Let's Grow Big Together

People love sports for the thrill of the challenge, to push their bodies to boldly go where they’ve never gone before. But in Star Trek, how would people compete in a universe where physical augmentation makes almost anything possible? What happens to bodybuilding a thousand years from now?Today’s episode is a dual drop from Feast of Fun and Let’s Grow Big Together, think of it as a transporter mishap where two podcasts are fused as one, but not as awkward as Tuvix.In this series, we take a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains.The new series Starfleet Academy centers the Star Trek universe around the school for new recruits with a fresh focus on youth culture and hot bodies.Today Starfleet Academy’s production designer Matthew Davies joins us to look at his work imagining schools, starships, gyms and nightclubs of the future.Davies is also an accomplished bodybuilder, so we’re having a little fun imagining what bodybuilding might look like in that world. How will technology shape bodybuilding? What will giant, glorious bodies mean centuries from now? Plus--• Lesbians in Space! Creating same sex, interspecies relationships.• Why Matthew has no regrets turning down Heated Rivalry.

We’re living in a new golden age of bodybuilding, thanks in part to the Internet, which provides endless resources for building muscle, and to medical advancements over the past few decades in fighting HIV, AIDS, and cancer.Let’s Grow Big Together! The podcast that tests positive for F.U.N. (and lots of performance enhancing drugs.) In this series, hosts Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion take a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today Canadian bodybuilder and immigration attorney Brian Yuen joins us for an inspiring conversation about bodybuilding and living with HIV, and how the AIDS crisis from the 90s and bodybuilding helped each other survive and thrive. Brian has been living with HIV for over 16 years and has achieved incredible success in the bodybuilding world, having competed in seven shows, including winning 1st place in Masters Open Bodybuilding at the 2021 Vancouver Island Showdown and securing 2nd place in Men’s Masters at the 2023 Vancouver Open. Tune in as we dive into essential supplements to keep your immune system thriving and why lifting weights can be a transformative journey for anyone living with HIV. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to start, the time is now.FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:★ instagram.com/brian604yvr★ instagram.com/faustofernos★ instagram.com/marcfelionPlus--• The wild history of testosterone replacement therapy. • Why switching from alcohol to edibles is a game changer for building muscle.

For those struggling with fitness and building muscle, coaches can sometimes do more harm than good by not meeting clients where they are at. This can lead to people feeling overwhelmed, giving up on their goals and not living their best life.Let’s Grow Big Together! The podcast that tells you: Don’t just stand there, lets get to it, strike a double biceps pose, there’s nothing to it. Pose. In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today self described thique goddess, mobility coach and plus size supermodel Roy Belzer joins us to look at fitness for big folks, loving yourself unconditionally and working to have the best body possible with what you got. ROY BELZER FITNESS:★ instagram.com/roybelzerfitnessFOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:★ instagram.com/faustofernos★ instagram.com/marcfelionPlus--• Overcoming the deadly impact of sitting behind a desk all day long.• Water as the most underrated fitness supplement.

In the 1990s fitness guru Susan Powter rose to fame with her sassy late night TV infomercials, short cut platinum hair and her catchphrase: “stop the insanity!”Do you remember “stop the insanity?” Well the insanity never stopped.For the last 50 years, corporations have been making a lot of money by waging war on our bodies- stressing us out, forcing bad food and bad lifestyles on us, resulting in good people feeling out of shape, sad and broken.Let’s Grow Big Together! A podcast that’s like your very own broken beer bottle in the bar fight for your life.In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains.Today fitness guru and 90s talk show queen Susan Powter joins us to look at why there is still so much money to be made in keeping people sick.Susan fills us in on her adventures after being a TV fitness icon, and making right wing haters in Texas drop their jaws over her outrageous passion for muscle and fitness.Please enjoy this classic podcast episode.

In the 1980s, actress and workout guru Jane Fonda popularized the mantra “no pain, no gain” as a way to suggest that discomfort is necessary for muscle growth. Unfortunately, this type of thinking can lead folks to ignore the very injuries that might be holding back their gains. Let’s Grow Big Together - The podcast that hurts so good it should be illegal, and sometimes it is.In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today physical therapist Dr. Jesse Roles joins us to look at effective and outrageous things bodybuilders have done over the years to overcome injury and pain to maximize their gains. For over a decade, Dr. Jesse has used joint & tissue manipulation, dry needling and cupping to help everyday people and athletes look and feel their best. Plus-- • Which supplements from the vitamin shop will help you recover and which ones are junk? • Foam rolling, yoga, and dynamic warmups, and the power of walking. • Love as the ultimate muscle building therapy.

