Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach: A Reference Guide For Year-Round Bodybuilding Success - Hardcover

Stevenson, Scott Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0990471810 ISBN 13: 9780990471813

Publisher: Integrative Bodybuilding, LLC, 2018

Synopsis

Be Your Own Bodybuilding Coach is for bodybuilding enthusiasts who relish the rewards the endeavor, both learning and doing, as much as the physique that comes from their efforts.  Dr. Stevenson has poured decades of personal experience as a competitor, scientist, coach, educator and gym rat into a highly detailed strategic plan for setting goals, and navigating the Post-Contest, Off-Season and Pre-Contest periods of the "bodybuilder's year."  

The book's purpose is to put you, the reader, in the driver's seat as your own bodybuilding coach by providing a structured reference guide that covers nearly every topic you might encounter along your bodybuilding journey:

· Setting goals and keeping to them: The Personal Bodybuilding Inventory.

· Dietary manipulations to gain size, drop body fat and maintain insulin sensitivity.

· The most important resistance training program variables, choosing and rotating training programs, an integrated approach to bringing up weak muscle groups, and dealing with overtraining/overreaching.

· Tracking and enhancing recovery: Sleep, sauna, heart rate variability, perceived recovery status, adaptogens and CBD oil.

· Peak week without pharmaceutical diuretics and an Advanced Loading Strategy that can be used, for instance, when making weight is a priority!

· Moving up a weight class, estimating body fat, bulking in the Off-Season, cheat meals, Off-Season "damage" control, and how / when to use cardio.

· Nutrient timing, probiotics, low FODMAP diets, fiber, and strategies to both increase and decrease appetite.

· Protein, Carbs, Fats and Alcohol: How much, what and when! 

· Nutritional supplements for performance, fat loss, sleep, and cardiovascular, liver, gastrointestinal and kidney health, etc.

· Intermittent fasting and eating organic.

· Strategies for post-contest rebounding and avoiding the ghost of "metabolic damage."

· Bodybuilding performance enhancing drugs, side effects, and inter-individual variability.

· Posing, presentation, and travel: Being ready on game day!

· Training after 40 and beyond: Training strategies for the weathered lifter and dealing with aches n' pains.

· Insights on gender/sex differences.

· Being a critical thinking consumer of bodybuilding knowledge.

· Bodybuilding resources including trusted medical practitioners and sources for equipment, apparel, food and supplements.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Scott W. Stevenson, PhD, LAc is an applied exercise physiologist (PhD from University of Georgia, ACSM and NSCA-certified), licensed acupuncturist (State of Florida) and competitive bodybuilder (four overall titles, including the 2009 NPC Mr. Arizona, and four top 5 national level showings). Scott has over thirty-five years in the gym and two plus decades of experience personal training and coaching online. Scott believes in keeping an open "beginner's minded" approach to finding what works, while blending his experience, Western science and Eastern medicine (and philosophical perspective). Scott coaches with the intent of an educator, hoping his clients will eventually move beyond his guidance. He's a former college professor (Cal Poly Pomona), academic dean and instructor (ASAOM), columnist for EliteFTS™, and past adjunct professor at University of Tampa. Scott has published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and his lay bodybuilding articles have appeared in Musclemag and Flex magazine. Scott is the author of the bodybuilding training system e-book "Fortitude Training®" and co-authored John Meadow's book, "The Brutality of Mountain Dog Training." He is part of John's MountaindogDiet team a founding member / supermoderator at IntenseMuscle.com. Scott is also the former training partner and long-time advisor to IFBB Pro David Henry. When not pounding the iron, Scott spends his free time with his beloved dogs, tinkering on his Jeep or RV, or riding his Harley. For exercise consultation (individual, group or team) and speaking engagements (worldwide), please feel free to contact Scott via his website (www.integrativebodybuilding.com) and / or email (scottwstevensonme@me.com).

Review

"There are a lot of really talented smart people in our industry.  I have been entrenched in it for 3 decades and counting and know most of them well. That being said, I have never met anybody with the blend of scientific and practical knowledge that comes remotely close to Scott. Put simply, if I need advice, he is the first person I call.”

-John Meadows: IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, www.mountaindogdiet.com

 

"Dr Scott is one of the most passionate and brightest minds I have ever had the pleasure to meet. He has helped me for numerous competitions and helped me achieve all new levels of muscle mass and conditioning, but more so taught me the how and the why, behind every decision made. He is the only PhD in the world that is a true blend of academia and in the trenches, nitty gritty work, which is why he is in my opinion one of the best coaches in the world. I will forever be thankful for what he has done for me” 

-Jordan Peters: NABBA Pro; www.trainedbyjp.com  

 

"There are not a lot of people in this industry that I have a lot of respect for.  Dr. Scott Stevenson is an obvious exception.  One of the most brilliant minds in the sport today.  If he says something, listen.  If he writes something, read it." 

-Ken “Skip” Hill:  www.teamskip.net  IG: intensemuscle

 

“After been involved in the sport of bodybuilding for 25 years before I met Dr Scott Stevenson, I thought I was pretty good.  I was wrong! The past 15 years training side by side with Scott I have learned a lot when it comes to execute training, diet and supplementation. He did it in a different way.....he asked me a lot of questions, he questioned me what we were doing and why? Kind of weird I thought, but it didn't take me long to realize why he did it. He wanted me to be in tune with myself, to feel, to understand, to listen to research by myself not just get my questions answered by him. The funny thing is....I do this myself now with almost all of my clients!!! They first think I'm weird too. But by doing this you realize that there is perhaps not just right and wrong in applications. There is adaptions in how to applying to clients performance and needs. You need to listen, you need to ask questions to progress.  The way Dr Scott Stevenson worked with me works even in average life outside the gym. I have all my success as a bodybuilder, trainer and as a person thanks to Scott. A lot of people especially today in this media era are specialists but very few can walk their talk! Thank you Scott.”

Sincerely,

Mike Gustavsson: Valhallaphysique@gmail.com.  FB:www.facebook.com/mike.gustavsson.712 IG: valhallaphysique. 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Integrative Bodybuilding, LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0990471810
• ISBN 13: 9780990471813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 440