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  Blood Sweat & Gear 357 TRT vs TRT Plus: When Does More Actually Make Sense? 08.08.2026 1h 25min

  Should you ever cruise on more than TRT between steroid cycles? In this episode of Blood Sweat & Gear, Skip Hill, Andrew Berry, and Scott McNally break down when a higher cruise dose might make sense, who it doesn't make sense for, and the long-term tradeoffs every enhanced lifter should understand. Along the way, they discuss James Hollingshead's Tampa Pro performance, SHBG, recovering from back injuries, bodybuilding with diabetes, partial reps, and much more. 0:00 Should You Stay Bigger Year-Round? 1:30 Support Blood Sweat & Gear on Patreon 2:20 Andrew Berry Breaks Down the Tampa Pro 5:00 James Hollingshead Was Better Than We Realized 7:40 When Does TRT Plus Make Sense? 10:20 What's the Most Common Cruise Dose? 11:30 Does Age Change the Equation? 17:20 Should You Add Another Compound? 20:30 Loving Bodybuilding vs Chasing More Gear 28:20 Andrew Berry's "Poverty Prep" Strategy 31:24 How Important Is SHBG? 40:40 Recovering From a Back Injury 46:40 Bodybuilding With Diabetes 54:55 The Most Intense Fitness Creators Online 1:03:40 Partial Reps & Intensity Techniques 1:12:00 Behind the Scenes ✅ ✅ ✅ Check out all our Peptide Affiliates at : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com 🙏 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
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 398 Nick Walker SHOCKS Tampa + 10 Biggest Lies Bodybuilders Tell 05.08.2026 1h 39min

  Nick Walker made a statement at the 2026 IFBB Tampa Pro, and we're breaking down exactly why he dominated the lineup, what it means for the Atlanta Pro this weekend, and how it changes the Olympia picture. Then things get a lot more entertaining as we reveal our Top 10 Lies Bodybuilders Tell, one by one, and see if Ron, Dusty, and Scott agree on every pick. 0:00 Nick Walker Dominates Tampa Pro 1:00 Welcome to It's Just Bodybuilding 2:25 Why Nick Walker Was Untouchable 4:25 Nick Walker's Rear Double Biceps vs The Field 10:00 Can Joe Palacios Improve for Atlanta? 13:45 Can James Hollingshead Fix His Weakest Pose? 19:50 Atlanta Pro Preview: Regan Grimes Arrives 22:00 Dom Supersliced & Amanda Machado Win Tampa 26:30 Early Olympia Predictions 30:00 Derek Lunsford vs Andrew Jacked vs Samson Dauda 38:00 Top 10 Lies Bodybuilders Tell 1:06:00 Do You Really Lose Muscle When You're Sick? 1:10:30 Why Bodybuilders Hate Dressing Up 1:18:10 Crazy Stories From Bodybuilding Expos 1:27:30 Scott's New Mini JCW 1:29:45 Jesse James West Prank 🔴 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 #NickWalker #Bodybuilding #Olympia #bodybuildingpodcast
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  Drugs n Stuff 322 New Study: Are Tren Users Less Healthy Than Other Steroid Users? + Tren & Deca Together 03.08.2026 1h 22min

  Dave Crosland and Scott McNally are back to answer your bodybuilding and PED questions! We break down a new study comparing trenbolone users to steroid users who don't use tren and discuss what it may tell us about the long-term health risks of running tren, including the idea of using it year-round. Then we answer your questions on combining tren and Deca, DHB vs tren, TRT, Dianabol, chest training, cardiovascular health, and much more. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Should You Run Tren & Deca Together? 1:00 Welcome Back to DNS 1:40 Technical Difficulties! 3:10 New Trenbolone Health Study 9:20 Is Year-Round Tren Ever Worth It? 14:30 Fear of Coming Off Cycle & Losing Gains 19:10 Staying On During the Diet Rebound 23:25 Low Hematocrit in Endurance Athletes 26:00 Can Dianabol Replace Testosterone? 29:30 TRT While Serving in the Military 33:25 Tren + Deca: Pros & Cons 41:00 How to Bring Up a Weak Chest 55:00 Higher Dose One Compound vs Lower Doses of Many 58:20 Testosterone Propionate & Estrogen 59:40 Dave & Scott Quit the Podcast...? 1:02:45 Uncle Dave's Advice 1:14:45 Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Bodybuilding 1:17:35 DHB vs Trenbolone 1:19:00 Credit Scores & Final Thoughts 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
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  Muscle Minds 188 The Best Workout Split for Busy Lifters + Do Steroids Burn Fat? 30.07.2026 1h 6min

