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Man's Search for Muscle — 229 episodes

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2026 Transformation challenge - I won!

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BFFM 2026 & plan for the year

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2025 Gaining month 4

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2025 gain log #2 - May

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2025 gaining log #1

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The "science" of peaking

7

BFFM 2025 new years results & peak week

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Final week of BFFM summer challenge

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2025 lean gaining plan

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Week 9 / 12

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Week 7 update

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Frustration with bulking & recomping... what to do???

13

Week 6 of the BFFM challenge

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Week 3 update

15

Week 2 summary

16

Week 1 summary

17

Jan 4 - pre challenge log

18

2025 training plan

19

2024 summary

20

Technique vs progressive overload

21

Caloric maintenance: How I measure

22

Recomping - is it possible/realistic?

23

2024 dietary plan for muscle gain

24

2024 training plan (for muscle gain)

25

Lengthened partials and high volume

26

The muscle building triad

27

Weight training plan for gaining in 2023 - 2024

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Diet & cardio for lean gaining

29

How I gained 12 lbs of lean muscle in a year

30

"Diet and Exercise" doesn't work for me - a response

31

Bodyweight as a measurement for progress

32

Lean bulking lessons - I got too fat!

33

I was physically assaulted TWICE this week!

34

Fitness advice

35

Body Transformation Challenge tips and tricks to succeed

36

New training program for size & strength

37

Best supplements for building muscle and burning fat

38

Contest results 2022 Burn the Fat Feed The Muscle summer challenge

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2022 diet/cut lessons

40

Peak week 2022

41

2022 summer transformation challenge log

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Quality or quantity for diet and exercise?

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Bulk or Maingain?

44

RIP Jerry Ward

45

Changes when going from Gaining to Cutting

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2022 transformation challenge strategy

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Greg Doucette guest posing at the Atlantic Classic

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Lean Gain template - building muscle with minimal fat gain

49

Traps holding you back

50

Lean gain log - Feb 23 - Apr 1, 2022

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5 keys to gaining muscle

52

Why I hated The Batman (spoilers)

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Lean Gain log #3 - Feb 7 - Feb 22

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Bulk or cut?

55

Justin Trudeau is a weak, pathetic little bitch!

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Update on the Ottawa convoy

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Lean gaining log #2 - Jan 6 - Feb 3, 2022

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The Canadian truckers convoy

59

5 keys to home gym workouts

60

Masculinity

61

Indiana “Froskurrin” Black's G4TV rant shows you why they suck

62

Why you should ALWAYS skip "leg day"

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If you don't have abs you're fat | Greg Doucette | Steve Shaw | Geoffrey Verity Schofield

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Build 17lbs muscle in 6 weeks (the REAL way - not Joel Seedman's)

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Lean gaining log: Nov 25 - Dec 31, 2021

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2 things to manage for lean muscle gain

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The sweet spot for growth

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Embracing discomfort for muscle growth

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The OTHER "secret" requirement for building muscle!!

70

Alec Baldwin & what NOT to do to gain sympathy and respect

71

We are living in The Lion King and Scar is leading

72

Is turkesterone worth it?

73

Big Lessons from dieting in 2021

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2021 Peak week #3 - the last leg of my last cut of this year

75

The science of lifting vs experience

76

SWEAT by Geoffrey Verity Schofield - review

77

Top 10 Lessons learned from Greg Doucette

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Superman needs to be saved

79

The most important yet easily overlooked mindsets for progress

80

The dark side of body transformation challenges

81

Review of Steve Shaw's Team Massive

82

How to ensure optimal progress

83

The 2 most important factors for building muscle

84

Why Bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts are more conservative?

85

Why are you doing this??

86

Coping with hopelessness

87

Canada's election day

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Don't let them shut you up & the mandatory vaccines debate

89

Nicki Minaj, Alana McLaughlin & vaccine passports... Don't be a lemming!

90

Beliefs can limit us

91

My new (old) training program

92

How to get off your ass and get into action

93

Aim at Nothing, Hit nothing: a profound movie quote

94

How to destroy relationships

95

Rethinking privilege

96

Transitioning from one cut to the next

97

Vaxholes - when memes go wrong

98

Ben Pakulski's 3-phase process for physical transformation review

99

Your body my choice - Justin Trudeau wants to take away choice for your own body

100

Greg Doucette vs Geoffrey Schofield - what are the practical takeaways

101

Getting and KEEPING motivation

102

Are you a hypocrite?

