With the help of David Allen and Scott Stevenson, I have turned my six months of recovery into a period of growth and new training insight.

Now that I’ve found solutions to many of my own problems, I’m faced with a new challenge: helping my IFBB coach out of a lengthy retirement.

I have implemented these nutritional and sleep strategies in attempts to manipulate my body into restoring a healthy hormonal profile.

I feared a life without training. When I saw that fear become a reality, I knew it was time to seek professional help.

After a competition season of pushing my body beyond its limit, I was no longer making process. Here’s how I’m turning things around for the future as I start my off-season.

The days leading up to my competition were full of challenges and stress. My coach John Meadows listened and helped me formulate a plan for this show and the future.

Don’t hide your perfect physique with poor posing. Follow these tips from professional posing coach Dave Myers.

By adjusting macronutrient ratios and splitting workouts into twice a day, you can overcome the lack of energy from low-calorie contest prep. You won’t even have to do cardio.

You may not know it yet, but you need corrective work—your longevity depends on it.

What does it take to crank your training intensity? Team elitefts goes all Siskel & Ebert on that.

Dave "MF'n" Tate tries to take Derek "Mountain Puppy" Dolgner to obedience school…but the puppy breaks his leash.