  Can you build muscle without living in the gym? In this episode of Muscle Minds, Scott Stevenson and Scott McNally answer a listener's question about creating the most effective training split for a busy truck driver with limited time to train. Then they tackle one of the biggest myths in bodybuilding: how much fat loss actually comes from testosterone and anabolic steroids. Along the way, they discuss L-carnitine, practical ways to save money on protein powder, and wrap up Scott Stevenson's great protein-eating contest story 💨 ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to Muscle Minds 3:10 The Best Training Split for Busy Lifters 17:00 Managing PEDs for the Average Gym-Goer 32:00 Does More Testosterone Increase Fat Loss? 37:00 How Much Fat Do Steroids Really Burn? 42:40 L-Carnitine: Does It Actually Help Fat Loss? 58:00 How to Save Money on Protein Powder 1:01:00 Who Could Win a Protein-Eating Contest? 📖 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
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 397 How Did James Hollingshead Lose This Show? 29.07.2026 1h 21min

  Can James Hollingshead Still Make the Olympia? We break down the controversial results from the 2026 Huanji China Pro, where many fans (including us) felt James Hollingshead deserved the win over Behrouz Tabani. We compare the poses shot-by-shot, discuss what the result means for Olympia qualification, preview the Tampa Pro with Nick Walker, Ron Partlow's Vancouver Pro client victory, talk coaching philosophy, and wrap things up with TV recommendations, sci-fi, Dave Palumbo, and some everyday bodybuilding banter. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to It's Just Bodybuilding 2:00 China Pro Controversy: James Hollingshead vs. Behrouz Tabani 22:00 Can James Hollingshead Still Qualify for the Olympia? 24:30 Tampa Pro Preview: Is Nick Walker the Clear Favorite? 29:30 Ron Partlow Looks Back on His Vancouver Pro Victory 37:00 Why Simple Coaching Often Works Best 46:10 Best TV Shows We're Watching Right Now 47:40 Why Black Bird Is Worth Watching 58:45 Soft Sci-Fi vs. Hard Sci-Fi 1:02:00 Scott Calls Out Dave Palumbo 1:07:00 Who Really Does the Dishes? 🔴 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 #Bodybuilding #JamesHollingshead #NickWalker #Olympia
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  Drugs n Stuff 321 Calling Out Dave Palumbo - Year Round Tren? 27.07.2026 1h 16min

  Dave Crosland and Scott McNally are back to answer your bodybuilding and PED questions! This week, two listener questions have us breaking down advice from Dave Palumbo. Do we agree with his recommended off-season cycle? What about his thoughts on using trenbolone year-round? We explain where we disagree, where we think his recommendations come from, and why context is everything when it comes to PED use. Plus we discuss the new peptide KW-6356, why two training partners can have very different blood work, whether TRT changes the effects of recreational drugs, estrogen management, whether 10-week cycles are long enough to build muscle, and much more. As always, this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is intended for mature audiences. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Tren Replacement Therapy 0:25 Support our Advertisers to support the show 2:45 Calling Out Dave Palumbo 6:30 Critiquing Dave Palumbo's Off-Season Cycle 18:15 Dave Palumbo's Take on Year-Round Tren 32:45 KW6356 – A Refined Stimulant? 46:20 Why Two Training Partners Can Have Very Different Lab Results 51:30 Dave's Health Issues – Gear or Body Fat? 53:00 Does TRT Make Recreational Drugs Less Effective? 56:15 Estrogen Build-Up on TRT 1:00:10 Do 10-Week Cycles Actually Work? 1:06:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom 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
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  Blood Sweat & Gear 356 Poverty Prep: Coaches Build a Winning Contest Cycle on a Budget 24.07.2026 1h 22min

