Dr. Scott Stevenson, PhD
So many people make little progress until they hire a coach. Why is that? What does a coach bring to the party? Is it possible to do it all yourself? The answer is yes but you've got to learn these things first.
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SHR # 2359 :: How To Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach
Show Notes:
[2:12] What makes a good coach so valuable?
- Most people go into bodybuilding with their insecurities on display.
- A coach provides a spectrum of benefits ranging from education to support.
[4:27] “Let’s say you are going to build a shed…”
[5:10] Body dismorphia’s affect on training yourself.
- Social media makes the effect even worse. You don’t commonly see average bodies on display anymore.
[7:18] We tend to seek out people who want to support the way we believe.
- A coach can point out that you already subconsciously know what you need to do.
- He can be a voice of reason to stop looking over the sensible answers.
- Intrinsic rewards tend to drive behavior more than extrinsic rewards.
[14:45] Bodybuilders don’t find value in the process and zen of the journey.
- This leads to them being upset when they don’t get gold
[18:22] A coach brings accountability to the table.
[20:20] Scott’s whole book is about teaching yourself to be accountable.
- 60 dollars for the ebook
- It is hyperlinked to an extremely high extent.
- Scott does not tell you that you should do bodybuilding one specific way.
- He presents all available info, explains the pro’s and con’s, and encourages critical thinking so that you can develop your own path.
[26:37] Opinions of peers (peer pressure) can lead to others to stop thinking for themselves.
- This was an evolutionary gift, but it has become a detriment in modern times.
[30:23] What makes a good scientist or critical thinker?
- Scott has an entire chapter dedicated to this topic in his most recent book.
[32:41] Meta- analyses are discussed.
- Sometimes you can miss a study that has external validity to you because of its results getting jumbled in with all of the other results.
[37:18] The book is absolutely valuable for natural trainees.
- Drugs are not mentioned in the book.
- If you can make progress dreg free, you can make progress any way.
[39:55] BYOBBCoach.com
- As a personal note from the note-taker, this book is absolutely worth your coin.
[47:50] Was Fortitude training incorporated into the book?
- They are separate entities.
- The Fortitude book goes deeper into the mechanisms of muscle growth.
- Carl and Scott discuss high frequency training.
- Frequency increases can help to increase nuclei in muscle cells derived from satellite cells.
- Training turns on the satellite cell phenomenon for 6-7 days.
- Hardgainers lack a sustained release of growth factors and cytokines. Training more frequently allows these factors to be released more often.
- This would have been a genetic gift, evolutionarily speaking.
[56:00] Carl and Scott discuss “occupational hypertrophy”
[58:25] Scott explains that Fortitude is designed to overload your muscles instead of your nervous system.
- Transcranial motor stimulus is discussed to show how the CNS is the limiting factor in training.
- Scott distinguishes between strength gain and ability to maximally contract a muscle.
[1:03:25] Scott discusses the extreme panic type state that can occur after a very diabolical set.
- The best way to prevent this is to stay in the zone to prevent conflicting signals in the brain and body.
[1:13:44] Fortitude has an undulating loading pattern.
- Scott has three types of stretches incorporated.
- Loading sets, pump sets, and muscle rounds (cluster set scheme).
- 2 frequency patterns and 3 volume tiers.
[1:1:52] Stretching and muscle growth.
- Chronic overload all day long provides stimulus.
- Stretching in itself seems to preserve muscle.
- A chronically shortened muscle seems to be smaller.
[1:20:42] Scott discusses psoas release.
[1:24:40] You get a lifetime membership to Scott’s forum when you buy Fortitude Training ebook.
[1:29:40] The book helps you to address the fear or anguish of the hurdles of bodybuilding.
- This cuts down on the anxiety that can come.
- It also teaches you to appreciate the journey instead of just focusing on the endpoint of the prep.
- Self-reliance is one of the greatest traits that you can build in life
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