There’s a belief that fitness and comedy are at odds with each other. We’ve seen many comedians get jacked and then they don’t appear to be as funny.Carrot Top famously said he stopped bodybuilding because it didn't fit his style. Dave Chappelle put on muscle and started trolling trans people, and who can forget those awful Bud Light TV ads from the 80s where Joe Piscopo dressed up in drag and flexed his bulging biceps?But even for all those comedic tragedies, Instagram is packed with muscle men who get the laughs and the lifts.Let’s Grow Big Together, I mean, Welcome to Feast of Fun! The podcast that always makes you sore in all the right places.Today comedian and obstacle course athlete Joel Bryant joins us to chat about racing, lifting and comedy.When he’s not working as a comedy host or doing stand up, Joel is dodging giant foam blocks in an American Ninja style race or crawling through the mud in a Tough Mudder.Listen as we pit Joel Bryant against the AI robot to see who is funnier, muscle man or machine?JOEL BRYANT: https://joelbryant.netPlus--➤ The Feds issue new guidelines discouraging comedy from highway safety billboards and signs.➤ The Smithsonian Institution releases over 4.5 Million historic images into the public domain,➤ Rest in pudding Ron DeSantis’ political career.

When training for any athletic event, a lot can go wrong. Even worse: your mind can start playing tricks on you. So it helps a great deal to have a great coach guide you on the road to become a legend. Let’s Grow Big Together! The podcast that climbs the Stairmaster along with you, but not on the same machine, cause people are gonna look. In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today, I’m just a few weeks out from my first bodybuilding contest at the young age of 51, and we’re thrilled to introduce you to my coach Matt Claussen. As a powerlifter, Matt Claussen is highly regarded as a four time National Powerlifting Champion. As a bodybuilder, Matt Claussen has won five major championships including first place in the 2005 NPC East Coast Classic and guided over 75 clients to get stage ready for their own contests.COACH MATT CLAUSSEN: https://www.instagram.com/mattclaussen/NPC WINTER CLASSIC DEC 2, BLOOMINGTON IL: https://npcmidamericanwinterclassic.comPlus-- • Getting ready for your first coach. • Coming out of the closet to your parents as a bodybuilder.• Are powerlifters really using butt plugs to stabilize their core? • Weightlifting horror stories to put a chill down your spine.

Bodybuilding legend Ronnie Coleman loves to say “Everybody wants big muscles but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights!”But lifting heavy ass weights isn't the most difficult part of bodybuilding for everyone. For some, the biggest challenge to coming home with that sword in a competition is the ability to shred body fat without losing muscle mass.Let’s Grow Big Together - It’s the only bodybuilding podcast that slays at the gym, on the stage and the runway baby!In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today tech developer, daddy and up and coming NPC Classic bodybuilder George Ward joins us to talk about getting ready for the stage, his adventures in bodybuilding and working with Dorian Yates to build an impossible physique. We met George Ward at the food court at the Arnold Sports Festival and were so charmed by him we had to get him on the show. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:★ instagram.com/georgewardfitness★ instagram.com/faustofernos★ instagram.com/marcfelion

Bodybuilding can be very lonely as you toil away at the gym, make your meals and rest a lot all by yourself.So in the endless pursuit of building muscle it’s important to always be looking for inspiration that reminds you of why you fell in love with it in the first place.Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that screams “come with me if you want to lift!”In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains.Today we find inspiration to recharge our batteries in the neverending quest to build muscle, as we look back at our amazing weekend at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio.FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM:★ instagram.com/faustofernos★ instagram.com/marcfelionPlus--• Far out and brilliant fitness products we saw at the Arnold.• Who started the butt grabbing tradition between Chris Bumstead and Ramon Rocha Queiroz?• Why setbacks are an inevitable part of the growing process.Episode #3069

