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I’m a 21 year old male still pursuing to take my physique to the next level, as I have been for about 5 years now. From material of yours and others I’ve read in the past, I’ve learned you begin to become more catabolic in cardio sessions passing a 40 minute mark (correct me if I am wrong please). My problem here is I already am a hard gainer and have to eat around 350 carbs and 3,000 calories to keep my weight up. I work at a kickboxing gym (not my expertise, changing over to PT when I get a few more certifications). And here my heart rate stays very elevated for the four hours I work, as I have to hold and demonstrate different movements the entire shift. My question here is, what supplements/methods besides BCAAs do you recommend to combat my inevitable muscle breakdown throughout my shift?

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Question about your cuff lateral raise from a mechanical standpoint. I was approached by someone at my gym who is certified blah blah also studies mobility training as well. He tried to instruct me that having the handles or cuff sit on my fingers that a spread out gives a better load and contraction on the lateral head than the initial profile I had it on. Being the nice guy I am, i appeased his request and told him my forearm was taking away at the bottom of the movement so he said to do partials the whole set. My question is, does his reason hold any merit?

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When I do front squats, my back and grip give out far before my legs do.
Can you go over some cues/ procedure to develop an improved grip?

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Could you weigh in on subcutaneous water retention in the oblique area and how it differs from (or coincides with) typical fat deposits. Possible approaches to shedding the water/fat in this area and managing future retention.

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How does a mix grip effect deadlifts? I have trouble maintaining a grip when lifting any decent weight unless I use a mix grip.

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What’s a decent exercise to strengthen a lower back? I don’t want to use a belt for things like front squats because I’d prefer to get overall stable / strong but I find that even when paying attention to my form and not pushing the weights my lower back has a rough couple of days. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Deloads. Would you put these in every x amount of weeks? Or do you recommend to continue training and take a Deload when fatigue keeps your performance from improving. I am sure that quality of training (training HARD and not like a pansy) might have a lot to do with your answer. furthermore how would you go about a deload? Avoid going to failure or decrease the weight or decrease the volume or a mixture of these? Thanks Joe. Really appreciate what you do here for us.

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What is your current post training stack to calm the CNS?

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My right pec is slightly bigger than my left. How can I correct this? Simple hit more reps on the left? Only hit the left? Shit talk the right pec and make it lose motivation to grow? I’m really struggling here.