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your biggest issue is trust, people arnt going to trust you unless you know them personally or have a solid base of transformations to back up your skill as a coach. Start by coaching friends, get a few transformations of your close circle, and start from there. That way you casn branch out and get clients who dont know you and will be more likely to put their trust in you

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Big mistake a lot of bb makes is neglecting the amount of fats, fats make up 7% muscle tissue and is a substrate for it. Bodybuilders would rather reduce fats to the minimum rather than focusing on the right fats. – poly unsaturated. Everyone ive suggested who upped their fats, got stronger, gained size easier, in comparison to just upping the carbs. Plus big benefit is it has over double the calories per gram than carbs meaning when food calories get high its a lot easier to get the volume of food in. To conclude, keep fats where they are, but ensure they are the right fats.

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Hi JP, hope you are well. Greatly appreciate the content and knowledge you guys are sharing.

If the previous session you get 9 reps on your 5-9 top set, then the next session you up weight by 5kg and only get 6 reps and on the back off set, keep same weight as previous session and get a 1 rep progression. Although we’ve touched new weight and gained an extra rep on the back off the overall volume has dropped. Would this be classed as a regression? If yes how would you make up the lost volume?

Its not a regression, as you’ve still remained in the 5-9 top set rep range and touched a new weight. This then allows you to have scope to take that 6 repper on a 5 kilo heavier weight onto a 7,8,9 rep top set within the following weeks.

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do whatever is comfortable, in terms of stimulus both variations produce very similar emg activation for both quads and glutes

[Max]

youve been misinformed, what you were using already is perfect for trt

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yep, that is totally suffiecient to get a complete workout in, you might need to get a bit creative in some exercises. Id recommend, some bands, Pair of Wooden Gymnastic Rings, Foam roller for wall hack squats. With that youll be able to do some inventive exercises aside from the big compound movements. If youre creative leg curls are easily doable, lying on the bench with a band looped around your heels and the end anchored somewhere. and leg extensions are doable as well, single legged, putting one leg draped over the end of the bench, foam roller under your knee and then using a band again as resistance over the top of your foot.

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Cant lie, but intensifiers are in my opinion key to lockdown training. Its extremely hard to progress using coventional methods in a home environment. Distractions, lack of weight/equipment, and just the fact it takes more effort and willpower to do the session in the first place. Intensifiers ensure you are getting a decent amount of stimulus in a short timeframe. In regards to how to progress a cluster set. THe first point of progression I tend to focus on with people, is improving the consistancy and maintaining good form as the sets go on. Often the latter sets, will experience a breakdown in form or tempo, so tidying that up is my first port of call, before increasing the weight

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A few things:

1) Show/comp dates – when do you need to come off to allow yourself enough time to cut down
2) When insulin sensitivity goes to shit – likely when excessive adipose tissue has been created
3) Bloodwork – Certain health markers may be creeping beyond what is deemed acceptable
4) Digestive health may be greatly compromised from the prolonged food – and so this may signal the need to back off
5) Performance in the gym is faltering, getting too big too quickly can negatively impact perfromance
6) Simply are getting tired from excess bodyweight – internal cues instinctively tell you

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Very interesting indeed, I feel once you have trained low volume for say 10 years , then it’s just a case of accurate exercise selection to match goals, nailing frequency & managing recovery, getting stronger with standardised execution from one session to the other i.e full ROMS, perfect changes of direction from eccentric to concentric portions then you can carry on creating adaptations. I think Majority of advanced bodybuilders still struggle to have all these variables on check

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That is very true! There are few people if any at all that have all those variables in check! Even Jp, has scope to improve in some way however minor it is in that.

I suppose it then comes down to, how easy is it to create a novel stimulus? For bodybuilder A and B. Certainly it would seem as though bodybuilder A would have an easier time in that. But then, does the degree to how easy a novel stimulus can be achieved matter, or does it just have to be novel however minor the change like changing the tempo.

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When we are talking about the body and energy processes, we always use the term “favours” what do we mean by ‘favours’, it means that it perfers getting energy from different sources than others, depending on what is required and how much energy is required. – The body is NEVER in a position where it exclusively favours one source. It will always take energy away from all sources albiet it is as varying rates. Lets focus on 2 sources, fat and muscle breakdown, because they are the ones youre getting confused about. You can get energy from both, the body will favour one (usually fat) but it will never exclusively favour it. There will alwasys be some degree of muscle breakdown. Now, there are a few special occasions where you can build muscle in a deficit. But mainly this is reserved for novices who are new to weight training stimulus and enhancement.

NOTE: all throughout the day your body is switching bewtween stages of catabolism and anabolism. You arnt one for the whole day. your abiity to lose fat and build muscle changes as the hours go on.

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my personal view is that appendicitis is now done via keyhole surgery. So the only real areas to heal is the very very tiny cuts in the abdomen and the small wound where the appendix has been cut from the large intestine maybe some internal bruising. – is it enough to warrant GH, imo no, save it for when youre back training and can train effectively again. if you fell over and cut your knee, would you immediately start taking gh to heal? – prob not.

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the only issue I can see happening is limited access to enough to weight to continually progressively overload in the low rep ranges. Which is fine because you can still use all of jp’s methodologies except in the higher rep ranges to compensate for lack of weight. Recovery will be dictated by your own programming frequency. It will be a bit of trial and error for the first few weeks to see if there are any obvious programmming conflicts where you can see if your recovery is stalling

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yes just make sure the solvents in the gear arnt reactive with the rubber seal of the plunger, cheap seals can be

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