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3D Muscle Journey
The 5 natural bodybuilding and powerlifting coaches from 3D Muscle Journey come together for conversations dissecting the art and science of muscle and strength. Be a fly on the wall as this collective of coaches discuss the ins and outs of helping athletes reach their potential on the stage, platform and in their personal lives. Dedication. Discipline. Desire. #Team3DMJ
Episodes
3D Muscle Journey#81: Q&A Session 6
The 3DMJ coaches are back with another Q&A session! In this episode, Andrea and Eric answer over 17 questions directly related to physique and performance…
3D Muscle Journey#80: Lifestyle Design for Athletes
Being a committed and serious athlete is a big deal. It's not just what you do in the gym that matters, but also the variables outside of the gym which affect…
3D Muscle Journey#79: Parenting As An Athlete
Have you ever wondered how the bodybuilding lifestyle affects one's kids and family dynamic? In today's episode, the coaches discuss how living the lifestyle…
3D Muscle Journey#78: The Skill Of Lifting
Most of us who have been training for an extended period of time, know that lifting weights is more complex than haphazardly picking them up and putting them…
3D Muscle Journey#77: How To Learn
In this episode, Eric, Jeff, and Andrea sit-down to discuss two major themes: How to become a better critical thinker, and the importance of learning to be…
3D Muscle Journey#76: How To Plan Your Year
It's the first episode of 2018, and what could be a better way to kickoff the new year than going over how to plan out your athletic goals and set yourself up…
3D Muscle Journey#75: Q&A Session 5
What factors contribute to muscle-loss when dieting? How important is the timing of your carbohydrate intake? What exactly are "leverages", and how does…
3D Muscle Journey#74: Q&A Session 4
Welcome to Q&A session 4! In today's episode, all five coaches work together to answer 10 subscriber asked questions. Topics range from: appropriate usage of…
3D Muscle Journey#73: Holiday Bodybuilding
Pumpkin pie, turkey, wine...what could be better? The holiday season is a great time of year for many people, bringing with it: time off work, more time with…
3D Muscle Journey#72: When the Recovery Diet Ends
When does the recovery diet end and the offseason begin? How does someone know when they are "recovered"? As the 2017 competitive season draws to a close…
3D Muscle Journey#71: Aging As An Athlete
One of the greatest aspects of physique sports, is the ability to be able to participate in them well into the later decades of life. At the age where most…
3D Muscle Journey#70: How to Build a Nutrition Plan
Would you like to learn how to design nutrition protocols for yourself or your clients? Wondering where to start and how to make future adjustments? You're in…
3D Muscle Journey#69: How To Track Your Training
Similar to how tracking body-weight is useful for assessing fat-loss, tracking your training is valuable for assessing muscle-growth and strength-gains. In…
3D Muscle Journey#68: Career vs. Click Bait
While the fitness industry is often lumped into one big category, in actuality it has many different facets. Some companies choose to build their brand using…
3D Muscle Journey#67: Bodybuilding With A Desk Job
While having a relatively sedentary occupation has its benefits when it comes to bodybuilding and training performance, it also comes with its fair share of…
3D Muscle Journey#66: Off-Season Realizations
Off-season weight-gain. I can already see the cringe on many of your faces as I write this sentence. For a sport that draws people in who want to look better…
3D Muscle Journey#65: Exercise Selection & Modification
We've all been here before...We're in the gym training and look over to see the person next to us doing something we would consider to be "abnormal" or…
3D Muscle Journey#64: Q&A Session #3
Welcome back to Q&A session #3! In today's episode, Eric, Andrea and Jeff answer 5 subscriber asked questions on the topics of: advice for serious but…
3D Muscle Journey#63: Is Bodybuilding a Dying Sport?
