Peak week isn't about one trick—it's about getting every piece to work together. Scott Stevenson joins Scott McNally for an in-depth discussion on training, carb loading, water manipulation, and the physiology behind bringing your best physique to the stage. If you're a competitive bodybuilder or coach, this episode is packed with practical contest prep insights you can apply immediately. 0:00 Peak Week Training & Glycogen Depletion 1:20 Support Our Sponsors 2:20 How Should You Train During Peak Week? 6:00 Keep Training Similar During Peak Week 11:00 Creating Supercompensation Through Glycogen Depletion 20:00 How Long Does a Carb Load Last? 25:45 Improve Muscle Contractions Through Posing Practice and Visualization 27:45 How Depleted Should You Get Before Carb Loading? 29:10 Why You Should Practice Your Carb Load Before Show Day 33:20 Why Water, Sodium & Potassium Drive Carb Loading 36:00 What Really Causes You to Spill Over? 39:30 Fat Loading: Using Intramuscular Triglycerides 48:30 Nutrition After the Carb Load 54:00 Creating a Natural Diuretic Effect 1:00:00 Coaching & Consultations with Scott Stevenson 1:05:45 Can You Successfully Coach Yourself? 1:07:30 Why Most Bodybuilders Don't Need Diuretics Scott Stevenson's Published Paper On Peak Week : "Training Considerations for the Bodybuilding Peak Week" https://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/abstract/9900/training_considerations_for_the_bodybuilding_peak.230.aspx 📖 Get Dr. Scott Stevenson's Book — *Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach* Official website: 👉 https://drscottstevenson.com/byobbcoach.html Hardcover edition: 👉 https://www.instagram.com/fortitude_training/ 💪 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING ❤️ Join Our Patreon Help support the podcast and keep new episodes coming. Even $5/month makes a huge difference. 👉 https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG Bodybuilding Merchandise Official T-shirts, hoodies, and more. 👉 https://think-big.printify.me/products 🥇 Official Sponsor — TRUE NUTRITION Custom supplements trusted by serious bodybuilders. • Third-party tested • Fully customizable formulas • Save with code: **THINK** 👉 https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 For Our Canadian Viewers Save on top supplement brands with fast shipping across Canada. 👉 http://www.supplementsource.ca

In Episode 393 of It's Just Bodybuilding, Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, and Scott McNally sit down with new IFBB Pro and Mutant athlete Ranya Temizkan. They discuss her journey to the pro stage, training with her husband and coach, contest prep, the future of women's bodybuilding, and the mindset that's driven her rapid rise in the sport. 00:00 — Meet Ranya Temizkan | IFBB Women's Bodybuilding Rising Star 02:22 — Pro Debut Review & What's Next 03:08 — Training With Her Husband & Coach 06:48 — Chasing the Top of Women's Bodybuilding 08:18 — Off-Season Growth, Body Fat & Contest Prep 13:46 — Staying Confident During Prep 16:41 — From Competitive Dance to IFBB Pro 20:22 — Finding the Right Division: Figure, Wellness & Bodybuilding 21:30 — Moving to Las Vegas & Building a Career 24:03 — Training Secrets, Rear Delts & Favorite Gym Equipment 26:32 — Growing Into the Women's Bodybuilding Look 30:37 — Advice for Women Thinking About Bodybuilding 35:03 — Is Women's Bodybuilding Becoming More Extreme? 37:27 — Judging Standards, Division Creep & The Future of the Sport 39:51 — Social Media, Online Criticism & Building a Legacy 46:26 — Biggest Misconceptions About Female Bodybuilders 47:05 — The Sacrifices & Rewards of Bodybuilding 49:11 — What People Don't Understand About Contest Prep 50:42 — Is Bodybuilding More Mental Than Physical? 52:27 — Prep Habits, Daily Rituals & Staying Focused 53:17 — Rapid Fire: Music, Movies, Bodybuilding Legends & In-N-Out 57:49 — Final Thoughts 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

This week on Drugs N Stuff, Dave Crosland and Scott McNally break down the FDA's latest guidance and what it could mean for underground HGH entering the United States. We also discuss the testosterone shortage, poor lab testing, muscle memory research, fertility, cycle design, Equipoise, TRT protocols, and answer a wide range of your PED questions. Whether you're interested in performance enhancement, harm reduction, or simply staying informed, this episode is packed with practical information and real-world discussion. 0:00 What Customs is doing differently with HGH packages 1:45 Poor Testosterone Lab Results Explained 4:30 Testosterone Cypionate Shortage Update 5:15 US Customs Crackdown on Underground HGH 14:00 When Should You Pivot on a Cycle? 16:00 "My Junk Got Bigger Off Cycle?!" 20:00 Dihydroberberine vs Berberine Dosing 24:00 Low LH & FSH While Using HCG 26:20 Fertility Recovery After PED Use 29:30 Muscle Memory After Steroid Use 34:45 Is IGF-DES Worth Using? 36:45 TRT SubQ + Blast IM? 39:30 Test, Masteron, Equipoise & NPP Cycle Review 41:00 Is There More to Equipoise Than We Realize? 44:40 Prime Eddie Hall vs Prime Dave Crosland 😂 46:40 Moving From Training 2x to 3x Per Week 51:00 Long Testosterone Cycles: Ramp Up or Start High? 56:20 Dave's Fugitive Story part 6? 🤣 UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