  Poverty Prep: If you could only use testosterone plus ONE additional anabolic added just two weeks before the show, how would you get stage ready? Coaches Skip Hill, Scott McNally, and guest coach Nelson Jones break down exactly how they'd approach this challenge, discussing compound selection, timing, and contest strategy. Plus, they answer listener questions on GH quality, first cycles beyond TRT, bringing up stubborn arms, joint pain, ulcerative colitis, contest tanning, and much more. 0:00 Welcome Coach Nelson Jones 0:40 Coaching Martin Fitzwater Before He Turned Pro 3:30 Poverty Prep Challenge: Getting Stage Lean on a Budget 6:30 Which ONE Compound Would We Choose? 19:10 Spray Tans vs DIY Contest Tan 33:30 Your First Cycle Beyond TRT 40:30 Generic GH vs Pharma GH (And Do Color Tops Matter?) 47:40 Joint Pain While Using Testosterone & Masteron 51:40 How to Bring Up Weak Arms Without Overtraining 1:02:30 What's the Minimum Carbs Needed to Build Muscle? 1:11:45 Bodybuilding with Ulcerative Colitis 1:17:40 Skip's Word of the Day 1:20:00 Beard Talk & Closing Thoughts 🙏 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 🔈🎧 Audio Podcast: THINK BIG BODYBUILDING (all platforms)
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 396 Is This Nick Walker's BEST Ever? + 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand 22.07.2026 1h 19min

  Nick Walker's latest physique update has everyone talking ahead of the Tampa Pro. We break down his rivalry with Jo Palacios, discuss Patrick Moore's confidence going into the show, and then hit the whiteboard for 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand before some topics on training, nutrition, coaching, PEDs, and much more. 00:00 Are You on Steroids? 00:30 Support the Show with Mutant 01:50 Is This the Best Nick Walker Ever? 03:30 Why Nick vs Jo Palacios Is So Interesting 05:30 Patrick Moore: "I'm Coming to Win" 06:30 Should We Stop Saying "Package"? 07:45 William Bonac Joins the Conversation 09:00 Nick Walker vs Joe Palacios 12:50 Whiteboard Time 14:30 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand 40:30 Honorable Mentions 41:30 Natty or Not (in real life) 43:00 Nutrition & PEDs After 40 46:00 Who Actually Should Use Tren? 48:20 The Worst Trend in Bodybuilding Coaching 52:30 What Bodybuilders Should (and Shouldn't) Spend Money On 1:14:30 Ron's Next Mutant On A Mission 1:15:45 It's Just Bodybuilding Reacts Preview 🔴 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
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  Drugs n Stuff 320 Why Steroid Cycles Stop Working (And How to Keep Growing) + PED QA 20.07.2026 1h 6min

  Why do steroids stop producing the same gains over time? In this episode of Drugs N Stuff, Scott McNally and Dave Crosland explain why simply running more drugs for longer eventually leads to diminishing returns—and how experienced bodybuilders structure long growth phases to keep making progress. Plus, we answer your questions on testosterone isocaproate, DHB, Dutasteride, Retatrutide, NAD+, P-21, sauna use, TRT injection frequency and much more. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why Steroids Eventually Stop Working 1:00 Support Our Sponsors 3:45 How to Plan a 12-Month Growth Phase 13:40 Start Low, Build Slowly & Extend Your Cycle 20:30 Testosterone Isocaproate Half-Life Explained 24:10 Can You Re-Sensitize Yourself to Stimulants? 29:40 Scott's Experience with P-21 31:40 Selank: Scott's Honest Experience 32:50 Low-Dose Testosterone + DHB for a Specific Look 37:00 Sauna Benefits While Using PEDs 41:00 Can Retatrutide Reduce Addiction? 45:00 NAD+ Benefits & Can You Overdo Mitochondria? 48:45 Why Some Lifters Are Leaving Daily TRT Injections 49:45 Does Dutasteride Protect Against Dianabol Hair Loss? 51:50 Why Hydrochlorothiazide Is NOT Potassium Sparing 54:30 LSD as a Treatment for Depression 56:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom 1:04:00 We Need to Buy Dave a Horn Check out all our affiliates at http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com 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
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  Blood Sweat & Gear 355 The Biggest Mistake Bodybuilders Make With Their Coach 17.07.2026 45min