For some this question will come as a total shock. For others, it will align with very similar thoughts and concerns they've had themselves. In today's…
3D Muscle Journey#62: IIFYM Meets Reality
One of the biggest misnomers in the fitness community today, is that IIFYM or "If it fits your macros" is synonymous with the term "flexible dieting". While…
3D Muscle Journey#61: Bodybuilding And Powerlifting At Home
In this week's episode, Andrea, Brad and Jeff discuss the pros and cons to training at home. Both Brad and Jeff are high-level athletes who utilize the…
3D Muscle Journey#60: Two Professional Bodybuilding Preps
In this week's episode, Andrea sits down with Jeff and Alberto to discuss their current contest-preps. The group go back and forth comparing and contrasting…
3D Muscle Journey#59: How We Coach Other Coaches
Why would a coach hire a coach? This concept may sound a little strange at first, however if you think about it, the rational is quite sound. People who hire…
3D Muscle Journey#58: How to Build a Training Program
Nutrition is supportive. If your goal is to build-muscle and get stronger, it doesn't matter how "perfect" your nutrition is, or how much protein you eat, your…
3D Muscle Journey#57: What We Need From Our Athletes
Ever wondered about the "behind the scenes" operations of 3D Muscle Journey? In today's episode, Andrea, Brad and Alberto talk about the various communication…
3D Muscle Journey#56: All About Mini-Cuts
How would you define a mini-cut? If someone asked you what the purpose of a mini-cut was, what would you say? In today's episode, Eric, Andrea and Alberto…
3D Muscle Journey#55: Your First 5 Years in Bodybuilding
In this week's episode, Andrea, Brad and Jeff sit down to talk about the initial stages of a bodybuilding career. Topics addressed, include: Issues with…
3D Muscle Journey#54: The Role of a Registered Dietitian
In today's episode, Andrea and Eric are joined by Steve Taylor, the team 3DMJ Registered Dietitian. Eric interviews Steve on a variety of topics related to the…
3D Muscle Journey#53: Q&A Session #2
After a full month of traveling, the 3DMJ coaches are back with another Q&A session. This week, Andrea, Alberto and Jeff sit down to answer five subscriber…
3D Muscle Journey#52: Q&A Session #1
In this week's episode, Eric, Alberto and Andrea sit down together to answer an array of 3DMJ subscriber asked questions. Do we need to worry about setting a…
3D Muscle Journey#51: Motivated Mindsets
It's easy to read the quote, it's much harder to actually live the philosophy. In today's episode, Jeff, Andrea and Brad discuss each of their own personal…
3D Muscle Journey#50: How do you know if you're evidence-based?
What does it mean to be "evidence-based"? What else besides research reviews, meta-analysis and individual studies, fall into this category? Once we have the…
3D Muscle Journey#49: The Details That Matter
"Success is in the details." As a high-level athlete, the details matter. Not all of them, but some. Some details matter a lot, and others not so much. But…
3D Muscle Journey#48: Assessing Your Athletic Identity
The way in which we identify ourselves is the way we behave, derive our sense of self-worth, and spend the majority of our time and focus on. Identifying…
3D Muscle Journey#47: A Smarter Contest Prep
Regardless of how it's done, contest prep dieting is tough. We're hungry, tired, stressed and at some point, even loading up the bar becomes a struggle. With…
3D Muscle Journey#46: Tracking Training Progress
Tracking training progress comes about as close to watching paint dry or the grass grow as it gets for advanced lifters. Something that starts off as so much…
3D Muscle Journey#45: Program Hopping
Program hopping. This is one of those things that many of us aren't even aware could be hurting our "gains". We are so used to seeing the latest 8-week program…
3D Muscle Journey#44: Traveling While Dieting
Although traveling while dieting isn't ideal, it's not always avoidable. This week Eric, Andrea and Alberto sit down to talk about things one can do while…
3D Muscle Journey#43: 3DMJ Coach Influences Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of our Coach Influences Series. This week, Andrea sits down with Jeff and Alberto to go through the people, and icons, who helped shape…
3D Muscle Journey#42: 3DMJ Coach Influences Part 1
