lessons from decades in bodybuilding while answering listener questions on training, mindset, nutrition and competing. 0:00 Replacing Ron With a Robot? 0:54 It's Just Bodybuilding Podcast Returns 1:25 Mutant Discount Codes 3:20 Why Some Bodybuilders Want Maximum Results With Minimum Effort 10:50 Recovering Addicts and Bodybuilding Success 15:00 Building West Coast Iron Into a Bodybuilding Destination 20:10 Most Underrated Country for Bodybuilding Talent 26:20 Should Women's Bodybuilding Have Weight Caps? 29:30 How Valuable Is Contest Judging Feedback? 32:45 Old School Bodybuilding Supplements We Want Back 37:25 Retatrutide Backlash in Bodybuilding 41:00 Losing Perspective on Your Physique 47:20 Clenbuterol vs Ephedrine for Fat Loss 51:00 Biggest Bodybuilding Regrets 1:03:15 Mentally Preparing for Show Day 1:15:10 Digestive Issues During Contest Prep 1:21:40 Favorite Comfort Movies 1:34:45 TV Shows We're Watching Right Now 1:41:45 Ron Partlow's Train Like Hell App 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

How Long Are Steroid Cycles in 2026? Dave Crosland and Scott McNally break down modern bodybuilding cycles, strength-focused PED protocols, PCT strategies, TRT, fertility, and the latest compounds being discussed in the industry. We also react to Mitch Hooper's revealed cycle, discuss oral steroids for strength, and answer listener questions. Plus, stay for Dave the Fugitive Pt 3! 0:00 Steroid Cycles For Strength (Show Preview) 1:00 Podcast Sponsors & Support 2:00 Best Steroid Cycles for Strength Gains 4:45 Strongman PED Cycles: Off-Season vs Contest Prep 9:45 Performance Enhancing Drugs Beyond Anabolic Steroids 11:15 Best Oral Steroids for Strength 15:00 Strength Cycles for Average Lifters 19:00 Mitch Hooper Reveals His PED Cycle 22:45 Our Reaction to Mitch Hooper's Cycle 26:00 How Long Is a Used Steroid Vial Sterile? 29:45 Why Injection Infections Seem Less Common Today 31:30 Enclomiphene as a TRT Alternative? 36:20 Testosterone Crash After PCT Explained 38:30 Are Bodybuilding Approaches Different Around the World? 43:00 Winstrol vs Anavar for Contest Prep 44:00 Anavar and Sleep Problems 45:40 Fertility Protocols While Staying on TRT 49:45 SLU-PP-332 and 5-Amino-1MQ Before a Contest 53:10 Low Dose Testosterone and NPP Cycles 57:00 How Long Can You Stay On Cycle and Still Recover? 58:00 Is Gaining 8 Pounds of Muscle in One Cycle Possible? 1:04:35 Can Natural Lifters Build Better Muscle Using GH? 1:11:00 Dave the Fugitive Part 3 1:29:30 Behind the Scenes Stories & Final Thoughts UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Blood Sweat & Gear with Coaches Skip Hill Scott McNally breaks down the destabilization of the underground Growth Hormone market, possible China and US customs crackdowns, and what it means for bodybuilding in 2026. We also cover GH dosing, recovery, sodium and electrolyte balance, training age, cycle support, NAD+ experiences and real-world bodybuilding problem solving. 0:00 Underground HGH Crisis in 2026 – China or US Customs? 0:50 Generic Growth Hormone Market Destabilization 3:20 3 Reasons the Underground GH Market Is Breaking 10:00 Generic HGH vs Pharma HGH – Water Retention Differences 17:00 Best HGH Dosing Frequency for Bodybuilding in 2026 21:20 All-In-One Cycle Support Supplements 26:25 Recovery Changes With Training Age 31:00 Bulk or Cut? What To Do When You Lack Muscle Mass 34:30 Staying Lean but Still Looking “Baby Faced” 38:30 How Bodybuilders Survive Extreme Heat Waves 41:45 Sodium, Electrolytes and Hydration for Bodybuilders 49:20 Scott McNally’s NAD+ Experience 51:40 When Your Bodybuilding Coach Isn’t Plugged In 1:04:45 Skip's Word of the Day 1:09:00 Behind the Scenes 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally discuss which IFBB Pro is one adjustment away from shocking bodybuilding, plus deep conversations on discipline, recovery, mindset and life outside the gym. 0:00 Best Moments From Today’s Show 2:00 Which IFBB Pro Is One Adjustment Away From Shocking Bodybuilding? 17:10 Discipline vs Obsession 27:20 Does Recovery Change With Training Age? 31:20 What Would Your Teenage Self Think Of You Today? 33:13 Habits Outside The Gym That Change Your Physique 37:00 Not Caring What Other People Think 41:00 When Hustle Culture Becomes A Trap 52:20 Bodybuilding Beliefs We Changed Our Minds About 56:18 Making Bodybuilding Fit Your Life 1:01:20 Things Guys Try Instead Of Going To The Doctor 1:08:30 Things We Care Less About As We Get Older 1:16:00 Music That Instantly Takes You Back 1:22:15 Is Modern Music Worse Or Are We Just Older? 1:29:00 Why Are There No Great Movies Anymore? 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

