SNR #243: Valentin Tambosi - Time Frames for Natural Bodybuilders
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Valentin is a pro natural bodybuilder and coach based in Vienna, Austria. He has been working as a personal trainer and physique coach for several years. As an athlete he is a professional natural bodybuilder with the IPE. Valentin is also a speaker at Intelligent Strength for their Strength Coach program.
In This Episode We Discuss
- Ideal body composition at the start of a contest prep
- Recommended length of contest prep for natural athletes
- How competition frequency should change with experience level
- Off-season length and building in mini-cuts
- Strategic use of diet breaks during prep
- Understanding conditioning: how lean is “lean enough”?
- Weekly refeeds: setting the correct duration
- Peak week carbohydrate intake: front-loading vs. back-loading, and other considerations
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| 0:00.0 | People have no idea how long term you have to think in natural bodybuilding. |
| 0:13.0 | Very often we look at enhanced bodybuilding or basically the IFPB bodybuilding, which is totally fine and |
| 0:19.0 | I'm a fan of it myself. But you hear somebody |
| 0:22.0 | like, let's say Ronnie Coleman, say he's on a 12-week diet and then he's ready for the |
| 0:25.5 | Mr. Olympia. And people take that number and want to use it for a natural bodybuilder. And |
| 0:30.4 | that's just not going to work. You're not going to be ready in 12 weeks, and 14 weeks, |
| 0:34.0 | and 16 weeks and most like not in 18 weeks. So the lowest I would prep someone, |
| 0:40.3 | and he should be already in very great shape, |
| 0:44.3 | is 24 weeks. |
| 0:45.3 | That's the absolute minimum, in my opinion. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:06.4 | I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 243 of the podcast today. |
| 1:13.1 | Before we get into our discussion today, just a quick mention about Sigma Nutrition Radio Live. |
| 1:20.8 | For those of you who have not seen this November 24th in Dublin, Ireland, I'm going to be hosting the first podcast session that's |
| 1:30.5 | going to be done in front of a live studio audience. |
| 1:33.3 | So on the day, I'm going to be joined on stage by four world-class experts in nutrition. |
| 1:39.7 | They are namely Martin MacDonald, Dr. James Morton, Dr. Kirstyirstie Elliott-Sail, and Dr. Nicola Gess, |
| 1:46.4 | and I'll mention a bit of more about their work in just a moment. And if you go to the previous |
| 1:52.0 | mini episode of this podcast, I gave a quick five-minute rundown of the event. But if you |
| 1:57.0 | haven't heard, it's going to be me with these experts on stage. |
| 2:01.3 | We'll be getting into some deep discussions on all sorts of cutting edge and important |
| 2:06.6 | topics related to nutrition. |
| 2:08.1 | And there will also be sessions where you in the audience can ask your questions to these |
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