It's Just Bodybuilding 382 The HARDEST Part - Prep Hacks

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, and Scott McNally break down the real hardest part of bodybuilding—dieting and prep hacks. Plus the rise and fall of ephedrine, Rich Piana talk and Ron shuts down a cute girl at the grocery store. 00:00 Bodybuilding Podcast Kickoff – It’s Just Bodybuilding 01:49 How to Deal with Hunger While Cutting (Bodybuilding Diet Tips) 05:43 What Is Food Noise? Controlling Cravings on Prep 09:33 Accepting the Grind – Embracing Diet Struggles 13:12 Bodybuilding Mindset Hacks for Contest Prep Success 17:10 Coaching Bodybuilders – Communication Mistakes & Lessons 22:46 Crazy Bodybuilding Stories & Unforgettable Moments 29:45 Why We Love Bodybuilding – The Passion Behind the Sport 31:39 Gym Brotherhood – Building Relationships Through Training 33:10 Meeting Bodybuilding Legends – Iconic Encounters 37:07 Dieting Tricks – Flavor Hacks, Sweeteners & Additives 44:59 Diet Hacks That Actually Work (And Emotional Eating) 54:54 The “Floor Cookie” Story – Dieting Temptation Explained 56:00 Rich Piana & Bigger By The Day – Bodybuilding YouTube Era 58:47 Prohormones Explained – Real Stories From The Past 01:03:39 Ephedra – Rise, Ban & Bodybuilding Impact 01:06:06 Old School Supplements vs Modern PEDs 01:12:21 Rapid Fire Bodybuilding Prep Tips 01:12:37 Contest Prep Success – Planning & Execution 01:13:40 Natural vs Enhanced Bodybuilding – Honest Debate 01:15:39 Off-Season Training – Strength, Performance & Progress 01:18:42 Staying Focused in the Off-Season 01:21:07 Cheat Meals in the Off-Season 01:25:47 Training Motivation – Strength as a Driving Force 01:28:41 Do Cheat Meals Help or Hurt Bodybuilding Progress? 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow Dusty Hanshaw Scott McNally ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) 👕 THINK BIG MERCH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Help Us Grow 📢 Share this episode with a training partner or friend who loves bodybuilding :

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This episode was published on Apr 15, 2026.

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