Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach: A Reference Guide For Year-Round Bodybuilding Success

Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach is for bodybuilding enthusiasts who relish the rewards the endeavor, both learning and doing, as much as the physique that comes from their efforts. Dr. Stevenson has poured decades of personal experience as a competitor, scientist, coach, educator and gym rat into a highly detailed strategic plan for setting goals, and navigating the Post-Contest, Off-Season and Pre-Contest periods of the "bodybuilder's year."

The book's purpose is to put you, the reader, in the driver's seat as your own bodybuilding coach by providing a structured reference guide that covers nearly every topic you might encounter along your bodybuilding journey:

• Setting goals and keeping to them: The Personal Bodybuilding Inventory.

• Dietary manipulations to gain size, drop body fat and maintain insulin sensitivity.

• The most important resistance training program variables, choosing and rotating training programs, an integrated approach to bringing up weak muscle groups, and dealing with overtraining/overreaching.

• Tracking and enhancing recovery: Sleep, sauna, heart rate variability, perceived recovery status, adaptogens and CBD oil.

• Peak week without pharmaceutical diuretics and an Advanced Loading Strategy that can be used, for instance, when making weight is a priority!

• Moving up a weight class, estimating body fat, bulking in the Off-Season, cheat meals, Off-Season "damage" control, and how / when to use cardio.

• Nutrient timing, probiotics, low FODMAP diets, fiber, and strategies to both increase and decrease appetite.

• Protein, Carbs, Fats and Alcohol: How much, what and when!

• Nutritional supplements for performance, fat loss, sleep, and cardiovascular, liver, gastrointestinal and kidney health, etc.

• Intermittent fasting and eating organic.

• Strategies for post-contest rebounding and avoiding the ghost of "metabolic damage."

• Bodybuilding performance enhancing drugs, side effects, and inter-individual variability.

• Posing, presentation, and travel: Being ready on game day!

• Training after 40 and beyond: Training strategies for the weathered lifter and dealing with aches n' pains.

• Insights on gender/sex differences.

• Being a critical thinking consumer of bodybuilding knowledge.

• Bodybuilding resources including trusted medical practitioners and sources for equipment, apparel, food and supplements.

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Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach: A Reference Guide For Year-Round Bodybuilding Success

Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach is for bodybuilding enthusiasts who relish the rewards the endeavor, both learning and doing, as much as the physique that comes from their efforts. Dr. Stevenson has poured decades of personal experience as a competitor, scientist, coach, educator and gym rat into a highly detailed strategic plan for setting goals, and navigating the Post-Contest, Off-Season and Pre-Contest periods of the "bodybuilder's year."

The book's purpose is to put you, the reader, in the driver's seat as your own bodybuilding coach by providing a structured reference guide that covers nearly every topic you might encounter along your bodybuilding journey:

• Setting goals and keeping to them: The Personal Bodybuilding Inventory.

• Dietary manipulations to gain size, drop body fat and maintain insulin sensitivity.

• The most important resistance training program variables, choosing and rotating training programs, an integrated approach to bringing up weak muscle groups, and dealing with overtraining/overreaching.

• Tracking and enhancing recovery: Sleep, sauna, heart rate variability, perceived recovery status, adaptogens and CBD oil.

• Peak week without pharmaceutical diuretics and an Advanced Loading Strategy that can be used, for instance, when making weight is a priority!

• Moving up a weight class, estimating body fat, bulking in the Off-Season, cheat meals, Off-Season "damage" control, and how / when to use cardio.

• Nutrient timing, probiotics, low FODMAP diets, fiber, and strategies to both increase and decrease appetite.

• Protein, Carbs, Fats and Alcohol: How much, what and when!

• Nutritional supplements for performance, fat loss, sleep, and cardiovascular, liver, gastrointestinal and kidney health, etc.

• Intermittent fasting and eating organic.

• Strategies for post-contest rebounding and avoiding the ghost of "metabolic damage."