  Every bodybuilding coach has experienced it—clients leaving out important details, changing the plan, or saying they're following instructions when they aren't. Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry, and Scott McNally explain why it happens, how experienced coaches recognize it, and why honesty leads to better progress. We also answer questions on Selank, contest-day anxiety, gallbladder issues, Trenbolone Acetate, TRT injection frequency, and share stories from the NPC Universe. 00:00 Why Clients Lie to Their Coach 01:00 The Real Reason Athletes Hide the Truth 11:00 Skip Hill's Peak Week Coaching Strategy 14:30 The Psychology Behind Great Coaching 21:00 What Clients Really Expect From a Coach 23:10 Selank, Alcohol & Contest Day Anxiety 29:40 Gallbladder Problems in Bodybuilding 33:40 How Long Should You Run Trenbolone Acetate? 36:15 Daily TRT Injections vs Twice Weekly 40:40 The Craziest NPC Universe Backstage Stories 44:45 Behind the Scenes with Blood Sweat & Gear ✅ Check out our affiliates at : http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com 🙏 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
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 395 Bodybuilding After 40: What Actually Changes (+ Top 5 Movie Physiques) 15.07.2026 1h 35min

  Bodybuilding after 40 doesn't have to mean smaller, weaker, or slower. Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, and Scott McNally discuss how training, recovery, and nutrition evolve with age before ranking the greatest movie physiques ever put on screen—from Rambo to Reacher and beyond. 00:00 The Rambo Physique Debate (First Blood vs Part II) 00:35 Support the Show (Mutant) 03:40 Alex Hormozi's "No Snooze Button" Philosophy 17:20 What We Believe Now That We Didn't 20 Years Ago 39:45 Bodybuilding After 40: How Training Changes 1:05:00 Top 5 Most Jacked Movie Physiques Ever 1:21:00 Honorable Mention: Alan Ritchson's Reacher Physique 1:28:40 Behind the Scenes - Guy Ritchie Movies 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSORv 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y
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  Drugs n Stuff 319 Anadrol vs Winstrol in a Cut + Rapid Fire Steroid QA 13.07.2026 1h 15min

  Dave Crosland and Scott McNally break down the real differences between Anadrol and Winstrol during a contest cut before answering rapid-fire questions on TRT, Tren, HGH, SHBG, estrogen management, Nandrolone for joint pain, cycle design, bloodwork, CGMs for bodybuilding, and much more. 0:00 Anadrol vs Winstrol (Preview) 0:25 Support Our Sponsors 5:00 Anadrol vs Winstrol in a Contest Cut 8:30 Steroid Cycles Around a Rotation Job 13:50 Can P5P Reduce Tren Side Effects? 15:25 What Causes High SHBG? 19:40 CGMs for Bodybuilding: Worth It? 23:30 DIM & Calcium-D-Glucarate for Estrogen 25:45 When TRT Changes Your Life 27:35 Is a 50-Pound Second Cycle Realistic? 32:30 Painful Pharma Testosterone Injections 33:30 Should You Bulk with Tren? 35:00 Kenalog, Allergies & Muscle Growth 37:10 Managing Low Estrogen on Cycle 38:00 Nandrolone for Joint Pain 40:29 ApoB vs HDL: Which Matters More? 43:15 HGH Raw Supply Update 48:00 Switching from NPP to Tren 49:30 Is TRT Microdosing Dying? 51:20 Keeping Testosterone High Off TRT 54:00 When to Kickstart a Cycle 59:25 Bloodwork Options in Canada 1:02:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom 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
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  Blood Sweat & Gear 354 3 Easy-to-Manage Steroid Cycles | Coaches Explain Why They Work 10.07.2026 1h 12min

  Looking for a simple, effective PED approach without unnecessary complexity? Coaches Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally break down three of the easiest anabolic cycles to manage, why they chose them, and why Primobolan didn't make the cut for us. Plus, they answer listener questions on TRT backloading, training around knee pain, breaking through plateaus, cycling strategies, reverse dieting and more 00:00 The TRT Backloading Trick (Preview) 00:20 Support Our Sponsors 00:51 Skip Tries to Derail the Show 02:25 NPC Universe Recap 04:15 Why Blood Sweat & Gear Has No Drama 05:30 3 Easy-to-Manage Steroid Cycles 12:40 Why Primobolan Didn't Make the List 14:15 Leg Training Around Knee Pain 30:50 Breaking Through a Muscle Growth Plateau 40:00 TRT Backloading Explained 43:50 One Long Cycle vs Multiple 12-Week Cycles 55:00 Coaching Ethics: Where Do You Draw the Line? 1:03:30 Reverse Diet Gone Wrong: Too Much Fat Gain 🙏 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
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 394 James Hollingshead's BEST Look Ever? & Top 10 Jobs for Bodybuilders 08.07.2026 1h 27min