On this episode of Blood Sweat & Gear, Scott McNally and Andrew Berry break down exactly what it took to coach a Classic Physique athlete to the Overall title and an IFBB Pro Card at Jr. Nationals. From a three-year transformation to making weight, water loading, carb loading, and peak week strategy, this is an inside look at high-level contest prep. Plus, they answer listener questions on diuretics, conditioning, dietary fat, Anadrol, tanning, and much more. 0:00 3 Year Transformation 0:30 How We Won the Jr. Nationals Overall 1:30 Incredible 3-Year Physique Transformation 3:50 Making Weight for Classic Physique 5:30 Peak Week Water Loading & Carb Loading 10:00 How Much Muscle Can You Gain in a Year? 11:45 How Would Scott Improve This Physique? 18:25 Getting Dry Without Diuretics 22:40 When Should You Use Hard Diuretics? 25:25 Natural Diuretics & OTC Water Pills 28:30 Staying Calm on Show Day 31:25 Self-Tan vs Professional Contest Tan 42:10 Predicting How Tough a Show Will Be 44:10 Can You Mix Contest Tanning Products? 45:30 Melanotan 2 & Tanning Beds for Prep 46:30 Does Bodybuilding Make You Look Older? 50:45 How Long Can You Run 15mg Anadrol? 52:30 Can Fruit Be Your Only Carb Source? 57:30 How Low Can You Push Dietary Fat? Check out our advertisers and affiliates at : http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com

In this episode of It's Just Bodybuilding, Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, Scott McNally and Special Guest Turner Riddle tackle a controversial question: Is bodybuilding losing its prestige? We discuss the explosion of NPC and IFBB Pro cards, whether becoming a pro bodybuilder means the same thing it once did, and how these changes may be affecting the future of competitive bodybuilding. Along the way, we break down the Italy Pro, today's competitive landscape, and what it takes to stand out in a sport that has never been bigger. 00:00 Introduction & Recording at Turner Riddle's house 01:12 Turners Home Gym, Land & Lifestyle 04:28 Italy Pro Preview & Predictions 05:40 Jordan Hutchinson, Bonac & Today's Competitive Landscape 09:00 Has NPC/IFBB Bodybuilding Devalued the Pro Card? 18:00 Sponsors, Guest Posing & The Business of Bodybuilding 20:32 Old-School vs Modern Physiques 22:08 More Shows, More Pros: Good or Bad for the Sport? 30:02 The Loss of Amateur Gatekeeping 36:16 The Lost Mystique of Professional Bodybuilding 40:34 What Does Success in Bodybuilding Really Mean? 42:12 The Economics of Running Bodybuilding Shows 47:29 The Future of Competitive Bodybuilding 50:00 Pro Cards, Prestige & Industry Culture 54:50 Competing for Passion vs Recognition 1:00:08 Why the Masters Division Continues to Grow 1:01:24 Ego, Validation & Athlete Expectations 1:02:22 Realistic Expectations in Bodybuilding 1:03:50 Coach Hopping vs Staying Consistent 1:05:50 Joe vs Nick: Predictions & Debate 1:10:30 Upcoming Shows & Athlete Storylines 1:13:14 Home Gyms, Outdoor Training & Final Thoughts 1:14:10 Wrap-Up 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