How long are bodybuilding cycles in 2026 — and how long is too long? Scott McNally and Dave break down modern cycle length, TRT, Proviron, Test No Ester, recovery, and real-world PED use. Plus Milos coaching Hadi, MK677 for appetite, gut health discussion, and Dave’s fugitive story Part 2. 0:00 Support the show by shopping with our advertisers 2:00 WVE-007 RNA Therapy 4:20 6-Month Trial Results 7:45 Financial Fallout 12:30 Max Cycle Length 25:10 Is Proviron Worth It? 29:20 Test No Ester Preworkout 34:30 Shortest Effective Cycle 43:25 MK677 for Anadrol Appetite 44:40 TRT Test/Deca/Mast Ratio 48:55 Fixing Stomach Acid Issues 55:30 Milos Coaching Hadi 1:01:00 Dave Fugitive Story Pt. 2 1:18:10 Behind The Scenes UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally break down the Pittsburgh Pro guest posing featuring Samson Dauda, Derek Lunsford and Andrew Jacked. We debate who looked best, early Olympia predictions, and answer live bodybuilding questions from the chat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 Follow Mutant CEO here : https://www.instagram.com/mutantceo/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Two bodybuilding coaches with 20+ combined years of experience answer real questions about PEDs, contest prep, health and getting the most out of bodybuilding. Retatrutide, Clenbuterol, TRT, Tren, stage conditioning, cycle length and bodybuilding health — Andrew and Scott go deep into the real-world side of enhanced bodybuilding. From blood pressure meds and ancillaries to getting freaky strong, this episode covers the questions competitors actually ask behind the scenes. Plus listener physique critiques, old-school bodybuilding stories, and a discussion about Luke Sandoe, Dallas McCarver and Justin Compton. 0:00 Intro & Welcome Back to BSG Coaching Podcast 1:00 Retatrutide + Clenbuterol — Dangerous Combo or Effective Fat Loss Stack? 4:45 Performance Health Matrix Explained 7:45 Hormone Suppression in Natural Bodybuilders 11:45 When to Add Bodybuilding Ancillaries (Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, AI Use) 16:15 Gear for Maximum Strength & Freaky Power Gains 22:20 How Much Should You Increase Dosages Each Cycle? 27:00 Fullness vs Conditioning — What Wins on Stage? 30:30 Low Dose Tren as TRT Plus 30:45 Do You Need to Time Testosterone Shots Around Workouts? 37:00 Ideal Time Off Cycle to Keep Your Muscle Gains 40:00 Would Andrew Ever Make a Bodybuilding Comeback? 41:00 Muscle Loss vs Muscle Growth During a Diet Phase 47:00 Luke Sandoe vs Dallas McCarver vs Justin Compton 55:00 Scott’s Personal Experience with Luke Sandoe 1:00:00 Listener Physique Critique #1 1:06:30 Listener Physique Critique #2 — Jr USA Prep Feedback 1:18:25 Behind The Scenes Talk 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca 🔈🎧 Audio Podcast: THINK BIG BODYBUILDING (all platforms)

Can combining Deca and Anadrol create the ultimate mass gaining cycle? Dave Crosland and Scott McNally break down how advanced bodybuilders use Test, Deca, and Anadrol together for maximum size, strength, fullness, and recovery. We also dive into Anadrol’s estrogenic effects, cycle design, TRT dosing, insulin, Primo lowering estrogen, acne from nandrolone, and the mental side of PEDs. Plus: steroid busts in Mexico, Dave’s documentary appearance, home gym planning, British slang, and the insane story of how Dave became a fugitive. 0:00 Steroid Education & Mass Building Cycles 1:45 Test, Deca & Anadrol: The Ultimate Mass Stack? 5:00 Anadrol & Estrogen Receptors Explained 7:00 Best Test / Deca / Anadrol Doses For Intermediate Users 9:00 Cycle Length Debate & When To Add Anadrol 12:15 How Androgens Affect The Brain vs Muscle 13:30 Dave Crosland’s Steroid Documentary 20:00 Mexico Steroid Busts & Underground PED Risks 26:46 Thick Injectable L-Carnitine Issues 27:20 Why Nandrolone Causes Cystic Acne 29:45 Accutane Mood Issues & Mental Side Effects 34:45 Is 250mg Testosterone TRT or A Cycle? 37:00 Can You Actually Feel Insulin Working? 41:00 Compliment or Insult? Bodybuilding Perspective 41:30 Can Low Estrogen From Primo Hurt Gains? 44:00 Is 250mg Test Too High or Too Low For Beginners? 53:30 British Slang With Dave Crosland 54:45 Planning The Perfect Home Gym 1:00:00 How Dave Became a Fugitive | Story Time 1:14:45 Behind The Scenes of DNS UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Blood Sweat & Gear dives into TRT, Trestolone, carb loads, GH testing, Masteron & estrogen, Melanotan 2, cutting strategies, and real coaching insight from experienced bodybuilding coaches. We break down physique critiques, off-season nutrition, health support supplements, and what really matters for progress on cycle and in prep. Featuring Scott McNally and the crew discussing bodybuilding, PEDs, coaching, contest prep, and the science behind getting bigger, leaner, and healthier. 0:00 Intro & Listener Questions 1:00 Trestolone (MENT) as TRT Instead of Testosterone? 4:30 How Top Coaches Use High Days in a Diet 9:00 How to Calculate the Perfect Carb Load 11:45 The Most Important Part of Great Coaching 15:30 Using High Days During the Off Season 19:30 Do Taller Bodybuilders Need More Gear? 24:30 Should You Test GH Labs While Using Growth Hormone? 28:50 300 Test + 300 Masteron — Estimating Estrogen Levels 35:00 Sending PED Samples to Janoshik Explained 36:30 Melanotan 2 Protocols, Dosing & Results 40:45 Should There Be a Coaching Review Website? 44:30 Best Training Tips While Cutting Calories 50:10 Do You Need Health Supplements During a Cruise? 56:00 Live Physique Critique & Feedback 1:03:45 Behind the Schedule & Podcast Talk 1:05:30 Why Everything at Think Big Is Eccentric 1:07:00 Ms. Olympia Joins the Chat 1:10:40 Scott McNally’s Client Competing in Germany 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Ron Partlow and Scott McNally break down the 2026 IFBB New York Pro with detailed analysis of Tonio Burton, Krizo, Blessing Awodibu and the Classic Physique lineup. We review stage footage, posing, structure, conditioning and why the placings played out the way they did. Plus training psychology, fixing bad habits, gym limitations for tall bodybuilders and overcoming burnout. 0:00 2026 IFBB New York Pro Review 1:00 Support The Podcast – Mutant Codes Dusty & BIGRON 3:00 New York Pro Stage Footage Analysis 4:10 Why Krizo Needs Better Posing 6:00 Blessing Awodibu’s Major Improvements 7:30 New York Pro Second Callout Breakdown 8:45 Tonio Burton vs Krizo – Why Tonio Won 9:45 Tonio Burton’s Lat Injury Explained 17:50 Classic Physique New York Pro Review 34:30 Ron Partlow at 320 Pounds 37:20 Changing A Client’s Bad Habits 56:00 Why Tall Bodybuilders Struggle With Gym Machines 1:01:20 Teaching Higher Training Intensity & Effort 1:08:45 Getting Burnt Out On Bodybuilding Food 1:15:45 Can You Fix A Poor Mindset? 1:17:00 Forcing Yourself To Do Something You Love 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/LIzRH4JHmbM

Steroid dosing ratios explained — Test vs Masteron, Primobolan, EQ and Deca breakdowns with Dave Crosland and Scott McNally. We cover real-world cycle logic, minimal effective doses, estrogen expectations, clenbuterol protocols, insulin use and the biggest mistakes we’ve made in bodybuilding. Plus listener questions, training talk and behind-the-scenes stories from the trenches. 0:00 Test vs Masteron Ratio vs Test vs Primobolan Ratio 0:30 Support The Podcast Sponsors 1:30 How Steroid Dosing Ratios Work 2:10 Do Steroid Ratios Actually Make Sense? 