103

75 hard challenge - initial reaction

104

"Screw your freedom" - Arnold's comment and the reaction

105

Template for a successful cut & assessing what works and what can be improved upon

106

2021 Summer challenge summary (including peak week)

107

2021 summer transformation challenge - part 3

108

2021 summer transformation challenge - pt 2 - weeks 5-8

109

Sam Seder - Interview on what happened w/H3H3 vs Steven Crowder

110

Sam Seder is hiding from me like a coward

111

Weeks 1 - 4 of my 2021 summer transformation

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2021 summer transformation challenge log: part 1: prep weeks

113

2021 transformation challenge program

114

Review of bodybuilding.com bodyfit Elite

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Celebrity body transformations and how to do your own

116

Taking my body to the next level

117

Do not allow yourself to become resentful deceitful or arrogant - Jordan Peterson's rule XI examined

118

Weight lifting is a waste of time by John Jaquish: review

119

Ta-Nehisi Coates vs Jordan Peterson

120

Hero Maker by Duffy Gaver - book review

121

Strength & Muscle building programs

122

Why the news media is so pathetic

123

Justice League (Snyder cut) review

124

Peak week 2021 - how I'm using the bodybuilding techniques for a photoshoot

125

How to be strong!

126

Cortisol overload

127

Why you're not making progress

128

Beyond Order: 12 more rules by Jordan Peterson - part 2 of my review

129

Jordan Peterson - Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life - Review (part 1)

130

Training Legs and shoulders together

131

Why woke superhero stories always fail

132

Democrats won the impeachment

133

Mans man vs pretty boy

134

Eccentric vs concentric training

135

How to keep mentally focussed during a cut

136

Confusion while cutting: dealing with the mental side of dieting down

137

Hard work, responsibility and fat shaming

138

How to accomplish anything (possible)

139

An at-home workouts program that actually works!

140

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto review

141

Interviewing myself

142

Jonny Lee Miller called me an asshole (and I love it)

143

Stallone vs Schwarzenegger & comparing yourself to others

144

Somatotypes: are they important?

145

Burn fat while building muscle

146

Diet tricks to help with adherence

147

2021 is fucked already!!

148

Hypertrophy Coach review

149

Overcoming discouragement

150

Death to 2020 review

151

Pragmatism vs idealism

152

What does it mean to be a man

153

Why being oppressed is currency

154

The quickest and easiest way to build muscle

155

Revisiting mentorship

156

Overcoming the 2 biggest obstacles

157

The Warrior - and daily farmer walks

158

Change "have to" into "get to"

159

Jeff Cavaliere (athlean x) using fake weights?

160

Another day another Muslim terrorist attack

161

Stop being a coward!

162

One key to improve results

163

Review of Sean Nalewanyj

164

Stoic bodybuilding

165

Why are we so divided?

166

How socialism works

167

The unreachable horizon of conditional happiness

168

Sustain and Abstain

169

Cut the puppet strings that bind you

170

Bodybuilding - momentum

171

Superman training for Halloween

172

What if you don't have a "why"?

173

To juice or not to juice?

174

The power of gratitude in times of tragedy

175

Carl Jung's shadow philosophy - how to incorporate/integrate it

176

The key to inner strength and outward power

177

Full-body vs split routines

178

Game changers for building muscle, burning fat & accomplishing goals

179

Maximizing muscle gains

180

Athean X XERO program final review

181

What now? Habits part 2

182

Atomic habits - implementing life changing habits

183

Exercise finishers and limiting beliefs

184

My 3,2,1 training protocol for size strength & fat loss

185

6 Creative ways to achieve Progressive Overload and speed up muscle gains

186

Mechanical drop sets, making progress

187

Dealing with fruatration

188

A death at the gym

189

I'm back!!

190

AthleanX XERO (non-sponsored) program review 1

191

Raid Shadow Legends podcast

192

Covidiots

193

Rewarding bad behaviour

194

Principles: humility and accepting reality

195

No gym... How the COVID-19 pandemic affects my workouts

196

Episode 2.11 - MI40 program & Principles by Ray Dalio

197

Motivation & training plan

198

209 - courage, integrity and combat

199

The importance of Fatherhood

200

Optimal breathing for physical and mental performance

201

205 - Brain Wash & leg pain

202

10 step process for development (updated and corrected)

203

Ethan Suplee body transdformation

204

The dark triad of Muscle growth, fat loss and personality

205

New Year's resolutions & goals

206

Becoming a mentor

207

Biceps & delts, Jekyll & Hyde - when to supress impusles

208

Episode 22: accountability - 3 tools

209

Aggression - the good, the bad and the facebook ban!

210

Is it wise to know your limitations?

211

Plato, Socrates and muscle!!

212

Inner srength

213

The 3 pillars of physique developement

214

Episode 16: Truth, beauty, good - what is and what can be

215

Ross Edgley, Dorian Yates and secret identities

216

Secret Identities/Alter Egos

217

Faith - NOT just for the religious

218

NLP and Narrative identity

219

Episode 11: Beliefs

220

Why do you need a "why"?

221

Bullies, wimps and a rant on "toxic masculinity"

222

Confucianism and trying to relate exercise with ancient Chinese wisdom

223

Podcast update and standing vs sitting

224

Give yourself permission to fail

225

Be your best and book recommendations for philosophy and fitness

226

Creating and keeping motivation & momentum

227

Cultivating Self-awareness to begin your fitness journey

228

Taoism and bodybuilding

229

An introduction to Man's Search for Muscle