  Jordan Hutchinson takes the win at the Portugal Pro, but did James Hollingshead bring the best physique of his career? We break down the top two, talk Olympia implications, answer training questions, and wrap things up with a fun countdown of the 10 best jobs for bodybuilders. It's Just Bodybuilding 394 Big Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, Scott McNally 00:00 James Hollingshead's Best Look Ever? 00:30 Presented by Mutant 02:30 Fourth of July & Bodybuilding Culture 06:30 Jordan Hutchinson Wins the Portugal Pro 08:30 2026 Olympia Is Heating Up 10:00 Tim Budesheim Is Built Different 12:20 James Hollingshead's Career Evolution 20:00 Why Your Training Isn't Working 37:45 Contest Prep Starts With Organization 47:45 Ranking the 10 Best Jobs for Bodybuilders 1:02:00 Intention: The Mindset That Builds Champions 🔴 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 #Bodybuilding #JamesHollingshead #JordanHutchinson #bodybuildingpodcast
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  Drugs n Stuff 318 Why Doesn't Anyone Use Testosterone Isocaproate? 06.07.2026 1h 25min

  On this episode of DNS, Dave Crosland and Scott McNally answer listener questions covering Testosterone Isocaproate, injection frequency, cycle design, HGH, peptides, heart health, Clenbuterol, TRT, and much more. 0:00 Dave is a Ray of F’ing Sunshine 0:40 Support the show with our advertisers 2:00 Scott’s frustration talking about the PED market 7:00 More Horn Talk 17:00 Heart Health Tests for Steroid Users 19:00 Testosterone Isocaproate Explained 19:40 Daily vs Weekly Injections for Long Esters 24:00 Best Testosterone, Deca & Masteron Ratio 25:40 Planning Your Second Steroid Cycle 30:00 Domestic Source Package Seized 33:00 HGH Secretagogues for Older Lifters 35:00 Best Time to Take HGH Before Bed? 37:00 Coming Off PPI Medications Safely 41:15 Peptide-Only Cycle: Does It Work? 42:50 Depression After Long-Term Steroid Use 44:45 Clenbuterol: Split Doses or All at Once? 47:10 Testosterone-Induced Folliculitis 50:00 Using Pharma Testosterone Ampules 56:45 German Autobahn vs Detroit Freeways 1:01:10 Omnadren vs Sustanon 1:05:00 Dave the Felon: Life After Prison 1:26:00 Behind the Scenes 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
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  Blood Sweat & Gear 353 Every Steroid Ranked: S Tier to F Tier | Coaches Decide ⭐ 03.07.2026 54min

  FOR EDUCATION ONLY : From testosterone to trenbolone and everything in between, coaches Andrew Berry and Scott McNally rank the most well-known anabolic steroids from S Tier to F Tier based on their experience, discussing their characteristics, limitations, side effects, and role in bodybuilding. This educational conversation is intended to compare compounds—not to encourage their use—and is designed to help viewers better understand the differences between them. 0:00 Tren Ace - The main character compound 0:20 Support the show with the sponsors 1:00 Rate Every Steroid - How the rating system works 2:20 Testosterone 4:00 Masteron Prop and Mast E 9:40 Primobolan 11:55 Nandrolone - Deca 13:50 Nandrolone - NPP 16:25 Trenbolone - Tren Ace 19:50 Trenbolone - Tren E 24:20 Trenbolone - Tren Hex 25:49 Equipoise - Boldenone 31:25 DHB - Dihydroboldenone AKA 1- Test Cyp 33:30 Anavar - Oxandrolone 36:25 Winstrol - Stanozolol 37:50 Anadrol, Superdrol, Halotestin 38:50 Dianabol 41:10 Oral Turinabol 47:45 Listener Critique Check out our Advertisers and Affiliates at http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com
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  Muscle Minds 189 Putting It All Together for Peak Week | Training, Carb Loading & Water Manipulation 02.07.2026 1h 17min

  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
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  It's Just Bodybuilding 393 Can Ranya Temizkan Become the Next Big Star in Women's Bodybuilding? 01.07.2026 1h 1min

  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
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  Drugs n Stuff 317 New Information on the HGH Crackdown + PED Q&A 29.06.2026 1h 15min

  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
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  Blood Sweat & Gear 352 What it REALLY took to win Classic Physique Overall at Jr. Nationals 26.06.2026 1h 14min

  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