This week we welcomed the one & only Dr. Eric Helms (@helms3dmj) to the podcast. Eric is a research fellow at Auckland University of Technology, chief science officer for 3DMJ, MASS contributor, coach & pro natural bodybuilder - a busy guy you could say.
This podcast was centred around how to balance bodybuilding & powerlifting. Both sports or outside of sport, the pursuit of strength & size, have many commonalities but subtle differences in programming, periodisation & planning competitions into the year.
Eric has both the experience competing in a multitude of sports within the same year having competed in bodybuilding, strongman & powerlifting & has trained others to this stage at a high level too.
Having been Helms fans for years it was great to chat with the man himself & I hope you enjoy the episode!
Topics covered:
05:20 How Eric got into lifting & competing
11:30 Training differences between powerlifting & bodybuilding
18:00 Training-specific adaptation
22:00 Minimum effective training for strength
25:00 Preventing loss of adaptations
31:00 Yearly planning for dual sport competition
45:00 Lessons learned from competing in bodybuilding & powerlifting
1:00:00 Setting up for your life to compete
Where to find Eric:
Website: https://3dmusclejourney.com/about/eric-helms/
Research Review: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/mass/
Links to find the boys:
Shane Storey
Website: www.storeystrength.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94
Email: shane@triagemethod.com
Lawrence King
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking
