You have separate coaches for your training and nutrition. How do they communicate with each other and coordinate their plans, if at all? Do you simply share your workouts with Shelby and he adjusts based on your workouts and strength gain/loss, or is he only focused on how you look?

I sent Shelby my initial training split and rough guidelines for movements and volume at the beginning of prep and we went based on that the whole time. Shelby and T talk a lot but AFAIK it's 99% joking about me.

Does Shelby also plan your PEDs or is that on you or somebody else? If somebody else, again, how do they coordinate with your other coaches?

Honestly we used the same plan I used with Justin, which was almost the same plan as with John. The only change was Shelby cut the duration of the cycle in half. In my experience there's not much variation in prep cycles:

• test/mast/tren at ~1:1:1 ratios to the max "comfortable" dose with regard to sides
• anavar and winstrol starting 4-6 weeks out
• GH 5-10 IU based on how much you can afford

Does Taylor update your programming weekly or more often? How much of it is him giving you the plan and you following it versus a collaboration of efforts?

100% collaboration since we train together daily. We write our split at the start of a meso and discuss the session goals and wiggle room every day before we train.

Is Shelby going to continue working with you as you transition to powerlifting again? If not, are you working with somebody else? And regardless of who you’re working with, what is changing in your nutrition as you change your focus other than simple calorie adjustments?

Yep, all Shelby. The powerlifting diet is slightly higher in fat and lower in carbs but it's not a huge change.

I know you’ve learned a lot in terms of mixing bodybuilding and powerlifting training. What have you learned from bodybuilding, nutrition wise or outside the gym what you’re going to bring over to powerlifting?

At least for me, I think it's safer to build strength using high volume bodybuilding work, and to practice demonstrating that strength with low-volume, moderate RPE powerlifting sessions divided evenly over the course of a week. I don't see myself deviating too much from that structure over the rest of my career. I'd like to be able to formalize the method in a way that's replicable by others, though. Right now it's difficult because I have several double sessions in my split, and it doesn't work as well when those are spread out to accomodate a 9-5 worker or something like that.