EP 85 The Ultimate Contest Prep Q&A | with Alex Bush
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
As ya'll know or should, I am in the middle of prep so I thought it would be dope to sit down with my good friend Alex Bush, co-founder of Physique Development, to discuss all things pre-prep, prep, and post-prep along with answering some questions from you all. If you've ever considered doing a contest prep, I deem this a can't miss episode for you. Topics and questions include:
- Sorry not Sorry for Teasing You Last Week
- Legion Athletics
- Who is Alex Bush?
- Prep Before the Prep Process
- Why You Can't Continue to Diet Into Contest Prep
- Prompts for Extensive Testing
- Night Shift and Training
- Mental Readiness for Prep
- When Prep Isn't A Good Idea
- Food Relationships
- Training Principles
- Structure vs Autoregulation
- Duration of Prep
- Communication with Your Circle
- Fatigue
- The Fat and Flabby Look
- Pumps and Training Well
- Supplements for Prep
- Bikini vs Olympic Lift Training for Prep
- Post Show Period and Tactics
- Healthy Rate of Gain Post Show
- Rapid Fire Questions
- Enhancement Advice
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on you guys welcome back to embody radio my name is Emily Duncan if you're if you're an OG listener you know you know this voice but if you're a new listener what's up? I'm Emily Duncan. I'm your host, the one and only. Today we are |
| 0:15.1 | here for the second episode of season two of Embody Radio. I apologize for |
| 0:20.3 | all of the undue stress that I caused everyone when I said I was canceling the show last |
| 0:26.7 | week. Oh man, I got some DMs where people were like, I love the episode but I freaked out when you said you were cancelling the show and I was like he he he |
| 0:36.8 | Anyway, today's episode is an awesome awesome one. I am really excited about this. we have a repeat guest on here you guys know I only |
| 0:45.8 | interview the people who are in my opinion the best of the best and I definitely |
| 0:50.8 | only multiple time interview if that's the right way to say |
| 0:55.2 | people that I think are the best of the best of the best. People that I truly |
| 0:59.3 | enjoy conversing with people that I think truly bring value to the people listening to the show, |
| 1:05.2 | and that guest is Mr. Alex Bush. |
| 1:08.8 | So you guys, if you are a longtime follower of me or listener of the the show you know that Alex does my training |
| 1:13.8 | programming. |
| 1:14.8 | Alex is just an incredibly intelligent individual, a very caring, wonderful, wonderful coach. |
| 1:21.8 | Like truly, I think there's a certain kind of person |
| 1:25.0 | that not just has the knowledge that a coach should have, |
| 1:29.0 | but they also have the heart that a coach should have. |
| 1:32.0 | And Alex is absolutely one of those |
| 1:34.5 | people and I can honestly say that working with him and having him as a friend |
| 1:39.5 | but working with him has truly been a game changer for me as an athlete. |
| 1:44.2 | And today we're here to talk about all things contest prep. |
| 1:48.0 | So Alex does coach both lifestyle clients and competition prep clients for competitive bodybuilding. And we just wanted to get together and have a conversation |
| 1:56.3 | about some of the things that we really think people should know, |
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