• Bodybuilding performance enhancing drugs, side effects, and inter-individual variability.

• Posing, presentation, and travel: Being ready on game day!

• Training after 40 and beyond: Training strategies for the weathered lifter and dealing with aches n' pains.

• Insights on gender/sex differences.

• Being a critical thinking consumer of bodybuilding knowledge.

• Bodybuilding resources including trusted medical practitioners and sources for equipment, apparel, food and supplements.

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Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach: A Reference Guide For Year-Round Bodybuilding Success

by Scott Walter Stevenson
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Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach: A Reference Guide For Year-Round Bodybuilding Success

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Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach is for bodybuilding enthusiasts who relish the rewards the endeavor, both learning and doing, as much as the physique that comes from their efforts. Dr. Stevenson has poured decades of personal experience as a competitor, scientist, coach, educator and gym rat into a highly detailed strategic plan for setting goals, and navigating the Post-Contest, Off-Season and Pre-Contest periods of the "bodybuilder's year."

The book's purpose is to put you, the reader, in the driver's seat as your own bodybuilding coach by providing a structured reference guide that covers nearly every topic you might encounter along your bodybuilding journey:

• Setting goals and keeping to them: The Personal Bodybuilding Inventory.

• Dietary manipulations to gain size, drop body fat and maintain insulin sensitivity.

• The most important resistance training program variables, choosing and rotating training programs, an integrated approach to bringing up weak muscle groups, and dealing with overtraining/overreaching.

• Tracking and enhancing recovery: Sleep, sauna, heart rate variability, perceived recovery status, adaptogens and CBD oil.

• Peak week without pharmaceutical diuretics and an Advanced Loading Strategy that can be used, for instance, when making weight is a priority!

• Moving up a weight class, estimating body fat, bulking in the Off-Season, cheat meals, Off-Season "damage" control, and how / when to use cardio.

• Nutrient timing, probiotics, low FODMAP diets, fiber, and strategies to both increase and decrease appetite.

• Protein, Carbs, Fats and Alcohol: How much, what and when!

• Nutritional supplements for performance, fat loss, sleep, and cardiovascular, liver, gastrointestinal and kidney health, etc.

• Intermittent fasting and eating organic.

• Strategies for post-contest rebounding and avoiding the ghost of "metabolic damage."

• Bodybuilding performance enhancing drugs, side effects, and inter-individual variability.

• Posing, presentation, and travel: Being ready on game day!

• Training after 40 and beyond: Training strategies for the weathered lifter and dealing with aches n' pains.

• Insights on gender/sex differences.

• Being a critical thinking consumer of bodybuilding knowledge.

• Bodybuilding resources including trusted medical practitioners and sources for equipment, apparel, food and supplements.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780990471813
Publisher: Integrative Bodybuilding, LLC
Publication date: 08/20/2018
Pages: 440
Product dimensions: 8.80(w) x 11.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr. Scott W. Stevenson, PhD, LAc is an applied exercise physiologist (PhD from University of Georgia, ACSM and NSCA-certified), licensed acupuncturist (State of Florida) and competitive bodybuilder (four overall titles, including the 2009 NPC Mr. Arizona, and four top 5 national level showings). Scott has over thirty-five years in the gym and two plus decades of experience personal training and coaching online. Scott believes in keeping an open "beginner's minded" approach to finding what works, while blending his experience, Western science and Eastern medicine (and philosophical perspective). Scott coaches with the intent of an educator, hoping his clients will eventually move beyond his guidance. He's a former college professor (Cal Poly Pomona), academic dean and instructor (ASAOM), columnist for EliteFTS™, and past adjunct professor at University of Tampa. Scott has published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and his lay bodybuilding articles have appeared in Musclemag and Flex magazine. Scott is the author of the bodybuilding training system e-book "Fortitude Training®" and co-authored John Meadow's book, "The Brutality of Mountain Dog Training." He is part of John's MountaindogDiet team a founding member / supermoderator at IntenseMuscle.com. Scott is also the former training partner and long-time advisor to IFBB Pro David Henry. When not pounding the iron, Scott spends his free time with his beloved dogs, tinkering on his Jeep or RV, or riding his Harley. For exercise consultation (individual, group or team) and speaking engagements (worldwide), please feel free to contact Scott via his website (www.integrativebodybuilding.com) and / or email (scottwstevensonme@me.com).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – The BIG PICTURE 10

