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James Hollingshead wins the Atlanta Pro — and he looked incredible. Dusty Hanshaw was there in person and brought back some great footage, so we break down James’ win along with Regan Grimes, Patrick Moore, Joe Palacious and the rest of the Atlanta lineup. Then we switch gears for one of our funniest games yet: Scott reads famous bodybuilding quotes while Ron and Dusty try to guess who said them. Some of the answers — and ChatGPT trolling Dusty — completely derail the show. 0:00 Atlanta Pro + Famous Bodybuilder Quotes 1:10 Welcome Back to It’s Just Bodybuilding 4:00 Lenda Murray Is Still Hot 8:00 Atlanta Pro — Lewis Breed Is MASSIVE 9:40 Charles Griffen’s Comeback 11:00 Patrick Moore — Dusty Eats His Words 12:30 Joe Palacios 16:00 Regan Grimes 18:45 James Hollingshead WINS — Incredible Side Tricep 21:30 Inflation Hits Bodybuilding Tickets 27:00 Ranya Temizkan 30:45 Breakfast vs Lunch vs Dinner 36:00 Tyler Manion — Changes Coming to Figure? 44:00 GAME: Who Said This Bodybuilding Quote? 57:25 ChatGPT Trolls Dusty 1:01:00 Lee Priest’s AI Skills 1:04:30 The Gen X Mindset Is Disappearing 1:07:20 Listener Questions 1:08:45 Swimming for Cardio? 1:10:20 Does Everyone Need a Deload? 1:12:00 Best Skillet for Bodybuilding 1:14:45 Best Cut of Steak? 1:17:15 Can Bodybuilders Actually Swim? 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding: https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y

IFBB Pro Kuba Cielen joins us to break down why not all steroids are created equal—and why the best cycle depends on how YOU respond. Kuba explains how he chooses compounds for himself and his clients, why high testosterone is his foundation, Masteron vs Primobolan, titrating testosterone, and whether the same cycle can work in both the offseason and contest prep. 0:00 Same Steroid Cycle for Offseason & Prep? 1:00 Not All Steroids Are Created Equal 7:30 High Testosterone as the Foundation 9:45 Masteron vs Primobolan: Kuba's Experience 15:00 Why Kuba Is Dropping Masteron 22:30 Same Cycle for Offseason & Contest Prep 30:00 Learning Steroids One Compound at a Time 33:00 How Kuba Chooses Compounds for Clients 37:00 How Kuba Titrates Testosterone Higher 44:00 When to Use Knee Sleeves & Lifting Gear 49:40 Proper Bracing for Better Ab Control 57:30 Why Kuba Plans Time to Do NOTHING 1:02:00 Managing Blood Pressure in Bodybuilding 1:07:10 SLU-PP-332: Was the Hype Justified? Support the show and shop with our advertisers : http://www.thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Should you ever cruise on more than TRT between steroid cycles? In this episode of Blood Sweat & Gear, Skip Hill, Andrew Berry, and Scott McNally break down when a higher cruise dose might make sense, who it doesn't make sense for, and the long-term tradeoffs every enhanced lifter should understand. Along the way, they discuss James Hollingshead's Tampa Pro performance, SHBG, recovering from back injuries, bodybuilding with diabetes, partial reps, and much more. 0:00 Should You Stay Bigger Year-Round? 1:30 Support Blood Sweat & Gear on Patreon 2:20 Andrew Berry Breaks Down the Tampa Pro 5:00 James Hollingshead Was Better Than We Realized 7:40 When Does TRT Plus Make Sense? 10:20 What's the Most Common Cruise Dose? 11:30 Does Age Change the Equation? 17:20 Should You Add Another Compound? 20:30 Loving Bodybuilding vs Chasing More Gear 28:20 Andrew Berry's "Poverty Prep" Strategy 31:24 How Important Is SHBG? 40:40 Recovering From a Back Injury 46:40 Bodybuilding With Diabetes 54:55 The Most Intense Fitness Creators Online 1:03:40 Partial Reps & Intensity Techniques 1:12:00 Behind the Scenes ✅ ✅ ✅ Check out all our Peptide Affiliates at : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca

Nick Walker made a statement at the 2026 IFBB Tampa Pro, and we're breaking down exactly why he dominated the lineup, what it means for the Atlanta Pro this weekend, and how it changes the Olympia picture. Then things get a lot more entertaining as we reveal our Top 10 Lies Bodybuilders Tell, one by one, and see if Ron, Dusty, and Scott agree on every pick. 0:00 Nick Walker Dominates Tampa Pro 1:00 Welcome to It's Just Bodybuilding 2:25 Why Nick Walker Was Untouchable 4:25 Nick Walker's Rear Double Biceps vs The Field 10:00 Can Joe Palacios Improve for Atlanta? 13:45 Can James Hollingshead Fix His Weakest Pose? 19:50 Atlanta Pro Preview: Regan Grimes Arrives 22:00 Dom Supersliced & Amanda Machado Win Tampa 26:30 Early Olympia Predictions 30:00 Derek Lunsford vs Andrew Jacked vs Samson Dauda 38:00 Top 10 Lies Bodybuilders Tell 1:06:00 Do You Really Lose Muscle When You're Sick? 1:10:30 Why Bodybuilders Hate Dressing Up 1:18:10 Crazy Stories From Bodybuilding Expos 1:27:30 Scott's New Mini JCW 1:29:45 Jesse James West Prank 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y #NickWalker #Bodybuilding #Olympia #bodybuildingpodcast

Dave Crosland and Scott McNally are back to answer your bodybuilding and PED questions! We break down a new study comparing trenbolone users to steroid users who don't use tren and discuss what it may tell us about the long-term health risks of running tren, including the idea of using it year-round. Then we answer your questions on combining tren and Deca, DHB vs tren, TRT, Dianabol, chest training, cardiovascular health, and much more. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Should You Run Tren & Deca Together? 1:00 Welcome Back to DNS 1:40 Technical Difficulties! 3:10 New Trenbolone Health Study 9:20 Is Year-Round Tren Ever Worth It? 14:30 Fear of Coming Off Cycle & Losing Gains 19:10 Staying On During the Diet Rebound 23:25 Low Hematocrit in Endurance Athletes 26:00 Can Dianabol Replace Testosterone? 29:30 TRT While Serving in the Military 33:25 Tren + Deca: Pros & Cons 41:00 How to Bring Up a Weak Chest 55:00 Higher Dose One Compound vs Lower Doses of Many 58:20 Testosterone Propionate & Estrogen 59:40 Dave & Scott Quit the Podcast...? 1:02:45 Uncle Dave's Advice 1:14:45 Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Bodybuilding 1:17:35 DHB vs Trenbolone 1:19:00 Credit Scores & Final Thoughts UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Can you build muscle without living in the gym? In this episode of Muscle Minds, Scott Stevenson and Scott McNally answer a listener's question about creating the most effective training split for a busy truck driver with limited time to train. Then they tackle one of the biggest myths in bodybuilding: how much fat loss actually comes from testosterone and anabolic steroids. Along the way, they discuss L-carnitine, practical ways to save money on protein powder, and wrap up Scott Stevenson's great protein-eating contest story 💨 ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to Muscle Minds 3:10 The Best Training Split for Busy Lifters 17:00 Managing PEDs for the Average Gym-Goer 32:00 Does More Testosterone Increase Fat Loss? 37:00 How Much Fat Do Steroids Really Burn? 42:40 L-Carnitine: Does It Actually Help Fat Loss? 58:00 How to Save Money on Protein Powder 1:01:00 Who Could Win a Protein-Eating Contest? 📖 Get Dr. Scott Stevenson's Book — Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach Official website: 👉 https://drscottstevenson.com/byobbcoach.html Hardcover edition: 👉 https://www.instagram.com/fortitude_training/ 💪 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING ❤️ Join Our Patreon Help support the podcast and keep new episodes coming. Even $5/month makes a huge difference. 👉 https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG Bodybuilding Merchandise Official T-shirts, hoodies, and more. 👉 https://think-big.printify.me/products 🥇 Official Sponsor — TRUE NUTRITION Custom supplements trusted by serious bodybuilders. • Third-party tested • Fully customizable formulas • Save with code: THINK 👉 https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 For Our Canadian Viewers Save on top supplement brands with fast shipping across Canada. 👉 http://www.supplementsource.ca

Can James Hollingshead Still Make the Olympia? We break down the controversial results from the 2026 Huanji China Pro, where many fans (including us) felt James Hollingshead deserved the win over Behrouz Tabani. We compare the poses shot-by-shot, discuss what the result means for Olympia qualification, preview the Tampa Pro with Nick Walker, Ron Partlow's Vancouver Pro client victory, talk coaching philosophy, and wrap things up with TV recommendations, sci-fi, Dave Palumbo, and some everyday bodybuilding banter. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to It's Just Bodybuilding 2:00 China Pro Controversy: James Hollingshead vs. Behrouz Tabani 22:00 Can James Hollingshead Still Qualify for the Olympia? 24:30 Tampa Pro Preview: Is Nick Walker the Clear Favorite? 29:30 Ron Partlow Looks Back on His Vancouver Pro Victory 37:00 Why Simple Coaching Often Works Best 46:10 Best TV Shows We're Watching Right Now 47:40 Why Black Bird Is Worth Watching 58:45 Soft Sci-Fi vs. Hard Sci-Fi 1:02:00 Scott Calls Out Dave Palumbo 1:07:00 Who Really Does the Dishes? 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding: https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y #Bodybuilding #JamesHollingshead #NickWalker #Olympia

