Optimal Physique Development

Optimal Physique Development is a podcast dedicated to bringing you expert advice and information on all things physique enhancement.

Peak Week Ramblings

A long-form, open discussion on how we like to handle peak week's for a variety of classes and criteria.

10-29
54:26

September Catch up With the Hosts

Another instalment of you guys favourite! In this episode, Austin & Joe get caught up on how the competitive season is going, and some fun stuff planned for the rest of this year.

09-20
57:18

Carbscast Special: We Back Baby

The comeback nobody was waiting for. A little rusty, probably not as funny as it used to be, but we had a blast anyway.

08-26
56:39

Hypertrophy Masterclass with Borge Fagerli

We are honoured this week to be joined by a true veteran of the hypertrophy realm, most well known for his pioneering of myoreps, Borge Fagerli. In this episode, we dig through the state of current hypertrophy research and how its presented on social media, what occurs in the real world, and how to autoregulate your own programming based on results. To purchase Borge's new myoreps ebook, follow this link, and use code OPD20 for 20% discount: https://www.borgefagerli.com/myo-reps-in-english

07-17
55:26

Busting Training Frequency Myths With Dr Soko

There has been a great deal of social media discussion on training frequency recently, unfortunately leading to an abundance of confusion as to whether certain higher frequency models will build more muscle than the same volume at a lower frequency, or whether frequency doesn't matter at all. Luckily, Dr Soko joins us today to clear up any and all confusion, to leave you guys with exactly what you need to know to make sure you're not leaving any stone unturned on your hypertrophy programming.

06-27
53:19

Growing A Coaching Business - What We've Learnt

Austin & Joe look back over their careers in this episode at what they've both seen not only grow their client base, but also what has attracted the right clients, and has brought them to most happiness and fulfilment in the process.

06-07
50:07

Training Volume: Clearing up the Confusion Pt. 2 ft. Dr Soko

In the final instalment of our deep dive into training volume, Dr Soko joins us to give you guys exactly what you need to know to ensure you know exactly what training volumes are best to drive your progress, how to adjust that volume accordingly over time, and how to interpret the research data in context.

04-27
58:27

February Q&A

Tonnes of topics covered in this one, including liver enzyme escalation in bodybuilders, useless nootropics for bodybuilders to use, increasing dopamine without next day negatives, balancing glutamate & GABA, the list goes on!

04-20
56:55

Training Volume: Clearing up the Confusion Pt. 1

This episode, we help you guys to cut through the noise of the current social media craze in the bodybuilding world, training volume. We cover what some of the new research says, our interpretation of that data, what in the trenches anecdotal evidence tells us, and how to use the whole body of evidence to make a decision on where to set your own volumes on a per body part bases. Also, some cool side quests regarding effective reps and how to track volume with various RIR and rest pause sets also. For part 2, Dr. Chester Soko will be joining us to give us his expert opinion on all of the above too!

04-20
57:06

Q&A - The Italian Surprise & Neurochemistry

We kick this one off with a surprisingly scary yet funny story from Joe's travels to Milan, and then some extensive Q&A featuring modafinil recovery and nootropic protocols.

03-04
56:55

Christmas Catch-Up

After our brief podcasting hiatus, Austin & Joe get caught up over the Christmas period, with some funny stories from the end of the show season dropped in there too!

02-18
56:15

Checklist For New Competitors

This is one from the archives that had not yet been posted, when Austin and Joe get caught up at the tail end of the 2023 season. Considerations for any new competitors to keep in mind when rolling into their first season.

01-31
44:54

Contest Prep Finer Details for Men ft. Jasmin Jeffery

In this episode, Jasmin Jeffery, the owner of UK/EU's largest one stop shop for all of your competing products and resources joins us to give you guys some insight on how to nail the finer details of your contest prep outside of just bringing your best physique.

01-16
46:43

Fine Tuning Your Contest Prep

In this episode, we take you guys through some of the lessons we have learned over the years of working with competitors to help to fine tune your own contest prep programming.

10-06
53:59

Nailing The Fine Details for Female Competitors Pt.2 with Jasmin Jeffery

Joe's wife, and the owner of UK, UAE & EU's number one shop for bodybuilding and bikini competition essentials walks us through exactly how to ensure you are nailing the details on your physique that many miss, but will make a difference to your stage look as placing.

08-25
38:18

Nailing The Fine Details for Female Competitors Pt.1 with Jasmin Jeffery

Joe's wife, and the owner of UK, UAE & EU's number one shop for bodybuilding and bikini competition essentials walks us through exactly how to ensure you are nailing the details on your physique that many miss, but will make a difference to your stage look as placing.

07-04
28:09

Mastering Digital Nomad Life With Dean McKillop

The year-round peeled, nomadic online physique coach Dean McKillop of Flex Success joins us today to provide an insight how you can run a successful business and stay on top of your own physique goals whilst travelling the world.

06-08
55:52

The Business of Coaching with Jeff Su

Jeff Su, owner of First Call Out Fitness joins us this week to break down exactly how to market and develop your business as a coach, how to avoid some marketing traps and most importantly, how to retain and provide the best service to your clients over a long career.

05-06
55:19

Post-Show Musings

In this episode we dive into how Austin's post-show period was programmed, alongside some discussion on p-ratios and rebounds.

04-17
52:31

Austin's 2022 Prep Recap

One from the archives! A throwback to Austin's 2022 season, how he peaked for his first show and things that changed rolling into show number 2.

04-01
53:35

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