Shard Family this week on Barbell Shard Dr. Eric Helms is coming on to talk about his journey to becoming a professional bodybuilder and it is not the path most travel.

The dude competed in an enormous number of bodybuilding events like consecutively,

basically throughout the year to stay insanely lean and what's really cool is talking about how he built up so that even with the extended period of time that he was living very lean throughout the year,

that his last show he thought was actually his best show which resulted in getting his pro card which is super cool.

I really enjoy. Just anybody's, anybody's meathead journey is always welcomed here and Dr. Arke Helms is one of the leading voices

kind of in the strength and additioning hypertrophy space but we got to bring them on to tell

some like more of a more of a more of a personal story today so super cool as always

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report.com friends let's get into the show.

What would have our bell shrug? Let's get into the show. Welcome to Barbell Shrug.

I'm Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Smash.

Dr. Eric Helps, welcome to Barbell Shrug.

I think this is your first time, somehow,

I believe this is your first time somehow I believe this is your first time on

Barbara all Shrud. You know I'm a listener and you've had the like other people on like

like we're I don't know how our Venn diagrams haven't crossed but I'm just glad to be here it's an

honor so we recently had the rest of the the mass review crew mass research

crew on the show you're the you're the last of the four. You had the better Eric on already, so I mean you've done it.

It doesn't get confusing at all, I'm sure. We were just talking a pre-show and I thought I had read somewhere that you had done

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