Do we need higher-calorie days? Should they be different pre-contest or off-season? What do they do? How much higher? What food sources? In one meal or divided through the day? All valid and confusing questions if you don't know the biochemistry of what intentional calorie modulations can do for your progress. Listen in as Joe and Adam sit back and throw refeed darts in a new CPU Frat House Edition! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DO...
Feb 24, 2022•32 min
Welcome to a new feature series of Contest Prep University! The Frat House is a longer-form, more casual conversation about physique sport topics that matter to competitors. Our normal, hard-hitting short how-to series are the Physics and Organic Chem of your prep. The Frat House Series is Philosophy 101. Or a survey course of Anthropology. Or Abnormal Psychology. Or just a beer pong tournament on a Saturday night. Or...all the things! Jump in and check out why you need to have a first-contest-e...
Feb 24, 2022•27 min
Ask anyone if they're currently struggling to reach a goal and you'll get an instant and emphatic YES! Whether it's a home task that remains undone after five years, or losing the 20 lbs you said you would, humans just don't have the wiring. Why? Because we literally don't have the wiring. Conserving energy and taking the path of least resistance is how you survive. You survive by staying safe. So, how do we break free from that neurochemical prison and reach big goals? Listen in as Joe and Tyle...
Feb 18, 2022•22 min
You know Flexible Dieting. You know contest prep. Are they compatible? How can you use Flexible Dieting as the best tool to ensure the perfect pre-contest season? Listen in as Joe and Adam explore different ways to lean into flexibility while still relying on tried and true structure for your best outcome! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU ...
Feb 18, 2022•8 min
You know Flexible Dieting. You know contest prep. Are they compatible? How can you use Flexible Dieting as the best tool to ensure the perfect pre-contest season? Listen in as Joe and Adam explore different ways to lean into flexibility while still relying on tried and true structure for your best outcome! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU ...
Feb 17, 2022•6 min
You know Flexible Dieting. You know contest prep. Are they compatible? How can you use Flexible Dieting as the best tool to ensure the perfect pre-contest season? Listen in as Joe and Adam explore different ways to lean into flexibility while still relying on tried and true structure for your best outcome! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU ...
Feb 16, 2022•7 min
You know Flexible Dieting. You know contest prep. Are they compatible? How can you use Flexible Dieting as the best tool to ensure the perfect pre-contest season? Listen in as Joe and Adam explore different ways to lean into flexibility while still relying on tried and true structure for your best outcome! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU ...
Feb 15, 2022•8 min
You know Flexible Dieting. You know contest prep. Are they compatible? How can you use Flexible Dieting as the best tool to ensure the perfect pre-contest season? Listen in as Joe and Adam explore different ways to lean into flexibility while still relying on tried and true structure for your best outcome! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU ...
Feb 14, 2022•6 min
Every generation thinks the world is going to end. Ours is no different. And, this time it might. But not really. We're just living out the growing pains of social media and nonstop information. Our amygdalas are tired. The worst part about our current hyper-sensitivity and intolerance? We isolate instead of engage. We stop learning and exploring. Our brains atrophy... and that means our health, nutrition, physique sport, and performance sport pursuits may atrophy as well. Listen in as Joe and T...
Feb 04, 2022•24 min
Our brains judge and categorize each other constantly. You've chosen a life of better health but clearly most societies are struggling. It seems the obesity epidemic is lasting longer than the Cold War. Maybe it's just the new norm. Do you think less of others who don't care as much about their personal health? Do we have a shared responsibility as a culture to maintain a certain health standard? Your tax dollars entitle the, dare we say poor, decisions of others... should they? Should you care?...
Jan 28, 2022•26 min
Adam and Joe shoot down some myths and slay some sacred cows of contest prep this week. Listen in and see if you agree how we can major on the majors and even major so appropriately on some minors that they self-function seamlessly and easily! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU LATER LEANER, to bring you the science of Peakology in an inform...
