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 talking about aging, birthday and expectations as a first time competitor. Timestamps: 00:00 Getting older 07:57 Steve's Birthday 11:17 Protein Ice-cream 21:02 UKDFBA show 24:18 Expectations as a first-time competitor 31:00 Warped realit...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about rate of loss and the best tool for your diet: environment Timestamps: 00:00 Tattoo chat 06:34 Immunologist 10:11 Skin Care with sun lotion 14:34 Steve's diet/contest prep. Doing the hard stuff and consistency 24:49 Training...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about training during stressful & busy times. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:20 Commuting for work 07:50 Online coaching because of laziness and convenience? 14:56 Doing a great job 17:58 Injury update 19:32 How to train when things...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about what we've learned over the years in terms of eating well in order to feel good and to fuel our workouts. Timestamps: 00:00 Low calories probably feel the same for everyone 06:19 Relationship with food, stuffing yourself 11...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about claiming natty but being enhanced, ie. fake natties. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:08 Temperature and cutting/gaining 08:47 Fitness trends and fads fading 16:46 Claim Natty, Be Enhanced 31:19 Muscle works and training with lik...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about how to train and eat as a new parent and what this entails in general. I hope this is helpful! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:37 RP and their content 07:52 Leaner face during diets, masculine look 10:50 Revvie get together 12:4...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about resistance training for cardiovascular health. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:12 Answering questions as an expert 07:54 Taking painkillers 11:54 Attractiveness of tattoos 15:59 Steve's start of the diet 19:50 Offseason progress...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about The IFBB coming to Natural Bodybuilding...or is it the other way around? Don't know, you get the point. Timestamps: 00:00 Gym garment 04:33 Leggings and tights 11:23 Spending or saving money? Product quality 25:34 Supplemen...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about arms/shoulders day, routines and much more. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:38 More variability or less? Routine vs. changes 05:12 Love/hate with training with injuries 07:47 Arm and shoulders day 15:15 Nutrition atm. 18:10 How...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're having coach Mike Challis back on the podcast, talking about appropriate stimuli, deloads, adapting to caloric intake and much more. Timestamps: 00:00 Last time dieting and beginning of a new one 07:28 Adapting to caloric intake and arou...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about habits and how they become a powerful tool to making progress. Timestamps: 00:00 Doctors, injuries, sickness and much more 06:42 Entering a cutting phase and maingaining 13:14 Learning and changing your viewpoint 24:55 Buil...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about if the pump is important or not. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:27 Dating and social interactions online 10:50 Extending mesocycles 14:38 Rate of gain 21:04 Shift of perspective and doing other sports 31:53 Cold baths/Ice baths...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically a bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about recovery, making changes to nutrition, new evidence surrounding protein and addressing actual problems in what's holding you back. Timestamps: 00:00 Arms & Shoulders back to back days 02:17 Lower day programming 04:05 Ran...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about the cruise, mobility drills and if bodybuilding actually requires skill. Timestamps: 00:00 Getting older and maturing 06:52 Controversial nature of podcasts 13:32 Reflecting on the cruise. Eating, training, etc. 33:34 Any i...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week I'm talking to coach Mike and we're covering everything about stretching and mobility. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro and Mike's post-show period 05:19 What is stretching and what is the intent behind it? 12:05 Synergistic effect with foam rolling an...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about fake natties and the recent debate about exercise science and if it's needed, beneficial or even detrimental? Timestamps: 00:00 Fake natties 05:58 Strawman, misinterpretation and reading into things 08:32 Anti-Science movem...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about injuries and how to deal with them. Timestamps: 00:00 Hair cut, nail salons and money laundering activities 05:04 Injuries & How To Deal With Them 10:12 Rest or rehab? 12:18 Training modifications while injured 19:10 Traini...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about the thing of building an audience with controversial things. Timestamps: 00:00 Taking breaks and deloads 09:44 More relaxed about rest days 14:55 People's lives are different and thus require different approaches 19:11 Enjo...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about estimating macros when eating out, integrated partials, miscommunication and much more. Timestamps: 00:00 Eating out and beverages 08:54 Refeeds in a gaining phase 15:45 Estimating macros when eating out 26:39 Integrated pa...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about Steve's new coach, money, time and coaching in general. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Steve's 2024 and leg training thoughts 17:54 Steve has a coach! 23:38 What Steve is expecting 27:24 Why Steve is getting a coach 32:48 Is...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about Christmas holidays, eating in moderation, lessons learned in 2023 and much more. Timestamps: 00:00 Missing the oomph in the gym 04:48 Holiday and how to approach with training 08:32 Deload aligning with holiday? Routine 12:...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about social events, belonging and how to become impressive. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Xmas as a stressful time? 04:25 How to go about Christmas with eating and training 12:32 Adult and self-control 21:24 Closed gyms and is t...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about social events, belonging and how to become impressive. Timestamps: 00:00 Clothing, looks and belonging 03:21 Feeling misplaced 09:16 Laughing together 13:14 Communities and groups in bodybuilding 18:28 Drinking when you don...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about live, love, hate bodybuilding. Timestamps: 00:00 Chit chat, harry potter, names, etc 05:33 Bodybuilding and health 10:32 Deload and different approaches to it 17:52 Doing controversial content 21:36 Pushups and Pullups for...

Welcome to the Improvement Season Podcast! Join coach Pascal & Steve as they venture into their improvement season…basically bodybuilding journey. This week we're talking about injuries, routines & patterns and philosophizing about death. Timestamps: 00:00 Snow & childhood memories 14:34 Back injuries on both of us and how we addressed it 22:47 Growing psychologically and physiologically 25:24 Is...