The Women's Fittest Podcast
The Women’s Fittest podcast host, Debra Jean Terpstra, is a 47-year-old, lifetime drug-free women's physique bodybuilder, coach, business owner, and single mom, delivering a balance of scientific and anecdotal health and fitness info uniquely purposed for women. Critical thinkers will find practical application on everything fitness related from healthy food relationships to contest prep. Whatever your level of knowledge Debra provides expert advice on nutrition, exercise, hormones, mental health, and more, delivered in easy to understand vernacular from a variety of evidence-based and experienced foundations. Debra's passion for bodybuilding and the human condition is apparent in her personal interviews that showcase NPC and IFBB athletes (her guests) in a raw and genuine way. These women are the heart and soul of professional bodybuilding and fitness, and these are their real-life experiences. The Women’s Fittest is your one stop shop for bodybuilding and fitness info, no matter where you are in your journey. Healthy looks different on everybody.
The Women's Fittest Podcast
How to bodybuild for life with Emily Miller
Thanks for listening to another episode of the Women’s Maximum Fitness Podcast! In this episode #47 I invited Emily Miller onto the podcast. Emily is an up and coming figure competitor going for her pro card in 2021. The goal of this podcast was to showcase her bodybuilding journey but also to discuss specific elements of bodybuilding for newer competitors from the perspective of a newer competitor who seems to be all in but pacing herself for the long haul as a competitive bodybuilder.
We discussed:
- Learning to appreciate your body through bulking and cutting and why both seasons are necessary for building muscle.
- Training details like: pushing to failure and what that means, rep ranges, when to break the rep range prescription while tracking reps in a log book, when it’s time to sub out an exercise, and recognizing when you can no longer progress with or connect with an exercise. Great info here!!
- Emily talks openly about steroid use and her thoughts on how they should be implemented. Throughout we discuss a subject I’ve been noticing for a few years now: whether newer female bodybuilders are taking drugs sooner (because many are progressing so quickly) or if they’re learning how to train smarter because of good influences on social media, better coaches, and/or access to more information on the internet to learn quicker how to correctly train and eat.
- Lots of emphasis on finding your passion for the sake of loving something and how bodybuilding is a selfish sport that you either need to be all in or just do it recreationally or for health reasons without the drug use.
- The Social media theme runs throughout this whole podcast and we emphasize using it to help you learn rather than idolizing people you want to look like. I emphasize especially how important it is to follow people eating and training to build muscle regardless of if their body type is one you desire because that is still the best way to get the body you desire.
- Sidebar: I learned how to train over the last 10 years mostly from copying training and diet style/tips of huge male bodybuilders on steroids who would share info with me through Facebook messenger. Now there’s a lot of women in the industry sharing the same type of info on Instagram. The path that is the quickest route to your most muscular (toned) and leanest body is training hard (like Emily talks about), consistently, with adequate rest and proper nutrition. Follow the women we talked about today and learn how to really train!
- Renee Jewett you have been nominated by Emily to share your journey and knowledge as a new pro competing in the new wellness division!
Tons of great Mentions in this episode:(find them and follow them)
Emily Miller: @emstafit1
Dr Scott Stevenson: @fortitudetraining
Ivie Rhein: @ivierhein
Luke Miller: @noswitchfitness
John Jewett: @johnjewett3
Renee Jewett: @roxyqueflex
John Meadows: @mountaindog1
Nicole Wilkins: @nicolemwilkins
Ivana ivusic: @ivanaivusic
Heather Dees: @ifbbheatherdees
Olivia Gravengaard: @oldsoulmadenew
Mark fox: @markcoveyfox
Josh lenartowicz: (was who I couldn’t remember his name but described as the Australian bodybuilder) @josh_lenartowicz
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