Join us this week for part one of our 3DMJ Coach Influences Series. Today's episode begins a two-part series on the figures, mentors, and major influencers in…
3D Muscle Journey#41: Bodybuilding in Your 40's
Unlike many other sports, bodybuilding is something one can not only compete competitively in, but arguably peak at, well into their 40's and sometimes 50's…
3D Muscle Journey40#: Staying Natural
In the world of bodybuilding, what does it mean to be "natural"? In today's episode, Andrea, Eric and Alberto, sit down together to discuss what it means to be…
3D Muscle Journey#39: The Intersection of Science & Experience
"What is the optimal way, to use both science and experience, to get results for you or your client." These words, quoted from coach Eric Helms, do a great job…
3D Muscle Journey#38: Competition Coaching for Bodybuilding & Powerlifting
In this episode, Brad Loomis, Alberto Nunez, and Andrea Valdez chat about what they do on show day and meet day for our athletes. BODYBUILDING-SPECIFIC…
3D Muscle Journey#37: How to Lose in Bodybuilding
In this episode, Brad Loomis, Jeff Alberts, and Andrea Valdez chat about how to lose a bodybuilding show. No, they are not telling you to suck or to be a bad…
3D Muscle Journey#36: Contemporary Issues in Natural Physique Sports
In this episode, Eric Helms, Alberto Nunez, and Andrea Valdez give their insight and feedback regarding the many shifts happening within natural bodybuilding's…
3D Muscle Journey#35: Why Prep Sucks
In this episode, Jeff Alberts, Alberto Nunez, and Andrea Valdez discuss all the ways contest prep can be (and should be) a terribly difficult experience for…
3D Muscle Journey#34: All About Cardio
In this episode, Jeff Alberts, Alberto Nunez, and Andrea Valdez discuss all the ways contest prep can be (and should be) a terribly difficult experience for…
3D Muscle Journey#33: Coach’s Spotlight 2016 - Andrea Valdez
This is our fifth and last of our one-on-one team interviews, featuring Andrea Valdez. As it is now December 2016, we'd like to close out the year with some…
3D Muscle Journey#32: Coach's Spotlight 2016 - Jeff Alberts
This is our fourth of five one-on-one team interviews, featuring Jeff Alberts. As it is now December 2016, we'd like to close out the year with some "state of…
3D Muscle Journey#31: Coach's Spotlight 2016 - Alberto Nuñez
This is our third of five one-on-one team interviews, featuring Alberto Nunez. As it is now December 2016, we'd like to close out the year with some "state of…
3D Muscle Journey#30: Coach's Spotlight 2016 - Brad Loomis
This is our second of five one-on-one team interviews, featuring Brad Loomis. As it is now December 2016, we'd like to close out the year with some "state of…
3D Muscle Journey#29: Coach's Spotlight 2016 – Eric Helms
Here in this episode, we are starting our second series of 1-on-1 team interviews, beginning with Eric Helms. As it is now December 2016, we'd like to close…
3D Muscle Journey#28: Dr. Mike Zourdos and The Future of Strength Training
Team 3DMJ welcomes their second guest ever, Dr. Mike Zourdos. He joins Eric Helms and Andrea Valdez to discuss the recent past and distant future of strength…
3D Muscle Journey#27: Lagging Body Parts
In this episode, Brad Loomis, Alberto Nunez, and Andrea Valdez talk about how to deal with lagging body parts. Whether these be true weakness or perceived…
3D Muscle Journey#26: Intuitive Eating
In this episode, Jeff Alberts, Eric Helms, and Andrea Valdez talk about how to eat intuitively as a strength or physique athlete. They discuss their own…
3D Muscle Journey#25: When to Quit
In this episode, Jeff Alberts, Eric Helms, and Andrea Valdez talk about when to quit as a physique or strength athlete. While most content on the internet is…
3D Muscle Journey#24: Finding Your Fitness Career
In this episode, Alberto Nunez, Eric Helms, and Andrea Valdez deliver some experience and insight on how to "make it" in the fitness industry. As a team, 3DMJ…
3D Muscle Journey#23: Bryce Lewis & Brad Loomis at USAPL Raw Nationals 2016
In this episode, Alberto Nunez, Brad Loomis, sit down with Bryce Lewis USAPL Raw Nationals to discuss what it's like to compete on a national powerlifting…
3D Muscle Journey#22: Training By Feel
In this episode, Alberto Nunez, Brad Loomis, and Andrea Valdez talk about auto regulation, RPE, and training by feel. Basically, how should training feel, and…