Jan 26, 2022•8 min
Adam and Joe shoot down some myths and slay some sacred cows of contest prep this week. Listen in and see if you agree how we can major on the majors and even major so appropriately on some minors that they self-function seamlessly and easily! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU LATER LEANER, to bring you the science of Peakology in an inform...
Jan 25, 2022•6 min
Adam and Joe shoot down some myths and slay some sacred cows of contest prep this week. Listen in and see if you agree how we can major on the majors and even major so appropriately on some minors that they self-function seamlessly and easily! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU LATER LEANER, to bring you the science of Peakology in an inform...
Jan 24, 2022•5 min
The more you believe something, the greater the chance that you're deceived by your own emotional tie to the topic. Every bit of information that flows into our brains causes a cascade of binary triggers. Threat/non-threat... good/bad... safe/unsafe... right/wrong... true/untrue... and those are just the initial value judgments. The doorway for those thoughts then channel our memories, emotions, and behavior one synapse at a time. Something you think is good - the strength and dogmatism of your ...
Jan 21, 2022•21 min
Adam and Joe shoot down some myths and slay some sacred cows of contest prep this week. Listen in and see if you agree how we can major on the majors and even major so appropriately on some minors that they self-function seamlessly and easily! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU LATER LEANER, to bring you the science of Peakology in an inform...
Jan 21, 2022•6 min
Adam and Joe shoot down some myths and slay some sacred cows of contest prep this week. Listen in and see if you agree how we can major on the majors and even major so appropriately on some minors that they self-function seamlessly and easily! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YOU LATER LEANER, to bring you the science of Peakology in an inform...
Jan 20, 2022•6 min
Jennifer Souders, MD, Medical Director of The Diet Doc and world record-holding powerlifter, joins Joe to discuss life satisfaction. Happiness might be thought of as our acute state of mind, but joy and life satisfaction are measurements of how we consider our overall well-being and contentment. As a fitness community, athletes, and those trying to live a healthy life, are we finding true happiness in those pursuits? What does research show can get us there? Let's deepen our mind-muscle connecti...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 5 min
After three series discussing topical considerations of PED use for physique sport, Joe and Adam sat down to chat at length at how any competitor should approach the decision to enhance their training and aesthetics with anabolics. A perfect wrap-up for the three-series bundle. Grab a notebook and listen in! CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY - THE SCIENCE OF STAGE-READY Joe Klemczewski, PhD, founder of THE DIET DOC and legendary TEAM KLEMCZEWSKI PERFECT PEAKING, has joined Adam Atkinson, founder of SEE YO...
Jan 14, 2022•32 min
After two series as brief tutorials on androgenic PED use by female and male physique sport application, Adam and Joe turn to non-androgens. Listen in and find out how Clenbuterol and thyroid hormones are often used to accelerate fat loss and growth hormone and insulin are used to augment lean body mass gain. Keep in mind that these series are for educational purposes; neither Joe nor Adam are physicians and these are controlled substances banned by any drug-testing sport organization. CONTEST P...
Jan 13, 2022•9 min
After two series as brief tutorials on androgenic PED use by female and male physique sport application, Adam and Joe turn to non-androgens. Listen in and find out how Clenbuterol and thyroid hormones are often used to accelerate fat loss and growth hormone and insulin are used to augment lean body mass gain. Keep in mind that these series are for educational purposes; neither Joe nor Adam are physicians and these are controlled substances banned by any drug-testing sport organization. CONTEST P...
Jan 12, 2022•7 min
After two series as brief tutorials on androgenic PED use by female and male physique sport application, Adam and Joe turn to non-androgens. Listen in and find out how Clenbuterol and thyroid hormones are often used to accelerate fat loss and growth hormone and insulin are used to augment lean body mass gain. Keep in mind that these series are for educational purposes; neither Joe nor Adam are physicians and these are controlled substances banned by any drug-testing sport organization. CONTEST P...
