Coaching Bodybuilders Better: Corey Lindner on Technique, Division Demands, and Athlete Development

RP Strength Podcast

Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Want to get even more jacked? Grab the RP Hypertrophy App for your training, and maximize your gym efforts with the RP Diet Coach App to nail your nutrition.

Corey Lindner's Links:

Instagram: corey_lindner
OCB Team Page: Team Corey Conditioned

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and first-time guest welcome for Corey Lindner

05:21 Athletic background: track, high jump, and early lifting

10:15 Military and fire department experience

13:45 Transition into bodybuilding coaching

17:45 Going full time into coaching after losing the firefighter clearance

30:03 Coaching client breakdown: 95% female and how that shaped his approach

34:19 Meathead vs science-based: finding the middle ground on load and tension

47:00 How coaching detail changes from novice to advanced athletes

50:30 Why division-specific criteria matter, especially in women's classes

55:30 Where to find Corey and final wrap-ups

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone to the RP Strength Podcast.
0:06.2	I am Nick Shaw, joined today by first time guest ever on the RP Strength podcast, Mr.
0:14.4	Corey Lindner.
0:16.1	Oh boy, I butchered that.
0:17.2	Let me try that one more time.
0:18.6	Sorry, I got, I'm nervous.
0:19.6	I'm nervous.
0:20.0	I've never done this before. Mr. Corey Linder, who I will get to see this week in Columbus at the Arnold. However, by the time this releases, it will be after the Arnold. But, you know, we, we record, I guess, in the, it launches in the future. God, I got to shut up. Corey, take over here for me, man.
0:39.4	What's going on, guys? I'm happy to be on this podcast. Nick, thanks for having me on.
0:45.7	And yeah, I mean, I'm on here right now because recently joined the RP team as a trainer slash
0:51.6	coach on the team. And it's a great group of people and that's the reason
0:54.8	Nick and I will be together this weekend is at the Arnold big RP meetup like Nick just said though after this comes out you'll know if that was a a flop of a meetup or not um I hope not yeah no it's looking like it's going to take off we got a lot of people coming out for that so it's going to be a fun time. I keep asking Liz. I'm like, Liz, are you sure the gym can accommodate? I don't know, 50 to 100 people, if that may be? I saw her put on the, was it the caption of the post that first 200 people get like a free t-shirt? I was like, 200. That's what we're incentivizing. That's so many people. Oh boy.
1:27.6	I thought I was 30 or 50.
1:30.4	Okay then.
1:31.7	Well, Liz is going to line out the door.
1:34.3	They do have an American barbell that second half that's like a aerobic crossfit area where it's just all open like turf.
1:42.6	So it can definitely accommodate. Yeah, yeah. That's what Liz has said. Listen, I don't know too many of the details. I fully trust. Liz, she rocks it. She's great at what she does. Yeah. Actually, just saw Liz down in Miami. I was down in there for a little photo show. I saw, yeah, so you guys stories there. We're cool. Pure, pure fun, uh, just a couple weeks before.
2:03.3	They're like, hey, can you show up?
2:04.6	And they're like, you don't have to, you know, peak like you, you try to be your best.
2:07.7	I'm like, all right, all right, right.
2:08.4	That's fine.
2:08.9	It's fine. all I did was after the Super Bowl like literally I kind of piged out on Super Bowl Sunday but from then I don I don't know, what was that? Not even three weeks.
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