The Improvement Season Podcast

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're continuing our guide on how to train a specific body part and this time we cover how to train your biceps. Timestamps: (00:00) Working space as an online coach (08:00) Irritability after hard training sessions (13:56) Training with cuffs...

Timestamps: (00:00) Snowboard trip and dealing with injuries (02:06) Active rest and deloads (06:47) Stress, Obsession vs. Consumption (31:24) Search feed on instagram (35:52) Back Training guide, exercise selection (44:39) Back volume (49:10) Training frequency (51:58) Soreness, pumps and recovery assessment (56:34) Rep range (01:01:59) Tips & tricks for back training (01:06:27) Things to avoid w...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This is part 2 of this recording. We walk about natural bodybuilding, how to eat during holiday, taking time off when being self-employed and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Best body parts from different natural bodybuilders (03:35) No one cares about natural bodybuildi...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This is part 1 of this recording. We walk about natural bodybuilding, caloric intake for individuals, the purpose of a deload, how to train during holiday and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Taste of whey and current pricing of whey (11:21) What to do with training durin...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about focusing on the most important aspects around training and not being caught in paralysis by analysis. Furthermore, we delve deep into how to train your quads. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (06:37) How we split our client work (12:41) Overreaching, PR...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about focusing on the most important aspects around training and not being caught in paralysis by analysis. Furthermore, we delve deep into how to train your forearms. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:49) Healing process of a tattoo and what to do (13:43)...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about productive work, how much you should gain and what true progress actually looks like. Timestamps: (00:00) Getting a tattoo (10:50) Having to go through things in order to learn and gain experience (13:56) Recovery process from surgery (17:26) Cur...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about what you need to know about coaching. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (06:30) Coaching analogies. Why coaching is worth it (11:21) Picking the coach based on price (14:27) Past experiences don't reflect the future (16:32) What to do when finding the ri...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about if training 7 days a week is a good idea or not. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:13) Learn how to cook (09:46) Steve's training (12:50) Pascal's training progression and plan moving forward (19:19) Not changing things up too often (22:15) Muscle gr...

Welcome to the improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…aka offseason. This time we talk about what perfect form is and if using momentum is okay. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (08:16) All or nothing mentality and rehab training (14:20) High rep training (21:26) The fallacy of increasing sets (28:42) What's perfect form and using momentum (35:...

We're back with another episode. Steve just moved houses and we're talking about how to deal with situations like these. Furthermore we talk about what to do when you think you need a break? Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:07) How has moving houses impacted training/nutrition (10:19) What's a good leg press machine? (18:16) Make machines work for you (21:16) Finding a proper gym (28:58) Liking a ful...

Happy new year guys! We're back with another episode talking about the recovery from surgery, plans for 2022 and why bodybuilding isn't making you happier (most often at least ;P) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:42) Why do people feel disappointed about gaining weight? (12:32) Bodybuilding isn't making you happier (24:38) What most people should focus (33:03) Update recovering from surgery (39:09) T...

We're back with another Coaching Corner with Physio Mike Challis and Coach Harry Smith. This time we're just chatting a bit about how to properly engage your muscles, tv shows and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (17:52) How to properly engage muscles (27:45) Fibre type determining how well muscles are growing (32:28) Moving the weight as fast as possible? (36:02) Adductor isolation and gettin...

We're back with another episode. Pascal just went through his surgery and we're going to discuss things around it...basically recovering from surgery. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:48) Pascal's surgery (10:24) Stress, sleep and water retention (14:29) Common misconception and tabutopic (18:40) Fear of losing muscle (21:17) When is Pascal going back to training? (25:13) Maintenance calories after a...

We're back with another Coaching Corner Podcast. This time we're joined by coach Jess talking about the entire prep, experiences, takeaways and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:41) Post-show period. (07:41) Binging post-show (12:25) Having a coach through hard times of dieting (17:19) WNBF worlds and competing as a bikini athlete (25:01) Biggest takeaways from prep (27:13) The hard days ar...

We're back with another episode talking about the recovery diet, individual differences when recovering from a diet, offseason focus and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Is the recovery diet already part of a gaining phase? (03:21) Individual differences to the recovery diet (07:46) Distributing focus (12:39) Seeing your physique getting softer (17:07) How pro bodybuilders train (25:07) Update on Pa...

We're back with another episode. Steve is back from WNBF worlds and his Vegas trip, talking us through his experience, ups and downs, thoughts and reflections, and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:35) How to deal with jetlag and adjusting to a different timezone (04:39) Eating and traveling (13:12) Show day/Polygraph (18:28) Team UK (24:27) Vice Amateur World Champion | An Honest Reflectio...

Steve is still in Vegas at the WNBF Worlds, that's why I'm here with coach Harry talking about how to learn to relax and calm down. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:50) Offline & Online PT at the same time (14:05) Can every PT have flexible working hours? Owning your own gym? (24:33) Maintenance isn't maintenance (30:08) Periodisation in bodybuilding (34:41) Learn to relax and calm down. Perception e...

We're back with another Coaching Corner. This time I'm joined by our physio Mike Challis and coach Ryan Solomon. We're talking about how to educate yourself as a coach. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:05) "I don't have time" and what to do in a situation like this (04:23) The power of structure (12:16) Psychological burden of coaching (19:41) Dunning kruger effect (23:53) How to educate yourself as...

We're back with another episode. Steve is about to go to WNBF worlds and we mostly talk about him preparing for worlds. Furthermore, we talk about how Bodybuilding is perceived by others and gaining too much weight in the offseason. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:04) Post-show period (04:42) Reverse Dieting, fullness & leanness (23:30) Rapid Backload vs Linear Load (32:21) Stress in a gaining phase...

We're back with another episode. This time the WNBF UK just finished and Pascal did his first show ever. Steve was also competing at the same show. In this episode, we reflect upon competing for the first time and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (03:41) Competing for the first time (14:01) Feeling like a competitive bodybuilder (20:08) What to look like as a first-time competitor (27:12) Meet...

We're back with another episode. By the time you're listening to this we've already competed. This time we're talking about the days leading into the WNBF UK, assessing poses/weak points, pushing for a show, weird scale weight behaviour and a glorification for the post-show meals. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro and end of the competitive season and Pascal's first show (04:45) Reflecting upon the short...

We're back with another episode and Steve has just finished his show at the 2021 Ukdfba finals. This time we're touching on many things such as a super low intake of dietary fats, what does a day of eating 1300-1500calories look like and gaining confidence due to dieting. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:57) Caffeine intake and abusing things (06:48) Steve's current push (12:10) What does a day of ea...

We're back with another episode getting closer to the end of prep. Talking about when you do you know you're spilled or full and much more. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:13 Prep cold, pumps and taking proper pictures 13:51 Potassium, Sodium and water intake 18:45 How do you spill and how do you know you're spilled? 22:31 Biofeedback on when you're full 24:59 Show talk and you never know who turns up...

We're coming close to the end of the prep season. We're talking about prep and that you have more fat to lose than you think. Much more of course as well ;) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:01) Push for the last part of Steve's prep and when to make a calorie adjustment (09:45) Fibre intake and digestion (16:02) You have more fat to lose than you think (20:43) Strong vs. weak bodyparts (30:41) You ar...