The Drop Set with Darin Starr: Bodybuilding for the Masses

The Drop Set with Darin Starr:  Bodybuilding for the Masses


Latest Episodes

269 – Building The Perfect Home Gym
August 16, 2024

A good home gym can be a great asset. A lousy home gym will set your potential progress back years. In episode 269 I tell you how to build the best possible home gym for bodybuilding purposes in ord

268 – The Ultimate Guide to Travel Dieting
August 09, 2024

Maintaining your diet on the road can be, to put it mildly, a pain. BUT its worth noting that it is, in all situations and with a bit of advance planning, doable. It requires more work but then aga

267 – Debunking the Myth of Carb Cycling
August 02, 2024

Carb cycling in bodybuilding is something that, for some reason, generates some very passionate opinions. Certainly, most dietary strategies have their fans much look footballs teams do, but as a coac

266 – Sketchy and Sus Coaches – Finding a Good One
July 26, 2024

The bodybuilding industry is loaded with coaches if youre searching for a good one either for contest prep or for a more general transformation, the process can be, frankly, a pain in the ass IF

265 – Keeping Muscle on a Deficit
July 19, 2024

You often hear people talk about recomping or building muscle in a deficit, but realistically the goal just needs to be to not LOSE muscle while youre dropping fat. Unfortunately thats easier said

264 – Fitness & Bodybuilding Myths – The Truth
July 12, 2024

In the bodybuilding industry specifically and the fitness industry more generally, confusion abounds. Stuff that was fact decades ago we now know to be wrong, but their legends still live on. Lets

263 – Does Food Quality Matter?
July 05, 2024

How much does food quality really matter when it comes to your diet in bodybuilding? Theres healthy, but then what about just dropping body fat or building muscle? And can you be healthy even i

262 – Post-Show Rebound Myths Exposed
June 28, 2024

Theres been a myth circulating for a long time that after your contest prep phase for a bodybuilding show, or after a hard fat loss phase in general, THAT is when youre most primed to experience you

261 – The Bodybuilder and the Mathematician
June 14, 2024

Being in Oregon to visit family, it seemed like a great opportunity to get some fresh faces on here as I shamelessly exploit my familys lack of bodybuilding knowledge for podcast material. And as one

260 – Smooth Sailing Into Show Day?
June 07, 2024

Well, at long last here we are 22 weeks of prep, 110 training sessions, mountains of cardio, 17 near flawless weeks followed by 5 that border on train wreck, and tomorrow is show day. Im not kid