3D Muscle Journey

Many of us are fairly savvy when it comes to adjusting our nutrition in order to create change in our body weight. We know what it should "feel like" to be gaining or losing weight. However, when it comes to maintaining a particular body weight, many athletes aren't as familiar with the process. In today's [...]

In today's episode, Alberto, Andrea, and Brad discuss one of the biggest influences on your bodybuilding career, your genetics. Even though we may not like it, genetics play a significant role in our ultimate physical development. Throughout their conversation, the coaches highlight a few very important concepts, including: making the most out of what you [...]

Eighty-six. It took eighty-six episodes before the 3DMJ coaches felt the necessity to record a podcast on supplements. Hopefully this statement alone conveys the minor role supplements play in one's strength and physique goals. Rather than breaking down individual supplements and studies, Andrea, Eric, and Brad spend the majority of their time discussing big picture [...]

In today's episode, Andrea, Jeff, and Brad sit down to discuss one of the biggest influences on today's culture, social media. As an online business, 3DMJ capitalizes on the opportunities social platforms provide by using them to distribute content to their followers and market services to potential clients. As with most good things, there are [...]

When most people think of Alberto Nuñez, they think of pop-tarts, shredded glutes, and extreme vascularity. And while these may have become his hallmarks, they wouldn't be nearly as impactful if he didn't have the muscle mass to accompany them. In today's episode, Andrea sits down with Alberto one-on-one to discuss his off-season plans. They [...]

Quitting a contest-prep, is it really a bad thing? Not necessarily. In the moment, you may feel like a failure, however oftentimes looking back you see that stopping a prep was the best decision you could have made. Throughout the episode, Andrea, Jeff, and Alberto discuss their own experiences with unfinished contest-preps. These experiences include: [...]

In today's episode, Eric, Andrea, and Alberto discuss one of the most common bodybuilding pitfalls, loneliness. What can start off as a new and exciting journey, can quickly turn into a life of isolation, misunderstanding, and exiling of those closest to you, if you aren't careful. Throughout the episode, the coaches share their past and [...]

The 3DMJ coaches are back with another Q&A session! In this episode, Andrea and Eric answer over 17 questions directly related to physique and performance enhancement. Some of the topics addressed include: testosterone's effect on muscle-mass, planned vs. autoregulated deloads, exercise substitution frequency, how to maintain a leaner physique, correcting forward-lean during high-bar squatting, an...

Being a committed and serious athlete is a big deal. It's not just what you do in the gym that matters, but also the variables outside of the gym which affect your performance that matter as well. In today's episode, Andrea, Brad, and Alberto discuss their athletic lifestyles. The coaches talk about how they start [...]

Have you ever wondered how the bodybuilding lifestyle affects one's kids and family dynamic? In today's episode, the coaches discuss how living the lifestyle they do, training, dieting, posing, etc., affects their kids. Throughout the episode, the coaches cover topics such as the importance of instilling the notion that bodybuilding is a sport, how they [...]

Most of us who have been training for an extended period of time, know that lifting weights is more complex than haphazardly picking them up and putting them back down. There's a skill component to it. In today's episode, Brad, Eric, and Andrea discuss many of the factors that make performing complex movements, an art. [...]

In this episode, Eric, Jeff, and Andrea sit-down to discuss two major themes: How to become a better critical thinker, and the importance of learning to be more resourceful. Throughout the episode, the coaches expand on these two themes covering the concepts of: "black and white" vs. critical thinking, close-mindedness vs. open-mindedness, examining underlying assumptions, [...]

It's the first episode of 2018, and what could be a better way to kickoff the new year than going over how to plan out your athletic goals and set yourself up for success? In today's episode, Jeff, Andrea, and Alberto discuss the importance of setting your goals early, and how to adjust your yearly [...]

What factors contribute to muscle-loss when dieting? How important is the timing of your carbohydrate intake? What exactly are "leverages", and how does altering them affect your training? Picking-up at the end of last week's episode, Brad, Andrea, and Eric work together to answer the remaining questions. Topics range from: nutrient partitioning, to acceptable exercise [...]

Welcome to Q&A session 4! In today's episode, all five coaches work together to answer 10 subscriber asked questions. Topics range from: appropriate usage of drop-sets, to manipulating your body-fat set point, eliminating loose skin, maximum recoverable volume, "adrenal fatigue", and more. To expand your knowledge base and acquire additional resources to aid you in [...]

Pumpkin pie, turkey, wine...what could be better? The holiday season is a great time of year for many people, bringing with it: time off work, more time with those they care about, and mom's special yams. In today's episode, Jeff, Andrea, and Alberto discuss what this time of year is like for those who have [...]

When does the recovery diet end and the offseason begin? How does someone know when they are "recovered"? As the 2017 competitive season draws to a close, these questions linger in the minds of many competitors. With the previously accepted guidelines (i.e. reverse dieting) being vastly different than what we now know to be more [...]

One of the greatest aspects of physique sports, is the ability to be able to participate in them well into the later decades of life. At the age where most traditional sports stop, one's performance in bodybuilding is still peaking. In today's episode, Andrea, Alberto, and Brad discuss how things have changed in their athletic [...]

Would you like to learn how to design nutrition protocols for yourself or your clients? Wondering where to start and how to make future adjustments? You're in luck. In today's episode, Eric, Andrea, and Jeff sit-down to discuss the methods they use for setting up nutrition protocols for their athletes. The coaches cover: what data [...]

Similar to how tracking body-weight is useful for assessing fat-loss, tracking your training is valuable for assessing muscle-growth and strength-gains. In today's episode, Eric, Andrea, and Brad sit down to discuss how to track your training. The group go over in great detail the systems they use personally and with their athletes to track training [...]

While the fitness industry is often lumped into one big category, in actuality it has many different facets. Some companies choose to build their brand using over-night miracle workers, while others seek to establish themselves through providing time-tested knowledge. In today's episode, Andrea, Eric and Alberto discuss the concepts behind creating a lasting brand in [...]

While having a relatively sedentary occupation has its benefits when it comes to bodybuilding and training performance, it also comes with its fair share of drawbacks. In today's episode, Andrea, Jeff and Alberto discuss the various pros and cons of being a "bodybuilding desk-jockey". Each of the coaches go through what their training and dieting [...]

Off-season weight-gain. I can already see the cringe on many of your faces as I write this sentence. For a sport that draws people in who want to look better, the periods of weight-gain, higher body-fat percentage and resulting uncomfortable self-image are often found in the small print. In today's episode, Jeff, Brad and Andrea [...]

We've all been here before...We're in the gym training and look over to see the person next to us doing something we would consider to be "abnormal" or "sub-optimal". This could be anything from half-squats, to eccentric bench-press training, to static-holds. However, before we judge too quickly, are there actually some situations where these approaches [...]

Welcome back to Q&A session #3! In today's episode, Eric, Andrea and Jeff answer 5 subscriber asked questions on the topics of: advice for serious but non-competitive lifters, reverse dieting to "fix" a slowed metabolism, the effects of Olympic lifting on muscular hypertrophy, coaching your spouse, and guidelines for minimal calorie and fat intake while [...]