The Drop Set with Darin Starr: Bodybuilding for the Masses
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269 – Building The Perfect Home Gym
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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