Jan 11, 2022•7 min
After two series as brief tutorials on androgenic PED use by female and male physique sport application, Adam and Joe turn to non-androgens. Listen in and find out how Clenbuterol and thyroid hormones are often used to accelerate fat loss and growth hormone and insulin are used to augment lean body mass gain. Keep in mind that these series are for educational purposes; neither Joe nor Adam are physicians and these are controlled substances banned by any drug-testing sport organization. CONTEST P...
Jan 10, 2022•7 min
After two series as brief tutorials on androgenic PED use by female and male physique sport application, Adam and Joe turn to non-androgens. Listen in and find out how Clenbuterol and thyroid hormones are often used to accelerate fat loss and growth hormone and insulin are used to augment lean body mass gain. Keep in mind that these series are for educational purposes; neither Joe nor Adam are physicians and these are controlled substances banned by any drug-testing sport organization. CONTEST P...
Jan 08, 2022•7 min
What is truth? That is the question behind all of philosophy. It's also the reason anthropologists estimate 25% of our entire species has died - warring over what one group considers right and another wrong. But look behind the thing. Look past the object and to the objective. Our extreme fitness community is virtually defined by fighting over what is true and what is false. Every nutrition concept and training method is defended and attacked by disciples and warriors of research righteousness. ...
Jan 07, 2022•22 min
The use of steroids for performance and physique sport remains an under-the-radar culture often with cryptic and confusing information. Certainly there aren't many true medical experts contributing to effective use and management. PEDs are complicated by the fact that they are scheduled substances, banned by WADA, and separated by tested and intentionally untested organizations. Listen in as Joe and Adam discuss some of the details that can help you make informed decisions and take care of your ...
Jan 05, 2022•7 min
The use of steroids for performance and physique sport remains an under-the-radar culture often with cryptic and confusing information. Certainly there aren't many true medical experts contributing to effective use and management. PEDs are complicated by the fact that they are scheduled substances, banned by WADA, and separated by tested and intentionally untested organizations. Listen in as Joe and Adam discuss some of the details that can help you make informed decisions and take care of your ...
Jan 04, 2022•7 min
The use of steroids for performance and physique sport remains an under-the-radar culture often with cryptic and confusing information. Certainly there aren't many true medical experts contributing to effective use and management. PEDs are complicated by the fact that they are scheduled substances, banned by WADA, and separated by tested and intentionally untested organizations. Listen in as Joe and Adam discuss some of the details that can help you make informed decisions and take care of your ...
Jan 03, 2022•9 min
The use of steroids for performance and physique sport remains an under-the-radar culture often with cryptic and confusing information. Certainly there aren't many true medical experts contributing to effective use and management. PEDs are complicated by the fact that they are scheduled substances, banned by WADA, and separated by tested and intentionally untested organizations. Listen in as Joe and Adam discuss some of the details that can help you make informed decisions and take care of your ...
Dec 31, 2021•7 min
Do you think about thinking? How does it even work? Your brain? Your mind? Your emotions? Thinking is a process and that process depends on the content in your brain. You CAN change both! How and what you think can improve your entire approach to health, training, nutrition...and life. Listen in as Joe and Tyler chat about consciousness, ontology, carbs, and squats! Joe Klemczewski, PhD, and Tyler Wiebe, BSc, have teamed up to connect the grind of the iron to the power of your mind. {~} Klemczew...
Dec 31, 2021•20 min
Contest Prep University is close to 500 episodes deep and we've never addressed anabolics or performance-enhancing drugs. Yet they're out there in force. Many make the personal decision to use PEDs to see how far they can push their own performance and aesthetic; some use because they feel it's the only way to level the playing field in untested organizations. Listen in as Joe and Adam provide valuable information to help you make better decisions and hopefully stay safe. CONTEST PREP UNIVERSITY...
Dec 29, 2021•7 min