Planning Your Year: Your Personal Bodybuilding Inventory (PBI) 10

1.1 Personal Bodybuilding Inventory Form 12

1.2 Weekly Progress Markers 13

1.3 Goal Setting 15

Chapter 2 – Post-Contest (1-2 Months): 31

Post-Contest Advantages 31

Post-Contest Disadvantages 31

2.1 Post-Contest: To Train or Not to Train? 32

2.2 Post-Contest Diet & Training: Harnessing the Rebound? 36

Chapter 2 SPECIAL SECTION: Overtraining or Overreaching?... How Far to Push the Envelope 41

Chapter 2 SPECIAL SECTION: Bodybuilding, Hormonal Manipulation and Your Genetics 50

2.3 Post-Contest Supplementation 61

Chapter 3 – Off-Season (6-8 months) 63

3.1 Off-Season Monitoring: Guideposts for Gains and Goals 64

3.2 Your Off-Season Nutritional Starting Point 66

3.3 Off-Season Dietary Adjustments: Guideposts, Progressive Eating, Biofeedback (& an Example) 91

3.4 Dietary Essentials: Micronutrients, Fiber, Probiotics, Etc. 109

3.5 Fine Tuning: Nutrient Timing, Meal Size, Taste and Satiety, Food Variety 119

3.6 Fine Tuning: Food Preparation & Supplements as Icing on the Cake 126

3.7 Maintaining Insulin Sensitivity with Diet, Supplementation and Nutrients 152

3.8 Peri-Workout Recovery Supplementation 159

3.9 Off-Season Training Regimens: Picking and Rotating Your Poison 165

Chapter 3 SPECIAL SECTION: Off-Season “Bulking” & The “Power-Shove” Fallacy 169

Chapter 3 SPECIAL SECTION: Cardio In the Off-Season? 171

Chapter 3 SPECIAL SECTION: Ensuring Recovery (Sleep & Sauna) 174

Chapter 4 – Pre-Contest (2-4 months) 182

4.1 Pre-Contest Dieting Rules of Thumb 182

4.2 Pre-Contest TRAINING: Dance with the One Who Brung Ya 186

4.3 Pre-Contest Dieting Down: The Nuts N’ Bolts of Getting Shredded (& an Example) 187

4.4 Keeping Hunger at Bay When Dieting (and Addictive Behavior) 200

4.5 To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Re-Feeds, Carb-ups, Calorie Toggling, Etc. 204

4.6 Pre-Contest Dietary Supplements & (Special) Foods 211

Chapter 4 SPECIAL SECTION: Essential and Branched Chain Amino acids – Scam or Ace in the Hole? 212

4.7 Presentation: Posing, Tanning & Being Ready For the Big Dance 221

4.8 Peak Week – Carbing Up, Drying Out and Being Skinless 225

Chapter 5 – The Critical Thinking Bodybuilder 254

5.1 Critical Thinking & Ways of Knowing 254

5.2 Ways of Knowing – Authority (The Powers that Be Said So) 256

5.3 Ways of Knowing – The Scientific Method 258

5.4 Final Thoughts on Being a Critical Thinking Coach 260

Chapter 6 – Frequently Asked Questions 261

Chapter 7 – Bodybuilding Resources 301

7.1 Book-Specific Resources 301

7.2 General Bodybuilding Resources 302

References 309

Index 433

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