3:30 Under-Dosed Testosterone Reports 5:50 Most Common Steroid Ratios Explained 9:00 When To Go Beyond Ratios 10:25 4:1 Testosterone to EQ Ratio 12:30 Minimal Effective Steroid Doses 16:45 Biggest Steroid Cycles: Dave vs Scott 30:00 Clenbuterol Protocols Explained 32:30 Origin of “Vigorous” in Vigorous Steve 33:30 Dave Crosland’s Unique Training Split 35:50 Estrogen Levels on 600mg Testosterone 37:00 Albuterol vs Clenbuterol – Helios & Topical PT-141 40:00 Weekly Injection Protocols For Long Esters 43:00 Dumbest Steroid Mistakes We Made 46:00 Insulin Protocols For High-Carb Diets 55:15 How Much Gear Is Too Much For Women? 1:00:00 Uncle Dave’s Advice 1:14:00 Behind The Scenes UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Skip Hill, Andrew Berry & Scott McNally break down real PED strategies, training, GH use, dieting, physique critiques and the biggest mistakes bodybuilders make. This episode of Blood Sweat & Gear is packed with advanced bodybuilding discussion, contest prep insight and hard-earned coaching experience. New episodes every week covering bodybuilding, performance enhancement, training and nutrition. 0:00 Blood Sweat & Gear Podcast 0:45 Are Bodybuilders Overcomplicating Steroid Cycles? 3:00 Skip Hill’s 2002 Contest Prep Cycle 7:40 Too Much Clenbuterol by Accident 11:00 Why Natural Lifters Must Master Training 12:45 Health Effects of 200mg vs 400mg Testosterone 16:20 Better Form vs More Weight for Muscle Growth 24:20 1300mg vs 600mg Steroids with Growth Hormone 29:00 Natural vs Enhanced Dieting Differences 31:00 Sublingual Oral Steroids vs Traditional Orals 36:50 Best Growth Hormone Timing Protocols 41:00 GH vs Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides 42:15 Fake Increlex & Fake Serostim Problems 44:30 Biggest Needle Movers for Muscle Growth 53:45 Masters Bodybuilding Physique Critique 1:04:20 Classic Physique Competitor Critique 1:11:10 Behind the scenes 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Blood Sweat & Gear with Skip Hill, Andrew Berry, and Scott McNally—three top coaches break down real listener questions on training, TRT, and performance. From fixing lagging body parts to dialing in hormones and maximizing muscle growth, nothing is off limits. Straightforward, experience-based answers you can actually apply. 1:00 Fixing Weak Upper Body (Best Training Split Adjustments) 12:30 Best Add-On to TRT for Muscle Growth (Low Dose, Big Impact) 15:45 Anadrol vs Testosterone – Which Builds More Muscle? 17:20 Why Some Pro Bodybuilders Miss Conditioning (Real Reasons) 32:20 Using NPP During a Cut – Smart or Mistake? 34:00 Can Bloodwork Replace Coming Off Steroids? 35:00 How to Dial In Aromasin on TRT (Estrogen Control Guide) 39:00 Bodybuilding as a Firefighter – Training Around Shift Work 48:40 Losing Muscle While Cutting? (How to Prevent It) 58:40 Physique Critique – Tanya (Listener Check-In) 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Vigorous Steve joins It's Just Bodybuilding to break down the real effects of retatrutide on dopamine, motivation, and relationships. We dive into his experimental DHT-only cycle and how modern bodybuilders are approaching PEDs differently. Plus: cholesterol management, mitochondrial health, and the long-term cost of getting big. 0:00 Vigorous Steve Interview Begins 1:30 Welcome Vigorous Steve to the Podcast 2:30 Will Vigorous Steve Go on Joe Rogan? 4:00 Retatrutide & Dopamine Effects Explained 6:00 GLP-1 Drugs Compared (Ozempic vs Retatrutide) 10:00 How Retatrutide Works & Why It’s So Popular 12:00 Does Retatrutide Lower Dopamine & Motivation? 14:40 Dopamine vs Love: Are Feelings Really Affected? 21:20 Why Doing Hard Things Builds Growth & Discipline 24:45 Who Should Use Retatrutide? 29:40 Using Retatrutide in the Offseason for Bodybuilding 33:20 Vigorous Steve’s New DHT-Only Cycle Explained 37:00 How DHT Impacts Estrogen Levels 39:25 Can DHT Prevent or Reduce Gynecomastia? 43:00 Primobolan vs Masteron vs Equipoise (Key Differences) 45:45 Cholesterol in Bodybuilders: Causes & Fixes 49:45 Supplements for Cholesterol (Dante Trudel Protocol) 55:15 Why LDL Gets High on Steroids (Perfect Storm) 56:25 Are Steroid Carrier Oils Dangerous? 1:03:30 The PED Experiment Steve Regrets Most 1:05:45 Mitochondrial Health & Reducing Oxidative Stress 1:15:30 Starting PEDs Too Early: Long-Term Consequences 1:29:00 Bodybuilding Lifestyle in Thailand 1:42:45 Behind the Scenes 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━