Dave Crosland and Scott McNally are back to answer your bodybuilding and PED questions! This week, two listener questions have us breaking down advice from Dave Palumbo. Do we agree with his recommended off-season cycle? What about his thoughts on using trenbolone year-round? We explain where we disagree, where we think his recommendations come from, and why context is everything when it comes to PED use. Plus we discuss the new peptide KW-6356, why two training partners can have very different blood work, whether TRT changes the effects of recreational drugs, estrogen management, whether 10-week cycles are long enough to build muscle, and much more. As always, this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is intended for mature audiences. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Tren Replacement Therapy 0:25 Support our Advertisers to support the show 2:45 Calling Out Dave Palumbo 6:30 Critiquing Dave Palumbo's Off-Season Cycle 18:15 Dave Palumbo's Take on Year-Round Tren 32:45 KW6356 – A Refined Stimulant? 46:20 Why Two Training Partners Can Have Very Different Lab Results 51:30 Dave's Health Issues – Gear or Body Fat? 53:00 Does TRT Make Recreational Drugs Less Effective? 56:15 Estrogen Build-Up on TRT 1:00:10 Do 10-Week Cycles Actually Work? 1:06:00 Uncle Dave's Wisdom UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Poverty Prep: If you could only use testosterone plus ONE additional anabolic added just two weeks before the show, how would you get stage ready? Coaches Skip Hill, Scott McNally, and guest coach Nelson Jones break down exactly how they'd approach this challenge, discussing compound selection, timing, and contest strategy. Plus, they answer listener questions on GH quality, first cycles beyond TRT, bringing up stubborn arms, joint pain, ulcerative colitis, contest tanning, and much more. 0:00 Welcome Coach Nelson Jones 0:40 Coaching Martin Fitzwater Before He Turned Pro 3:30 Poverty Prep Challenge: Getting Stage Lean on a Budget 6:30 Which ONE Compound Would We Choose? 19:10 Spray Tans vs DIY Contest Tan 33:30 Your First Cycle Beyond TRT 40:30 Generic GH vs Pharma GH (And Do Color Tops Matter?) 47:40 Joint Pain While Using Testosterone & Masteron 51:40 How to Bring Up Weak Arms Without Overtraining 1:02:30 What's the Minimum Carbs Needed to Build Muscle? 1:11:45 Bodybuilding with Ulcerative Colitis 1:17:40 Skip's Word of the Day 1:20:00 Beard Talk & Closing Thoughts 🙏 Support us on Patreon. Every $5 helps! https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 Think BIG T Shirts! https://think-big.printify.me/products ✅ Presented by TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 🇨🇦 Canadian deals on top supplements: http://www.supplementsource.ca 🔈🎧 Audio Podcast: THINK BIG BODYBUILDING (all platforms)

Nick Walker's latest physique update has everyone talking ahead of the Tampa Pro. We break down his rivalry with Jo Palacios, discuss Patrick Moore's confidence going into the show, and then hit the whiteboard for 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand before some topics on training, nutrition, coaching, PEDs, and much more. 00:00 Are You on Steroids? 00:30 Support the Show with Mutant 01:50 Is This the Best Nick Walker Ever? 03:30 Why Nick vs Jo Palacios Is So Interesting 05:30 Patrick Moore: "I'm Coming to Win" 06:30 Should We Stop Saying "Package"? 07:45 William Bonac Joins the Conversation 09:00 Nick Walker vs Joe Palacios 12:50 Whiteboard Time 14:30 10 Things Only Bodybuilders Understand 40:30 Honorable Mentions 41:30 Natty or Not (in real life) 43:00 Nutrition & PEDs After 40 46:00 Who Actually Should Use Tren? 48:20 The Worst Trend in Bodybuilding Coaching 52:30 What Bodybuilders Should (and Shouldn't) Spend Money On 1:14:30 Ron's Next Mutant On A Mission 1:15:45 It's Just Bodybuilding Reacts Preview 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO THINK BIG BODYBUILDING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrZIZSnyfieo3cX2swc36iw?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding : https://youtu.be/NBdspE2K95Y