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Choose Hard with Cody McBroom

#107 - How to Coach a Client Through Contest Prep: Timelines, Tactics, and Peak Week

Choose Hard with Cody McBroom

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness

4.9825 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Contest prep is the most demanding thing you can ask of a client — and of yourself as a coach.

In this episode, Cody breaks down the full framework for taking a client from off-season to stage: who's actually ready to prep, how to build an honest timeline, managing nutrition and training as the show approaches, surviving the psychological grind, and why post-show recovery is the most important phase nobody talks about. If you coach physique clients — or want to — this is the blueprint. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

There are so many bad nutrition coaches who don't know shit about science and don't really care about the client.

0:04.5

And they're known as good prep coaches because they put everybody on the same miserable diet.

0:08.3

And 75% of the people fall off and don't accomplish it.

0:10.5

But they have 25% of them win shows.

0:12.7

And so that's what they build their reputation on.

0:14.4

The experience sucks.

0:15.4

They don't know anything.

0:16.3

And it's damaging to a lot of people.

0:24.5

Welcome. it's damaging to a lot of people. Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast.

0:27.7

I'm your host, Cody McBroom.

0:28.9

I am a father, husband, coach, and entrepreneur, and the founder, Taylor Coaching

0:33.0

Method.

0:33.9

Today we're going to talk about contest prep.

0:36.8

And I think even if you are not a bodybuilder, you're going to get something out of this podcast

0:41.3

because something I constantly tell other coaches in the industry is that if you want to get

0:48.8

great at transforming somebody's body composition, then you should study the masters of body composition

0:56.4

transformation. Those are bodybuilders. There is nobody who does it better than bodybuilders.

1:03.0

So why would we not study bodybuilders? Even if we are working with Gen Pop, which we have built

1:09.5

Taylor Coaching method around coaching just the general

1:13.9

population, we still use the science of bodybuilding. And I think that's a really, really

1:20.2

important factor. Now, I'm going to do a little audio check, check, check. Cool, making sure.

1:29.1

I have three microphones attached to this table and there has been two times where I switched mics. This is my podcast

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