Prepping the Prep: Health First Approach

one of the big things that you have become i don't say proficient in prolific in basically big pushing um is this concept i think is really important about listeners uh moving past the business chat is the preparation for physique preparation now we have a very similar concept and it's something that i think is advanced quite quite well in the industry of physique coaching and what used to be back in the day was basically take a whole bunch of drugs build up your off season get fat as you know throw out your your heart rate throw out your blood pressure ruin every blood marker you have and then go well i'm going to cut down now anyway so who cares and then you go straight into a comp prep for 12 to 16 weeks take more drugs more stimulants take something maybe for blood pressure try keep it down maybe something for a liver protection because you're just running a whole bunch of orals and that's usually your six month window for most people six to eight month window coming to a show and the start to the season you finish up a massive growth block nothing for your health look at no screening protocols and then go into prep take more drugs completely throw your body out and then basically come out of that wondering why your body's fucking pissing yellow and you feel like shit you guys push a a push very early actually if we go back to looking at things like under the bar podcasts and we look at uh table talk uh lead fts um that approach that it's important to pre-prep your preparation you guys about this a fair while ago which is fantastic because it wasn't i don't think up until recently it was a very understood concept it's not something that a lot of coaches have really comprehended and dialed in on how did you get to this what led to your like when you're looking at this going it is actually important we get someone ready if you're going to do a physique contest we need to pre-prep that and inside that pre-prep i'm going to throw a few questions that you get uh inside that pre-prep sort of uh phase for you guys are you looking at like social uh psychosocial ecological call it environmental or are you just looking more like the physique pre-preparation or the body we're