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 how to eat appropriately for bodybuilding and according to your goals Timestamps: (00:00) Overreaching (04:09) More than one exercise for the biceps per session? (07:22) Training with focus and by yourself (09:47) Why peopl...

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 Liverking exposed, fake natties and what natural bodybuilding is about. Timestamps: (00:00) Trademark exercises (02:56) Fitness industry and accusations (09:18) Liverking exposed (13:44) Geoffrey as reliable source and...

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 5 things we wish we knew before we started lifting. Black Friday discount code: rs_blackfriday_sale Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:30) Feeling rundown but still making PR's (09:15) Getting uncomfortable to make progress (10:54) RI...

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 with our new coach, Mike Challis, who you may know because he's also our inhouse physio. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:34) Why Mike wanted to become a coach (04:09) Mike's background (09:28) What made Mike qualify to become a coa...

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 whether you know that your metabolism is ramping up. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (07:41) Mesocycle updates on Steve and Pascal (13:10) How to know that metabolism is ramping up? (20:40) Incorporating more complex methodologie...

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 whether you do need to track your fibre intake, fads, gadgets and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (07:52) Sick and getting back into training (15:25) Garlic for sickness? (19:50) Steve and deload and gaining phase (24:...

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 eat when you're hungry and when you're stuffed. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (10:36) Timing sickness and deloads (17:42) Making impulsive decisions with your diet (29:19) When massing still feels like cutting. Elevated...

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 our trip to DASgym, progress in the offseason and challenging your own beliefs. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro and training in a different environment (05:44) Different response to machines (09:48) Challenging your own beliefs....

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 why you shouldn't aim for perfect technique when training. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro and DASGym (01:50) Leg Press talk (07:47) Ankle mobility (11:50) Experimenting with RDL (14:55) Big loads vs. good technique (17:25) Don'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 debunking myths, being sceptical, getting a coach and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) BNBF line-up and natty bodybuilding (11:29) Social media thoughts (16:18) Why are we on social media when it makes us feel terrible? (24:4...

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 when the gym becomes overwhelming, exercise selection and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:50) Steve's new training split (08:15) DAS Gym (14:19) Overwhelmed by the gym and the number of exercises (24:35) Dropping i...

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 it's still worth to be or not to be an online coach. Furthermore we talk about the development of a personal trainer and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:13) Development of the podcast (04:40) Investing in your o...

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 hard or else you won't grow. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:11) Competing again (09:54) Covid, leg days and exercise selection (13:16) RDL on smith machine and experimenting with different setups (20:33) Technique a...

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 take pictures in order to assess your physique and see if you're making progress. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (06:17) Assessing your physique with pictures and video (07:53) Are you really looking awful or is it your c...

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 lower back rounding, set progression, sickness and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:40) Sickness (10:30) Velcro belt (12:21) Smith machine squats, stimulus and knees on pendulum squats (15:32) Oiling gym machines? (...

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 progression of a bodybuilding career and when we started to truly enjoy training. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro and upcoming trip to Vienna (DAS GYM) (06:25) Tattoos as a bodybuilders and travelling to DAS GYM (13:01) Pre-p...

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 natty bodybuilding scene, getting older and pain and if you need a goal? Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:09) Getting a new belt (10:13) Training update (12:46) Age and injury on the impact of training (18:08) Deload notic...

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 gym gadgets. Which are helpful, how to choose what to use and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (05:51) Clothing as bodybuilders (09:28) Best Gadgets For Your Gym Bag (10:25) Heel wedge & yoga block (14:33) Extension 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 holiday, the selfishness in doing bodybuilding, trying to focus on your own journey while not neglecting your loved ones, mini cuts and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:26) Strength over the lifting years (06:43) Ha...

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 experience as a bodybuilding judge at the WNBF UK. Timestamps: (00:00) Being a bodybuilding judge (04:59) Judges are only humans as well and what judges see and how they judge (09:08) Available time for a judge to j...

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 exercise selection, being sick of food and strategies moving forward. Timestamps: (00:00) Caffeine chat and history (13:55) True crime shows (17:52) Illness how to deal with severely being out (23:42) MIni cut and dealing w...

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 consistency, feelings about facts, progress and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:07) Doubting yourself and the process (09:49) Everyone has an opinion but not all opinions are important (17:22) Don't listen to your...

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 having your ducks in a row, progress, trt, blood work and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:48) Gauging RIR from the outside (06:52) Pushing through hard weeks and indicators of fatigue (12:43) Doing the same 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 transformations, maintaining a lower bodyweight, age and bodybuilding and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:46) Transformation (01:46) Maintaining a lower bodyweight (12:47) Dexa scans and body fat % (16:02) Lower we...

We're back with another Coaching Corner with Coach Harry Smith. This time we're just chatting a bit about social skills as a personal trainer, managing uncomfortable situations and much more. Timestamps: (00:00) Social skills as a Personal Trainer (13:16) Managing uncomfortable situations as a Personal Trainer (18:26) Setting yourself apart as a Personal Trainer (22:56) Supply/Demand (30:11) Actin...