Ep. 209: Jeff Alberts - The Godfather of Natural Bodybuilding

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Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Alberts of 3DMJ comes on the show to talk about coaching natural bodybuilders, balancing fitness and family life, how to stay in the gym for multiple decades (successfully), what and what not to worry about when it comes to training and nutrition, and so much more… You can find Jeff on instagram @3dmj_godfather or at https://3dmusclejourney.com/

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Timestamps:

(4:05) - Who is Jeff Albert?

(4:53) - How old were you and how did you get started in training?

(6:15) - At what point did training turn into competing?

(7:19) - Was there ever a time you were confronted or influenced by drugs?

(8:45) - How did natural bodybuilding become the center of 3DMJ?

(11:05) - What is 3DMJ now? What do you guys do?

(12:25) - What are some things that you’ve learned over the years about longevity in the gym?

(14:05) - What mistakes have you learned and ran into that have taught you about longevity in the gym?

(16:00) - What is Mike Mentzer HIIT Training?

(17:10) - Why is it that most 40+year old bodybuilders seem to be more shredded?

(18:20) - How do you convince people to stick with body building? How do you talk with the younger generation of bodybuilders?

(21:05) - What metrics do you record and track regularly?

(25:41) - Is it necessary to progress on everything in order to get visual progress?

(26:35) - What is your take on the importance of the mind muscle connection?

(28:25) - Just doing more volume, is not actually always doing more volume...

(29:31) - You seem to have a very simplistic approach with training. Is there a rhyme or reason for that?

(31:40) - What does your training split look like right now? How long do you stick with one program? What do you recommend to your athletes?

(34:30) - How do you know when to switch up your program or parts about your program? How do you determine this with your athletes?

(35:22) - What is your take on periodization? Do you need to worry about it as a bodybuilder?

(37:17) - Are you staying in one certain rep range?

(39:10) - How do you approach nutrition?

(41:48) - Where do you stand with flexible dieting? How much Bro science do you implement and how much validity is there to that?

(43:35) - How do you sustain flexibility, competing, and your family life?

(48:25) - Do you think having failures or doing the wrong way is good in order to gain knowledge to help people?

(50:30) - How often do you periodize dieting? Do you let athletes do back to back preps, Do you let them diet down for a special event, etc…

(53:20) - What advice would you give other coaches?

(55:50) - You Are Dinner Table With 3 Empty Seats, You Can Pick 3 People To Sit With You, Dead Or Alive, Who Would You Pick?

(57:14) - Where can the listeners find you and your content?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is going on, guys.
0:15.2	Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance Podcast.
0:18.6	Today's episode is with a very special guest, a legend,
0:22.9	the godfather of bodybuilding himself, Mr. Jeff Alberts of 3DMJ. That's the 3D muscle journey.
0:29.9	Jeff Alberts is one of many who are in 3DMJ, and 3DMJ for those of you who don't know is
0:35.6	who I referred to as the Justice League of bodybuilding.
0:39.3	And they are a group of individuals who have been coaching, have been training, have been
0:43.8	athletes themselves, and have been in the trenches of training and nutrition for decades now.
0:49.2	Jeff Alberts specifically multiple decades.
0:51.9	So it's an honor to have somebody of his caliber come on the show,
0:55.4	share his information, share information about his experiences with coaching and with competing
1:00.7	himself and balancing it all within his lifestyle because he is a father. He is a family man,
1:05.3	but he's also a high-level bodybuilder, high-level natural bodybuilder, and he's in a group of
1:10.2	individuals who are among some of the smartest individuals inside of the fitness space.
1:16.1	And I stand by that because I've been following them.
1:18.2	I've been purchasing their e-books and their products and their courses, consultations
1:22.2	from them for over five years now because they've been providing so much value for so long.
1:27.0	And there's somebody I really look up to.
1:28.5	So to have Jeff on the show was really just an honor.
1:31.9	And it was so cool being able to actually sit down and talk with him because, again,
1:35.2	he's been doing this for multiple decades.
1:37.3	So that guy has so much information and experience to share with us.
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