If you want to be big, you have to eat big. When it comes to building muscle, the cornerstone of bodybuilding is nutrition, not just what you eat, but when you eat it to keep those gains in motion.But it’s not always that easy, for some people it’s incredibly hard to get the calories and protein they need to grow in size.Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that is on the ABCDEFG diet plan: Always Be Consuming Delicious Edible Food! (Goddamit.)In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to putting on muscle.Today bodybuilding coach, nutritionist and boxer Chris Bickley joins us to look at bodybuilding nutrition and the outrageous things bodybuilders have done over the years to get big or die trying.A jacked up 5’10” 230 lbs, Chris turned to becoming a full time coach and nutritionist during the pandemic, and judging from the results of his clients, Chris knows what he’s talking about.CHRIS BICKLEY: instagram.com/ctbickleyFAUSTO FERNÓS: instagram.com/faustofernosMARC FELION: instagram.com/marcfelionHire Chris Bickley as your coach or nutritionist:https://chrisbickleycoaching.comPlus--➤ Are German gummi bears anabolic? Why highly branched cyclic dextrin is awesome and is there any benefit to doing hard drugs before hitting the gym?➤ Protein rich pumpkin pie and Mexican chicken thighs al pastor.Protein Rich Pumpkin Pie: https://www.egglandsbest.com/recipe/protein-pumpkin-pieChicken Thighs Mexican Pineapple "Al Pastore Style"https://masonfit.com/oven-roasted-chicken-al-pastor/Episode #3066

Folks used to discourage training your legs because they thought it would make your butt too big! Today we know better, weightlifting not only gives you a strong core and legs, but now everyone wants a muscular booty!Let’s Grow Big Together - the podcast that loves big butts and can not lie even when others try to deny.Today Erica Nix, a very famous, Austin specific workout guru joins us to talk about bodybuilding, fitness and her journey of self discovery as seen in her debut film “Erica’s First Holy Sh!t” which premieres next week at San Francisco’s club Oasis.Erica loves fitness culture and even appears in the last workout video Richard Simmons ever made. Today, Erica works with people outside of normative physical culture to rediscover bodybuilding, fitness and living their best life.ERICA NIX: https://workoutwithericanix.comSCREENING OF "ERICA'S FIRST HOLY SH!T": https://www.sfoasis.com/events➤ Listen as we talk about the highly legitimate practice of pec and boobie hypnosis.➤ Coping with a diagnosis of MS.➤ The legacy of Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding.➤ How we originated the modern lesbian pride flag.https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerVexillology/comments/ssngyk/history_and_origin_of_gay_and_lesbian_flags/Episode #3062

If you’ve never been to a bodybuilding competition in person, it might seem quite intimidating with all that muscle painted dark and greasy, strutting it on stage.But in reality a lot of these contests have a wide variety of people from different ages, backgrounds and bodies ready to showcase their physiques.Category is: jacked up butch queen realness!Today our friend John Paul O’Neil, long time listener, first time caller talks about dazzling the crowds at his first two bodybuilding contests by posing to Madonna’s song Vogue ending with a death drop that shook the judges.John has been lifting for 5 years and after his first two bodybuilding contests he’s earned the title of NPC Classic Physique Bodybuilder.JOHN PAUL O'NEIL:instagram.com/jpo_physics_fitnessFAUSTO FERNÓS: instagram.com/faustofernosMARC FELION:instagram.com/marcfelionPlus-➤ Box squats and applesauce➤ Getting the perfect spray tan to look your best.Episode #3055

When you think of musical theater you don’t often think of bodybuilders, but the roles of Rocky in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast or Tarzan in Disney’s stage adaptation all require a certain amount of muscle to portray the role.Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that has a sophisticated charm and plenty of muscle!In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. Today florist, musical theater actor and bodybuilder Jimmi Cook joins us to look at playing all the jacked up musical theater roles including Rocky, Gaston and Tarzan and his new enterprise as a competitive bodybuilder seeking to win his IFBB Pro Card.Jimmy Cook made his television debut on the reality TV series Full Bloom on HBO Max, and now runs a flower and gift shop called White Barn Decor in Belfair, Washington.FOLLOW JIMMI COOK: https://www.instagram.com/cookjimmiFAUSTO FERNOS: https://www.instagram.com/faustofernosMARC FELION: https://www.instagram.com/marcfelionEpisode #3050