IFBB Pro Kuba Cielen joins Scott McNally to break down what progressive overload really means for muscle growth. Most lifters think it's just adding weight to the bar, but Kuba explains the deeper principles that continue driving progress long after the beginner stage. If you're serious about bodybuilding, hypertrophy, and maximizing every set, this episode will change the way you think about training. 0:00 Welcome back Kuba ! 2:30 Learn The Movement First 7:30 Training With Control vs Training Slow 9:45 Does Training Frequency Matter? 12:00 The 6 Principles of Progressive Overload 30:00 Real World Training Example 33:50 Using Pauses To Remove Momentum 39:10 Eliminating The Elastic Response 41:00 Powerlifting Strength vs Bodybuilding Strength 44:25 Why Good Technique Hurts More 46:45 Why You Should Film Your Sets 54:00 Is It OK To Be Obsessed With Bodybuilding? 57:45 Mental Cues For Better Performance Support the show on Patreon, get a shirt or shop with our sponsors : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally answer listener questions on contest prep, fat loss, thyroid use, GH shortages, first cycles, carb cycling, and the old-school strategies that still work today. Plus, a discussion on GH availability, Halotestin and Superdrol before contests, overreaching during prep, and whether some classic bodybuilding methods deserve a comeback. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 The Prep Tool We Would Never Use Today 0:55 Where Should High Carb Days Go? 4:00 High vs Low Clenbuterol & T3 Dosing 7:30 Why Old School Carb Cycles Still Work 14:00 Staying On T4/T3 Year-Round 16:00 Primo In A First Cycle Or More Testosterone? 19:00 Would You Ever Slow Fat Loss During Prep? 22:50 Road Cycling vs Leg Growth 27:45 True Nutrition | Code THINK 30:35 Pushing Into Overreaching During Prep 31:30 Greg Doucette Calling People Out 32:30 Why Bodybuilders Use Halotestin & Superdrol Before Shows 36:45 Testing Oral Compounds Before Peak Week 39:00 What's Happening To GH On The Underground Market? 43:20 GH vs GH Secretagogues 44:40 Skip's Word Of The Day 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally discuss Hadi Choopan's response to Derek Lunsford, the Phil Heath era, judging, posing, contest prep, training, peptide "experts" and an Overrated or Underrated showdown on some of bodybuilding's best topics. 0:00 Intro 2:20 Featured On Nick's Strength & Power 3:45 Hadi Choopan Responds To Derek Lunsford 5:30 Is Derek Wrong To Say He's The Best? 6:40 The Phil Heath Effect 15:45 Quinton Beastwood's Road To The Olympia 21:45 Finish Strong at IFBB Oklahoma Pro 30:30 Old School Posing vs Modern Posing 33:50 Dorian Yates Blood & Guts Reaction Comments 36:25 How Dusty Learned To Pose 38:00 Posing Transitions That Win Shows 42:15 How To Become An NPC Judge 44:30 Would We Want To Judge? 49:00 Experienced Competitors In Novice Classes 51:50 Best Training Split For Shift Workers 54:30 Can You Overtrain While Using PEDs? 1:01:00 Everyone Is Suddenly A Peptide Expert 1:11:00 OVERRATED, UNDER RATED or...ACCURATELY RATED!? 1:11:10 Judges Feedback - Overrated Or Underrated? 1:16:00 Cheat Meals During Contest Prep 1:19:10 Step Counting For Fat Loss 1:25:45 Pre-Workout Supplements 1:30:10 Turning Pro 1:34:00 Are Pro Cards Still Meaningful? 1:39:00 Chris Aceto Text Message From 2009 1:48:50 New York Knicks Fandom Through The Years 2:01:45 Ron Discovers Shoresy 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

The underground steroid market is changing fast. We break down new developments in China API production, Operation Pangea, law enforcement focus on online sales, and what it could mean for PED users moving forward. Plus, we answer your listener questions on estrogen management, Anavar use, TRT+, growth hormone dosing, Masteron, AFIB, stubborn fat loss, and much more. Hosted by Dave Crosland and Scott McNally 0:00 Welcome Back to Drugs n Stuff 0:45 Testosterone Production Industry Update 3:00 China API Production Changes Explained 8:45 Operation Pangea Disrupting the Steroid Market 11:25 Law Enforcement Targets Online Steroid Sales 14:45 Is the U.S. Still Investigating? 17:20 Support Our Sponsor - True Nutrition 18:00 How Important Is Keeping Estrogen In Range? 23:10 Can You Use PEDs If You Have AFIB? 25:15 Can You Build Muscle With Resistance Bands? 28:15 Are People Overusing Lab Work? 31:45 Anavar Only On Training Days? 34:20 First Steroid Cycle vs TRT Plus 36:15 Getting Rid Of Lower Abdominal Fat 39:00 The Worst Cycle We’ve Ever Heard 43:30 YK-11 Real World Listener Feedback 45:00 2 IU vs 10 IU Growth Hormone 48:45 Using Gear After Massive Fat Loss 51:30 High Masteron Cycles And Aging Skin 53:45 Can Steroids Cause Carpal Tunnel? 55:15 Cialis For Pumps And Contest Prep 57:00 Crack On! 57:30 Dave’s Story Of Being A Fugitive UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Short steroid cycles, contest prep decisions, max testosterone dosing, training, recovery and real-world bodybuilding coaching. Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally answer listener questions on cycle length, muscle growth, shift work, fat loss, training performance and the practical decisions that shape better physiques. 0:00 4-Week Cycle Results (Preview) 0:30 Support Our Sponsors 1:00 Shortest Effective Steroid Cycles 1:45 What Is A Normal Cycle Length? 3:55 Coming Off Testosterone Between Cycles 4:25 Are 10-Week Cycles Long Enough? 6:15 Do 6-Week Cycles Work? 7:30 Is There A Benefit To 4-Week Cycles? 9:45 The Mindset Shift Of Short Cycles 15:50 Using Long Esters In Short Cycles 18:50 Best Training Split For Shift Workers 23:00 Bodybuilding On A Swing Shift Schedule 31:00 Managing Sleep Around Work & Training 35:24 How Old Can You Still Build Muscle? 47:00 Contest Prep: Fullness vs Fat Loss 49:00 Maintaining Strength While Dieting 53:30 One Compound We Don't Recommend Like We Used To 56:45 Maximum Testosterone Before It Hurts Your Look 1:00:30 Best Ab Exercises For Bodybuilders 1:02:20 Does Skip Still Ride Motorcycles? 1:06:18 Why National-Level Bodybuilding Is So Competitive 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca